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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We research narrative fiction — but how? 📚🔍 In our new series, “Meet Our Researchers” get to know James Tauber and get a first glimpse into his PhD research. More fascinating insights and discoveries from @jtauber.com to come. ✨ youtu.be/dblAizA_IHM

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The Language of Fiction - James Tauber

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

What exciting times ahead! @jtauber.com is also teaching two much-anticipated courses in the coming semester: Digital Tolkien Applying Python for Digital Humanities and Social Studies Two exciting opportunities to explore digital approaches to literature, language, and the humanities.

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naitian @naitian.org · 24/09/2026

If you haven't yet registered for TADA 2026 on October 5th (day before COLM), registration is open to the public! Detailed schedule forthcoming, but lots of fantastic posters and talks. We even have a second half-day of lightning talks scheduled! tada2026.eventbrite.com

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Text as Data 2026

A leading forum for interdisciplinary research on the study of politics, society, and culture through computational analysis of documents.

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

July 8-9, 2027, at the University of Groningen @rug.nl, The Netherlands. Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2027 Submission portal opens: October 1, 2026 jcls.io/site/dates/ #CCLS2027 @fpianz.eurosky.social @gronlp.bsky.social

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 6th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, July 8-9, 2027, in #Groningen, #TheNetherlands! #CCLS2027 #CfP Submit your article by February 1, 2027! 🥳🥳🥳 jcls.io/site/cfp/

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 22/09/2026

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

Free-text evaluation of answers to character modeling and constrained generation questions. This is just one of several scores Chronologic-EN can produce; we focus on it here because it's both the hardest test and the one most relevant to simulation of the past. Frontier models reach 72%; Talkie-1930 is stronger than several larger competitors, but not at the frontier by this measure. Note that this score has improved ~45% in the last two years, but still falls perceptibly short of ground truth.

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Last week (07–12 September), I had the pleasure of welcoming @fotisjannidis.bsky.social from @uni-wuerzburg.de to the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social. His visit began with the first lecture of the new academic year in our #Bellwether Lecture Series at the I School.

Fotis in front of a full audience for his Bellwether Lecture

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UC Berkeley School of Information @berkeleyischool.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Bellwether Lecture Series returns to the I School with a talk by @uni-wuerzburg.de Prof. @fotisjannidis.bsky.social! In his talk, Jannidis presents an experimental approach to modeling character abstractions. 📅 Tomorrow, Sept 9, 12:10-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall & Online bit.ly/4gqssc0

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 08/09/2026

Knitting machine punch cards are a living form of computing history. 🧶💾 In "Punch Card Knitting," Nichole Misako Nomura explores how these binary codes are still used today, and the challenges of preserving them. 📚 Read it in VANISHING CULTURE, FREE: archive.org/details/vani...

What can knitting machines teach us about the history of computing?

"They're an important piece of computing history—and crucially, one of the few that isn't only history because a broad community of people, on- and off-line, are still sharing knowledge on how to hack, restore, and use

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CATMA @catma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

What's working in CATMA, and what isn't? We're currently running a survey on the features you use — annotating, queries, tagsets, teamwork — and how the interface holds up. Feedback from recently joined and long-time users alike is welcome. ~5-10 min, anonymous. forms.gle/3uNQNdE4NiBx...

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Survey for CATMA users

This survey takes around 5-10 minutes and asks for your experience with CATMA. We are looking for feedback from both new and experienced users, your answers help us improve CATMA. All responses are an...

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🐭 Danielle Williams 🐹 @okaydaniellle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My history of AI poster's updated! It now features notable prehistory, the 1930s, + about 40 additional nodes in the 40s-2020s (including a new McCarthy quote from 2005). you can download it from my website and if you find any typos I don't want to know www.daniellejwilliams.com/posters

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Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interested by a corpus of 19th/early 20th c. French for your research? Here's the French corpus of 11K! novels I tried to curate during my PhD 😅, now live at JOHD, and downloadable on Zenodo! 📄 doi.org/10.5334/johd.597 📦 zenodo.org/records/20233178

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Hors d’usage: Curated French Fiction from Gallica, 1800–1950 | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We found that only 2% of AI-generated stories about animals featured female characters. They talked to my colleague Michelle Martin and Kate Sellers from Seattle Public Library to contextualize these findings. “If you don’t see [yourself] in what you read, you get the idea that you don’t count.”

Screenshot from article that reads: "Russell Samora, 38, of western Massachusetts was reading a children’s book with his daughter when the thought crossed his mind: Why are the bears always boys?

He remembered thinking, “Wait a minute, there’s a bear and a rabbit in the story, but there’s absolutely no reason for the bear to be referred to as a boy.”

That’s when Samora started noticing a trend. Most of the animals in the books he read to his daughter were male.

“It was something I couldn’t unsee,” he said.

He became curious why animal characters are usually boys. A data journalist himself, Samora teamed up with experts, including Melanie Walsh, an assistant professor of informatics at the University of Washington, to determine which genders were assigned most often to animal characters in children’s books.

Now, Walsh and doctoral students Imani Finkley and Yuanxi Li have taken those questions one step further by exploring what happens when artificial intelligence gets involved."

Screenshot from articles that reads: "Researchers also surveyed 1,300 people to see how their biases would stack up against the books. They asked respondents to finish this sentence: “And then the bear said, ‘I must go to the river.’ Upon arriving….”

While the bear was randomly swapped for bird, cat, pig, duck, mouse or dog, the survey results revealed distinct gender biases. Respondents favored male pronouns for all six animals.

These results were published in The Pudding last year.

As AI-generated children’s books hit the market, Walsh said her team’s study, which builds upon earlier findings, can guide future research on AI and gender bias.

“Undeniably, AI is already being used in children’s storytelling,” she said.

Books with AI-generated content have flooded the self-publishing market on platforms like Amazon. Features like Gemini’s Storybook also allow users to generate children’s stories for AI to read aloud."

Screenshot from article that reads: "Yeah, we can use this model to generate a story about a talking bear for my child, but how is this bear being represented?" said Finkley, one of the doctoral students who worked on the study.

Michelle Martin, the Beverly Cleary professor for children and youth services at the UW Information School, said she's not surprised by the study's findings, since AI algorithms learn from existing content that reflects human bias.

But she also said representation is especially important in books designed for kids.

"It's important for children to see representation of their experiences," she said. "If you don't see it in what you read, you get the idea that you don't count."

Libraries have also jumped in on the AI conversation. The Seattle Public Library has committed to not purchasing materials that include AI-generated content, said Kate Sellers, managing librarian for technical and collection services, in a statement.

However, she also said it can be difficult to tell when AI has been used.

"These materials in digital format are not always properly labeled or identified by OverDrive, our main e-book and e-audiobook vendor, so it is possible some will appear in the collection in the Libby app, but we do our best to monitor the situation and avoid AI-generated materials when selecting new materials for the Library's collection," she said.

Screenshot from article with plot that shows all six models plus human survey baseline and model average, broken down by how the animal characters in stories were gendered. Feminine only ever reaches 3% for any of the models, but reaches about 13% for human survey. Otherwise mostly dominated by neutral and masculine.

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Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Learn more about this story and see Greiner’s drawing before it’s returned to Dresden in the exhibition Lost. Found. Returned. on view at the Getty Center through October 18. www.getty.edu/exhibitions/...

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Lost. Found. Returned. | Getty Exhibition

The story of how a drawing by Otto Greiner disappears from Dresden during World War II and re-emerges in Los Angeles decades later

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DraCor @dracor.org · 14/08/2026

**Women Playwrights in Digital Corpora: a #DraCor Hackathon** University of Rostock 7–9 September 2026 Registration is now open, and participation is free. Organised by Erik Renz & Ulrike Henny-Krahmer. More info: blog.dracor.org/posts/hackat... #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

our new paper with @plechac.bsky.social puts thousands of poems across languages in one shared space of poetic form! we use sequence alignment on rhyme schemes to investigate 'fixed forms' and all things between: not only 'sonnets', but 'sonnet-like' things. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

a clustered umap of the formal space of poetry defined by sequence alignment distances between rhyme schemes in 6 languages. below: the same space, but colored only by poems that bear 'fixed forms' labels in Czech and Russian corpora.

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Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The map is now set up in the office ready to start 'mapping' sound heritage survey responses 🤩 If you haven't completed the survey please do. I'd be particularly grateful for responses representing sounds outside of Europe tinyurl.com/2twuzpfd

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Laura Untner @luntner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Fascinating talk! I very much recommend the paper. #DH2026

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Is Wuthering Heights secretly a buddy story about a horse and a dog who just tolerate the humans? 🐴🐕 That is the vibe of EcoCor. At #DH2026, Henny Sluyter-Gäthje just presented our open infra for digital ecocriticism, tracking plants & animals in lit. Slides: plu.sh/ecocor

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Axel Pichler @axelpichler.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

📢 Prae-Doc-Stelle (30h, 3 Jahre) am Institut für Germanistik der Uni Wien im FWF-Projekt »Mind the Gap: Theory-driven Operationalization in Computational Literary Studies«. Thema: literaturwiss. Konzepte für computergestützte Verfahren messbar machen – Fallbeispiel dt. Kurzgeschichte nach 1945 […]

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Agnes Hilger @agneshilger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

And/or our interactive slides: slides.com/agneshilger/dh2026

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A presentation created with Slides.

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Agnes Hilger @agneshilger.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Demonstrating the canonicity power law distribution with our slides and my hand 🫳 At our talk at #DH2026 with @janaeckardt.bsky.social and @mertenkroencke.bsky.social

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Dallas Card @dallascard.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Excellent thread! This also reminds me of David Bamman's work on films as data, which, if I understand correctly, you *are* legally allowed to use for research, as long as you own and retain a physical copy, and as long as you don't enjoy watching it : ) www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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Measuring diversity in Hollywood through the large-scale computational analysis of film | PNAS

Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in ...

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n

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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026

GOLEM poster at #DH2026 A manually annotated corpus in 7 languages to develop and evaluate tools for Computational Literary Studies: characters, relationships, dialogue, and events. Stop by at 15:30 KST to know more about it.

Poster of the GOLEM multilingual annotated corpus available at https://github.com/GOLEM-lab/GOLEM-multilingual-annotated-corpus

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Here are the slides for our talk at #DH2026 in Daejeon 🇰🇷 "COMUTE in Action: Usage Scenarios for Comparing Complex Multilingual Text Variants" lehkost.github.io/slides/2026-... Abstract: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #DigitalHumanities @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

Screenshot of the first slide of our presentation, featuring title, authors and affiliations.

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oftentimes the smartest infrastructure is the simplest one. Today at #DH2026, our lab member Steffi presents a poster on minimal computing in public DH and science communication, with @viktor.im (FU Berlin). Their plea: make it static to make it last – but first ask what's worth keeping. (1/2)

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Laura Untner @luntner.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Interested in canon research and world literature? Come to our talk at #DH2026! 📖 »Canons of World Literature Contextualised: Introducing Canon Shelf and Canon Curator« 🗓 Fri July 31, 2–3:30 PM, Room 101-102, S009 We introduce a repository for canon lists & a provenance-aware enrichment pipeline.

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Twin talks by our team at #DH2026 in 🇰🇷: 👉 Tue 30 / 9:00-10:30 / Room 105: "Introducing EcoCor: An Open Infrastructure for Digital Ecocriticism" 👉 Fri 31 / 11:00-12:30 / Room 204-205: "A Decade in Drama Research. Data Mining the DraCor Bibliography" cc @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social @dracor.org

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Coming up soon, the poster session! Meet me to find out what 'Mapping DH' is. #DH2026

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What a wonderful lecture by Maciej Eder! Took me back to the first ever lines of R code I wrote back in 2015 under the supervision of the then-student assistant Jasmin Bieber: of course it was a session on #stylo! Here are the slides: computationalstylistics.github.io/presentation...

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Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelev.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Sad to be missing #dh2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social but enjoying it vicariously through your everyone's posts. Keep 'em coming please! And say hello to my NUS colleagues if you see them

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Carmen Thong @carmenthong.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

What I received from the #DH2026 keynote today is that the humanities should resist turning from: L - P - L' (or P - L - P' in the ideal world I suppose) To: L - L' (L = Learning; P = Practice) Because if all we do is the latter, we will be screwed in the age of AI.

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

I've made a #DH2026 bsky feed to make it easier to follow the conference. You can pin it: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 28/07/2026

#DHmakes workshop about to start at #DH2026!

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 28/07/2026

Nichole Nomura sets the stage for the #DHmakes #DH2026 workshop with a theoretical framing of critical making.

Virtual Nichole with a glitchy version of the knitting machine background

Nichole and the knitting machine background

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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The fortext lab will also be in Daejeon next week for Digital Humanities 2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social! We’re delighted to be part of the conference and look forward to inspiring discussions, new perspectives, and exchange with the international DH community. #DH2026 #CLS #DigitalHumanities (1/4)

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Anyone participating in or interested in #DH2026 in Daejeon: Please participate actively in the conversations on open social media platforms, like for instance Mastodon, and don't let all that communication energy flow into closed platforms like the conference […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Large stylized neon sign reading "OPEN" in orange, in a large blue oval shaped border.

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Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) @adho-org.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🚀DH2026 begins tomorrow! Safe travels to everyone joining us in person, and a warm welcome to those participating virtually. ✔️ DH2026 Book of Abstracts Now Available: dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-book-... ✔️ DH2026 Main Conference Program is Available: dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-main-... See you at #DH2026!

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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Really liking the LEAF writer approach: You can edit using the graphical interface, with helpful pre-selections for tags and attributes; or you can edit the XML-TEI directly; and you can easily validate any time. Many flexible display options. And the entity lookup feature is really neat […]

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James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Do I know anyone staying at the Lotte City Hotel Daejeon for #DH2026 who, and this is the crucial part, *didn't* book breakfast? (The university travel company seems to have got me two breakfasts each day.)

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Jana Lasser @janalasser.eurosky.social · 24/07/2026

The University of Graz invites applications for a full professorship in Data Analysis, with a focus on Natural Language Processing! For details, see ▶️ job ad jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/f38f... ▶️ fact sheet cloud.uni-graz.at/s/RA92YSf29z...

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Merten Kröncke @mertenkroencke.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Excited to be heading to #DH2026 in Daejeon! Looking forward to presenting our study on canonicity, gender, and time periods together with @agneshilger.bsky.social and @janaeckardt.bsky.social. See you there!

Plot showing the interaction of canonicity, time period, and gender

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