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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

💡 FlexiConc Tutorial 1 is here! We explore the basic FlexiConc functinality, including Random Sort, linguistic annotation, Sentence Transformers, and the analysis tree. 🔗 Explore CLiC yourself: clic-fiction.com More FlexiConc tutorials coming soon!

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FlexiConc in CLiC: Tutorial 1

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our new research paper by Katrin Rohrbacher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social, Björn Nieth, Emmanuelle Salin , Bjoern Eskofier, and Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social, in a nutshell, accepted at #EMNLP2026 Read the full paper here: arxiv.org/pdf/2609.02482

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Katrin Rohrbacher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New paper accepted to #EMNLP2026 main conference! We compare worldbuilding strategies in 8,000 stories across four LLMs with a human-authored baseline from Project Gutenberg, in English and German, focusing on setting and narrative space. arxiv.org/abs/2609.02482

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How LLMs Build Fictional Worlds: Setting and Narrative Space in AI-Generated Creative Storytelling

In this paper, we analyze how Large Language Models (LLMs) employ worldbuilding strategies, focusing on setting as one measurable dimension of storyworld construction. We compare 1,000 AI-generated st...

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If you want to know what James will do in his PhD, this is a tiny glimpse into it. I’m really looking forward to seeing what he will come up with. No pressure @jtauber.com 🫡

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At day #3 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social is bringing geo data to our course on concordance reading at the Computational Linguistics Fall School at UTN Nuremberg #digitalhumanities #corpuslinguistics with a corpus from @idsmannheim.bsky.social

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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com · 17/09/2026

got my first enrolment to my Digital Tolkien class I'm teaching starting in a month!

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Do not tell someone who does not love you about whom you love, nor reveal to them the one your heart adores, the one whose grace and beauty makes your very bones tremble. (1/2)

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Okay, I’m starting to get a bit annoyed with this. If you’re expecting to watch a documentary about the Odyssey, don’t watch Nolan’s film—it’s not for you. But if you enjoy good cinema and an amazing story adapted from mythology, do watch it. It’s truly an amazing, deeply emotional piece of work.

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Zeteo @zeteo.com · 31/07/2026

9 things you should know about the so-called ‘crisis’ of Moroccan migrants forcing their way into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta – and the hysterical response from the right in the U.S., UK, and EU. zeteo.com/p/the-fake-i...

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The Fake ‘Invasion’ of Spain: What You Need to Know

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🇰🇷 Our colleagues have just concluded a brilliant DH conference in Daejeon, and shared this photo with us from overseas. We're delighted to have such a strong presence there. @mila-oiva.bsky.social @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social @katrohrbacher.bsky.social @tillmannohm.bsky.social #DH2026

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

🐈 Exciting news from #DH2026 in Daejeon! DHSS researcher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social presents “Letting the Cat Out of the Bag”: Towards the Automatic Detection of Animal Metaphors in Literary Texts. 🗓️ 30 July, 13:40–15:10 📍 Session S094, Room 108 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

DHSS at #DH2026 in #Daejeon! On 30 July, our colleague @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social will present “Nostalgia in alt-right social media: Truth Social” together with Mykola Makhortykh from the University of Bern. 🕘 09:00–10:30 📍 Session S101, Room 204–205 #DigitalHumanities #FAU

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Can you identify a famous book from just five words? 👀 In our latest episode of #CLiC mit Janno, Janno explores how #keywords can reveal what makes a text unique. Discover how comparisons with reference #corpora and #statistical analysis help uncover hidden patterns in #literature.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

DHSS at #DH2026, Daejeon, 27 July! @mila-oiva.bsky.social co-organises AVinDH’s 10th-anniversary mini-conference; @tillmannohm.bsky.social presents in the Tool Cavalcade. Panel: @nolauren.bsky.social (Richmond), @michaelbourgatt.bsky.social (Lorraine) & Yumeng Hou (NUS). avindh.org/annual-adho-...

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Moments of joy, relaxation, connection, and togetherness. 🌞 Our summer party was not only a wonderful time to celebrate together, but also a heartfelt opportunity to say goodbye to some of our colleagues as they leave the department to begin new journeys. (1/2)

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

DHSS at #DH2026! From 27–31 July, @mila-oiva.bsky.social , @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social and @tillmannohm.bsky.social will contribute to the Digital Humanities conference in Daejeon, South Korea, together with their research collaborators.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Text & Language Lab at #DH2026 in South Korea! On 30 July, @katrohrbacher.bsky.social presents “Letting the Cat Out of the Bag”: Towards the Automatic Detection of Animal Metaphors in Literary Texts. 🕐 13:40–15:10 📍 S094, Room 108 🏛️ Daejeon Convention Center

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Research posters are nothing new. What's different is how we present them: we are always working to communicate the research in a more engaging and accessible format.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We are so delighted and proud to celebrate our colleague Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social on successfully defending his PhD thesis today at the DHSS Department! 🎉 Here are a few smiles, photos, and highlights from this special day. Congratulations, Nathan—we wish you every success in the future! 🥂

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Come join us! A diverse group of professionals from a wide range of backgrounds and with a variety of skills.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Before Dr. Hanna’s lecture at the Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies @dhssfau.bsky.social, we had this brief interview with her. The computational discourse analysis, the focus of her lecture, and her experiences of academic life in the UK and Germany. youtu.be/lLXBtGwHji8?...

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3 questions with Hanna Schmück

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Next up in the Digital Humanities Colloquium Join us on 1st of July, 4–6 PM for the talk by @sabinelang.bsky.social “Future of DH” 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen We look forward to the talk and the discussion afterwards.

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

In the fiction track at #CADS2026 - here is @nfdykes.bsky.social presenting our work with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social on #janeausten and #fanfiction - the transition to the talk by @mixosaurus.bsky.social couldn’t have been better if we’d planned it

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

At #CADS2026 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social explains the concept of the waterscape and how to study socionatural relations in a corpus of fiction

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

With great, engaging people like yourself, James.

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Journal of Science Communication (JCOM) @jscicom.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#Scicomm is mandatory in EU-funded research projects. But is it actually happening? A study of 221 Horizon 2020 projects found that fewer than half had a project website or social media; and few public outreach activities. doi.org/10.22323/161... #SciComm #ResearchCommunication #Horizon2020

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Prof Michaela Mahlberg @michamahlberg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Poster session at #CADS2026: analysing multimodal narratives in video games. If you missed the fantastic work by @jannoreincke.bsky.social today there is more to come #watchthisspace

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

By Diana Abbani - "A Lebanese scholar in Berlin on carrying war in your body through a city that cannot hear it, and being asked to silence yourself to protect the memory of others who are not willing to speak up" untoldmag.org/now-you-are-...

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“Now You Are Part of It. Our German Guilt. Our Memory” - Untold

A Lebanese scholar in Berlin on carrying war in your body through a city that cannot hear it, and being asked to silence yourself to protect the memory of others who are not willing to speak up

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Text and Language Lab at #CADS2026 Lancaster University! Researchers from Text and Language Lab will present a plenary lecture, conference presentations and a poster at the Corpora & Discourse International Conference 2026, Lancaster University. 📅 23–25 June 2026 📍 Lancaster University (UK)

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Next up in the Digital Humanities Colloquium Join us on 10th of June, 4–6 PM for the talk by @mila-oiva.bsky.social “Operationalization of a visual cultural phenomenon” 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen We look forward to the talk and the discussion afterwards.

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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Men are too emotional to be president.

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Cris Ortega @cris-ortega.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Funklust, the radio of @fau.de, invited me to a deep talk about my research, social roles, arts, activism, and how we can do research in and with publics 💜 The interview is part of the series f*Wort, which discusses feminism from different angles. Listen to it here: www.funklust.de/2026/06/roll...

Poster of the series f*Wort by the campus radio Funklust of FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg

The two interviewers, Lina and Sepp, and me, Cris Ortega, are standing next to each other in the radio studio of Funklust smiling.
From left to right: Lina, me, Sepp.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Next up in the Digital Humanities Colloquium Join us today, 4–6 PM for Yaping Qu’s MA thesis presentation: “Vase-image retrieval via pose estimation” 📍 Room 00.026, Seminar Room 3 Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen We look forward to the presentation and the discussion afterwards.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🏆 First prize announced! 🌿 The Birmingham Botanical Gardens have generously offered an annual family pass for the first-place winner of our international writing competition, Our Future, Our Water, Our Stories.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📄 Discover the latest publication by Dr. Katrin Rohrbacher (@katrohrbacher.bsky.social). openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

AVinDH Online Workshop Series 2026 Join us for the first session featuring Datascene (VAA1) — a research-led multimodal intelligence platform transforming audiovisual material into structured, searchable, and traceable knowledge. fau.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Anastasia Glawion @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Gleich geht's los! Heute und morgen sind Nikola Keller und ich mit Studierenden des Gabriele-Reuter-Seminars auf Archivreise in Weimar. Wir digitalisieren Rezensionen zum "Tränenhaus". Gefördert von der Luise-Prell-Stiftung der FAU. @dhssfau.bsky.social @fauphil.bsky.social

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Well, well, well. A new episode, a new dose of knowledge for me.

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Nächster Vortrag im Digital Humanities Colloquium: Referentin: Dr. Sabine Lang (@sabinelang.bsky.social) Thema: „Reading Club: Über das Blickverhalten im Kunstmuseum“ Datum & Uhrzeit: 20. Mai 2026, 16:00–18:00 Uhr Ort: Raum 00.026, Seminarraum 3, Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We are pleased that our research associate and doctoral candidate Nathan Dykes (@nfdykes.bsky.social), part of the Text and Language Lab at DHSS FAU under the direction of @michamahlberg.bsky.social, will give a hybrid lecture at the University of Turku, Finland, on 21 May 2026.

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We started our weekly meeting by warmly welcoming our new colleague, @jtauber.com (sitting first from the left), who joined us today and immediately hit it off with everyone here. More updates regarding James’s work will follow, but for now, please join us in welcoming James 🙂.

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Ismail Barakat @ismailbarakat.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

We would like to share some successful stories from DHSSers and invite you to apply for our MA in Digital Humanities at FAU. Applications are now open until July 15.

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Katrin Rohrbacher @katrohrbacher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

New-ish article out in JOHD exploring the challenges of feeding bibliographic metadata from a literary corpus back into Wikidata -- bots, reconciliation tools, and ontological rabbit holes included. 🐇 doi.org/10.5334/johd... #DigitalHumanities #Wikidata

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Bridging the Gaps: Integrating Bibliographic Metadata Into Wikidata for Literary Corpora | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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DHSS FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg @dhssfau.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

At the Studierendenkongress in Halle, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , who leads the Digital Literature and Methods team within DHSS, will present the workshop: “Network Analysis in Literary Studies – An Introduction.” 📅: 15 May 2026 🕒: 13:00 - 14:30 📍: martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

What’s a corpus? And what is concordance analysis? 👀📚 In this first episode of our short tutorial series, we break it down and show you how to explore huge text collections using CLiC. ✨ Try it yourself with the free CLiC web tool at clic-fiction.com

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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Wir freuen uns, dass unser Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Promovend Nathan Dykes (@nfdykes.bsky.social ), Teil des Text and Language Lab am DHSS FAU unter der Leitung von @michamahlberg.bsky.social , an der GAL Research School in Bayreuth (7.–9. Mai 2026) teilnimmt.

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