Reposted by Laure ThompsonRyan J. Gallagher @ryanjgallag.com · 14hI am very excited to release WordLevel, an open source Python package for comparing texts at the word level! wordlevel.dev WordLevel makes it easy to compare texts with measures ranging from the Jensen-Shannon divergence to dictionary-based sentiment, and visualize them as word shift graphs. 2447
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMeredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 07/10/2026In addition to this announcement Princeton will have 1 postdoc in cultural AI posted soon keep an eye out . . . 12410
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Note that long papers will be published as a separate proceedings volume in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities." This is a huge and welcome development! Honestly kind of a game-changer. 1144
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026In this powerful piece on libraries, this comment stuck out. I went to ALA for the first time this year, and I was struck by the prominent presence of corporate vendors, many of which are sucking libraries dry… www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 05922
Reposted by Laure ThompsonRichard Jean So @richardjeanso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Prospective PhD students: if you work on computational humanities, cultural analytics and/or cultural AI, pls apply to Duke English! We're recruiting in these areas & you'd join a vibrant community. Candidates with training in both lit studies + CS/sciences esp welcome. Email me if any questions! 12924
Reposted by Laure ThompsonDaniel de Kadt @dandekadt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Very excited: Cornell Arts & Sciences seeks up to 5 postdoctoral scholars working on AI and the humanities/social sciences. Not involved in selection but could serve as a faculty sponsor if you are working on topics related to ~"how to do social science in the age of AI." Happy to chat.academicjobsonline.orgCornell University, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships Job #AJO32791, Postdoctoral Associate, AI in Social Sciences & Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences Fellowships, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 11715
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026When AI models tell stories about animals, how are the characters gendered? And what does that reveal about model bias? Super fun to see this write-up about our FAccT paper. Led by Imani Finkley, and building on the Bears Will Be Boys story with the @pudding.cool! www.geekwire.com/2026/he-it-b...geekwire.comHe, it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids’ stories about animals, female characters vanishA new University of Washington study testing leading AI models across nearly 24,000 story completions found that AI guardrails designed to reduce bias have accidentally erased female characters — defa... 14813
Reposted by Laure ThompsonHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Job: 3yr postdoc in latin computational linguistics! my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...my.corehr.com 014
Reposted by Laure ThompsonCynthia Heider @cynthiaheider.com · 24/06/2026The #ACH2026 Mid-Atlantic Regional Hub is happening! This free event runs through Friday at Penn. More info at www.library.upenn.edu/events/ach-2.... Thankful for our wonderful volunteers! @ach.bsky.social 1119
Reposted by Laure ThompsonComputational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 08/01/2026📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester. We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027! 02415
Reposted by Laure ThompsonAnna Fore Waymack @waymack.bsky.social · 11/11/2025In unexpected, kinda terrifying life turns—I’m trying to get a small leather goods store off the ground this holiday season. Please consider checking it out! Thus far: keychains, valet trays, bag charms, a few custom wallets and notebook covers. goldberry.studio or StudioGoldberry on Etsy 32417
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMeredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 13/10/2025📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵arxiv.org 36926
Reposted by Laure ThompsonQueer in AI @queerinai.com · 09/10/2025We are launching our Graduate School Application Financial Aid Program (www.queerinai.com/grad-app-aid) for 2025-2026. We’ll give up to $750 per person to LGBTQIA+ STEM scholars applying to graduate programs. Apply at openreview.net/group?id=Que.... 1/5queerinai.comGrad App Aid — Queer in AI 179
Reposted by Laure ThompsonCaroline (Carrie) T. Schroeder @ctschroeder.bsky.social · 25/09/2025NEH Collaborative research grant program now explicitly prohibits digital projects. Output should be a book or journal issue. FFS www.neh.gov/grants/resea...neh.govCollaborative ResearchSupports groups of two or more scholars engaging in significant and sustained research in the humanities. 82817
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMatt Lincoln @mdlincoln.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I'm hiring a mid-level full-stack SWE! Our team at @jstor.bsky.social Labs is looking for yet another product-minded engineer to join our team. We come from all kinds of backgrounds, tech and non-tech alike. Please apply or send to your awesome friends, and DM me with ?s: grnh.se/19o370345usgrnh.seSoftware Engineer (Full-stack) - ITHAKAITHAKA’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education around the world. Our services — Artstor, JSTOR, Portico, and Ithaka S+R — enable people everywhere to learn, to grow, and to overcome b... 0812
Reposted by Laure ThompsonBen Lee @bcgl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!dhq.digitalhumanities.orgDHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: News 02110
Laure Thompson @laurejt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025@greenleejw.bsky.social you've made some maps for novels, right? 110
Laure Thompson @laurejt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Just curious: are you primarily looking for maps that were part of the first publication? Or any that developed in subsequent editions or when a series/world was more developed? 100
Laure Thompson @laurejt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Adding my reply to the main thread since I posted to @dmimno.bsky.social 's quoted repost: A recent, funky map I came across was in Christelle Dabos's The Memory of Babel. 030
Laure Thompson @laurejt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025A recent, funky map I came across was in Christelle Dabos's The Memory of Babel. 000
Reposted by Laure ThompsonDavid Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps. 94632
Reposted by Laure ThompsonLauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Check out Rebecca Hicke @dmimno.bsky.social piece on LLMs! “Language models have the ability to identify the characteristics of much shorter literary passages than was thought feasible with traditional stylometry. We evaluate authorship and genre detection for a new corpus of literary novels…”cambridge.orgLooking for the inner music: Probing LLMs’ understanding of literary style | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge CoreLooking for the inner music: Probing LLMs’ understanding of literary style - Volume 1 063
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025For PW, I wrote about the persistent gender gap in fictional animal characters—a pattern I noticed while analyzing 100s of picture books with @puddingviz.bsky.social. It's a more interesting (and pervasive) problem than I first thought. #kidlit #booksky 🔗: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... 69729
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMeredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The @princetoncdh.bsky.social newsletter is always a treat (and you should subscribe if you dont) but having an exclusive interview with Ted Chiang sort of takes the cake! mailchi.mp/princeton/au...mailchi.mpQ&A with Ted Chiang 🤖 0135
Reposted by Laure ThompsonHappy @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social · 12/08/2025If you’re an incoming Princeton 🐯 this fall, consider joining FRS159 - a unique chance to dive into technology, culture and African Languages. More about the course in the post below. 051
Reposted by Laure ThompsonPost45 Data Collective @post45data.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a *new* dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552... 24926
Reposted by Laure ThompsonChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed Science depends on the humanities 🧪 151476340
Reposted by Laure ThompsonHanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Check out the camera-ready version of our ICML position paper ("Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge") to learn more!!! arxiv.org/abs/2502.00561 (6/6)arxiv.orgPosition: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement ChallengeThe measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems lack sufficient scientific rigor, leading to what has been described as "a tangle of sloppy tests [and] apples-to-oranges com... 34411
Reposted by Laure ThompsonIDI @institutional.org · 12/06/2025Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵 97529
Reposted by Laure ThompsonJim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 10/06/2025The NEH has been a singular force for bringing people together. In this moment of hate, fear and isolation, the NEH helped us learn about our past and about each other. Today we are losing almost all of the NEH public servants. We are all in their debt. A national shame. A profound cultural loss. 114167
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMelanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Many libraries now use automated tools to measure diversity in their collections. We examined how these tools work and whether library workers find them useful. A complex case study of libraries navigating automation, DEI, & shrinking public funding. Our new FAccT paper: arxiv.org/abs/2505.14890 27930
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Worth a read. Not about AI. Many thoughts come to mind about literacy (and political literacy), grading standards, perceptions of studying literature as "easy" compared to science (it's not easy), how to translate expertise so people can understand. kittenbeloved.substack.com/p/college-en...kittenbeloved.substack.comCollege English majors can't readThey have one job and they can't do it 1184
Reposted by Laure ThompsonA. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social · 21/05/2025Llama 3.1 70B contains copies of nearly the entirety of some books. Harry Potter is just one of them. I don’t know if this means it’s an infringing copy. But the first question to answer is if it’s a copy at all/in the first place. That’s what our new results suggest: arxiv.org/abs/2505.12546arxiv.orgExtracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language modelsPlaintiffs and defendants in copyright lawsuits over generative AI often make sweeping, opposing claims about the extent to which large language models (LLMs) have memorized plaintiffs' protected expr... 45324
Reposted by Laure ThompsonJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025I spoke to the person who AI-generated the Chicago Sun-Times reading list. Says he's very embarrassed. This was part of a generic package inserted into newspapers and other publications, so likely to run elsewhere. He didn't know it'd be in Chicago Sun-Times www.404media.co/chicago-sun-...404media.coChicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist"I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses," the writer said. "I'm completely embarrassed." 1551953812
Reposted by Laure ThompsonAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Public Access > Open Access 05011
Reposted by Laure ThompsonData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 15/05/2025June 6 @ 1 pm ET! Join authors @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and @karenhao.bsky.social as they discuss their must-read new books exposing AI hype and tech industry power with D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/chall... 29047
Reposted by Laure ThompsonDr. David Miller 🏳️🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 20/05/2025🚨🚨 Alarming NSF policy update By accepting an NSF award, an institution now must say it's: 1. Not engaging in boycotts of Israel (yes really) 2. Not advancing or promoting DEI in violation of anti-discrimination laws Announced via a footnote today: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/gc1-ma... 13277211
Reposted by Laure ThompsonDaniel Cardoso Llach @dcardo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025I was today years old when I learned that the Magic Schoolbus was an NSF-funded project. 10389109
Reposted by Laure ThompsonRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/05/2025Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a lossloc.govAbout this Collection | Chronicling America | Digital Collections | Library of CongressSearch America's Historic Newspaper Pages through 1963 Please Note: The Library of Congress has transitioned the longstanding Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers website to this new digi... 451050695
Reposted by Laure ThompsonCaitlin Goodman @caitlinest.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Please boost! The NOEL PRIZE, in memory of the great and good and much-missed Will Noel. Celebrate your (or any) open access library project. No project too small, or too big. Full details here, deadline 8/1, extremely low-effort Google Form: pacscl.org/what-we-do/f...pacscl.orgThe Noel Prize – PACSCL 24956
Reposted by Laure ThompsonMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The ChatGPT-driven disruption of education is often presented, including in today’s viral NYMag piece, as a surprise event for which ed workers were caught unprepared This ignores dynamics & decisions that, in some cases, go back decades, without which we could’ve metabolized ChatGPT competently 🧵 220678