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LostMa ERC

@lostma.bsky.social
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ERC-funded digital humanities research project on how texts experience processes of preservation, evolution, and extinction. Run by @jbcamps.bsky.social Hosted at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social More info: lostma-erc.github.io

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Joey McCollum @joeymccollum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's good to see that the latest paper by @jbcamps.bsky.social and other members of the @lostma.bsky.social team is already making an impact!
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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Freshly out in @pnasnexus.org: "On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems" The first major publication of project @lostma.bsky.social , where we lay down our methodology for studying the transmission, evolution or disparition of texts. /1 #science 🧪
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On the transmission of texts: Written cultures as complex systems
Abstract. Knowledge of past cultures relies heavily on surviving written material. Over the centuries, texts were copied, altered, and often lost, leaving
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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Important calibration of death-birth simulations vs unseen species estimator for manuscript transmission #chr2025
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Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Revisionnez la séance de séminaire de @jbcamps.bsky.social dédiée aux enjeux de la transmission textuelle dans le cadre du projet @lostma.bsky.social. À retrouver sur Vimeo !
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Modelling the transmission and survival of texts and manuscripts
Résumé : Pourquoi conservons-nous certains textes anciens ou médiévaux et en avons-nous perdu d'autres ? Pourquoi conservons-nous…
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Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Mardi 25 novembre, @jbcamps.bsky.social présentera le projet LostMA lors du séminaire du médialab. Combinant philologie, science de la complexité et intelligence artificielle, ce projet vise à comprendre les processus évolutifs qui caractérisent la transmission textuelle. Inscription 👇
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Modelling the transmission and survival of texts and manuscripts | médialab Sciences Po
Le séminaire du médialab accueille Jean-Baptiste Camps pour une séance sur le projet LostMA sur la transmission et la survie des anciens textes. Il analysera comment et pourquoi certains textes manusc...
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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Thanks to researchers specialised in Middle Dutch, Icelandic, Middle English, & French (Middle French, Old French, Anglo-Norman, Franco-Italian, Franco-Occitan, Franco-Provençal, Occitan), the LostMa corpus has grown to nearly 2.5k witnesses of Medieval tales (texts). lostma-erc.github.io#witnesses
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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
To build a multilingual corpus, experts in various traditions are contributing metadata about Medieval texts & witnesses. For several weeks, the Middle Dutch 🇳🇱 🏆 group has been leading in both texts & witnesses. But recently our French 🇫🇷 team passe des vitesses 💪 lostma-erc.github.io/corpus#stats
A screenshot of a horizontal bar graph showing the counts of text records and witness records in the LostMa database for each language group.
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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📢 Job Klaxon! #DigitalHumanities #DH The deadline approaches (23 March 2025) to apply to 1 of 2 PhD contracts we're offering in the ERC project LostMa, hosted @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social On our website, learn more about the project & find a link to the job description: lostma-erc.github.io/news#0
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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
📣 Job offers We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪 Deadline: 31 March 2025
The job advertisement, in png formatpage 2page 3
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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Current state of affairs on OpenStemmata, before some big updates. Old French and Middle High German are clear winners, but with your help, some of the runners up may just join the leading pack #medievalsky
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LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
☑ Logo ☑ Website (lostma-erc.github.io) ☑ Bluesky account ☐ Stickers The LostMa ERC project is kicking off its 2nd year with a new look. Next up... stickers!
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