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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 13h

In addition to this announcement Princeton will have 1 postdoc in cultural AI posted soon keep an eye out . . .

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DeBarra Shaw @d2chattoway.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

✨Insightful and timely research opening new perspectives…learn more here…

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Grace @gracekind.net · 05/10/2026

Not transformer-based, but a GAN language model has helped with this already!

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Perhaps the next Theory of Evolution is the realization that we are just one of many possible and diverse intelligences and that our legal, societal, and value systems should be adjusted accordingly. Read full essay here: begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t... Or: zenodo.org/records/2307...

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The next Theory of Evolution

New evidence from large language models and animal communication challenges human linguistic exceptionalism. What is the path forward?

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm paying $2.5/min for this, buddy!

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David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We can put a 10ft human skeleton in the front yard of anyone who wants one. Why don’t we have the supply chain to put a T. rex or triceratops skeleton on every corner?

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Delivering dinosaurs for exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science. Arthur Pollock, 1984

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I walked into the classroom to pick up my son from a violin lesson, and there he was doing armpit farts.

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Richard Jean So @handle.invalid · 29/09/2026

Cool post-doc opp for recent graduates in computer science & AI from Schmidt Sciences; broad range of AI topics that intersect with comp social sci. & humanities, esp. problems with alignment, interpretability, and knowledge production. Great foundation to work with: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

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jobs - Fellow in Residence

Summary Schmidt Sciences invites recent PhD graduates in AI and computer science to apply for a 12-18 month fellows-in-residence program, with the possibility of extension to 24 months. Fellows would ...

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Oh wait, ARTHUM40 is even better, 40% :)

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

From now on, "First Encounters with AI" are delivered for all preorders: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs... Feel free to use UMWEB30 discount code. Since this is a trade book, it won't be open access. There will be an e-book closer to the official publication date in mid-November.

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First Encounters with AI | Nina Beguš

First Encounters with AI gathers some of today’s most original literary minds to explore one of the central artistic and cultural questions of our era: What happens to writing when language is no long...

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“In 1930, the manuscript was inherited after Wilfrid's death by his widow Ethel Voynich, author of the novel The Gadfly and daughter of mathematician George Boole.”

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Vojnich is perfect for AI to crack, but here we are.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometime during the pandemic, I interviewed a guy over zoom. He drank an energy drink and lit a cigarette. I will never forget him.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sometime during the pandemic, I interviewed a guy over zoom. He drank an energy drink and lit a cigarette. I will never forget him.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I appreciate the editor who put the submission deadline into my calendar. Nice, thoughtful gesture!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All academic writing should be open access. Especially since libraries are not buying physical books anymore.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Andrej Tomažin's "Heroes, Lackeys and Artificial Intelligence" (2018) presents a literary jury discussing literature confronted with AI great wit and depth. I wish the translation was out by now. Hopefully soon!

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Russ Luzetski @rabit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Another intriguing podcast! I started listening to provoke thoughts for my #TTRPG / #DnD campaigns, but episodes like this are so much more...

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Liminality is the most productive way of AI exploration (IMO), and Pierre Hugyhe is the king of liminality. Thanks to @ranjodhdhaliwal.com for snapping these at Fondation Beyeler!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I'll add the syllabi for the Institute of World Literature and a more general AI & Humanities course soon!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

FYI my 2024 syllabi for Artificial Humanities and History of Information are available online. ArtHum follows the book, while the History of Information course offers a historical overview of information technologies and their challenges, starting with writing. www.ninabegus.com/talks-teaching

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Nina Begus - Talks & Teaching

Upcoming Talks August 19 Tiat August 26 Guest lecture UCSC September 10-12 Latent Spaces of Culture September 24 Ethics of Narration, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Media, Sapienza University of...

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Imaginary Worlds @emolinsky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

With all the talk about AI these days, it’s hard not to think of movies like The Matrix or Her. But it’s possible that sci-fi isn’t the best prism to understand AI right now. We explore why ancient myths have a lot to say about chatfishing, deathbots and an AI apocalypse.

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Is Mythology the Key to Understand AI? — Imaginary Worlds

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

we're not twins, just siblings!

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

At least this was my experience with artificial humanities. It's repeating with scientists today. They're raising an alarm that the world is not ready to hear.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Science and AI is a hot topic among academics. But not outside of the academia and some parts of the industry. The problem an expert is working on seems urgent and evident to them, but the world is often not yet ready to her about it. You're likely too early.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Coming out: Encounters with AI and First Encounters with AI ☺️

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oops. Haven't we all done it at first?

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Scholarship runs on internal motivation. Industry runs on external motivation.

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What is college if knowledge, teaching, and advising are available from machines? One model has answers to many challenges that AI is posing today: residential education where students learn from each other to be bold, original, and uniquely human while living, eating and socializing together.

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The future is in residential education

The most transformative education happens when students learn uniquely human skills over meals and tea time

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coming up on 10/6! @leifw.bsky.social discusses the epistemic order that LLMs are currently spreading throughout our culture, from policy to science to writing. More info & RSVP (requested) @ the link! Presented in partnership with CDH, Media+Modernity, and @princeton.edu Humanities Initiative.

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How to Reason with Words: Models, Metaphors, Metaphysics

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Yeah, it takes years of Sanskrit, Hittite, Ancient Greek, at least, to get somewhere

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Very alluring tables in historical linguistics! Beautiful to see. escholarship.org/uc/item/8608...

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

One of 700 pages of Accent in Hittite. By Alwin Kloekhorst.

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Surrealism is the concrete aesthetic language for our moment

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My coping mechanism in the age of AI: write more Proto-Indo-European papers. Here’s a story on the origin of PIE mobility. I argue that in Pre-PIE, a rule operated that whereby heavy syllables attracted stress from the root to the ending. I focus on root nouns and verbs.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jean-Pierre Serre turned a 100 years old! Here's what he said many years ago about learning math. It still holds, even in the time when the machine does math better than us. Math is closer to the pursuit of art. This is what the recent Leiden Declaration on AI and Math defended.

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

10yo: “Back in my day we didn’t have audio book. We only had real books.”

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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Great point @begus.bsky.social. As @robert-booth.bsky.social writes about puzzling Joycean lingo now uttered by agential AI, "Latent Spacecraft" (with @ninabegus.bsky.social) researched both "Finnegans Wake" as a written-out latent space and artificial neural networks as babbling engines

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yes, Joyce was exploring the prior layers of language. Here's a project that lets you explore those prior stages: latentspacecraft.antikythera.org Glad to se that the industry is coming to the same conclusion! @metahaven.bsky.social @ninabegus.bsky.social @robert-booth.bsky.social

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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The term “latent space realism” is inspired by the concept of “wave function realism,” which has been used in quantum mechanics to address the question whether the configuration space of Schrödinger's wave function amounts to something physically real

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metahaven @metahaven.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Latent Spacecraft: Brains, GANs, Finnegans," with the brilliant @ninabegus.bsky.social, @begus.bsky.social & Riccardo Petrini, is still major for us. An artificial neural network's vector space becomes navigable. "Finnegans Wake," James Joyce's novel, gets read as a latent space

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Gasper Begus @begus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A new book series just dropped!

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