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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

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EPFL NLP Postdoctoral Scholar Posting - Swiss AI LLMs

The EPFL Natural Language Processing (NLP) lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher candidate in the area of multilingual LLM design, training, and evaluation. This postdoctoral position is as...

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

But if you like to be updated on amazing publications in #digitalclassics and near eastern studies (and more), maybe subscribe to the DANES listservice www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/d... by @shgordin.bsky.social

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danes - Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies - info

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

And here is the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies! #CCLS2025 Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

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Harald Klinke @harald-klinke.de · 20/05/2025

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code. #DigitalHumanities #RStats link.springer.com/book/9783031...

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Cultural Data Science

This book introduces basic concepts in data science, drawing from contextual examples in art history, visual computing, cloud computing, and microservices

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Julia Jennifer Beine @juliajbeine.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

❗️CfP deadline extended❗️ Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September. summit.dracor.org #DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky @dracor.org @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

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DraCor Summit

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Wenyi Shang @wenyishang.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.

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Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com · 09/12/2024

Curious about what I work on? I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE: zenodo.org/records/1431...

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Use of Relational Databases for Medium Sized Corpus Study: Case Studies of Old Babylonian Nippur and Ur (2016-1841 BCE)

Published as part of the DANES 2024 conference proceedings, presented in the poster session. See the conference website or the conference book of abstracts!

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Starting in less than an hour. Grab a sandwich, get comfy, and come join us worry out loud about possible futures for the academy and the historical record. Except Sayeed. Sayeed is super optimistic. 😀

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The Pelagios Network @pelagios.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Given current events, this seems to be the right time for us, Pelagios, to be joining bluer skies. Who are we? We are a free and open association of equal and interdependent Partners from the digital humanities, GLAM sector, and data science field, working to make linking data online really easy.

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Luca Soldaini 🎀 @soldaini.net · 11/02/2025

They made me do video 😬 but for a good reason! We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o... Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo... Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app

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Morris Alper @malper.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world! tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/ h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators. 🧵👇

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Professor Elton @eltonteb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

UK heritage at risk heritage-at-risk.museologi.st#/5.33/-2.114... — a #Peripleo instance @museologi.st knocked up on a rainy afternoon, scraping / parsing open data from Historic England (4600 places) with 11.5k links to Wikidata, National Heritage List for England, a church near, listed buildings

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Heritage at Risk - viewed using Peripleo

A viewer using Peripleo to show Historic England's Heritage at Risk data

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!

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Jana Mynářová @pudukhepa.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year, everyone, and for those in the know - the #RAI70Prague Call for Papers is now officially open at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/cfp.php Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague! @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav #IANESPrague @IAAssyriology #Assyriology #cuneiform #archaeology

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RAI 70 - 2025 - Prague

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

After #JCLS 3(1) conference track #CCLS24 is before #CCLS25. We look forward to your submissions! Please find our Call for Papers for the conference track 2025 at jcls.io/site/cfp/ #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS25 #CfP #Literary #Computing #CLS

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Call for Papers

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Ok we're doing this! Here's a google form to gauge interest in what we're tentatively calling Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy. More info in thread. The bite-sized version -> short lightning talk on a pedagogical thing followed by discussion w/ mini web publication to follow. forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...

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Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy

For a balanced teaching diet! We're planning a monthly-ish digital pedagogy series in the spirit of the #DHMakes Methodz talks. Free, open to the public, on zoom. The series will be built around pair...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 30/11/2024

A month ago I promised to share the recording of my talk at Penn, "Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner." If you're feeling down, try the part around 14:30 where I talk about how fun it is to be a creature without a fixed essence who has to spend millennia discovering what they're capable of.

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Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner

YouTube video by Wolf Humanities Center

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Sarah M @lore.house · 29/11/2024

Some of you may remember James’s fantastic introductory video on Linked Open Data. If you don’t know about this yet, it is a field with immense potential to make knowledge and research tools considerably more accessible.

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What is Linked Open Data? A Tolkien Example

YouTube video by Digital Tolkien Project

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

⚡ New #DraCor merch available: Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here: sukultur.de/produkt/batt... Rules of play & background info: battle-of-the-plays.github.io @schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

The Sunoikisis Digital Classics #SunoikisisDC programme for January–March 2025 is now up. Individual events on @ics.bsky.social calendar at: ics.sas.ac.uk/search-event... (All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)

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Events

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/11/2024

Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.

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Lisa Marie Rhody @lmrhody.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....

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Feminist Digital Humanities

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Shai Gordin @shgordin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Program of the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (#DANES) annual conference is out! digitalpasts.github.io/DANES2024/#p.... Online event this year with a global list of speakers from Australia to the US. Topics incl. digital methods in archaeology to Ancient Language Processing (ALP).

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Gil Shalit @dh-dev.com · 21/11/2024

Is #IIIF sharing and annotation going to be shaken up? Looks likely...

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

We're about to start with our 2-day conference: "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities" Program: www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/... #LODaLS #DigitalHumanities #LinkedOpenData

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Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Cuneiform studies people! Exciting SPARQL news coming for you…

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Émilie Pagé-Perron @epp.cdli.network · 14/11/2024

Hey all, if you use the CDLI (cdli.ucla.edu) in your studies or work, please consider setting up a recurring donation of 1 to 5 pounds per month (opencollective.com/cdli). We currently receive 51 pounds from monthly recurring donations, which pays for minor maintenance or feature development.

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Home

By making the form and content of cuneiform texts available online, the CDLI is opening pathways to the rich historical tradition of the ancient Middle East. In close collaboration with researchers, m...

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Heather D. Baker @apkallatu.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Today we are reading my favourite cuneiform tablet - a court record that tells how a businessman caught out two brothers trying to pass off a faked tablet, so one of the fraudsters snatched the fake tablet back from him and began to chew it. Ea-naṣir has nothing on these guys!

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Laure Thompson @laurejt.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

The schedule for #CHR2024 is live! Looking forward to seeing you all at Aarhus in a few weeks!

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 13/11/2024

Schmidt Sciences is outlining the timeline for a new program to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities. Open call for proposals to come Dec 15. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

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Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group in 2025-2026. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! UW iSchool PhD apps due Dec 2nd: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd... More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

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mentorship | Melanie Walsh

Assistant Professor at UW in Seattle. Data science, digital humanities, literature, culture.

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 08/11/2024

#MultilingualDH job alert! 🚨

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 08/11/2024

Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!

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Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Including "DIGITAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATING SPACE AND PLACE IN CLASSICAL STUDIES" by @eltonteb.bsky.social Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social & @shgordin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000... #openaccess

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/03/2024

Are you a DH person interested in AI ("DH", "interested" and "AI" all defined broadly)? The @ach.bsky.social AI working group is having its first meeting March 22 at 2:30 PM Eastern. Come join us and let's figure out what we're working on together!

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ACH AI working group meeting

Fill out this form if you'd like to join the meeting of the ACH AI working group on Friday March 22, 2:30 PM Eastern / 1:30 PM Central / 11:30 AM Pacific. We'll send a Zoom link closer to the event. ...

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VIEWS project @viewsproject.bsky.social · 30/01/2024

We're delighted to announce the first VIEWS conference, Writing as Visual Experience, will take place in Cambridge on 20-22 September 2024. If you'd like to present a paper, please do get in touch! Read the Call for Papers here: viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 15/01/2024

Cool work here from a team well known to DHers, led by Lucy Li, and including @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @dbamman.bsky.social. Using self-descriptions of 10.3 million website creators, they show that "quality" filtering for LLM training data has socially unequal effects. #MLsky blueskAI

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AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the...

Large language models' (LLMs) abilities are drawn from their pretraining data, and model development begins with data curation. However, decisions around what data is retained or removed during...

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

FINALLY 🤖https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/5/56/ACL_Anonymity_Policy.pdf

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

Working on your syllabus? Looking for open access scholarship on AI, computer vision and images? Distant Viewing is OA! We wrote it in a way that we hope one can assign the whole book or chapters. We’d also be delighted to visit your class to discuss!

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Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images

A new theory and methodology for the application of computer vision methods to the computational analysis of collected, digitized visual materials, called “dist

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Matt Howland, Ph.D. @matthowland.bsky.social · 27/12/2023

a great collaborative team effort! With @shgordin.bsky.social and others

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Matt Howland, Ph.D. @matthowland.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

I spent a while working on this 3D model of the Faynan region in Blender: skfb.ly/oOAut This is the regional-scale introduction to a 3D non-linear storytelling project for the archaeology of the region I am working on

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Faynan, Jordan - 3D model by Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (@ELRAP)

Faynan is a small region in southern Jordan’s Wadi Arabah, a dry rift valley running from the Dead Sea to the Red Sea. The region has a rich history, with archaeological remains ranging from th...

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Tyne Daile Sumner @tynedaile.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

CFP 📣 The Call for Papers for #DH2024 is now live! Details here: dh2024.adho.org/cfp/ Deadline for submissions is December 5th 2023. Conference is in Washington D.C., August 6-9, 2024!

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Call for Proposals – DH2024

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 17/10/2023

So excited that Distant Viewing is out today! We offer a theory and method for computer vision and how it can support the analysis of visual culture. An absolute delight to work with @springer.bsky.social and MIT Press. Thank you to all who have supported this project. Please help spread the word!

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S.L.James @sljames.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

And a reminder that we’re also hiring a tenure-track colleague in archaeology and digital humanities!

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S.L.James @sljames.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Reminder that my department has an open-rank tenure-track search in Greek or Roman rhetoric. Please apply or distribute widely!

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