iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

a PhD position in LLMs, annotations, language and benchmarking @ University of Tartu. please share! digits.ut.ee/join-the-team/

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

me, accidentally finding out on a Sunday morning that my research is on Spiegel... what

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Frieren Popsicle

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Oleg Sobchuk 🇺🇦 @sobchuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Really happy to be a part of this new paper investigating evolutionary forces behind word popularity. It relies on unique & rich data of Ukrainian language 🇺🇦 The project was led by @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social, who used an innovative extension of ABC and did an impressive job overall. Check it out!

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I was hesitating if I should participate (not a Python person, sry), but I enjoyed it very much! And I noticed some outcomes already: 1) I casually opened some PyPI documentation and just applied the thing I needed? 2) I had a dream where I was debugging a .py file, never happened with me before

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

it turned out to be an incredible school, a masterclass in pedagogy, organization and (research) software developing. so glad I heard about the Prague edition in time, will be pointing people to it in random contexts #aspp2026

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Jean Barré @jbarre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Interested by a corpus of 19th/early 20th c. French for your research? Here's the French corpus of 11K! novels I tried to curate during my PhD 😅, now live at JOHD, and downloadable on Zenodo! 📄 doi.org/10.5334/johd.597 📦 zenodo.org/records/20233178

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Hors d’usage: Curated French Fiction from Gallica, 1800–1950 | Journal of Open Humanities Data

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@peetertinits.bsky.social at the last session of #DH2026 talking about using huge harmonized bibliographic datasets to study the diffusion of information and patterns of language adoption across Early Modern -> Modern Europe. V. cool!

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

@babeheim.bsky.social showing how Go opening strategies changed over time and what happened after AI joined the game @ #DH2026

Bret Beheim presenting; the slide shows Go opening moves visualized as phylogenetic trees

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Also I spent the evening before our #DH2026 presentation cutting PoeTree.org project stickers ✂️ straight cuts wasn't easy with konbini-bought scissors so some stickers have custom non-square shape.. find them at the 1st floor! and find us with @artjomshl.bsky.social to talk about poetry corpora

PoeTree.org stickers in different stages of life: some cut in squares, some in pierogi-clouds, and some in plain squares or not cut at all yet

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We have also compared Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift lyrics on the "more poetry-like < - > more songs-like" scale, but didn't report it as one of us was not very happy with the results -- with @artjomshl.bsky.social #DH2026

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Bret Beheim @babeheim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

@artjomshl.bsky.social and @tonyamart.bsky.social compare the evolutionary dynamics of poetry and lyrics over the last few centuries #dh2026

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

our new paper with @plechac.bsky.social puts thousands of poems across languages in one shared space of poetic form! we use sequence alignment on rhyme schemes to investigate 'fixed forms' and all things between: not only 'sonnets', but 'sonnet-like' things. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

a clustered umap of the formal space of poetry defined by sequence alignment distances between rhyme schemes in 6 languages. below: the same space, but colored only by poems that bear 'fixed forms' labels in Czech and Russian corpora.

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Digital Humanities Potsdam @dhpotsdam.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

From the Tagus to the Volga, from Rome to China: how does poetry imagine geography? At #CCLS2026, @tonyamart.bsky.social, @artjomshl.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social trace the “from A to B” formula across 6 European poetic corpora. Seems many poets liked the east-west axis: doi.org/10.26083/tud...

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

@artjomshl.bsky.social happily returned to his alma mater to speak at @digitsut.bsky.social seminar on publishing/perishing in DH

The speaker starts his talk with some slides on, people in the auditorium are listening

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

poetree is there too 👀

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I already have my favourite metaphors from her about how the ocean feels, how cool is that

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

went to the most perfect and calming seaside today, despite everything

a seaside in a daylight, a seagull and a hooded crow staying in the water, snow on the beach

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

to my great surprise, we are left with some money for buying books for our team at the institute. Any recent recommendations in computational humanities, DH, poetics, verse studies, world lit / comparative lit? Let's go, internet! Self plugs are more than welcome.

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

A farewell card for #chr2025 people, safe travels everyone✨

A duck in the magic hat holds a candle in the middle of the dark forest. The text says: the extrovert phase is over, it's time to be mysterious and elusive again

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

my first chr, yay! #chr2025 Also realized that an ultra short talk preparation takes really a lot of time 😅

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”

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Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment - Volume 1

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Svenja Guhr @guhrs.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Btw, I created the Bluesky feed "CLS in DH/NLP". It collects posts containing the keywords: #CLS, #CCLS, #JCLS, #CCLS2025, CLS INFRA, Literary Computing, SPP-CLS, Computational Literary Studies, Cultural Analytics, Digital Literary Studies, etc. 👉 Feel free to like and share

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

✍️ Our paper is finally out! All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard. We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/ tinyurl.com/metronome25

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Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core

Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment - Volume 1

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

@plechac.bsky.social, Neža Kočnik and @artjomshl.bsky.social explaining how zodiac signs influence poetic style (they don't) -- at the best conference ever @plottingpoetry.bsky.social

Three presenters laughing after seeing their own analysis results

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A scholar possessing a singular vision and a frightening working resilience, he was hounded by Stalin repression machine, exiled, denied academic positions, firewood and food; his work was largely forgotten until 2000s. So we, who were influenced by him at the rise of DH, keep remembering.

Photo of Boris Yarkho (1889-1942), one of the few ones that are discoverable on the web; he is sitting on a chair, leaning sideways and smiling.

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Boris Yarkho, a Moscow formalist, was born today in 1889; his work of 1920-1930s fully anticipates computational literary studies: statistical methods used not for stylistics or attribution, but for questions of literary history and theory Read him, if you haven't www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

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Speech Distribution in Five-Act Tragedies (A Question of Classicism and Romanticism)

Article Speech Distribution in Five-Act Tragedies (A Question of Classicism and Romanticism) was published on March 1, 2019 in the journal Journal of Literary Theory (volume 13, issue 1).

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Joanna Bagniewska @joannabagniewska.com · 11/02/2025

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 🥼🔬 Longing for the day when funding is ample, jobs are steady, and autocorrect stops changing "Curie" to "cutie". #academicsky

Marie Curie Skłodowska saying: Men can do science too.

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

seems like Google was able to find not only Elena Ferrante's stylistic fingerprint, but even *her* face

A tab that appears when googling "elena ferrante stylometry", which says "Elena Ferrante, public figure" and has a woman's photo on the left side from the name.

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

when I open terminal, I still automatically start as `cd Documents/thesis`... halp

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Defended my PhD yesterday and got a German tax id today 🎓✨ what a week, huh?

two girls in a nice bar, smiling, one of them wearing a Ravenclaw hat

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

a sudden murder happened on a book page (Charles Hartman in 1996 "Virtual Muse" talking about a scansion software he wrote in ~1980s (?) )

a highlighted excerpt from Charles Hartman book Virtual Muse (1996), p.51, that says:

What use did it have? It wasn’t likely to become a software bestseller. I could distribute it as a public-domain program, but to whom? Who needed an automated iambic pentameter scanner? Nobody. If the program had a purpose, it was to show that it could do what it did.

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Congratulations to @joannaby.bsky.social for getting her PhD in multimodal stylometry 🥳🎉

Screenshot showing Joanna defending her thesis (on the left) and the academic crowd at the Institute of Polish language listening to her (on the right)

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Ćśśśśśś, zażółć gęślą jaźń 👹

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Computational poetics archaeology: today I've read some of Geir Kjetsaa's articles on poetry data analysis made in 1970s using Fortran 🤖 Kjetsaa was a Norwegian slavist and he is known for his works on authorship attribution, but not comp poetics(?). Plot: sth like ttr for 3 poets, x=tokens, y=words

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

writing (thesis) acknowledgments is sth so bittersweet, i'm just sitting here thinking how lucky i am 😿

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Halloween is a bit too long and too scary this year

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

just spoke with a Czech lady over the phone: I don't know Czech, she doesn't speak English, cringe silence on the phone ... ended with my question być może mogłabym mówić po polsku w końcu ona powiedziała, że ok to była dobra rozmowa, "mějte se hezky a do widzenia" 🤪 god bless same language families

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

twitter's "for you" feed just showed me for no reason more than 10 posts from musk?? in a row lol like ok guys let's fckg go full authoritarian in algorithms

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雪路/YUKIJI @machiko324.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

朋友在推特稱作推友那在Bluesky要稱呼蝶友嗎… （半夜不睡在想這個）

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

been using Notion AI's "improve text" on my abstracts quite a lot and it was fine... but baby it just went wild as soon as it recognized that i was writing a cover letter 👹 feels bad thinking how much more cover letters it might have eaten in comparison with literary or well less-nonsense texts

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

i like the symmetry of this number heh

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Antonina Martynenko @tonyamart.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

hello world 👾 so it's been >a year since the quote. firstly, i'm alive 🥲 secondly, now i have sth called final_draft_v2 on my computer ✨ bluesky now seems a bit less cosy but still a nice place to be, special thx for gifs

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a cartoon cat is peeking over a keyboard with the shift key visible

ALT: a cartoon cat is peeking over a keyboard with the shift key visible

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 26/04/2024

Did German Iambic Pentameters Written 200 Years Ago Cause Air Pollution in Maine?

spurious correlation graph showing r2=0.7, p<0.01 between German iambic pentameters (1810-1820) and Air pollution in Augusta, Maine

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Artjoms Šeļa @artjomshl.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

Today is the birthday of Boris Yarkho (1889-1942) — a visionary literary scholar,a formalist, who was the most important precursor of the current computational turn. Exiled, denied positions and funds (and warmth and food) he continued counting things alone. Plot uses his data on Corneille’s drama

MDS scatter plot showing clear distinction between comedies and tragedies of P. Corneille using Yarkho’s measurements of 15 structural and thematic features

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 06/09/2023

Whether you’re a serious gamer or just looking for a break in the day, the Flash Games Software Library has options for any level of computer gaming! ▶️ archive.org/details/soft...

Mahjong tiles from a Flash game preserved at Internet Archive.

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