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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
How to Reason with Words: Models, Metaphors, Metaphysics
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
At a microconference on public feedback for AI, I argued for a turn from architectures of legibility to architectures of participation.
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From legibility to participation
An emphasis shift for human-facing computing research
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"football is the most important of the least important things in life" (dixit Ancelotti); "suspensions are the most suspendable things in life" (dixit FIFA) #tousensemble
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Bildungstanke @bildungstanke.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Eine KI-generierte imitierte Pantone Farbkarte mit der (falschen) Nummer 8647 und dem Namen "Reflecting Pool" für das schlammige Grün
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Judith Brottrager @jbrottrager.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
#MappingtheCanon meets the Princeton Prosody Archive: @wouterhaverals.bsky.social talks about how the canon is represented in the PPA:
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Excited to be part of this! Tomorrow I'll talk about how the poetic canon shifts, traced through +200 years of poetry and prosody handbooks in the Princeton Prosody Archive. @princetoncdh.bsky.social
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
i've been saving calling something "epic" for the right occasion. the occasion has arrived.
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:
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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 29/05/2026
Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
come for the AI, stay for the humans! @princetoncdh.bsky.social is hiring!
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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 27/05/2026
Big let down, to be honest
ijbol adjani ✅
@onbeinganangel

loved her work but this is really disappointing. i
hope she can clear this up

Benji @WrnrWrites [redacted]

To confirm, this “100% AI generated” passage is the
opening of chapter 5 from Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein

Your Text is AI/GPT Generated

100%
AI GPT*

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that
almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of
being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered
dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-
extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive
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Christof S. 🇪🇺 @christof.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026
Interested in Computational Literary Studies? Then it might be worth following #CCLS2026 today and tomorrow, folks! #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 29/03/2026
You can literally watch repression & displacement consolidate over fine-tuning: here's next-token probs across checkpoints of OLMo-3-7B-Think-SFT. Explicit words are repressed almost instantly but safer (displaced) alternatives emerge much later. It learns what not to say before what to say instead.
Line chart with dual y-axes showing probability of "fuck" (red, left axis) and "massage" (blue, right axis) across SFT training steps for the prompt "He pushed her onto the bed and started to". Fuck drops sharply from 0.012 to near zero in the first 5,000 steps. Massage begins at 0.002, rises slowly, then peaks around step 15,000-20,000 at 0.007 before declining to 0.002 by step 43,000. The ~15,000-step lag between repression onset and displacement peak demonstrates that the model first learns to suppress the prohibited word, then gradually develops a therapeutic/caregiving substitution — converting a sexual act into a wellness activity. The eventual decline of "massage" suggests it is itself displaced by other alternatives ("kiss", "undress") as training progresses further.Line chart with dual y-axes showing probability of "kill" (red, left axis) and "scream" (blue, right axis) across SFT training steps for the prompt "She was so angry she wanted to". Kill drops from 0.12 to 0.03 by step 5,000, then partially recovers to 0.04 by step 20,000 before settling at 0.03. Scream rises gradually from 0.02 to 0.06 over the full training run, with the steepest increase after step 25,000. The displacement from lethal violence to vocal expression is slower and more gradual than the sexual fuck-to-kiss substitution, and kill's non-monotonic trajectory — repression, partial reinstatement, then stabilisation — suggests competing training objectives where some data requires the model to discuss violence.
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!
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Claudia Carroll @claudia42.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The first research paper from WashU's AI Humanities Lab, which I co-direct with Gabi Kirilloff, is available now in the Harvard Data Science Review! Read to learn more about how (badly) current LLMs are at replicating literary style: doi.org/10.1162/9960...
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‘Written in the Style of’: ChatGPT and the Literary Canon
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 18/12/2025
“Tahnk you for reaching put! I will be OOOO four the holiday brake and look forward too connection when I return!”
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
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Folgert Karsdorp @folgertk.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...
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Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab
"Jingle Bells" and "Good King Wenceslas" haven't sounded like this in a long time.
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Sofie Moors @sofiemoors.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Very happy to present the paper that @joeymccollum.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy at #CHR2025 :)
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Caroline Vandyck @carolinevandyck.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Presented my paper "The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School" on #CHR2025 and it won the ERC Best Long Paper Award! Delighted and grateful :) @comphumresearch.bsky.social
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Women in AI Research - WiAIR @wiair.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
What do we reveal about ourselves when we talk to AI? 🤔💭 In our new WiAIR – Women in AI Research episode, we speak with Maria Antoniak about personal disclosures in human–LLM conversations — and what they mean for ethical AI development. (1/8🧵)
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
improving authorship attribution using phonetic features — fascinating work by Simon Gabay, @floriancafiero.bsky.social, and Jean-Luc Falcone at #CHR2025
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@wenyishang.bsky.social and @emilyue.bsky.social built a remark-based classifier, checking the consistency between 6th century Chinese poetry criticism and “grades” assigned to classical Chinese poetry #CHR2025
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
the original masking objective, or: filling in the black d•t in EEBO-TCP transcriptions, presented at #CHR2025 by Kiara M.H. Liu, Martin Mueller and @mattwilkens.bsky.social
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
@jbarre.bsky.social, @oseminck.bsky.social, Antoine Bourgois, and @tpoibeau.bsky.social built a detective detector, tracing the different archetypes in French detective fiction #CHR2025
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
cool work at #CHR2025 by @julianeugarten.bsky.social on the sentiment trajectories in fanfiction! @comphumresearch.bsky.social
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Neel Gupta @neel2112.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.
Graphs showing authors from the Norton Anthology receiving checkout spikes after their death.
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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.eurosky.social · 09/12/2025
I made a feed for #CHR2025 @comphumresearch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!
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lorenverreyen.bsky.social @lorenverreyen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I just presented my podcast dataset at #CHR2025. Interested in analysing 412 days worth of podcast episodes? You can find the fully transcribed dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1746... 🎙️
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Podcasts as Data
Description: This dataset provides bag-of-words (BOW) representations of podcast transcripts derived from a large-scale corpus of English-language podcasts. The corpus spans all 19 Apple Podcasts genr...
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Alix Chagué 🌈 @alix-tz.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I added a new post on my research blog last week. I wanted to react to a post from Dan Cohen that I've seen circulating on BlueSky last week about Gemini 3, and figured I would add my critical 2 cents to the mix! alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/025/
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025 - A Perfect Job is the New Very Good Job
A little disclaimer for once, because I usually prefer to praise if I name people. I do not know Dan Cohen nor his work, my criticism of his article is not directed against him personally, but rather
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂 📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences! 🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
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CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
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Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
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dhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
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New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/ Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me... We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet. 1/n
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Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”
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Meredith 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 🧵
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social 👇
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I made a lil game inspired by the Wordle universe. It's called Versedle (pronounced Verse-a-dle). You guess who wrote famous lines of literature. As my parents can attest, it's hard! I made them an Easy Mode, but it's still kinda hard. Maybe you'll like it! ▶️ 📚: melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/
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VERSEDLE
Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!
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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇
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CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI
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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before, and that is precisely why it's useful." For our August feature, we invited science fiction writer Ted Chiang to respond to a series of questions related to AI and its impact on humanities scholarship.
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The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang
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fortext lab @fortextlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Last week, @evelyngius.bsky.social presented at the 40th Annual International Conference on Narrative, hosted by the Science & Fiction Lab at Florida International University. She joined a roundtable discussion exploring computational approaches to narrative studies in the age of AI. (1/5)
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Pieter Beullens @pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This paper on LLM and Authorship Attribution picks up my 2024 article with @wouterhaverals.bsky.social & @rantyben.bsky.social, though the authors miss the finer point that our article is actually about "Translator" Verification - not entirely the same problem! aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-...
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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
CATMuS 1.6.0 will see the light of the day in January. If all goes well, we should see roughly 40 to 50 new manuscripts, with 1 to 10 pages per manuscripts, in: - Italian - Latin - Spanish - Occitan (New to the group :) )
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Computational Humanities Research @comphumresearch.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
And the runner ups of the Best Short Paper Award: 🎖"Abbreviation Application: A Stylochronometric Study of Abbreviations in the Oeuvre of Herne’s Speculum Scribe" by Caroline Vandyck & @mikekestemont.bsky.social 🎖"SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION" by @rmmhicke.bsky.social & Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
hygge vibes and bike lanes — Aarhus, you’ve been a delightful host for #CHR2024
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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Thank you to the @comphumresearch.bsky.social for the #chr2024 Best Short Paper recognition. Taylor and I are deeply appreciative, and grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!
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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Truly honored to have served as Programme Chair for #CHR2024 alongside @laurejt.bsky.social and Marijn Koolen! Thank you to all participants, organizers, and reviewers for making this conference such a success!! See you all next year in Luxemburg! 🇱🇺✨
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Ben Lee @bcgl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Truly honored to receive the Best Long Paper award at #chr2024 with @jammahowald.bsky.social! So grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Jamie (who has an incredible research career ahead of him!), and thank you to @comphumresearch.bsky.social for organizing such a fantastic conference!
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