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What technology takes from us – and how to take it back, by Rebecca Solnit: www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements. dracor.org Release notes: github.com/dracor-org/d... github.com/dracor-org/d... #DigitalHumanities

2 journal articles and 2 book chapters actually

2025 has been a good year in terms of publications -- 3 journal articles and 1 book chapter. Here are the references:

I should add that, even if the webinar is in English, the techniques for writing a lesson apply to our Spanish-, Portuguese- and French-language journals 😄

"Who Speaks to Whom?" Important work by our Romanian colleagues Udrea et al. on improving social network analysis of tragic plays: doi.org/10.3390/elec... They use LLMs for addressee detection in Polish, German, Romanian & English drama (all via #DraCor) to build directed (!) weighted graphs.

With papers by Matthew Driscoll & Alessandro Gnasso; Stefan Rosmer & David M. Weigl; Nieves Pena Sueiro & Carlota Fernández Travieso; Roberto Rosselli Del Turco; Antonio Rojas Castro; José Manuel Fradejas Rueda & Mario Cossío Olavide; James Cummings.

Just appeared: PHILOLOGIA HISPALENSIS 39/2 (2025) doi.org/10.12795/PH.... with a monographic section on digital scholarly editions.

My article "Designing Digital Editions for Humans: Insights on User Experience and Usability from the Digital Dossier: Alexander von Humboldt and Cuba (1800–1830)" is published! Thanks to all people who made it possible and to "Philologia Hispalensis": doi.org/10.12795/PH....

We're thrilled to announce a new article from #JCLS 4 (1): Keith, A., @antoniorojascastro.bsky.social, Ehrlicher, H., Jung, K. & Padó, S. (2025): #ComputationalAnalysis of #Gender Depiction in the #Comedias of #Calderón de la Barca (10.48694/jcls.4055) can be found at #CLS #CCLS25 #Theatre

Es ist endlich der 20.! Vielen Dank an Frank (@umblaetterer.bsky.social), Peer (@peertrilcke.bsky.social) & Julia (@juliajbeine.bsky.social) für das Interview – & an alle Teilnehmenden des #DraCorSummit, die sich mit uns unterhalten haben! Und hier geht's zur Folge: radihum20.de/radihum...#DraCorSummit,1/2

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Deutsche Bahn = trauma

On my way to Romanistiktag in Konstanz by train... I left my apartment in Berlin at 8:00 and I still have two hours to get to my destination after several delays and missed connections. It's much easier to travel to Cuba than traversing Germany with Deutsche Bahn.

The idea to attach an Ibsen corpus to #DraCor is almost 10 years old. Thanks to our colleagues at the Centre for Ibsen Studies (University of Oslo) 🇳🇴, we are delighted to announce today the official release of #IbsDraCor with 37 plays: dracor.org/ibs #DigitalHumanities

📢 @teiconsortium.bsky.social 📨 We invite you to complete this survey of TEI by Example 🔃 Please feel free to circulate widely among the #TEI Community💻 Using TEI by Example Survey 📲 forms.office.com/e/HeB5mWpAwU

La 'bisabuelita' Manuela Xiqués, la hija y viuda de esclavistas en Cuba que dejó su fortuna en fincas por toda Barcelona www.eldiario.es/1_c0386a?utm...

The new issue of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Vol. 40, No. 3, 2025) is out now! Don’t miss the newest #DH research: academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/40/

📣Vacancy – Platform Manager We are seeking an experienced digital platform manager to join our team who will ensure that #DOAJ continues to grow and meet the demands of our user community #DOAJVacancy #OpenAccess #DOAJTeam All details: blog.doaj.org/2025/09/01/v...

"the algorithms highlighted 122 applications from a total of 714 as having a low chance of success. This decision was checked by two human reviewers, who rescued 46 applications initially flagged for rejection by the AI system." This kind of tech fetishism sounds like it creates more work all round

Want to explore training materials from CLS INFRA? Visit campus.dariah.eu and search for “CLS INFRA” to access resources on data annotation, network analysis, and more in computational literary studies. @dariaheu.bsky.social #CLSINFRA #DigitalHumanities #OpenEducation

Revenge 🌟😈

About to start the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025. A full day dedicated to TEI-encoded drama corpora. @teiconsortium.bsky.social We host 30 (!) community-curated corpora, overview: dracor.org/doc/corpora Programme for today (18 presentations 🤯): summit.dracor.org/corpora_conf...

The gains from productivity improvements haven't been shared since the 1970s... ☹️

Using words to fight back. Good interview.

Just released: a new version of INTRO (the Intertextual, Interpictorial & Intermedial Relations Ontology)! Mainly developed by Bernhard Oberreither, with some contributions from me. Just in time for #dh2025: bit.ly/44jEj4d

Aaron Benanav - Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?: "left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities." www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...

@danja.bsky.social @luntner.bsky.social @antoniorojascastro.bsky.social @peertrilcke.bsky.social ☺️

Digital humanities folks: the #DataSittersClub really wants to hear your feelings about AI for our next book. We've got a short, easy survey with a box at the end where you can vent as much as you want. Please share around to DH-adjacent librarians, students, developers, all welcome!

Are you looking for work in a research group that is supported by an ERC grant? Remember there are new positions appearing almost every day on #Euraxess's website, with 118 currently open. You could find the right fit for you! 👉 europa.eu/!gdXPfd #ChooseEurope #jobs #research

“La revolución de la #IA que está en sus inicios ya está causando cambios, en las formas de vida de las personas[…] El peligro está en que amenaza con modificar las relaciones sociales, los sistemas cognitivos, las estructuras políticas y también nuestras categorías éticas.” JOSE MANUEL LOPEZ GARCIA

Maybe it's time to write and publish a #DigitalHumanities Manifesto against...

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

Wir haben unser Angebot um 37 neue E-Books des Verlages Iberoamericana Vervuert erweitert: Collection 2025 https://t1p.de/cw5ak Darunter so interessante Titel wie: "Saber y sabor: escritura y comida: acerca de los paisajes alimentarios (foodscapes) ibéricos" 1/2

I just updated the “Projects” section on my personal website. Check out what I’m working on now: arojascastro.github.io/projects/

We are looking for an administrative assistant to join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social Working in an international context, we are looking for people who can operate in both German & English. Full-time, initially fixed-term, but with a long-term perspective! www.jobs.fau.de/jobs/teamass...

The experience was... Interesting

La profesora Amelia de Paz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ha reconocido la letra de Luis de #Góngora en una carta conservada en el Archivo General de Simancas (#AGS) del Ministerio de Cultura 🆕 Toda la info del hallazgo (Cátedra Góngora): 🔗https://www.uco.es/catedragongora/?page_id=3111#Góngora

i wanna be part of something larger than myself but only if i’m the main character

Reading "The theory of Novel" by Lukács for a book club reading #SummerVibes 😈

Hey everyone! Final reminder: Got 10–15 minutes? Help us make CATMA even better by taking our short, anonymous survey! It’s open to all experience levels and only takes a little of your time. Deadline: 31.07 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Thanks a lot! #CATMA #Survey #DigitalHumanities

Algunos científicos están dejando instrucciones ocultas para que ChatGPT infle con revisiones positivas sus trabajos www.eldiario.es/1_be5214?utm...

Hurrah! My next book is instantiated, and in-the-world! Library Catalogues As Data: Research, Practice, Usage. Edited with Paul Gooding and @semames.bsky.social. Proud of this one! Official publication date soon… www.facetpublishing.co.uk/page/detail/...

I asked ChatGPT to roast me. These are my favorite answers.

Our next ATNU Virtual Speaker is Dr Martina Scholger from the University of Graz, on 2025-06-25 talking about "Promise and Peril: Generative AI in Digital Scholarly Editing" for more info and to register see: research.ncl.ac.uk/atnu/news/at... #AI #DigitalEditing #Editions #DH #DigitalHumanities

Join our team @dhssfau.bsky.social @fau.de 2 full professorships in #DigitalHumanities ‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #HCI ‼️ Professor in #DH with focus on #Place&Space ⏰ Deadline: 2 June 2025 www.fau.eu/people/worki... @fauphil.bsky.social

Learned from Scott Newstok of this study of large language models that evaluates their use for "1) close reading as a form of reasoning … 2) college-level knowledge in the literary domain & 3) figurative language understanding as ... reading comprehension” arxiv.org/abs/2505.09825

Me alegro muchísimo de que llaméis al nuevo Papa por su nombre elegido. Ahora hacedlo con las personas trans 🏳️‍⚧️