New little paper “The times are a-changin’: présent vs passé simple in French novels (1811–2024)”👉 hal.science/hal-04984105 With Simon Gabay and @floriancafiero.bsky.social #dhbenelux2025 In french fiction, use of past tenses (especially the passé simple) collapsed over the last 150 years.. so why?

We are happy to announce our next seminar, given by Florian Cafiero @floriancafiero.bsky.social (PSL @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social) entitled "A Riddle in a Haystack: Using Large Language Models for the Detection of Rare Phenomena" on Friday 7th March at 11am CET. Details here: t.co/pPbWfkALM4!

Open funded PhD position at Tallinn Uni, School of Digital Technologies: Computational phenomenology of first-person experiences www.tlu.ee/en/dt/applyi...

Do you want to collaborate as reviewer for DH2025? Please, fill in this form (forms.gle/JN5B1nyL2a8L...) & register in ConfTool (www.conftool.pro/dh2025/). #DH25 #digitalhumanities #collaboration #ADHO

Hello DH community! We’re excited to join this space and look forward to connecting with you all on conferences, publications, presentations, collaborations, training opportunities and highlighting various activities happening across the digital humanities community. #DigitalHumanities#ADHO

For locals: I'm happy to announce that the CFP for next year’s Graduate Fellowship in Digital Humanities (often referred to as the DH Fellows program for short) has now been posted. Applications due February 15th, 2025. scholarslab.lib.virginia.edu/digital-huma...

CamemBERT 2.0: A Smarter French 🇫🇷 Language Model Aged to Perfection 👌 We release a much-needed update for the previous. SOTA French encoder LM. We introduce two new models CamemBERTa-v2 and CamemBERT-v2, based on the DeBERTaV3 and RoBERTa recipe. So what's new? [1/8]

🔍 The full program for #CHR2024 is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

Didn't find one, so made a computational literary studies starter pack, with notable bunch of european folks and early career scholars. My circle here is small, so please reply/dm to be added or removed and suggest people from your networks! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

"word entropy of American English has been rising steadily since around 1900 [...] with short-form media such as news and magazines having higher entropy than long-form media, and social media feeds having higher entropy stil" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A few words about our ongoing research about detection and analysis of texts written by persons with ADHD: www.sciencesetavenir.fr/sante/cervea...

Pleased to see that “Topic modelling literary interviews from The Paris Review” has just been published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (DSH): doi.org/10.1093/llc/... It’s open access (with thanks to IReL). @derekgreene.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social

We are accepting applications for the Gerda Henkel Fellowship in Digital History, a joint partnership with the German Historical Institute and @rrchnm.bsky.social. Applications are due February 4, 2024.

3 PhD positions at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen Fully salaried. Deadline 11 February 2024 jobportal.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Available for beta testing: Zotero for Android L'essentiel y est sauf un connecteur de navigateur, l'édition de bibliographie... Synchronisation par compte personnel OK en espérant avoir assez de mémoire A tester... By @zotero.bsky.social

DH Folks, I am delighted to be a part of planning the 2024 Canadian Society for Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place at McGill from the 16th-19th of June. If you could please lend a hand in sharing this CFP, that would be fantastic: csdh-schn.org/csdh-schn-co...

Re-upping this job ad for a postdoc with the Atlanta Interdisciplinary AI Network. Applications due Jan 16th. Feel free to reach out with questions!

#CHR2023 has been a very rich experience! Already looking forward to CHR2024 in Aarhus where we'll have some first results from the GOLEM project golemlab.eu Btw, we're also hiring a PhD to work on the computational analysis of narrative in argumentative text www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... #nlproc

Very proud to have organized Computational Humanities Research 2023 in Paris with @floriancafiero.bsky.social at EPITA. Nothing would have been possible without the support of EPITA, the ARIANE consortium and Humanistica. We welcome 150 people from all over Europe, the US and even Australia!

La conférence #HNR2024 est également ouverte aux contributions en français ! Venez présenter vos recherche en analyse de réseaux historiques à Lausanne: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/aac/ (délai de l'appel 31.01.24)

🌍 Applications for visiting professors on Democracy & AI @sciencespo are still open until December 15. The Open Institute for Digital Transformation is funding 2 semester-long stays in one of Sciences Po’s world-class research centers in Paris.

10 postdoctoral fellowships at the Aarhus Institute of Adanced Studies (AIAS): 23 months, open to researchers of all disciplines. Deadline: 1 February 2024 @aiasdk.bsky.social

Proceedings of Computational Humanities Research 2023 are out! 830 pages 😱 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/ Impossible without heroic help from @folgertk.bsky.social

UltraFastBERT, a BERT model using only 0.3% of its neurons for inference, matching the performance of standard BERT models. Achieving up to 78x speedup over traditional methods. #NLP #LLMs #BertGoBrrrt

[CFP] I am pleased to announce the opening of the call for papers for the #HNR2024 conference: historicalnetworkresearch.github.io/lausanne/ Do you apply network analysis to historical subjects? Come to Lausanne in July! Deadline January 31, 2024 Please share!

À voir ou à revoir : l'entretien avec le chercheur Florian Cafiero, auteur de "Affaires de Style". Dans la playlist des Entretiens de Ca Coule de Source sur Épique Épochè.

Can we already make friends with an #AI-generated persona ? A few answers on this not-so-peculiar type of parasocial relationship for Euronews: fr.euronews.com/next/2023/10...

🚨 last days to apply (deadline 15 Nov.) ! The ERC project LostMA is recruiting: 1. a post-doc in #complexity science for 2 years (renewable for 2 more); 2. a data-architect and curator for 4 years. Menu: medieval manuscripts, evolutionary models & data analysis at a scale rarely attempted!