🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

Flash 5 (2000). I used to make so many terrible animations with this tool. I still have them backed up.

Today, Canada recognises the State of Palestine.   My statement: www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

BREAKING South Korean prosecutors seek arrest of Unification Church leader

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👇

We now recommend this course to all our incoming students: missing.csail.mit.edu

Before streaming or YouTube—there was cartoonnetwork․com, 📺 home to Flash games, clips of Ed, Edd n Eddy & Powerpuff Girls, + Cartoon Orbit battles. The site’s gone, but the Wayback Machine lets you time-travel back ➡️ web.archive.org/web/19981001... #Wayback1T

My university has been pushing for AI education ever since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022. What I wish we had done instead, rather than endless surveys about chatbot usage patterns, is making digital literacy (how to manage files, use the command line, and configure one's own computer)

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

It's always a pleasure and honor to co-author with Yuerong @yrhu.bsky.social (and of course with @profdownie.bsky.social and @tedunderwood.me as well), and her latest is not to be missed: "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads".

Hi Friends! My coauthors @tedunderwood.me @gworthey.bsky.social @profdownie.bsky.social and I are excited to share our new article in DSH @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social "Comparative analysis of classics book review data created by users across Douban and Goodreads". Link in comment:)

Outstanding performance. #Zubi (and also #Noni!)

Qwen 3 now supports ARM and MLX | Discussion

As Lee Jae-myung nears 100 days in office, here's how he stacks up against previous presidents. 63% approval. Yoon at a similar period was at just 28%. Only region where is underwater is Daegu (36%) , and he is above water in every age cohort.

How to not do computational humanities: (1) Lay out a question/hypothesis about a complex, cultural domain. (2) Compute numbers that were inspired by (1) but without sufficiently formalizing (1) so as to meaningfully link to it. (3) Interpret numbers to mean whatever your prior vibes were.

Despite a few errors here and there, this ChatGPT 5 translation is quite readable. Wow, I can assign Yi Taejin's classic article of land reclamation in the 16th century to undergrad students.

🚀 Europe’s first exascale supercomputer is here! JUPITER, launched in Germany, is the EU’s most powerful system and fourth fastest worldwide. 100% powered by renewables, it has also ranked first in energy efficiency. It will boost AI, science, and climate research. Read more - europa.eu/!vcWBqW

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept! 🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society 🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods 🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science 🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The very first #DraCorSummit kicked off today 🎭 a full week dedicated to computational drama analysis! We’re excited to be a partner of this event. Selected papers will appear in a special issue on computational drama analysis in #JCLS (2026). Stay tuned! #CLS #DramaAnalysis #DraCor @dracor.org

✨ We're kicking off the #DraCorSummit 2025 in Berlin today! 5 days of digital drama analysis, enhancing #DraCor, and celebrating #OpenScience with participants from around the world at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Programme: summit.dracor.org @temporal-communities.de @unipotsdam.bsky.social

Coming up this afternoon. I believe online participation is also possible.

Is this potentially a game changer? This semester, I'm assigning readings in both English and Korean and teaching students how to read primary sources in classical Chinese via AI translators (with caveats). GPT-5's English translation of Lee Ikjoo's study of the Chosŏn founding is quite decent:

"Now that most mental effort tied to writing is optional, we need new ways to require the work necessary for learning. That means moving .. toward in-class blue book essays ... and other assessments that call on students to demonstrate knowledge in real time." #Gift www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

@culturalanalytics.bsky.social after a longer than I had hoped delay! culturalanalytics.org/article/1429...

I have two events coming up at Leuven, after @jing-hu.bsky.social's highly anticipated PhD defense. Monday, 1 September: a workshop with Jing on how I processed the Andong Kwŏn Genealogy of 1476 so that it can be "digitally (re)read" via Neo4j queries. GitHub page: github.com/javiercha/an...

Set Piece FC!

Lee Judges: "I'll tell you where he's not going to play..." Robbie: "Where?" Lee: "At Tottenham." 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Check out Jannis Klähn, Janos Borst-Graetz, @manuelburghardt.bsky.social work on LLMs and German data! “In this study, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of sentiment classification for German language data using three different approaches…”

And our first themed issue - Missing Data in the Humanities - articles are coming out! Check out Jan Maliszewski registered report! “While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes)…”

1 nil to the Arsenal!!

New faculty orientation today: “As the world becomes more AI + tech centered, the humanities become more, not less, important.” “You might hear about other places closing down departments. They’re not like us. We’re closing nothing.” “We don’t train students for jobs but to think + be creative.”

An English language translation of Confucius’ The Analects, published in Shanghai, 1887

🗞️Job Lectureship in Humanities Data Science (broadly defined, with possible specialism in visualisation) here at UCL. Join us www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #dh

The registration for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin is open until 20 August. Register soon! (You may also participate in some parts of the programme online.) #DH #CLS #ClassicsBluesky #LitWiss @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

My impression so far: GPT-5 is worse than GPT-4o.

Can LLMs reason by analogy like humans? We investigate this question in a new paper published in the Journal of Memory and Language (link below). This was a long-running but very rewarding project. Here are a few thoughts on our methodology and main findings. 1/9

First of many. Headed the goal to silence the critics. #COYG

My job is safe. For now.

Yes, this is the part that’s reminiscent of Darwin. It’s not that AIs are foolproof or should replace doctors or schoolteachers or anything like that. It’s that they do things that we thought only humans could do, and raise questions we can’t answer about what makes us truly distinct.

South Korea set to decide whether to let Google Maps finally work properly

data visualization is my passion

GPT-5 will be announced in about 1.5 hours.

OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b They perform at the level of o4-mini and run on a high-end laptop. openai.com/open-models/

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate theonion.com/left-wi...

On my way to #ACL2025NLP in Vienna to present a paper on serialized fiction in 19th-century newspapers 🔥 We build a dataset + classifiers to dig fiction out of newspapers — and sentiment intensity & variation help tell fact from fiction 🤔📚💔 Feuilletons, meet NLP: aclanthology.org/2025.acl-srw...

Any Gooners in my Bluesky network? Hong Kong is hosting the first-ever North London Derby to be held outside of the UK this Thursday. And Arsenal.com just published this story about the official Hong Kong Arsenal Supporters Club. www.arsenal.com/news/hong-ko...