A longstanding feature of language is that more frequent words are shorter than less frequent words. In our latest paper analyzing our corpus of 1000+ comics, we show a similar trade-off between the size and frequency of panels with different amounts of information www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sometimes reddit is an amazing resource. www.reddit.com/r/Cooking/co...

New paper! in the Lion and the Unicorn's issue on Children's Literature and Digital Humanities. "Educational or Entertaining? Topic Preferences in Best-Selling Chinese and British Picture Books" with Yi Li and Yongning Li, tracking intersections of markets. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

📢 EADH 2026 DEADLINE EXTENDED! Good news to anyone who still hasn't prepared their submission. 📆 The new deadline is 27th February 2026, 23:59 AoE ❗There will be no further extensions We are waiting for your proposals! #EADH2026 #DH #DigitalHumanities eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp

Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

New paper! Ethnic minorities in online museum collections: skews and bias in digital material culture. With Inna Kizhner , Daniil Skorinkin, Yael Netzer, and Moshe Lavee. Analysis of how Jewish and Armenian ethnic minorities are represented by digital online collections of major historical museums.

Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder-Next, an open-weight LM built for coding agents & local development. 🤖 Scaling agentic training: 800K verifiable tasks + executable envs 📈 Efficiency–Performance Tradeoff: achieves strong results on SWE-Bench Pro with 80B total params and 3B active

We are pleased to announce the Digital Humanities and Digitization Workshop for Japanese Materials workshop, which will be held 3/13 during #AAS2026! Learn about text encoding, codicology, & more from field experts. 💻 The workshop is free, but please register by 2/15! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Qwen already dropping models for CNY

This post from @ryancordell.org got me curious to try out Claude Code, so I am trying it out now. Using it to try to recreate the Virginia Woolf project from my dissertation project. Will share notes and thoughts here as I go.

📢 Fully funded PhD - 🌍 Dense Detection of Rare Events in Remote Sensing using Generative Models Leverage generative models, unsupervised segmentation and explainability techniques to map disasters w/ @javi-castillo.bsky.social and Flora Weissgerber Apply ⤵️ recrutement.cnes.fr/fr/annonce/4...

🚀 Apply to CMU LTI’s Summer 2026 “Language Technology for All” internship! 🎓 Open to pre‑doctoral students new to language tech (non‑CS backgrounds welcome). 🔬 12–14 weeks in‑person in Pittsburgh — travel + stipend paid. 💸 Deadline: Feb 20, 11:59pm ET. Apply → forms.gle/cUu8g6wb27Hs...

When pictures speak, they podcast 😉 Neil Cohn (@neilcohn.bsky.social) joins James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) to talk about his new book and the shared cognitive foundations underlying visual art and spoken language. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/02/01/p... #Histlx

This is a post about animal excrement and the English language. bull$#!% = nonsense/lies chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly horse$#!% = nonsense/lies dog$#!%= low quality ape$#!% = wild bat$#!%= crazy Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).

Built an object detector from zero-labelled data in one afternoon with help from Claude Code (it can do more than vibe code, TODO apps...) SAM3 on HF Jobs → correct the errors → train YOLO → repeat. Three rounds: 31% → 99% accuracy on historical index cards from @natlibscot.bsky.social

Without her work, the “intricately accurate” navigation and timing of GPS would not have been possible. ❤️

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

among everything else this week dunno if you heard but coding is over. huge opp for humanities folks. should be megaphoning 'learning to think never goes out of style'

We wrote about model-based rigorous exploration here

Breaking news: New Dutch cabinet reversing €1.5 billion in cuts to education and science www.scienceguide.nl/2026/01/kabi...

ACH is holding our annual virtual conference, ACH 2026, from June 24 to 26, 2026. We are excited to announce that we have extended our call for papers to February 23, 2026: buff.ly/Rltfrcu

We’re looking for native speakers of English to take part in an eye-tracking study on literary reading at Keplerstrasse 17, University of Stuttgart: €40 compensation! 📢 Please share this call with colleagues, family, and friends! Interested?👇 @unistuttgart.bsky.social

📢 Call for Posters #CCLS2026: Do you have a #CLS project, exciting work in progress, or an interesting error analysis to discuss? Submit your #poster proposal by March 3 and be part of the hybrid conference! jcls.io/site/ccls202...

New paper to appear at EACL 2026 main conference, and it's now up on arxiv: arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17536. The character limit here is insane, so I'll let the screenshots speak for themselves. We put together a new dataset for conversational role attribution & thread disentanglement.

Maybe this isn't new, but I just noticed in the new @zotero.org version 8 that you can do split view of a PDF. Really nice feature for quickly checking results against methods

We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...

Join us in Bologna, Italy, 4–6 Nov 2026 for Visualising Climate — the first global conference fully dedicated to climate data visualization and its power to transform public understanding of a changing planet. Come see the data. visualisingclimate.org #VisualisingClimate2026 #DataVis #ClimateCrisis

This is the robotic book retrieval system at the Shenzhen Library north hall, it has millions of books and can retrieve the one you want i 10 minutes

Our Researcher in Digital Humanities, @botondszemes.bsky.social spoke about Central European literary memory as reflected in Wikipedia and the possible use of LLMs in cleaning Wikidata query results on a workshop Vienna on January 23rd, focusing on Wikipedia, Wikidata, and literary studies.

What happens when we build a commons-based, scholar-led publishing landscape? On this episode of the Future Knowledge #podcast, @SamuelMoore.org & @HJoseph.bsky.social discuss PUBLISHING BEYOND THE MARKET & reimagining open access. 🎧 Tune in ➡️ futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/pub...

Introducing Theorizer: Turning thousands of papers into scientific laws 📚➡️📜 Most automated discovery systems focus on experimentation. Theorizer tackles the other half of science: theory building—compressing scattered findings into structured, testable claims. 🧵

🎶 🎙️ Discover how #musicstreaming affects musicians, and what they can do about it, in the new episode of the Human Interface podcast with Dr Robert Prey @ox.ac.uk and Dr Seonok Lee @facultyofartsug.bsky.social @rug.nl Tap the link to listen 👉 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Join our dynamic, interdisciplinary faculty. We're hiring for the following teaching-track positions: •Assistant Professor, Library & Information Science: apply.interfolio.com/179591 •Assistant Professor, Information Mgmt. & Information Systems: apply.interfolio.com/179688 Please share widely!

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Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵

We are so happy to receive such good news. Welcome to the department, Professor Mila Oiva! Everyone is eager to welcome you.

Everyone still think athletes will avoid DHS (ICE, CBP etc) racial profiling? #WorldCup ⚽️

My latest paper with Hugo Bowles and Claire Wood examines a Dickens mystery: did he author the recently decoded story “The Two Brothers”? The answer is complicated. The paper showcases our new method, LambdaG (forthcoming!).

Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...

We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights. link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

Korea is currently number 3 nation in AI! after USA and China.

France announced today it’s phasing out Teams, Zoom, etc. to be replaced with a French/European solution called Visio. The data is hosted on Outscale. Transcripts and subtitles are also handled by French providers. The target is set on 2027 for government agencies.

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📢 The 11th annual Global Digital Humanities Symposium will take place in April 2026 as a combination of in-person and virtual events. Free registration is now open! The registration deadline is Friday, 27 March. 🔗 Link to the program: lnkd.in/dGSin8Ft 🔗Registration link: lnkd.in/d-QFD6Bb

"the current preference for math and science majors could shift as we enter the age of AI and see growing demand for convergent talent spanning both humanities and natural sciences"

Data released Sunday showed that the employment rate gap last year between college graduates majoring in the humanities and those in natural sciences fell below 5 percentage points, marking the narrowest difference in the past decade. www.koreaherald.com/article/1066...

358 806 signatures for the full suspension of the EU-Israel association, more than 1/3 of what is needed and 4 of the 7 countries needed over 100%. tinyurl.com/mv8fzdhu ☑️Belgium 103% ☑️Finland 100.5% ☑️France 296% Ireland 58.7% Italy 79.8% Netherlands 31% Poland 51.4% ☑️Spain 111.9% Sweden 81.6%

USA: We cannot compete cheap Chinese production workers. China: Xiaomi just unveiled a factory that makes 1 phone per second, runs 24/7, has no production workers, and operates in the dark.

Data released Sunday showed that the employment rate gap last year between college graduates majoring in the humanities and those in natural sciences fell below 5 percentage points, marking the narrowest difference in the past decade. www.koreaherald.com/article/1066...

Groningen chill city 🧘‍♂️ ⚡️infrastructure that works ⚕️healthcare you can rely on 💰living costs that stay predictable A recent global index of 170+ cities placed Groningen 5th among the least-stressed cities to live in.