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

Read Alaska Native authors!

This week, we announce another article from #JCLS 4 (1): Gilad Aviel Jacobson, @itaymm.bsky.social, and Yael Dekel. “From Readers to Data: #Uncertainty in Computational Literary Citizen Science” (10.48694/jcls.4169). Check it out at: jcls.io/issue/118/in... #CLS #CCLS25 #CitizenScience

New paper out! Our Hebrew Novel Project started as a citizen science effort to collect data on thousands of novels. We quickly realized - surprise, surprise : ) - that reading is complex.

Just in time for #Halloween, my article on the uncanny in #Plautus’ “Ghost Play” is now available open access on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Find out how the scheming slave Tranio creates the perfect haunted house on stage to scare his master and... (1/2) #ClassicsBluesky #RomanComedy

My paper "A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction" jcls.io/article/id/4... is now published with @jcls-io.bsky.social. Thanks so much to the editors and peer reviewers who made this possible. I am proud as a peacock! 🦚

Furthermore, while #Hades' power correlates negatively with #StoryPopularity, #Persephone's agency correlates positively with it, leading to the fittingly playful title, 'A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude'.

On average: Persephone shows higher power, while Hades exhibits higher agency — revealing shifting dynamics in myth reinterpretation. ⚖️ A fascinating look at #gender, #power & classical reception through #NLP and #fanfiction. ✨

@julianeugarten.bsky.social explores #power and #agency in fanfiction retellings of the #Persephone and #Hades myth — using #Riveter (by @mariaa.bsky.social et al. 2023), the study analyzes 482 #fanfiction stories to measure how Persephone and Hades are portrayed.

Open Data & Code can be found archived on doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

We're thrilled to announce the 3rd article from JCLS 4 (1): @julianeugarten.bsky.social “A Powerful Hades Is an Unpopular Dude. Dynamics of Power and Agency in Hades/Persephone Fanfiction” (10.48694/jcls.4208). #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CLS #JCLS #DigitalHumanities #CCLS25

Folks in DH working with German-language data! Here’s a resource I put together with corpora of both fiction and non-fiction works from the Gutenberg libraries, about 5,000 books in total, including metadata on genre and author gender 📚 🧮 openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

We're looking for further use cases of #Janeway in conjunction with #LaTeX-based workflows (e.g. #Overleaf). Are you working with #OJS or LaTeX-based workflows in #DOA and would like to share your experience with us? @evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #JCLS

Are stories machines that make us feel? Yuri Bizzoni rethinks #SentimentAnalysis in #CLS in his talk at Atelier: "Narratologie et humanités numériques", ENS Paris/Sorbonne nouvelle

We're thrilled to see our publication out this week! 🥳 #JCLS is such a great place to publish our project results. Many thanks to the editorial team for the quick publication process and for the great discussion at #CCLS2025! --> #Code&Data can be found here: github.com/literarylab/...

Exciting to see my publication with @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social in #JCLS 4(1)! It's been such a great journey discovering #DomesticSpace in 19th-Century #English-language #fiction and presenting our results at #CCLS2025. 🏡🚢🏙️🌉

✍️ Mark your calendars - here are the important dates: 🏰 CCLS26 takes place from 28-29, 2026, at the @unipotsdam.bsky.social, Germany; 🗓️ Deadline for submissions: January 8, 2026; 🔜 Submissions open: starting November 3, 2025. jcls.io/site/dates/

🗓️ 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

Journal of Computational Literary Studies has the most beautiful journal design — and such a great team behind it! Happy and honoured to be published here: bsky.app/profile/jcls... Many thanks to everyone involved! 💙

🚨 News alert! Want to publish a #CLS journal article in < 8 months with #double-blind #PeerReview, a preprint at the conference, open peer review, code review, and beautiful design? We're excited to announce that the first article from this year's JCLS conference track has just been published! 🚀

- Methodology & results on JCLS 4(1): doi.org/10.48694/jcl... A model for studying cultural communities far beyond St. Petersburg. #DigitalHumanities #CulturalNetworkAnalysis #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS2025 #CLS #JCLS

Open Data & Code - Dataset (15k+ events) on Zenodo: zenodo.org/records/1375... - Processing pipeline & analysis tools on GitHub: github.com/mary-lev/lit...

How do literary communities actually form? @maria-lev.bsky.social analyzes the networks of collaboration and aesthetic affinity that are documented through cultural events — e.g. readings, book launches, festivals. These real-world networks often remain invisible in text-based literary history.

The study maps 20 years of literary life in St. Petersburg (1999–2019) analyzing events as community-structuring mechanisms. 📊 15,012 events · 11,777 participants · 862 venues · over 100,000 attendance records

@maria-lev.bsky.social’s "Computational Analysis of Literary Communities. Event-Based Social Network Study of St. Petersburg 1999-2019" is now live in the "Journal of Computational Literary Studies" 4(1) 👉 doi.org/10.48694/jcl...

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...

Capitalist LLMs are eating our smart & open humanities data and mashing it into gigantic word porridge... How can we reverse it? — @peertrilcke.bsky.social speaks about the MCP-empowered LLM Usage of #DraCor (or "How to teach Claude use the DraCor API") Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2508.13774 #DraCorSummit

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

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025! summit.dracor.org Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions. @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

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

Mehr Infos findet ihr unter www.moorliteratur.de

Wie sieht das Moor aus? Noch bis zum 15. August könnt ihr uns eure schönsten Moorbilder schicken. Die besten Einsendungen werden als Illustration der Mooranthologie aufgenommen, die im oekom-Verlag erscheinen wird. Die besten drei erhalten zudem ein Preisgeld (1. Platz: 3.000 €, 2.: 1.000, 3.: 500€)

Last week, our PLANS project presented at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lisbon 🇵🇹 - @haimostiemer.bsky.social‬ and @hanshatzel.bsky.social‬ shared our approach to thematic text analysis based on semantic verb classes in German literary texts. 🧵👇 (1/4)

📢 Public service announcement: if you were part of the #dh2025 / @dh2025 crowd, now is the time to become part of the #dh2026 crowd as well by following @dh2026daejeon !

Thank you so much for this, @hkpmw.bsky.social! Sorry you're missing the fun!!! I manually annotated 10/50 — they were hilarious reads! 🤠💃🔥🕵️‍♀️👨‍🚒👔👩‍⚖️

@dh2025lisbon.bsky.social #dh2025 @mpuren.bsky.social @floriancafiero.bsky.social are discussing text analysis of Colette to look into author attribution. Using (the best named model) CamemBERT among other LLMs to identify jokes.

Now we are searching for very small & special phenomena in very large amounts of data using texts by Colette with Florian Cafiero & Marie Puren at #DH2025. This very much reminds me of our search for unusual gender depictions in the m*w & @diversitykorpus.bsky.social projects (👀 @mflueh.bsky.social)

Locations for next ADHO conferences: 2026 : Daejeon, South Korea 2027: Galway, Ireland 2028: Capetown, South Africa ! dh2026.adho.org #dh2025 #dh2026 #dh2027 #dh2028

In his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts", @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents 3 exhibits, including his recently completed PhD thesis on the "Formal Development of Early Modern European Drama". Congratulations! 🎓 #PhDone #CLS #Drama #Operationalization

What are the key components of a #play? 🎭 #DH2025: @lucagiovannini.bsky.social takes us on a tour through centuries of thinking from #Aristotle’s #Poetics, through Russian formalism, to modern literary theory and unpacks the question offering a fresh perspective. #drama #operationalization #CLS

#DH2025: Last session before the keynote, @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presents his approach to operationalizing dramatic texts. Tracing key components of plays from #Aristotle to Russian #Formalism to modern literary theory, he investigates how to #operationalize plays using #vectorization. 🎭 #drama

Today’s #highlight for me on the last day of #DH2025? @lucagiovannini.bsky.social presenting his "Modest Proposal for Operationalizing Dramatic Texts". He proposes drama vectorization not to simplify plays, but rather to continue formalist morphological thinking using computational tools. 🎭📊

#DH2025: From my home region in Lower Saxony 🇩🇪, Lina Franken & Sabina Mollenhauer present a research-driven curation approach to archive the everyday culture of rural community halls. Wedding menus, party photos, and memories become material traces of intangible #CulturalHeritage. #DigitalArchives

#DH2025: Steffen Pielström, Kerstin Jung & Patrick Helling put the SPP #CLS projects to the test, examining their level of #FAIRness as a case study to assess how equal automated FAIRness tests are. #FAIR #FAIRprinciples

@sabinelang.bsky.social is presenting today at the Digital Humanities Conference 2025 (Lisbon), organized by @adho-org.bsky.social . Topic: “Provenance Data as FAIR Data?!” 🕚 11:00am – 12:30pm See the full program: dh2025.adho.org #DH2025 #FAIRdata #DigitalHumanities

🎉Hello, DH community! The official DH2026 account is now live! 🇰🇷 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27-31, 2026 🎯Theme: Engagement | Hosted by @kadhsocial.bsky.social Can't wait to see you after @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social Following @dh2024.bsky.social let's build our community! #DH2026 @adho-org.bsky.social

@guhrs.bsky.social has me absolutely dying to read the 'Men in America' series now: one romance novel for each of the 50 states! #dh2025 #CLS @stanfordlitlab.bsky.social

Still holding… #DH2025

#DH2025: With their research question, Pichler & @janispagel.bsky.social hit the nail on the head 🔨: Can #LLMs apply redefined literary concepts in the prompt-and-predict paradigm (Liu et al. 2023)? #CLS #concepts #plasticity