I’m looking forward to being in Naples in a few days as an invited speaker at the 2026 NooJ International Conference: nooj2026.sciencescall.org

Yestarday at the University of Pisa for the summer school “Digital Tools for Humanists”; beautiful location with great historical surroundings! #digitalhumanities

Thank you to all #LT4HALA2026 participants! The proceedings are online: lrec-conf.org/proceedings/... #LREC2026

Presentazione del libro "Che cos’è una lingua inventata" di Davide Astori (Carocci Editore). 📍 Partecipazione in presenza: Via Necchi, 9 (Milano) - Aula 329 💻 Partecipazione online: teams.microsoft.com/meet/3697233... 📅 14/05/2026, ore 15:30

We are launching a new hybrid seminar series, in which we invite colleagues from the humanities and social sciences to present how they use AI in their research. The seminars are practically oriented demonstrations of instances of implementing AI at any stage of research. More: digits.ut.ee/ai-teh/

At long last! A new 19thC dataset at the NCDC! The brilliant @sarahebull.bsky.social with some racy & fascinating work: c19datacollective.com/data/adverti...

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

Death by Shakespeare Causes of 74 deaths in Shakespeare's plays #ShakespeareDay

The program of #LT4HALA2026 is online: circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026... The workshop, organized in the context of #LREC2026, has almost 100 registered participants: it’s so great to see so many researchers interested in #NLProc for ancient and historical languages! See you in Palma!

Domani pomeriggio e martedì terrò un seminario in due parti su Voyant per il Dipartimento LILEC (Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Moderne) dell'Università di Bologna! Maggiori informazioni e link qui: site.unibo.it/laboratorio-...

Registration is open for ACH 2026, taking place virtually June 24–26! This year's theme centers transnationalism and solidarity in the Americas, with bilingual participation in English and Spanish. Register now: ach2026.ach.org

Enormously looking forward to this event on April 21 at 6:30pm ET (online!) with the amazing @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social talking about their new book, The AI Con. Register here: virginia.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

📣 Free workshop organized by Eleonora Litta and Matteo Pellegrini: "LINKING MORPHOLOGY AND SEMANTICS - Meaning in Word Formation Resources". - 🌍 Where: Università Cattolica (Room SF.111) and online - 🗓️ When: April 13, 2026, 10-17

We are pleased to announce the Venice Summer School in Digital and Public Humanities - #VeSSDPH 2026 which takes place at Ca' Foscari University from 6 to 10 July 2026. Entirely taught in English. Free of charge. ➡️ Full programme and further information: www.unive.it/pag/39288/

✨ LatinCy v3.9 sm/md/lg/trf pipelines for SpaCy available ✨ - Improved tokenization and u/v norm - New custom Latin-specific XPOS tags - Better, more consistent lemma/morph coverage huggingface.co/latincy/la_c... #digiclass #nlproc

📢 CFP: Cultural Complexity and Computational Approaches (Complexhibit) 📍 Málaga 🗓️ 30 June – 2 July 2026 How do we study culture as a complex system—computationally, yet critically? A call at the intersection of AI, data science, and digital art history. 🗓️ Deadline: 26.4.26 #digitalarthistory #AI

A new interactive map for @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social in #WomensHistoryMonth - I mapped all the places mentioned by Alice in Event narratives. thornton-play-books.github.io/play-books/eve…

📜 Data in Historical Linguistics Seminar Series - Seminar 6 Roksana Goworek (QMUL, UK): "An Interactive Tool for Interpretable Semantic Change Analysis via Definition-Aligned Embedding Spaces”. 📅13th Apr. 26, 5pm BST (online) ▶️Info and registration: tinyurl.com/mbsrxcwp #digitalhumanities

It’s official. My project with @mistralai.bsky.social and @replyai.bsky.social at the @oeaw.bsky.social to develop LLMs for ancient languages, starting with Greek, has gone public. The AI system is complete, stay tuned for the published results! www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw...

📢 CFP: "Digital and/or Comparative Literary Studies Today" — ICLA DCL & SIG-DLS mini-conference at #DH2026! Lightning talks + poster session on computational & comparative approaches to literature. 📅 Deadline: April 30, 2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 👉 icla-dcl.quarto.pub/info/news/20...

The new project mapping 7,000+ ancient letters is impressive: romanletters.org . The database & geolocation (although noting Pleiades rather than just AWMC would be nice) are great. But I absolutely cannot get over use of AI—however transparent—for translation. 🚨 Value human translators 🚨

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆? In our new #CHI2026 paper, we studied how AI assistance affects close reading poems — not just how well people interpret poems, but also the pleasure derived from close reading. closereading-ai.app #AI #HCI #closereading #humanities #culture #poetry (1/13)

Registration is still open for the annual Summer School in #DigitalHumanities in Pisa @Unipisa - Application deadline: April 15, 2026 - Dates: May 25 – May 30, 2026 - Language: English - Registration Fee: €500 www.unipi.it/didattica/co...

The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive is officially in beta and open for testing! 🚀 We are modelling #GlobalRomanticism through the #SemanticWeb and your participation is encouraged and appreciated! Explore the beta: www.romanticperiodpoetry.org #Romanticism #19thC #poetry #DigitalHumanities

📜 Attention DH2026 reviewers! Your reviewer certificate is now available for download. Thank you for your invaluable contribution to our peer review process! 🔗 www.conftool.pro/dh2026/index... #DH2026

We’re looking for a Research Data Engineer (m/f/x) (3,5 years). If you have a #DigitalHumanities profile with experience in #tei encoding, #ocr / #htr, and #iiif (or any of those and are willing to learn the rest), get in touch! The full time position can be split, so if (for whatever reason) […]

What would you add? What would you remove? Start a discussion in the GitHub issues as a kind of open review as I write up the method, etc. for this wordlist project.

#LREC2026 #NLProc papers from @bamnlp.de @uni-bamberg.de ! See you in Palma!

Sono usciti i testi di #Sanremo2026 e quindi è tempo di analisi! Thread un po' lungo...⬇️

📢ATTENZIONE-ATTENZIONE📢 La scadenza per la presentazione degli abstract per il workshop “Verso l’interoperabilità: Linked Open Data e risorse linguistiche per l’italiano” è stata posticipata al 27 febbraio 2026‼️ eventi.unibo.it/sli-2026/cal...

Segnaliamo l'uscita della call per lo shared task "Multilingual Clinical Entity Annotation Projection and Extraction" che riguarda 7 lingue tra cui l'italiano: - Web: temu.bsc.es/MultiClinAI/ - Dati: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... - Registrazione: temu.bsc.es/MultiClinAI/...

Test data of #EvaLatin2026 Named Entity Recognition task are available: circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026... System results are due to organizers by 19 February 2026! #LT4HALA2026 #LREC2026

A Bologna per #ArtLab2026 con l’obiettivo di discutere delle sfide poste dall’intelligenza artificiale nei processi culturali e creativi artlab.fitzcarraldo.it/tappa/bologna/

Test data of hashtag#EvaLatin2026 dependency parsing task are available: circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026... System results are due to organizers by 10 February 2026! #LT4HALA2026 #LREC2026 #digiclass #NLProc

Announcing—LatinCy Readers v.1.0.2, i.e. LatinCy-powered corpus readers for Latin text collections. Quickly get sentences, lines, words annotated for lemma, POS, morphology, NER, etc. Supporting .txt, .xml, .tess, .conllu, and more. github.com/diyclassics/... #digiclass #nlproc

Are you working on your #LT4HALA2026 submission? The submission page of our #LREC2026 workshop is ready to accept your paper: softconf.com/lrec2026/LT4... The deadline is February 17 (23:59 CET). The full CFP is online: circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026...

Thrilled to have had the opportunity to write the chapter on Digital Humanities and I’m looking forward so much to reading the other chapters. @dimitrafimi.bsky.social and @lukebshelton.bsky.social were excellent editors!

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School [Bursary Applications Open] https://dariah.ie/wordpress/2026/01/digital-humanities-at-oxford-summer-school-bursary-applications-open/

CFP: 5th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, Potsdam 2026 jcls.io/site/ccls2026/

The #EVALITA2026 final workshop will be held in Bari on February 26-27th, 2026! REGISTRATION is now open (in order to support the community, participants are requested to become members of AILC before registering for the workshop): www.ai-lc.it/en/evalita-r...

We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

ACH 2026 is virtual, bilingual & open to all! Explore transnationalism & solidarity in the Americas with our DH community. No travel required—join us from anywhere June 24-26. Submit by Feb 2! buff.ly/O7y3KaD

Since I've been grumpy about distant-reading of lyrics, let me share this spectacular figure from Sobchuk & Beheim 2025, which traces two themes in Eng fiction 1850-1940, and decomposes change to new-authors, author-exits, and individual-change. Real progress in our understanding here.

Introducing Bolmo, a new family of byte-level language models built by "byteifying" our open Olmo 3—and to our knowledge, the first fully open byte-level LM to match or surpass SOTA subword models across a wide range of tasks. 🧵

Berkeley wrote up our work on measuring the stories in contemporary songs and had me reflect on the origin of that work in Bruce Springsteen’s “Thunder Road”

Per chi passa da Milano: quest'anno è in mostra a Palazzo Marino (fino all'11 gennaio) il Polittico di Monte San Martino di Carlo e Vittore Crivelli, proveniente dalla chiesa di San Martino Vescovo a Monte San Martino (Macerata). Per info su orari e aperture ➡️ www2.comune.milano.it/web/mostrapa...

Hosting the first LatinCy Developers/Users Meeting, a hybrid event at @isawlibrary.bsky.social on Feb. 27, 2026. CFP for presentations on LatinCy applications/projects available here: diyclassics.github.io/latincy2026/ #digiclass #nlproc

Volume 3 in this series is called "What Does "AI" Actually Mean? Definition and Synonyms" and is now available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI!

The CALAMITA (Challenging the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian) paper is now available on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.04759 We warmly thank all the individuals involved for their extraordinary work, dedication, and collaborative spirit that made this project possible!

Want to be an intern at Microsoft Research in the Computational Social Science group in NYC (Jake Hofman, David Rothschild, Dan Goldstein) Follow this link and do your thing! Deadline approaching soonish! apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...