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/...

The results that @marinelives.bsky.social is getting using Gemini 3 Pro, transcribing and translating Armenian ms materials are stunning. Historians, teachers and archivists really need to be discussing where we want to be with this stuff. open.substack.com/pub/generati...

Happy to share that the “Fourth Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages” has been accepted! See you at #LREC2026! #LT4HALA2026 #NLProc circse.github.io/LT4HALA/2026/

Verso Roma per tenere un seminario su annotazione linguistica e lemmatizzazione 🚇

📢 ADHO’s newsletter in now live! 🗞️✨ Bringing together upcoming Digital Humanities community events and conferences! 🎉 👉 Check out the latest issue here: listmonk.adho.org/archive/639b... 📩Subscribe today and never miss an update: adho.org/newsletter/ #ADHO #digitalhumanities #dh #community

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

Lezione (anche su) Annibale e le Alpi, perchè non basta studiare, bisogna saper 'fare" storia e condividere le informazioni corrette.

Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from. www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...

📣 The Call for Papers for the DARIAH Annual Event 2026 is now open! 🌐 This year’s event will explore 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙨 & 𝙃𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙤𝙧 𝙎𝙤𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙩𝙮: 𝘽𝙪𝙞𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙀𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 & will take place from May 26-29th in Rome, Italy🇮🇹 🚨 Deadline: December 22 ℹ️ www.dariah.eu/2025/11/11/d...

We present alongside the paper: 1. ‘NewsWords’ - unigrams from the entire digitised collection, github.com/Living-with-... 2. Newspaper metadata, openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10.... 3. Mitchell's Press Directories, bl.iro.bl.uk/concern/data... 3/7

(3) Enriching digital heritage with LLMs and Linked Open Data, convened by Gethin Rees, Elton Barker, Sarah Middle, Anna-Maria Sichani, Mia Ridge. Working on the Cultural Heritage AI Cookbook. Sign up at forms.gle/DErqFUuY2Vn7...

Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12) linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it Registration fee: 500 Euros. DEADLINE: 15/04/2026 (Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)

📢 NEW FAQ added to #DH2026 CFP! ✅You can submit multiple proposals ✅Max 2 presentations as lead presenter (long/short) ✅Posters: no limit, but in-person only & no AI translation ✅Workshops/mini-conferences: not counted toward limit ⏰Deadline: Dec 8 dh2026.adho.org/cfp/

È uscito il volume "Rapsodie dantesche. L'incipit della Commedia e le sue traduzioni"! Nel volume anche il mio "AI Meets Dante: Evaluating Machine Translation Applied to the First Tercet of the Divine Comedy".

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢 Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months). uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

It's great to see the #computationalhumanities DDH volume getting attention! We start with two essays about interpretation. In Chap 1, Hannah Ringler distinguishes tools and interpretations, asking with vs asking about. dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com...

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

Piccolo anticipo sul Repubblica per il nuovo libro: "La differenza fondamentale - Artificial Agency: una nuova filosofia dell'intelligenza artificiale" in uscita il 4 Novembre. E ora vedo che su Amazon con il 5% di sconto, come resistere? 🤓 amzn.eu/d/gmVJMiU

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

#rassegnastampa Da TorinoCronaca: "Quando le macchine imparano i nostri pregiudizi: all'Università di Torino il convegno su IA e società" che vede la Prof.ssa Viviana Patti tra le organizzatrici. torinocronaca.it/new...#rassegnastampa#aibias #ai #artificialintelligence #aiethics

📣 Call for projects: DARIAH Working Groups Funding Call 2026-2027 DARIAH ERIC is delighted to introduce its fifth call for projects open exclusively to DARIAH Working Groups. ⚠️ Submission deadline: November 7, 2025 ℹ️ www.dariah.eu/2025/09/19/d...

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....

Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure. Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...

Dal 10/11 al 14/11 si terrà la prima edizione dell’Autumn School del dottorato in #DigitalHumanities dell'Università degli Studi di Genova incentrata sulla conoscenza e sull'utilizzo dell'#IntelligenzaArtificiale. Ci sarò anche io e in ottima compagnia! digitalhumanities.phd.unige.it/node/1230

Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

📢 In uscita il 24 ottobre il libro dell'amico Davide Astori: "Che cos’è una lingua inventata"! www.carocci.it/prodotto/che...

Hidden Venice (together with another addition to the HistoryCity family) won the Heritage in Motion Prize for Virtual and Augmented Reality! Congratulations to Fabrizio and the rest of the team! Very happy that VeDPH had the opportunity to play a crucial role in it.

In Cagliari for #clicit2025! Tomorrow I will presents two papers: 1) Ciallabacialla! Modeling and Linking a Regional Lexical Resource to Include Sicilian in the SemanticWeb; 2) Annotating Manzoni: Challenges in the Annotation of Lemmas, POS and Features in “I Promessi Sposi” @ailc-nlp.bsky.social

In just a few seconds, we’ll be presenting our #TEI2025 talk: »Generating TEI Documents Through a Game of Dice« 🎲 Slides: lehkost.github.io/slides/2025-... Web app: temporal-communities.github.io/999/ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @temporal-communities.de @schwindt.bsky.social @viktor.im

At #TEI2025 in Kraków listening to keynote by Sebastian Winkler of the #ERC explaining how to navigate creating an ERC proposal, especially SH5 (Texts and Concepts) @teiconsortium.bsky.social

It's the end of the day, but this morning I got a pretty good news: I've been awarded an #NVIDIA DGX Spark as part of the #NVIDIA Academic Grant Program to run LLM experiments on Cultural Heritage data @gronlp.bsky.social @facultyofartsug.bsky.social #HAICu

Next up at #TEI2025: @danja.bsky.social presents our work on the Ukrainian Drama Corpus 🇺🇦 So far, we encoded 47 plays (1810s–1920s) by Taras Shevchenko, Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka & others. Explore the corpus here: dracor.org/u #DraCor @dracor.org @teiconsortium.bsky.social @schwindt.bsky.social

Per gli amici milanesi (e per chi passa da Milano) ecco il calendario delle aperture per il mese di settembre della Cripta di San Giovanni in Conca (piazza Missori). Al link potrete trovare date e modalità di prenotazione! ➡️ www.museoarcheologicomilano.it/oltre-il-mus...

Excited to be co-editing a special issue of @dhquarterly.bsky.social on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities: Research problems and critical approaches dhq.digitalhumanities.org/news/news.html We're inviting abstracts now - please feel free to reach out with any questions!

In partenza verso L'Aquila per il LVIII Congresso internazionale di studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana #SLI2025! Insieme a me Claudia Corbetta per presentare un poster su Dante e Manzoni ⬇️