The new book “Digital Modernity. Why We Need to Think Historically About the Digital Age” by James Smithies goes on top of my reading list www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon... !

Today my colleague @tillmannohm.bsky.social and I will start teaching our very first joint course Analysing Digital Images as part of the @dhssfau.bsky.social! We will cover interconnections of digitality and visual culture, and how all that can be studied in today's world. I'm excited!

Every time I prepare for a new course, I’m amazed by how much you actually LEARN when you think about how to TEACH something. I’m excited to launch my ‘Digital Objects and Society’ course—and to learn even more alongside my students!

Together with colleagues at @dhssfau.bsky.social we are preparing the start of the semester! What an exciting lineup of courses -- I would love to attend all of them! www.dhss.phil.fau.de/2026/03/23/s...

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How can mixed-skill classrooms be designed effectively? This workshop discusses practical approaches in Digital Humanities teaching. 🎤 @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , Junior Professor of Digital Literary Studies and Methods at DHSS @grk2806.bsky.social 📅 April 7, 18:00–19:30 (zoom) #FAU

It's exciting to see my introduction on a language that I don't really speak (yet)! 😅 Happy to have joined @dhssfau.bsky.social ! www.fau.de/2026/03/news...

Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social on "Errors and Misconduct in Biomedical Research Images" 🦠🔬🎨 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 (5 hours from this post). Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-...

Come study in Erlangen! I had a great time teaching "Data Collection in DH" this semester: from Data Feminism, modeling, and FAIR/CARE principles, to digitization standards, OCR/HCR, and a final project on fanzine digitization. This is what the MA looks like in practice! 🧠 #DigitalHumanities #DHSS

Looking forward to Friday - joining a workshop in Marburg that focuses on fan and memory studies practices! My talk will be on "Nostalgia and the imagined past in Bible fanfictions".

Special Issue on Professional Discourse out now! More about individual contributions on our page @registerstudies.bsky.social

Join us this Monday, Feb 9, @cudanlab.bsky.social for a lecture & discussion with #JanneHolmén of #UppsalaUniversity on "A #History of #Diagrams" (Paleolithic to present) 16:00-18:00 Tallinn time UTC+2 🇪🇪🇪🇺🌍 15 hours from this post. Details & zoom: cudan.tlu.ee/events/2026-... #dataviz

Some insights of our paper on measuring cultural bias: communities.springernature.com/posts/how-to...

Excited to announce that our Nature Cities paper "City representation in Soviet propaganda and geographical biases in cultural data" was published today! Thank you, Mikhail Tamm, Ksenia Mukhina, @metsmark.bsky.social and @schichmax.bsky.social ! rdcu.be/e1UvJ

I am so excited to have Zsofia Pilz in our colloquium on Wednesday!

Also if that sounds interesting, come join and help us do more stuff with AI and stuff bsky.app/profile/andr...

New preprint out: "Machine-Assisted Grading of Nationwide School-Leaving Essay Exams with LLMs and Statistical NLP" arxiv.org/abs/2601.16314 We test LLMs on graduation essays written in a low-resource language (EST), using official rubrics &benchmarking data directly from the national exam gov body.

For the HERAtlas project at the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands) we are looking for a Postdoc to combine data science, psychology, and digital history to uncover the "invisible" women of art history! More info at: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

My thoughts today: How could I contribute more to Wikipedia in my research and teaching activities? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today, I appointed Mila Oiva (University of Turku, Finland) to a Professorship in Digital Humanities at FAU, focusing on images and objects. She studies audiovisual heritage, especially historical newsreels (e.g., Soviet Novosti Dnya and Estonian newsreels). Welcome to FAU, Mila.

I'm thrilled to join the @dhssfau.bsky.social team at FAU as a Professor of DH with the focus on images and objects! Looking forward establishing new collaborations and to continue old ones!