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!