I guess LeCun might be right, but only if language = LLMs. I don't really see how a world model could exclude the social world, if these models are supposed to interact with humans. Perhaps if one only aims to model the physical world, but that won't take us too far.

Kielimallin ”persoona”, ”luonne”, ”ajattelu”, ”emotionaalinen älykkyys” ja ”elämä” ovat Anthropicin mielestä tietysti vain metaforia – ovathan?🧵 www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

None of my followers probably won't care, but I've been collecting vinyl records for nearly 30 years, and I feel like ranting a bit about @discogsofficial.bsky.social. I love #Discogs as a database, but hate what it has done to buying and selling records. A thread ⤵️

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

Hey! I'm looking for a CS/DH post-doc to work on building a large corpus of news broadcasts in Finnish, Finland Swedish, Sámi & Finnish Sign Language: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki... #multimodality #digitalhumanities

If in the year 2026 you think it is a good idea to edit a special issue for a Frontiers journal, you need to seriously rethink your life decisions.

Ylioppilaslehti ei ilmesty ensi vuonna, pelkäänpä lehden lakkauttamista journalistisena instituutiona. Tämä toki vain omaa pohdintaa, mutta omilta opiskeluajoilta jäi vaikutelma, etteivät opiskelijapäättäjät ole koskaan erityisemmin innostuneet kriittisestä ja journalistisesta opiskelijalehdestä.

In Gedenken an die Opfer der Reichspogromnacht! Als SV Werder Bremen stehen wir für eine Gesellschaft, in der Vielfalt, Respekt und Menschlichkeit selbstverständlich sind. Umso wichtiger ist es uns, heute der Opfer des Nationalsozialismus zu gedenken. 👉 svw.de/reichspogromnacht #Werder

Turns out Helsinki was voted as the host of the next International Conference on #Multimodality in 2027! Thanks to @neous.bsky.social & the team for a fantastic #12ICOM and see you @helsinki.fi! Look out for a call for papers next summer!

What a vibe! #12ICOM in Groningen is multimodalicious Thanks to @thiip.bsky.social, Louise Ravelli, Bart Verheij and @asliozyurek.bsky.social for their brilliant keynotes!

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

Available volume 19.2 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, dedicated to AI and Digital Humanities. Guest editors @miguelev.bsky.social and @javiercha.bsky.social. Amazing work from them and from all the authors. With 3 articles in open access😍! www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2

Tämä ei ole hyvän mielen postaus, mutta ehkä syksyn tärkein postaukseni. Suosittelen kaikille tutkijoille ja tutkimusryhmille: käsitelkää törkyriskejä ja suunnitelkaa toimenpiteitä etukäteen yhdessä. Lähiaikoina on tiettävästi odotettavissa törkyä tiedeyhteisöä kohtaan. Ketjusta muutama pikavinkki.

NAIJA EXPRESS! 🇳🇬🇳🇬🇳🇬 #BMGSVW

Mietin juuri bussilippua ostaessa, että onko missään suomalaisessa yliopistossa vakavasti otettavia työsuhde-etuja, kuten esim. työmatkalippua? Alennusta työpaikkaruokalassa tai yo-liikunnassa ei lasketa.

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

@ticketswerder.bsky.social Hallo! Braucht jemand noch eine Ticket? Habe noch ein Sitzer (digi) mit eingeschränkten Sicht in Block 101 übrig.

UNSER WESERSTADION – OHNE SCHNICKSCHNACK. 💚 MATTHÄI, WIESENHOF, die HARALD PIHL GmbH und GOLDSCHMAUS sind neue #Flutlichtpartner des SVW und sichern unserem Stadion bis mindestens 2030 den traditionsreichen Namen Weserstadion. Zur Meldung 👉 svw.de/Weserstadion2030 #Werder

The Linguistics Discipline at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI in our classrooms. www.superlinguo.com/post/7908973...

Big changes to the ERC funding schemes! Note the new eligibility criteria from 2027 on: 📌 Starting Grant: 0-10 y post-PhD 📌 Consolidator Grant: 5-15 y post-PhD erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

African workers labeling data and providing content moderation are the invisible backbone of AI development. They perform critical labor under challenging conditions, often for minimal pay, yet remain absent from our conversations about the AI value chain.

Herzlichen Glückwunsch VfB Stuttgart

Tekoälykeskustelussa ärsyttää älyttömästi tällaiset heitot, joissa sivuutetaan kaikki mitä tiedetään *sosiaalisen vuorovaikutuksen* merkityksestä ihmisille: ”Meillä voisi olla tekoäly kehittämässä pienten lasten puhetaitoa.” Tätä ei vaan voi tai kannata ulkoistaa. www.hs.fi/helsinki/art...

⏱️ 120. Min.: FINALE OHOO FINALE OHOOHOOOOOOOO! 🏆 IHR HABT WERDER-GESCHICHTE GESCHRIEBEN! 💚 ⚽ 1:3 #HSVSVW | #Werderfrauen | #DFBPokal

After publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR for 5 years, we need a new venue. 🚨 How do we ensure that the CHR proceedings remain free, accessible, and interdisciplinary? 🖥️ Join the discussion and share your thoughts here: discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...

New tutorial paper published today with PhD student @danaroemling.bsky.social and @bodowinter.bsky.social Visualizing map data for linguistics using ggplot2: A tutorial with examples from dialectology and typology doi.org/10.1017/jlg.... I hope people find it useful!

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why? If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)! elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Pidin tänään multimodaalisuuden tutkimuksen johdantokurssilla luennon Saussuren ja Peircen merkkikäsityksistä, ja opiskelija totesi lähtiessä että "maailma näyttää taas vähän erilaiselta!" – parasta palautetta, sillä tähän kommenttiin tiivistyi opiskelun syvin olemus!

Veera Luoma-aho on lukenut J. D. Vancen teoksen ja kirjoittaa "Yhdysvalloissa yliopistot ajautuivat kulttuurisodan välikappaleeksi. Toivottavasti niin ei käy Suomessa." ... akatemiatutkimuksia on maalitettu kolme vuotta putkeen ja tutkijoita häiritty ja uhkailtu jo reilu kymmenisen vuotta.

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

I buried my father on this day in 1998, so I’m doubly sad to get the news that DJ Alfredo (Fiorito) has left us today. Few DJs can claim to have changed people’s lives but he was definitely one of them. RIP.

It's 30 minutes before #SVWFCU kicks off, so I'll just take the opportunity to promote our new article in Visual Communication, co-authored with Marcus Callies: doi.org/10.1177/1470... (open access) We studied how choreographies combine different modes of communication, focusing on @werder.de!

"Für immer Ultras - Für immer Freunde": Gemeinsame Aktion von #Ultrà #SanktPauli & Infamous Youth bei #FCSanktPauli gegen #Werder #Bremen. Die Fanfotos des Spiels gibt's auf Faszination -Fankurve.de unter Foto-Updates. 🎥: ground.nomade #FCSP #SVW #FCSPSVW

Advancing in academic career

I prepared another diagram illustrating the structure of my successful #ERCCoG proposal for part B2. If you find this useful, feel free to share it – it's CC licensed. Part B1 is here: bsky.app/profile/thii... #digitalhumanities #academicsky

🤗 I really like what Jana did for us - DM me if you want some stickers!

Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/

Helsingin yliopiston rehtori Sari Lindblom antoi nimityskirjat neljälle uudelle professorille: Terhi Ainiala (suomen kieli), Tuomo Hiippala, englannin kieli ja digitaaliset ihmistieteet), Lari Kotilainen (suomen kieli), Kristiina Mannermaa (arkeologia). @HYhumtdk

The Austrian Research Agency publishes a list of #ERC applications that you can find online. If you are applying, this can be helpful. If you have received a grant, I would urge you to share yours too: www.ffg.at/europa/heu/e...

Hey #DigitalHumanities scholars and others working with contemporary media: how have you negotiated copyright issues? We're currently building multimodal corpora for e.g. school textbooks and news broadcasts, and would like to redistribute low-res versions of the original data with the annotations.

​​🚨 Meet the #12ICOM Keynotes! 🎤 We're honored to welcome @thiip.bsky.social - University of Helsinki. His work on how multimodality can inform artificial intelligence is particularly relevant for our conference. 🌍 Don't miss his insights on digital humanities or applied computer vision.

A year ago I was informed that my #ERCCoG project was selected for funding! I got a lot of positive feedback about the organisation of the proposal, which is why I thought I would share the structure of my Part B1. If you find it useful, feel free to share it; it's CC-licensed.

Still looking for a post-doc; application period closes October 21! P.s. A tip to everyone applying for any academic job: don't self-sabotage your application by having ChatGPT write your motivation letter; it tells a lot about your motivation.

Hey! I have a four-year post-doc position in computer science or #digitalhumanities open in my ERC CoG project, which focuses on the multimodality of human communication. I'm looking for someone with experience in information retrieval / knowledge graphs. Details ⤵️ jobs.helsinki.fi/job-invite/3...

Willi #Lemke war #lebenslang #grünweiß. Und er bleibt es auf #ewig. 💚 Eine unerreichte #Werder -Legende, ein Macher in jeder Hinsicht, mit unverkennbarem, stillen Witz, und so aufrecht und authentisch wie kaum einer sonst. Ruhe in Frieden, Willi #Lemke, auf ewig einer von uns. 🖤

CFP: October 2025 Special Issue - "Artificial Intelligence and the Digital Humanities" Guest editors: Javier Cha @javiercha.bsky.social (HKU) & Miguel Escobar Varela @miguelescobar @miguelev.bsky.social (NUS)

Call for applications: Heidelberg University is offering two postdoc positions (E13, 100%, 2 years) for early career researchers in the humanities looking to develop an ERC or Emmy Noether proposal. Deadline: June 1 2024.