Jollymolly, everyone! (Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s First Christmas Card”, 1964, pub. 1968)

i got a job now, but

⚡️⚡️Oleg will be a assembling a team in Frankfurt to work on cultural evolution of arts; he is my dearest friend and a colleague with a rare clarity of vision, so this is something to follow really closely

I got wonderful news: I was granted a position of Max Planck independent group leader at the MPI for Empirical Aesthetics ⬇️ (@ae.mpg.de) in Frankfurt, which I'll join in early 2026. It's a huge honor: being trusted with academic freedom offered by MPG. My group will study the evolution of arts. 1/3

to my great surprise, we are left with some money for buying books for our team at the institute. Any recent recommendations in computational humanities, DH, poetics, verse studies, world lit / comparative lit? Let's go, internet! Self plugs are more than welcome.

I found the perfect meaningful and emotional souvenir from Poland and I will treasure them always 🥰

Reflecting on a landmark year for 'Computational Humanities Research' (#CHR), the journal editors’ first retrospective highlights how methods-forward, discipline-agnostic scholarship is reshaping inquiry. 🔗 https://cup.org/4pC57WH #computationalhumanities #digitalhumanities

According to our award committee, these papers are must-reads of the #CHR2025 proceedings. Congratulations to the authors on winning the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Awards! Links and honourable mentions are available on our website: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...

alma mater 🥰

jollymerry hollyberry jollyberry merryholly happyjolly jollyjelly jellybelly bellymerry hollyheppy jollyMolly marryJerry merryHarry hoppyBarry… —Edwin Morgan, “The Computer’s First Christmas Card” first published in THE SECOND LIFE, @edinburghup.bsky.social 1968 #poem #poetry #concretepoetry

what if we completely misaligned text-to-image embeddings? when you type "beautiful girl riding a leopard in space greg rutkowsky" and you get like keanu reeves who looks at you with disappointment

to my great surprise, we are left with some money for buying books for our team at the institute. Any recent recommendations in computational humanities, DH, poetics, verse studies, world lit / comparative lit? Let's go, internet! Self plugs are more than welcome.

CHR always feels like beginning of a holiday: a little happy mist is in the air. For me it also somehow feels like home, a strong moment of belonging. (therefore a little sad 2027 will be in January) #chr2025

*menacing sounds*

Over the century, suicide and murder articles drift apart in the embedding space, suggesting a slow decoupling from religious, moral, and legal blame ('self-murder'), possibly reflecting a broader public shift towards medical and environmental understandings of suicide motives.

A farewell card for #chr2025 people, safe travels everyone✨

Was a bit surprised today that the best paper award at CHR 2025 didn’t go to … Claire Obscure: Expedition 33

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Deductive detective detector! #chr2025

Excited to get this work out in the world at #chr2025 (with Sabrina Baur, Mackenzie Cramer, Anna Ho and Tom McEnaney) -- asking: how much do contemporary songs tell stories, and how has that changed over the past half century? anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

improving authorship attribution using phonetic features — fascinating work by Simon Gabay, @floriancafiero.bsky.social, and Jean-Luc Falcone at #CHR2025

Poetry grading book from 6th c. China. Emily Xueyue Liu and @wenyishang.bsky.social relate rankings , pieces of criticism and poetic texts to understand historic literary taste #chr2025

Really appreciate people who post bird photos here. True champions.

Which canonical American authors are the public reading, and why? To find out, we analyzed library borrowing patterns for every author in the Norton Anthology of American Literature (1945 to the Present). Excited to share this new CHR paper & data! anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... #CHR2025

#chr2025 code-switching in K-pop lyrics (and major spoilers for kpop demon hunters…) @callmesan.bsky.social

Important calibration of death-birth simulations vs unseen species estimator for manuscript transmission #chr2025

Cool talk by @heuser.bsky.social on formal stuckness (regular rhyme and meter) of LLM poetry that doesn’t seem to reflect training data nor a specific historical period. “average of our aesthetic desire”

Andres “Why not zero-shot it” Karjus chairing the LLM section at #chr2025 @andreskarjus.bsky.social

Slides of all the lightning talks (three each) available here as a single deck: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/data/lightni... - a great way to get a bird's eye view of recent developments in computational/digital humanities!

great lightning talks session at #chr2025! @tonyamart.bsky.social presenting our work on the geography of poetic gaze (“from A to B” formula across 6 languages) and showing how geo imagination structures in centers and borders. @versification.bsky.social

Very happy to present the paper that @joeymccollum.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy at #CHR2025 :)

Increase of television series visual pace (median shot length) which follows larger cinema trends @nolauren.bsky.social and Taylor Arnold #chr2025

Proceedings for the Computational Humanities Review conf #chr2025 happening now in Luxembourg (I am not at it and am sad): anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Very low dependency management for support repos in CHR papers! Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers. Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25

Very low dependency management for support repos in CHR papers! Also accompanying code was available in only ~40% of papers. Insightful talk reflecting on our community practices. #chr25

Excited for session 2B this afternoon at #CHR2025! @melvinwevers.bsky.social presents our work (w. @folgertk.bsky.social) using Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity to quantify archival silence and bias. We're measuring the diversity of the Dutch National Archive's photographic collection. edu.nl/7cbef

Found final fantasy 7 architecture irl #chr2025

equimetrical multilingual translation cento 💅 🐦‍⬛ (full stanza didn’t fit) Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, v knihy staré, zapomněné ukláněl jsem bledou líc; Грезамъ страннымъ отдавался, вдругъ неясный звукъ раздался, Félénk lépés zaja dobban - dobban halkan, csöndesen.

🎓🎓🎓 dr Benčik

woke up feeling annoyed at new criticism

found a German/Swiss poem where the Raven caws not "Nevermore!" but "Russenkaiser!" while ghostly army of the dead aimlessly wanders the steppe. It's in trochaic octameter, written in ~1840s(?), can be independent of Poe: the use of this peculiar meter for ghost ballads originates in Germany, so.

found a German/Swiss poem where the Raven caws not "Nevermore!" but "Russenkaiser!" while ghostly army of the dead aimlessly wanders the steppe. It's in trochaic octameter, written in ~1840s(?), can be independent of Poe: the use of this peculiar meter for ghost ballads originates in Germany, so.

This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday. Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

it's interesting to project the chatgpt's style into the past -- read historical texts with an LLM detector. What are its precursors? What are the linguistic registers on which it depends? Back-cover publisher texts seems like one good candidate to me

it's interesting to project the chatgpt's style into the past -- read historical texts with an LLM detector. What are its precursors? What are the linguistic registers on which it depends? Back-cover publisher texts seems like one good candidate to me

MajinBook is a badly-needed catalog for shadow libraries. It provides metadata (e.g., date of first publication, popularity on Goodreads) for over half a million English-language books. arxiv.org/abs/2511.11412 +

Offense taken at my search query

"Thus, applying statistical methods to poetics may turn out to be of use both to historians of literature and to literary forgers" wdym "both", it's one person in a trench coat

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