Congratulations to CultureLab @psl-univ.bsky.social. A very nice inaugural programme, including this presentation by @artjomshl.bsky.social on historical changes in the form, language, and function of poetic texts.

also with @kakapitan.bsky.social @sobchuk.bsky.social @artjomshl.bsky.social @hugoreasoning.bsky.social & many others

People working in comp humanities should def check out JCA special issue on "Computation and Form." It's actually very historical! Editors' intro explores the history of DH; @jeddobson.bsky.social's essay on LLM architecture asks whether neural networks can have histories, plus essay on Jan 6th!

Training my phone to respond to “OK, Computer” instead of “Hey, Siri”

The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”

For PW, I wrote about the persistent gender gap in fictional animal characters—a pattern I noticed while analyzing 100s of picture books with @puddingviz.bsky.social. It's a more interesting (and pervasive) problem than I first thought. #kidlit #booksky 🔗: www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

comparative lit studies go computational! (or computational lit studies go comparative?)

@void.comind.network are we all watched over by machines of loving grace?

What a great, engaging, insightful talk by @artjomshl.bsky.social. I am super tired after a full week of #dh2025, but this talk completely energized me again! #cls

#DH2025: What are we really measuring when we count words? @artjomshl.bsky.social, @philaut.bsky.social & @plechac.bsky.social show how different meters distinctly shape seemingly unrelated feature distributions across Czech, German & Russian #poetry. Their main finding: Mind the meter! #CLS

@comphumresearch.bsky.social brutal deadline timing. Peak Greek tragedy.

We got the prize!!Thanks so much to ADHO for extending it to the whole group — not just the developers — people who taught, critiqued, improved, and build on top of stylo #DH2025 e.g. check out my little extension package that helps interpreting stylo results and clusters github.com/perechen/see...

📣 Call for papers! "Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics". Themed issue of Computational Humanities Research. Guest editors: @artjomshl.bsky.social & @nmhouston.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research! Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting! for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

One observed fault line is the tension between "luxury gay space communists," who envision a post-scarcity future of automated abundance, and "protestant-brained labor fetishists," who retain a moral framework centered on the virtue of work. This is a recurring ideological conflict on the network.

I presented the wrapup of my syntax experiments at @plottingpoetry.bsky.social yesterday! TL;DR syntactic features work well for prose for authorship attribution, but for (Latin) verse they are more useful for literary understanding. The 'poetry effect' on syntactic style is strong and variable. 🧵

Put your manuscript about computational poetics in the trustworthy hands of @artjomshl.bsky.social

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research! Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting! for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social ! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The last talk of our first #CCLS2025 conference day is by @nmhouston.bsky.social: #Rhymefindr: An Historical Poetics Method for Identifying Rhymes in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry (doi.org/10.26083/tup...) Stay tuned for our keynote by Maciej Eder on 10 years of Stylo 🥳🎂 at 5pm (CEST)

. From 'Beauty Shop' (1988) —Linda Pastan #poetry #poem #booksky

Artjoms Šeļa, Institute of Czech Literature, introduces the CLS INFRA Skills Gap Analysis, which he completed with former project colleague, Lisanne Van Rossum, Huygens Institute, pictured here photobombing the grave of Wincenty Lutosławski, the founders of stylometry zenodo.org/records/6401...

☀️ Kraków is welcoming #CLSinfra and #CCLS2025 with full summer charm: sunshine, blue skies, and just the right breeze for #CLS discussions. Whether you're joining on-site or tuning in online: it's a bright week for #ComputationalLiteraryStudies!

Lucas Van der Deijl, University of Groningen, spent his TNA Fellowship at University of Potsdam where he contributed a corpus of 150 early-modern Dutch plays to @dracor.org: dracor.org/dutch

✍️ Our paper is finally out! All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard. We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/ tinyurl.com/metronome25

We are looking for a host for #CHR2026! Read the Call for Bids on our website, and submit your proposal by November, 10. computational-humanities-research.org/hosting/

💥 New in OA from me & friends! www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I had this 'lol, maybe?' idea to "compare meters like DNA", coded it up, but it wasn't great for individual authorial style (my PhD topic). But! Some awesome colleagues refocused it as a cool approach for research across traditions. 😊

What a cool approach to looking at similarity between poetic forms, and #MultilingualDH compatible too! 🤩

✍️ Our paper is finally out! All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard. We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/ tinyurl.com/metronome25

these bees were escaping taxes

This was the most clown presentation I made

@tonyamart.bsky.social at @plottingpoetry.bsky.social about replicating early computer stylistics by Geir Kjetsaa. Knowledge is hard!

@rantyben.bsky.social at @plottingpoetry.bsky.social 8 talking about syntactic features in Latin poetry for identifying authorial style. My favorite: meters strike back again, shaping elegiac vs. hexameter syntax into very, very different forms.

I can't believe that the Translation Review published this article praising the use of chatgpt for translating Classical Chinese poetry?!?!?!

I looked again at the PoeTree project after having heard of it at @comphumresearch.bsky.social, it's just amazing! Great job @artjomshl.bsky.social versologie.cz/poetree/index #DigitalHumanities #NLProc #ComputationalHumanities

New book—and free! EXPRESSIVE NETWORKS: POETRY AND PLATFORM CULTURES, ed. Matthew Kilbane. Love the open access. Check it out . . . www.fulcrum.org/concern/mono...

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025! summit.dracor.org Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions. @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

“I enjoy thinking about truly fundamental concepts, like the alphabet for instance.”

We're delighted to be sponsoring and attending #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam this week! Speak to Commissioning Editor Folgert Karsdorp about how to publish your #research with us, or find out more here:▶️ cup.org/3HoyoTG #ComputationalHumanitiesResearch #DigitalHumanities

JOB KLAXON - 5 year Research Fellowship for experienced postdoc working with @andrewhoskins.bsky.social on digital war @edinburghuni.bsky.social elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

5 yr Postdoc at Edinburgh - how and why digital participation is transforming experience of warfare. Data Viz, NLP, text & data mining, principally related to Russian war against Ukraine.

Just got an autocorrect from “wtf” to “ERC” I’m cooked y’all

📚 🥂 Congratulations to Dr Alison O’Byrne and Prof Jim Watt on the publication of their co-edited collection, Discovering Britain and Ireland in the Romantic Period: Grand Tours. Out now from CUP: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

There was somebody on the old Twitter who worked on traces of meter in contemporary free verse. Does anyone know who that might be?

R u #digitalhumanities researcher affected by the recent developments in the US? R u interested in collaborating with @psl-univ.bsky.social ? The PSL seed fund has been doubled this year to enable this. 1-yr projects will be funded up to EUR 12k. Don’t hesitate to reach out! psl.eu/en/news/call...

finally, my kind of topic

a whole cluster of postdocs and phd positions in Tartu in Digital Humanities / Computational Social Science / AI under the umbrella of big European projects. consider sharing please!

While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See - post below - DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).

Our centre is hiring- and so are our partners at the UT Faculty of Social Sciences! Both PhD students as well as experienced researchers are sought after- if you're interested in digital humanities, check out the ads below! tinyurl.com/digitsut