Merry Christmas from the RC21 team! Stay tuned for updates in the first few months of the new year. In the meantime, our analysis tree offers a reusable and environmentally friendly literary alternative to the biological version. clic-fiction.com/flexiconc

The Text and Language Research Group, led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, has just revealed its newly designed in-house logo! Created to reflect our identity in the DH, @dhssfau.bsky.social More about the design in the description of our one-minute reveal film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol8q...

CliC, CliC, CliC...📚🖥 Participants learned a great deal by using a powerful digital tool like Clic to analyze #gender in #19th-century #fiction with concordance analysis, all run by Dr. Nathan Dykes @nfdykes.bsky.social. #DHSS2025 #DigitialHumanities #FAU #CliC

We wouldn't want to pick favourites among #RC21 workshops, but if we did, the #DHSS2025 participants would be tough to beat. It was great to see such lively discussions during a hands-on concordance analysis exercise that didn't need anything more than a PDF reader.

Eight now in our Summer School on Data, Gender and Society @nfdykes.bsky.social is introducing hands on examples of concordance analysis with flexiconc. #DHSS2025

Now @nfdykes.bsky.social is setting out to make connections between close & distant reading #DHSS2025 @rc21project.bsky.social

May be of interest of attendees at the #RC21symposium by @rc21project.bsky.social, where Susan gave a wonderful talk on a very related topic back in spring ☺️

How can concordances help us study gender in 19th-century fiction? In just a couple of weeks, @nfdykes.bsky.social represents #RC21 at #DHSS2025 to explore with participants how FlexiConc contributes to #DataGenderSociety! go.fau.de/1cadb

If you're attending Konvens 2025 at Hildesheim, don't miss our tutorial on Reading Concordances with Algorithms tomorrow, where we talk about our mathematical framework and given some background on the FlexiConc library. konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle... @rc21project.bsky.social

The next #RC21 workshop is just around the corner: "FlexiConc: Reading Concordances with algorithms" on Tuesday, September 9 as part of #KONVENS2025 in Hildesheim. We hope to meet many of you there! 🔗 konvens-2025.hs-hannover.de/program/#fle...

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 we are excited to launch the Call for Papers for the Corpora and Discourse International Conference 2026. Deadline 16 November 2025. Submit your abstracts here: wp.lancs.ac.uk/cad-2026/cal.... Please share widely! #CADS2026

On day 3 of our Reading Concordances course at #ESSLLI2025, @michamahlberg.bsky.social is ready to go hands-on with FlexiConc in CLiC. Teaching materials available soon at github.com/reading-conc... CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Happening next week, August 4-8! 👩‍💻

Digital Humanities Summer School Waiting List now open!!! Sign up now! #DHSS #FAU #dhss25

Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Digital Humanities Conference 2025 in Lisbon 🤩 Big thanks to the amazing organizers @adho-org.bsky.social, and special appreciation to @sabinelang.bsky.social, @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social , Dominik Kremer, and @nfdykes.bsky.social for representing DHSS!

After the most recent #RC21 talk at #DH2025, the next workshop is already coming up in a couple of weeks: "Reading Concordances: A Training Course in Key Corpus Linguistics Methodology" taught by @schtepf.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social as part of #ESSLLI2025! 🔗 go.fau.de/1c-eh

I'm presenting the results of my PhD this afternoon – feel free to join us if you're interested in discourse analysis, research methodology, or wondering what I've been doing all these years 😅

What a joy! Thank you for the invitation @gavinbrookes.bsky.social Join us in Lancaster! #CADS2026 @fau.de #MovingKnowledge

Continuing on the theme of an event-filled summer, #RC21 are excited to present tomorrow on how to analyse concordances to identify temporal trends in water-related political debates – and to hear all the other fantastic talks, of course! #dh2025

Right after CL2025 #RC21 team we're about to head to CL2040 – time really does fly! www.ids-mannheim.de/digspra/pb-s...

⏳ Only 10 days left to sign up for our #DHSS25 Summer School! Seize this unique chance to enhance your Digital Humanities skills and enjoy insightful discussions on the theme #DataGenderSociety ☀️ 👉 Secure your spot now: go.fau.de/1c-ac #FAU #DigitalHumanities

Big reveal 🥁 Here is the second keynote speaker for our #DHSS25 summer school (22 - 26 Sept 2025) Prof. Mareike Schumacher @mkschumacher.bsky.social will talk about " #Corpus compilation and gender-sensitive analysis" Join us @fau.de in September! & don't forget to apply for a travel bursary

We‘ve kept the best for last at #cl2025: @nfdykes.bsky.social shows how our research in @rc21project.bsky.social enables analysts to read concordances at scale using FlexiConc and neural sentence embeddings.

In the first part of the "Reading concordances with algorithms" workshop, @schtepf.bsky.social introduces us to her favourite concordance ☕ #cl2025 #rc21

Now that I finally caught a flight to BHX I’m looking forward to tomorrow’s #RC21 workshop at #cl2025. In addition to these two contributions, I will also be talking about bootstrapping, multivariate analysis, legal tech, and comparative discourse studies!

We're much looking forward to a busy #cl2025 for #RC21: workshop on Sunday and presentation on Thursday! (Let's skip the riots, though)

📢 The #ICAME46 conference begins today in Vilnius! Great to see our department so well represented with contributions from Michaela Mahlberg, Nathan Dykes, Stephanie Evert, Alexander Piperski and Marianna Gracheva! 🔗Conference details: www.icame46.flf.vu.lt #DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU

Looking forward to talking about #concordance reading - today at Uni #Tübingen #Digitalhumanities

🗓️ Just over a week before #ICAME46 starts in Vilnius 💻 Catch our talk on June 18 to hear all about our latest extensions to KWICGrouping with FlexiConc 📚 Case study: body part nouns in 19th century English and German novels using CLiC #RC21 #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities #concordances

👀 new on the #RC21 blog: 🔢 Concordance Reading × Association Measures: 🌲 Methods to Organize a Dataset of German Support Verb Constructions by Xinyao Lu #CorpusLinguistics #syntax #grammar #DH #concordances go.fau.de/1bigh

#RC21 is one of several exciting projects at @dhssfau.bsky.social. Our tools can show how 19th century English novels talk about education on clic-fiction.com. To learn more, sign up for our MA programme in Digital Humanities - applications are open until July 15! go.fau.de/1bige

🗓️ Just over a week before #ICAME46 starts in Vilnius 💻 Catch our talk on June 18 to hear all about our latest extensions to KWICGrouping with FlexiConc 📚 Case study: body part nouns in 19th century English and German novels using CLiC #RC21 #CorpusLinguistics #DigitalHumanities #concordances

Happening tomorrow! Corpus queries will also be at the centre of case study 2 in #RC21, where we explore how FlexiConc assists query development and exploration.

The theme of our first ever #DH Summer School @dhssfau.bsky.social is: Data, Gender & Society #DataGenderSociety All happening @fau.de

🗓️ New #DigitalHumanities Summer School in September! Pre-register now for #DHSS2025 #DataGenderSociety 👩‍💻 Free for incoming MA students in #DH at @fau.de!

I also outlined our ongoing work on #RC21: 🌲 the analysis tree - another visual technique - tracks all the analyst's steps as they apply different algorithms to identify patterns in concordance data. Try it here: 📖 clic-fiction.com and here: 💻 pypi.org/project/Flex... 🦋 @rc21project.bsky.social

Past Monday, I had a great time presenting at #ReproducibiliTea in the HumaniTeas in Cologne. 🔍 "Beyond the gold standard: Transparency in qualitative corpus analysis" 🔗 Slides: osf.io/zhvtd 🔗 Event series: ub.uni-koeln.de/kurse-beratu...

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🎓🔍 Join our workshop "Reading Concordances with Algorithms" at #cl2025 📅 Register now - just a few more spots available! 🔗Info: go.fau.de/1bibg 🔗 Register: www.cl2025.co.uk/registration #rc21 #corpuslinguitsics #UniFAU #dh #linguistics

We are looking for 2 (!!) full professors in #digitalhumanities - one with focus on #place&space and one in #HCI Interested? Here you find more detail 👇 www.fau.eu/people/worki... ⏰ application deadline 2 June @fauphil.bsky.social And here a picture of our beautiful @fau.de Schlossgarten 😀

Another focus was using concordances in teaching, which I also discussed in my poster on “Teaching Distributional Semantics Through Concordance Analysis”, for which I received several valuable pointers. #RC21Symposium (2/2)

Last week I attended the @rc21project.bsky.social symposium in the beautiful Kollegienhaus in Erlangen. I appreciated the focus on theoretical considerations around concordance analysis and the openness to discuss advantages and disadvantages in regards to ‘manual’ research. #RC21Symposium (1/2)

Finally, the very last talk of #RC21symposium presented by @nfdykes.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social uses neural embeddings to understand the functions of body part nouns in 19th c fiction. All via FlexiConc, of course.

The final #RC21Symposium session by @nfdykes.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social - wrapping up the 3-day event with a case study

At #RC21symposium Marc Kupietz recounts the history of concordancing tools at @idsmannheim.bsky.social from Cosmas to KorAP.

I think every research project should aim to „minimise the risk of total failure“ 😊 Marc Kupietz, @idsmannheim.bsky.social #RC21Symposium

Interesting that several #RC21Symposium speakers have suggested starting with qualitative concordance analysis, followed up by quantitative analysis, @anteangaeile.bsky.social and Valentin Werner @jlpopculture.bsky.social from his 2020 article fis.uni-bamberg.de/entities/pub...

Now Valentin Werner is giving us a glimpse into the field of pop cultural linguistics @jlpopculture.bsky.social. Greatly enjoying myself in the last session of #RC21symposium

Getting ready for the poster session (including 🥪 and ☕️) at #RC21symposium. But first we whet our appetites with lightning presentations!

@anteangaeile.bsky.social now pits concordances against manual analysis at #RC21symposium – I assume that the angry birds are the concordance lines. 😅