Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

The EPFL NLP lab is looking to hire a postdoctoral researcher on the topic of designing, training, and evaluating multilingual LLMs: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Come join our dynamic group in beautiful Lausanne!

But if you like to be updated on amazing publications in #digitalclassics and near eastern studies (and more), maybe subscribe to the DANES listservice www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/d... by @shgordin.bsky.social

And here is the program for the 4th Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies! #CCLS2025 Mark your calendars 🗓️: July 3–4, in Kraków or online jcls.io/site/ccls2025/

Thrilled to share that my book Cultural Data Science – An Introduction to R is finally out! A journey through digital methods, visual culture & data analysis—made for everyone exploring the intersection of humanities and code. #DigitalHumanities #RStats link.springer.com/book/9783031...

❗️CfP deadline extended❗️ Working in the field of Computational Drama Analysis? Submit your abstract until 13 May and join us at the #DraCorSummit in Berlin in September. summit.dracor.org #DH #CLS #LitWiss #ClassicsBluesky @dracor.org @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

A great opportunity especially for those new to DH! The workshop will include three days of lectures introducing DH methods, taught by @vierth.bsky.social, @tharsen.bsky.social, Michael Fuller, @rmostern.bsky.social, Sunkyu Lee, and myself, followed by two days dedicated to workshopping ideas.

Curious about what I work on? I made a poster for my dissertation, its scope, dataset, methodology, and preliminary results. See how I investigate economic and legal institutions from 2000 BCE: zenodo.org/records/1431...

Call for papers: new Nature HSS collection! articles on computational analysis of #western-asia from when writing emerged c. 3500 BCE till 1500CE! #DANES @geophilologist.bsky.social @maltaweel.bsky.social www.nature.com/collections/...

Starting in less than an hour. Grab a sandwich, get comfy, and come join us worry out loud about possible futures for the academy and the historical record. Except Sayeed. Sayeed is super optimistic. 😀

Given current events, this seems to be the right time for us, Pelagios, to be joining bluer skies. Who are we? We are a free and open association of equal and interdependent Partners from the digital humanities, GLAM sector, and data science field, working to make linking data online really easy.

They made me do video 😬 but for a good reason! We are launching an iOS app–it runs OLMoE locally 📱 We're gonna see more on-device AI in 2025, and wanted to offer a simple way to prototype with it App: apps.apple.com/us/app/ai2-o... Code: github.com/allenai/OLMo... Blog: allenai.org/blog/olmoe-app

Cuneiform at #ICLR2025! ProtoSnap finds the configuration of wedges in scanned cuneiform signs for downstream applications like OCR. A new tool for understanding the ancient world! tau-vailab.github.io/ProtoSnap/ h/t Rachel Mikulinsky @ShGordin @ElorHadar and all collaborators. 🧵👇

UK heritage at risk heritage-at-risk.museologi.st#/5.33/-2.114... — a #Peripleo instance @museologi.st knocked up on a rainy afternoon, scraping / parsing open data from Historic England (4600 places) with 11.5k links to Wikidata, National Heritage List for England, a church near, listed buildings

This was my very first contribution to @digitaltolkien.com (can you tell I like names? :) ). It was so much fun, and hopefully there is more to come!

Happy New Year, everyone, and for those in the know - the #RAI70Prague Call for Papers is now officially open at rai70.ff.cuni.cz/cfp.php Looking forward to welcoming you in Prague! @FF_CUNI @Orientalniustav #IANESPrague @IAAssyriology #Assyriology #cuneiform #archaeology

After #JCLS 3(1) conference track #CCLS24 is before #CCLS25. We look forward to your submissions! Please find our Call for Papers for the conference track 2025 at jcls.io/site/cfp/ #ComputationalLiteraryStudies #CCLS25 #CfP #Literary #Computing #CLS

Ok we're doing this! Here's a google form to gauge interest in what we're tentatively calling Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy. More info in thread. The bite-sized version -> short lightning talk on a pedagogical thing followed by discussion w/ mini web publication to follow. forms.gle/3hz79WHM8FmS...

A month ago I promised to share the recording of my talk at Penn, "Why AI Needs the Humanities as a Partner." If you're feeling down, try the part around 14:30 where I talk about how fun it is to be a creature without a fixed essence who has to spend millennia discovering what they're capable of.

Some of you may remember James’s fantastic introductory video on Linked Open Data. If you don’t know about this yet, it is a field with immense potential to make knowledge and research tools considerably more accessible.

⚡ New #DraCor merch available: Our new network analysis card-game, "Battle of the Plays", published @sukultur.bsky.social, order here: sukultur.de/produkt/batt... Rules of play & background info: battle-of-the-plays.github.io @schwindt.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities

The Sunoikisis Digital Classics #SunoikisisDC programme for January–March 2025 is now up. Individual events on @ics.bsky.social calendar at: ics.sas.ac.uk/search-event... (All free, online and asynchronous via YouTube.)

Did I mention that I'm looking for a new role? If anyone is interested in award-winning work on digital preservation, digital textuality, fixing scholcomms systems and their economics, or even just plain old literary criticism, please get in touch.

Excited to share that Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice, which Susan Schreibman & I coedited, has a publication date and will be available fully OA on 4/8/2025!! @illinoispress.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0....

Program of the Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies (#DANES) annual conference is out! digitalpasts.github.io/DANES2024/#p.... Online event this year with a global list of speakers from Australia to the US. Topics incl. digital methods in archaeology to Ancient Language Processing (ALP).

Is #IIIF sharing and annotation going to be shaken up? Looks likely...

We're about to start with our 2-day conference: "Linked Open Data and Literary Studies" @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities" Program: www.temporal-communities.de/events/2024/... #LODaLS #DigitalHumanities #LinkedOpenData

Cuneiform studies people! Exciting SPARQL news coming for you…

Hey all, if you use the CDLI (cdli.ucla.edu) in your studies or work, please consider setting up a recurring donation of 1 to 5 pounds per month (opencollective.com/cdli). We currently receive 51 pounds from monthly recurring donations, which pays for minor maintenance or feature development.

Today we are reading my favourite cuneiform tablet - a court record that tells how a businessman caught out two brothers trying to pass off a faked tablet, so one of the fraudsters snatched the fake tablet back from him and began to chew it. Ea-naṣir has nothing on these guys!

The schedule for #CHR2024 is live! Looking forward to seeing you all at Aarhus in a few weeks!

Schmidt Sciences is outlining the timeline for a new program to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities. Open call for proposals to come Dec 15. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

I'm recruiting a PhD student to join my group in 2025-2026. If you like the mountains and interdisciplinary research that blends data and culture, this could be a good fit! UW iSchool PhD apps due Dec 2nd: ischool.uw.edu/programs/phd... More info about my group: melaniewalsh.org/mentorship

#MultilingualDH job alert! 🚨

Since a billion people seem to have joined BlueSky today, take a look at this CFP & submit something!

Including "DIGITAL APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATING SPACE AND PLACE IN CLASSICAL STUDIES" by @eltonteb.bsky.social Chiara Palladino @geophilologist.bsky.social & @shgordin.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000... #openaccess

Are you a DH person interested in AI ("DH", "interested" and "AI" all defined broadly)? The @ach.bsky.social AI working group is having its first meeting March 22 at 2:30 PM Eastern. Come join us and let's figure out what we're working on together!

We're delighted to announce the first VIEWS conference, Writing as Visual Experience, will take place in Cambridge on 20-22 September 2024. If you'd like to present a paper, please do get in touch! Read the Call for Papers here: viewsproject.wordpress.com/writing-as-v...

Cool work here from a team well known to DHers, led by Lucy Li, and including @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @dbamman.bsky.social. Using self-descriptions of 10.3 million website creators, they show that "quality" filtering for LLM training data has socially unequal effects. #MLsky blueskAI

FINALLY 🤖https://aclweb.org/adminwiki/images/5/56/ACL_Anonymity_Policy.pdf

Working on your syllabus? Looking for open access scholarship on AI, computer vision and images? Distant Viewing is OA! We wrote it in a way that we hope one can assign the whole book or chapters. We’d also be delighted to visit your class to discuss!

a great collaborative team effort! With @shgordin.bsky.social and others

I spent a while working on this 3D model of the Faynan region in Blender: skfb.ly/oOAut This is the regional-scale introduction to a 3D non-linear storytelling project for the archaeology of the region I am working on

CFP 📣 The Call for Papers for #DH2024 is now live! Details here: dh2024.adho.org/cfp/ Deadline for submissions is December 5th 2023. Conference is in Washington D.C., August 6-9, 2024!

So excited that Distant Viewing is out today! We offer a theory and method for computer vision and how it can support the analysis of visual culture. An absolute delight to work with @springer.bsky.social and MIT Press. Thank you to all who have supported this project. Please help spread the word!

And a reminder that we’re also hiring a tenure-track colleague in archaeology and digital humanities!

Reminder that my department has an open-rank tenure-track search in Greek or Roman rhetoric. Please apply or distribute widely!