Platforming my way through the new #silksong, had to think of this happy little camper: youtube.com/shorts/cmc8a...

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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…”

And our first themed issue - Missing Data in the Humanities - articles are coming out! Check out Jan Maliszewski registered report! “While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes)…”

Check out Rebecca Hicke @dmimno.bsky.social piece on LLMs! “Language models have the ability to identify the characteristics of much shorter literary passages than was thought feasible with traditional stylometry. We evaluate authorship and genre detection for a new corpus of literary novels…”

Check out Jannis Klähn, Janos Borst-Graetz, @manuelburghardt.bsky.social work on LLMs and German data! “In this study, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of sentiment classification for German language data using three different approaches…”

And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!

📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research! Read the issue #openaccess here: 📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow #computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.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...

✍️ 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

Yes, come say hi!

@erc.europa.eu actually looking at my out-of-office message this summer, thinking: “Perfect! He clearly has time to review some applications!”

#ClimateChange is everyone's problem and we need all hands on deck. In research, this means combining areas such as ecology, biology, social history, anthropology, and digital methods. This is what my current project at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social is doing! Check out this article to learn more:

A while back, I worked on a project about forgotten books, using a model from ecology that ultimately traces back to Alan Turing. Oh, the irony: reading today that Turing’s own papers were nearly shredded: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren! Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

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!

Playing "spot the difference" while analyzing original and final published versions of the illustrations included in the Flora Batava series. What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/ #PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany

🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨 We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities. Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/

We've got news! The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!

Finally officially out (only took 1.5yrs), in @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms, #open🔓 "Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence" A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)

“All of America is a godforsaken demolition site, we could do very nice things with that”

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...

Hi people! We need a new publisher for the proceedings of the #CHR conference. Any input is greatly appreciated! discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...

👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK @folgertk.bsky.social & @mikekestemont.bsky.social will discuss how statistical methods from ecology can be used in historical research to identify and analyze gaps and biases in historical records. #DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities ✨1/2

CHR Board Openings: Early Career Rep & Proceedings Officer positions available. Please help us shape the future of computational humanities research. Apply by Feb 21, 2025. Details: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/announcement...

CHR wishes you happy holidays! 🎄 Looking back on an inspiring year, we are grateful for the success of #CHR2024 in Aarhus and the launch of the CHR Journal as two major highlights. Wishing you a joyous holiday season and an inspiring new year. See you at #CHR2025 in Luxembourg! 🎉

Three years ago, I asked @mikekestemont.bsky.social to be the supervisor for my MA thesis, marking the start of my academic journey. Today, I'm beyond happy to share that the article based on our work is finally published in an A1 journal! poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

The past we study is shaped by what survived - but what about everything that didn't? The CHR journal wants your work on measuring, understanding, and accounting for missing data. Deadline has been extended to Jan 31, 2025. Guest-edited by @zoeleblanc.bsky.social and @mikekestemont.bsky.social

📢 #jobalert Are you looking for a new challenge in 2025? Come work with me! I have a 3-year position for a postdoc on the intersection of #semanticweb, #maritimehistory and #nlproc. The successful candidate would join us in this historical building in downtown Amsterdam... 1/6

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Just a reminder that our book on Humanities Data Analysis is OA and freely available from: www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org

Mood.

Open funded PhD position at Tallinn Uni, School of Digital Technologies: Computational phenomenology of first-person experiences www.tlu.ee/en/dt/applyi...

Thank you to the @comphumresearch.bsky.social for the #chr2024 Best Short Paper recognition. Taylor and I are deeply appreciative, and grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!

Super useful study, Direct and Indirect Annotation with Generative AI: A Case Study into Finding Animals and Plants in Historical Text. 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/papers/paper... #chr2024

@folgertk.bsky.social et al. on using demographic data for improving diversity estimators based on 19c jailing data. Certain Maria Therese Kestemont was spotted as a recidive perpetrator??? 🥷 @mikekestemont.bsky.social #CHR2024

✨ Kicking off #CHR2024 in style! ✨ Last night, we launched the conference with an Opening Reception in the special decor of the Museum of Ancient Art at Aarhus University. Dean Maja Horst delivered a speech to mark the occasion. Huge thanks to everyone who made this event a success! 🌟

Our friends at one of Cambridge's newest #openaccess journals - 'Computational Humanities Research' - are at @comphumresearch.bsky.social's #CHR2024 in Aarhus this week. Drop by to talk all things #digitalhumanities or visit www.cambirdge.org/chr #computationalhumanities

We’re back for day two of #CHR2024 after a great first day full of energy, and a tiny bit of chaos, like when nearly all 175 participants followed a random student moving in the wrong direction 😅 A huge shoutout to my CHR Staff team - two more days to go, and I know we’re in the best hands.

Meet Mia Jacobsen, presenting at her first academic conference! Explore fanfiction, its writers and readers in her two presentations at #CHR2024 📅 Thursday (3A): Reader Reception in Fanfiction vs. Commercial Literature 📅 Friday (8B): Admiration and Frustration: Multidimensional Fanfiction Analysis

the launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche. fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵

#CHR turns 5! 🎂 From meeting in Gather Town during Covid, to our first in-person meet in Antwerp, Paris, and now Aarhus - watching our community grow has been incredible! #CHR2024 opens today with our strongest program yet. Big shoutout to our brilliant PC and LO! Looking forward seeing you all!

Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1. Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

At the intro meeting at #CHR2024 for the new Computational Humanities Research Journal. Q: If a piece is published at the conference, does it also appear in the journal? A: No, need to submit separately. Journal articles should be a bit longer, maybe include more experiments.

Berenike Herrmann @jberenike.bsky.social and Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social opening the workshop on computational analysis of multilingual book reviews at the #CHR2024 in Aarhus 🇩🇰 This promises to be exciting! 🎉

Getting ready for @comphumresearch.bsky.social CHR2024 in Aarhus! Need a place to print a poster? Check out VesterKopi. Super easy! Can email. Takes one day.

🎉 Final Call for Registrations! 🚀 The #CHR2024 Conference is just around the corner, and registration is closing soon! 📅 Registration Deadline: November 25 (local time) 📍 Event Dates: December 4-6 🌐 Register here: events.au.dk/chr2024/

🧵 Building on our previous work with unseen species estimation in historical data: what happens when we add demographic covariates to the model? New findings from 1879-80 Brussels police records in #CHR2024. (with @mikekestemont.bsky.social and Margo de Koster)

Thrilled to share that the CHR2024 proceedings are now live! 🚀 This incredible collection reflects the hard work of so many in the Computational Humanities community. Excited to see these papers presented at the conference in December! 🎉📚 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/ Register here: events.au.dk/chr2024/

#CHR2024 decisions are in! Time to book my flight to Aarhus! 🥳 2024.computational-humanities-research.org