For the non-Dutchies: as of yesterday, I’m a professor by special appointment at Utrecht University! Same research, new title.

🎓 Folgert Karsdorp bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Utrecht! Met trots delen we dat onze collega @folgertk.bsky.social is benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Computationele methoden voor onderzoek naar culturele verandering aan de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Lees meer🔗 tinyurl.com/2u5fbx63

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It's incredibly important to have a journal like Open Humanities Data. Had the pleasure working with @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social to publish a dataset of 11k+ records from the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands (19th century) 👀 Look at that turnaround time: 1 month! doi.org/10.5334/johd...

📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester. We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Work (also) with me! Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️

What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...

Presented my paper "The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School" on #CHR2025 and it won the ERC Best Long Paper Award! Delighted and grateful :) @comphumresearch.bsky.social

Great blog by @suttonkoeser.bsky.social introducing the Software Paper and what it takes to publish one in the CHR journal! @comphumresearch.bsky.social #chr #computationalhumanities

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

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out! 97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper. 🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0... And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/ Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7 Article doi.org/10.1017/chr.... Blog is.gd/2IFc30 #dh #c19 🗃️

Ga stemmen!! 🟥

Me: Hi Chat, is there a seahorse emoji? Chat: chatgpt.com/share/68edf3...

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!