📣Alumni survey: new deadline 12 January! If you attended #DHOxSS in previous years, please take part in our survey! Thank you 🫶 @agneatha.bsky.social @david.deroure.org @jarona7.bsky.social @williamjnixon.bsky.social @andrewcusworth.bsky.social @fedenanni.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social

Very cool work incoming 👇

Text Machine: Computing Literary Innovation picks up where our Living with Machines project left off, pushing at how the limitations of LLMs (their drive towards average and averaging language) can be turned into an advantage to understand innovation and surprise in language.

Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

📢 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)!

!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 🗃️

#DH2025 @mcollardanuy.bsky.social presented on HTR for Late Middle Ages Catalan notarial manuscripts www.bsc.es/research-dev... Discusses open question of expanding abbreviations directly in the text, future work on layout detection and segmentation

Our amazing keynote speakers: Professor Caroline Bassett (University of Cambridge) Dr Katherine McDonough (Alan Turing Institute) More details: tinyurl.com/2wvwrkvb @discoxford.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @david.deroure.org @agneatha.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social

📢 #BSCSeminar: Computational research in the Humanities: current state and future potential 🗣 Hector Orengo Romeu, BSC ICREA 📅 30 April ➡ www.bsc.es/ZFs @sommalliance.bsky.social

Registration for #DHOxSS2025 is now open! From beginner to advanced courses, led by experts, it’s the perfect opportunity to upskill and connect in a supportive, world-class environment. Join us this summer in Oxford, or online! cvent.me/Y5WWRE #DHOxSS2025 #digitalhumanities

🚨 Calling all who care about digital research! 🚨 Share examples of the impact Research Software Engineering or RSEs have had on (your) research. Help us build an evidence base and a bright future for the field. Deadline: Fri, 14 Feb ⏰. Share & spread the word! 🙌 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

I'll get straight to the point. We trained 2 new models. Like BERT, but modern. ModernBERT. Not some hypey GenAI thing, but a proper workhorse model, for retrieval, classification, etc. Real practical stuff. It's much faster, more accurate, longer context, and more useful. 🧵

Save the date! The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School will take place at St Anne's College from 4-8 August 2025. Stay updated here: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/digital-huma... #digitalhumanities #DHOxSS2025