Wir freuen uns, dass unser Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter und Promovend Nathan Dykes (@nfdykes.bsky.social ), Teil des Text and Language Lab am DHSS FAU unter der Leitung von @michamahlberg.bsky.social , an der GAL Research School in Bayreuth (7.–9. Mai 2026) teilnimmt.

Am hosting a small symposium on multilingualism here in Hong Kong in early May - free to attend, so do pop along if you are interested!

@mila-oiva.bsky.social (Professorship of Digital Images and Objects, DHSS) will give a visiting lecture at the University of Zürich. Title: Distant Viewing, Mixed Methods, and Pattern Recognition in Historical Newsreels 📅 April 30, 2026 🕙 10:15–12:00

Das Digital Humanities Kolloquium findet dieses Sommersemester wieder statt! Nächster Vortrag von Dr. Sabine Lang zum Thema „Unfertigkeit als besondere Chance für die DH“. 22. April 2026, 16:00–18:00 Uhr Raum 00.026 (Seminarraum 3), Nürnberger Straße 74, Erlangen Keine Anmeldung erforderlich!

Today marks International Book Day, books are dear to us, and we’d like to share some book recommendations with you. #internationalbookday #internationalbookday2026 #book #textandlanguage #digitlahumanities

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We’re excited to share that @katrohrbacher.bsky.social and @michamahlberg.bsky.social , from the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social , will be presenting at the 8th Annual COMPTEXT Conference 2026. Talk: Modeling Embodiment in Narratives 📍 University of Birmingham, UK 📅 April 24 🕒 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

SAVE THE DATE: Grammar & Corpora 2027 @hhu.de 30.06–02.07.2027 organized by @richtigerniklas.bsky.social @stefanhartmann.bsky.social and many others More info following soon!

Excited to share the CfP for our AHRC-funded conference “Natures in Translation: AI, Ethics and Environmental Conservation” #conference which will take place 1-2 October 2026 at Lancaster Uni. Deadline for abstracts 20th of April. #academicsky #envhum 🌍 #conservation wp.lancs.ac.uk/animalsintra...

Registration open for TUC 2026 University of Passau: tuc.transkribus.org/tickets #digitalhumanities #htr @unipassauresearch.bsky.social #passau

Looking forward to this!

Talk, Drama and English: An EMC Teacher Conference "I left buzzing with ideas that I am excited to implement at our school." Book by: 12am on 10th June buff.ly/FAusPoc

This is TODAY! 16.45-17.30 Still time to sign up to this! Free! Online! ⬇️⬇️⬇️🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

This is not just a writing competition - it's a way of thinking about the water crisis & the future of our planet Help us spread the word! @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @mrsspalding.bsky.social @xris32.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social

New entry in the Int. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics with @jtauber.com: Regular Expressions for Corpus Queries. We introduce regex with actual corpus linguistics examples instead of making everything look like \]\[ Happy to send anyone a copy! doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-95504-1.01539-8

We’re excited to share that our postdoctoral researcher @mariannagracheva.bsky.social , a member of the @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social , will be presenting at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) 2026 Conference in Chicago (March 21–24).

It appears that the promo code from the pre-order may still be working 😇

Stay tuned

We got step by step instructions on @github.com so you can try it all out! Feedback very welcome!

What a delight to see this wonderful book out in print! It shows the best of what corpus linguistics can do when studying real-world problems. The latest in the Corpus & Discourse series. Congratulations @violawiegand.bsky.social

Wichtige Kampagne der Kirchen zur Landtagswahl in RLP: "Deshalb bitten wir Sie: Prüfen Sie bei Ihrer Wahlentscheidung sorgfältig, ob Programme von Parteien und öffentliche Äußerungen von Kandidierenden die Würde jedes Menschen achten." bistummainz.de/region-rhein...

Bonjour from Paris 🇫🇷 @andreaswagnr.bsky.social is currently at UNESCO, taking part in the UNESCO World Day for Glaciers and World Water Day 💧❄️ Stay tuned, more exciting announcements coming on World Water Day! 👀💧 #WorldWaterDay #UNESCO #WaterScience #DigitalHumanities #Research #Paris

A big part of #RC21 has been fiction. In our new blog post, we use Flexiconc to examine "eyes" in the nonfiction sections of the #BNC. #corpuslinguistics #academicdiscourse www.dhss.phil.fau.eu/2026/03/09/a...

Today we are marking International Women’s Day at DHSS. We are working to create a department where equality, diversity and inclusion are embedded in what we do every day of the year. #digitalhumanities #internationalwomensday

Applications are open for the MA Digital Humanities program. An interdisciplinary Master’s program combining humanities research with digital methods. 📅 Deadline: 15 July Learn more: www.dhss.phil.fau.de/education/ma... #DigitalHumanities #DHSS #FAU #gradschool #HumanitiesAndTech

For today's World Book Day, @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social are giving you a taste of all the books to explore on www.clic-ficiton.com. Using the FlexiConc tab developed by RC21 gives you even more options to see how books were described in 19th century literature.

📚 World Book Day in the UK is special with CLiC We celebrate with you by inviting you to explore and read some of the most famous novels in the English literary canon with CLiC, which you can access freely at clic-fiction.com. #WorldBookDay #DigitalHumanities #Clic #CorpusLinguistics 📖

Excellent venue for computational humanities work, colocated with ACL in San Diego on July 6. Please share!

Congratulations @tillmannohm.bsky.social !

Had a great workshop last Friday with the crew of the Fandom | Cultures | Research Journal in beautiful Marburg, discussing fandom practices and cultural memory. Got loads of useful feedback on my talk "Nostalgia and the Imagined Past in Bible Fanfictions". journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

Thank you for having me @niallrcurry.bsky.social I had a great day at @mcrlinguistics.bsky.social

Still time to sign up for this talk next week! See details below ⤵️

Absolutely fantastic to have you on the @dhssfau.bsky.social team!

📜Research Highlight A new publication by @mila-oiva.bsky.social (co-author), Professor of Digital Humanities with focus on Images & Objects. Conducted at the CUDAN Lab, Tallinn University, the study examines geographical bias in Soviet newsreels. Read more: www.nature.com/articles/s44... #DHSS

We had a fantastic first meeting with our new colleagues, Prof. @mila-oiva.bsky.social and Dr. @tillmannohm.bsky.social We were thrilled to welcome them and share our work, plans, and aspirations for the future of DHSS. Great conversations, smart ideas, and inspiring people. #DigitalHumanities

Looking forward to Friday - joining a workshop in Marburg that focuses on fan and memory studies practices! My talk will be on "Nostalgia and the imagined past in Bible fanfictions".

Come and join us in Manchester on Monday!

One week left for submitting a poster proposal for #CCLS2026! #CallForPosters 🔜 03.03.26

Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna. #DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction

Thank you @guhrs.bsky.social for an inspiring and productive week! I absolutely loved the energy! ... and your organisantional skills are something else 😀

Join us for our first Bellwether Lecture w/ @michamahlberg.bsky.social, Prof. @dhssfau.bsky.social! She will propose a digital humanities approach that aims to widen the perspective on the study of language. 📅 February 11, 12:10 - 2:00 pm 📍 210 South Hall

I'm thrilled to join the @dhssfau.bsky.social team at FAU as a Professor of DH with the focus on images and objects! Looking forward establishing new collaborations and to continue old ones!

We are absolutely delighted about Professor Mila Oiva joining the @dhssfau.bsky.social team. With her work on 'images & objects' she brings an important new area of focus to our research in #DH #Watchthisspace #DigitalHumanities

Don't miss the new episode of life and language podcast 👇.

Hear from @nolauren.bsky.social about the ways we can teach AI to view the world 🎧 The second episode of season 5 of #LifeandLanguage is here! #DigitalHumanities #DH #Distantviewing open.spotify.com/episode/6FUA...

Each one of us is wishing you a very successful and enjoyable time in Birmingham. See you after five months 🙂.

Such sad news. She was simply brilliant.

Last week, we had a full house for the highly anticipated lecture by Prof. David Hannah @freshwaterflows.bsky.social on water in a changing environment. The talk held in our department @dhssfau.bsky.social was rich in detail, and the audience was highly engaged. Photos by @michamahlberg.bsky.social

Looking forward to #cads2026 with two presentations: 📚 "Body, movement and sensation in fanfiction on Jane Austen" with @anastasiaglawion.bsky.social & @michamahlberg.bsky.social 🏛️ "A Multivariate Analysis of Quotation in German Parliamentary Debates"