#CCLS2026: 5th Talk is"The Anatomy of the Online Book Review" by Marijn Koolen, @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social, Peter Boot, Silvia Lilli, Katja Tereshko, detecting reader engagement in #fiction via large-scale online reviews analysis. Preprint: doi.org/10.26083/tud... Code: github.com/impact-and-f...

After 17 (!!) years I'll finally finish my doctorate as a "PhD by Prior Publications." I must assess my 151 articles, books, websites, and software packages for their contributions to and impacts on my field. As one way to make this manageable, I'll share one thing from the dossier every few days.

My kid made a video for her illustration class about her condition and wants you all to watch it! youtube.com/watch?v=VZNX...

If it makes you feel any better –even "Schadenfreude" is allowed this time round I guess– this is a great time to go around yelling: "Hate to tell you told you so!" #whatcouldpossiblygowrong

When did Friday morning become "Answer Your E-mail Day" worldwide? They just want to have me thinking about all that stuff all weekend, I bet. 😝

Burton & @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social’s article is really superb.

the most annoying shift in my academic career

DH friends, take note!

Leibniz, looking at the universe: "Why is there something instead of nothing?" Me, looking at my Outlook calendar: same

What is the relationship between #Twilight and Fifty Shades? What do these texts reveal about the relationship between published fiction and fanfiction when studied computationally? Find out in our new article (with Barbara Bordalejo and @jorisvanzundert.bsky.social) doi.org/10.16995/dsc...

"Dit spruitjesland moet de blote werkelijkheid over vrouwenrechten eens in de ogen kijken" Emma Curvers in de Volkskrant, over hoe pro-life ook hier geniepig en stilzwijgend aan de poten van zaken zaagt waar alleen vrouwen over zouden moeten gaan.. www.volkskrant.nl/columns-van-...

This is REAL CLASSICS done by REAL CLASSICISTS. Look what they have been demanding your respect for all this time. "Hello I would like 'et plus Cd K Mi Ob Pd Pe Q Vcul] at plus Cdul: hac plus Pdul: ha' poetry, please?" They have played us for absolute fools.

Lead moveable type for printing used to be stored in large wooden drawers in cases. Capital letters (or majuscules) were stored in the UPPER CASE. Miniscules were stored in the LOWER CASE.

This is from a publisher's review backend, but this should be just.. you know.. generally available, for life. Just wondering where the feedback would go in that case. Somewhere between dev/null and higher deities, I suppose?

Well, not to put a finer point on it…

Okay, I'm not going to whine a lot, but still a little. I'm in Lisbon for #DH2025. But currently I'm in bed with the cold that I apparently attracted at #IMC2025 last week. Bummer. Scrap today. Retry from start tomorrow.

Such a shame to find "//TODO: to be implemented" about a very nice feature in my own code.

Century+ duration electronic data preservation is in fact an unsolved problem, but magnetic tapes set read-only are as close as we have right now. This is a massive, active research problem at Amazon, Google, Microsoft, others. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... Some tape can be replaced, not all.

Journalists should be insistently pointing out that tariffs are controlled by Congress, and they can revoke the President’s authority over them—and lots of other things!—the moment they grow a spine. The abject gutlessness of Republican legislators is the real story here.

I think the Orange Monster is planning to go short on the world economy.

🎉✨The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England ✨ Absolutely delighted to announce that my second book has just been released (and it's open access; free to download at the link below!). academic.oup.com/book/59790?f...

What a cosmic dipshit.

There is hope: anti-vaxxers only need 5 years to finally catch up with 140 years of science and research. How hopeful for the world is that?!

I merely wanted a strawberry donut..

It seems Putin's lapdogs were not very well received by President Zelenskyy..

This just pisses me off. I know that kind of posturing, that tone. It's deeply reminiscent of some ass-clown adults from my childhood, and other ass-clown employers I've had. Trump and Vance are gonna burn bridges. They're gonna ruin our international alliances. They are repugnant people.

Of natuurlijk de helft als je zo'n *nutsvoorziening* nationaliseert.

More or less equivalent to my current sentiment regarding world events…

Trump is now an aide in Russia’s regime change plan for Ukraine. Europeans need to act NOW, not after the German elections, to make sure Ukrainians have an alternative. All the worst came true and there is no other way to put it than that the US is in Russia’s team now.

Fascist dekt niet langer de lading. Als Europees extreemrechts denkt dat MAGA Amerika wél een bondgenoot zal zijn als wij ook veranderen in fascistische, zwakke en verdeelde autocratieën, is men volstrekt naïef. Maar vooral een stel landverraders.

In the series “typos that deserve a good gloss” (as in dictionary entry): situtatuon. Please elaborate…

I guess I would feel better about Google's new willingness to use AI for weapons and surveillance if I thought the country leading in AI development actually *was* a democracy guided by core values like equality and respect for human rights. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Oh I’ve found the one person from OpenAI I hate the most.

Social media achievement unlocked: had my first conversation on Bluesky as opposed to just posting in the vast empty space. Next level!

A dear colleague and friend of my made a typo, and now we are having to figure out what the research programme of the University of Applied Silence would look like. Honorary points for good ideas…

Nostalgic for when Tacitus wasn’t so day-to-day useful

I don’t know where this meme is from, but

I know the “men thinking about the Roman Empire” meme is old news, But WOW has the past week had “Caligula appoints his horse to the senate” vibes

The whole narrative of AI increasingly appears to me to resemble a very well known folktale. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emp...

A far-right attack on North Idaho College, a popular community college, reveals a blueprint for destroying higher ed. ⤵️

Sam Morril is one of my favorite comics 😂

So depending on how you want to count that is 31 windows, or a whooping 194 view ports. I'm thinking: 1) was this even possible in the times of Windows 3.1? 2) is this productivity or anti-productivity? <<