Back from an amazing workshop at Berkeley. Thank you all for a great week of multimodal awesomeness! Now getting back to routine amidst jetlag ~ % caffeinate -t 480

I've started a "History of NLP" repo to store all of these resources. I don't have time to add everything yet, but I'll keep chipping away, and help is welcome. github.com/maria-antoni...

Join @taylor-arnold.bsky.social and me for a postdoc to expand distant viewing! 2 years. Awesome liberal arts college. Great city. Option to teach 1-2 courses a year for extra pay. Thanks to Mellon for the opportunity! Happy to answer any questions. richmond.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff_...

En route to Berkeley for this, looking forward! www.ischool.berkeley.edu/events/cultu...

After almost two years in operation, the Centre finally had the official opening it deserves! @mmvty.bsky.social, it was wonderful to have you here!

The Straits Times did a nice piece on our centre (@cssh-nus.bsky.social), which will be officially launched this coming Wednesday, with @mmvty.bsky.social as our keynote speaker. Looking forward! www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pa...

Benchmarks of LLM common sense overwhelmingly rely on correct labels to report an accuracy score. But what if your "ground truth" genuinely differs from mine? In a new @pnasnexus.org paper, @duncanjwatts.bsky.social, @whiting.me and I explore the implications of this intriguing question. 🧵⤵️

Postdoc positions at UC Berkeley, including with the fabulous Cultural Analytics group: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05222

We're thrilled to be hosting Meredith Martin (@mmvty.bsky.social) in Singapore and honored to have her as the keynote speaker for the launch of CSSH!

After two years in operation, we'll officially launch the Centre for Computational Social Science & Humanities on 4 March! The day will feature a keynote by Prof. Meredith Martin (@mmvty.bsky.social) & the announcement of the Singapore History + AI Hackathon winners. cssh.nus.edu.sg/cssh-launch-...

[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...

Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼

Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now! @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...

Proceedings for the Computational Humanities Review conf #chr2025 happening now in Luxembourg (I am not at it and am sad): anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Looking forward meeting with folks at #CHR2025 @comphumresearch.bsky.social

Learning more about the impressive newspaper research projects by @impresso.bsky.social #chr2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Available volume 19.2 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, dedicated to AI and Digital Humanities. Guest editors @miguelev.bsky.social and @javiercha.bsky.social. Amazing work from them and from all the authors. With 3 articles in open access😍! www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2

Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/ See you in Luxembourg!

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar? Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly. A few examples in thread ↴

We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn... Remember to register for the Summit (it's free). summit.dracor.org/registration

Please come and join us at CUHK!

Stylo got the Zampolli prize for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities 🏆 Congrats to Maciej Eder, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and all involved with the Computational Stylistics Group!👏 Prev. recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, R. Siemens, C. Gaffield #DH2025 #stylometry

Only four days left to @adho-org.bsky.social #DH2025 and everything is getting ready as you can see here!

Thrilled to share that our Deputy Director @miguelev.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote at this conference!

We are excited to announce our Inaugural Research Symposium July 29–30, 2025! This event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge developments at the intersection of computational methods, social science, and the humanities. www.cssh-symposium.com

I am very honoured by this invitation. Looking forward to @comphumresearch.bsky.social 2025!

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

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)

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take. thebullshitmachines.com

Had a great time at the first HKADH conference! Caught up with many old friends from ADHO 2024 and met new colleagues and experts from around the world! Wonderful keynote speeches by @miguelev.bsky.social and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social. Next year, HKADH will be held at my university, CUHK! 😉

Opening remarks by @vincent76.bsky.social at the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2025.

Honored to deliver a keynote at HKADH next week. And looking forward to reconnect with the incredible DH community in HK!

If you're a teacher, student, librarian or not-for-profit worker, you can use the code OVENBIRD for 25% off registration for my Binoculars to Binomials course. 5 weeks of coding, nature, birds, citizen science + data viz! It might just change your life. www.jerthorp.me/learning

Earlier tonight I posted an example of a Google Gemini query where adding quotation marks around a song title flips the answer you get from "yes" to "no". (1/2)

Absolutely astonished at being awarded an MBE for services to Digital Humanities. I’ve no idea who nominated me - great to see #digitalhumanities supported in this context! It will take a moment for this to sink in! Also if the King gives you an MBE for DH, does that mean it’s a real subject? 😊💃👩‍💻📜

A delight to contribute to this open access edited volume on digital film history! Check out our essay on distant viewing amatuer film with Tim van der Heijden and Taylor Arnold: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

If people in higher ed don't want to end up disintermediated by AI, we need an actual plan to avoid it. I know how rejectionists intend to do that. And I know that people like me hope we can do it by building/teaching open source models. But in between those two poles, idk what the plan is.

Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.

New computational social science position at Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

It is already a week since Aarhus University welcomed #CHR2024. We look back on inspiring days of talks and research! Next year, the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg will host us. We hope to see many of you there! 🇱🇺 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/announcement...

@miguelev.bsky.social following up on our conversations about data physicalization - here is my work from a few years ago: startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/1/dat...

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

Recent addition to the living with machines project. A classification model for identifying railroads and railspaces. At the @cnrs.bsky.social DH and AI conference.

Just learned about this database of tonal languages