Always grateful for the awesome winter view on the quad from my office at @uantwerpen.be 🙏 Happy new year everyone!

According to our award committee, these papers are must-reads of the #CHR2025 proceedings. Congratulations to the authors on winning the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Awards! Links and honourable mentions are available on our website: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...

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

Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!! Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/ #dh2025 @adho #zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities

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

As a fun experiment, PhD student Nicky Voornevelt bought a set of manuscript fragments at an auction. One piece turned out to be in print. . . . It's a fragment of the Mainz Catholicon! 😱😱😱 #BookHistory 📚💙 📜 #Fragmentology

Did you ever buy a real print by J. Gutenberg through sheer luck? We did! Well, sort of... Read more about this incredible adventure in a wonderful @rebpaf.bsky.social blog post by Nicky Voorneveld: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/e... Many thx to @pieterbeullens.bsky.social for his expertise! 📚📖🔍

We are looking for a host for #CHR2026! Read the Call for Bids on our website, and submit your proposal by November, 10. computational-humanities-research.org/hosting/

We are proud to have @miguelev.bsky.social (@cssh-nus.bsky.social, National University of Singapore) and Els Lefever (LT3 Language and Translation Technology, Ghent University) as keynote speakers at our CHR2025 conference in December. More: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/keynote...

In the earlier keynote, @mikekestemont.bsky.social presented an eco-computational approach to estimate the number of forgotten authors in the (ancient) Greek cultural production. He showed how he used a (bio)statistical model, filled with #TM (Authors/Works) numbers to calculate a minimum figure!

Are you in Paris on 11/06? Do you need an excuse to come to Paris in early summer solely for scholarly purposes ? Join us for plenty of #manuscriptstudies & #digitalhumanities goodies at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social 1/2

Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.

2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely. www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...

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...

If you have excellent knowledge of Latin, and you'd like to get a 4-year job to work with medieval philosophy and manuscripts, there is a week left to apply! #philsky #medievalsky

FitMA is hiring! We are looking for a motivated PhD-candidate in medieval Latin philosophy to join our team @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! Deadline for applications: 24 April www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Join me for AI and Image Analysis at ESU DH 2025 in Besançon, France in July! The one week course will introduce AI methods such as object detection and MLLMs for analyzing images such as art, manuscripts, photography, and film. More details here: esudh.github.io

With spring in the country, tomatoes were sown again in our house in Kraainem, including San Marzano, Lancelot and Marmande. Hopefully we will get better weather this year 🤞🍅🙏

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today. www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

The CultureLab at PSL, Paris, is recruiting a research engineer in #dh, computational social sciences and cultural evolution. We're looking for skills in data science, machine learning and programming. 4 years position. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323661

Science is imperfect, yet it remains our most reliable path to knowledge—and a great project of human collaboration. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

Were some medieval books only meant to be read by their very own makers? In my latest article (Quaerendo 2024), I argue that Ghent, UL, 1374 was indeed such a private manuscript: doi.org/10.1163/1570...

Thank you so much to all the new followers! I’ve been impressed by the spread of this cartoon and how much it resonated with people especially in the U.S.! I hope to keep inspiring you all with future cartoons. It’s a pleasure to have you all on-board! #politicalcartoonist #cybertruckman #zezvaz

Dear friends, do I know anyone here who has experience in (digital) numismatics, in particular coin finds from Roman Antiquity? (Please repost if you might know someone!) Thx for any pointers.

In rainy Berlin for a lecture tonight at the Digital History Chair of the Humboldt University. As always, lots of unseen species on the menu, lost cultural diversity and my naughty great-great-auntie from 19th century Brussels. You can drop by by or follow online:

👉 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

@arjanvd.bsky.social Which book did you recommend me again on the tulip bubble during the Golden age?

This semester I ported a course by @mikekestemont.bsky.social from R to Python and taught it alongside a great colleague. Designed for Humanities Masters students with no maths and little Python, it takes you through univariate stats, testing, distributions, and finishes with Bayesian modelling.

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...

Reminder that we are looking for papers using LLMs for humanities research, for a special issue of the Computational Humanities Research Journal. Deadline January 31st! #NLP #DigitalHumanities #CulturalAnalytics

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

Pas verschenen: nieuw nummer van Spiegel der Letteren, met 2 artikelen over computationele letterkunde, een pleidooi voor het literatuuronderwijs en boekbesprekingen @carolinevandyck.bsky.social @mikekestemont.bsky.social @hugenjelmar.bsky.social Zie: poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?...

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

Alert: great opportunity if you are interested in doing a PhD around early book. Salaried (!) Marie Curie Doctoral Research position advertised by the U of Bristol within the exciting “Remediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” project (@rebpaf.bsky.social). uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c...

Lazy Saturday.

Yes! Back to Boendale! Looking forward to working with Remco and Godfried again, and of course all the wonderful manuscripts, fragments, versions, and redactions of the Brabantsche yeesten! #MedievalSky

Signalboosting because this book is fantastic 😄

Just a reminder that our book on Humanities Data Analysis is OA and freely available from: www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org

Our congratulations to the winners of the #CHR2024 Best Short Paper Award 🏆 Automated Image Color Mapping for a Historic Photographic Collection by Taylor Arnold & @nolauren.bsky.social 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/announcement...

And the runner ups of the Best Short Paper Award: 🎖"Abbreviation Application: A Stylochronometric Study of Abbreviations in the Oeuvre of Herne’s Speculum Scribe" by Caroline Vandyck & @mikekestemont.bsky.social 🎖"SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION" by @rmmhicke.bsky.social & Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan

Nice view on Arhus's harbor from the breakfast room. Now off to the keynote at @comphumresearch.bsky.social !

📜 Do not miss the proceedings of the #CHR2024, with many interesting papers about computational methods and medieval data! #medievalsky #DH #digitalhumanities

Opening session CHR 2024 in Arhus! Thanks to everyone for all the hard work!

We are looking for a full-time, temporary teaching-focused Lecturer in Discourse Analysis/Stylistics/Register analysis/forensic linguistics. Details of the job are available here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai.... Deadline 12th Dec. Please retweet/share!

New ✍️ from @sarialtschuler.bsky.social, Ian Huntington, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, and me! An interdisciplinary reflection in The Lancet on the shifting narrative roles of clinicians amidst increased use of automated medical scribes and increased patient access to notes. #nlp #mlsky #healthcare

I made a starter pack for grad students in DH, to build visibility for a rising group of scholars. If you want to be added (or know someone who should be), just comment! go.bsky.app/8Bju8SY