The CultureLab Kick-Off @psl-univ.bsky.social is in full swing! The day started with an opening speech by Stéphane Verger et al. and an opening presentation by @sobchuk.bsky.social! Thanks to @oliviermorin.bsky.social @jbcamps.bsky.social & @floriancafiero.bsky.social for organising!

We're officially launching the new PSL CultureLab in 10 days ! If you're interested in the research of a collective bridging Computational Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Evolution, you can check our programme (and come to our event, if you're in Paris 22 September): psl.eu/agenda/collo...

Brain-split for many #DH2025 participants, who are also finalizing their @comphumresearch.bsky.social submissions. #CHR2025

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

Dear potential future PhD students, do not forget to send your file, as the deadline is today !

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 !

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

Huge crowd in Paris manifesting for science, academic liberty, and in support of our American colleagues (And my favorite sign) #standupforscience

Place Jussieu at 1:30PM on Friday for the Parisians! @standupforscifr.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

There are nearly 2000 Heurist databases hosted by @huma-num.bsky.social. To help integrate them into data pipelines / data analysis, I'm developing a #Python API client and CLI that extracts, transforms, and loads the data into a local @duckdb.org database. lostma-erc.github.io/heurist-etl-...

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 !

5-yr position in computational humanities with @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @jbcamps.bsky.social in Paris! Original deadline has passed but search is ongoing. Details here: cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...

[#Vidéo] 🎬 (Re)voir «La #stylométrie sur les traces de Chrétien de Troyes», conférence de @floriancafiero.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social et Benedetta Salvati ➡ lc.cx/Hx5lpy

Current state of affairs on OpenStemmata, before some big updates. Old French and Middle High German are clear winners, but with your help, some of the runners up may just join the leading pack #medievalsky

Short non-academic communication: I intend to run Paris half-marathon in support of France Parrainages, an association that helps children in need Whether you want to support them, or help making me suffer through 21kms (with a smile on my lips) semi-paris.dossards-solidaires.org/fundraisers/...

☑ Logo ☑ Website (lostma-erc.github.io) ☑ Bluesky account ☐ Stickers The LostMa ERC project is kicking off its 2nd year with a new look. Next up... stickers!

Very happy that our research made it to the short list, and congratulations to the winners and our fellow participants !

the launch of the Computational Humanities Research Journal is a major talking point at #CHR2024. promises to play a central role in the community, clearly moving in a very important open niche. fair winds to her and her editors! @folgertk.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social +Kristoffer Nielbo ⛵

Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/

Le 29/11, au séminaire du Pireh, nous recevrons @jbcamps.bsky.social qui viendra présenter le projet LostMA, visant à comprendre la déperdition des textes et des manuscrits médiévaux. Rdv à 9h30, à la Sorbonne ou sur Zoom. Lien et programme : recherche-pireh.pantheonsorbonne.fr/recherches/s...

Nous sommes désormais plus de 10 millions sur Bluesky, et j’étais n°1 479 827 !

Very glad to welcome Federico Boschetti from Venice DPH as Translitterae invited professor with the @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social this month! First lecture today at 16h, rue de Richelieu, on Linguistic resources for semi-automatic HTR correction More info: www.translitterae.psl.eu/federico-bos...

We are very happy to publicly release the CATMuS Medieval dataset on @huggingface.bsky.social : huggingface.co/datasets/CAT... This dataset is unique in the space of HTR, as it includes more 160 000 lines of ground truth in 10 languages over 9 centuries (8-16 CE) in Latin scripts over 208 docs.

Tried the Scholar word cloud. Neat ! shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/rdmorin/sc...

!foryou

Getting pumped for a new digital humanities project, LostMa, which will do very cool things with a massive corpus of French medieval fables, legends, and songs. I peeked where the word “music” comes up in some texts (s/o “Roman de Fauvel”) and I can’t wait to get lost in medieval French 😅 👩‍💻

So true, also occurs when responding to students or colleague requests for advice !

And what a great job you all did ! Congrats and respect 🎩 !

Man, is it hard to choose which #CHR2023 session to attend !

Hmmm, I really should visit some more Eastern European countries !

The "Seeing beyond the flames: philology and artificial intelligence in the service of burned manuscripts" colloquium @Ecoledeschartes is well underway. The first presentation by Ariane Pinche is a wonderful introduction to HTR technology. #medievalmanuscripts #digitalhumanities

Proceedings of Computational Humanities Research 2023 are out! 830 pages 😱 ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/ Impossible without heroic help from @folgertk.bsky.social

I must be getting somewhat older than I thought, because it is the second time in two days that I have been asked to do something reflecting back on my career 😅

Welcome to the @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social on Bluesky !

An interesting hypothesis ^^ #TeamCroissantAuChocolat www.ladepeche.fr/2022/02/08/t...

🚨 last days to apply (deadline 15 Nov.) ! The ERC project LostMA is recruiting: 1. a post-doc in #complexity science for 2 years (renewable for 2 more); 2. a data-architect and curator for 4 years. Menu: medieval manuscripts, evolutionary models & data analysis at a scale rarely attempted!

We released an updated programme of the upcoming Computational Humanities Research conference in Paris 2023.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/ Together with a pre-conference workshop on AI and literary studies, this promises to be an exciting December week! workshop-llms4cls.github.io

Last year, Florian Cafiero and I were asked by David D. Kirkpatrick to give a stylometric expertise on Who was behind the so-called «Qdrops», at the source of the Qanon conspiracy theory. We were one of two teams whose results were then published in the @nytimes.com .

Now that I am on bluesky, let me take you again on a threaded tour of HTR-United (#HTR_United), a project founded and led by @ponteineptique.bsky.social and I since September 2021. Its main goal is to facilitate finding and sharing open datasets to train HTR and OCR models! htr-united.github.io

Plotting Poetry -- the largest <and maybe the only> international conference on computational and quantitative poetics -- announces CFP for its 7th edition which will take place in Switzerland! www.plottingpoetry.org/conference/2...

It's out ! Very excited to present "Operationalizing Canonicity: A Quantitative Study of French 19th and 20th Century Literature." by me, @jbcamps.bsky.social and Thierry Poibeau. This pic shows the main results, but let me tell you the full story : 1/N t.co/y3FtrrEqQn

Our camera-ready version of our paper for CompHumResearch 2023 is finally online ! Let's dive into it. Follow the thread if you like authorship verification, stylometry, neural networks, Ancient Greek or patristics and pseudepigraphic works :) The thread 🧵