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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...

I assume that when whoever is making it IPOs they will reveal the full lineup implied by the existence of Tilly Norwood.

UK friends, next Tuesday we will Europe-launch our book at King's College: 9/2, 4L30pm, KCL Macadam Building MAC 106. Panel w/ @joannazylinska.bsky.social, @dchavezheras.bsky.social & @mrsbunz.bsky.social hosted by the Creative AI Lab. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/digit...

⏳ 1 week left to submit to COMPLEX NETWORKS 2026! 📅 Deadline: Sept 2, 2026. 📍 Granada, Spain | Dec 2–4. 📄 Full papers & extended abstracts welcome! 🔗 Submission platform: complexnetworks.org/submission/ #ComplexNetworks #NetworkScience #GraphLearning #ComplexSystems #CallForPapers

Our new SEAsia DH project is finally out: siteandspace.powerinstitute.org.au/content-map

💡 We're hiring for an Assistant Professor in Computational Social Science Read more and apply before 11 October 👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Sad to be missing #dh2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social but enjoying it vicariously through your everyone's posts. Keep 'em coming please! And say hello to my NUS colleagues if you see them

🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 With #DH2026 in #Daejeon starting next week, please join me in applauding the local organizers for publishing the complete "Book of (extended) Abstracts" ahead of schedule! In PDF with no less than 1013 pages, and also in glorious XML versions! […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

Cool new paper about correcting the biases in cultural data using methods from ecology. royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Thrilled to announce the amazing keynote speakers for #CHR2027, @UoM in January 2027: Katherine McDonough and Fotis Jannidis! CFP is open: we look forward to welcoming you in Manchester! 2027.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/ #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalHumanities #CfP #CHR

We are inviting proposals to host the annual #CHR conference! A single bid may now cover the coming three editions (December 2027, December 2028, and December 2029). 📝 Expression of interest: September 15 📝 Full proposal: November 10 More info: computational-humanities-research.org/hosting_2027/

Good news everyone! 🎉 The new version 3.0 of graph-tool is just out with major improvements! See below. graph-tool.skewed.de graph-tool is a comprehensive and efficient Python library to work with networks, including structural, dynamical, and statistical algorithms, as well as visualization. 1/N

The next Network Science and Economics Conference NSE-12 will be held at the University of Luxembourg Oct 23-25, 2026. Here is a call for papers (due July 31): web.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/Ca...

As the World Cup kicks off, here's how Utusan Melayu covered the 1966 edition — in Jawi script. Explore more at the Jawi AI Project (culturalheritagenus.github.io/jawi/). #Jawi #AI #WorldCup @cssh-nus.bsky.social

📣 Applications are open for 3 fully funded Visiting Fellowships at C2DH, University of Luxembourg, as part of the Impresso project. 📍 Luxembourg ⏳ 3 months 💶 Travel, housing & daily allowance covered 📅 Deadline: 1 July 2026 Read more and apply here: impresso-project.ch/news/2026/06...

So this is apparently happening

Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

O great hive mind! About a week ago I saw someone doing further experimentation on Talkie's coding abilities — I think with few-shot examples? I know the Talkie-1930 release itself does some testing of its coding ability, but I think this went beyond that? Am I hallucinating?

Cover reveal! Digital Photography after AI out Dec 1, 2026! 🎉 mitpress.mit.edu/978026205639...

Currently in Stuttgart for this fascinating, truly interdisciplinary conference www.ikg.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/akt...

This is the eagerly-awaited Levine / Devenaud / Radford historical model. First really sizable model trained only on period material. Definitely check it out!

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

Are you an early career research who would like to spend a semester at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen? We have a call out now for a stipend to cover mobility expenses for 3-4 months in the first half of 2027. Apply before 15 May! skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=...

I finally got around to open-sourcing the full build for my PhD thesis: github.com/bnagy/nagy-t... which may be of minor interest to some people. All but one of the papers are published elsewhere, but it has some interesting LaTeX tricks, and I enjoyed writing the conclusion a great deal.

There's a nice #Artemis II mission tracker here: artemis.cdnspace.ca LOTS of data about its current position, crew activities, and whether or not the toilet is currently "Go"

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!

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