Nina Beguš

Siblings are finally united! What is writing and reading in the time of AI? Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, Sheila Heti, Sasha Stiles, James Yu, and other amazing writers reflect and offer new possibilities. @uofmpress.bsky.social

Here at @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, we now have full abstracts up on our website for the 19 new HAVI Awards! These are interdisciplinary DH projects that are improving AI as a tool for new kinds of humanities research. Congrats to all the awardees! www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

Tumbleweed

Artificial Humanities at the Artificiality Summit :)

I’m excited to lead the Epistemic Cycles Lab! We will develop a historical study of information technologies that will help us identify mechanisms for preserving, producing, and organizing knowledge today. longnow.org/ideas/announ...

Agnes Denes

✍️ Writing with AI is now a spectrum. 🗣️ Join us next week for a talk with Aarhus University Prof. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen on AI-shaped writing as part of the Cultural Analytics Series. @ucbids.bsky.social 📆 October 30, 12-1:30 pm 📍 210 South Hall and Online

We take issue with AI when it's coming for our joy of insight. Proofs in math are a testimony of truth as beauty. The solution matters just as much as the process. Math at that level has always been closer to art and philosophy.

I’m excited to lead the Epistemic Cycles Lab! We will develop a historical study of information technologies that will help us identify mechanisms for preserving, producing, and organizing knowledge today. longnow.org/ideas/announ...

This looks like a great session!

What should cultural analytics do about genAI? We address the infrastructural force of narratives within AI corporatization, argue for constitutive humanism against a purely decorative stance, and suggest methods to examine the function of narratives within and around AI. ssrn.com/abstract=758...

Very much looking forward to this! Might change the title of my talk to "Kant or Cammarata"

I am hiring a postdoc for four years to work with a fantastic technical + humanistic team on this SNSF funded project on AI and interpretation: contralab.online/philology . If you can work on LLM interpretability/explanability, see contralab.online/job ...

We're holding a summer program on AI and humanities at Charles University in Prague this June. Applications are open until November 30, 2026.

I don’t think any teacher matters as much as the music teacher. It’s just something about the relation that makes you enchanted or disenchanted. Now PRACTIX! youtu.be/Wpp7oxrBUq0?...

Thank you for the feature @harvardmagazine.bsky.social We got so many Harvard alumni in this volume we failed to mention Gerardo Con Diaz (08) and Joseph Dumit (Prof) :) @sashastiles.bsky.social @nicholasnardini.bsky.social @kyliu99.bsky.social

Dear Ms. Rogers, The line is perfect, And you, And my writing. Emil, 5 ❤️

Had one perched in our backyard last month!

Imagitation it itself imagitation. Read this great book! @metahaven.bsky.social

Old conceptual frameworks need an update. Very excited to be awarded the Schmidt Sciences HAVI Award for "Rethinking Language" in collaboration with @ninabegus.bsky.social . Humanities have a bright future! www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

Our MLA session on Theorizing Agentive AI Infrastructures with Daniella Gati, Xuenan Cao, Junting Huang, Katherine Johnston, and Amit Ray mla.confex.com/mla/2027/mee...

Our MLA 2027 session on AI Models in/as Cultural Imagination with @hannesbajohr.de, Kate Hayles, @sethperlow.bsky.social and @zentralwerkstatt.org mla.confex.com/mla/2027/mee...

Dear Ms. Rogers, The line is perfect, And you, And my writing. Emil, 5 ❤️

A propos of another literary prize scandal, here is our paper looking at popular art and generative AI in terms of media theory in relation to market incentives. @kabirahuja2431.bsky.social @jivatneet.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

Andrej Tomažin's "Heroes, Lackeys and Artificial Intelligence" (2018) presents a literary jury discussing literature confronted with AI great wit and depth. I wish the translation was out by now. Hopefully soon!

'Arrival' (2016) Dir. Denis Villeneuve

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

asked a 5yo and a 3yo to sketch their idea for our Halloween pumpkins, and they delivered. very scary

In addition to this announcement Princeton will have 1 postdoc in cultural AI posted soon keep an eye out . . .

Cool job alert, this looks excellent: Cornell is hiring up to 5 postdocs in humanities/social sciences & AI. 2 year positions. jobs.chronicle.com/job/38045266...

✨Insightful and timely research opening new perspectives…learn more here…

Not transformer-based, but a GAN language model has helped with this already!

Perhaps the next Theory of Evolution is the realization that we are just one of many possible and diverse intelligences and that our legal, societal, and value systems should be adjusted accordingly. Read full essay here: begus.substack.com/p/the-next-t... Or: zenodo.org/records/2307...

We can put a 10ft human skeleton in the front yard of anyone who wants one. Why don’t we have the supply chain to put a T. rex or triceratops skeleton on every corner?

Delivering dinosaurs for exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science. Arthur Pollock, 1984

This one is for @mattseybold.bsky.social! Courtesy of my silly 6yo.

Cool post-doc opp for recent graduates in computer science & AI from Schmidt Sciences; broad range of AI topics that intersect with comp social sci. & humanities, esp. problems with alignment, interpretability, and knowledge production. Great foundation to work with: jobs.lever.co/schmidt-enti...

Kid ceramics.

“In 1930, the manuscript was inherited after Wilfrid's death by his widow Ethel Voynich, author of the novel The Gadfly and daughter of mathematician George Boole.”

Vojnich is perfect for AI to crack, but here we are.