Paul Vierthaler

Today we celebrate 40 year of Humanities Computing and Computational Linguistics in Groningen! @gronlp.bsky.social We started in 1986 with Alfa-Informatika and in 1993 John Nerbonne had the chair in Humanities Computing (first in the world?!). #NLProc #DigitalHumanities

apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural industries (literature, music, film, visual arts). Looking humanistic approaches to AI systems!

REMINDER: The priority deadline for this position is October 30th. We're looking for an Assistant Professor, tenure-track, in Library and Information at the UW Information School @ischool.uw.edu Please share with your networks. I am on the search committee and happy to answer questions.

So proud of this new work with @wouterhaverals.bsky.social @suttonkoeser.bsky.social and @laurejt.bsky.social at @princetoncdh.bsky.social !!

📝 New in Computational Humanities Research's special issue on computational poetics, ed. by @artjomshl.bsky.social & @nmhouston.bsky.social! For centuries, books that taught people to scan, recite and parse English were stuffed with borrowed lines of poetry. Which poems did they reach for? 🧵

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 always have mixed feelings about these images. Yes, it's inspiring to see these college students committed to democracy, but the fact that they have to do anything remotely difficult to exercise their voting rights is enraging. Taking part in a democracy should be as easy as possible.

At @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the 2026 HAVI open call awardees! Congratulations to all the PIs on your fantastic work, bridging digital humanities & AI. www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

Made it through the first of three talks at NTU and didn’t ENTIRELY embarrass myself lecturing in Chinese for the first time in… eight years? I will say, as an aside, that it is still disconcerting to find myself billed right next to some of the absolute legends of the field

It's infuriating how the U.S. is treating our international researchers. We are so incredibly lucky that talented people want to come to our country to study, research, work, and build. Trump, Musk, and their cronies are destroying the best parts of science in the U.S.

I think the reason we don't see a lot of vibe-coded projects release is that when you write your own software, the flaws in it are your problem, but you're used to that. When you release software, the *users* are now also your problem.

5-yo listening to Rilo Kiley in the car: “Daddy, what’s the name of this song?” Me: “hmm, not sure.” 5-yo takes a beat, “I think I’ll just call it Cocomelon.” So now Cocomelon, which she has never seen, in her mind now refers to both “a better son/daughter” and Paramour’s “hard times.”

What am I doing over my fall "break" you ask? Well, going to Taiwan to talk about DH, data science, and machine learning of course! Looking forward to some good conversations about curriculum building and research at National Taiwan University, thanks to a Fulbright grant!

omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?

An updated version of Scott Enderle's Topic Modeling Tool is now available here: github.com/mimno/topic-... Beta testers welcome!

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

The old website seems to be gone, but someone saved and posted all the old Popup Chinese episodes!

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

Guess my name is Blaul now

Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2609.23178 Code: github.com/Historical-A... Team: Ted Underwood, Ziliang Qiu, Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social, Sarah Griebel @sgriebel.bsky.social, Edwin Roland @teddyroland.bsky.social, Wenyi Shang @wenyishang.bsky.social , Matthew Wilkens @mattwilkens.bsky.social.

Having little kids has given me a renewed appreciation for stickers of all sorts! Also, get your flu and covid shots!

a PhD position in LLMs, annotations, language and benchmarking @ University of Tartu. please share! digits.ut.ee/join-the-team/

Wonderful #DHmakes #DHbakes going on here, and this part is so relatable: "every ring came out of the oven slightly wonkier than the slice it came from, so the stack needed to be leveled layer by layer -- the difficulties of working with the real physical world, instead of purely onscreen."

It's possible for Jev/Laya/Decision Models to be not that big a deal as tech and massive as a new paradigm. Here's why I'm really excited from an NLP history perspective (thread)

Models like Talkie-1930 sound like voices from the past. If they could reliably speak from specified historical vantage points, researchers might also use them to simulate the past. But how reliable are they? Today we release a benchmark answering that question for English contexts 1831-1930.

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

I forgot that I made a starter pack with computational literary studies people — maybe it’s time for an update. Ping me if you’re not there! go.bsky.app/4et1nxZ

Grateful thanks to @princeton.edu, who have again renewed their membership to our Institutional Partnership Programme. As a #DiamondOpenAccess publisher, we rely on community investment to maintain and develop our multilingual portfolio of journals. 🔸 tinyurl.com/support-PH

I always have this fear that I'm going to lose half my students on the last day of the add/drop period. But as long as I make it through today without fumbling, looks like it'll be a full house in both classes!

I kind of love that in this, the year of our lord 2026, the MARC standard homepage still looks like this (last updated, June 11, 2026): www.loc.gov/marc/

This looks like a cool text analysis library, and a nice discussion piece for my intro to Chinese text analysis class!

Questions about TRANSMISSION? Thankfully this entirely benign and normal figure has answers for you! Group tickets currently on sale (the perfect way to play if you want to gather a bundle of friends for some spooky roleplay): everythingimmersive.com/events/trans...

A bounteous vegetarian spread caps the end of an excellent first day of the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium conference here at Dharma Drum Institute of the Liberal Arts

Chefs kiss

As big as it gets: The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked the Missouri GOP’s gerrymander, and ordered that a citizen-led veto referendum be placed on the ballot. The SoS had blocked it. This would likely reverse the expected GOP pick-up of a Kansas City seat, and set up a huge November vote.

One of the smartest, most insightful people I know is writing on an important topic and if you care about how to leverage data for meaningful change, you should definitely check it out. Disclaimer: I'm married to this person, so I'm not unbiased. But people agree! She's brilliant!

It’s frankly absurd that they are letting me teach a whole class in this room!

It has been nearly 30 years since it aired, and still, every time I make a sandwich with mustard and mayonnaise I sing to myself: “Seems I’m always spreading mayostard, mustardayonaisse, and time…” youtu.be/mRntutn8udw?...