Today is the 190th anniversary of the publication of the first installment of The Pickwick Papers. I thought it would be interesting to read at the original cadence. This page reveals each section on the original timeframe, offset by 190 years:

mimno.infosci.cornell.edu/Pickwick/

I wrote about restoring my early digital history projects.

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...

We will continue to evolve the system and are grateful for any feedback or contributions from anyone interested in exploratory search, multimodal IR, or digital collections research!

Check out the recently published software paper on Digital Collections Explorer by @yh-huang.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social - web-based, open-source exploratory, multimodal search for cultural heritage collections

doi.org/10.1017/chr....

aww thanks for the kind words

Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!

Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for working with us to publish proceedings from the 2025 Digital Humanities Tech Symposium in the new ACH anthology.

This volume collects short papers from a DH2025 pre-conference event hosted by @dhtech-community.bsky.social

Are you hosting a workshop or conference series that would like to publish peer-reviewed proceedings or other materials in the Anthology of Computers and the Humanities?

Reach out to Taylor Arnold @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for more details!

Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025

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

Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social 👇

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

Oh, and you can thank you Julia for the Douglas Adams reference in the subtitle 😁

The paper was co-authored with Julia Damerow, Robert Casties (@robertcasties.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy ), Cole Crawford, who also contributed to the software development starting at the very beginning with a @dhtech-community.bsky.social hackathon.

Heatmap of weekday frequency for Princeton Geniza Project legal documents and letters dated with day-level precision.

Raincloud plot showing how long Gertrude Stein kept the books she borrowed from the Shakespeare and Company lending library; borrow events with unknown years highlighted in orange

The paper covers why the software exists, how we developed it, what projects it builds on & other related work, and example use-cases to show its potential.

This is the first software paper published in Computational Humanities Research journal, part of the series “Missing Data in the Humanities.”

I'm very pleased to share my new article on the python library undate, which is an ambitious in-progress effort to make it easier to work with incomplete dates and multiple calendars, building on work from Shakespeare and Company Project, Princeton Geniza Project, etc.
doi.org/10.1017/chr....

And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!

Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research. Computational Humanities Research.

📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research!
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow

#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social

hahaha, big fan, I see what you did there

Here's the full agenda for the @dhtech-community.bsky.social #DH2025 symposium (times are somewhat inaccurate, in the way of things)

dh-tech.github.io/2025/06/04/d...

Good turn out for @dhtech-community.bsky.social symposium at #DH2025

Nice mix of folks doing technical work and interested in technical talks.

There is also github.com/ixc/python-e...

Shakespeare and Company Project Recreating the world of the Lost Generation in interwar Paris

@jasonheppler.org undate doesn’t have django or db integration yet — I’ve implemented uncertain and historical dates two different ways (for shakespeareandco.princeton.edu and geniza.princeton.edu ) and wasn't sure how to generalize.
There’s existing code to adapt ... would love to discuss!

Call for Papers @ CHR: Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics

⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!

Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!

for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Time Horizons of Futuristic Fiction – Post45 Data Collective This dataset contains metadata for 2.5k English-language narrative works set in the future, each marked with the year it was released and the year it takes place.

data.post45.org/posts/futuri...

cool dataset alert!

Call for input: finding a new publication venue for our conference proceedings Dear Computational Humanities Research Community, As many of you know, we have been publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR Workshop Proceedings since the first edition of CHR back in 2020. C...

After publishing our conference proceedings with CEUR for 5 years, we need a new venue. 🚨

How do we ensure that the CHR proceedings remain free, accessible, and interdisciplinary? 🖥️

Join the discussion and share your thoughts here:
discourse.computational-humanities-research.org/t/call-for-i...

Read-Only: A New Phase for Derrida's Margins Read-Only: A New Phase for Derrida's Margins

It's a new year and "A New Phase for Derrida’s Margins" 🌘

@jerielizabeth.bsky.social interviews @suttonkoeser.bsky.social on the decision and process of transforming Derrida’s Margins into a “read-only” version and discusses the challenge of defining endings and potential futures for DH projects.

Finishing the year with Startwords. Introducing Issue 5: Processes Finishing the year with Startwords. Introducing Issue 5: Processes

FINISH the year with STARTWORDS! Announcing the release of Issue 5: Processes 🎉

This issue features the work of 3 leading grad students from CDH using data curation and visualization to highlight the importance of everyday, historical people whose lives may otherwise have remained unknown to us.

Data Beyond Vision How do we represent tangible objects in a visual medium? We use words, pictures, and diagrams. We describe, share, show, and fail.

@miguelev.bsky.social following up on our conversations about data physicalization - here is my work from a few years ago: startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/1/dat...

Thanks again to all the organizers and presenters at #CHR2024 for such a great conference and so many good conversations. I'm continuing to process and take in all the things I learned, as I share insights with my colleagues at @princetoncdh.bsky.social .