I'll be at #ICML2026 on July 10-11 in Seoul to speak at the Workshop on Culture x AI: Evaluating AI as a Cultural Technology.
The workshop is currently accepting submissions, with humanities, ML, HCI, and social/cognitive sciences all welcome.
Submit papers by May 1! Join us in Seoul! 🇰🇷
Digital/computational humanities folks: who are currently working on a project involving or related to agentic AI?
Greenland sharks can live up to 500 years, so a Greenland shark born in the Jacobean era would probably still be alive when the journal article it submitted during the Interregnum finally appeared in print.
📣 2 PhD Opportunities at AI4DH at the University of Ljubljana
2 PhD positions are open for applications at the European Centre of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH) at the University of Ljubljana.
🔜 Deadline: 22 May
ℹ️ Find out more: ai4dh.eu/2026/04/07/o...
I received something today. Even though I received this teaching award at HKUArts, I give most of the credit to the five years I spent at SNU CLS, where I grew so much as an interdisciplinary researcher and teacher. Forever in my heart ❤️. #샤대자전
A person wearing glasses works on a laptop, screen glowing in a dim setting. Text reads: "It would take one person about 38 years to read every English Wikipedia article." An analysis from Pew Research Center shows the scale of #Wikipedia25.
Wikipedia has grown into 65M+ articles across 300+ languages in 25 years. Read the full Pew Research report ➡️ www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
We also tend ro romanticize writing. Look at most academic writing...
Close up of the gutter and revealing open leather spine, you see a handwritten script, thread used to bind in a knot, but hanging loose
Close up of a manuscript on parchment on the discoloring right below an inscription
Close up of remnants of adhesive used to use this manuscript fragment in a book binding
Close up of the wrinkling of parchment with written text on it
It’s the textures for me.
#bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
#histbookchat #sinology New book from Hilde de Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social - out in UK on 12thJuly 2026
Half of social-science studies fail replication test in years-long project https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00955-5
taxi epayment
All Hong Kong taxis must now accept at least 2 forms of e-payment
🔗 buff.ly/AOQgv07
We have a responsibility to protect Canada’s extraordinary natural heritage – from our lakes and forests to our mountains and coastlines.
Our new Nature Strategy will protect up to 2.4 million km² of our lands and oceans — and mobilise new capital for sustained conservation efforts going forward.
I find it really tiring to wake up, open BlueSky & find a lot of random people insulting me for posting someone’s interesting & harmless AI project
Of course: No I don’t think this replaces historians. Yes, a small AI model like this is limited. No, you are not actually talking to the past. Blech.
No US visits for me any time soon...
Man, I'd love to go through the entire collection.
Wow!!!
📢 CFP: "Playing Heaven" mini-conference at #DH2026 — AI meets early modern East Asian intellectual history. Organized by @javiercha.bsky.social
📅 Deadline: 21 April 2026
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/call-for-papers-playing-heaven-remapping-early-modern-neo-confucian-worlds-with-ai/
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CFP: Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI
dh2026.adho.org/pre-conferne...
#DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing Vol. 20, No. 1 (2026) www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/20/1 @edinburghup.bsky.social @danielalvesfcsh.bsky.social @javiercha.bsky.social @jamartina.bsky.social
As I skim the Song Yuan xue'an, I am convinced that the orthodox presentation of Zhu Xi as the "great synthesizer" of Neo-Confucianism is complete nonsense. In fact, the exact opposite is what ended up happening historically.
We are happy to announce that “The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated AI Research” has been published in Nature!
We shared a vision of an agent executing the entire machine learning research lifecycle.
Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Blog: sakana.ai/ai-scientist...
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A ship from the 1281 Mongol invasion of Japan has been found in Imari Bay.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
#shipwreck #maritimehistory #navalhistory
Volume 20.1 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities is out. Highlight for @javiercha.bsky.social's article, "Automating the Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Next Frontiers of Digital History," which is the result of his keynote at the #dh2025 at NOVA FCSH www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/20/1
My open-access article based on the DH2025 keynote is now out. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....
UBC folks: I'm giving a talk in Buchanan Tower this afternoon, if you happen to be on campus and have nothing better to do.
After many years of conceptualizing, overthinking, and revising, my Neo4j article is finally out. Take a look. It's available in open access. culturalanalytics.org/article/id/1...
How my Italian colleagues discuss the impact AI brings to the humanities.
