📣 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...

🚨 Big news! #ICWSM '27 is heading to Edinburgh, Scotland 🏰
More details on dates and venue coming soon ✨

❗How submissions work:
• May 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Sept '26
• Sept 15, 2026: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → Jan '27
• Jan 15, 2027: accept (→ ICWSM '27), R&R → May '27 (→ ICWSM '28)

I’m #hiring a PhD Student in Computational Social Science / Agentic Large Language Models. Know anyone who might be interested? www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Call: A rare and highly strategic opportunity at the intersection of AI and the humanities!

The Met is opening postdoctoral positions to explore how AI can reshape research, collections, and audience engagement.

Deadline: April 15, 2026

#DigitalHumanities
👉 www.nyfa.org/jobs/job-inf...

A new Anthropic paper argues for functional emotions in LLMs, claiming a causal link between emotional representations and model behavior. transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotion...

#jobklaxon
PhD Fellowships available at @psl-univ.bsky.social!
Come & work w/us in CultureLab (w/ @jbcamps.bsky.social @oliviermorin.bsky.social et al not bsky).
Deadline 31/05
Starting 01/10
Duration 3 yrs (fixed-term employment with benefits)
Salary: sad.
www.culturelab.psl.eu/en/news-cult...

This week, @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social reported that a site was secretly recording Zoom calls to turn into AI slop podcasts. When we searched "404 Media" WebinarTV, we found a session we recorded with @freedom.press. What the hell is going on?

Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=79SI...

#jobklaxon
10 postdocs available at @psl-univ.bsky.social in #AI.
Working language: English.
Btw. #digitalhumanities also happen under the AI hype these days, so get in touch and walk by this very building on your way to work. Join me in being #touristatwork #juniorProfInParis

Come be my colleague!
Postdoc position at the University of Amsterdam: Open-source AI for Social Sciences & Humanities.

Work on open LLM infrastructure, reproducible research tools, and ethical AI for SSH.

🗓 Tight deadline: Apply by April 3

werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

With Iran War, Kalshi and Polymarket Bet That the Depravity Economy Has No Bottom Gambling markets have conveniently found a stance that allows them to continue to profit from death and war.

"This only feels possible because the U.S. government is only interested in regulating its perceived political enemies, and which only feels possible because much of the American economy feels held together by cope and the gobs of money being thrown into AI, data centers, and gambling."

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

Series of photos of the book showing its cover, some early pages that are just spotted gibberish, then basic word forms with no semblance of sentence or paragraph, and then finally organized language recognizable as derived from the prose of the novel, including character names like Heathcliff and Catherine.

_for the sleepers in that quiet earth._ is a 2017 print on demand volume containing snapshots of an RNN trained (solely) on the text of WUTHERING HEIGHTS. Each copy as unique. Besides the novelty of this experiment, it has the great value of giving us a rare diachronic look at how the model learns.

My contribution to the discourse, which I've said before and will say again: DH isn't over. DH has won. 1/

Qui est ciblé par l'hostilité en ligne dans la politique française ?

Très contente de partager enfin les résultats d'une longue enquête sur cette question dans la dernière Revue française de science politique :
shs.cairn.info/tap-t78ca45t...
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Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap' The release of more than three million new documents relating to the late sex offender gives credence to claims made by senior security officials: that Epstein was working on behalf of Moscow.

Hard to know what to believe anymore, but maybe that's the aim. "Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap': Paedophile financier had multiple talks with Putin after conviction - with Russian girls flown in to harvest 'kompromat' on world-famous figures." www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

On #AI mediated writing. On living..

#LLMs

A Discord for gay gamers is in disarray after an exec at Anthropic forced an AI chatbot on the Discord.

When confronted, the exec said he would not submit to mob rule and that AIs have emotions. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.

Story by @mjgault.bsky.social
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...

#chr2025

code-switching in K-pop lyrics (and major spoilers for kpop demon hunters…)
@callmesan.bsky.social

finished my first #CHR2025 presentation.
Check out the paper on code switching in Kpop

anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros

📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

Data and Code: github.com/callmesanfor...

Presentation: Session 5A on Dec 11, 2025! See you there!

New paper @ #CHR2025!

Our work uncovers how Korean–English code-switching shapes Western success on the Billboard Hot 100 and Global 200. From gender patterns to linguistic trends, know more through the paper.
Link: anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

See you at @comphumresearch.bsky.social!

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈

Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy
May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy

Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++

Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org

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A Researcher Made an AI That Completely Breaks the Online Surveys Scientists Rely On We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”

We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people.”