🎶 When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese, are they talking about the same things?
A new @princetoncdh.bsky.social Collaborative Research Partnership called MuSE (Multilingual Semantic Embeddings) hopes to find out.
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"Bears Will Be Boys" was a featured "Link we're digging" in our August 2025 newsletter. Congrats @mellymeldubs.bsky.social!
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When scholars write about music theory across languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, & Portuguese, are they talking about the same things? Check out our new Collaborative Research Partnership w/ assistant professors Anna Yu Wang (Music) & Jürgen Hackl (Civil & Environmental Engineering).
A more than timely rediscovery of the first 1897 robot-film.
Especially given what @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social said today at @princetoncdh.bsky.social about how we shouldn't buy AI company's framing AI as genial automata.
(In hindsight, and with Benjamin's "Mechanical Turk," an instructional film…)
The book cover for Data by Design: Visualization and Power from Abolition to the Dawn of Data Science. The title is in large block letters at the top left; a hand-drawn area chart in a black to yellow gradient takes up the right side of the image.
Experimentation. Iteration. Time. These are pretty much the core ingredients of everything related to DATA BY DESIGN, and the cover is no exception. But now it is final and out there on the internet and also right here for you to see!
Preorder at: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205618...
This Modeling Culture talk will be held in the @princetonartmuseum.bsky.social, and is generously funded by a @princetonainews.bsky.social seed grant, with additional support from the Humanities Council, the Princeton Humanities Initiative, and the @princetoncitp.bsky.social.
4/14: Art historian @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social (UMass Amherst) talks on non-generative AI—particularly computer vision—as a driving force behind the AI industry's most profitable ventures, & the role art historians in museums & universities have played, wittingly and unwittingly, in its development.
This week, @princeton.edu is hosting the 29th Annual ALTA Conference, April 9–11, co-organized by @happybuzaaba1.bsky.social, Associate Research Scholar at @princetonainews.bsky.social and CDH affiliate! Theme: "Reimagining African Language Pedagogy in the Digital Age." Open to all to attend.
Today @ 4:30pm @ CDH! 💙 Please RSVP.
Attn @princeton.edu humanities faculty! Curious about AI as a research tool but aren't sure where to start or how to use it? RSVP to this workshop on April 8th where we'll break down the jargon, explain how to make informed choices about AI tools, and show what resources are available at Princeton.
Panelists:
Hilke Schellmann, Emmy Award-winning reporter; CITP Fellow
@madelyne.github.io, CITP grad; former fact-checker
@newyorker.com
@dylanfreedman.nytimes.com, ML engineer; journalist: AI initiatives @nytimes.com
@anjdelgado.bsky.social, Group Managing Editor: Hearst Connecticut Media Group
In a panel on 3/26 from the Humanities Council & @princetoncitp.bsky.social, experts will share how AI is already impacting all aspects of the field of journalism – from national to small local newsrooms to data analysis, gathering and checking facts, ensuring source security, and what’s to come.
Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.
Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!
Earlier this winter, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social postdoc @cmroughan.bsky.social returned to Vienna for the second year in a row to share her experience using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology for medieval texts. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/02...
Speaking of, @mmvty.bsky.social also presents this month! Her keynote, “Humanities and AI: Modeling Culture Across Disciplines,” was given last week at the National University of Singapore, and will be next week on March 18 at Hong Kong Baptist University: digitalfutures.hkbu.edu.hk/eng/program....
Tomorrow at NYU, @wouterhaverals.bsky.social presents "Style and Prejudice: Attribution Bias in Human and AI Literary Judgment" as part of the Cultural AI: An Emerging Field conference. The talk comes out of the Exercises in Literary Style project with @mmvty.bsky.social, linked below.
The Princeton Logion Project has an opening for an RSE Summer Fellow for summer 2026! This is a great opportunity for those interested in gathering demonstrable work experience as a research software engineer on a DH project. Applications close March 31, 2026.
Join us for the public talk later today!
“There’s no reason why humanists can’t feel empowered to build better models, to participate in model architecture, to think about the kinds of data on which various models are trained and why.” Learn more about our #ModelingCulture program here:
"We should try our hardest to put the humanities into every aspect of AI development," says faculty director @mmvty.bsky.social in a new @princeton.edu feature spotlighting CDH-affiliated scholars—including associate faculty director @vierth.bsky.social—doing exactly that, some for over a decade.
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Modeling Culture is generously funded by a @princetonainews.bsky.social seed grant, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
Next week! For our Modeling Culture program, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social presents two projects exploring how computational methods can help us understand past and present struggles to make information more just. Join us on Tuesday, March 3, 4:30 PM @ CDH!
@us-rse.bsky.social @comphumresearch.bsky.social
👏 Congrats all, and to former CDH postdoc @jimccasey1.bsky.social, also mentioned, for “Communities in the Loop: AI for Cultures and Contexts in Multimodal Archives.”
Each year, our RSE team travels near and far to share their cutting-edge work and learn about new developments in the fields of research software engineering and digital humanities. Last fall: Philadelphia and Luxembourg! More on their presentation and adventures, by @marynaydan.bsky.social.
