How can digital methods help us study underprivileged groups in past societies?
🗓️ Join us Wed., 25 March at 10 am for the lecture "From Archives to Algorithms: Digital Methods for Studying Imperial Commoners of Brazil and West Africa (1640-1822)" by Agata Błoch of the Polish Academy of Sciences!
📖 New publication announcement! 📖
Our study published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities uses network and temporal data from Peter Zwicker's inquisition in Stettin (1393–94) to examine how information gathered from deponent testimonies affected subsequent interrogations.
🧑🎓 Funded Ph.D. Opportunity! 🧑🎓
M.A. graduates are invited to apply for fully funded Ph.D. studies within our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study medieval hate speech and anti‑heretical discourse.
🗓️ Proposals are due 16 March 2026!
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🎓 Funded Postdoc! 🎓
DISSINET is offering support for MSCA postdoc applications to work on our digital humanities project using large‑scale computational methods to study medieval hate speech and anti‑heretical discourse.
🗓️ Preliminary proposals are due 16 March 2026!
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Table 1: Deviant author assignment strategies (selection), listed chronologically. It contains year, authorship assignment strategy and reference.
Reviewing some old links before deleting my Twitter account I was reminded of "Civil disobedience in scientific authorship: Resistance and insubordination in science" (doi.org/10.1080/0898...) which contains a great table on deciding authorship order:
Compassionate Christians threatening art, India edition 🤦♀️
Turkish religious groups characterizing art as satanic propaganda 😆 pathetic
it's absurd such dumbfucks have the leverage to block artists from performing 🤬
Z těch vyjádření mi přijde, že po nějakém tom kolečku s právníky bude navržena dohoda k ukončení pracovního vztahu. Jestli ta oznámení nemaj trestněprávní povahu a ombudsmanka je spíš jen interní kontrolní a konzultační orgán než něco jako policie, tak to uzavřou dohodou s odstupným. Jestli vůbec.
Podle ombudsmanky šlo o věci, které „mají potenciál narušit psychologické bezpečí studentů“. Asi to chce soudní spor, I guess 🤔
Tento príbeh je smutný 🥲 a zjevné to bylo už od prvních informací o popisu účelu toho jeho slavného fondu
esf.justice.cz/ias/isesf/re...
No tak ještě že Prcinke do toho nemá co mluvit a zastoupení ČR je již domluveno 🤡 kašpar
🥁 NEW
Our study on infant gut microbiome and #straintransmission is now published in @nature.com:
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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New paper - we try to test a classic secularization theory w/ longitudinal data: is material security in early adolescence associated with later decrease in belief in God in young adulthood?
tl;dr: it is, a little bit..
w/ @lnpx1thetadelta.bsky.social & R.Chvaja
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Do projektu GAČR Junior Star Socio-Spatial Situatedness of Roman Professions and its Impact on Religion in the Roman Empire: A Formal Modeling Approach (SIPROME, MUNI) hledáme postdoc výzkumníky.
Pozice geografie www.phil.muni.cz/kariera/voln...
Pozice matematika www.phil.muni.cz/kariera/voln...
Scientists have combined lab-grown human brain tissue with an electronic circuit in an attempt to create a more powerful computer. #ScienceMagArchives https://scim.ag/4qjjPSE
Cannot help but keep wondering how does Paul benefit from getting KO’d 🤔 I'm still not persuaded anything he does would be trustworthy 😅
#pauljoshua
Belarus deems Dymna Lotva’s videos extremist. Ist BM Krieg?
Enjoy the playlist:
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mixing it with some mythology this year, it seems 🏺🏛
Lamnamoon Sor Sumalee vs Rittidej Kerdpayak | Muay Thai from Lumpini Stadium
After toppling Canelo Álvarez in the fight of the year, the undefeated boxing champion has earned more than $100 million in the ring. Now 38, and with Warren Buffett in his corner, he is staring down the ultimate opponent—Father Time.
www.instagram.com/p/DR-Jhq1CAk...
Wilfredo Benitez 🇵🇷
Therdkiat Sitthepitak🇹🇭
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But eventually Texas got fixed as well 🥰
interesting times we live in 😀
Norther Ireland got fixed but Texas otoh takes a step back 😆🥲
nice, this is important - it sets a standard of how to deal with Christianity in public education
Similar are these bone and stone dice from the Grand Harbour of Malta, where the Knights of St John docked their galleys in the 17th & 18th centuries. Likely made by the captives that rowed the ships, they indicate the captives socialised and played games on board.
(£) doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
