Ancient Persian Cambridge Core - Arabic and Middle Eastern Language and Linguistics - Ancient Persian

New open-access historical sociolinguistics of Persian from the Achæmenid period onward.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

2026 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute Development Awards - Schmidt Sciences Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) is supporting 11 global interdisciplinary research teams to explore collaborative AI interventions with the potential to catalyze major bre...

Excited to announce, w/ @hoytlong.bsky.social, @ari-holtzman.bsky.social & Emily Wenger, that we won a Schmidt Science AI grant to build AI systems for storytelling + narrative world making. How do you get AI to tell immersive, believable, interesting stories? www.schmidtsciences.org/2026-humanit...

How can generative AI better support human creativity, without limiting it? If you have thoughts, we invite submissions to our ICML workshop on Generative AI, Creativity, and Human-AI Co-Creation

📍 July 2026, Seoul
📄 Submit by: April 24 (AOE)
🔗 Submission link: openreview.net/group?id=ICM...

I guess I should've asked this a few weeks ago, and not the day before I teach the module on "machine translation" for my Translating the Caribbean course, but here goes: What's your favorite contemporary critical essay on machine translation coming from the humanities?

How Fast Was the Mail? Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.

📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

The article notes that declines in international students are fueling the budget crisis. That’s entirely pain inflicted by the Federal government. But the solution is not directly responsive to that; I sincerely doubt those lost international students were coming to study classics. 1/

The Experimental Humanities Lab led by Fritz Breithaupt seeks a postdoc to help launch a research hub at the intersection of narrative, empathy, cognition, & AI.

PhDs in lit studies, cog sci, psych,+ who combine narrative insight w/empirical skills encouraged to apply: apply.interfolio.com/183656

Thanks! I’d be happy to talk to students about modeling and (some parts of) book culture if it’s helpful.

TBH I wish I knew @dasmiq.bsky.social was coming to town earlier, so I would have replaced a session on modelling or a session on dynamics in my #NetworkAnalysis class at ENC with the EPHE seminar organised by Peter & Daniel @psl-univ.bsky.social #digitalhumanities #ArtificialInteligence #AI

"Diogenes the Cynic philosopher, seeing a small town with large gates, said shut the gates in case the city escapes."

One of my favourite pseudo-Diogenes aphorisms comes from this papyrus:

"Diogenes the Cynic philosopher, seeing a small town with large gates, said shut the gates in case the city escapes!"

The Camera at War: 170 Years of Weaponizing Photography, with Hilary Roberts Expert curator Hilary Roberts presents new perspectives on the role of image manipulation in conflict photography over the past 170 years.

theviifoundation.org/event/the-ca...

and with a link : www.prairie-psai.fr/2026/03/18/l...

because the best proofreading happens after posting 😂

#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

Unlocking the Islamic Literary Heritage: An Intensive Practical Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts Unlocking the Islamic Literary Heritage: An Intensive Practical Introduction to Arabic Manuscripts

Bursary deadline for this summer school course is April 7th! 👇 tell everyone you know.

ies.sas.ac.uk/study-traini...

Man the talk was cool and totally worth the walk! Thank you
@dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing your experiences and to Peter Stokes (not on bsky) and Daniel Stoekl Ben Ezra (not on bsky) of EPHE @psl-univ.bsky.social for organising! I have learned a lot! 🤓

Austrian Academy of Sciences is developing the Ancient Greek AI “Apollo” with Mistral AI and Reply Austrian Archaeological Institute Develops Custom AI Model for Hundreds of Thousands of Ancient Papyri and Inscriptions ++ Faßmann: “AI and ancient languages are not a contradiction”

It’s official. My project with @mistralai.bsky.social and @replyai.bsky.social at the @oeaw.bsky.social to develop LLMs for ancient languages, starting with Greek, has gone public. The AI system is complete, stay tuned for the published results!
www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/oeaw...

Thrilled to collaborate with @grigorievna1812.bsky.social and contribute to assembling the open digital corpus of historical Greek, the largest compiled to date, for this project under the leadership of @dasmiq.bsky.social.

A Moroccan tea service tray: a metal teapot and two glasses of tea

I'm in Rabat, Morocco attending #EACL2026 and enjoying tea!

I will present our recent work – comparing how new words emerge in books/articles and on social media – at the LChange workshop: aclanthology.org/2026.lchange...

But this is also why I think transcription and translation are great opportunities for interpretability research that people will use.

People see that for translations.
But when you raise the same issue for transcription, somehow people don't care...
AI is great, but come on, we need to be a bit more careful in the humanities and remember to be a little more rigorous...

Serving on the ADHO Board & in various related roles has been one of the most rewarding parts of my professional life: a small enough community that I've come to know some amazing colleagues really well, but also international in scope and large in ambition & heart. Please consider volunteering!

Apparently you can pre-order? (Thank you @alilleybrinker.com for pointing this out!) Just be sure not to read it ha ha ha? yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Nice! 404 on GitHub?

ALMAnaCH seminar: David A. Smith, “ Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science ”, 20th March 2026 11am CET

We are excited to announce our next seminar:
David A. Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social (Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University, Boston)
"Artificial Intelligence as an Archival Science" on Friday 20th March 2026, 11am CET.

Details here 👉 almanach.inria.fr/seminars-en....

[AI and Close Reading] Can AI help us interpret culture? AI is already becoming part of how people read cultural texts online. What does AI do for cultural interpretation? We explored this question in a randomized experiment investigating the impact of AI a...

𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝑨𝑰 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒑 𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆? In our new #CHI2026 paper, we studied how AI assistance affects close reading poems — not just how well people interpret poems, but also the pleasure derived from close reading. closereading-ai.app
#AI #HCI #closereading #humanities #culture #poetry

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latincy/latin-bert · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

So many of you have asked—happy to announce...

Latin BERT v1 now available on HuggingFace
📦 Model: huggingface.co/latincy/lati...
📝 Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2009.10053

Original weights, experimental repackaging—leave issues/etc. in the HF discussions #nlproc #digiclass cc: @dbamman.bsky.social

Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good? LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and social theory), the use...

The talk is based on a paper I co wrote with @eduede.bsky.social @hoytlong.bsky.social & Patrick Sui that is accepted and forthcoming at ICLR 2026. Here's the preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722

(1/7) Below, I share the slides for a talk I gave Tuesday at NYU's "Cultural AI" conference.

The talk was about how slippery "culture" becomes in discussions of AI. A beautiful example of this comes to hand, because another conversation about culture and AI is taking place today!

Richard So - Conference on Society-Centered AI 2026 (New Faculty Spotlights) YouTube video by Society-Centered AI at Duke University

Here's the talk I gave at Duke's Society-Centered AI (SCAI) conference in Feb 2026, on "The Social Case for AI Hallucinations" — on why AI "confabulations" might actually be a resource for historical recovery. Not all AI hallucinations are errors - some can have affordances. youtu.be/p-S-KPI7YFQ?...

Exciting lecture series in Paris from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI grantee David Smith, @northeasternu.bsky.social.