José Eduardo González

Officially off Canvas this semester. (Screens a little more complex...)

my experience too 🤷‍♂️

Event Detection between Literary Studies and NLP. A Survey, a Narratological Reflection, and a Case Study Narrative structure in fiction relies on the strategic presentation of events, where the ordering and disclosure of information (syuzhet) shape reader engagement and tension. This study outlines a com...

New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Visser Solissa, van Cranenburgh & @fpianz.bsky.social present a model for detecting syuzhet—the ordering and disclosure of events that shape a narrative—and formalize event annotation in fiction across multiple languages.
#CCLS25 #ComputationalNarratology

Rare opportunity for anyone working in the field of DH and Spanish.

joblist.mla.org/job/2000675/...

This is one of those times when I wish there was a director's cut.

The Last Days Of Social Media | NOEMA Social media promised connection, but it has delivered exhaustion.

“Scrolling has become a form of ambient dissociation, half-conscious, half-compulsive, closer to scratching an itch than seeking anything in particular. People know the feed is fake, they just don’t care.”

— @jamesosullivan.bsky.social

Extracting memorized pieces of (copyrighted) books from open-weight language models Plaintiffs and defendants in copyright lawsuits over generative AI often make sweeping, opposing claims about the extent to which large language models (LLMs) have memorized plaintiffs' protected expr...

Here's another, even more recent example, which has been influential in recent court cases against AI companies, finding that certain models can memorize entire books verbatim.

But there's also a tension here: *researchers can only run such analyses if they have access to book data.*

4/n

Never had the pleasure of meeting Kristal, but he had a brilliant mind and his book on Borges has been canonical for a long time for those studying the Argentine writer's work. RIP.

So sorry to hear this. I worked with Efraín as a contributor to the Cambridge Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa, I met him a couple of times later, he was a great scholar and his passing is a huge loss to the academic community

kind of ironic? shakers making you think about the future?, right? Beautiful craftsmanship for sure. Thanks for sharing.

oooh. this is fantastic....

I mean..what's left after you eliminate all of those....? Nebraska is arguing that their Omaha campus already includes a math/stats major/specialization and it's only 50 miles away...they are forgetting that campus is not an R1 institution...or they just want to ignore the topic

Not computer science, but Nebraska is eliminating its statistics department (12 FTE gone).

budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...

Flyer for Le Studium workshop on Literary Studies today

www.lestudium-ias.com/events/why-d...

Both Parties affirm the importance of and their support for civil rights. Cornell affirms its commitment to complying with federal civil rights laws and agrees to include the Department of Justice's "Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination" of July 29, 2025 as a training resource to faculty and staff so long as that Guidance remains operative.

Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

Google on campus promoting their AI search engine…as if most students didn’t know about it….

I am supposed to teach an "Intro to Literary Theory" next year, but I am wondering if these courses are helpful or even necessary nowadays? I might just call it "Intro to Lit. Theory--The Skeptic's Version"

Y yo pensaba que eso me pasaba por la edad.....🤔

Very much in favor of NO ICE

It’s a wonderful essay. I’ve shared it with several friends. The contrast is fantastic between trying to force a fixed meaning (HR, the gym) and associating freedom with our private lives and with poetry.

graphic promoting this essay https://www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/

I'm thrilled that my weird essay on babble, the avant-garde, and the confining language of capitalism found a home in Guernica: www.guernicamag.com/aquaduhka/

Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies Geological Groundings: Earthly Memories and Inhuman Becomings in Latin American Cultures. Guest-edited by Azucena Castro and Estefania Bournot. Volume 34, Issue 3 of Journal of Latin American Cultural...

Out now: JLACS 34.3 including a dossier edited by @azucastro.bsky.social and Estefania Bournot on "Geological Groundings in Latin American Cultures". Check out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjla20/c...

Still watching cause Kerry Russell is in it and she was amazing in the Americans.

When there is a president who relishes about telling the public all the horrible things he is doing and get applauded for it, when the press (the Post!) is on the president’s friends payroll---suspension of disbelief is as difficult as it gets.

Trying to watch the third season of Netflix's The Diplomat but something feels wrong. Its main plot about a world leader who does terrible things that they have to keep secret from the the public and the press (the Post!) feels out of sync with reality.

Job!

In my spare time, I have been trying to get "Guess the Dictator or Sitcom character" to read my mind. Please go there and help it recognize that dictator we all are thinking of right now with only 20 questions
www.smalltime.com/Dictator

UNL programs up for elimination ask chancellor for delay; hearings on cuts begin University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs slated to be cut asked that the process be delayed to ensure they were afforded a full and fair hearing before the Academic Planning Committee.

University of Nebraska-Lincoln programs slated to be cut asked that the process be delayed to ensure they were afforded a full and fair hearing before the Academic Planning Committee.

The same is true for faculty extramural speech, which may be protected under APM - 010 only insofar as it is consistent with the standards of professional conduct set forth in APM - 015. The standard provided in APM - 015 allows for discipline only for conduct which is not justified by the faculty's ethical principles stated in APM - 015 and which significantly impairs the University's central functions, as defined in APM - 015's preamble. This analysis must recognize the particular context of the University as an environment that encourages free inquiry and the exchange of ideas and, as described in APM - 015, "seeks to provide and sustain an environment conducive to sharing, extending, and critically examining knowledge and values, and furthering the search for wisdom." Faculty, like all University employees, are also entitled to First Amendment protection for speech on matters of public concern, but only insofar as the employee's expressive interests outweigh the University's interests in fulfilling its public service mission.

Coordination with UC Police Departments: Beginning in Fall 2025, the Systemwide Office of Civil Rights will coordinate on developing systemwide guidelines in partnership with the UC Police Departments for sharing information in all misconduct cases, including expressive activities cases.

Notices to Respondents of Proposed Range of Disciplinary Sanctions: The Chancellor already has authority to propose a range of disciplinary sanctions in the notice of proposed discipline under APM - 016. Pursuant to the authority already provided in APM - 016, beginning, in the Fall 2025 term, when a Chancellor issues a notice of proposed discipline, the notice should include a range of proposed disciplinary sanctions. Also, in Fall 2025, campuses should begin including the dates the administration is available to participate in a hearing, providing five (5) or more options, in their notices of proposed discipline.

UC faculty are fighting through the courts to save the UC system. Our funding has been swept by central admin. We can’t pay to travel or research. Every time we lecture we’re at risk of attacks by right-wing mobs. Fortunately the UC Regents are on the ball: they’re…finding new ways to discipline us.

Two men wrestling or fighting above some zigzag lines. Above them a group of rat-like creatures watch.

Hannes Bok's interior art for Henry Hasse's "Farewell to Fuzzies" in Astonishing Stories, ed. Frederik Pohl (September 1941)
#scifi #sciencefiction #art