Javier Cha

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Increasing problem with publishing work on AI is that the publication process is much slower than working paper process, so when papers finally get full peer reviews, authors are asked to account for newer papers that are built on the paper under review! No real norms around this research ouroborous

Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

The AI community is re-learning 20 years of cybersecurity. The hard way www.404media.co/exposed-molt...

A colonial Spanish document from Paraguay is becoming a vortex of binary code.

Exciting news! I've been selected for a 2026 @schmidtsciences.bsky.social Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI) Development Award! 🎉
#DigitalHumanities #HAVI #Paraguay

Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea
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Look what just arrived in my mailbox!

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and I are drinking the coolest bottle of coffee ever made! #HKADH2026 #CUHK

Wow. Is this place run by former Hong Kong academics and administrators? The messaging, the gimmick...

Getting excited for the HKADH 2026 conference! Thank you to the organizers including @javiercha.bsky.social for the invitation to share a keynote!l along with @andrewpiper.bsky.social and Chia-Wei Hsu!

In the case of literature, that should be the last nail in the coffin for the New Critical claim that artistic quality resides purely in the object, and not in the human biographical and historical dramas it memorializes.

$200/month is a steal tbh.

This has been our experience, too.

I think that comes down to the simple fact that... they don't read historical scholarship.

Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once | Discussion

Global Medieval Studies Is a Failure | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1

Also check out Michelle Wang's "Global Medieval Studies is a Failure," which is absolute 🔥 and also argues that comparative studies might be a better path forward than "global" ones.
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DraCor frontpage as of 22 December 2025.

✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements.

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Release notes:
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#DigitalHumanities

Interdisciplinary research ftw…!

This is not an open invitation for editors to send me even more reviews. I've done enough service this year... and I'm kind of sick of reading AI-generated writing.

Already finished mine. 🙏🏻

#AI tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #OpenAccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have […]

Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)

AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Would it be too controversial if conferences start charging a nominal fee like $5 or $10 USD to prevent the submission of random and generic abstracts "written" using generative AI? I waste so much time these days reviewing absolute junk.

DH2026 Submissions Now Closed: Thank You for 813 Proposals! – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea Dear DH Community,We are pleased to announce that the submission period for DH2026 has now closed. Following the extended deadline of December 15, 2024 (23:59 KST), we received a total of 813…

📢 #DH2026 Submissions Now Closed!

We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!

The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.

See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷

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This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT

This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).

Schmidt Sciences awards $11M in grants to bring AI to humanities research - Schmidt Sciences Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...

Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...

Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences

Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

Feeling some major FOMO... but I'll meet Miguel soon.