Wouter Haverals

I added a new post on my research blog last week. I wanted to react to a post from Dan Cohen that I've seen circulating on BlueSky last week about Gemini 3, and figured I would add my critical 2 cents to the mix!

alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/025/

📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂

📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"

Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!

🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp

Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.

Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...

“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI!

Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...

🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/

Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria “Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

I curated some readings for class on "data tensions" and the list felt worth sharing. Come on a tour of datasets, books, the web, and AI with me...

We'll start with this piece on the Google Books project: the hopes, dreams, disasters, and aftermath of building a public library on the internet.

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that'd be so useful! reminds me of the Data Provenance Initiative; they audited 1.8K datasets and found 70% had unspecified/unreliable licenses! www.nature.com/articles/s42...

no worries! thx for reskeeting! :)

haha, what a plot twist, AI achieves consciousness through self-doubt

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social 👇

VERSEDLE Test your literary knowledge with Versedle!

I made a lil game inspired by the Wordle universe. It's called Versedle (pronounced Verse-a-dle). You guess who wrote famous lines of literature.

As my parents can attest, it's hard! I made them an Easy Mode, but it's still kinda hard. Maybe you'll like it!

▶️ 📚: melaniewalsh.github.io/versedle/

CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI

Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

"Writing an essay is hard because it forces you to use your brain in ways you haven't before, and that is precisely why it's useful."

For our August feature, we invited science fiction writer Ted Chiang to respond to a series of questions related to AI and its impact on humanities scholarship.

Last week, @evelyngius.bsky.social presented at the 40th Annual International Conference on Narrative, hosted by the Science & Fiction Lab at Florida International University. She joined a roundtable discussion exploring computational approaches to narrative studies in the age of AI. (1/5)

This paper on LLM and Authorship Attribution picks up my 2024 article with @wouterhaverals.bsky.social & @rantyben.bsky.social, though the authors miss the finer point that our article is actually about "Translator" Verification - not entirely the same problem!
aclanthology.org/2024.nlp4dh-...

CATMuS 1.6.0 will see the light of the day in January.
If all goes well, we should see roughly 40 to 50 new manuscripts, with 1 to 10 pages per manuscripts, in:
- Italian
- Latin
- Spanish
- Occitan (New to the group :) )

And the runner ups of the Best Short Paper Award:

🎖"Abbreviation Application: A Stylochronometric Study of Abbreviations in the Oeuvre of Herne’s Speculum Scribe" by Caroline Vandyck & @mikekestemont.bsky.social

🎖"SCIENCE IS EXPLORATION" by @rmmhicke.bsky.social & Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan

hygge vibes and bike lanes — Aarhus, you’ve been a delightful host for #CHR2024

Thank you to the @comphumresearch.bsky.social for the #chr2024 Best Short Paper recognition. Taylor and I are deeply appreciative, and grateful to be a part of this wonderful community!

Truly honored to have served as Programme Chair for #CHR2024 alongside @laurejt.bsky.social and Marijn Koolen! Thank you to all participants, organizers, and reviewers for making this conference such a success!! See you all next year in Luxemburg! 🇱🇺✨

Truly honored to receive the Best Long Paper award at #chr2024 with @jammahowald.bsky.social! So grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Jamie (who has an incredible research career ahead of him!), and thank you to @comphumresearch.bsky.social for organizing such a fantastic conference!

🎥 Sneak Peek: Lauren Klein at #CHR2024

Don’t miss @laurenfklein.bsky.social’s keynote speech titled "When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research" at 9 o’clock this morning! 🕘

Shoutout to our CDH team at #CHR2024 @suttonkoeser.bsky.social, @laurejt.bsky.social, & @wouterhaverals.bsky.social! If you want to follow along, here's a great "feed of posts and replies about the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) 2024 conference in Aarhus" organized by @mariaa.bsky.social.

We’re back and bigger than ever! 🎉 The #CHR2024 conference has officially started at Aarhus University. More submissions, more papers, and more participants than ever before. Let’s make it an unforgettable week!

Time for the LLMs session at #chr2024!

"Remember to Forget: A Study on Verbatim Memorization of Literature in Large Language Models" presented by Olga Seminck

They replicated @kentkchang.bsky.social's name cloze task for books memorization, using English and French books.

Getting excited for CHR 2024 and hygge and the chance to talk about humanities-forward approaches to AI/ML research. It's a topic I've been thinking a lot about in the past few months/years and in this talk maybe, just maybe, it's coming together into a thing?

🎉 Final Call for Registrations! 🚀
The #CHR2024 Conference is just around the corner, and registration is closing soon!

📅 Registration Deadline: November 25 (local time)
📍 Event Dates: December 4-6
🌐 Register Here: events.au.dk/chr2024/

🎉 Final Call for Registrations! 🚀

The #CHR2024 Conference is just around the corner, and registration is closing soon!

📅 Registration Deadline: November 25 (local time)
📍 Event Dates: December 4-6
🌐 Register here: events.au.dk/chr2024/