Miguel Escobar Varela

Screenshot that reads: Introducing the Anthology for Computers and the Humanities Taylor Arnold, Maria Antoniak, Miguel Escobar Varela, Marie Puren, Mila Oiva , Amanda Regan, Lauren Tilton, and Melanie Walsh 1 Data Science and Statistics, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 2 Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, U.S.A. 3 Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore 4 Laboratoire de Recherche de l'EPITA, Paris, France 5 History and Archaeology, University of Turku, Finland 6 History and Geography, Clemson University, U.S.A. 7 Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, U.S.A. 8 Information School, University of Washington, U.S.A. Permanent Link: https://doi.org/10.63744/HHsQG7hNWyxG Published: 25 September 2025

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that.

So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more.

Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort!

bit.ly/ach-anthology

Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - ijhac: Vol 19, No 2

Available volume 19.2 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, dedicated to AI and Digital Humanities. Guest editors @miguelev.bsky.social and @javiercha.bsky.social. Amazing work from them and from all the authors. With 3 articles in open access😍!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2

Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/

See you in Luxembourg!

From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor

New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.

What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?

Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.

A few examples in thread ↴

Logo of the DraCor Summit 2025, designed by Mark Schwindt.

Picture of the keynote speaker of the upcoming DraCor Summit, Clarisse Bardiot. Source for the picture is her personal website clarissebardiot.info.

We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...

Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).

summit.dracor.org/registration

Please come and join us at CUHK!

Stylo got the Zampolli prize for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities 🏆 Congrats to Maciej Eder, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and all involved with the Computational Stylistics Group!👏 Prev. recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, R. Siemens, C. Gaffield
#DH2025 #stylometry

Only four days left to @adho-org.bsky.social #DH2025 and everything is getting ready as you can see here!

Thrilled to share that our Deputy Director @miguelev.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote at this conference!

We are excited to announce our Inaugural Research Symposium July 29–30, 2025! This event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge developments at the intersection of computational methods, social science, and the humanities.

www.cssh-symposium.com

I am very honoured by this invitation. Looking forward to @comphumresearch.bsky.social 2025!

Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Finally officially out (only took 1.5yrs), in @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms, #open🔓

"Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence"

A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)

Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.

INTRODUCTION

Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?

Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.

thebullshitmachines.com

Had a great time at the first HKADH conference! Caught up with many old friends from ADHO 2024 and met new colleagues and experts from around the world! Wonderful keynote speeches by @miguelev.bsky.social and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social. Next year, HKADH will be held at my university, CUHK! 😉

Opening remarks by @vincent76.bsky.social at the Hong Kong Association for Digital Humanities 2025.

Honored to deliver a keynote at HKADH next week. And looking forward to reconnect with the incredible DH community in HK!

An ovenbird is perched on a branch against a pink background. Text reads: teachers, teachers, teachers (and students too) teachers, librarians and students can use the code OVENBIRD for 25% off registration

If you're a teacher, student, librarian or not-for-profit worker, you can use the code OVENBIRD for 25% off registration for my Binoculars to Binomials course.

5 weeks of coding, nature, birds, citizen science + data viz!

It might just change your life.

www.jerthorp.me/learning

Google query: does ed sheeran have a song called "the crow" Yes, Ed Sheeran has a song called "The Crow": Information Song "The Crow" Album Part of Sheeran's new album, No. Sheeran is a British singer-songwriter who blends genres like folk, rock, R&B, pop, and hip-hop. His debut album, +, was released in 2011 and included his first hit single, "The A Team". Sheeran has also written songs for other artists, including "Little Things" for One Direction, "Lay It All On Me" for Rudimental, and "Love Yourself" for Justin Bieber.

Google query: does ed sheeran have a song called the crow AI Overview Learn more No, Ed Sheeran does not have a song called "the crow", but he has written and performed songs for other artists, including: "Little Things" for One Direction "Lay It All On Me" for Rudimental "When Christmas Comes Around" for Matt Terry "Hotel Ceiling" for Rixton "Say You Love Me" for Jessie Ware "Love Yourself" for Justin Bieber "Cold Water" for Major Lazer Sheeran is an English singer-songwriter with a discography that includes seven studio albums, two compilation albums, and 65 singles.

Earlier tonight I posted an example of a Google Gemini query where adding quotation marks around a song title flips the answer you get from "yes" to "no". (1/2)

New Year Honours List recognises culture, education and sport In this year’s New Year Honours, painter and printmaker, Barbara Rae, CBE, RA, receives a damehood, and others involved in the fields of sport, education and public service in Edinburgh are also honou...

Absolutely astonished at being awarded an MBE for services to Digital Humanities. I’ve no idea who nominated me - great to see #digitalhumanities supported in this context! It will take a moment for this to sink in!

Also if the King gives you an MBE for DH, does that mean it’s a real subject? 😊💃👩‍💻📜

A delight to contribute to this open access edited volume on digital film history! Check out our essay on distant viewing amatuer film with Tim van der Heijden and Taylor Arnold: www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

If people in higher ed don't want to end up disintermediated by AI, we need an actual plan to avoid it. I know how rejectionists intend to do that. And I know that people like me hope we can do it by building/teaching open source models. But in between those two poles, idk what the plan is.

Dear academics

We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.

This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…

*checks notes*

…every other industry on earth.

Junior Professorship (W1, non tenured) in Computational Social Science Deadline: 7th of January 2025

New computational social science position at Konstanz: stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/2...

It is already a week since Aarhus University welcomed #CHR2024. We look back on inspiring days of talks and research!

Next year, the C²DH at the University of Luxembourg will host us. We hope to see many of you there! 🇱🇺

2024.computational-humanities-research.org/announcement...

Data Beyond Vision How do we represent tangible objects in a visual medium? We use words, pictures, and diagrams. We describe, share, show, and fail.

@miguelev.bsky.social following up on our conversations about data physicalization - here is my work from a few years ago: startwords.cdh.princeton.edu/issues/1/dat...