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The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”

Btw, I created the Bluesky feed "CLS in DH/NLP".

It collects posts containing the keywords: #CLS, #CCLS, #JCLS, #CCLS2025, CLS INFRA, Literary Computing, SPP-CLS, Computational Literary Studies, Cultural Analytics, Digital Literary Studies, etc.

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✍️ Our paper is finally out!

All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.

We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
tinyurl.com/metronome25

Three presenters laughing after seeing their own analysis results

@plechac.bsky.social, Neža Kočnik and @artjomshl.bsky.social explaining how zodiac signs influence poetic style (they don't) -- at the best conference ever @plottingpoetry.bsky.social

Photo of Boris Yarkho (1889-1942), one of the few ones that are discoverable on the web; he is sitting on a chair, leaning sideways and smiling.

A scholar possessing a singular vision and a frightening working resilience, he was hounded by Stalin repression machine, exiled, denied academic positions, firewood and food; his work was largely forgotten until 2000s.

So we, who were influenced by him at the rise of DH, keep remembering.

Speech Distribution in Five-Act Tragedies (A Question of Classicism and Romanticism) Article Speech Distribution in Five-Act Tragedies (A Question of Classicism and Romanticism) was published on March 1, 2019 in the journal Journal of Literary Theory (volume 13, issue 1).

Boris Yarkho, a Moscow formalist, was born today in 1889; his work of 1920-1930s fully anticipates computational literary studies: statistical methods used not for stylistics or attribution, but for questions of literary history and theory

Read him, if you haven't www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

«The government’s way or the highway»: how Russian authorities persecute teachers with an anti-war stance Независимый правозащитный медиапроект ОВД-Инфо

OVD-Info, a Russian human rights organisation, has issued the most comprehensive report on the persecutions of Russian teachers and university lecturers for their anti-war stance.
It shows the scale of dissent and pressure in Russian educational sector.
#AcademicSky

ovd.info/en/teachers-...

Marie Curie Skłodowska saying: Men can do science too.

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science 🧪 🥼🔬
Longing for the day when funding is ample, jobs are steady, and autocorrect stops changing "Curie" to "cutie".
#academicsky

noooo 😭 once Artjoms also forgot that it was hot and his palm was destroyed 👹 I was panicking and ran to find the ointment but decided to move the hot thing away first.. also using my bare hand 🤡🫠 I really prefer not to use it in the oven after that day

A tab that appears when googling "elena ferrante stylometry", which says "Elena Ferrante, public figure" and has a woman's photo on the left side from the name.

seems like Google was able to find not only Elena Ferrante's stylistic fingerprint, but even *her* face

but I was officially exmatriculated today, hoorayy 👹👹👹 (ppl used to scare me with this word for 10 years, can't use in unironically)

when I open terminal, I still automatically start as `cd Documents/thesis`... halp

thank you~ 💜💜💜

two girls in a nice bar, smiling, one of them wearing a Ravenclaw hat

Defended my PhD yesterday and got a German tax id today 🎓✨ what a week, huh?

a highlighted excerpt from Charles Hartman book Virtual Muse (1996), p.51, that says: What use did it have? It wasn’t likely to become a software bestseller. I could distribute it as a public-domain program, but to whom? Who needed an automated iambic pentameter scanner? Nobody. If the program had a purpose, it was to show that it could do what it did.

a sudden murder happened on a book page

(Charles Hartman in 1996 "Virtual Muse" talking about a scansion software he wrote in ~1980s (?) )

Screenshot showing Joanna defending her thesis (on the left) and the academic crowd at the Institute of Polish language listening to her (on the right)

Congratulations to @joannaby.bsky.social for getting her PhD in multimodal stylometry 🥳🎉

Ćśśśśśś, zażółć gęślą jaźń 👹

haha I just got 10/10 😅 as a non-native eng speaker I was looking mostly at quatrains + things like (imo) simple meters, rhymes and syntax, it turns out to be a good strategy /for now/? With most human poems I had a feeling that I needed to think a bit more while reading each line

As his works were not just quantitative versification studies and I bet computers were even more frightening for lit scholars back then, Kjetsaa's research in this direction is almost forgotten (to my knowledge). But his reasoning on corpus building, sampling & keywords are surprisingly up to date

Computational poetics archaeology: today I've read some of Geir Kjetsaa's articles on poetry data analysis made in 1970s using Fortran 🤖 Kjetsaa was a Norwegian slavist and he is known for his works on authorship attribution, but not comp poetics(?). Plot: sth like ttr for 3 poets, x=tokens, y=words

a black cat is looking up at a christmas tree with lights hanging from it . ALT: a black cat is looking up at a christmas tree with lights hanging from it .

thanks! yeah, I need to send it to the UT Press next week! it will be a no-thesis Xmas finally hoho

writing (thesis) acknowledgments is sth so bittersweet, i'm just sitting here thinking how lucky i am 😿

Halloween is a bit too long and too scary this year

an academic bar that misses its scholar... @rantyben.bsky.social

polszczyzna w tym bluesky koncie: unlocked 🌝

just spoke with a Czech lady over the phone: I don't know Czech, she doesn't speak English, cringe silence on the phone ... ended with my question być może mogłabym mówić po polsku
w końcu ona powiedziała, że ok to była dobra rozmowa, "mějte se hezky a do widzenia" 🤪
god bless same language families

a woman sitting at a table with a nbc logo in the corner ALT: a woman sitting at a table with a nbc logo in the corner

kinda ok we see u're a girl from academia following a bunch of feminists, let us show you five same trump photos quoted by our leader

twitter's "for you" feed just showed me for no reason more than 10 posts from musk?? in a row lol
like ok guys let's fckg go full authoritarian in algorithms

朋友在推特稱作推友
那在Bluesky要稱呼蝶友嗎…
（半夜不睡在想這個）

been using Notion AI's "improve text" on my abstracts quite a lot and it was fine... but baby it just went wild as soon as it recognized that i was writing a cover letter 👹 feels bad thinking how much more cover letters it might have eaten in comparison with literary or well less-nonsense texts