Folgert Karsdorp

Out in Evolutionary Human Sciences! With @mikekestemont.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social & Anne Chao

New work on unseen species models for cult heritage to the question: how many stories were _shared_ between medieval French and Dutch literature?

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Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature by Mike Kestemont et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For the non-Dutchies: as of yesterday, I’m a professor by special appointment at Utrecht University! Same research, new title.

Loved Horizon btw, and RDR2 is unforgettable. I’m jealous that you get to experience these for the first time!

YouTube video by BANDAI NAMCO Europe ELDEN RING - Official Gameplay Reveal

If you’re looking for beautiful and immensely stressful, then there’s really only one game: Elden Ring

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Portret Folgert Karsdorp. Tekstblok met logo Meertens Instituut: benoeming Folgert Karsdorp Bijzonder hoogleraar Computationele methoden voor onderzoek naar culturele verandering aan de Universiteit Utrecht

🎓 Folgert Karsdorp bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Utrecht!
Met trots delen we dat onze collega @folgertk.bsky.social is benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Computationele methoden voor onderzoek naar culturele verandering aan de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Lees meer🔗 tinyurl.com/2u5fbx63

Haha, is dat ergens terug te vinden?

(If you haven’t yet pinned Paper Skygest, a personalized feed for Bluesky posts about papers, you can check it out here ⤵️) (2/7)

Abstract of the paper and turnaround time from submission to publication.

Example double page of the Flora Batava series including illustration and text sections. Letters indicate the different segments of the text: a) “species names”, b) “flowering time”, c) “classification”, d) “sexual characteristics”, e) “species traits”, f) “habitat”, g) “medicinal use”, h) “domestic use”.

It's incredibly important to have a journal like Open Humanities Data. Had the pleasure working with @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social to publish a dataset of 11k+ records from the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands (19th century)

👀 Look at that turnaround time: 1 month!

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📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester.

We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics.

It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

Work (also) with me!

Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere.

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First known recording of computer music, 1951 The Copeland-Long restoration of the earliest known recording of computer music, recorded at Alan Turing's Computing Machine Laboratory in Manchester in 1951. Read Copeland and Long's fascinating blog

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This looks very interesting! I would consider applying for next year, but I couldn’t help noticing how many awardees are based at Anglo-Saxon, English-speaking institutions. Curious what factors drive that?

Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab "Jingle Bells" and "Good King Wenceslas" haven't sounded like this in a long time.

What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history:
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Presented my paper "The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School" on #CHR2025 and it won the ERC Best Long Paper Award! Delighted and grateful :) @comphumresearch.bsky.social

Great blog by @suttonkoeser.bsky.social introducing the Software Paper and what it takes to publish one in the CHR journal!
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#chr #computationalhumanities

Excited for session 2B this afternoon at #CHR2025! @melvinwevers.bsky.social presents our work (w. @folgertk.bsky.social) using Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity to quantify archival silence and bias. We're measuring the diversity of the Dutch National Archive's photographic collection.

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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!

97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.

🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...

And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!

🗓️ 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

!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7

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#dh #c19 🗃️

Ga stemmen!! 🟥

ChatGPT - Seahorse emoji search Shared via ChatGPT

Me: Hi Chat, is there a seahorse emoji?
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YouTube video by WikiWitIT He Was Just Fixing Signs…

Platforming my way through the new #silksong, had to think of this happy little camper: youtube.com/shorts/cmc8a...

What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....

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…”

And our first themed issue - Missing Data in the Humanities - articles are coming out! Check out Jan Maliszewski registered report! “While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes)…”

Check out Rebecca Hicke @dmimno.bsky.social piece on LLMs! “Language models have the ability to identify the characteristics of much shorter literary passages than was thought feasible with traditional stylometry. We evaluate authorship and genre detection for a new corpus of literary novels…”

Check out Jannis Klähn, Janos Borst-Graetz, @manuelburghardt.bsky.social work on LLMs and German data! “In this study, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of sentiment classification for German language data using three different approaches…”

And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!