Mike Kestemont

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

Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!!

Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

#DH2025 @adho #Zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities

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

As a fun experiment, PhD student Nicky Voornevelt bought a set of manuscript fragments at an auction. One piece turned out to be in print.
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It's a fragment of the Mainz Catholicon! 😱😱😱 #BookHistory 📚💙 📜 #Fragmentology

Farley Katz - Profile on Academia.edu Farley P. Katz (Berkeley ‘71, Columbia Law ‘77) collects medieval manuscript fragments, sixteenth century printing, fossils (mostly Texas ammonites and…

Curious about the fascinating Catholicon print? We recommend recent papers by @farleypkatz.bsky.social, advancing credible evidence that Needham's slugs theory must be false... This has serious implications for the dating and attribution of the print! TBC. independent.academia.edu/FarleyKatz

Experimenting in the Book Trade: From the Late 15th Century to 2025 Nicky Voorneveld, Universtiy of Antwerp The project of my fellow Antwerp REBPAF’er Marika Fox has been looking at auctions, specifically at what determines the value of rare books at auctions. This…

Did you ever buy a real print by J. Gutenberg through sheer luck? We did! Well, sort of... Read more about this incredible adventure in a wonderful @rebpaf.bsky.social blog post by Nicky Voorneveld: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/e... Many thx to @pieterbeullens.bsky.social for his expertise! 📚📖🔍

We are looking for a host for #CHR2026! Read the Call for Bids on our website, and submit your proposal by November, 10.

computational-humanities-research.org/hosting/

We are proud to have @miguelev.bsky.social (@cssh-nus.bsky.social, National University of Singapore) and Els Lefever (LT3 Language and Translation Technology, Ghent University) as keynote speakers at our CHR2025 conference in December. More: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/keynote...

In the earlier keynote, @mikekestemont.bsky.social presented an eco-computational approach to estimate the number of forgotten authors in the (ancient) Greek cultural production. He showed how he used a (bio)statistical model, filled with #TM (Authors/Works) numbers to calculate a minimum figure!

Are you in Paris on 11/06? Do you need an excuse to come to Paris in early summer solely for scholarly purposes ? Join us for plenty of #manuscriptstudies & #digitalhumanities goodies at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social 1/2

Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.

Postdoctoral Opportunity in Digital Humanities & Old Norse I am pleased to share with you a new employment opportunity in the field of digital humanities, with a particular focus on computational philology and Old Norse studies, as part of my current project ...

2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely.
www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...

Lees meer over het interuniversitaire liedproject waarbinnen dit doctoraatstraject kadert, o.m. in samenwerking met de prachtige Alamire Foundation: www.alamirefoundation.org/en/research/...

De financiering komt van FWO-Vlaanderen 🙏

We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be

Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!

Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social

www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

But all the fun we had! I hope the fragment finds a nice new home.

If you have excellent knowledge of Latin, and you'd like to get a 4-year job to work with medieval philosophy and manuscripts, there is a week left to apply! #philsky #medievalsky

PhD-candidate (4 years) for the project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA) Interested in Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle?

FitMA is hiring! We are looking for a motivated PhD-candidate in medieval Latin philosophy to join our team @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! Deadline for applications: 24 April
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

Join me for AI and Image Analysis at ESU DH 2025 in Besançon, France in July! The one week course will introduce AI methods such as object detection and MLLMs for analyzing images such as art, manuscripts, photography, and film. More details here: esudh.github.io

With spring in the country, tomatoes were sown again in our house in Kraainem, including San Marzano, Lancelot and Marmande. Hopefully we will get better weather this year 🤞🍅🙏

Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today.

www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...

Ingénieur de recherches en sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles Project context and objectives:

The CultureLab at PSL, Paris, is recruiting a research engineer in #dh, computational social sciences and cultural evolution.
We're looking for skills in data science, machine learning and programming.
4 years position.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323661

Thx for your generosity! I normally work with something like GEXF, but any raw data I can import into Gephi would be great!

Looks awesome! I have to teach a session on Gephi for philologists soon in Antwerp: any chance you could share the data files for one of these beautiful networks already? (With proper attribution and reference to the book of course!)

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

Science is imperfect, yet it remains our most reliable path to knowledge—and a great project of human collaboration.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

No fancy computational stuff; just plain old medieval Dutch philology! Let me know if you want access to the article. Our edition is still available open access: hbsr.mvn.huygens.knaw.nl

Through a contextualized reading, I argue that the manuscript has captured its maker coming to terms with the schismatic unrest in his 14th c. monastic community.

Were some medieval books only meant to be read by their very own makers? In my latest article (Quaerendo 2024), I argue that Ghent, UL, 1374 was indeed such a private manuscript:
doi.org/10.1163/1570...

Thank you so much to all the new followers! I’ve been impressed by the spread of this cartoon and how much it resonated with people especially in the U.S.! I hope to keep inspiring you all with future cartoons.

It’s a pleasure to have you all on-board!
#politicalcartoonist #cybertruckman #zezvaz