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Federico Pianzola

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https://federicopianzola.me I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu

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Federico Pianzola @fpianz.bsky.social · Jan 22

It's publication day!
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...

A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.

@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social

Digital Social Reading

How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology i...

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Thibault Clérice @ponteineptique.bsky.social · 22h

It's been brewing for months: @inriaparisnlp.bsky.social releases CoMMA (Corpus of Multilingual Medieval Archives) !

📚 2.5bn tokens of mostly Latin and French texts
🕰️ 800→1600 CE
📜 23k manuscripts
🖥️ 18k on the reading interface: comma.inria.fr
🔍 Paper: inria.hal.science/hal-05299220v1

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CoMMA

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Jaap Jumelet @jumelet.bsky.social · 1d

🌍Introducing BabyBabelLM: A Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data!

LLMs learn from vastly more data than humans ever experience. BabyLM challenges this paradigm by focusing on developmentally plausible data

We extend this effort to 45 new languages!

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Francesca Padovani @frap98.bsky.social · 1d

𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞? 🇨🇳🇮🇩🇸🇪

Here’s the proof! 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐋𝐌 is the first Multilingual Benchmark of Developmentally Plausible Training Data available for 45 languages to the NLP community 🎉

arxiv.org/abs/2510.10159

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Antoine Bosselut @abosselut.bsky.social · 1d

EPFL AI Center Postdocs: www.epfl.ch/research/fun...

NLP Lab Postdoc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships

The 2nd call is now open with a deadline for submissions of 3 November (17.00 CET)!Applications are encouraged from researchers at the postdoctoral level with a keen interest in collaborative, interdi...

www.epfl.ch

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 1d

Image from an 18th-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise iconometric guidelines for depicting the #Buddha and Bodhisattva figures. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-tibetan-book-of-proportions

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JCLS @jcls-io.bsky.social · 1d

We're looking for further use cases of #Janeway in conjunction with #LaTeX-based workflows (e.g. #Overleaf).

Are you working with #OJS or LaTeX-based workflows in #DOA and would like to share your experience with us?

@evomri.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy #JCLS

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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 3d

Free workshop (two afternoons) on ‘Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research’, 6-7 November www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Getting started with open LLMs for humanities research

www.sas.ac.uk

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adho-org.bsky.social @adho-org.bsky.social · 3d

#DH2026 CFP is now live! Submit your work on fostering meaningful connection between communities, cultures and emerging technologies.

🔗 Visit to learn more and submit your entry: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/

🗓️ Deadline: Dec 8, 2025
#DigitalHumanities #DH2026 #Engagement

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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 2d

As of 2025 academic "ai discovery" is essentially RAG over localised central indexes. The question is whether the existing central index eg Exlibris CDI, EDS will secure agreement from content providers to allow RAG over. Already Elsevier + others have opted out of Summon/Primo RA (2)

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Róbert Péter @robertpeter.bsky.social · 5d

🚀AVOBMAT beta is out: a user-friendly platform for scalable, #multilingual #textmining and #metadata analysis for teaching and research—hosted by the #GWDG infrastructure. Unlock new possibilities! Start here 👉 avobmat.hu
#DigitalHumanities #Libraries #NLP #ResearchTools #DARIAH #ADHO

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Nicholas E. Miller, Ph.D. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to share that *Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop* is now available for pre-order from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social! This collection brings together an international group of scholars explores how K-pop reimagines narrative across media. www.bloomsbury.com/us/critical-...

Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop

In Critical Approaches to Transmedia Storytelling in K-Pop, contributors present a variety of compelling case studies to argue that K-pop has evolved beyond a m…

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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 8d

🎉The wait is over!
CFP submissions for #DH2026 are NOW OPEN!
⏰ Deadline: December 8, 2025 (23:59 KST)
🌏 Join us in Daejeon, South Korea
📝 Submit now: www.conftool.pro/dh2026/
We look forward to your innovative contributions to digital humanities!
🔄Please share widely!
#ADHO

DH2026 Daejeon - ConfTool Pro - Login

Log in to your account to access your submitted contributions and view the results of the reviewing process, and - upon registration for participation - view your registration and payment details. …

www.conftool.pro

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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 12d

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

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The Korea Herald 코리아헤럴드 @thekoreaherald.bsky.social · 6d

The 18th Korea Drama Festival to feature Korea Drama Awards, drama sets and fan experiences along Jinju’s Nam River

www.koreaherald.com/article/1059...

Korea Drama Festival returns to celebrate K-drama’s evolution

The 2025 Korea Drama Festival, Korea’s first dedicated K-drama festival, returns for a ten-day run this October in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province. Running fro

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 6d

“These rankings, built on selected quantitative indicators amalgamated into a single score, are not designed to evaluate research nor reflect the breadth and depth of the missions of research and higher education institutions.”

Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking

France’s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another...

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DH2026 | X/Twitter (@DH2026_Daejeon) @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social · 16d

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026
📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷
📅 July 27-31, 2026
🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025
Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support
More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/
#DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

dh2026.adho.org

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."

-- Nick Clegg

#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech

The Verge headline: "Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would 'kill' the AI industry."

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Masha Zhdanova @mashazart.bsky.social · 6d

I asked everyone at the @crunchyroll.com booth what manga this is from and NO ONE KNEW. INTERNET. WHAT MANGA IS THIS GIRL FROM

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 7d

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
therecord.media/chat-control...

Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Ai2 @ai2.bsky.social · 7d

📊 Today we're releasing data showing which scientific papers our AI research tool Asta cites most frequently. Think of it as creating citation counts for the AI era—tracking which research is actually powering AI answers across thousands of queries. 🧵

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Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 8d

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 10d

I gave a talk today at The Curve on the state of open models.
Here are the slides, recording soon.

Topics include: Chinese ecosystem, reflections on DeepSeek, the demise of Llama, who will fill the U.S. market, what local models do, ATOM project & ai2, and more topics
buff.ly/8BiC67C

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Signal @signal.org · 12d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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doctor eek [free link arc] (alt decorative gourd season) @absolutely-not.bsky.social · 13d

i looked at the methodology for this and it is
a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and
b. p-hacked

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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