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Andreas Wagner

@anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy

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I am #DigitalHumanities Coordinator at Max Planck Institute for #LegalHistory and #LegalTheory (#mpilhlt) #Frankfurt

Also collaborator of […]

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Andreas Wagner is an Austrian/US evolutionary biologist and professor at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. He is known for his work on the role of robustness and innovation in biological evolution. Wagner is professor and chairman at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies at the University of Zürich. .. more

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 1d

This is really fun - @beetle_b ran a variant of my pelican riding a bicycle SVG test using POV-Ray instead and got terrible ray-traced pelicans out of a bunch of different models: https://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2025/Oct/pelican-on-a-bike-raytracer-edition/ and […]

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Christian Schwägerl @christianschwaegerl.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Endspurt beim #crowdfunding für @riffreporter – dem genossenschaftlichen Medium freier Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu #klima, Biodiversität, Gesellschaft, Weltgeschehen, Technologie und mehr.
Journalismus von Mensch zu Mensch braucht Unterstützer*innen.
Noch 11 Tage, um von 31.451€ auf die […]

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”

That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”

@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Looking for recommendations: What's a good entry-level paper/article/chapter on social media algorithms?

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Till Grallert @tillgrallert.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This week I have been digging around in the #internetarchive looking for digitised Arabic periodicals. With a bit of #rstats and far too many hours with #xslt and #tei/XML spent on identifying titles based on the very patchy metadata provided by uploaders, there are quite some exciting finds […]

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404 Media @404media.co · 4d

Librarians told 404 Media they're being inundated with new pitches for AI library tech and catalogs are being flooded with AI slop books.

But more broadly, AI maximalism across society is supercharging the ideological war on libraries, schools, government workers, and academics.

AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge

"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."

www.404media.co

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 4d

As someone who uses AI heavily, I don't lose sleep worrying about student usage. But I do lose sleep worrying that proprietary tools will outpace open ones and I'll be dependent on them. Or that I won't be able to keep up with the meta-cognitive burden of figuring out how to use all this! +

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 4d

I'm pretty sure more than half of my colleagues use AI. My Provost uses it.

I feel our discourse focuses on coursework, not b/c it's the main way AI will affect higher ed, but because that's where friction between AI adopters and resisters is most visible (plus, easy to complain about students).

Andreas Wagner @anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@tillgrallert maybe @internetarchiveeurope or @internetarchive can/want to say something about deduplication?

Andreas Wagner @anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I'm at the AI and Law conference in Tübingen and have just heard a MARVELOUS keynote lecture by Sylvie Delacroix on preserving productive uncertainty in designing AI systems. It reminded me of (among other things) an idea brough up by @andreaskuczera at #Dhd2025 : How about allowing (or […]

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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 6d

Yay!! Just woke up to the news. Congrats, NYC !! What a day! ❤️🫶🏼

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 6d

What I liked about that speech was a) It was hopeful and forward-looking but also b) frankly angry about billionaires & corruption. Obama gave us (a) but this is a time in our history when you can't be honest without (b).

Also c) seeing Mira Nair and aloof wife on stage at the end.

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 6d

Wrote a short piece arguing that higher ed must help steer AI. TLDR: If we outsource this to tech, we outsource our whole business. But rejectionism is basically stalling. If we want to survive, schools themselves must proactively shape AI for education & research. [1/6, unpaywalled at 5/6] +

Opinion | AI Is the Future. Higher Ed Should Shape It.

If we want to stay at the forefront of knowledge production, we must fit technology to our needs.

www.chronicle.com

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

LibreOffice Base is a usability nightmare, Access and FileMaker are proprietary. I know of Heurist, but its UX is not exactly modern. NodeGoat is kind of nice, but there’s no generic instance to get started with. I recently encountered NocoDB, but I still have to make up my mind on that one […]

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GVogeler @gvogeler.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]

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Ecologia Digital @josemurilo.mato.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

#tainacan: With nearly 2,000 active installations and over 50,000 downloads, the project has moved beyond "Beta." Having been tested by thousands, Tainacan version 1.0.0 is now launched, marking the completion of the initial roadmap. The primary goal of providing a #freesoftware solution for […]

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Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 10d

Somehow feel compelled to add a picture of Kim Novak in front of San Francisco's iconic Golden Gate Bridge

Kim Novak at Fort Point in the Presidio, from Vertigo (1958)

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Grace @gracekind.net · 10d

Two answers:
- Anthropomorphization makes sense when dealing with written human-like characters, which is what LLMs generate
- We aren’t very deep into interpretability yet

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Frederik Elwert @felwert.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

This week was packed with #metaphor related events. Three days of the #metaphorsofreligion conference of @sfb1475, then two very promising meetings with other metaphor projects – #crc1646 and #metanet – about future collaboration, and finally the initial publication of our dataset of metaphor […]

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Kalle Kniivilä @kallekn.mastodonsweden.se.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Nicely put @scalzi

Musk wants to castigate Wikipedia because he is launching a competing product and because, as Stephen Colbert once memorably put it, “facts have a liberal bias,” meaning that they often don’t fit into the (current) conservative viewpoint. Also, Musk is an asshole, which is […]

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Simon Willison @simon.fedi.simonwillison.net.ap.brid.gy · 12d

MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Friends, I'm about to provide info about another legal proceeding regarding the Trump regime's force in Chicago, but first, an ask. If you get something out of what I write about law and litigation here, would you consider a $5 donation to the Mastodon for Hunger Relief fundraiser? I don't […]

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 12d

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

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

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@frueheneuzeit @stefan-hessbrueggen.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Just checked my Google Drive account, and, yes, Gemini is sneakily activated in the settings, although I never agreed to that. #psa

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Christian Ströbele @cstroebele.bsky.social · 15d

For anyone working in #DigitalHumanities, #spaCy is a powerful good old Python #NLP library for processing text: It can identify word types, base forms (lemmas), sentence structure (dependency parsing), recognize named entities (NER), etc.
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Spacy Analyzer - a Hugging Face Space by cstr

This application analyzes text to provide detailed morphological and syntactic information, including dependency parsing and named entity recognition, in multiple languages like German, English, Sp...

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17d

In August, the #Trump admin sent #ucla a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during its deliberations and negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the […]

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

enjoyed the louvre #heist? enjoy some more art crime here: we built a knowledge graph embedding model of antiquities crime […]

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Iván Sánchez Ortega @ivansanchez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17d

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […]

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A screenshot of a github discussion titled "can't disable copilot code reviews"

A screenshot of a github discussion titled "Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories"

Andreas Wagner @anwagnerdreas.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

@cmboulanger and I are excited to publish the final program of the Workshop "Reference Extraction at the Intersection of AI Research and the Digital Humanities: Validation, Interoperability and Collaboration", to be held at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (mpilhlt) in […]

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Harald Klinke @hxxxkxxx.det.social.ap.brid.gy · 18d

CFP: The Department of Language and Information Sciences at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) is hiring a Junior Lecturer (Postdoc, 80%) in Computational Humanities for up to 5 years, starting February 1, 2026.
The position combines research (50%) and teaching (50%) in programs on […]

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