Andres Karjus
@andreskarjus.bsky.social
Evolutionary linguist, cultural analyst, lecturer in DH&AI @ Tallinn Uni, researcher @ EBS, associate professor of comp soc sci @ Uni Tartu
andreskarjus.github.io (academic)
datafigure.eu (DH&AI workshops&consulting)
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Andres Karjus
@andreskarjus.bsky.social
· Sep 16
Out now in @springernature.com Journal of Cultural Economics:
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Humanities can greatly benefit from ML/AI (esp with the wealth of data digitized now), and could & should be at the center of the AI revolution to help design smarter, less biased, more human and humanistic models.
Unfortunately, in many places this sort of dogmatic romantic primitivism prevails.
Unfortunately, in many places this sort of dogmatic romantic primitivism prevails.
What a disappointment. There is no place for AI in historical research, it'll just poison everything.
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
September 18, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Humanities can greatly benefit from ML/AI (esp with the wealth of data digitized now), and could & should be at the center of the AI revolution to help design smarter, less biased, more human and humanistic models.
Unfortunately, in many places this sort of dogmatic romantic primitivism prevails.
Unfortunately, in many places this sort of dogmatic romantic primitivism prevails.
Reposted by Andres Karjus
Out now in @springernature.com Journal of Cultural Economics:
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Out now in @springernature.com Journal of Cultural Economics:
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Out now in @springernature.com Journal of Cultural Economics:
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Out now in @springernature.com Journal of Cultural Economics:
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
"Socioeconomic factors of national representation in the global film festival circuit:
skewed toward the large and wealthy,
but small countries can beat the odds"
🔓 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I love the smell of billion-dollar publisher typesetting fcking up our formulas in the morning
September 9, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I love the smell of billion-dollar publisher typesetting fcking up our formulas in the morning
3 little updates. Started as assoc prof of computational social science at Uni Tartu (part time) in the ERC funded RiDe project. We use large historical media corpora &LLMs to explore dynamics of industrialization &spread of related ideas/sentiments, among other things.
September 4, 2025 at 11:29 AM
3 little updates. Started as assoc prof of computational social science at Uni Tartu (part time) in the ERC funded RiDe project. We use large historical media corpora &LLMs to explore dynamics of industrialization &spread of related ideas/sentiments, among other things.
We wrote a little overview chapter on Evolutionary Linguistics with Jonas Nölle and @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed), edited by Nesi&Milin. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (with extra references! the handbook had a limit on those)
September 1, 2025 at 11:38 AM
We wrote a little overview chapter on Evolutionary Linguistics with Jonas Nölle and @stefanhartmann.bsky.social for the upcoming Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (3rd ed), edited by Nesi&Milin. Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... (with extra references! the handbook had a limit on those)
Got invited to the presidential rose garden celebration of the Estonian Restoration of Independence day; always nice when the work one does gets recognized in these ways too.
August 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Got invited to the presidential rose garden celebration of the Estonian Restoration of Independence day; always nice when the work one does gets recognized in these ways too.
Reposted by Andres Karjus
If you're also at the #ic2s2 and interested in how #genAI affects creative fields, come see
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you're also at the #ic2s2 and interested in how #genAI affects creative fields, come see
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
If you're also at the #ic2s2 and interested in how #genAI affects creative fields, come see
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If you're also at the #ic2s2 and interested in how #genAI affects creative fields, come see
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
"Expertise Elevates AI Usage: Experimentally Comparing Laypeople to Professional Artists"
Wednesday 11AM Human-AI session, room Vingen-1.
Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2501.12374
#AI #art @ic2s2.bsky.social
Finished teaching another practical generative AI course in the Tallinn Summer/Winter School series at Tallinn University. Like last time, lectures and teamwork time. Again an international mix of industry people and students. On day 1, most said they just want to learn a bit about AI...
July 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Finished teaching another practical generative AI course in the Tallinn Summer/Winter School series at Tallinn University. Like last time, lectures and teamwork time. Again an international mix of industry people and students. On day 1, most said they just want to learn a bit about AI...
Arrived at a linguistics conference (been a while, have done other stuff in the meantime), and the first plenary is... reading their entire talk off a paper, reciting their latest publication I guess. Feels weirdly nostalgic but also holy shit ppl still do that
June 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Arrived at a linguistics conference (been a while, have done other stuff in the meantime), and the first plenary is... reading their entire talk off a paper, reciting their latest publication I guess. Feels weirdly nostalgic but also holy shit ppl still do that
Last change to apply for our postdoc in the deep transitions psotdoc! Come do big data analytics, work with large media corpora and enjoy a pretty good salary to living cost ratio in Unesco's City of Literature!
The PhD position deadlines have now passed, but these research fellow calls are still open:
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
June 14, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Last change to apply for our postdoc in the deep transitions psotdoc! Come do big data analytics, work with large media corpora and enjoy a pretty good salary to living cost ratio in Unesco's City of Literature!
Reposted by Andres Karjus
The PhD position deadlines have now passed, but these research fellow calls are still open:
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
May 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The PhD position deadlines have now passed, but these research fellow calls are still open:
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Many professors &course guidelines now say using AI like ChatGPT is fine when writing etc (usually some caveats like report how used or whatever)
So using technological assistants/agents is ok...
Does that imply *human* assistants are also ok? Report you hired a guy to do/help w homework?
So using technological assistants/agents is ok...
Does that imply *human* assistants are also ok? Report you hired a guy to do/help w homework?
May 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Many professors &course guidelines now say using AI like ChatGPT is fine when writing etc (usually some caveats like report how used or whatever)
So using technological assistants/agents is ok...
Does that imply *human* assistants are also ok? Report you hired a guy to do/help w homework?
So using technological assistants/agents is ok...
Does that imply *human* assistants are also ok? Report you hired a guy to do/help w homework?
The PhD position deadlines have now passed, but these research fellow calls are still open:
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
May 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
The PhD position deadlines have now passed, but these research fellow calls are still open:
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Comp social science, big data, time series - come work with me! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755 (16.06)
DH, corpora - work with our wonderful colleagues in the humaities: ut.ee/en/job-offer... (02.06)
Why (and who the hell) still teaches ppl that for content analysis style coding/annotation, one should convert values of categorical variables in the coding scheme into some weird numeric codes? Completely unnecessary, and at worse leads to using incorrect stats like correlation. But keep seeing it.
May 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Why (and who the hell) still teaches ppl that for content analysis style coding/annotation, one should convert values of categorical variables in the coding scheme into some weird numeric codes? Completely unnecessary, and at worse leads to using incorrect stats like correlation. But keep seeing it.
Doing the international Tallinn {Winter, Summer} School course "Generative AI for Writing, Research, Analytics and Prototyping" again this July. Some slots still open, come join if into AI + "u can just do things" mentality. Many other good courses this year too!
summerschool.tlu.ee/generative-a...
summerschool.tlu.ee/generative-a...
May 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Doing the international Tallinn {Winter, Summer} School course "Generative AI for Writing, Research, Analytics and Prototyping" again this July. Some slots still open, come join if into AI + "u can just do things" mentality. Many other good courses this year too!
summerschool.tlu.ee/generative-a...
summerschool.tlu.ee/generative-a...
Final group project in my "AI, writing & automation" MA course was to generate a "BA thesis", paired student team acted as opponents.
Results, using uni grading scheme: mostly B, some A. Average reported time spent: ~3 days (starting from scratch, incl generating data). References are no longer
Results, using uni grading scheme: mostly B, some A. Average reported time spent: ~3 days (starting from scratch, incl generating data). References are no longer
May 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Final group project in my "AI, writing & automation" MA course was to generate a "BA thesis", paired student team acted as opponents.
Results, using uni grading scheme: mostly B, some A. Average reported time spent: ~3 days (starting from scratch, incl generating data). References are no longer
Results, using uni grading scheme: mostly B, some A. Average reported time spent: ~3 days (starting from scratch, incl generating data). References are no longer
We realized the Euraxess job link for the postdoc call was vague about salary: it's €2.5-3k/month, depending on experience; PhD/junior fellow salaries are ~2k.
For reference, Estonian median salary is ~1.6k. Avg Tartu city centre (near uni) single flat rent is ~380 (cheaper if suburbs or shared ofc)
For reference, Estonian median salary is ~1.6k. Avg Tartu city centre (near uni) single flat rent is ~380 (cheaper if suburbs or shared ofc)
Come do a PhD or postdoc with us! Generously ERC funded salaries, at the intersection of computational social science/humanities/DH, corpus linguistics, ML/AI, sustainability studies. Deadline 15th May (if interested but that's too short, or in the process of graduating, talk to me)
Topics&links👇
Topics&links👇
May 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We realized the Euraxess job link for the postdoc call was vague about salary: it's €2.5-3k/month, depending on experience; PhD/junior fellow salaries are ~2k.
For reference, Estonian median salary is ~1.6k. Avg Tartu city centre (near uni) single flat rent is ~380 (cheaper if suburbs or shared ofc)
For reference, Estonian median salary is ~1.6k. Avg Tartu city centre (near uni) single flat rent is ~380 (cheaper if suburbs or shared ofc)
Recently advertised ERC funded phd&postdoc positions in #Estonia. But times like these, ppl who might consider them may think: hey but what about #Russia.
What if invasion.
Is Russia not a threat to living here?
I get it. And the answer is: yes it is. But.
So are hurricanes to Florida.
> short 🧵
What if invasion.
Is Russia not a threat to living here?
I get it. And the answer is: yes it is. But.
So are hurricanes to Florida.
> short 🧵
May 8, 2025 at 6:08 PM
While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
May 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
Come do a PhD or postdoc with us! Generously ERC funded salaries, at the intersection of computational social science/humanities/DH, corpus linguistics, ML/AI, sustainability studies. Deadline 15th May (if interested but that's too short, or in the process of graduating, talk to me)
Topics&links👇
Topics&links👇
April 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Come do a PhD or postdoc with us! Generously ERC funded salaries, at the intersection of computational social science/humanities/DH, corpus linguistics, ML/AI, sustainability studies. Deadline 15th May (if interested but that's too short, or in the process of graduating, talk to me)
Topics&links👇
Topics&links👇
Interesting insights by the Claude team into educational usage of their chatbot:
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
Unfortunately seems like rather non-transparent science, no open data so no way to reproduce or even replicate their findings.
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
Unfortunately seems like rather non-transparent science, no open data so no way to reproduce or even replicate their findings.
Anthropic Education Report: How University Students Use Claude
AI systems are no longer just specialized research tools: they’re everyday academic companions. As AIs integrate more deeply into educational environments, we need to consider important questions abou...
www.anthropic.com
April 9, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Interesting insights by the Claude team into educational usage of their chatbot:
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
Unfortunately seems like rather non-transparent science, no open data so no way to reproduce or even replicate their findings.
www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
Unfortunately seems like rather non-transparent science, no open data so no way to reproduce or even replicate their findings.
Attending the Research Day of Uni Antwerp Arts Faculty, gave an invited talk on LLM-powered annotation, quantitizing research designs & also how this way of thinkings links w intersector collab; paper this is based on is out at @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence
www.nature.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Attending the Research Day of Uni Antwerp Arts Faculty, gave an invited talk on LLM-powered annotation, quantitizing research designs & also how this way of thinkings links w intersector collab; paper this is based on is out at @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Andres Karjus
I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
PhD opportunity - ERC ThoughtOrigins
We are seeking a graduate student in comparative cognition to work on a ERC-funded project (to Isabelle Dautriche) to investigate the format of thought in the absence of a language in two populations:...
docs.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I am looking for a PhD student to work on my ERC-funded project to investigate the format of thought in the absence of language in baboons and bees.
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...
Details here: tinyurl.com/5ff9hcjj
Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...