Javier Cha
@javiercha.bsky.social
Canadian in Hong Kong.
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
Work: digital historian @ HKU.
Research: medieval Korea, Neo-Confucianism, historical networks, data centres, infrastructure studies, and historical applications of AI.
Team: Big Data Studies Lab https://bigdatastudies.net/
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Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once | Discussion
engineering.cmu.edu
December 27, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once | Discussion
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Also check out Michelle Wang's "Global Medieval Studies is a Failure," which is absolute 🔥 and also argues that comparative studies might be a better path forward than "global" ones.
doi.org/10.1086/738440
doi.org/10.1086/738440
Global Medieval Studies Is a Failure | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Also check out Michelle Wang's "Global Medieval Studies is a Failure," which is absolute 🔥 and also argues that comparative studies might be a better path forward than "global" ones.
doi.org/10.1086/738440
doi.org/10.1086/738440
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✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements.
dracor.org
Release notes:
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#DigitalHumanities
dracor.org
Release notes:
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github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
December 22, 2025 at 1:16 PM
✨ After a very active year with many new #DraCor corpora & an intense #DraCorSummit we’re wrapping things up just in time for the holidays with a refreshed interface and other improvements.
dracor.org
Release notes:
github.com/dracor-org/d...
github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
dracor.org
Release notes:
github.com/dracor-org/d...
github.com/dracor-org/d...
#DigitalHumanities
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Interdisciplinary research ftw…!
Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Interdisciplinary research ftw…!
Already finished mine. 🙏🏻
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December 22, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Already finished mine. 🙏🏻
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#ai tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #openaccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have […]
Original post on fediscience.org
fediscience.org
July 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
#ai tools seem to be generating a large swath of low-quality, formulaic biomedical articles drawn from #openaccess biomedical databases. For example, since the rise of #LLMs about three years ago, the number of new biomedical articles is about 5k larger than previous moving average would have […]
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Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)
December 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Holiday Lights 2.0 (1995)
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
Would it be too controversial if conferences start charging a nominal fee like $5 or $10 USD to prevent the submission of random and generic abstracts "written" using generative AI? I waste so much time these days reviewing absolute junk.
December 21, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Would it be too controversial if conferences start charging a nominal fee like $5 or $10 USD to prevent the submission of random and generic abstracts "written" using generative AI? I waste so much time these days reviewing absolute junk.
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📢 #DH2026 Submissions Now Closed!
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
DH2026 Submissions Now Closed: Thank You for 813 Proposals! – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
Dear DH Community,We are pleased to announce that the submission period for DH2026 has now closed. Following the extended deadline of December 15, 2024 (23:59 KST), we received a total of 813…
dh2026.adho.org
December 17, 2025 at 2:01 AM
📢 #DH2026 Submissions Now Closed!
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
We received 813 proposals from the global DH community. Thank you for your overwhelming enthusiasm and support!
The review process will begin soon. Stay tuned for updates.
See you in Daejeon, Korea 🇰🇷
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/dh2026-submi...
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This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT
December 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
This guy’s not on bsky but the experiments are really interesting, and fit my sense that LLMs will reliably give good answers about things that only highly specialized nerds have ever written anything about, and do better the larger that community of nerds is and the more unique their jargon is. BUT
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This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).
JUST ANNOUNCED: Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11M to 23 teams globally for our Humanities and AI Virtual Institute (HAVI).
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
These projects bring AI to history, archaeology, literature, and film, unlocking new understandings of human culture.
Learn more: buff.ly/tvTUYwY
December 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This project, "Playing Heaven: Remapping Early Modern Neo-Confucian Worlds with AI," is led by the wonderful @javiercha.bsky.social at the University of Hong Kong, with co-PIs Yumeng Hou & Miguel Escobar Varela (National Uni of Singapore), & Michael Chung (Hong Kong Uni of Science and Technology).
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Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...
Schmidt Sciences awards $11M in grants to bring AI to humanities research - Schmidt Sciences
Contact: Carlie Wiener; cwiener@schmidtsciences.org NEW YORK—Schmidt Sciences has awarded $11 million for up to 23 teams of researchers around the world to develop and apply artificial intelligence to...
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...
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Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Humanities and AI Virtual Institute - Schmidt Sciences
www.schmidtsciences.org
December 11, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Delighted to share that my co-PIs @danielwilson.bsky.social @mcollardanuy.bsky.social and Kaspar Beelen have been selected for a 2025 Humanities and AI Virtual Institute award from @schmidtsciences.bsky.social: www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...
Feeling some major FOMO... but I'll meet Miguel soon.
Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Feeling some major FOMO... but I'll meet Miguel soon.
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Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!
December 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!
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The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
December 8, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
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The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
December 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The turnout rate for Sunday's "patriots only" Legislative Council election stands at 31.9 per cent, slightly surpassing the record low of 30.2 per cent in the last poll in 2021.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
In full: buff.ly/SBCMgRb
Graphic: HKFP.
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Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
Finland has emerged as a global leader in countering “fake news”. Here's how they've done it
Teaching when to trust
As fake news accelerates, we need to teach our children how to think critically. Finnish schools are leading the charge
newhumanist.org.uk
December 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Most discussions about “misinformation” treat the problem as if people simply don’t have good enough critical-thinking skills. It sounds intuitive, but it’s not entirely accurate. The problem isn’t just individual ignorance, it’s the structure of the information environment people are placed into.
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📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea
dh2026.adho.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 PM
📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement"
Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences!
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp
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Yes, please.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/06/h...
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HK weighs blanket smoking ban at construction sites after fatal Tai Po fire
In the wake of the fatal Tai Po fire, the HK gov't has said it will seek lawmakers’ consensus on imposing a blanket smoking ban at construction sites after the new legislature is formed next month.
hongkongfp.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Yes, please.
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STATISTICS?!
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
STATISTICS?!
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The blog post in question, I assume: maria-antoniak.github.io/2022/07/27/t...
Maria Antoniak
My academic website / portfolio.
maria-antoniak.github.io
December 6, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The blog post in question, I assume: maria-antoniak.github.io/2022/07/27/t...
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Well we have my blog post but given stubbornness to only consult things in PDF format, I’ve been working on a more formal version. Let me know if anyone is interested in helping! I’m so so tired of hearing that “topic modeling didn’t work for my data” from people who didn’t follow best practices.
It sounds like what we need is a methodological review essay that identifies pitfalls and common unwarranted assumptions.
December 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Well we have my blog post but given stubbornness to only consult things in PDF format, I’ve been working on a more formal version. Let me know if anyone is interested in helping! I’m so so tired of hearing that “topic modeling didn’t work for my data” from people who didn’t follow best practices.
Hear it from one of the OGs himself!
TMs have become the graphing calculator of text analysis. What was once a powerful tool is now useful primarily because of its limitations.
December 7, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Hear it from one of the OGs himself!