Miguel Escobar Varela
@miguelev.bsky.social
Assoc Prof, National University of Singapore | using computational methods to study Southeast Asian cultural heritage | Book: THEATER AS DATA (University of Michigan Press, 2021) | Deputy director, https://app.bsky.cz/profile/cssh-nus.bsky.social
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[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...
Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs
Ghost references existed long before LLMs. This post examines how Google Scholar's [CITATION] mechanism and web pollution may undermine RAG verification.
aarontay.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
[blogged] Why Ghost References Still Haunt Us in 2025—And Why It's Not Just About LLMs aarontay.substack.com/p/why-ghost-...
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Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼
Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Bringing together leading experts from across North America and Europe, _Computational Humanities_ redirects debates around computation and humanities digital scholarship from dualistic arguments to n...
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January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼
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Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Thrilled to announce the Handbook of Computational Social Science is officially out! 956 pages, 118 authors, and truly global, interdisciplinary perspectives. Deep thanks to the contributors and anonymous reviewers who shaped this over 4 years. Buy your copy now!
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
@elgarpublishing.bsky.social
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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...
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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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Proceedings for the Computational Humanities Review conf #chr2025 happening now in Luxembourg (I am not at it and am sad): anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Proceedings for the Computational Humanities Review conf #chr2025 happening now in Luxembourg (I am not at it and am sad): anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
Looking forward meeting with folks at #CHR2025 @comphumresearch.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Looking forward meeting with folks at #CHR2025 @comphumresearch.bsky.social
Learning more about the impressive newspaper research projects by @impresso.bsky.social #chr2025
December 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Learning more about the impressive newspaper research projects by @impresso.bsky.social #chr2025
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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
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
October 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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
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
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Available volume 19.2 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, dedicated to AI and Digital Humanities. Guest editors @miguelev.bsky.social and @javiercha.bsky.social. Amazing work from them and from all the authors. With 3 articles in open access😍!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - ijhac: Vol 19, No 2
www.euppublishing.com
October 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Available volume 19.2 of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, dedicated to AI and Digital Humanities. Guest editors @miguelev.bsky.social and @javiercha.bsky.social. Amazing work from them and from all the authors. With 3 articles in open access😍!
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2
www.euppublishing.com/toc/ijhac/19/2
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Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/
See you in Luxembourg!
See you in Luxembourg!
September 29, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Registration for #CHR2025 is now open! Visit our website for details on registration fees and how to register: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/venue/
See you in Luxembourg!
See you in Luxembourg!
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From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor
September 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
From Ancient Greek to 20 century Yiddish, and from Spain to Georgia: the #DraCor Corpora Conference at #DraCorSummit 2025 is starting right now! 18 @dracor.org corpora presentations to go! The first one is by @juliajbeine.bsky.social about the #NeoLatDraCor
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New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating Generative AI as a Cultural Technology
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August 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
New preprint on "Computational Hermeneutics," co-authored by too many people to list in one post. TL;DR: GenAI is a cultural technology, and needs to be evaluated in ways that recognize situatedness, plurality, and ambiguity as the conditions of meaning — not noise to be minimized.
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What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
July 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
What are your favorite recent papers on using LMs for annotation (especially in a loop with human annotators), synthetic data for task-specific prediction, active learning, and similar?
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
Looking for practical methods for settings where human annotations are costly.
A few examples in thread ↴
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We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...
Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).
summit.dracor.org/registration
summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...
Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).
summit.dracor.org/registration
July 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
We're very happy to welcome Clarisse Bardiot (@univrennes2.bsky.social) as our keynote speaker at the #DraCor Summit! Join us on Mon, 1 Sep 2025, 18:00 @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.
summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...
Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).
summit.dracor.org/registration
summit.dracor.org/opening_keyn...
Remember to register for the Summit (it's free).
summit.dracor.org/registration
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Please come and join us at CUHK!
CFP: #HKADH2026 will be hosted by the Chinese University of Hong Kong (23-25 January 2026).
Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 31 August.
2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/
#HKADH
Keynote speakers: Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social and Andrew Piper @andrewpiper.bsky.social.
Submission deadline: 31 August.
2026.hkadh.org/callforpapers/
#HKADH
July 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Please come and join us at CUHK!
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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
#DH2025 #stylometry
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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
#DH2025 #stylometry
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Only four days left to @adho-org.bsky.social #DH2025 and everything is getting ready as you can see here!
July 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Only four days left to @adho-org.bsky.social #DH2025 and everything is getting ready as you can see here!
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Thrilled to share that our Deputy Director @miguelev.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote at this conference!
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...
June 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Thrilled to share that our Deputy Director @miguelev.bsky.social will be delivering a keynote at this conference!
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We are excited to announce our Inaugural Research Symposium July 29–30, 2025! This event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge developments at the intersection of computational methods, social science, and the humanities.
www.cssh-symposium.com
www.cssh-symposium.com
June 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
We are excited to announce our Inaugural Research Symposium July 29–30, 2025! This event will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge developments at the intersection of computational methods, social science, and the humanities.
www.cssh-symposium.com
www.cssh-symposium.com
I am very honoured by this invitation. Looking forward to @comphumresearch.bsky.social 2025!
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...
June 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I am very honoured by this invitation. Looking forward to @comphumresearch.bsky.social 2025!
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Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
Computational Social Scientist for Tenure Track faculty position in AI Media
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Penn State faculty position in computational social science/AI: psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Finally officially out (only took 1.5yrs), in @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms, #open🔓
"Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence"
A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)
"Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence"
A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)
March 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Finally officially out (only took 1.5yrs), in @natureportfolio.nature.com HumSocComms, #open🔓
"Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence"
A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)
"Machine-assisted quantitizing designs: augmenting humanities and social sciences with artificial intelligence"
A proposal to efficiently harness #LLM& #AI assistants in research (longer thread on monday)
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Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
February 24, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Want to learn about computational social science *for free* and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be *26* Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations
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Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
February 24, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Our open review portal is down, but our team is working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible. In light of this, the submission deadline has been extended to Feb 26, 23:59 AoE. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience caused.
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Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
INTRODUCTION
thebullshitmachines.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines?
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com
Jevin West (@jevinwest.bsky.social) and I have spent the last eight months developing the course on large language models (LLMs) that we think every college freshman needs to take.
thebullshitmachines.com