Paul Vierthaler
@vierth.bsky.social
Chinese Lit, DH, Machine Learning, Dad of twins
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
Assistant Prof of late imperial Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science at Princeton University
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Ooh. Ollama just released Anthropic API impersonation, meaning you can set the endpoint to a local port and be off to the races! docs.ollama.com/integrations...
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January 18, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Ooh. Ollama just released Anthropic API impersonation, meaning you can set the endpoint to a local port and be off to the races! docs.ollama.com/integrations...
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Princeton is hiring a one-year lecturer position in Asian Religions. Please spread the word:
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January 16, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Princeton is hiring a one-year lecturer position in Asian Religions. Please spread the word:
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The girls are in bed and I’ve got a full tank of fuel and a load of vaccines to haul from Kouvola to Cagliari.
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The girls are in bed and I’ve got a full tank of fuel and a load of vaccines to haul from Kouvola to Cagliari.
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The January issue of the Journal of Chinese History is now online, with 12 articles & 25 book reviews covering most periods of Chinese history.
We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Latest issue | Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 | Cambridge Core
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊
www.cambridge.org
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 PM
The January issue of the Journal of Chinese History is now online, with 12 articles & 25 book reviews covering most periods of Chinese history.
We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We'd like to remind all that we welcome proposals for special issues. Special issues appear annually in our July issue /1
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
We are all susceptible to disinformation and yet again JD shows why we should all aspire to be more like him
no, absolutely be this person, we live in a disinfo environment and everybody should be able to take correction cheerfully -- anybody who can't is suspect tbf. conflicting reports? I'm seeing that they actually agreed to let in more NATO troops?
Okay, I hate to be this person, but according to the Danish press conference it went longer than expected and they’ve agreed to allow in a surge of more NATO troops?
January 14, 2026 at 7:28 PM
We are all susceptible to disinformation and yet again JD shows why we should all aspire to be more like him
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Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
January 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Frost: People should know that them cutting your healthcare, them cutting nutritional assistance, SNAP benefits, all this stuff—they're cutting that from working people so they can give ICE money to go terrorize our communities.
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I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
January 13, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I've been commissioned to write a piece about games based on real places that changed peoples' perception of that place or had some kind of local impact - are you a dev who made a game like this? Or are you a player who has a story about a game that inspired you to visit somewhere? Let me know!
Walt Kelly
suits me just fine! and George Herriman, and Charles Schulz
Let's take the opportunity of Scott Adams' passing to praise again Bill Watterson.
January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Walt Kelly
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We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
Research Assistant/Research Associate (Fixed Term)
Applications are invited for a full time post doctoral researcher to work on an international collaboration to develop AI-based solutions for research on archival materials as part of the Humanities
www.cam.ac.uk
January 13, 2026 at 10:14 AM
We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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I think one thing we should all be doing in 2026 is finding in-person community, away from digital mediation, because whether you are interacting with manipulative accounts yourself or not, real people are. There is an overwhelming temptation to believe disinformation that you want to be true.
i'm operating under the assumption it's some combination of real people absolutely losing their fucking minds after a year of constant Trump 2.0 psychohazards coupled with some degree of artificial manipulation
either way it's real unpleasant
either way it's real unpleasant
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 AM
I think one thing we should all be doing in 2026 is finding in-person community, away from digital mediation, because whether you are interacting with manipulative accounts yourself or not, real people are. There is an overwhelming temptation to believe disinformation that you want to be true.
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I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...
Introducing beginners to the mechanics of machine learning – Miriam Posner
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January 12, 2026 at 10:04 PM
I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...
My article on machine-aided detection of sources in Jinpingmei was posted last week! Published in a special 2024 issue on China in the Journal of Digital History, it is based on the talk I gave at the 2022 DH China summer school in Aix-en-Provence: journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/5...
Journal of Digital History
The Journal of Digital History (JDH) is an international, academic, peer-reviewed and open-access journal. JDH will set new standards in history publishing based on the principle of multi-layered articles.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
My article on machine-aided detection of sources in Jinpingmei was posted last week! Published in a special 2024 issue on China in the Journal of Digital History, it is based on the talk I gave at the 2022 DH China summer school in Aix-en-Provence: journalofdigitalhistory.org/en/article/5...
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Join ACH leadership! We're looking for 3 new Executive Council members to serve a 4-year term (2026-2030), 1 new member to serve for 2 years on the Executive Council (2026-2028), and a (co)Vice President(s)/President(s) Elect. Nominations due by 2/13/2026. buff.ly/fEp0SVf
ACH Nominations 2026
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January 12, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Join ACH leadership! We're looking for 3 new Executive Council members to serve a 4-year term (2026-2030), 1 new member to serve for 2 years on the Executive Council (2026-2028), and a (co)Vice President(s)/President(s) Elect. Nominations due by 2/13/2026. buff.ly/fEp0SVf
The Arkansas river. According to all the old timers it is correctly pronounced arKANSAS while within the borders of Kansas and arkanSAW when outside the state.
Though calling it a river is generous. It VERY rarely had water in it when I was growing up.
Though calling it a river is generous. It VERY rarely had water in it when I was growing up.
My favorite Twitter prompt was "RT this with your home river," so reskeet this with your home river.
Mine is the Patuxent.
Mine is the Patuxent.
January 12, 2026 at 10:15 PM
The Arkansas river. According to all the old timers it is correctly pronounced arKANSAS while within the borders of Kansas and arkanSAW when outside the state.
Though calling it a river is generous. It VERY rarely had water in it when I was growing up.
Though calling it a river is generous. It VERY rarely had water in it when I was growing up.
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Hey #AHA26! If you are wondering who to hire to do maps for your article or book, visit Gabriel Moss in the exhibit hall! He’s a historian who also freelances map making! He helped with the map for my first article—super professional and great at what he does. 🙂
January 10, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Hey #AHA26! If you are wondering who to hire to do maps for your article or book, visit Gabriel Moss in the exhibit hall! He’s a historian who also freelances map making! He helped with the map for my first article—super professional and great at what he does. 🙂
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Friends Minneapolis is under attack. My sweet nephews can’t go outside safely, schools on lockdown, ICE going door to door & arresting folks at Target w/no warrant. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov need to be on air talking& withholding votes. @housedemocrats.bsky.social ACT! Impeach Noem!
January 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Friends Minneapolis is under attack. My sweet nephews can’t go outside safely, schools on lockdown, ICE going door to door & arresting folks at Target w/no warrant. @klobuchar.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov need to be on air talking& withholding votes. @housedemocrats.bsky.social ACT! Impeach Noem!
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Honestly this works for everything
“I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅
“Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌
“I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅
“Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
January 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Honestly this works for everything
“I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅
“Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌
“I want to trap hungry 19c ghosts in jars to help us with historical research” ✅
“Please read our holiday card; we got a hungry ghost to write it this year” ❌
Earlier tonight my own four year old handed me a stuffed Elmo to take with me on a business trip “so you don’t get scared,” and I nearly broke down and wept. That poor, poor child lost their whole world
She had stuffed animals in her glove box.
January 7, 2026 at 11:53 PM
Earlier tonight my own four year old handed me a stuffed Elmo to take with me on a business trip “so you don’t get scared,” and I nearly broke down and wept. That poor, poor child lost their whole world
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
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losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
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This is why being anti-trans is such a recruitment pipeline for the hard right, imo: if you can challenge your place on the gender hierarchy or in binary categorization, maybe all hierarchy and categorization is fake and malleable and needs to be defended and enforced at all levels.
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
January 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is why being anti-trans is such a recruitment pipeline for the hard right, imo: if you can challenge your place on the gender hierarchy or in binary categorization, maybe all hierarchy and categorization is fake and malleable and needs to be defended and enforced at all levels.
The book nook in situ!
January 6, 2026 at 3:31 AM
The book nook in situ!
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If you're headed to #MLA26 in Toronto, come check out these two DYNAMITE panels I'm a part of...
On Saturday at 12:00, we've got PUBLIC CANONS, featuring @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, Tess McNulty, and Autumn Womack!
On Saturday at 12:00, we've got PUBLIC CANONS, featuring @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, Tess McNulty, and Autumn Womack!
January 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
If you're headed to #MLA26 in Toronto, come check out these two DYNAMITE panels I'm a part of...
On Saturday at 12:00, we've got PUBLIC CANONS, featuring @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, Tess McNulty, and Autumn Womack!
On Saturday at 12:00, we've got PUBLIC CANONS, featuring @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, Tess McNulty, and Autumn Womack!