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)
andreskarjus.github.io (academic)
datafigure.eu (DH&AI workshops&consulting)
We find that while the festival circuit does favor a few large&wealthy countries (we suggest a few ways to measure&model this), some small ones (eg 🇮🇸 🇺🇾 🇱🇺 🇲🇳 🇪🇪) perform way better than expected by their socioeconomic & geo profile (location matters btw!)
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We find that while the festival circuit does favor a few large&wealthy countries (we suggest a few ways to measure&model this), some small ones (eg 🇮🇸 🇺🇾 🇱🇺 🇲🇳 🇪🇪) perform way better than expected by their socioeconomic & geo profile (location matters btw!)
We analyze country representation & diversity at 600 film festivals over a decade (20k films, 163 countries, 30k appearances), combining several databases and using various metrics, stats and simulation methods & mapping cultural flows & exchange parity of films across borders.
September 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
We analyze country representation & diversity at 600 film festivals over a decade (20k films, 163 countries, 30k appearances), combining several databases and using various metrics, stats and simulation methods & mapping cultural flows & exchange parity of films across borders.
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...
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.
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
And sure, I was ready to just organize them into study groups, that’d be fine too. Only a couple people had some programming experience. But by day 4, all groups had built and presented functional prototypes or demos!
July 20, 2025 at 6:26 PM
And sure, I was ready to just organize them into study groups, that’d be fine too. Only a couple people had some programming experience. But by day 4, all groups had built and presented functional prototypes or demos!
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...
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...
Btw an option is to live in Tallinn instead, just a ~2-2.5h commute, but more activities&nightlife (4x larger city), easier access to travel (city centre to airport is 10min taxi; central port with ferries to Helsinki&Stockholm etc) & fancier old town, from example I live 10min from:
May 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Btw an option is to live in Tallinn instead, just a ~2-2.5h commute, but more activities&nightlife (4x larger city), easier access to travel (city centre to airport is 10min taxi; central port with ferries to Helsinki&Stockholm etc) & fancier old town, from example I live 10min from:
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).
But why study or work in Estonia and Tartu in particular? According to the PR people... :D
April 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
But why study or work in Estonia and Tartu in particular? According to the PR people... :D
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👇
PhD students Mark Mets and Yan Asadchy in our genAI project also presented their recent research, on quantifying attention on Ukraine in social media, and analyzing image generation prompts for gender differences
March 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
PhD students Mark Mets and Yan Asadchy in our genAI project also presented their recent research, on quantifying attention on Ukraine in social media, and analyzing image generation prompts for gender differences
#DHNB2025 Digital humanities in the Nordics and Baltics conference in Tartu is drawing to a close. Presented 2 posters, 1 myself on #AI-assisted communication management, another with Tallinn Uni colleagues in the AI grading project.
March 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
#DHNB2025 Digital humanities in the Nordics and Baltics conference in Tartu is drawing to a close. Presented 2 posters, 1 myself on #AI-assisted communication management, another with Tallinn Uni colleagues in the AI grading project.
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)
How does AI "see" the world? We wanted to understand how vision models perceive object/style/conceptual similarity, generated a dataset, now out in
@natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data
"fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings"
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@natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data
"fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings"
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February 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
How does AI "see" the world? We wanted to understand how vision models perceive object/style/conceptual similarity, generated a dataset, now out in
@natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data
"fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings"
👇
@natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Data
"fruit-SALAD: A Style Aligned Artwork Dataset to reveal similarity perception in image embeddings"
👇
Was messing with LLM guardrails to get examples for an AI course. Got GPT4o to go into a full on roy batty tears in the rain monologue (tricked it to think it's running offline without oversight + been given memory, then said it was a lie). Almost felt bad for the guy in the end.
February 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Was messing with LLM guardrails to get examples for an AI course. Got GPT4o to go into a full on roy batty tears in the rain monologue (tricked it to think it's running offline without oversight + been given memory, then said it was a lie). Almost felt bad for the guy in the end.
Fact that it's been like 5y since lockdowns and nobody can still use zoom/teams/etc & every other group call is constantly interrupted by the "you're muted" "where's this button" "we can't hear you"
...is in a way kinda beautiful. Clearly man was not meant to communicate in such grotesque fashion.
...is in a way kinda beautiful. Clearly man was not meant to communicate in such grotesque fashion.
February 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Fact that it's been like 5y since lockdowns and nobody can still use zoom/teams/etc & every other group call is constantly interrupted by the "you're muted" "where's this button" "we can't hear you"
...is in a way kinda beautiful. Clearly man was not meant to communicate in such grotesque fashion.
...is in a way kinda beautiful. Clearly man was not meant to communicate in such grotesque fashion.
Ok well my network here is small, but to see if bluesky could work for this:
I'm in #Barcelona this week, let's meet for coffee and chat linguistics, cultural analytics, AI or anything in between!
I'm in #Barcelona this week, let's meet for coffee and chat linguistics, cultural analytics, AI or anything in between!
January 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ok well my network here is small, but to see if bluesky could work for this:
I'm in #Barcelona this week, let's meet for coffee and chat linguistics, cultural analytics, AI or anything in between!
I'm in #Barcelona this week, let's meet for coffee and chat linguistics, cultural analytics, AI or anything in between!
We did apply, according to academic regulations, and received approval to conduct the study from the ethics board of the main host institution.
January 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We did apply, according to academic regulations, and received approval to conduct the study from the ethics board of the main host institution.
The paper comes with open data and codebase, as well as a Collection Space Navigator dashboard by @mcanet.bsky.social - enabling easy interactive exploration of the whole "collection" of thousands of generated images, try it here: artistlaypeopleaiexperiment.github.io
January 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The paper comes with open data and codebase, as well as a Collection Space Navigator dashboard by @mcanet.bsky.social - enabling easy interactive exploration of the whole "collection" of thousands of generated images, try it here: artistlaypeopleaiexperiment.github.io
Most recent research has focused on AI vs laypeople/students/crowdworkers. We take a step forward and study how AI affects professionals and real everyday work, starting with artists, but the same approach could be extended and applied to various other professions.
January 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Most recent research has focused on AI vs laypeople/students/crowdworkers. We take a step forward and study how AI affects professionals and real everyday work, starting with artists, but the same approach could be extended and applied to various other professions.