Becca Cohen
@beccacohen.bsky.social
IS PhD Student at UIUC studying digital humanities, language, cultural analytics and ethical AI
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Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Making a CLEAN, SHAREABLE dataset is fucking hard! I'm super proud, then, to publish this one, on a team led by @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, with @post45data.bsky.social. It has more than a decade of 21C int'l bestseller data, revealing how popular world lit circulates....
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Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface!
Please share with anyone who might be interested
Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source
Please share with anyone who might be interested
Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hoo boy! I can’t believe it’s happening. We’ve been working on this for years. Thanks to @post45data.bsky.social you can now search our IB database, with a very cool interface!
Please share with anyone who might be interested
Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source
Please share with anyone who might be interested
Special thanks to @ninasabak.bsky.social for aiding with the data source
Reposted by Becca Cohen
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
July 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
New dataset on bestsellers from 40+ countries, with consistent coverage for France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the U.S.
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
Congrats to the authors @sdileonardi.bsky.social, @beccacohen.bsky.social, and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on this major contribution! 🎉
🔗: doi.org/10.18737/386...
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🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
July 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
🎉 New Benchmark Alert: KRISTEVA – Close‑Reading for LLMs📚
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
I’m excited to announce a new paper accepted to ACL 2025, in collaboration with Patrick Sui, Philippe Laban, and others!
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I’m going to need Mother Nature to knock it off with all these tornadoes.
How am I supposed to write my dissertation while I’m stressing out about corralling my cats into the basement?
How am I supposed to write my dissertation while I’m stressing out about corralling my cats into the basement?
March 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I’m going to need Mother Nature to knock it off with all these tornadoes.
How am I supposed to write my dissertation while I’m stressing out about corralling my cats into the basement?
How am I supposed to write my dissertation while I’m stressing out about corralling my cats into the basement?
Thanks Apple AI, was looking for somewhere I could get germs on sale (second image is the actual promotion notification it was summarizing)
February 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Thanks Apple AI, was looking for somewhere I could get germs on sale (second image is the actual promotion notification it was summarizing)
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I need to hear this right now, which means that others probably do too:
However you're getting through this, you're doing a good job. This month's been fucked up and intense and I know I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. It's exhausting and cruel, and the important part is getting through 🩵
However you're getting through this, you're doing a good job. This month's been fucked up and intense and I know I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. It's exhausting and cruel, and the important part is getting through 🩵
February 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I need to hear this right now, which means that others probably do too:
However you're getting through this, you're doing a good job. This month's been fucked up and intense and I know I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. It's exhausting and cruel, and the important part is getting through 🩵
However you're getting through this, you're doing a good job. This month's been fucked up and intense and I know I'm not the only one who's overwhelmed. It's exhausting and cruel, and the important part is getting through 🩵
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10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
December 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
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& a link to the issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/54034
some contributors on bluesky who put the 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 in "firewall" include @krbarrett.bsky.social @3volumenovel.bsky.social @sdileonardi.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social @dallasliddle.bsky.social
some contributors on bluesky who put the 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 in "firewall" include @krbarrett.bsky.social @3volumenovel.bsky.social @sdileonardi.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social @dallasliddle.bsky.social
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 56, Number 4, Winter 2024
muse.jhu.edu
December 28, 2024 at 11:50 PM
& a link to the issue muse.jhu.edu/issue/54034
some contributors on bluesky who put the 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 in "firewall" include @krbarrett.bsky.social @3volumenovel.bsky.social @sdileonardi.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social @dallasliddle.bsky.social
some contributors on bluesky who put the 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 in "firewall" include @krbarrett.bsky.social @3volumenovel.bsky.social @sdileonardi.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social @dallasliddle.bsky.social
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If Stephen King is a brand name, what’s the diff bw him and more recent authors who embrace self-branding? It was more difficult to answer this than I first thought
It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think
It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think
With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Brand Management: International Bestsellers and the Death of the Author, Again
muse.jhu.edu
December 19, 2024 at 10:41 PM
If Stephen King is a brand name, what’s the diff bw him and more recent authors who embrace self-branding? It was more difficult to answer this than I first thought
It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think
It was a pleasure getting here with my coauthors (& the ed.s & Post45 2023 crew). Please read and let us know what you think
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With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Brand Management: International Bestsellers and the Death of the Author, Again
muse.jhu.edu
December 19, 2024 at 6:48 PM
With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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Post the last sentence of your last article
OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social
The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].
OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social
The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article
The history of book-making helps us see that they [both language models and the ruptures they are seen to represent] are a logical outcome of the capitalist transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their internal contradictions.
The history of book-making helps us see that they [both language models and the ruptures they are seen to represent] are a logical outcome of the capitalist transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and their internal contradictions.
Post the LAST SENTENCE of your last article
It is deeply satisfying that the Newberry could at last reunite the other books with their true owner.
It is deeply satisfying that the Newberry could at last reunite the other books with their true owner.
December 4, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Post the last sentence of your last article
OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social
The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].
OUT THIS MONTH! w @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social @beccacohen.bsky.social
The convergence of these two developments-Web 2.0 and globalized conglomerate publishing-with all their extra-literary ramifications, has transformed the author [into a brand manager].
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There are many ways to identify texts that seem ahead of their time. Our CHR 2024 paper asks which measures of textual precocity align best with social evidence about influence and change.
November 26, 2024 at 9:25 PM
There are many ways to identify texts that seem ahead of their time. Our CHR 2024 paper asks which measures of textual precocity align best with social evidence about influence and change.
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Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li, Jaihyun Park, Jiayu Liu, Jana Perkins, Ted Underwood
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15068
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15068
November 25, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li, Jaihyun Park, Jiayu Liu, Jana Perkins, Ted Underwood
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15068
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15068
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Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
CEUR-WS.org/Vol-3834 - Computational Humanities Research 2024
ceur-ws.org
November 20, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Our proceedings are out! 🚨 They include no less than 78 papers that reflect the diverse and innovative research happening within the Computational Humanities. Take a dive here: ceur-ws.org/Vol-3834/
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🔍 The full program for #CHR2024 is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Computational Humanities Research 2024
2024.computational-humanities-research.org
November 13, 2024 at 10:48 AM
🔍 The full program for #CHR2024 is now available! Join us for cutting-edge computational humanities research and discussions. See the complete schedule at: 2024.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
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Kaige Xie, Mark Riedl
Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119
Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119
February 28, 2024 at 5:04 AM
Kaige Xie, Mark Riedl
Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119
Creating Suspenseful Stories: Iterative Planning with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17119
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The Gemini debacle showed how AI ethics *wasn't* being applied with the nuanced expertise necessary. It demonstrates the need for people who are great at creating roadmaps given foreseeable use. I wasn't there to help, nor were many of the ethics-minded ppl I know.
My comments for Telegraph about Google Gemini hiccup: generation of weird, falsified images of human history. When AI Ethics and risk-assessment goes really bad. I’m concerned also as a person with a disability. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02...
February 25, 2024 at 8:57 PM
The Gemini debacle showed how AI ethics *wasn't* being applied with the nuanced expertise necessary. It demonstrates the need for people who are great at creating roadmaps given foreseeable use. I wasn't there to help, nor were many of the ethics-minded ppl I know.
Being gaslight by ChatGPT again
(It in fact did not even add the punctuation it claims to on Grand Central)
(It in fact did not even add the punctuation it claims to on Grand Central)
October 6, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Being gaslight by ChatGPT again
(It in fact did not even add the punctuation it claims to on Grand Central)
(It in fact did not even add the punctuation it claims to on Grand Central)