Folgert Karsdorp
@folgertk.bsky.social
KNAW Meertens Institute; Interested in cultural change/diversity/bias; book: “Humanities Data Analysis” https://www.humanitiesdataanalysis.org; new journal: CHR https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/computational-humanities-research
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📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
anthology.ach.org
November 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
📢 The #CHR2025 proceedings are out!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
97 papers, ~1600 pages of computational humanities 🔥 Now published via the new Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, with DOIs for every paper.
🔗 anthology.ach.org/volumes/vol0...
And don’t forget: registration closes tomorrow (20 Nov)!
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🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🗓️ The #CHR2025 programme is online! Browse what’s on the menu here: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/programme/
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
Proceedings are coming soon as well. Don’t forget: registration closes on 20 November! #computationalhumanitiesresearch
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!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Whose news? Critical methods for assessing bias in large historical datasets - Volume 1
doi.org
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
!Stop Press! Article on bias in digitised newspaper collections: ’Whose News’, in the new journal of @comphumresearch.bsky.social by Kaspar Beelen, @jonhistorian61.bsky.social, @kmcdono.bsky.social and me. See blog for summary & 🧵 1/7
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Article doi.org/10.1017/chr....
Blog is.gd/2IFc30
#dh #c19 🗃️
Me: Hi Chat, is there a seahorse emoji?
Chat: chatgpt.com/share/68edf3...
Chat: chatgpt.com/share/68edf3...
ChatGPT - Seahorse emoji search
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Me: Hi Chat, is there a seahorse emoji?
Chat: chatgpt.com/share/68edf3...
Chat: chatgpt.com/share/68edf3...
Platforming my way through the new #silksong, had to think of this happy little camper: youtube.com/shorts/cmc8a...
He Was Just Fixing Signs…
YouTube video by WikiWitIT
youtube.com
September 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Platforming my way through the new #silksong, had to think of this happy little camper: youtube.com/shorts/cmc8a...
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What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
August 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
What do Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Mortal Kombat have to teach us about #cultural #evolution? As a social-technological phenomenon, #arcade game genres evolved like cultural species—some diversified, while others became "living fossils." 🕹️🧪 👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
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The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”
August 19, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The first articles are out! Check out “Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment” by Ben Nagy @artjomshl.bsky.social Mirella De Sisto and Petr Plecháč. “All poetic forms come from somewhere. Prosodic templates can be copied for generations, altered by individuals…”
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And our first themed issue - Missing Data in the Humanities - articles are coming out! Check out Jan Maliszewski registered report! “While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes)…”
August 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
And our first themed issue - Missing Data in the Humanities - articles are coming out! Check out Jan Maliszewski registered report! “While the indirect evidence suggests that already in the early scholastic period the literary production based on records of oral teaching (so-called reportationes)…”
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Check out Rebecca Hicke @dmimno.bsky.social piece on LLMs! “Language models have the ability to identify the characteristics of much shorter literary passages than was thought feasible with traditional stylometry. We evaluate authorship and genre detection for a new corpus of literary novels…”
August 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Check out Rebecca Hicke @dmimno.bsky.social piece on LLMs! “Language models have the ability to identify the characteristics of much shorter literary passages than was thought feasible with traditional stylometry. We evaluate authorship and genre detection for a new corpus of literary novels…”
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Check out Jannis Klähn, Janos Borst-Graetz, @manuelburghardt.bsky.social work on LLMs and German data! “In this study, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of sentiment classification for German language data using three different approaches…”
August 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Check out Jannis Klähn, Janos Borst-Graetz, @manuelburghardt.bsky.social work on LLMs and German data! “In this study, we perform a comprehensive evaluation of sentiment classification for German language data using three different approaches…”
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And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!
August 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
And we feature software papers! Check out @suttonkoeser.bsky.social
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!
Julia Damerow, Robert Casties, Cole Crawford exciting work on working with dates in computational humanities!
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📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research!
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
📢 Don’t miss the first articles from CHR’s themed issue, Expanding the Toolkit: Large Language Models in Humanities Research!
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
Read the issue #openaccess here:
📚 cup.org/4lvH2Ow
#computationalhumanities #CHR @comphumresearch.bsky.social @nolauren.bsky.social @folgertk.bsky.social
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⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
July 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM
⚡ CFP: a themed issue in Computational Humanities Research!
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Meaning, Form, and History in Computational Poetics: if you work on all things verse, all things form, in any language, consider submitting!
for questions reach out to me or @nmhouston.bsky.social !
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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✍️ Our paper is finally out!
All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.
We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
tinyurl.com/metronome25
All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.
We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
tinyurl.com/metronome25
Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Metronome: tracing variation in poetic meters via local sequence alignment - Volume 1
www.cambridge.org
June 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
✍️ Our paper is finally out!
All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.
We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
tinyurl.com/metronome25
All poetic forms come from somewhere, but figuring out their relationships is hard.
We use sequence alignment on scansion (010.10) to measure metrical similarity between poems. This allows us to detect related forms across languages and times 1/
tinyurl.com/metronome25
Yes, come say hi!
We're delighted to be sponsoring and attending #DHBenelux2025 in Amsterdam this week! Speak to Commissioning Editor Folgert Karsdorp about how to publish your #research with us, or find out more here:▶️ cup.org/3HoyoTG
#ComputationalHumanitiesResearch
#DigitalHumanities
#ComputationalHumanitiesResearch
#DigitalHumanities
June 5, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Yes, come say hi!
@erc.europa.eu actually looking at my out-of-office message this summer, thinking: “Perfect! He clearly has time to review some applications!”
June 3, 2025 at 8:48 AM
@erc.europa.eu actually looking at my out-of-office message this summer, thinking: “Perfect! He clearly has time to review some applications!”
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#ClimateChange is everyone's problem and we need all hands on deck. In research, this means combining areas such as ecology, biology, social history, anthropology, and digital methods.
This is what my current project at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social is doing! Check out this article to learn more:
This is what my current project at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social is doing! Check out this article to learn more:
A new type of research is blooming at the Meertens Institute - Meertens Instituut
A new research project puts plants in the spotlight, exploring their cultural and ecological roles to better understand our past, present, and future.
meertens.knaw.nl
May 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#ClimateChange is everyone's problem and we need all hands on deck. In research, this means combining areas such as ecology, biology, social history, anthropology, and digital methods.
This is what my current project at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social is doing! Check out this article to learn more:
This is what my current project at the @meertens-knaw.bsky.social is doing! Check out this article to learn more:
A while back, I worked on a project about forgotten books, using a model from ecology that ultimately traces back to Alan Turing. Oh, the irony: reading today that Turing’s own papers were nearly shredded: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Alan Turing papers saved from shredder could fetch £150,000
Documents including signed copy of 1938 PhD dissertation to be auctioned after they were nearly thrown out
www.theguardian.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A while back, I worked on a project about forgotten books, using a model from ecology that ultimately traces back to Alan Turing. Oh, the irony: reading today that Turing’s own papers were nearly shredded: www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be
Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!
Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social
www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!
Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social
www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
Doctoraatsbursaal computationele letterkunde binnen het interuniversitaire onderzoeksproject "New perspectives on medieval and renaissance courtly song" | Universiteit Antwerpen
YUFE vacature
www.uantwerpen.be
May 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
We hebben een aantrekkelijke vacature voor een doctoraatsstudent computationele letterkunde in ons team aan de @uantwerpen.be
Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!
Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social
www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
Hou je van middeleeuwen, liederen en code? Zeker solliciteren!
Begeleiding met @remcosleiderink.bsky.social
www.uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
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a whole cluster of postdocs and phd positions in Tartu in Digital Humanities / Computational Social Science / AI under the umbrella of big European projects.
consider sharing please!
consider sharing please!
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 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM
a whole cluster of postdocs and phd positions in Tartu in Digital Humanities / Computational Social Science / AI under the umbrella of big European projects.
consider sharing please!
consider sharing please!
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Playing "spot the difference" while analyzing original and final published versions of the illustrations included in the Flora Batava series.
What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/
#PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany
What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/
#PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany
April 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Playing "spot the difference" while analyzing original and final published versions of the illustrations included in the Flora Batava series.
What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/
#PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany
What is the Flora Batava, you ask? Find out here: historical-citizen-botany.github.io/website/
#PlantHumanities #HistoricalBotany
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🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨
We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.
Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.
Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
March 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🚨 Our Call for Papers is out! 🚨
We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.
Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
We continue our tradition of providing a dedicated platform for presenting computational work that bridges formal methods and traditional inquiry in the arts and humanities.
Check out the website for all details: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/cfp/
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We've got news!
The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org
Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!
The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org
Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!
Computational Humanities Research
computational-humanities-research.org
March 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
We've got news!
The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org
Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!
The new CHR website is live - your go-to place for all things CHR: computational-humanities-research.org
Also, welcome to @lucy3.bsky.social (Proceedings Officer) and @jbrottrager.bsky.social (Early Career Representative), our new board members!
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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)