Federico Pianzola
@fpianz.bsky.social
https://federicopianzola.me
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
I teach and do research in Computational Humanities @rug.nl
ERC StG "Graphs and Ontologies for Literary Evolution Models" (GOLEM) https://golemlab.eu
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Federico Pianzola
@fpianz.bsky.social
· Jan 22
Digital Social Reading
How digital social reading apps are powerfully changing—and nurturing—the way we read.Conventional wisdom would have us believe that digital technology i...
mitpress.mit.edu
It's publication day!
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...
A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.
@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
Available in print and Open Access mitpress.mit.edu/978026255091...
A book about how digital social reading apps are changing and nurturing the way we read. I talk about Wattpad, Goodreads, AO3 and more.
@mitpress.bsky.social @unigroningen.bsky.social @gronlp.bsky.social
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Actually if you're ever puzzled by the name, you can simply… ask the model.
(we did a relatively good job at personality tuning).
(we did a relatively good job at personality tuning).
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Actually if you're ever puzzled by the name, you can simply… ask the model.
(we did a relatively good job at personality tuning).
(we did a relatively good job at personality tuning).
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Reposted by Federico Pianzola
Join us THIS FRIDAY for a Cultural Analytics Series lecture w/ the Berkeley Institute for Data Science!
@uvmvermont.bsky.social Prof. Peter Dodds will share his work on the essence of meaning, stories, and characters.
📅 Nov. 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
🔗 https://bit.ly/43UpsO4
@uvmvermont.bsky.social Prof. Peter Dodds will share his work on the essence of meaning, stories, and characters.
📅 Nov. 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
🔗 https://bit.ly/43UpsO4
Telegnomics, Ousiometrics, and Archetypometrics
Nov 14, 2025, 12:15 pm - Data-driven, computational determination of the essence of meaning, stories, and characters, with Peter Dodds
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Join us THIS FRIDAY for a Cultural Analytics Series lecture w/ the Berkeley Institute for Data Science!
@uvmvermont.bsky.social Prof. Peter Dodds will share his work on the essence of meaning, stories, and characters.
📅 Nov. 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
🔗 https://bit.ly/43UpsO4
@uvmvermont.bsky.social Prof. Peter Dodds will share his work on the essence of meaning, stories, and characters.
📅 Nov. 14, 12:15 - 1:30 pm
📍 210 South Hall, Online
🔗 https://bit.ly/43UpsO4
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🚨 There’s still time to apply for the #EADH Small Grants 2025–2026! 🚨
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
🚨 #CfA - EADH Small Grants 2025–2026🚨
#EADH can support your #DH project — from workshops to research trips or new initiatives.
💶 Up to €1. 000 per grant | 🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Let’s strengthen #DigitalHumanities together!
#EADH can support your #DH project — from workshops to research trips or new initiatives.
💶 Up to €1. 000 per grant | 🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Let’s strengthen #DigitalHumanities together!
Call for EADH Small Grants (2025-2026) | EADH - The European Association for Digital Humanities
We are delighted to announce that the European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) is launching a new Small Grants funding round.
eadh.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🚨 There’s still time to apply for the #EADH Small Grants 2025–2026! 🚨
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
Up to €1,000 available for #DigitalHumanities projects, workshops, or new initiatives.
🗓️ Deadline: 16 Nov 2025
👉 eadh.org/news/2025/09...
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Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
Opening the black box of EEBO
Abstract. Digital archives that cover extended historical periods can create a misleading impression of comprehensiveness while in truth providing access t
academic.oup.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
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Some interesting stuff here on measuring writing quality and improving on qualitative tasks:
www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/h...
www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/h...
November 10, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Some interesting stuff here on measuring writing quality and improving on qualitative tasks:
www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/h...
www.dbreunig.com/2025/07/31/h...
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"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
OUP acquires Karger's long tail
Hello fellow journalologists,
newsletter.journalology.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 AM
"Acquiring the Karger journals will provide OUP with many more downstream transfer destinations, helping OUP to publish more of the articles that get rejected by their higher impact journals."
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
Depressing assessment of the commercial strategy guiding academic publishing.
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Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
Male victimhood ideology driven by perceived status loss, not economic hardship, among Korean men
Research published in Sex Roles suggests that male victimhood ideology among South Korean men is driven more by perceived socioeconomic status decline rather than objective economic hardship.
www.psypost.org
January 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Despite patriarchy's persistence, growing numbers of men believe they have it worse off than women. And, new research shows this "male victimhood" ideology is most common among men who aren't facing hardship. Which means what they're really feeling is status loss. 1/
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
www.psypost.org/male-victimh...
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More praise for Speaking with Pictures, my upcoming graphic novel on language, cognition, and visual communication. I'm counting down the days until this finally gets out and I can't wait...👀 visuallanguagelab.com/sip
November 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
More praise for Speaking with Pictures, my upcoming graphic novel on language, cognition, and visual communication. I'm counting down the days until this finally gets out and I can't wait...👀 visuallanguagelab.com/sip
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I would read this subterranean horror novel
Sulfur cave spiders build an arachnid megacity and possibly the largest-ever spider web
Researchers may have discovered the world's biggest spider web, a massive subterranean structure spanning over 100 square meters in a sulfur cave on the Albania–Greece border. The multilayered web alo...
phys.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I would read this subterranean horror novel
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Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
Beyond Single Frames: Can LMMs Comprehend Implicit Narratives in Comic Strip?
Xiaochen Wang, Heming Xia, Jialin Song, Longyu Guan, Qingxiu Dong, Rui Li, Yixin Yang, Yifan Pu, Weiyao Luo, Yiru Wang, Xiangdi Meng, Wenjie Li, Zhifang Sui. Findings of the Association for Computatio...
aclanthology.org
November 4, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Here's an interesting new study exploring whether LLMs are able to understand the narrative sequencing of comics and... even the best AI models are *terrible* at it for pretty much all tasks that were analyzed aclanthology.org/2025.finding...
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Beautiful elevation art by @cstats1.
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Beautiful elevation art by @cstats1.
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📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM
📢 Open Positions at the Uppsala NLP Group! 📢
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Postdoc opportunity — also open to recent or soon-to-be PhD graduates (within 1–2 months).
uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Final installment of the trilogy!
🧵✨ Introducing "The GOLEM Ontology for Narrative and Fiction "
0/ This new framework bridges computational analysis and literary theory, addressing gaps in modeling fictional worlds, characters, and events.
#DigitalHumanities #Narratology
🧵✨ Introducing "The GOLEM Ontology for Narrative and Fiction "
0/ This new framework bridges computational analysis and literary theory, addressing gaps in modeling fictional worlds, characters, and events.
#DigitalHumanities #Narratology
Finally the outcome of 2 years of work on designing an ontology for narrative and fiction! 💪💦
"Grounding the Development of an Ontology for Narrative and Fiction"
bsky.app/profile/fpia...
“Fans Reconstruct Heroes: Modeling Fictional Characters in Participatory Culture”
bsky.app/profile/fpia...
"Grounding the Development of an Ontology for Narrative and Fiction"
bsky.app/profile/fpia...
“Fans Reconstruct Heroes: Modeling Fictional Characters in Participatory Culture”
bsky.app/profile/fpia...
Introducing "Grounding the Development of an Ontology for Narrative and Fiction" by Luca Scotti et al.
🧵1/ Formal ontologies can enrich how we model narratives. Before developing a model that can be applied in research, a solid conceptual foundation is needed. #DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb
🧵1/ Formal ontologies can enrich how we model narratives. Before developing a model that can be applied in research, a solid conceptual foundation is needed. #DigitalHumanities #SemanticWeb
November 4, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Final installment of the trilogy!
🧵✨ Introducing "The GOLEM Ontology for Narrative and Fiction "
0/ This new framework bridges computational analysis and literary theory, addressing gaps in modeling fictional worlds, characters, and events.
#DigitalHumanities #Narratology
🧵✨ Introducing "The GOLEM Ontology for Narrative and Fiction "
0/ This new framework bridges computational analysis and literary theory, addressing gaps in modeling fictional worlds, characters, and events.
#DigitalHumanities #Narratology
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Quant and Qual are not opposites — they’re layers of the same phenomenon.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation isn't quant, it's Qual. The quant just counts the outcome.
Is #innovation born or made? Why do some places keep innovating while others fall behind? Is innovation the product of cities—or of deeper laws?
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
Our new paper in npj Complexity explores these questions through the lens of a century of US patent data.🧵👇
nature.com/articles/s44...
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Quant and Qual are not opposites — they’re layers of the same phenomenon.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
Innovation begins as a social process — people, relationships, creativity — yet it leaves patterns we can learn from.
Quant analysis shouldn't replace the human story; it helps us see how those stories connect across scales.
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"A good way to learn German is to read children's books to familiarise yourself with basic grammar and vocabulary"
German children's book:
German children's book:
December 10, 2024 at 6:58 AM
"A good way to learn German is to read children's books to familiarise yourself with basic grammar and vocabulary"
German children's book:
German children's book:
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Awesome! Our new paper in #dhq has just been published!
It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel.
The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel.
The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
November 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Awesome! Our new paper in #dhq has just been published!
It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel.
The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
It discusses three measures of #keyness (or #distinctiveness) when applied to #subgenres of the #French #novel.
The twist is that we perform a #qualitative #evaluation of the measures by relating each list […]
[Original post on fedihum.org]
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You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
Original post on hcommons.social
hcommons.social
November 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
You have an PhD in #digitalhumanities and have plans continuing research in this field? 6-years #postdoc position #UniGraz in the Departement of Digital Humanities #dhgraz available! #jobs submission deadline: 8.12.2025 more info at […]
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@janapflaeging.bsky.social presented our series PATHWAYS TO MULTIMODALITY, co-edited by John A. Bateman, Hartmut Stöckl, @neous.bsky.social — we welcome new book proposals! Thanks to @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for the delicious snacks and a wonderful conference! #Multimodality #ICOM #Groningen
October 31, 2025 at 5:43 PM
@janapflaeging.bsky.social presented our series PATHWAYS TO MULTIMODALITY, co-edited by John A. Bateman, Hartmut Stöckl, @neous.bsky.social — we welcome new book proposals! Thanks to @facultyofartsug.bsky.social for the delicious snacks and a wonderful conference! #Multimodality #ICOM #Groningen
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
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I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I'll give an overview of our work on the history of infrastructural repair and disrepair, a preview of a methodological article that is coming up in Digital Humanities Quarterly this month. #DH
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I’ve seen people react to this inevitability in a few different ways. One is to dig in and refuse to concede anything: “Young people are alien and wrong, and I know this because I’ve always understood them and now I don’t.” I think this happened to Lepore around 2016 and she’s taken this stance.
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I’ve seen people react to this inevitability in a few different ways. One is to dig in and refuse to concede anything: “Young people are alien and wrong, and I know this because I’ve always understood them and now I don’t.” I think this happened to Lepore around 2016 and she’s taken this stance.
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Thinking about the Jill Lepore “students got difficult in 2016” thing: there’s a point for all of us when “youth opinion,” such as it is, no longer feels intuitive. It happened for me in the last few years. To understand where they’re coming from, you might have to do a little research.
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Thinking about the Jill Lepore “students got difficult in 2016” thing: there’s a point for all of us when “youth opinion,” such as it is, no longer feels intuitive. It happened for me in the last few years. To understand where they’re coming from, you might have to do a little research.
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Looks like an interesting new collection on spoilers
The Fear of Knowing: Spoilers in Film, TV, Literature and Gaming Culture
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
The Fear of Knowing: Spoilers in Film, TV, Literature and Gaming Culture
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
The Fear of Knowing - Nomos eLibrary
Obwohl die Angst vor Spoilern heute ein weltweites Phänomen darstellt, wurde sie bisher kaum erforscht. Dieser Band bringt erstmals Forschende aus untersc…
www.nomos-elibrary.de
November 1, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Looks like an interesting new collection on spoilers
The Fear of Knowing: Spoilers in Film, TV, Literature and Gaming Culture
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...
The Fear of Knowing: Spoilers in Film, TV, Literature and Gaming Culture
www.nomos-elibrary.de/de/document/...