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Mike Kestemont
@mikekestemont.bsky.social
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Professor of Computational Humanities at the University of Antwerp. I work on cultural ecology and medieval literature. I love cooking outdoors. Brussels based. Python.
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Awesome and well-deserved! ADHO's 2026 Zampolli Prize goes to stylo and the Computational Stylistics group!!!

Learn more about the group and about stylo on their website: https://computationalstylistics.github.io/

#dh2025 @adho #zampolli #stylo #DigitalHumanities
July 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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dhpotsdam.bsky.social
Stylo got the Zampolli prize for outstanding output in #DigitalHumanities 🏆 Congrats to Maciej Eder, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Jan Rybicki, Joanna Byszuk, and all involved with the Computational Stylistics Group!👏 Prev. recipients were Voyant Tools, TEI, R. Siemens, C. Gaffield
#DH2025 #stylometry
July 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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svanimpe.bsky.social
As a fun experiment, PhD student Nicky Voornevelt bought a set of manuscript fragments at an auction. One piece turned out to be in print.
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It's a fragment of the Mainz Catholicon! 😱😱😱 #BookHistory 📚💙 📜 #Fragmentology
July 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
mikekestemont.bsky.social
Did you ever buy a real print by J. Gutenberg through sheer luck? We did! Well, sort of... Read more about this incredible adventure in a wonderful @rebpaf.bsky.social blog post by Nicky Voorneveld: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/e... Many thx to @pieterbeullens.bsky.social for his expertise! 📚📖🔍
Experimenting in the Book Trade: From the Late 15th Century to 2025
Nicky Voorneveld, Universtiy of Antwerp The project of my fellow Antwerp REBPAF’er Marika Fox has been looking at auctions, specifically at what determines the value of rare books at auctions. This…
rebpaf.wordpress.com
July 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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comphumresearch.bsky.social
We are looking for a host for #CHR2026! Read the Call for Bids on our website, and submit your proposal by November, 10.

computational-humanities-research.org/hosting/
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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comphumresearch.bsky.social
We are proud to have @miguelev.bsky.social (@cssh-nus.bsky.social, National University of Singapore) and Els Lefever (LT3 Language and Translation Technology, Ghent University) as keynote speakers at our CHR2025 conference in December. More: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/keynote...
June 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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trismegistostm.bsky.social
In the earlier keynote, @mikekestemont.bsky.social presented an eco-computational approach to estimate the number of forgotten authors in the (ancient) Greek cultural production. He showed how he used a (bio)statistical model, filled with #TM (Authors/Works) numbers to calculate a minimum figure!
May 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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kakapitan.bsky.social
Are you in Paris on 11/06? Do you need an excuse to come to Paris in early summer solely for scholarly purposes ? Join us for plenty of #manuscriptstudies & #digitalhumanities goodies at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social 1/2
ecoledeschartes.bsky.social École des chartes | PSL @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social · May 22
On June 11, discover how digital technologies are transforming the way we analyse, interpret, and teach historical texts and manuscripts. Four themed sessions on digital practices, AI tools, and more. Seminar organised by @kakapitan.bsky.social. Registration required ➡ https://lc.cx/y5g3wN
May 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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bcdreyer.social
Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.
eberlmat.bsky.social Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · May 18
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.
May 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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kakapitan.bsky.social
2-yrs full-time #postdoc position in #digitalhumanities and #oldnorse in Paris at @ecoledeschartes.bsky.social @psl-univ.bsky.social open for applications - there were some issues with the pdf circular, so I published the text on my blog. Please circulate widely.
www.kakapitan.com/post/postdoc...
Postdoctoral Opportunity in Digital Humanities & Old Norse
I am pleased to share with you a new employment opportunity in the field of digital humanities, with a particular focus on computational philology and Old Norse studies, as part of my current project ...
www.kakapitan.com
May 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
mikekestemont.bsky.social
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...
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
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
If you have excellent knowledge of Latin, and you'd like to get a 4-year job to work with medieval philosophy and manuscripts, there is a week left to apply! #philsky #medievalsky
April 17, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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pieterbeullens.bsky.social
FitMA is hiring! We are looking for a motivated PhD-candidate in medieval Latin philosophy to join our team @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social! Deadline for applications: 24 April
www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
PhD-candidate (4 years) for the project ‘Fluidity in the Medieval Aristotle. Readers and Readings of the Greek-Latin Translations’ (FitMA)
Interested in Greek-Latin translations of Aristotle?
www.kuleuven.be
April 1, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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nolauren.bsky.social
Join me for AI and Image Analysis at ESU DH 2025 in Besançon, France in July! The one week course will introduce AI methods such as object detection and MLLMs for analyzing images such as art, manuscripts, photography, and film. More details here: esudh.github.io
March 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
mikekestemont.bsky.social
With spring in the country, tomatoes were sown again in our house in Kraainem, including San Marzano, Lancelot and Marmande. Hopefully we will get better weather this year 🤞🍅🙏
March 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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sharonmleon.bsky.social
Without IMLS, there would be no Omeka and there would be no Zotero. Write to your representatives to defend IMLS today.

www.6floors.org/bracket/2025...
Seeds of Innovation: Defending IMLS – [bracket]
www.6floors.org
March 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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jbcamps.bsky.social
The CultureLab at PSL, Paris, is recruiting a research engineer in #dh, computational social sciences and cultural evolution.
We're looking for skills in data science, machine learning and programming.
4 years position.
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/323661
Ingénieur de recherches en sciences humaines et sociales computationnelles
Project context and objectives:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu
March 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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fonolog.bsky.social
Science is imperfect, yet it remains our most reliable path to knowledge—and a great project of human collaboration.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
February 28, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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jbcamps.bsky.social
Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !
lostma.bsky.social LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · Feb 18
📣 Job offers
We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪
Deadline: 31 March 2025
The job advertisement, in png format page 2 page 3
February 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
mikekestemont.bsky.social
Were some medieval books only meant to be read by their very own makers? In my latest article (Quaerendo 2024), I argue that Ghent, UL, 1374 was indeed such a private manuscript:
doi.org/10.1163/1570...
February 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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zezvaz.bsky.social
Thank you so much to all the new followers! I’ve been impressed by the spread of this cartoon and how much it resonated with people especially in the U.S.! I hope to keep inspiring you all with future cartoons.

It’s a pleasure to have you all on-board!
#politicalcartoonist #cybertruckman #zezvaz
February 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
mikekestemont.bsky.social
Dear friends, do I know anyone here who has experience in (digital) numismatics, in particular coin finds from Roman Antiquity? (Please repost if you might know someone!)

Thx for any pointers.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
mikekestemont.bsky.social
In rainy Berlin for a lecture tonight at the Digital History Chair of the Humboldt University. As always, lots of unseen species on the menu, lost cultural diversity and my naughty great-great-auntie from 19th century Brussels. You can drop by by or follow online:
January 29, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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dighistberlin.bsky.social
👉 In this week's #DigitalHistoryOFK @folgertk.bsky.social & @mikekestemont.bsky.social will discuss how statistical methods from ecology can be used in historical research to identify and analyze gaps and biases in historical records.

#DigitalHistory #DigitalHumanities
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Announcement image for this week's talk in the Open Research Colloquium Digital History. The title "Open Research Colloquium Digital History" is prominently displayed at the top in orange and black font. The event details are listed below it: "Wednesday, 29 Jan., 4:15–5:45 pm (CET)." The speakers, Folgert Karsdorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Mike Kestemont (University of Antwerp, Belgium), will give a talk titled “The application of unseen species models in history: correcting registration bias in nineteenth-century police reports from Brussels.” The colloquium will take place as a hybrid event. Location: Room 2070 A, Main Building of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin The Zoom access data can be requested via e-mail to “digitalhistory at hu-berlin.de” or by scanning the QR code shown below on the right. A light green silhouette of iconic Berlin buildings can be seen in the background. Logos of associated institutions are displayed.
January 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM