Peeter Tinits
@peetertinits.bsky.social
Getting a PhD in humanities+data. Evolutionary perspectives on language, culture, sign systems.
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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
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November 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
The story of board game GO strategies from feudal era to AI, analyzed and visualized by @babeheim.bsky.social!
The disruption from AI players is visible but small compared to innovations from generations of humans.
Many more bites here:👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
#digitalhumanities #history #games
The disruption from AI players is visible but small compared to innovations from generations of humans.
Many more bites here:👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
#digitalhumanities #history #games
How to quantify the impact of AI on long-run cultural evolution? Published today, I give it a go!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
400+ years of strategic dynamics in the game of Go (Baduk/Weiqi), from feudalism to AlphaGo!
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The story of board game GO strategies from feudal era to AI, analyzed and visualized by @babeheim.bsky.social!
The disruption from AI players is visible but small compared to innovations from generations of humans.
Many more bites here:👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
#digitalhumanities #history #games
The disruption from AI players is visible but small compared to innovations from generations of humans.
Many more bites here:👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
#digitalhumanities #history #games
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Congratulations to Oleg Sobchuk and Arthur Kocher on being awarded @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants!! 🥳 @sobchuk.bsky.social will be exploring the macroevolution of European literature, while Kocher will be studying ancient pathogen dynamics. See: tinyurl.com/mr2m2zms & tinyurl.com/9cwdnc54
September 4, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Congratulations to Oleg Sobchuk and Arthur Kocher on being awarded @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants!! 🥳 @sobchuk.bsky.social will be exploring the macroevolution of European literature, while Kocher will be studying ancient pathogen dynamics. See: tinyurl.com/mr2m2zms & tinyurl.com/9cwdnc54
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July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Impediments to countering racist pseudoscience
www.cambridge.org
July 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Humanities methods breaking new grounds!
Poetic meters can be studied like gene sequences to trace their evolution in time and space. The method, evaluation, and case studies! Lots to learn from and reuse. #DH
Also, congratulations to @comphumresearch.bsky.social
on the first published volume!
Poetic meters can be studied like gene sequences to trace their evolution in time and space. The method, evaluation, and case studies! Lots to learn from and reuse. #DH
Also, congratulations to @comphumresearch.bsky.social
on the first published volume!
✍️ 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 1:28 PM
Humanities methods breaking new grounds!
Poetic meters can be studied like gene sequences to trace their evolution in time and space. The method, evaluation, and case studies! Lots to learn from and reuse. #DH
Also, congratulations to @comphumresearch.bsky.social
on the first published volume!
Poetic meters can be studied like gene sequences to trace their evolution in time and space. The method, evaluation, and case studies! Lots to learn from and reuse. #DH
Also, congratulations to @comphumresearch.bsky.social
on the first published volume!
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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
4 postdocs and 3 PhD positions in #DH, #CompSocSci, #AI, #TextMining & #Sustainability available Uni Tartu, Estonia! Deadlines May 15 for PhD students, June 2/16 for postdocs. 1) #RiDeR ERC project on Deep Sustainability Transitions, 2) #DigiTS ERA Chair project on Digital Text Scholarship. Links 👇
May 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
4 postdocs and 3 PhD positions in #DH, #CompSocSci, #AI, #TextMining & #Sustainability available Uni Tartu, Estonia! Deadlines May 15 for PhD students, June 2/16 for postdocs. 1) #RiDeR ERC project on Deep Sustainability Transitions, 2) #DigiTS ERA Chair project on Digital Text Scholarship. Links 👇
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The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
April 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
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Urgh.
This is worth signing.
But it's also so worrying how dependent we are on The Internet Archive for cultural preservation - just one lawsuit away from oblivion.
This is worth signing.
But it's also so worrying how dependent we are on The Internet Archive for cultural preservation - just one lawsuit away from oblivion.
I must admit I'm not up to speed with the details of the lawsuit, but if it's true that the fine would be an existential matter for the Internet Archive (which sounds likely), it definitely shouldn't go ahead. An invaluable and probably irreplaceable resource
chng.it/Y7pc5sG796 @archive.org
chng.it/Y7pc5sG796 @archive.org
Sign the Petition
Defend the Internet Archive
chng.it
April 16, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Urgh.
This is worth signing.
But it's also so worrying how dependent we are on The Internet Archive for cultural preservation - just one lawsuit away from oblivion.
This is worth signing.
But it's also so worrying how dependent we are on The Internet Archive for cultural preservation - just one lawsuit away from oblivion.
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🚨 New preprint! 🚨
I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.
Check out these decision trees!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.
Check out these decision trees!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.
Check out these decision trees!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.
Check out these decision trees!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.
April 7, 2025 at 7:05 AM
"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.
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🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
March 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:
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Join us on the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 this year. Around 40 students will experience an interdisciplinary project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. Apply until April 12th, or save the date May 14-23 heldig.fi/dhh25
March 25, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Join us on the 10th anniversary of the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon #DHH25 this year. Around 40 students will experience an interdisciplinary project from start to finish within the span of 10 days. Apply until April 12th, or save the date May 14-23 heldig.fi/dhh25
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JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
March 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
JOB ALERT in #language and #linguistics!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
Postdoc Position at the Center for Language Evolution Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland.
Job offer here: www.umk.pl/en/jobs/?tas...
We are now looking at a broader candidate pool so do consider applying!
Please repost & share widely!
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“…this is a moment to speak publicly about why universities matter. They promote public health, economic growth and national security. They are the largest employers in some regions. They are an unmatched, if imperfect, engine of upward mobility that can alter the trajectory of entire families.”
March 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
“…this is a moment to speak publicly about why universities matter. They promote public health, economic growth and national security. They are the largest employers in some regions. They are an unmatched, if imperfect, engine of upward mobility that can alter the trajectory of entire families.”
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This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Regular reminder that they almost certainly have had a big list of the targets for ages, and the slow rollout is meant to intentionally wear down the ability of the public to push back. Keep paying attention, calling, writing, advocating.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Regular reminder that they almost certainly have had a big list of the targets for ages, and the slow rollout is meant to intentionally wear down the ability of the public to push back. Keep paying attention, calling, writing, advocating.
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IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Continuing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
IMLS is the Institute of Museum and Library Services. It's about $200 million per year for libraries and $50 million for museums. Not a lot for the federal budget, but a huge piece of the culture and knowledge system - which is why MAGA is eliminating it.
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Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
March 5, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Some "Russian Warship" vibes here from a tiny fed'l agency.
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
via Brett Murphy:
The African Development Foundation (budget ~$40 million) is putting up a fight and denying DOGE + Pete Marocco — the State Dept official dismantling USAID — access to their building:
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Do not let Trump gaslight you into believing he has a mandate or is all powerful.
Most Americans don't support his agenda.
There will be backlash — and we must make sure it is swift.
Most Americans don't support his agenda.
There will be backlash — and we must make sure it is swift.
March 5, 2025 at 4:13 AM
Do not let Trump gaslight you into believing he has a mandate or is all powerful.
Most Americans don't support his agenda.
There will be backlash — and we must make sure it is swift.
Most Americans don't support his agenda.
There will be backlash — and we must make sure it is swift.
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Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
March 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]
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(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.
March 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.