Artjoms Šeļa
@artjomshl.bsky.social
Literary/cultural history, computational methods, poetry & metres; sometimes video games. Researcher @ Institute of Czech Literature CAS @ Prague Curator of the multilingual poetry corpus poeTree.org
Really happy to be a part of this new paper investigating evolutionary forces behind word popularity. It relies on unique & rich data of Ukrainian language 🇺🇦 The project was led by @alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social, who used an innovative extension of ABC and did an impressive job overall. Check it out!
Alexey Koshevoy@alexeykoshevoy.bsky.social · 9h agoYou can read our paper here: doi.org/10.1093/pnas...
Are you interested in lexical competition, agent-based modelling, strong inference and Ukrainian? Then this paper, just published in @pnasnexus.org, is for you. With @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @sobchuk.bsky.social, we asked a simple question: why do some words become more common than others?
it turned out to be an incredible school, a masterclass in pedagogy, organization and (research) software developing. so glad I heard about the Prague edition in time, will be pointing people to it in random contexts #aspp2026
Rike-Benjamin Schuppner@debilski.bsky.social · 7mo agoYou are in science and write Python every day? But you feel you want to understand the Python part a little bit better? Then join us in Prague, Czechia for this year’s summer school ‘Advanced Scientific Programming in Python’. 🧑🔬🧑💻🧑🏫 30st August–06th September 2026. #aspp2026 Apply now: aspp.school
it is incredible how much of a Bayesian Claude is -- it smoked those textbooks good; the bot's weights are laced with the magical dust from rev. Thomas Bayes, its pupils dilated, its gaze fixed on a starry night sky, drawing credible intervals over constellations from a joint posterior
terribly sorry to inform you all that the Songs of our Age no longer school the Youth in such Innocent Pleasures and Moral Virtues as befit a Gentleman, but that they are become the Filthy Waters of such Acts of Promiscuity as would make even a Parisian Libertine reach for his Prayer-Book.
![Abstract of a paper "Evolution of moral expression in song lyrics" published in Scientific Reports:
This study examines the evolution of moral expressions in popular music lyrics over six decades. Using the WASABI dataset (1960-2010) and Billboard year-end charting songs (1960-2023), we analyse temporal trends in moral narratives across artist genders and musical genres. Transformer-based language models fine-tuned for moral foundation prediction were applied to quantify ten moral dimensions derived from Moral Foundations Theory. [Highlighted] Our findings reveal an increase in moral vices (e.g., Harm, Cheating, Subversion), and a decline in expressions of moral virtues (e.g., Care, Purity), alongside a rise in negative sentiment, anger, and disgust. [Highlighted] We show that moral dimensions can be inferred by lyrical cues, such as thematic content, sentiment, and emotion, with predictive accuracy improving notably when models are trained on specific music genres. These findings reveal that shifts in lyrical morality co-occur with broader societal changes in values and identity, underscoring how popular music may serve as a cultural barometer for evolving moral norms.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lyjnicczeyn7ubxndxhszmso/bafkreiajnh55ftsbohjhxw7imznczgr2ahhareivldjlecfvevufygoqqa)
*me, dressed in a super villain attire, low dramatic camera angle, sublime storm raging in the background* my ambition is to write a book about poetry without citing a single line of poetry
**Women Playwrights in Digital Corpora: a #DraCor Hackathon** University of Rostock 7–9 September 2026 Registration is now open, and participation is free. Organised by Erik Renz & Ulrike Henny-Krahmer. More info: blog.dracor.org/posts/hackat... #DigitalHumanities #ComputationalLiteraryStudies
Check it out! Lea is live and open to the public 🥳 Lea is an experiment to build better social media by researchers and for researchers, where we own our own data and can build our own feeds, events, and communities. This is still very much a proof-of-concept; we welcome ideas + collaborators!
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 4w agoFor the past six months @mariaa.bsky.social and I have been working on creating an improved research experience on atproto. It's now live! Check out: lea.ac
testing Lea! posting my favorite academic pun from a videogame (Like a Dragon)
What does it mean to do digital history? New epistemic horizons, new epistemic responsibilities! At least that’s what we say in the 27p introduction to our special issue on computational approaches 👀 ⬇️ doi.org/10.1080/0002... #DH #digitalhistory #ComputationalHumanities #histsci
Introduction: Computational Approaches to the Histories of Alchemy and Chemistry
The promise of computational methods opens new epistemic horizons. Yet, as we discuss in this introduction to the special issue on computational approaches to the histories of alchemy and chemistry...
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Sarah Lang@sarahalang.bsky.social · last mo.Again, me with the somewhat provocative takes 😳😎😇 Does a digital or computational history of science and knowledge exist as a field? Find out what I think here: doi.org/10.1080/0002... #DH #ComputationalHumanities #alchemy #histsci #DigitalHumanities
JBS Haldane (1923): "For every type of animal there is a most convenient size, and a large change in size inevitably carries with it a change of form" structuralism y'all
MIT Press@mitpress.bsky.social · 4w agoLegend has it that giants once roamed the Earth. But, writes @joeldavidhamkins.bsky.social, as early as 1638, Galileo discovered that the physics of human giants simply doesn’t hold up: Without major changes to their anatomy, they would be crushed under their own weight.
A welcome opportunity to revive this one
vincentholst.bsky.social@vincentholst.bsky.social · 4w agoThe study is based on the CD index, a citation-based measure of how much the successors of a work still rely on its predecessors, running from -1 (consolidating) to +1 (disruptive). Key detail: a paper with zero references automatically gets CD = +1 as soon as it is cited once.
our new paper with @plechac.bsky.social puts thousands of poems across languages in one shared space of poetic form! we use sequence alignment on rhyme schemes to investigate 'fixed forms' and all things between: not only 'sonnets', but 'sonnet-like' things. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Hi Bluesky! Please share this Postdoctoral Fellowship, which is from 2027-2029 & housed in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame. Salary is $75,000 for each year, & the fellowship carries a $15,000 research budget for its duration. Mentorship & an individual office, too!
🌱 ⓥ Francisco Robles ⓥ 🌱@franciscondine.bsky.social · 4w agoPlease share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year! joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...
Just found an Easter egg on Wikipedia! On the page for double dactyls (a type of poem), there's a sentence that's formatted as a normal line of text, but it's actually a stanza of double dactyl poetry! And... THE PLOT THICKENS! 1/2
Reminder: two weeks are left to apply for the PhD and postdoc positions in my lab. See more info here www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo...
@peetertinits.bsky.social at the last session of #DH2026 talking about using huge harmonized bibliographic datasets to study the diffusion of information and patterns of language adoption across Early Modern -> Modern Europe. V. cool!
@babeheim.bsky.social showing how Go opening strategies changed over time and what happened after AI joined the game @ #DH2026
Very cool!
Rob Whiting 📓@whitingx.bsky.social · last mo.💾 Copy That Floppy! A guide to imaging #FloppyDisks for long-term preservation developed as part of the Future Nostalgia project, led by Cambridge University Library (@theul.bsky.social) and supported by the Digital Preservation Coalition. www.digipres.org/the-floppy-g... #Archive
Also I spent the evening before our #DH2026 presentation cutting PoeTree.org project stickers ✂️ straight cuts wasn't easy with konbini-bought scissors so some stickers have custom non-square shape.. find them at the 1st floor! and find us with @artjomshl.bsky.social to talk about poetry corpora
My latest contribution to the DH community: I finally persuaded my partner Jingzhou, an Early Modern English literature scholar, to join the DH community🤣 Please join us tomorrow morning at #DH2026 if you're able!
Jingzhou Zhang@jingzhouzhang.bsky.social · last mo.Join us at #DH2026 (31th July, 11-12:30 PM, Room 204-105 and on Zoom) for our presentation! Presenting with @wenyishang.bsky.social . We combine paratextual data and network analysis to examine how authors and stationers interacted to shape the genre identities of early modern English playbooks.
Very lucky and grateful to present this paper in Daejeon at #DH2026 with @tonyamart.bsky.social — if you’re wondering what the queen of pop herself is doing on the slide, we also have posterior predictions over her song lyrics and her poetry book!
Bret Beheim@babeheim.bsky.social · last mo.@artjomshl.bsky.social and @tonyamart.bsky.social compare the evolutionary dynamics of poetry and lyrics over the last few centuries #dh2026
@artjomshl.bsky.social and @tonyamart.bsky.social compare the evolutionary dynamics of poetry and lyrics over the last few centuries #dh2026
It’s the first paper in a themed issue on computational poetics we’re co-editing with @nmhouston.bsky.social for CHR journal! Lucky to have this contribution from Erin
Erin A. McCarthy@erinannmcc.bsky.social · last mo.Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
It’s the first paper in a themed issue on computational poetics we’re co-editing with @nmhouston.bsky.social for CHR journal! Lucky to have this contribution from Erin
Erin A. McCarthy@erinannmcc.bsky.social · last mo.Excited and only slightly terrified to have this accepted manuscript available. The Heresy of Vector Embeddings: Early Modern Manuscript Verse and LLMs between Meaning, Form, and History | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
GOLEM poster at #DH2026 A manually annotated corpus in 7 languages to develop and evaluate tools for Computational Literary Studies: characters, relationships, dialogue, and events. Stop by at 15:30 KST to know more about it.
