Folgert Karsdorp
@folgertk.bsky.social
KNAW Meertens Institute & Utrecht University; 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
Did one era really have more stories, songs, or tools than another, or was it just better recorded? When collections are built unevenly, diversity comparisons can measure the collectors instead of the cultures. Our new paper is about how to fix that.
Correcting collection bias in comparative studies of diversity
Abstract. Comparative analyses of diversity in human populations often rely on historical, archival and observational data, which are systematically shaped
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📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!
We are advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship for the computational study of vernacular cultures of weather and climate modification at the University of Manchester. More details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... #DH
Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Artificial Weather: Mining the Language and Visual Culture of Weather and Climate Modification (CreativeAI Studentship) at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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An exciting new read is out! Congratulations on the publication! Cannot wait to read it!
Folgert Karsdorp@folgertk.bsky.social · 5mo agoOut in Evolutionary Human Sciences! With @mikekestemont.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social & Anne Chao New work on unseen species models for cult heritage to the question: how many stories were _shared_ between medieval French and Dutch literature? lnkd.in/exyAWtir
Out in Evolutionary Human Sciences! With @mikekestemont.bsky.social, @jbcamps.bsky.social, @remcosleiderink.bsky.social & Anne Chao New work on unseen species models for cult heritage to the question: how many stories were _shared_ between medieval French and Dutch literature? lnkd.in/exyAWtir
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Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature by Mike Kestemont et al | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core
Saved in translation? Diversity shared in French and Dutch medieval literature - Volume 8
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For the non-Dutchies: as of yesterday, I’m a professor by special appointment at Utrecht University! Same research, new title.
Meertens Instituut@meertens-knaw.bsky.social · 6mo ago🎓 Folgert Karsdorp bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Utrecht! Met trots delen we dat onze collega @folgertk.bsky.social is benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Computationele methoden voor onderzoek naar culturele verandering aan de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Lees meer🔗 tinyurl.com/2u5fbx63
🎓 Folgert Karsdorp bijzonder hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Utrecht! Met trots delen we dat onze collega @folgertk.bsky.social is benoemd tot bijzonder hoogleraar Computationele methoden voor onderzoek naar culturele verandering aan de @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. Lees meer🔗 tinyurl.com/2u5fbx63
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It's incredibly important to have a journal like Open Humanities Data. Had the pleasure working with @l-teixeiracosta.bsky.social to publish a dataset of 11k+ records from the first illustrated flora of the Netherlands (19th century) 👀 Look at that turnaround time: 1 month! doi.org/10.5334/johd...
📆 Mark your calendars: the 7th edition of CHR will take place 5–8 January 2027 in Manchester, UK, organized by the Center for Digital Humanities, Culture and Media at The University of Manchester. We hope it’s the perfect way to beat the post-Christmas and New Year blues. See you at #CHR2027!
The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.
Work (also) with me! Two years postdoc in the @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, based in Edinburgh. Will do transmission chain experiments to understand the spread of heritage-based hostility, online and elsewhere. More info ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Chiara Bonacchi@chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · 8mo ago📣 PDRA JOB (2 Years, full-time) based in Psychology, @schoolofppls.bsky.social: We are hiring a Post-doctoral Research Associate, to work on Strand B (experimental) of our @weaponisedpasts.bsky.social project, generously funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk.
What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...
Listen to the First Computer-Generated Christmas Carols, From Alan Turing's Lab
"Jingle Bells" and "Good King Wenceslas" haven't sounded like this in a long time.
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Presented my paper "The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School" on #CHR2025 and it won the ERC Best Long Paper Award! Delighted and grateful :) @comphumresearch.bsky.social
Great blog by @suttonkoeser.bsky.social introducing the Software Paper and what it takes to publish one in the CHR journal! @comphumresearch.bsky.social #chr #computationalhumanities
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 8mo ago'Publishing a ‘Software Paper’ in Computational Humanities Research: Undate', a new blog by Rebecca Sutton Koeser - 📚 https://cup.org/4aBlIoP #chr #computationalhumanities
Excited for session 2B this afternoon at #CHR2025! @melvinwevers.bsky.social presents our work (w. @folgertk.bsky.social) using Faith's Phylogenetic Diversity to quantify archival silence and bias. We're measuring the diversity of the Dutch National Archive's photographic collection. edu.nl/7cbef
📢 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)!
Edited by Taylor Arnold, Margherita Fantoli, and Ruben Ros
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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
!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 🗃️
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
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Me: Hi Chat, is there a seahorse emoji? Chat: chatgpt.com/share/68edf3...
ChatGPT - Seahorse emoji search
Shared via ChatGPT
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Platforming my way through the new #silksong, had to think of this happy little camper: youtube.com/shorts/cmc8a...
He Was Just Fixing Signs…
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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....
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…”
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
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 12mo ago📢 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
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)…”
It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones Theologiae | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
It takes a village to write a book: Mapping anonymous contributions in Stephen Langton’s Quaestiones Theologiae - Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 12mo ago📢 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
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…”
Looking for the inner music: Probing LLMs’ understanding of literary style | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
Looking for the inner music: Probing LLMs’ understanding of literary style - Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 12mo ago📢 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
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…”
From dictionaries to LLMs – an evaluation of sentiment analysis techniques for German language data | Computational Humanities Research | Cambridge Core
From dictionaries to LLMs – an evaluation of sentiment analysis techniques for German language data - Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 12mo ago📢 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
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!
Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · 12mo ago📢 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
📢 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
