Next venues for the @adho-org.bsky.social DH conferences mentioned in #DH2026 closing ceremony. - #DH2027 28 June - 3 July 2027, Galway, Ireland dh2027.adho.org - #DH2028 4-7 July 2028 Capetown, South Africa - #DH2029 2029, Padua, Italy Hope that I can make some of these!

If England barely fights off the Norwegians, but then is too exhausted to resist France, you do realize we’re getting a tapestry about it

XVIIIe siècle : bibliographie • 711e livraison • 3 juillet 2026 • benoitmelancon.quebec/xviii/biblio... • #lumières #bibliographie • cc @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @csecsscedhs.bsky.social @alexandreklein.bsky.social @msonnet.bsky.social

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

🎭 Faire une pièce de théâtre avec l'IA ne veut pas dire se passer d'expertise humaine, bien au contraire ! 👉 Costumes, décors, peintures : découvrez les métiers et savoir-faire ancestraux qui ont donné vie à la pièce "L'Astrologue ou les Faux présages" : swll.to/0ckcnF

IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS Annual Conference

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

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Probably shouldn't have let a handful of weird business perverts unwind the cultural miracle of American research universities

☀️ Today's the day! We're welcoming about 60 participants on-site and 50 joining online for #CCLS2026, while Potsdam is showing off its full summer charm, with a sunny sky and just the right breeze for #CLS discussions. ... and did we mention the view from the #rooftop terrace? See you in a bit!

Issue 3 of Digital Enlightenment Studies out today! digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/issue/6/info/

”Computational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?”, published in Digital Enlightenment Studies: digitalenlightenmentstudies.org/article/id/64/

Computational hermeneutics: why study canonical figures like David Hume in the age of AI?

This article argues that figures like David Hume (1711–1776) should be studied in the age of AI not despite computation but through it. Drawing on Enlightenment studies and computational history, I sk...

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Whether people like it or not, use of AI in historical research is coming, and will have a big impact. The transcription process described here produces something quite new, and is scaleable. open.substack.com/pub/generati...

When Models Disagree...Transcription Accuracy Improves Significantly

Cross-LLM verification catches 76% of transcription errors, but it only works if we build systems that augment human abilities rather than replace them.

open.substack.com

Extrait | « Humanités numériques » (Hermann) « Sans peur de détruire les humanités philologiques, mais sans espoir démesuré de les sauver par le recours à un numérique qui peut être considéré, à tort, comme leur dépassement. » Plaidoyer pour une philologie hybride.

If you haven't read Benjamin Breen's thoughts on Talkie, you should! I agree that this is an exciting moment, exactly because we don't quite know yet what these things (historical language models) can or can't legitimately do. There are going to be temptations and false steps. Breen mentions +

Are "Vintage LLMs" the start of a new humanistic field?

Thoughts on Historical Language Models and Talkie-1930

resobscura.substack.com

Just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org ‘Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice: Making Oxford University Voltaire’ - free to read and download for the next few weeks! cup.org/3Qw6YQp @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice

Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - Digital Scholarly Editing in Practice

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Cagnotte terminée pour le volume en hommage à @benoitmelancon.bsky.social. Objectif atteint et même dépassé. Merci @glennroe.bsky.social @mariedmartel.bsky.social @marcandea.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy @msonnet.bsky.social et les autres ! #lumières #québec

New on the blog! @zenothankyou.bsky.social on Enlightenment in Upper Hungary: Notes from the library of the Sárospataki Református Kollégium voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/03/05/e...

Enlightenment in Upper Hungary: Notes from the library of the Sárospataki Református Kollégium

View of Sárospatak from the castle. Image by the author. In November I travelled to Hungary to go digging around the archives of the Sárospatak Reformed College (Sárospataki Református Kollégium). …

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Interested in applying for a Gale Digital Humanities fellowship for 2026/27 @bodleian.ox.ac.uk - join our online informational session on Wednesday! www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/gale-f...

Gale Fellowships information session - 2026/27

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Very much looking forward to @kategibson.bsky.social speaking about 'Fostering in 18th Century Britain' to @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social on Wednesday. All welcome either online or in person, but please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Fostering in eighteenth-century Britain

history.ac.uk

Interdisciplinary research ftw…!

Alessandro Rigolon@alerigolon.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Really interesting research showing that while ultra-specialization in a single discipline might lead to better results early in one’s career, multi-discipline training and practice pays off big time in the long run. This applies to a range of professions from scientists to athletes and more

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas

So pleased to have officially joined the Fellowship of @jesusoxford.bsky.social today - a vibrant academic community at the @ox.ac.uk since 1571.

Ce livre est une merveille Pour les masteurant-es, doctorant-es mais aussi pour les chercheureuses, même blanchi.es sous le harnais Une réflexion passionnante sur les nouvelles pratiques et écritures historiennes Merci @ccarolinemuller.bsky.social

📢 Call for Proposals: DH2026 📍 Daejeon, South Korea 🇰🇷 📅 July 27-31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submissions: Oct 8 - Dec 8, 2025 Hybrid conference w/ AI translation support More info: dh2026.adho.org/cfp/ #DH2026 #ADHO #KADH

CFP – DH2026 in Daejeon, South Korea

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions for its annual conference, DH2026, to be held in Daejeon, South Korea, from July 27 to 31, 2026.

dh2026.adho.org

Job! Postdoc in Digital Cultural Heritage: Data Ethics & Software Ecosystems, on new EU funded grant. 3.5 years, @designinf.bsky.social, Edinburgh. Design ethical processes, & evaluate open source tools for Digital Cultural Heritage Objects, with me! elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Great paper showing how far text embedding models have to go in capturing the semantics of phrases arxiv.org/abs/2506.08354

Text Embeddings Should Capture Implicit Semantics, Not Just Surface Meaning

This position paper argues that the text embedding research community should move beyond surface meaning and embrace implicit semantics as a central modeling goal. Text embedding models have become fo...

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Hey, the dataset is out now. A million books: huggingface.co/datasets/ins... H/t @naitian.org for the link

institutional/institutional-books-1.0 · Datasets at Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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SE Gyges@segyges.bsky.social · last yr.

can't wait til they actually upload the dataset to go with this one arxiv.org/abs/2506.08300

Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!

#CCLS2025 #conference is only a few weeks away, and registration will close soon! 😱 🔜 Register by Thursday, June 12, at 11:59 p.m. GMT+1 to join on site in #Krakow or #online. 💻 You can register directly here: www.konferencje-uj.pl?lang=en&go2r... #JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics

I had the honour of delivering this year’s Voltaire Foundation Digital Enlightenment Studies Lecture in Oxford. The talk is now available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6Nf...

Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History

YouTube video by Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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