Paper (open access): doi.org/10.1098/rsif... With Anne Kandler, @mikekestemont.bsky.social, Iza Romanowska and @rjstapel.bsky.social

One appendix result I really like is that standardizing to equal size, rarefaction, is often worse than not correcting at all… Even more so when collections are biased. Here too, coverage holds up surprisingly well.

The fix comes from paleontology: compare on shared completeness (which comes from Turing!) rather than sample size. Really impressive is that ~30 items already recovers the true ratio. Bias the collection yourself and see which method survives: www.karsdorp.io/posts/202606...

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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We said we'd have news. The first release based on our new quarterly release for eScriptorium is out, and our lead developer talks about it: escriptorium.eu/blog/2026-05... Will come on our Inria instance next week :)

Wat zijn we ontzettend trots op Korneel! Als zijn begeleiders mochten @mikekestemont.bsky.social en ik van dichtbij meevolgen hoe hij zich vastbeet in de 14de-eeuwse oorkonden van Jan van Boendale. Proficiat met dit indrukwekkende traject en de verdiende eerste plaats, Korneel! 🎉

Remco Sleiderink@remcosleiderink.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Breaking: Korneel Dewulf (16) wint Olympiade Nederlands 🥇 met onderzoek naar de 14de-eeuwse oorkonden van de Antwerpse dichter Jan van Boendale www.hln.be/eeklo/kornee...

Check out our (@sobchuk.bsky.social) special issue on the cultural evolution of the arts in Evolutionary Human Sciences, with papers from @mikekestemont.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social @svalver.bsky.social and more! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#jobklaxon 10 postdocs available at @psl-univ.bsky.social in #AI. Working language: English. Btw. #digitalhumanities also happen under the AI hype these days, so get in touch and walk by this very building on your way to work. Join me in being #touristatwork #juniorProfInParis

🎶 What shall we do with the unseen sailor early in the morning 🎶

Andres Karjus@andreskarjus.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#DHNB2026 Digital Humanities in the Nordics&Baltics conference starts in Aarhus, Denmark; intro from local organizers + first plenary by @folgertk.bsky.social & @mikekestemont.bsky.social on using the unseen species model for several interesting historical case studies. #DHNB #DH @dhnb.bsky.social

#DHNB2026 Digital Humanities in the Nordics&Baltics conference starts in Aarhus, Denmark; intro from local organizers + first plenary by @folgertk.bsky.social & @mikekestemont.bsky.social on using the unseen species model for several interesting historical case studies. #DHNB #DH @dhnb.bsky.social

If there were ever a time when I wished for the gift of ubiquity, it would be for this: dhnb.eu/conferences/... Really sorry not to be in Aarhus for @mikekestemont.bsky.social & Folgert Karsdorp's keynote "Forgotten knights, missing sailors, and hidden translations: The abundance of what was lost"

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

Always grateful for the awesome winter view on the quad from my office at @uantwerpen.be 🙏 Happy new year everyone!

According to our award committee, these papers are must-reads of the #CHR2025 proceedings. Congratulations to the authors on winning the Early Career Researcher Best Paper Awards! Links and honourable mentions are available on our website: 2025.computational-humanities-research.org/news/best-pa...

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

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

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

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. . . . It's a fragment of the Mainz Catholicon! 😱😱😱 #BookHistory 📚💙 📜 #Fragmentology

Mike Kestemont@mikekestemont.bsky.social · last yr.

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! 📚📖🔍

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…

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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/

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...

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!

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

École des chartes | PSL@ecoledeschartes.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Fine. More semicolons for the rest of us.

Matthias Eberl@eberlmat.bsky.social · last yr.

Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get any worse.

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 ...

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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...

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

Pieter Beullens@pieterbeullens.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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?

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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

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 🤞🍅🙏