fpianz.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

Today's my last day as a presidential professor at Penn. It's a bittersweet transition: precipitated by a snarl of snafus, ideally leading to something new + hopeful. I'm stepping away from the academy — at least for a while — and hoping to champion higher learning + public knowledge in new contexts

submitted 18 hours ago • 102 comments

Have you completed an MA in literary studies? Interested in using your literary skills to research AI-generated stories? Like to work in a collaborative, innovative, friendly team? Apply for a fully funded 4-year PhD fellowship at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social at @unibergen.bsky.social in Norway!

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Open Science requires open software: "Both ethically and practically it doesn't make sense to do open research without using open software."

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Stellenmarkt: PhD Research Fellow in Digital Sociology/Sociology of Artificial Intelligence https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/282726/phd-research-fellow-in-digital-sociology-sociology-of-artificial-intelligence University of Agder

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#DigitalHumanities Postdoc

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

📣 My department at Uppsala University is now looking for a PhD student in Information Studies, AI and Digital Humanities research: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Just tried the 2B model for a hard knowledge extraction task from fiction (in English)... it got it right! 2B! 🤯 We'll see how it goes with other languages. #ComputationalHumanities

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Digital humanists, I'm once again asking that you put a clear and full link to citation on the FRONT PAGE of your website, not buried four submenus inside the project. Label this "how to cite" or "credit" and ideally provide the desired citation. Otherwise we just can't cite you consistently.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

JOB: Postdoc in Digital Humanities (Computer Vision & Performing Arts) at Université Rennes 2 Full-time, starting Oct 2025, part of ERC project STAGE. Apply by 8 Sep 2025 #DigitalHumanities #ComputerVision #PerformingArts #Postdoc #ERC #JobOpportunity #CulturalHeritage […]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

3 tabs opened, a note-pad with a to-do-list in front of you, and a pair of spectacles handy. Surfing on the #earlymodern internet in 1622. #skystorians

submitted 196 days ago • 9 comments

Lot's of things will be going on at #ADHO's #DH2025 conference in #Lisbon in a bit more than two weeks! One of the is the "Mini-Conference" on temporal data / temporal modeling in DH called "The times they are a-changing", on Tuesday, July 15, from 9 to 3:15pm […] [Original post on fedihum.org]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#CCLS2025 kicks off in just one week! 🎉 One of the highlights of the #SocialProgram is our #ConferenceDinner in the Stuba Communis, the medieval dining hall of Jagiellonian University, which is now part of its museum. Yes, #Copernicus likely dined there too. 🌍✨ #JCLS #CLS #LiteraryComputing

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

@dukepress.bsky.social is joining our Direct to Open (D2O) program! Starting in 2026, twenty frontlist titles from DUP's renowned catalog will publish #OpenAccess each year, broadening the range of scholarly content available to D2O library partners. Visit us at #ALAAC25 (table 2028) to learn more:

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The #DraCor infrastructure facilitates the study of #drama starting from Greco-Roman antiquity to the 20th century. Thus, it may be used in #ClassicalReceptionStudies and #ComparativeLiterature. Join us for the DraCor Summit in Berlin to exchange ideas! #ClassicsBluesky #LitWiss

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Review deadline extended: July 9! There is still time to apply to the Curator of Literary & Poetry Collections position at Emory! apply.interfolio.com/167978 I’m very happy to speak to folks about this role! This is a phenom. opportunity to work with a stellar staff and unparalleled collections!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Hoping this can be made public soon. There will soon be a lot of medieval HTR fine-tunes of Qwen 2.5 VL! =) Got a Transkribus dataset that you want to train Qwen 2.5 VL on? Please reach out! More than happy to do the training for you if we can make the model public (pls the data too).

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

If you're interested in moving to Montreal for a postdoc in #NeuroAI or related topics, check out this scholarship opportunity at @fasudem.bsky.social : fas.umontreal.ca/postdoctoral... And let me know if you'd like to chat about it.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

HEY! Do you want to read webcomics but don't know where to start? Well good news, I do! Check out the Webcomic Travelogue, a catalogue of tagged webcomics at your finger tips! We also feature webcomics for each month, this months webcomcis are for PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈 webcomictravelogue.com

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

A glowing report from Jeff Lawrence on our conference last week ("every panel I heard addressed an urgent and fundamental question about the academic study of literature"): open.substack.com/pub/jefflawc...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

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/

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

✍️ 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

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

data.post45.org/posts/futuri... cool dataset alert!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

"Gold 🏆, Green💚, Diamond💎: What you should know about Open Access Publishing Models" a presentation by DARIAH Open Science Officer Françoise Gouzi, is now available on Zenodo! ➡️ Find out more about #OpenAccess here: zenodo.org/records/1565...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

⚡️Exciting job opportunity at the University of Geneva: assistant or associate professor of platform studies⚡️ #STS #MediaStudies #DigitalSociology #DigitalAnthropology #AcademicSky

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone in my network been involved in NLP4DH (www.nlp4dh.com/home)? If so, what was it like? Good impressions/experiences? Bad impressions/experiences? I’d like your honest take. Please comment below (or DM me if you’re more comfortable with that). #DigitalHumanities #NLP #NLProc

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower was published in 1993 and starts in 2024—a 31-year leap. Are creators imagining futures that are closer or further away? Explore a new dataset of 2.5k narrative works set in the future, each tagged with its release year and setting. doi.org/10.18737/552...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I’m so excited that my book is now out in the world. It pulls together my scholarly training in African American literature with my turn to digital humanities. I’ve also published the complete data dataset of 100 years of AFAM and am lit anthologies that is the backbone of the book.

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Two incredible positions at the Digitale Mozart-Edition in Salzburg: • Web Developer (m/w/d) – 30-35 hours/week, permanent position • Digital Humanities Expert (m/w/d) – 20-30 hours/week, permanent position More info at: dme.mozarteum.at/en/about-us/... #DigitalHumanities

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Registration is now open for the #DraCor Summit in Berlin, 1–5 September 2025! summit.dracor.org Discover a varied programme feat. workshops, lectures, discussion rounds, and hackathon sessions. @temporal-communities.de @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @dhpotsdam.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I am looking for a postdoc for my ERC WEB CHILD project. 2,5ys. Aarhus, Denmark. Well paid. Amazing team. You don't need a PhD in history or prior knowledge of digital methods 😄 You do need fluent Korean and English and interest in collaborative work. www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The humanities can reshape AI and computer science. How to imagine new realities is the next big thing. Fiction, comparative literature, linguistics ... will offer their tools. Excited to discuss this at Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I'm hiring at least one post-doc! We're interested in creating language models that process language more like humans than mainstream LLMs do, through architectural modifications and interpretability-style steering. Express interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

🤣

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I was wondering when tech media was going to pick up this paper. :) "Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book": arstechnica.com/features/202... Coincidentally, I made a video about this paper a couple of weeks ago in a response to a comment I got elsewhere online.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

While you share that arXiv preprint that does not say what you think it does, I'll just leave this peer-reviewed Nature paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Finally, @kylelo.bsky.social on the Olmo Cookbook! Pretraining data curation practices, challenges and frustrations, practical advice for your data curation. Starts with an overview: data acquisition, transformation, experimentation

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Who would win The 37 best players in Britain & Ireland, or Gonzalo Garcia and Joaquin Oviedo on their own

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

We’re hiring at Princeton on AI and society, working with Arvind Narayanan or me depending on fit. I think current AI developments are all a huge deal but am very unexcited by current state of the AGI and/or AI safety discourse. Please share as you see fit. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

🎉 After 2 years of work, our #OpenScience guide for researchers in developing countries is LIVE! Check out our new preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... We map the opportunities 🌟 + barriers 🧱 facing Global South researchers. (1/4)

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

📢 The #CCLS2025 Conference Reader is out! It includes #preprints of the 16 papers to be presented in Kraków, July 3–4. 📄 DOIs for individual papers: jcls.io/site/ccls2025/ 📒 Download the full reader: jcls.io/media/journa... #CLS #JCLS #LiteraryComputing #CulturalAnalytics #Conference

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

I am thrilled to share a new article in Sociological Methods & Research, “Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages”. My co-first author Sol Messing and our collaborators developed a new approach to measuring “narrative similarity” between texts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Off to Beijing for digital history week at Beida and the 20th anniversary of China Biographical Database. 18 years ago I wrote a long report about this massive undertaking's problems and possibilities. What I asked for then was more than fully realized, no mean feat, kudos to all involved. /1

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I love this text which references the important work of @shannonmattern.bsky.social 💚 "What might cataloging look like if it embraced what Shannon Mattern calls “intellectual infrastructure” — systems designed not to enforce singular meanings but to facilitate multiple interpretations?"

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Extremely useful tool to compare the performance of LLMs on specific tasks.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Exciting Friday news. Michigan State University Press has adopted the model for funding open access books that I designed: Opening the Future! More about all that: msup.openingthefuture.net

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

I just pulled out my copy of Newton's Principia, a book that was originally written in Latin, and noticed that the translation I am using was completed with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has basically been destroyed Science depends on the humanities 🧪

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments