#jobklaxon
Lecturer in #digitalhumanities
Application Deadline: 29.03.2026
Very sensible language policy, B1 after 2 years and B2 after five years.
Maybe of interest to the members of @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social
Come work with us! Tallinn Uni is hiring a second lecturer in DH&AI. Estonian proficiency not required, foreign applicants welcome, required phd can be in progress (expected to be completed), competitive salary+benefits, nice working environment close to the sea
candidate.recrur.com/public/jobad...
🚀 Postdoc Alert! Are you passionate about social learning & cultural evolution? @dominikdeffner.bsky.social & I have a 3-year position with freedom to develop your research and work on cutting-edge multiplayer and immersive experiments. Apply by March 30! hmc-lab.com/SocialLearni... Pls share 🙏
CALL: a PhD grant (3 years) to do a PhD with me at @cognitionens.bsky.social on the evolution of graphic codes. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/410213
In a new paper, we find that judging facts by messenger rather than content leads to polarising belief packages (e.g. latte liberals, leftist support for wind power, rightist for nuclear). Worryingly, recommender algorithms use this strategy. No need to read the paper; you can just trust me on this.
IMAGE SHOWS GRAPHIC OF CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY PHYLOGENY EXPLORER TOOL.
MAJOR NEWS! We just launched an awesome new tool! The illustrated Birds of the World Phylogeny Explorer lets users trace any bird’s lineage, compare species relationships, and explore major evolutionary milestones with a click of a button. SHARE and EXPLORE! birdsoftheworld.org/bow/news/phy...
Last term I tried an experiment: I walked into my Tech and Design Ethics class, admitted that I had *no idea* what to do about ChatGPT - so I would let them figure it out.
As in: their first project was to decide and write the ChatGPT policy for the class.
Here's what happened:
A colleague at MPI asked how to get better at math. My vote is Thompson and Gardner's classic *Calculus Made Easy* (originally published in 1910!) I've uploaded my own (almost complete) worked problem sets from this classic book. A few thoughts.../
Average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" plotted over time
I started reading up on the whole "loneliness pandemic" narrative because this seems like a literature where the age-period-cohort problem may be relevant (or maybe it isn't?).
Here's data from Australia (HILDA), average agreement with the statement "I often feel very lonely" (SD of ca. 1.8).>
Proc B with @sampassmore.bsky.social! We used simulations to explore the innovation strategies of speed climbers 🧗♀️ Innovation is higher among slower athletes and lower when the population size is larger, and the overall balance of innovation and copying appears to be suboptimal 🔗 bit.ly/499QjZM
The rise of AI tools that let you do anything to your data makes me want all of my data to be in more open formats. I want access to my Photos library as files, not an opaque archive. I want my journal entries in markdown, not locked down in Day One. The open standards people were always right.
Historians rock.
Good luck to Oleg!! I can say from experience that Oleg is a great person to know and work with: thorough, thoughtful, and with a clear big plan. He's been trailblazing the new field for almost a decade now. Look out for the job offers in the spring and the papers that follow! It's gonna be great! 🎉
New paper out today w @dalmaijer.bsky.social @barbaraklump.bsky.social and @lucymaplin.bsky.social as part of the Phil Trans special issue doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... Over 2 years, we studied a population of cockatoos thought to be the source of the innovation of bin-opening.
Cool paper on how experiences from pilot studies can become useful knowledge. Build analysis and transparent reporting into the process! 'Thick description' and iterated game design can show the way. Esp for complex objects like in #languageevolution, #experimentalsemiotics. Examples from Minecraft!
Join us today @cudanlab.bsky.social
for a lecture and discussion
feat. Oleg Sobchuk @sobchuk.bsky.social,
of @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social
on "Evolution of Literature and the Arts"
16:00-18:00 Tallinn time (UTC+2)
i.e. 60 minutes from this post.
Details & zoom:
cudan.tlu.ee/events/2025-...
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
The story of board game GO strategies from feudal era to AI, analyzed and visualized by @babeheim.bsky.social!
The disruption from AI players is visible but small compared to innovations from generations of humans.
Many more bites here:👉 doi.org/10.1017/ehs....
#digitalhumanities #history #games
Congratulations to Oleg Sobchuk and Arthur Kocher on being awarded @erc.europa.eu Starting Grants!! 🥳 @sobchuk.bsky.social will be exploring the macroevolution of European literature, while Kocher will be studying ancient pathogen dynamics. See: tinyurl.com/mr2m2zms & tinyurl.com/9cwdnc54
A group of handdrawn fish.
Why I 🧡 the web.
drawafish.com
Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
Excited to see 1st of the Evoluionary Human Sciences special issue on scientific racism come out! @kevinlala.bsky.social @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social @kztwyman.bsky.social & Marcus Feldman discuss impediments to countering racist pseudoscience & present 5 solutions www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Humanities methods breaking new grounds!
Poetic meters can be studied like gene sequences to trace their evolution in time and space. The method, evaluation, and case studies! Lots to learn from and reuse. #DH
Also, congratulations to @comphumresearch.bsky.social
on the first published volume!
✍️ 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
#DigiTS offers are here: digihum.ut.ee/en/news/cent... (@digitsut.bsky.social), #RiDeR offers are in @andreskarjus.bsky.social-s post above (e.g. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/337755).
Smart good people in both. Ideas ready for impact. Tartu itself is designed for university life. #AcademicSky #jobs
4 postdocs and 3 PhD positions in #DH, #CompSocSci, #AI, #TextMining & #Sustainability available Uni Tartu, Estonia! Deadlines May 15 for PhD students, June 2/16 for postdocs. 1) #RiDeR ERC project on Deep Sustainability Transitions, 2) #DigiTS ERA Chair project on Digital Text Scholarship. Links 👇
The most daming claim in this statement IMO:
Within 15 minutes of DOGE accounts being created…
Attackers in Russia tried logging in using those new creds.
Correct usernames and passwords.
2 options here. The DOGE device was hacked. And I don't think I need to explain the 2nd.
Urgh.
This is worth signing.
But it's also so worrying how dependent we are on The Internet Archive for cultural preservation - just one lawsuit away from oblivion.
decision trees in human play in the game of go before and after the arrival of superhuman AI, showing gradual change rather than revolutionary disruption
🚨 New preprint! 🚨
I looked at 400+ years of cumulative cultural evolution in the Game of Go from feudalism to superhuman AI. Did AlphaGo etc. completely disrupt human play? No! More like human-machine convergence, rather than revolution.
Check out these decision trees!
osf.io/preprints/ps...
"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.
