Years in the making with Gary Lupyan and Sean Roberts, our paper on semantic alignment across languages in out today: nature.com/articles/s4156… [pdf: rdcu.be/b6aW6]

➡️ In the latest essay for Exponential View, Nina Schick looks at what #Covid19 is teaching us about our information ecosystem exponentialview.co/p/control-to-c…

Sunday Short Read from Creative Nonfiction 💔:

📍Our next #SpectrumsofDH talk by Prof. Andrew Piper is next week > Tues, Feb 16 @ 1-2pm EST Andrew Piper DM us or 📧[email protected] for a Zoom invite! McGill University McGillARTS Digital Scholarship Hub ADHO CSDH-SCHN @CulturalAnalyt txtlab

Delighted to be joining the @NeukomInstitute Dartmouth 🌲 as a @NeukomFellows this fall

Looking forward to our special issue on aural metaphors in literary criticism: computer voices, translated birds, multilingual texts, cross-textual reverberations... ed. Shuangyi Li 李双翼 with Laura Alice Chapot and more xiaoshuo.blog/2021/03/29/sou…

Finally starting my #OCR in #Python for #DigitalHumanities (#DH) series! We will be using Pillow, OpenCV, and Tesseract. We will work with multiple languages & multiple types of documents. Video: youtu.be/tQGgGY8mTP0

It's finally here! Project MUSE - Canadian Review of #ComparativeLiterature / Revue Canadienne de #LittératureComparée: Special Issue: #CulturalResonance & #EchoChamber of #Reading. Astrid Møller-Olsen, Dr. 艾喜 🐸 Laura Alice Chapot #HappyEaster! 😊😊😊 muse.jhu.edu/issue/44208#.Y….

The application deadline for the Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institute is one week away (4/15)! Learn #digitalhumanities and #datascience skills from incredible instructors. Apply here: labs.jstor.org/tapi/ Made possible by funding from National Endowment for the Humanities ITHAKA

I have a new article out w/ @tedunderwood.me (is at 🦋, not here). Ted has a thread going discussing the method/findings - here I want to talk more generally about it for a non-technical audience, ie "I care about culture but I don't care about data, why is this important?" >>> culturalanalytics.org/article/24911-…

We're ready to start something new! It's the Journal of Computational Literary Studies (JCLS) and our first Call for Papers just went live! Find out more here: jcls.io/site/cfp/ | Editors: @[email protected] [email protected] Peer Trilcke (peertrilcke.bsky.social) Christof Schöch – https://fedihum.org/@christof | CC: @spp_cls CLS INFRA | @CLSinfra@fedihum | @clsinfra.bsky ^cs

Applications are now open for the UCML ECA Support Network's year-long mentoring partnerships! The scheme will pair ECAs in Modern Languages (UK & Ireland) affected by precarity with experienced colleagues from Sept 2021-22 to support their overall career development. 1/2

Early Career researchers in Modern Languages in the UK — particularly independent scholars and researchers without (much) institutional support — consider applying to @UCML_ECA’s mentoring scheme. It was a great source of support and advice for me, highly recommend!

Ahead of print! On women, global decadence and languages. Decadent women poets: translingual thresholds tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

With classes starting up again, I wanted to share the latest version of Intro to Cultural Analytics & Python, which now includes resources for: - Multilingual text analysis (🙏 @quinnanya) - Twarc2 & academic Twitter API - Sentiment analysis Textbook📘: bit.ly/IntroCA

‘These paths take us to places we could not imagine if we limited ourselves to the analog and the Anglophone’. The #DigitalModernLanguages Section Launch Issue afterword by @quinnanya is available to read, along with the whole issue, free via #OpenAccess ➡️bit.ly/3o1ttf1

River Teeth is open for submissions until May 1st. We take all shapes and sizes of creative nonfiction, so don’t be shy! Check out our submission guidelines here: riverteethjournal.com/journal/submis… Check out our last issue here: riverteethjournal.com/blog/2021/11/3…

✨BADS Essay and Translation Prizes - submission deadline 31 August 2022. For full guidelines please see bads.gold.ac.uk/essay-prizes. Winners will be published in the Autumn 2022 issue of Volupté ✨