Melanie Walsh presents “AI Fiction in the Wild” | Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
In the fall, @mellymeldubs.bsky.social shared insights from WildChat, a public dataset with 1M+ user-consented 'real-world' ChatGPT convos.
This event was held with @ucbids.bsky.social as part of the Cultural Analytics series.
https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/melanie-walsh-presents-“ai-fiction-wild”
04.03.2026 20:14
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Today’s the day! Submit your abstract by midnight AoE and be part of our 5th Annual Conference #CCLS2026 @dhpotsdam.bsky.social !!! 💻📚🔦🔍
#LiteraryComputing #JCLS #DigitalHumanities
03.03.2026 10:05
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Such amazing colleagues!!! 🥳
Many thanks to the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social for this great opportunity! ☀️
03.03.2026 07:46
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It was a truly rewarding week in Vienna! Many thanks to the organizers and the #DH community for the inspiring exchanges and insights into ongoing research. As always, we are already looking forward to next year’s DHd! (4/4)
27.02.2026 13:48
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At the poster session, Mari and Steffi presented the editorial workflow of the fortext journal, from Call for Papers to publication. 📝 Great conversations with participants sparked new ideas for future editions and underlined the ongoing importance of a focus on DH teaching. (3/4)
27.02.2026 13:48
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This week, part of our team attended #DHd2026 in sunny Vienna — it was a joy to meet the community, exchange ideas, and present some of our current work 👇 (1/4)
27.02.2026 13:46
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In the session “Epistemology & Interpretation,” @evelyngius.bsky.social made the case for measurement in DH, showing what analysis processes can learn from measurement theory, bridging everything from temperature to hermeneutic interpretation. A manifesto in the making. ✨ (2/4)
27.02.2026 13:46
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Low-resolution preview version of our conference poster showing 750 network graphs extracted from the German Drama Corpus.
Here's our #DHd2026 poster: 750 co-presence networks from the German Drama Corpus, in chronological order. Extracted via rdracor, assembled by our art director @schwindt.bsky.social.
Full res:
doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...
Abstract:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#DraCor @dracor.org #DigitalHumanities
26.02.2026 10:06
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Foto des Posterbeitrags »Glaube, Liebe, Zukunftsangst – und Zimtkuchen. Ergebnisse einer szenenbasierten Analyse weiblicher Dialoge in GerDraCor mit dem Bechdel-Wallace-Test«
Noch ein #DraCor Poster auf der #DHd2026, von Sören Barkey (@unipotsdam.bsky.social).
tl;dr:
»Somit bestehen rund 5% der deutschsprachigen Dramen in DraCor den Bechdel-Wallace-Test in der vorliegenden Operationalisierung.«
Abstract:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
26.02.2026 16:08
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I'm at the #DHd2026 🎉
And the first day is already over!
At the workshop "Beyond m/w/d" I presented my approach to multi-layered, community-based and time-sensitive gender annotation for my corpus of German published slam poetry
23.02.2026 18:02
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CCLS2026 Call for Posters
One week left for submitting a poster proposal for #CCLS2026! #CallForPosters 🔜 03.03.26
23.02.2026 14:50
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Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar - School of Information
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
🚨 HIRING 🚨
The I School invites applications for up to three new full-time Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholars to start as soon as July 2026!
This program will allow researchers to develop their own research while collaborating with leading faculty.
Next review date is Feb 28! #academicsky
23.02.2026 21:30
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20.02.2026 12:24
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Michaela Mahlberg and Svenja Guhr in front of the Campanile at UC Berkeley.
@michamahlberg.bsky.social’s stay concluded with a workshop at the AI Futures Lab as part of the #CulturalAnalytics series, where she introduced the new add-on #Flexicon for the concordance web application #CLiC.
Dear Michaela, thank you for these productive and collegial days of exchange. 💻✍️📚
20.02.2026 00:51
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CARL stands for Cultural Analytics Research Lab
The visit also provided a good opportunity to involve students. At CARL, the #CulturalAnalytics Research Lab I have been leading since its founding in January. We did a trial run of the talk and discussed current approaches to using language models for classification tasks in #CLS.
20.02.2026 00:48
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Abstract of DHd2026 contribution
Building on these topics, we spent the following days drafting a new article and preparing our talk, “Soundful Dickens,” analyzing the fictional soundscape of the #Dickens Novel corpus (DNov). We’ll present it next week at the #DHd2026 Conference in Vienna.
#DigitalHumanities #BritishFiction
20.02.2026 00:45
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Michaela’s talk at the I School
She inaugurated our #Bellwether Lecture Series with her talk on “Making Sense of the World through Language and Stories: A Digital Humanities Perspective” followed by a lively discussion on concordances, generative AI, and research responsibility in the #DigitalHumanities
20.02.2026 00:40
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UC Berkeley Campanile
UC Berkeley campus with view on Golden Gate Bridge
Last week (11–13 Feb), I had the pleasure of welcoming @michamahlberg.bsky.social from @dhssto.bsky.social the the @berkeleyischool.bsky.social
#DigitalHumanities #LiteraryComputing
20.02.2026 00:38
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Skyline of Santiago de Chile at sunset
I’ll be in Santiago de Chile (March 23–27) and would love to connect with folks working in Digital Humanities / Computational Literary Studies.
Any recommendations or contacts I should reach out to?
#CLS #DH #LiteraryComputing #Networking #JCLS
12.02.2026 00:55
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HalluCitation Matters: Revealing the Impact of Hallucinated References with 300 Hallucinated Papers in ACL Conferences
Recently, we have often observed hallucinated citations or references that do not correspond to any existing work in papers under review, preprints, or published papers. Such hallucinated citations pose a serious concern to scientific reliability. When they appear in accepted papers, they may also negatively affect the credibility of conferences. In this study, we refer to hallucinated citations as "HalluCitation" and systematically investigate their prevalence and impact. We analyze all papers published at ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP in 2024 and 2025, including main conference, Findings, and workshop papers. Our analysis reveals that nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation, most of which were published in 2025. Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025, the most recent conference, indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing. Moreover, more than 100 such papers were accepted as main conference and Findings papers at EMNLP 2025, affecting the credib
"We analyze all papers published at ACL, NAACL, and EMNLP in 2024 and 2025... nearly 300 papers contain at least one HalluCitation... Notably, half of these papers were identified at EMNLP 2025 ... indicating that this issue is rapidly increasing."
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.18724
28.01.2026 17:40
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The article makes it sound scary, but this is actually THE most efficient and cost effective legal way to do it. The reason I've fought for DMCA exemptions to ebook cracking for scholars is they don't have AI-scale money to build corpora this way for understanding & teaching cultural history.
27.01.2026 15:44
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Comparison of Days Passed from Final Acceptance to Publication (2022 vs. 2023 vs. 2024 vs. 2025)
From final review to publication
We're especially proud of our accelerated publication process, from final acceptance to article publication. That's when the editors and editorial assistants handle: copyediting, code review, typesetting, publication, and article advertising.
#AcademicPublishing #Journal
20.01.2026 18:16
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JCLS Welcome Slide of the Board Meeting 2026
Today was our annual board meeting, where the editors reported on the first 4 issues of #JCLS with statistics on the submission/acceptance ratio, conference participation, and the accelerated publication process since the first issue.
#LiteraryComputing #Journal #CCLS2026 #NewYear #Issue5
20.01.2026 18:06
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