@menyalas
PhD student using a critical digital humanities methodology, including natural language processing and Bayesian data analysis, to study well-being in 19th century letters and diaries. #lifewriting #wellbeing #Bayes #DH
The deadline for submissions to the upcoming Digital Humanities Summer Institute aligned conference in Montreal is this Friday, January, 30, 2026.
La date limite pour soumettre des propositions au colloque parallèle du Digital Humanities Summer Institute est fixée à ce vendredi 30 janvier 2026.
We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be
We have slots of nice looking cores at this site. This is what a sediment core looks like on Subastian
We are streaming from 900m
#AsgardArchaea team, led by @archaeal.bsky.social fr @texasscience.bsky.social — sequencing the DNA collected fr mouth of Rio de la Plata to the continental shelf of Uruguay to detect Asgards, a group of single-celled organisms & our closest microbial relatives on the tree of life. bit.ly/3MdniTH
ROV in the water, diving to 2600m
Here's the R/V Falkor (too) and the bay inside with the amazing robot sub (SuBastian), suspended from a giant A frame for deploying it through an even larger door. The two workbenches in front give you a sense of scale. You can also just make out @archaeal.bsky.social in front of the Falkor
This fluttery finned fish, possibly from the family Oreosomatidae, was spotted during #AsgardArchaea at around 1000 m. Read more about this expedition led by @archaeal.bsky.social from @texasscience.bsky.social here: https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/searching-for-the-asgard/
In the water diving to 900m. www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
#AsgardArchaea
@schmidtocean.bsky.social
@moorefound.bsky.social
@texasscience.bsky.social
@utmsi.bsky.social
Stormy waters have cleared. Winds and light. Currents moderate. Live streaming from 850m. Collecting push cores.
Other researchers in action on Falkor (too)
Watching the sunset from the Falkor (too) decks. Looking for the green flash.
For everyone who puts words on pages…
Waiting for the wind to subside, while the ship maps a channel on the sea floor for the next dive, Galen visits the bridge and settles right in.
Viperfish? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Solmissus #76590087345 (aka Reginald) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Siphonophore @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
I've not seen a colobonema colored quite like this before. Beautiful job pilots! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Pelagothuria flyby! Haven't seen one of these in a while. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Mastigoteuthis @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Enteropneusta & Bathysaurus @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
I have not seen a acorn worm travel like that. Cool! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
Benthocodon @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 867 #asgardarchaea #MarineLife
May be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. If you want to know why it’s called a strawberry squid, watch the video
Livestream dive two. We see a strawberry squid and a sea of brittle stars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZLe...
So long as all humanities students take a statistics course, particularly journalism students, with an emphasis on hypothesis testing, Bayes' Theorem, and statistical significance.
webpage screenshot for Humanities Data Analysis course, featuring Bayes with laser eyes
This semester I ported a course by @mikekestemont.bsky.social from R to Python and taught it alongside a great colleague. Designed for Humanities Masters students with no maths and little Python, it takes you through univariate stats, testing, distributions, and finishes with Bayesian modelling.
I'm super excited to announce that ISBA @isba-bayesian.bsky.social has voted to start a new section on Bayesian Social Sciences! It will be a great way to further collaborations with many disciplines in the Social Sciences and Humanities.
bss-isba.github.io
I’m teaching an environmental humanities course this fall and you can bet I’m going to be assigning this post (and your column) as we discuss the impact / ethics of AI use.
