Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

Anyone who reads Reinhart Koselleck’s texts in German will be aware of two striking features in the ways he uses language: first, a frequent recourse to certain metaphorical expressions, and second, an extensive use of a limited number of rather peculiar words, or, contrariwise, of familiar words in an idiosyncratic way.

At ➡ Geschichtstheorie am Werk, Willibald Steinmetz applies historical semantics to one of its founders:

https://gtw.hypotheses.org/11421

#hypoverse #Koselleck100

And on modelling and DH, see also here, by @true_mxp:

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/d2kb6/

Another solicitation for assistance from the #Mastadon-ian side of the #Fediverse:

What's a good #Linux (or #Web) based #XML editor that can handle versioning? 𝘐.𝘦., automatically label changes with HTMLish <𝚒𝚗𝚜></𝚒𝚗𝚜> and <𝚍𝚎𝚕></𝚍𝚎𝚕>, or even something like #Wikipedia's history (although being able to see the changes inline would be better)?

There's got to be such a beast, surely?

Call for Participations: (Hybrid) Workshop on Extracting Heterogeneous Reference Data, 15/16 May 2023, #mpilhlt Frankfurt/M., Germany.

Interested in extracting literature references from historical texts, scholarly literature in the humanities, documents in low-resourced languages? Want to apply your language model to a new use case and enjoy the gratitude of dozens of humanities, law and social sciences scholars? Have a use case or training data?
Please have a look at our CfP:

https://mpilhlt.github.io/reference-extraction/workshop-2023/cfp

#DigitalHumanities #NLP #NaturalLanguageProcessing #ReferenceExtraction #LLM #Bibliometrics

We’re all prompt engineers for humans when we communicate with each other

Think about it the next time you talk to someone, particularly a stranger. How you start, how you craft your “input” (including body language, expression) will affect the “output” from the person 😁

It's really hard to tell which of these wickedly tough challenges will be solved first: AGI, people living on another planet, or getting OSX to remember which fucking screen a window was on when it wakes back up.

Say Hello to Ivory. We are now available to all on Apple’s App Store! We have launched as “Early Access” because we still have a lot of exciting plans ahead of that will make Ivory even better. Go download it, try it free for 7 days, and experience it for yourself!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

Ivory is on the App Store now - highly recommended. I’ve been on the beta for a while now, and subscribed immediately.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

At some point on some day/time yet to be determined, but after we do it here, we'll be announcing the availability of @ivory on our Twitter company accounts.

As part of this it'd be nice if we could include some suggested general interest instances that could handle a large (hopefully thousands) influx of users.

Any instance owners interested in this? We have links to https://joinmastodon.org/servers and https://instances.social in the onboarding.

But adding a few instances in the Tweet would be cool.

In the framework of a FNR-ANR project entitled "The mental health of migrants: actors, practices and networks (1950-1980, France, Switzerland, Germany)", I'm looking for a #PhD student

#histpsych #histmed

Please #retoot

https://recruitment.uni.lu/en/details.html?id=QMUFK026203F3VBQB7V7VV4S8&nPostingID=81136&nPostingTargetID=119464&mask=karriereseiten&lg=UK

It's a few years old now, but there's some very good ABS data explaining why people don't use public transport.

Service coverage and quality accounts for 78%. Cost was cited by 2.7% of people.

The priority is improving the service.

Source: https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/4602.0.55.002Main+Features40Mar+2012

After 12 years of using ref managers (first Mendeley, Zotero since 2018) my library is an absolute mess with thousands of partially read PDFs. Should I just start over with an empty library? Any tips?

Here's my review of @driscoll`s THE MODEM WORLD - the book explores little-known aspects from the (pre)history of social media, c. 1978-1995. The book's call to imagine a post-commercial online world hits the nerve of our time!

Can't recommend this book enough (go buy & read it)! I especially hope that the book will encourage scholars outside the US to explore the history of their local BBSs (that's still a niche).

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14614448221151051

#technologyandsociety #history

Having left Twitter for reasons, I’m dismayed to see some of my fellow refugees posting content from Twitter. RT’s. So that, to explore the content, I would need to connect to Twitter again.

Isn’t it worth the extra trouble to find the non-Twitter version of whatever it is you’re highlighting?

That is all. Thank you for listening.

📢Join a team of linguists from USI, Basel University, University of Lausanne, and University of Neuchatel to work on #openresearchdata in the study of #talkininteraction. Part-time assistant position 🗓 04/2023-09/2024 📩Apply before February 15! 📋Call: https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/ials/ials-call-assistant-project-chord-2023.pdf