Michael Piotrowski @true_mxp@qoto.org

"As generative media gets better, we have this notion that at any point, you're gonna be able to turn on the future equivalent of Netflix and watch a show perpetually, nonstop as much as you want."

#AI #entertainment #media
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/01/31/206257/nothing-forever-is-an-endless-seinfeld-episode-generated-by-ai?utm_source=feedly1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

It has become increasingly clear to me that the wide availability of AI-based text generation tools coupled with the "publish-or-perish" incentive of the current scientific publishing system is a dangerous mix, which puts academia on a straight path to becoming a cargo cult. So I wrote an essay about it. Below is a short summary: 1/

https://lookalikes.substack.com/p/publish-or-perish-and-chatgpt-a-dangerous

#scicomm #academia #llm #chatgpt #publishing #science #research #writing

NLProc Mastodon verse: to all CL/NLP people out there, out of curiosity, ---given you {are working
|do research|are educated} in Computational Linguists or Natural Language Processing: do you have a preference?

New preprint:
Explainable prediction of catalysing enzymes from reactions using multilayer perceptrons

- Explain reaction classification using DRFP, DeepSHAP
- Viz with SmilesDrawer
- Predict enzyme catalysts for any reaction

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.28.526009v1

#Bioinformatics
#Chemistry
#MachineLearning
#Science

Commissioned by the British consul Daniel-Fitzgerald Barton, Victoria Hall in #Geneva was built between 1891 and 1893 to plans by Swiss architect John Camoletti. It was inaugurated in 1894.

📢Join a team of linguists from USI Lugano, Basel University, University of Lausanne, and University of Neuchatel to work on #opendata in the study of #talkininteraction. Part-time assistant position, M.A. or PhD 🗓 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.

📋Project description:
The research assistant will contribute to the project “Data-sharing skills in corpus-based research on talk-in-interaction” short title: CHORD-Talk), which is part of the Open Research Data (ORD) program currently promoted by SwissUniversities and involves USI (leading house, coordinator: Johanna Miecznikowski) and the universities of Basel (Lorenza Mondada and Martin Luginbühl), Lausanne (Jérôme Jacquin) and Neuchâtel (Simona Pekarek). Audio-video recorded and transcribed corpora of spoken language in interaction are collected by a diversity of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. They are particularly complex and offer several challenges to ORD practices. The project aims at identifying the conditions that must be fulfilled in order to prepare and treat audio-video corpora of spoken language in interaction as ORD in a meaningful way. The project team members will analyse and assess existing ORD practices related to audio-video interactional data by reviewing the relevant literature, critically reflecting on their own practices, and organising workshops with international experts from leading data-hosting institutions. The team will explore possibilities to improve ORD practices, with a particular focus on researchers’ data-sharing skills and on the Swiss situation. It will engage with the concerned disciplines and communities, e.g. in the fields of interactional linguistics, conversation analysis and dialogue-oriented argumentation studies, and evaluate procedures to disseminate relevant knowledge in these communities in the future.

@linguistics @dh #linguistics #EMCA #corpuslinguistics #jobopportunities

Really interested in a post-doc who'd like to spend 2 yrs at @BrownCSDept teaching programming languages w/ me 1 sem and doing research rest of year. Any interested PhD students graduating in the near future? [Legalese: not a formal job posting, that will follow later.]

Wer kennt Beispiele von kumulativen Dissertationen in der (Computer-)Linguistik?

Who knows examples of #cumulative dissertations in (computational) #linguistics, especially from Germany?
#followerPower #linguistik @linguistics

🇬🇧We are the SVGA association (created after the Pixelvetica project), which aims to promote the preservation of video games in Switzerland and to bring together professionals in the field.

Do not hesitate to follow us or to contact us 👉 https://svga.ch/

🇩🇪Wir sind der Verein SVGA (im Zuge des Pixelvetica-Projekts gegründet), der die Erhaltung von Videospielen in der Schweiz fördert und Fachleute aus der Branche zusammenbringen will.

Wir freuen uns über jede Kontaktaufnahme! 👉https://svga.ch/

🇫🇷Nous sommes l'association SVGA (créée dans le sillage du projet Pixelvetica), visant à promouvoir la préservation du jeu vidéo en Suisse et à rassembler les professionnel·le·s du milieu.

N'hésitez pas à nous suivre ou à nous solliciter 👉 https://svga.ch/

We have 8(!) new positions for Assistant Professor (1.0 FTE) at our Media & Culture Studies department at Utrecht University. Apply to be my new colleague :D https://www.uu.nl/organisatie/faculteit-geesteswetenschappen/over-de-faculteit/vacatures

Multivocal publications, Interactive #Historiography, Scholarly #Hypertext... Whatever you want to call it - I am looking forward to discussing the potential, limits & epistemic implications of interlinked publication formats with #EthanKleinberg! 👉 "Domino Discussion" @ Center for Theories in Historical Research, #UniBielefeld 🌐 On-site & online: https://aktuell.uni-bielefeld.de/event/ethan-kleinberg-wesleyan-christian-wachter-goettingen-dominogespraech-geschichte-digital-schreiben-hypertext-als-non-lineare-wissensrepraesentation-in-der-digital-history/ #DigitalHistory #DHTheorie #TheoryOfHistory

Zum Nachhören: #Idiotikon-Mitarbeiterin Manuela Weibel im Gespräch mit #SRF-Mitarbeiter Christian Schmutz über das neue #Mundart|korpus auf chmk.ch: https://www.srf.ch/play/radio/redirect/detail/08481e5a-b0ab-4b12-b584-266eb109cdae

#SVG ausprobieren und verstehen mit meiner Spielwiese. https://datenverdrahten.de/svglbc/pocketsvgeditor/

Dazu ein Erklärvideo aus einem Onlinekurs. https://datenverdrahten.de/svglbc/pocketsvgeditor/PSE_Tutorial.html

I am looking for three post-docs!

You are interested in questions like: What is the effect of design choices of news recommender systems or social media platforms on news dissemination or public debate?
You have affinity with social-science approaches and theories as well as with computational methods? Then apply with us in Amsterddam @UvA_ASCoR (deadline 17-2) and spread the word!
https://www.academictransfer.com/en/323022/three-post-docs-in-computational-communication-science/
@communicationscholars
@politicalscience
@computationalsocialscience
#commodon

Dr Anastasia Salter on the Role of Digital Humanities at Hypertext

what is really valuable about the Hypertext experience “especially for newcomers is that your conference papers reach a wider audience ...”

Read more: https://ht.acm.org/dr-anastasia-salter-on-the-role-of-digital-humanities-at-hypertext/

«Die Geschichte des Nimmer» - Yannick Rochat @yrochat schreibt im Blog «Spiel-Kultur-Wissenschaft» über die Ursprünge elektronischer Spiele in der Schweiz: https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/3859

Et voici l'article original en français dans Le Temps: https://blogs.letemps.ch/yannick-rochat/2020/07/11/lhistoire-du-nimmer-lun-des-premiers-jeux-electroniques-concus-en-suisse-1968/