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Looking forward to reading this! “Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction”, Journal of Computational Literary Studies4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.48694/jcls.4164
By Guhr, S., Monaco, J., Sherman, A., Warner, M. & Algee-Hewitt, M

Making BERT Feel at Home. Modelling Domestic Space in 19th-Century British and Irish Fiction
We introduce a novel approach to detecting domestic space in literary texts beyond explicit spatial markers like “home” or “house.” Using a pre-trained English BERT model fine-tuned on manually annotated passages from a corpus of 19th-century British and Irish novels, we develop a method to operationalize and quantify domesticity in fiction. Our model captures the nuances of domestic space by analyzing contextual and relational cues rather than relying solely on toponymic and other expl…

🔥Trump said that he’s considering invoking the Insurrection Act,
a 19th-century law which would allow him to federalize the national guard, on the grounds of an “invasion” or “rebellion”.
🔥On Monday, a federal judge did not immediately block the president’s move to deploy national guard troops, including hundreds from Texas, to Chicago.
Instead, the judge set a hearing for Thursday,
leaving room for the military to make their way to the windy city as soon as today.

Ahh, the Orange Order, living in the 19th century but fervently hoping for a quick return the the 17th.
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/06/orange-order-sends-letter-of-complaint-to-king-charles-a…

Orange Order sends letter of complaint to King Charles after he prayed with Pope Leo
Vatican visit marked first joint worship with a British monarch and a Catholic pontiff since Henry VIII’s rule

In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/blpl

blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.

The US supreme court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of Donald Trump’s executive order to heavily restrict the right to birthright citizenship,
the long-held constitutional principle that individuals born on US soil are automatically United States citizens.
The order was a contentious part of the administration’s bigoted immigration crackdown
– and a step that would transform the interpretation of a 19th-century constitutional provision.
Multiple judges across…

Hot take: "AI in everything" belongs to the same trend as using radioactive materials, mercury and arsenic in skin care products instead of reactors, thermometers and chemistry.
Programmers with "mandatory workplace AI" are the new Radium girls.
#IT

The Cat’s Maew: Thai Treatise on Auspicious Felines (19th Century)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tamra-maew/?utm_source=newsletter

found a website about 17th to 19th century dance patterns
https://danceinhistory.com/tag/marie-therese-de-subligny/

The dawn of alchemical free-energy methods in biomolecular simulations
Daniele Macuglia, Giovanni Ciccotti, Beno\^it Roux
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04917 https://

The dawn of alchemical free-energy methods in biomolecular simulations
From the onset of fundamental statistical mechanical constructs formulated in the late 19th century, alchemical free-energy methods slowly emerged and transitioned to become operational tools of biomolecular simulation applicable to a wide range of problems including protein-ligand binding for drug discovery research. This article reconstructs how statistical mechanical approaches such as thermodynamic integration and free-energy perturbation were reconfigured in the early 1980's to address the…

"Today's #AI bubble has absorbed more of the country's wealth and represents more of its economic activity than historic nation-shattering bubbles, like the 19th century UK rail bubble. A much-discussed MIT paper found that 95% of companies that had tried AI had either nothing to show for it, or experienced a loss" -- @…

I was lucky to get invited on a tour of the University of Coimbra (Portugal) on a recent trip - apparently the 14th oldest university in Europe (1290), and the highlight was definitely the Joanine Library (Biblioteca Joanina). Photography is not permitted in the main library but we were allowed to take snaps in the 19th century vault. A truly remarkable piece of design combining function with beautiful decoration.

#TimeTraveler has an iPhone?

This week's #Halloween special episoode of @… radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! 👻
Al…

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2025-10-22: Dr. Carmel Raz Seances, Sperrits, and Ghostly Accordions Halloween 2025 Remix
NOTE SPECIAL EARLY SHOW NEXT WEEK: WED. OCT 29, 9 PM-MID.Accordion Noir: Squeeze into the Long Nights: Drone & Experimental AccordionShould just roll out on your podcast as an extra-long 3-hour…

On the finite irreducible subgroups of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})$ and $\mathrm{PGL}_n(\mathbb{C})$
Gerard Gonzalo Calbet\'o
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00718 https://…

On the finite irreducible subgroups of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})$ and $\mathrm{PGL}_n(\mathbb{C})$
The classification of the finite subgroups of $\mathrm{GL}_n(\mathbb{C})$ and $\mathrm{PGL}_n(\mathbb{C})$ is a classical problem in the field of finite group theory, dating back to the late 19th century with authors like Klein, Jordan, Blichfeldt, etc. Throughout its long history, many results concerning the classification have been scattered in the mathematical literature. In this survey, we explore many of the most relevant results related to the classification, its structure, and the lists …

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMap
- A journey to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1
Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps the musical landscape surrounding JS Bach's Cello Suite No.1, including the junk shops of late 19th century Barcelona where the score was 'rediscovered'.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002mcn9

DC Department of Parks and Recreation installed a new plaque at T Street Park memorializing William Dorsey Swann, a formerly enslaved DC resident who was one of the country’s earliest advocates for LGBTQ rights.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the…

The First Self-Proclaimed Drag Queen Was a Formerly Enslaved Man
In the late 19th century, William Dorsey Swann's private parties attracted unwelcome attention from authorities and the press

'Bound to browsable' - love this detailed overview of the work that goes into making specific formats (like magazines) more findable in online catalogues https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/09/unlocking-historical-media-publications/

Bound to Browsable: Unlocking the Historical Media Publications Collection | The Signal
This post details the exciting transformation of the Historical Media Publications Collection, a challenging digital collection of historical media industry magazines spanning the late 19th to mid-20th century. Expanding online presentation from dense bound volumes into searchable, issue-level resources, this collaborative project improved discoverability and usability of this collection and set a foundation for working with other serialized content though innovative new workflows and next-gene…

Another example of training machine learning / AI models to 'read' historical maps, this time identifying long-standing woodland https://digitalanddata.blog.gov.wales/2024/09/09/can-ai-help-find-lost-woodland/

Can AI help find lost woodland?
Post by Evie, Data Science Unit, Welsh Government Darllenwch y dudalen hon yn Gymraeg There are many areas of Wales where woodland clearance has taken place, especially since the 19th century. &nbs…

Introduction to quantitative De Giorgi methods
Giovanni Brigati, Cl\'ement Mouhot
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11481 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11481

Introduction to quantitative De Giorgi methods
The theory of De Giorgi (1958) and Nash (1959) solves Hilbert's 19th problem and constitutes a major advance in the analysis of PDEs in the 20th century. This theory concerns the Hölder regularity of solutions to elliptic and parabolic equations with non-regular coefficients, and it was extended by Moser (1960) to include the Harnack inequality. This course reviews the classical De Giorgi method in the elliptic and parabolic cases and introduces its recent extension to hypoelliptic equations w…

This week's #Halloween special episoode of @… radio revisits Dr. Carmel Raz on 19th Century Spiritualists summoning up Ghostly #Accordion players! 👻
Also note next week's Oct 29th 3-hr #Drone #ExperimentalMusic 🪗 fundraiser show starts early from 9PM–Mid
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/accordion-noir-2025-10-22-dr-carmel-raz-seances-sperrits-and-ghostly-accordions-halloween-2025-remix/