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[1] From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: PhD Position in Computational Linguistics (University of Bologna) (46)
[2] From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: 5 year, full time, text and data mining post doc position - digital participation of war, Edinburgh (47)
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Date: 2025-06-05 12:05:28+00:00
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
Subject: PhD Position in Computational Linguistics (University of Bologna)
Dear All,
The SAPIENCE Project (Symbols, Preliteracy and Code Evolution
2025–2028), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research
[FIS Grant no. FIS-2023-00821] and based at the University of Bologna,
Italy, invites applications for two PhD positions in:
1. Cognitive neuroscience applied to study of Palaeolithic and
Neolithic signs and symbols from a cognitive and computational
perspective
2. Computational linguistics and computer science applied to
prehistoric signs and graphic code formation.
Full details and application instructions:
https://www.sapience-fis.com/jobs/ <https://www.sapience-fis.com/jobs/>
Deadline: Jul 01, 2025 at 11:59 PM
SAPIENCE Symbols, Preliteracy, and Code Evolution is a 3 year project
that delves into the evolution of graphic codes, from prehistoric times
to the invention of writing. The project is funded by the Italian
Ministry of Research through the FIS funding scheme (€2 million).
SAPIENCE aims to illuminate our preliterate past and the ways in which
we communicate today, through a highly interdisciplinary approach
combining computer science, cognitive studies, linguistics and anthropology.
Join our team today and bring the past to life with cutting-edge
research approaches! For any further information, you can contact
s.ferrara@unibo.it directly.
Thank you and all best wishes
Professor Silvia Ferrara
Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies
University of Bologna,
Via Zamboni 32,
40126 Bologna
https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/s.ferrara
<https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/s.ferrara>
Dr Ester Salgarella
AIAS-AUFF Fellow
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies
University of Aarhus
Denmark
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Date: 2025-06-05 11:32:06+00:00
From: Melissa Terras <M.Terras@ed.ac.uk>
Subject: 5 year, full time, text and data mining post doc position - digital participation of war, Edinburgh
FIVE YEAR FULL TIME RESEARCH FELLOW post at The University of Edinburgh.
on the ERC awarded/UKRI funded WARSHARE - digital participation in war -
project, beginning September.
led by Professor Andrew Hoskins – andrew.hoskins@ed.ac.uk
<mailto:andrew.hoskins@ed.ac.uk
Project summary:
The battle over representations and perceptions of war is transformed in an
era of billions of images, videos and other digital content of war being
produced, shared, edited, liked, linked, fabricated and deleted on smartphones,
social media platforms and messaging apps.
War in the twenty-first century is participative. People can record and
document war, and unwittingly and deliberately transmit data points that can
generate targets on the battlefield. Smart devices are both a way to represent
war and a node in its practice.
This project will produce new interdisciplinary understanding of how and why
digital participation is transforming how individuals and societies (including
militaries and states) fight, experience, and understand (perceive, explain, and
de/legitimise) warfare.
It will illuminate how smart devices, apps and platforms enable a wide range
of actors – militaries, states, journalists, NGOs, private companies, soldiers,
citizens, victims – to participate in warfare in an immediate and ongoing
fashion.
At the same time, this project engages the revolution in machine-learning and
AI methods which enable mining and measuring of online behaviour at scale, and
the illumination of multiple modes of communication (messages, images, video,
memes and emojiis) that together shape participation and meaning in warfare.
In experimenting with AI and machine learning methods, it will break new
interdisciplinary ground (social and computing science, art, visual, media and
communication studies) to test what kinds of knowledge about twenty-first
century participative war (how it is fought, experienced, contested,
legitimized, and remembered, for multiple actors) can be acquired and used.
It takes the hybrid messenger service/social media platform of Telegram as its
principal case study, an unbounded ‘new war front’, central to the waging and
experiencing of the 2022- Russian war against Ukraine.
Further details:
https://elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001
/job/12574
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