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Computational Historical Ecology Unlocking the Archives of Societies to Inform the Present from the Past

the CHE-gingerbreadmen (blue, green, black) doing figure ice skating. 0

Frosty days, river ice, and an anniversary

With Passau—the confluence of the Inn, the Ilz, and the Danube—having seen sub-zero temperatures for four consecutive weeks now, ice is once again drifting on the Danube. This winter chill brings a natural question...

An ADV-like file card, made up by ChatGPT. It shows many of the characteristics as a real card including slight brown background and script. 0

Notes on an LLM’s “Thinking”

CHE overlaps with another, larger project that I’m working on together with my colleague Alexander Werth: the Atlas Deutscher Volkskunde (ADV). We report the details of that project elsewhere. For what follows, it’s just...

Map of Bavaria with rivers and gauges highlighted 0

Reconstructed Danube Riverflow (1826-94)

We are close to submitting our dataset which includes the reconstruction of the Danube river flow at three selected gauges (Neu-Ulm, Vilshofen, and Passau) between 1826 and 1894 (completetly). Earlier this week, Tobias presented...

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PhD Scholarship / Promotionsstipendium

The Hansen Foundation is offering a PhD scholarship in (Computational) History / Cultural Anthropology / Ecology / Geography at the University of Passau, starting at the earliest possible date. With your significant work, we...