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2026

GrantNew grant — The Principles of Handwritten Script Evolution (Volkswagenstiftung).
GrantNew grant — AI Analysis of Small Data: Dating Akkadian Literary Texts (Schmidt Sciences – Humanities and Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute).
PaperNew paper in Nature Astronomy: “Molecular diversity as a biosignature”.
PaperNew paper in Meghilot: “מספר הסופרים במגילת ישעיה השלמה: הצעה חדשה”.
TalkInvited talk — “The Renaissance of Quantitative Methods in the Humanities”, UNIMORE, Modena, Italy.

MilestoneGideon Yoffe completed his PhD — congratulations, Dr. Yoffe!
PaperNew paper in Journal of Machine Learning Research: “Estimation of Local Geometric Structure on Manifolds from Noisy Data”.
PaperNew paper in Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology: “A New Hebrew Ostracon from Lachish”.
PaperNew paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: “Diversity Statistics of Onomastic Data Reveal Social Patterns in Hebrew Kingdoms of the Iron Age”.
PaperNew paper in Journal of Quantitative Linguistics: “Estimating the Influence of Sequentially Correlated Literary Features in Textual Classification: A Data-Centric Hypothesis-Testing Approach”.
PaperNew paper in Journal of Computational Humanities Research: “An Unsupervised Information-Theoretic Approach to Identifying Formulaic Clusters in Textual Data”.
TalkInvited talk — “Arad Ostraca Through the Eyes of Computers”, Tel Aviv University's Aharony Day, Tel Aviv, Israel.
TalkInvited talk — “Script Evolution”, Santa Fe Institute, USA.
TalkInvited talk — “Humanistic Reasoning, Uncertainty, and Belief”, Santa Fe Institute, USA.

PaperNew paper in Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft: “Exploring the stylistic uniqueness of the Priestly source in Genesis and Exodus through a statistical/computational lens”.

MilestoneThe lab established the first hyperspectral-imaging facility for the Humanities in Israel.

Selected coverage of the lab’s work in the press.