David Stott

@davstott.bsky.social

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Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.

GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.

Tinkerer.

Glaswegian in Jutland.

Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc. .. more

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Nov 13

There's enough of us now to do one of these!

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11h

New discovery: A wooden structure, identified as river bank protection of the #Roman harbour, has been unearthed in Cologne.

www.stadt-koeln.de/politik-und-...

#RomanArchaeology #archaeology 🏺

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11h

I'll bet it was too. They go all deliciously nutty and crunchy when fried in slightly too much butter / lard / dripping.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11h

I love skirlie.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 12h

It's impossible to find pinhead oats here. I need them to show the Danes how to cook herring.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

Some people on here are such skalds

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 1d

27/1/26 - nocturn

small hours
big time

table with last candle and
plastic skull on stick in garden

wobbles in rain - meanwhile
houseplants, lamplight, Ethiopian jazz

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

I'm sure it was a bit, and a very funny one at that

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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 1d

Is it about time that someone told @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social that their "Tourmaline stone axe" is actually made of cheese?

A stunning Bronze age axe heard made of an orangey stone with greenish flecks

A slice of blue cheese. It's orangey in colour with flecks of blue-green mould.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Too cold in the shed.

Wheel building is fun and kinda relaxing.

A wheel from a bike on a truing stand on a side table in a living room. In the background clutter and a TV playing the Fargo series with Ewan Macgregor in it.

I've replaced the original Enviolo hub on the wheel with a 5 speed Shimano because I've broken 2 of the Enviolo hubs on my old cargo bike and the Shimano is a bit more robust.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3d

The 19th century Struve Geodetic Arc is, to me, one of the most extraordinary properties on the World Heritage List. It crosses 10 countries and was used to determine the size and shape of the world. 🧪 🏺 #ContemporaryArchaeology

Struve Geodetic Arc

The Struve Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through 10 countries and over 2,820 km. These are points of a survey, carried out between 1816...

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 3d

The letter "O" from Joris Hoefnagel's Guide to the Construction of Letters (1595), a work designed to aid and inspire calligraphers. Each letter is surrounded by an array of symbolically charged motifs. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/h...

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 3d

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz352bs

Magazine Tip:
Commuters. Get more value for money by sitting on top of the bus. Considering the circumference of the earth, you will travel 0.0000000013% further than your fellow passengers downstairs who have paid the same fare.
Henry Broomhandle, Wales

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subnordica.bsky.social @subnordica.bsky.social · 4d

Final day at the #Subnordica General Meeting and an excursion to see the megaliths of Lower Saxony , the barrow cemeteries and the excellent visitor centre. Visit them now!

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 4d

Beautiful illustrations of iron interacting with rocks, from the publication of a paper, "On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata", delivered by the botanist and geologist George Maw to the Geological Society on April 22nd 1868: publicdomainreview.org/collection/o...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5d

I can't work out if downpipe flamingo is a great band name or a deadly insult

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subnordica.bsky.social @subnordica.bsky.social · 5d

Great first day at the Subnordica 3rd general meeting at #Wilhelmshaven discussing #palaeolandscapes in the Baltic and the North Sea - #archaeology- prospection and modelling

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

Can't see the random forest for the random trees

#GIS #nichejokes

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 6d

Greetings from the icy shore of the Wadden Sea.

In Wilhelmshaven for the @subnordica.bsky.social meeting.

Excited to find out what everyone's been doing!

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

Nice- we need a similar load carrier for our lidar drone

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Mark Thomas @markthomasinfo.bsky.social · 7d

I mean the UK has elected some prime cuts of chump but fuck me with a ratchet Donnie has shat the fucking bed.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

It's all so very, very stupid.

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The Black Trowel Collective @blacktrowel.bsky.social · 7d

Tired of excuses and obfuscation from the EAA Executive?
Want a collegial and supportive society fit for its members? Then #boycottEAA
Read our call for voting and boycotting below!

If you want a detailed description of the events so far please read: drive.google.com/file/d/1jdGO...

Stop sign in red over the EAA Athens call. In black the text reads: “Save EAA. Vote. Boycott.”

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 7d

Today's random album is by the Sabres of Paradise. It's new to me an and it's flipping great.

1001albumsgenerator.com/albums/1fjxW...

Album Of The Day

Haunted Dancehall by The Sabres Of Paradise

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Iain Roberts @slowbikeiain.bsky.social · 8d

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 8d

Microsoft CEO says AI “risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.” Brother you’re the one building this dogshit, we’re three years and hundreds of billions in, how have you not worked it out?

www.ft.com/content/2a29...

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Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns Al boom could falter without wider adoption

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has warned that Al risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.
Nadella on Tuesday said that the long-term success of the fast-developing technology would depend on it being used by a broad range of industries as well as on uptake outside of the developed world.
"For this not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread," said Nadella. He noted that a "tell-tale sign of if it's a bubble" would be if only tech groups were benefiting from the rise of AI, rather than companies in other sectors.

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Martin Farley 🔰 @martinfarley.bsky.social · 8d

Extraordinary polling from @yougov.co.uk today, showing the @greenparty.org.uk in first place across all working age people

🟢Grn - 20.5%
🔴Lab - 20.3%
⚫Ref - 20.1%
🔵Con - 15.5%

baffling why 60% of pensioners are supporting Con/Ref who will slash public spending that mainly goes to pensioners

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 8d

I love 🖲️ trackballs, but oh boy do they suck for digitising

#GIS

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Luise Loges @luilog.bsky.social · 8d

Is it just me or are our glorious European leaders getting pretty fucking colonial about Greenland?

How about we don't fight who gets to keep Greenland as theirs. Greenland belongs to the Greenlanders. Not the US. Not Denmark. Not anyone else for that matter.

Keep your grubby paws to yourselves.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 9d

Pretty much the whole sky here.

(This is a 12mm lens on APS- a big ol chunk of sky)

In the foreground deciduous woodland silhouetted against the sky. This photo is of the sky.

The sky is green and pink with aroura. There's rays in it.

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