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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Sep 10

Congratulations!

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Sep 10

Maritime Archaeology! Built Heritage! Trees! All together = perfect! Nice work here from @dendrorodbale.bsky.social

Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology

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Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · Sep 10

Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Sep 10

Very nice! I know @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social also likes a bit definitively identified reused ship's timber in building!

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Jul 17

ah I missed this, looks.good!

Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 30

Yes but mmm only ?2 days ago, and it shot straight to the top of my reading list!

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · May 30

Wishing my colleagues from ButCH Sef Penrose, @laraband.bsky.social & @angelapiccini.bsky.social a fabulous Gullfest more than human art and heritage FTW www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

Plymouth to celebrate its 'majestic' seagull population

'Gullfest honours them all'

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 30

For #LondonRiversWeek I'm sharing a photo of the Channelsea, much culverted but where it emerges is a lovely marshy spot, cared for by #SurgeCollective #BlancSceol and the site, recently, for #LeakyInstruments workshops on how we can live ethically with rivers #RiverCommons

A glimpse through the fine branches of a tree at tidal marshland with a narrow river running through it

A sample tube for microbial waters lies on a printed historic map, and a piece of paper with prompts for poems on marsh mud

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · May 19

Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck for the 2nd week, and the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social has brought in a new model! This one is a scaled model of The Admiralty Dockyard. Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!

Scale model of The Admiralty Dockyard and the ships it built.

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 12

That's so cool! What a fab piece of work

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · May 12

Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck, but the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social only brought in a scaled model of the Thames historical dockyards that he has made! Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!

Scale model of historic ships on the Thames, a working foreshore with slipways and their associated dockyard.

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 6

Looks fab!

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · May 6

Excellent piece on sonification and why we might do it https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/metrics-sonification-as-a-new-way-to-convey-bibliometric-data

Metrics sonification as a new way to convey bibliometric data

When it comes to making sense of data, visualizations rule. But what about translating data into sound? This blog post explores the origins of ‘data sonification’ and its many applications in science and demonstrates how even bibliometric data can be turned into sound.

www.leidenmadtrics.nl

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Dr Katy Whitaker (she/her) @artefactual.bsky.social · May 6

This is well worth a go! Have you seen it @lornarichardson.bsky.social ?

Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · May 5

Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is!

Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?

Enter the garden.

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · May 2

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · May 2

Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales

Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 2

Great to have been part of it! Loved how on the hoof conversations with the students around the GII Listed Royal Dockyard wall created and filled and created gaps in its history, love how you always end up with more questions than you started with Standing Buildings Recording!

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 2

Their loss - and another good reason to buy nice biscuits! Thats a good idea- except it scuppers my plan to turn up without having booked!

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · May 2

Def not you! I had a 100% no show once, unusual, though up to ~60% wasn't - that was pre-COVID. I think everyone who drops out thinks they're the only one. Plus side, it's made me realise if a free or v. cheap ticketed event is sold out it's worth turning up to get on!

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Apr 30

Super 2 days teaching building recording & talking sound w/ @bbkhistorical.bsky.social #ThamesThroughTime BA & MA fieldschool students. We all discovered much more about this GII wall than the List description! Thx so much @lesleymcf.bsky.social @drclaireharris.bsky.social for the invite!

A close up of bricks in a wall. One of the bricks has three holes in it, where someone picked up the brick while it was still wet.

A grey plastic soldier tucked in a gap in brick work

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Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thames through Time @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and an archaeology of sound with @laraband.bsky.social and @drclaireharris.bsky.social!

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Apr 21

You're welcome, I loved your thread and am skipping over to order your book Sonic Pasts rn as I've just seen that @routledgehistory.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social have 20% off over April!

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · Apr 21

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 21

"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."

#15: Critical Climate Computing

A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.

wesleygoatley.substack.com

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · Apr 21

"This database provides the locations of 575 NBS projects distributed across 55 countries."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries

www.nature.com

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Apr 21

For a dive into really interesting research on the treatment of sound within #UNESCO World Heritage Lists, see the work of @marianajlopez.bsky.social - in this super thread
bsky.app/profile/mari...

Mariana J López @marianajlopez.bsky.social · Jan 22

It’s Wednesday, so time for a thread on ‘Sonic Pasts: acoustical heritage and historical soundscapes’ for anybody interested 😊 Today I’ll focus on my analysis of mentions/lack of mentions of sound within #UNESCO World Heritage Lists, and highlighting some of the case studies #heritage #soundscapes

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Lara Band @laraband.bsky.social · Apr 21

On the #CitiesAndMemory map you can find my field recording of castells building (ICH) recorded in Tarragona on Catalunya's national day 2022 and my remix of Madeira's Levada do Rey, reflecting their part in Madeira's sugar industry and its blue print for plantation enslavement.

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