Erik Champion

@erikmc.bsky.social

670 followers 400 following 920 posts

Digital heritage, serious games, and digital inhumanities. 3D or not 3D. Usually based in Oceania but on land. https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/

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Sociology 9%

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5h

is it my impression or is EU foreign policy becoming almost assertive? www.smh.com.au/world/europe...

Europe tells Trump: You have it wrong on our ‘decline’

Europe’s foreign policy chief rebuked US claims that the continent faces “civilisational erasure” and outlined plans for more defence partnerships, including a pact with Australia.

www.smh.com.au

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 9h

idle thought, I'd be less unimpressed by the left if they actually could work together; or by the right, if they weren't such leeches.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 9h

I've been puzzled by the whole Epstein conflation between network, academia, perversion and politics, but now perhaps I see motive behind the Epstein 'intellectual' circle: powerful (male) social outsiders he could blackmail...

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 9h

Gifted, sad overall perhaps, but the Penrose toilet paper quote was hilarious! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... 'When it comes to the population of Great Britain being invited by a multinational to wipe their bottoms on what appears to be the work of a knight of the realm without his permission'

Steven Shapin · Through the Trapdoor: Roger Penrose’s Puzzles

Stephen Hawking may have been a genius, but ‘Roger Penrose’s insights seem to stem from some superhuman life-form...

www.lrb.co.uk

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

www.artscabinet.org/encounters-i... "the difference between going to a physical place to talk about things and doing the same thing online. They bore no comparison"

A conversation with Tim Ingold — Arts Cabinet

The Caring Cabinet

www.artscabinet.org

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

IIIF is looking increasingly exciting, just needs more 3D (but I would say that) ... mango-demo.vercel.app

Mango Story Viewer Demo

mango-demo.vercel.app

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily they'll keep mum about it ..

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

You could ask to review it...

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

One is a flatterer and the other steals toasted sandwiches?

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

And research agreements? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

Australia and EU on the cusp of signing landmark free trade agreement

Australia and the European Union are on the cusp of finally reaching a free trade agreement after years of sometimes fraught negotiations.

www.abc.net.au

Reposted by Erik Champion

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 1d

Meta adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles. It should abandon its plans. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

www.eff.org

Reposted by Erik Champion, Joshua L. Conver

Advances in Archaeological Practice @saa-aap.bsky.social · 2d

“When AI is asked to show daily life in the deep past, does it reflect modern science or outdated ideas?” Matthew Magnani reveals how many AI depictions of Neanderthals rely on outdated assumptions, reinforcing old stereotypes instead of current research.
www.thebrighterside.news/post/new-stu...

New study finds AI depictions of Neanderthals are outdated and wrong

New research shows AI often depicts Neanderthals using outdated science, raising concerns about bias and misinformation.

www.thebrighterside.news

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if this can be 3D printed...

Reposted by Erik Champion

Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · 2d

The Romans loved their plumbing, and built large, underground cisterns in many settlements to provide water storage and distribution. These examples were excavated at the Hellenistic-Roman town Darazya, on the northern coast of Egypt.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Two underground chambers, supported by pillars and with piles of rubble inside

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d

sorry to hear of these issues at a place I used to work at www.watoday.com.au/national/wes...

Impasse over pay, work conditions pushes staff at WA’s biggest uni to brink of industrial action

Hundreds of lecturers at Curtin University have pledged to stay off campus as semester one begins over claims of unsustainable workloads, unfair pay and “draconian limitations” on work-from-home oppor...

www.watoday.com.au

Reposted by Erik Champion

Curt @neoriffic.bsky.social · 5d

Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies?

This Call for Papers is for you!

Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!

Link in the reply.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe... from cinematography to stone wall construction (I also love both)

‘People keep reinventing the same damn movie’: cinematographer Roger Deakins on 50 years behind the camera and his fears for film’s future

This master craftsman’s work has lit up everything from Bond to Blade Runner 2049. But as he publishes his memoir, why does he believe the artform he made his name in is in such decline?

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Erik Champion

AJ Vicens @ajvicens.bsky.social · 6d

"As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

www.reuters.com

Reposted by Tim Bale, Christopher Smith, Lesley A. Hall , and 1 more Tim Bale, Christopher Smith, Lesley A. Hall, Erik Champion

Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 7d

NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores the growing evidence that AI isn't just changing what students produce – it's changing what their brains are ready to do, and asks whether HE can redesign itself around a question it has been avoiding for decades buff.ly/uHtisNU