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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 1d

A good piece of advice. Learning how to be a good mentor requires work, reflection and advice.

Science Magazine @science.org · 1d

"… I carry the lesson with me that good mentors are not born—they are built through reflection, training, and community." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4q6ea31

An iIllustration of man looking in mirror with his reflection and students' reflections looking back, with text: I didn't think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 11d

Quiet Saturday, making sure all the articles in the upcoming issue of @fornvannen.bsky.social next month are accessibility compliant. Nice mix of time periods and topics. From Mesolithic arrowheads, to Bronze Age wetland, to runes and Medieval books. ☕️📝

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 11d

Some things never change!

4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Met museum photo of an ancient Egyptian rectangular wooden white-washed writing board with an exercise written in black hieratic script. It was written by a student named Iny-su whose spelling mistakes are corrected in red ink by the teacher. Hieratic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive version of hieroglyphics. The board measures 19 cm long x 43 cm wide and has a horizontal crack half way down the left-hand side. The wooden board was painted with white gesso, which now appears cream-coloured. This allowed boards to be whitewashed for use over and again.

The exercise is a practice in formal letter writing. The student Iny-su addresses the letter (presumably jokingly) to his brother Peh-ny-su, treating him like a wealthy authority figure. Wood, gesso, paint pigment. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, c. 1981–1802 BC.

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 12d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Anton Larsson @antonyaolarsson.bsky.social · 12d

Here is the first more in-depth article on the truly breathtaking discovery of a 6 kg silver hoard, containing thousands of late 1100s AD coins and ample Viking Age jewelry, found near Stockholm. Paywalled, but surely not the last you will hear of this. www.dn.se/sverige/hon-...

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 14d

Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 13d

We all are. We just can't stop thinking about the Romans... 😅

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 13d

Interesting. Just finished listening to Anthony Everitt's book on Cicero. Impression left was that too few were as invested in the ideals as him, so restoration might have been very shortlived. But maybe present times make me too pessimistic...

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 15d

Gloves off in the #Swedigarch workshop! Marcus Smith and Markus Gylling on the implementation of the #LinkedArt data model to build a knowledge graph for Swedish #HeritageData

Markus Gylling and the levels of semantic enrichment

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 15d

Erik Lernestål and Rosemary Hanson on how the Swedish History Museums work with 3D digitalisation, importance of common work processes. Difficult to find perfect solution for both preservation, accessibility, and information.
samlingar.shm.se/object/F0DD4...
#Swedigarch

Erik Lernestål and one of the Vendel helmets in 3D

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 15d

Eva Vedin, Swedish History Museums, on the ongoing work with vocabularies and links to authorities in other sources like Wikidata. There are 21 different places named "Lund" in the database that need to be differentiated. #Swedigarch

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 15d

Sven Kalmring, National History Museum, on the work to enrich the Birka collection data and use it and GIS Data to generate 3D visualisations both above and below the water level around the old harbour. #Swedigarch

Sven Kalmring in front of screen showing the 3D visualisation of the marine remains

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 15d

Full day workshop for #Swedigarch, national research infrastructure for #DigitalArchaeology. Meetup to discuss how we can ensure interoperability between museum, university and agency data resources through the SOCH aggregator.

Fredrik Gunnarsson presenting SOCH for the workshop attendees

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 18d

Our expressions logging on every day to Bluesky

A collection of 9 ritual face carvings from diverse archaeological sites in NW Argentina. They look shocked, horrified, and disappointed

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 18d

Hur kan det här kallas journalistik!? Blir illamående.

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 18d

#Caturday means not being allowed out of bed until she says so

A bengal cat curled up on top of me in bed.

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Daniel Feshbach @danielprime.bsky.social · 20d

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 20d

Nothing screams "First day back on the job", like urging colleagues everywhere to delete their Academia Dot Edu pages.

Which I'm about to do myself as soon as I got coffee in me.

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Ben Carter @archaeoscape.bsky.social · 21d

This is such great stuff. Thanks for sharing. This is why I'm on Bluesky. #Academicsky

Everyone should check out all of the great modules at the History for the 21s Century project website:

www.history21.com

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Tony Pollard @tonypollard.bsky.social · 21d

Taking part in this fabulous event at Uppsala University’s Gotland Campus in Visby, Sweden on Fri 7 November. Places will be limited. @kabweprq.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social @uu.se

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Mia Carlsson: What is "data quality" in #DigitalHeritage? Very different depending on users and their purposes. Sometimes it's high definition images, for another it's rich metadata. For one it's an old blurred photo, and for another it's a closeup of a detail.

Mia Carlsson showing two types of images and their metadata

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Mia Carlsson, Operations Officer at my Unit, presenting K-Samsök (SOCH Swedish Open Cultural Heritage), national aggregator for #DigitalHeritage. Currently with 11,6 million objects (6,7 with media) from collections, archives, ancient sites and historical buildings.
www.raa.se/in-english/d...

Mia Carlsson in front of a timeline showing the start of the development project in 2023, launch in 2026 and full implementation in 2027

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Espen Nordenhaug, KulturIT, on development of their Digitalt Museum web interface. As with everyone else the explosion of AI bots have caused issues. Far fewer site visits, but highly featured on Google search results used for their summaries
#OpenGLAM #DigitalHeritage

Espen Nordenhaug in front of circle diagram showing how on a single day 27 million hits out of 31 were from AI bots

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