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We are the Special Interest Group on Scientific Scripting Languages of CAA international @CAA_int. For more information, see here: https://sslarch.github.io/
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Thanks to everyone, who already took part in our survey for meeting days and time slots. 📆 ✅
📢 We will close the survey Wednesday, 19th Nov, 23:59 CET 📢
so please remember to add your vote until then. If you have any further comments about your availability, send us an email or message. 🙂
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Thanks to everyone, who already took part in our survey for meeting days and time slots. 📆 ✅
📢 We will close the survey Wednesday, 19th Nov, 23:59 CET 📢
so please remember to add your vote until then. If you have any further comments about your availability, send us an email or message. 🙂
November 17, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Also, please remember to fill in the survey for meeting days and time slots, which Martin sent around! 📆 ✅ ❌

Especially if you've always wanted to come and couldn't because of other matters: Your vote counts and we would love to find a slot that works for everyone! 🍀

⚠️ We will start with the […]
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archaeo.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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📢 Our next meeting is up 📢
and we’re delighted to welcome Emily Elizabeth Coco on **Friday, 7th Nov** for an invited talk on the insights for #reproducibility and computational practice in archaeology from her Agent-based modeling of #paleolithic #mobility and lithic recycling ! #abm […]
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archaeo.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
📢 Our next meeting is up 📢
and we’re delighted to welcome Emily Elizabeth Coco on **Friday, 7th Nov** for an invited talk on the insights for #reproducibility and computational practice in archaeology from her Agent-based modeling of #paleolithic #mobility and lithic recycling ! #abm […]
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archaeo.social
November 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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For those who leave it till the last minute....Calls for Papers, Posters, and Workshops for CAA2026 have been extended to 9 November 2025!!🤩

2026.caaconference.org
October 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Do you write code for your research?
Then you too are a #ResearchSoftwareEngineer! 👩‍💻 🤓 Today is international #rse - day and we want to promote this community. Maybe you want to join one of these fab groups to connect to like-minded people? 🎇
@us_rse organises USA RSEs, @ResearchSoftEng is the […]
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archaeo.social
October 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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New publication: "Reviewing research software"

"Every research project in computational science requires writing some code, even if it’s only a few scripts. This code is instrumental in generating results, and often important for understanding in detail what was done. Nevertheless, unlike […]
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scholar.social
October 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Today!
Gabriele Gattiglia will give a talk at our meeting at 4 pm CEST / 3 pm BST / 2 pm UTC on #ai in #archaeology and its implications for scripting practices, #transparency, and #reproducibility.

Want to join, but are not part of our google mailing group? DM us and we'll share the link. 🤗 […]
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archaeo.social
October 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
📢📢 Our next meeting takes place 3rd October at the usual time 16:00–17:00 CEST (15:00–16:00 BST / 14:00–15:00 UTC). Germany will celebrate its reunification (🎉) , we will celebrate that we have Gabriele Gattiglia give a talk on #ai in #archaeology: implications for scripting practices […]
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archaeo.social
September 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Dear all,
our next SIG meeting will take place on Friday, September 5, 2025, at 4 PM CET (2 PM GMT). The plan is simple:

👉 Share updates from our summer activities 🏗️ 🤓
👉 Plan ahead for the coming year 📝 📢
👉 Enjoy a relaxed get-together 👩‍💻 🤗

Many thanks to @zackbatist who organized the […]
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archaeo.social
September 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Dear all,
our next SIG meeting will take place on Friday, September 5, 2025, at 4 PM CET (2 PM GMT). The plan is simple:

👉 Share updates from our summer activities 🏗️ 🤓
👉 Plan ahead for the coming year 📝 📢
👉 Enjoy a relaxed get-together 👩‍💻 🤗

Many thanks to @zackbatist who organized the […]
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archaeo.social
September 2, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Our next meeting is scheduled for this Friday, August 1st at 4PM CEST / 10AM EST/ 7 AM PST. Depending on attendance, we may cover these topics:

- Planning a session for the CAA 2026 in Vienna, Austria
- Project updates (TFQA, open-archaeo, etc)
- SIG plans for the new academic session
- General […]
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archaeo.social
July 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Our next meeting is scheduled for this Friday, August 1st at 4PM CEST / 10AM EST/ 7 AM PST. Depending on attendance, we may cover these topics:

- Planning a session for the CAA 2026 in Vienna, Austria
- Project updates (TFQA, open-archaeo, etc)
- SIG plans for the new academic session
- General […]
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archaeo.social
July 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Our next meeting takes place this Friday, July 4 at our usual time (4 PM CEST / 10 AM EST)

The agenda is quite light this month, which is a great opportunity for open discussion. Please bookmark any inspiring papers, news or resources to share with the group! Otherwise, we can share what we […]
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archaeo.social
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Our next meeting takes place this Friday, July 4 at our usual time (4 PM CEST / 10 AM EST)

The agenda is quite light this month, which is a great opportunity for open discussion. Please bookmark any inspiring papers, news or resources to share with the group! Otherwise, we can share what we […]
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archaeo.social
June 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Join us this Friday for a special presentation by @electricarchaeo, who will be talking about his work using small, practical and locally controlled LLMs! ⛏️✨🤖👾📜

Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST
mcgill.zoom.us/j/2320704440

#digitalarchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology
June 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Join us this Friday for a special presentation by @electricarchaeo, who will be talking about his work using small, practical and locally controlled LLMs! ⛏️✨🤖👾📜

Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST
mcgill.zoom.us/j/2320704440

#digitalarchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology
June 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Mark your calendars!
During our next meeting, @electricarchaeo will be presenting about his work using LLMs, including some material from his upcoming book that aims to make LLMs more accessible to archaeologists.
✨👩‍💻🤖🏺🤗

Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST […]
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archaeo.social
May 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Mark your calendars!
During our next meeting, @electricarchaeo will be presenting about his work using LLMs, including some material from his upcoming book that aims to make LLMs more accessible to archaeologists.
✨👩‍💻🤖🏺🤗

Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST […]
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archaeo.social
May 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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These five talks together made for a great, insightful session with solid attendance and discussion, despite the shockingly late time slot we were scheduled for (18:40-20:20!). It followed on seamlessly from the equally interesting preceding one on "Chronological modelling II: formal methods and […]
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archaeo.social
May 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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For the final talk "A command-line interface for chronological network modelling in R" Eythan Levy and Joe Roe (and Gilles Geeraerts) once more talked about an eDSL for age modelling. The #rstats package chronologr (https://github.com/joeroe/chronologr) is a […]

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May 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Back to the topic of web APIs, Jonathan Westin (and Matteo Tomasini, Tristan Bridge, and Aram Karimi) demonstrated how archaeological data can shine in the hands of a team of professional back- and front-end developers. The "Etruscan Chamber tombs Portal: a […]

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May 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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In "Open-Source Bayesian Chronological Modeling: The Role of a Domain-Specific Language" Martin Hinz (and Joe Roe) shared ideas and a prototype implementation of an eDSL for probabilistic age modelling. Not unlike OxCal (https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/oxcal.html), but open source.
May 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Under the title "Untapped Potential or Unusable Complexity? Challenges of Providing APIs for Archaeologists" Lisa Steinmann (and Simon Hohl) talked about the challenges of providing useful and well-documented APIs for the web resources of the German […]

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May 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM