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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · 23d

Sunrise. Off to Eurodendro in Riga.

Sunrise. The sun just before it broke the horizon, over a flat danish landscape. Orange clouds.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · 29d

And Fox lies.

It says "fully depreciated" you evil fucks!

Fox writes that, under the photo of Epstein with a fake check, it reads "fully dedicated". Fox are liars.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Sep 7

Here is my contribution to #superseabirdsunday

Seagull on a wall, photographed in Naples last year. The city of Naples is out of focus in the background.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Sep 7

Yes, alot of this rings true, unfortunately 👇🏻

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Sep 2

submit your paper here

Dendrochronologia | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier - Dendrochronologia | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Read the latest articles of Dendrochronologia at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

www.sciencedirect.com

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Sep 2

Just a little reminder. Our Special Issue 'Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past'. Several papers online, and more being reviewed. But we decided to extend the paper submission deadline to the end of the year. Looking forward to your paper (detail from Ringsaker, photo: Aoife Daly).

Close-up view of one of the sculpture components from an altarpiece at Ringsaker Church, Norway. The carved surface also has a guild stamp, in the form of a hand, known from 17th century works from Antwerp.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hear hear

Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · Sep 2

Bloody outlook thinks I don't know how to start a reply to an email. YouTube is trying to suggest what to comment. WhatsApp inserting an AI prompt I barely can avoid clicking on.
I want a law no AI feature can be added without my consent. I feel violated!

a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .

Alt: My spirit animal Ron Swanson stating "I hate everything'' and running away.

media.tenor.com

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's the flowers and their colours that I like. What is it? Does it have a stamp on the base?
Chocolate cake looks delicious too, by the way 😋

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Aug 23

I love that porcelain

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · Aug 22

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Aug 19

It never ends. Last night three local Texas activists, along with a Democratic leader, gathered at the Texas Capitol to show support for Rep Nicole Collier. Collier who had refused to sign a GOP-mandated “permission slip” requiring a Department of Public Safety escort and instead staged an overnight

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Aug 11

yeah I've had a sudden follow frequency of similar profiles. I'm not following back, and I'm blocking the obvious ones.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Jul 7

Thanks for that👍🏻

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International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · Jul 7

🌳Timber and wooden cultural heritage, forest history, dendrochronology, forest and wood education - all this and more will be covered in the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at

#ForestScience #dendrochronology

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Jun 29

Strands #483
“Hue are my sunshine”
🟡🟠🟣🔴
🟢🔵🏳️‍🌈

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Jun 27

Latest paper out today, open access
doi.org/10.1080/0029...

A Revision of the Dendrochronological Date of the Grønhaug Ship – and its Methodological and Interpretational Implications. By Aoife Daly, Justin J.L. Kimball & Jan Bill. The doi link brings you to the article where there is also an audio link.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Jun 27

Copenhagen, yes do come visit 🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚈🚉🚞👟

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

slate.com

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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · Jun 18

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 18

Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social

JD Vance V @JDVance
Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there!
un valive
@jd-vance-1.bsky.social
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Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis.
So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you.
States" supports this position). The implication of these arguments is that courts should defer to so-called expert con-
There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the "wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices." FCC v. Beach Communications, Inc., 508 U. S. 307, 313 (1993). Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children. Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts' view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves. Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ide-logy to influence their medical guidand
Taken together, this case serves as a useful reminder that the American people and their representatives are en-
JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 47s
To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called
"experts" have used bad arguments anc substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth.
JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 46s
I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?

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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · Jun 8

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 85 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or, today, a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · Jun 4

Very nice. Who did the dendrochronology?

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Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · Jun 3

Lots of things I like about freelancing, but having to explain that I don’t get a paycheque every month and therefore can’t do things for free is not one of them.

Freelancers have no sick leave, no paid holidays and no benefits, and if we do something for free it means less time to earn in.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · May 28

In 2022, Marta, Kristof and I started a tradition, gathering researchers of wooden cultural heritage for a hugely successful conference in Amsterdam, From Forests to Heritage. FF2H continued with a second meeting in Helsinki 2024.
now this: From Forest to Heritage 3 will be in Austria 🏺🌳💍

International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · May 26

🌳Timber and wooden cultural heritage, forest history, dendrochronology, forest and wood education - all this and more will be covered in the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026;📍Klagenfurt, Austria

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at

#ForestScience #ForestResearch

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · May 23

just googled it:
Turn off generative AI in Acrobat on desktop:
Close all open documents and go to Menu (Windows) or View (macOS) > Preferences > Generative AI.
Deselect the Enable generative AI features in Acrobat checkbox and then select OK.

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Aoife Daly @dendro-aoife.bsky.social · May 22

It's gonna be a very long but rewarding day for you Ronald.
Only 4 more sleeps!
See you Monday morning!

Ronald Visser @ronaldvisser.bsky.social · May 22

I am looking forward to Monday the 26th of May! The day starts with a great symposium on #dendrochronology and #archaeology www.archonline.nl/may-2025/tre...
In the afternoon I will publicly defend my thesis:
vu.nl/nl/agenda/20...
And after that it's time for a drink!

Tree-rings and Archaeology: Current Issues in the Low Countries and Beyond - 26 May 2025 - Archonline

Date: 26 May 2025 Venue: VU Amsterdam, HG13A-33 Credits: 1 ECTS Over the past decades, tree-ring research has grown from the effort of individual researchers to a wide range of applications in relation to archaeology. When dendrochronology started to be applied in the 1960s in the Netherlands it was fully directed at dating historical objects. […]

www.archonline.nl

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