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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 9d

Get yourself a partner that a) understands you are deadly serious when you say you want crumble and custard for dinner and b) knows that the most acceptable form of crumble is rhubarb #mylovelanguageispudding

Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 15d

Out using our terrameter today on Inner Farne! @resandmag.bsky.social has appropriately picturesque snaps for you!

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 15d

My office for the week! Out on Inner Farne with the #RICHeS & @ukri.org funded University of Bradford Archaeological Sciences Mobile Geophysical Lab and @resandmag.bsky.social investigating the archaeology and paleoenvironment of the Island for the @nationaltrust.org.uk Super excited!

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Apparently to route to the full abstracts is arcane, but if you either follow the QR in this image or click on the icon shon under it once you land on the Archeisciences page for the volume, this will take you to the full abstracts! Sorry it took a couple of days to figure this issue out for you:

Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

My hands are very sore and stiff and my concentration is wonky so I will likely not add much further today, apologies. The talks this afternoon continue the CRM/ sci coms and social value thread and then we'll go into the ISAP AGM which I can't post about anyway! #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Apologies for lack of posts (53rd paper of 58 since 09:00 on Tuesday!) - Kris Lockyear talking about 12 years of community geophysics in the UK. Did week long fieldschools following the National Parks Service school model - creating capacity across local archaeology groups #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

correction - over 10,000 retractions (!) - our little journal has just 1 of these...(my post missed a k out as I am tired and not proof reading well sorry) #icap2025 #miniretraction

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Chris Gaffney @resandmag.bsky.social ending with the strong statement to a round of applause - 'We (the archaeological prospection community) are not the problem here, but we can and will be the solution' #icap2025 #academicpublishingisbroken

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

The thing we need most at the moment according to Gregory is that people need to step up and conduct the peer reviews when invited, we must act as our own quality control. Chris G making the point that Wiley have had over 10 retractions- reflection of the huge pressure to publish #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

This isn't yet indexed - and so early career folks will be at a disadvantage. Gregory Tsokas, co editor with Eileen pointing out that this is a worldwide problem, and we have to move from quantity to quality in publication, but how to reconcile with national funding bodies etc? #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Immo Trinks making a strong point in the discussion about his experience of applying to be an editor, dissatisfaction with Wiley & his ultimate decision to decline the editorial job - Larry Conyers has started an open journal which we may turn to instead gpr-archaeology.com/geophysical-... #icap2025

Geophysical Archaeology Open Access Publications – GPR for Archaeology

gpr-archaeology.com

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

We are frogs in a boiling pot: open publishing was an attempt to fix it but article processing fees and co-option but the big few killed that dead. Huge conflict of values and interest #icap2025 #publishingisbroken #itsbasicallyracketeering

Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Eileen - traditional publishing is dying - in last 7 years decreasing support from publishers, push towards special editions which the Editors in Chief have little control over, no support regarding handing over the reins to new editors... problem is across the board: what can we do? #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Next speaker Will Wadsworth has a paper in ArchProsp about exactly how prospection data is particularly vulnerable to fringe narratives and bad actors- onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #icap2025

Saying what we mean, meaning what we say: Managing miscommunication in archaeological prospection

In North America, archaeological prospection has recently undergone a surge in popularity, resulting in higher visibility for both scientific and fringe narratives. This has been partially due to inc....

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

This took six months, and due to the way they had to push the retraction to 1 error, the retraction might not have addressed the core issues the archaeological community were appalled by, but it was the best way to achieve the full retraction #icap2025 #ethics #publishing #scicoms #pseudoarchaeology

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Fascinating to see how difficult it is to actually (even as a the editor of a journal) to get a paper retracted- in the end had to hone in on 1 major error to make progress. The editors had to push hard to insist on a retraction, with both publisher & authors pushing for a softer response. #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Going into the final thematic session on CRM and social valorisation - Eileen Ernenwein giving a very personal paper about the publication and subsequent retraction of the Gunung Padang paper in Archaeological Prospection in 2023 - not going to comment much as it remains controversial #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Lievens conclusions about these shallow interactive machine learning approach - and his paper is now out so you can follow up there! doi.org/10.3390/rs17... #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Complex structures then split into separate features, e.g. looking for linearity to discriminate walls from floors. This results in some need for manual reclassification e.g. between walls and floors - this gets vectorised - then it needs ot be quantitively compared with a manual interp #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Lieven Verdonck now going through semantic segmentation for GPR data using shallow machine learning - getting probabilistic surfaces of likelihood of belonging to user defined classes, which are then refined using thresholds, and then separated into objects using the #ilastik model #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

(This is the point in #ICAP meetings where I try to sum up the major themes of the meeting. We're hearing from the cultural heritage management and community / heritage out reach side of things later on so I might wait until the break before the AGM to give a verdict for #icap2025)

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Agnes - we need to turn expert knowledge into context/topological thick standardised descriptions - e.g. borrowing from geomorphometric languages; we need databases with datasets, we need them annotated and benchmarked and with metadata - YES YES YES ! #icap2025

Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Ethics also leading the way in Agnes' talk about automated dipole extraction in magnetic datasets... #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Melda closes with a clarion call for extended conversations about ethics and open science in this arena. She also closed with this delightful final slide #icap2025

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Dr Kayt Armstrong @girlwithtrowel.bsky.social · 19d

Melda has key questions for future work using machine learning in archaeology - the MAIA Cost Action she is part of is hoping to work on these challenges, and they are building open access tools for analysis and training datasets etc the legal challenges are high though as IP is complex #icap2025

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