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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 12d

Also, thanks to the editors at JMA, who helped me make this text more readable and clear. Of course, all issues remaining are solely my fault!

Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 12d

English-speaking world. Here you have the full reference, in case anybody is bored enough to check it out!
doi.org/10.1558/jma....

On Being a Person in the Argaric World: Inferring Bronze Age Personhood from Southeastern Iberian Funerary Evidence | Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 12d

Of Southeastern Iberia, was finally published. It includes some of the results from my PhD at Edinburgh, and hopefully can make a useful contribution to a debate that is just starting in Spanish archaeology, while also bringing some new fresh theories to studies of personhood in the...

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 12d

While in 2022-2023, with the new job at MOLA, I struggled to publish -I had to learn a lot of new things!- these recent months have been more productive, and a few things have recently came out. I am particularly happy that this article about personhood in the Argar, in the Bronze Age...

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Beatriz Marín-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social · 27d

"Policymakers should redistribute the money they spend on APCs to non-commercial presses [...]. Universities should support these presses via in-house services where possible"

📣 Exactly the Spanish, Portuguese & most Latin American countries' model **since decades**! But hey, what do we know...

Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · 27d

Free-to-read opinion: The #OpenAccess movement might have run its course as a useful way of thinking about the future of publishing, writes Samuel Moore

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Make academic publishing a commons, not a market - Research Professional News

Commercialisation has thwarted the promise of openness—it’s time for new priorities, says Samuel Moore

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 28d

thanks!! 😊😊

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 28d

...from year to year, depending on where the Annual Meeting takes place.

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 28d

They can, of course! We need current members to request the Special Meeting, but anyone who has been a member is welcomed! We feel that, in this case, showing strength in numbers of both members and ex-members is quite important, as we know that EAA membership numbers vary a lot

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 28d

Here you have the new link! If you have already signed, do not do it again, as all previous answers have been saved already. We are just a handful of signatures away from having enough members to call for a Special Meeting of the EAA! Sign and spread the word!
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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · 28d

We are aware that the link is currently down, as the form has been accused of violating Google's terms of service (it probably used the G word to describe what is going on...?). All the information is safe and a new link will be up shortly!

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 8

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA

Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 8

Calling all #EAA past and present members! A lot of us are not happy with the events of last week, and with EAA's bleak attitute towards the ongoing genocide. Sign this petition for a special meeting, so we can call a vote of confidence against the current board. Thanks!

forms.gle/cTp7BXiUD1qC...

Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA

Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

forms.gle

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Sirio Canós-Donnay @siriocd.bsky.social · Sep 8

Calling all #EAA past and present members! Let's try to redress the horrid events of the past week, democratise this institution, and stop the complicity with the ongoing genocide. Please sign and share!

Call for a Special Meeting of the EAA

Recent events during the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists* have generated profound discontent and distrust toward the current Executive Board among members of the associati...

forms.gle

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 7

There were sessions were both volunteers and session organisers were policing comments about Palestine on Friday, once that order was supposedly revoked.

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 6

I haven't met Dr. Kamash in person, but she was absolutely incredible yesterday!

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 3

PS: It is worth adding that the session organisers have been understanding and supportive of my decision, and defended my right to say whatever I would have wanted to say. I just think that this was the best course of action but, of course, there are many ways of dealing with this situation.

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 3

... participate. I only hope that on Friday, at the general meeting, we can be heard and vote against these decisions. Otherwise, I shall be abandoning my membership. I have thoroughly enjoyed attending EAA for the past 3 years, but maybe this is our WAC moment?

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 3

...and claim that the EAA should not be politicised (and if we are not political, wtf are we even doing here??) and threating to use volunteers, the most junior people at the conference, to enforce such horrible decision. I don't want to force a volunteer to kick me out, and thus I shall not

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 3

...of my talk, while we are witnessing the failure of the largest organisation of archaeologists in Europe to stand against genocide. On top of this lack of ethics, the handling of the situation during the last couple of days has been calamitous, trying to silence political dissense

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 3

Considering the events in the last couple of days, I have decided to not participate with my talk at EAA today. I am deeply sorry as the session was fascinating, and I was excited. I just don't feel able to discuss the impact of Capitalism in Archaeology's disciplinary culture, which was the topic

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 1

Congrats Sarah!! I am excited to read it one day!!

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Chiara Bonacchi @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social · Sep 1

'ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right'. Our new article, led by Tania Gonzáles Cantera, is out. It is an outcome of Tania's visit to the #HeritageMindsLab @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social last yr doi.org/10.1080/1352...

ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right

This study examines political biases in ChatGPT-4o’s interpretations of memoryscapes linked to dictatorial regimes in Spanish-speaking countries. Using a least-to-most prompting model and a Discour...

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Guillermo Diaz de Liaño @guillermodiazliano.bsky.social · Sep 1

This is fascinating!!

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Morgan L Ventura (Dr Hilary M V Leathem) @morganvl.bsky.social · Aug 31

This makes me uncomfortable. Not only is this a question of ethics & respect, but perhaps these two archaeologists should ask themselves WHY a tech titan from Meta would want to locate heritage sites in resource-rich, Indigenous regions like the Amazon.

www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

Where should archaeologists dig next? The winners of this OpenAI contest can tell them.

Archeological sites, like those in the Amazon, are disappearing faster than we can find them. Can AI help?

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Aug 2

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

$[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]$

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