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Emily Tour
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Early career archaeologist ⛏️ PhD candidate at University of Melbourne🏺 Obsessed with scripts, tablets and sealings 📜 Dabbling in all things digital, including 3D modelling, GMM, phylogenetics and machine learning 🤖 (she/they)
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PhD-ing at the Knossos Research Centre this week, under the strict supervision of Naomi and Dakos, the work-life balance police 👮‍♀️⚱️🫡☀️😾
A small black cat is laying on a desk in front of a laptop, preventing the ability to complete any work. A chunky ginger and white cat is marching across a cobble surface, on a mission (to get cuddles, presumably).
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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We have officially published Potnia in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social 🐍👁️👉🏽 doi.org/10.21105/jos.... Potnia is a #Python library for the conversion of transliterated #ancienttexts into Unicode. It currently supports Linear A and B, Arabic, and Hittite cuneiform, with many new languages on the way!
Logo for the Potnia Python library. A roughly rectangular red background (the shape of a Minoan clay tablet), with the white outline of a woman with flowing hair, wearing a layered skirt, and holding a staff in a powerful pose to the left, and the white text 'POTNIA' to the right, with the corresponding Linear B symbols directly above it.
April 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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End of the academic year got me feeling like a bad quality photo of some even worse taxidermy ✌🏽 #spotthedifference Running on no sleep and all adrenaline, but excited for one more presentation today at the fabulous De/Coding Digital Archaeology Symposium 😍 www.unimelb.edu.au/mdap/events/...
Photo of a very tired Emily on the left, with a slightly pained smile/grimace, and a poor quality photo of some a poor quality taxidermy of a primate (?) on the right, also with a slightly pained smile/grimace
November 28, 2024 at 8:13 PM
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This Sat @ 13:30 AEDT, I'll be presenting at my first programming conference, on a little Python library I've been working on with some colleagues 🐍 Nervous about speaking in front of a technical audience, but excited to show 'Potnia' off to the world (or Melbourne, at least 😅) #digitalarchaeology
Details of Emily's talk at PyCon AU 2024, titled '"Introducing Potnia: A Python language library for the conversion of ancient texts to Unicode". PyCon AU is being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 22–26 November 2024. Speakers are Emily Tour and Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, and talk will be held at Eureka 2, Saturday, 1:30pm. Registration link is pycon.org.au/attend
November 20, 2024 at 9:06 PM