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Erik Champion
@erikmc.bsky.social
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Digital heritage, serious games, and digital inhumanities. 3D or not 3D. Usually based in Oceania but on land. https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5h
but that doormat is awesome.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d
I'm not a professional mathematician or theologian but isn't that two things? "There is one thing. My own morality. My own mind. It's the only thing that can stop me." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d
Food for thought: "Pro-Confederates said they were exercising the right, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, to “alter or abolish” unrepresentative and oppressive government." virginiahistory.org/learn/who-wa...
Who Was the Traitor and Who the Patriot? | Virginia Museum of History & Culture
In 1776, George Washington rebelled against the established government of his day. We remember him as a patriot, but to his king and fellow colonists loyal to the king, Washington was the traitor and ...
virginiahistory.org

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d
A photo of a French env. student explaining arctic circle myths in Rovaniemia at midnight on a hill named after 1000 wolverines, while we wait for the aurora (that never arrived). From 2021, when I was a visiting fellow to Jyväskylä...
Rovaniemi picnic

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d
This is both a. fantastic (a vertical map?) and b. a map of routes I will never take! blueplanetvr.com/world_record...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d
I'm officially changing the name of Metaverse to non-monopoly verse...
a woman in a green tank top with the words a little meta on the bottom
Alt: a woman in a green tank top with the words a little meta on the bottom, post about a new name for Metaverse
media.tenor.com

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 3d
Ele-font sized!

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
Not sure this article meant to do this but now I want to visit number 10. www.watoday.com.au/traveller/re...
Europe’s 10 lamest attractions that tourists inexplicably flock to
Europe may have the world’s most extraordinary cultural attractions, but it also has a baffling parallel: places so dismal and overrated they deserve to be bulldozed.
www.watoday.com.au

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
dear lord, there's even online AI services just for applying to professors.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
Important question of the day: can you really bask in Basque when it has some of the lowest sunshine hours in Spain?

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
"there's an unknown % of humanity who don't have the inner monologue." It's time they asked themselves this question then.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
and yet they don't think they do.

Reposted by Erik Champion

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Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social · 4d
Step Into 1938!
Free #3D model of the entire 1938 Empire Exhibition, delivered through #Unity. This isn’t just a digital replica; it’s a layered learning resource designed for both teaching and independent exploration.

sit.gsa.ac.uk/post/redisco...

#Glasgow #history #GBL #edTech #decolonisation
Blog Post | Glasgow School of Art | Rediscovering the Empire Exhibition of 1938 in 3D
Step back into the 1938 Empire Exhibition through an immersive 3D reconstruction of a forgotten Glasgow landmark. - Dec 24, 2025
sit.gsa.ac.uk

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
"Eat real food!" "No, I'm sticking to my virtual food"! www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...
www.usda.gov

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
It's so hot here the shade has melted.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
"struggling with getting enemies to move properly" oh I just stand very close to them and they tend to move on..

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
It's an Australian summer heatwave here and all I can see is ants everywhere! But well done, anyway!

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
DO people think MDPI journals are predatory, variable, sometimes useful, or all of the above? NB discounting journals for self-citation (not at crazy levels) might not always be warranted (sometimes it helps link to related info beyond focus or limits) www.predatoryjournals.org/news/is-mdpi...
Predatory Journals - Is MDPI Predatory
Is MDPI Predatory?
www.predatoryjournals.org

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 4d
Dinosaurs love gardening..

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
This is how they rank academic publishers? My experience differs.. www.ac.edu.au/research/gui...
Ranking list of academic publishers - Alphacrucis University College
Below is a curated ranking of academic book publishers across a range of disciplines, with a particular focus on those relevant to researchers at AC. The list
www.ac.edu.au

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
I apologize for underestimating the gravitational pull on a space archaeologist...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
Execution? LLMs can operate guillotines now?

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
it never ceases to amaze me how bulletproof wooden tables and chairs are in tvs and movies.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
Wellington Paranormal is an acquired lack of taste. I loved it.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
What an original idea!

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 5d
Could you imagine FDR dancing? No, no I couldn't. Not after 1921 anyway...

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d
That would be a very short term decision.

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d
I may be involved in a future digital heritage course at Adelaide University that would be interested in a new edition.

Reposted by Erik Champion, Noah Wardrip‐Fruin

noahspringer.com
Noah Springer @noahspringer.com · 7d
🚨Calling all new media scholars🚨

If (and I emphasize if) a 2nd edition of the New Media Reader happened to be in the works, what additions would you like to see? What do you think could be excised? @docmofo.bsky.social @n-w-f.bsky.social @psssssssss.bsky.social

mitpress.mit.edu/978026223227...
The New Media Reader
This reader collects the texts, videos, and computer programs—many of them now almost impossible to find—that chronicle the history and form the foundati...
mitpress.mit.edu

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 7d
Ooh! Experimental noisology!