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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 4h

It certainly feels longer! Still, a lot of things are still as relevant now, on this year's Digikult, as when you gave your keynote. Maybe even more so. Still a lot of hype, but also a lot of people from the heritage sector weighing in actively and critically.

Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 7h

Julia Beck from Gothenburg University Research Infrastructure for Digital Humanities (GRIDH):
"Technical sustainability in digital projects"
10 years is a long time for Digital software, and funding for maintenance is not clear when projects end. Documentaion is key for survival!
#Digikult2025

Challenges facing staff trying to save research projects. And should really everything be saved? What is important?

Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 8h

Really fascinating presentation by @jenr.bsky.social on possible futures for #DigitalHeritage infrastructures and how professionals react to them. The importance of engaging with different scenarios and the positive and negative aspects of them. To be able to visualise possibilities.
#Digikult2025

Infrastructures are about value and care

A possible scenario: the history of buttons. Distributed but dependent on local experts

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 9h

Keynote by Jen Ross, Professor of Digital Culture and Education Futures, University of Edinburgh:
"What we want and what we expect from our infrastructure futures."
How do we get people properly excited about infrastructures?!
#Digikult2025 #DigitalHeritage

The word Infrastructure surrounded by fireworks

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 9h

Opening welcome by Johan Sterte, Västmanland County Board, and Magnus Larsson, National Heritage Board. About the joys of historical environments, but also challenges for development. Importance of access to digital information across agencies and sectors.
#Digikult2025

Moderator Lisa Berg with Magnus Larsson and Johan Sterte

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 11h

Preparations underway for Digikult conference on #DigitalHeritage in practice. This year we are in Västerås.
www.raa.se/Digikult

Digikult rollup at the entrance to the conference room

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween is near! It's time to post this marvellous articulated Roman skeleton, presumably meant to be a reminder to enjoy life to the fullest, since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.
In Petronius’ Satyricon, the host of a dinner party brings out a small skeleton with moveable...🧵1/2

Bronze figurine of a walking skeleton with elongated limbs and detailed ribcage, shown against a dark gradient background.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 4d

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Sign Up

Skype a Scientist gives you the opportunity to connect with students and the public around the world.

www.skypeascientist.com

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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 3d

At 9:03 am, the Mary Rose broke the surface of the water, seeing sunlight (such as you can on a cloudy day!) for the first time in 437 years.

#WhereWereYouIn82

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 4d

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 7d

A good piece of advice. Learning how to be a good mentor requires work, reflection and advice.

Science Magazine @science.org · 7d

"… I carry the lesson with me that good mentors are not born—they are built through reflection, training, and community." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4q6ea31

An iIllustration of man looking in mirror with his reflection and students' reflections looking back, with text: I didn't think I needed mentorship training—but it reshaped my approach.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 16d

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 17d

Quiet Saturday, making sure all the articles in the upcoming issue of @fornvannen.bsky.social next month are accessibility compliant. Nice mix of time periods and topics. From Mesolithic arrowheads, to Bronze Age wetland, to runes and Medieval books. ☕️📝

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 17d

Some things never change!

4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

Met museum photo of an ancient Egyptian rectangular wooden white-washed writing board with an exercise written in black hieratic script. It was written by a student named Iny-su whose spelling mistakes are corrected in red ink by the teacher. Hieratic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive version of hieroglyphics. The board measures 19 cm long x 43 cm wide and has a horizontal crack half way down the left-hand side. The wooden board was painted with white gesso, which now appears cream-coloured. This allowed boards to be whitewashed for use over and again.

The exercise is a practice in formal letter writing. The student Iny-su addresses the letter (presumably jokingly) to his brother Peh-ny-su, treating him like a wealthy authority figure. Wood, gesso, paint pigment. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, c. 1981–1802 BC.

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 18d

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology | Archaeological Dialogues | Cambridge Core

Documenting the profession: Recording historic access and retention issues for women in UK archaeology

www.cambridge.org

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Anton Larsson @antonyaolarsson.bsky.social · 18d

Here is the first more in-depth article on the truly breathtaking discovery of a 6 kg silver hoard, containing thousands of late 1100s AD coins and ample Viking Age jewelry, found near Stockholm. Paywalled, but surely not the last you will hear of this. www.dn.se/sverige/hon-...

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Anette Sand-Eriksen @sanderiksen.bsky.social · 20d

Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 19d

We all are. We just can't stop thinking about the Romans... 😅

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 19d

Interesting. Just finished listening to Anthony Everitt's book on Cicero. Impression left was that too few were as invested in the ideals as him, so restoration might have been very shortlived. But maybe present times make me too pessimistic...

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Gloves off in the #Swedigarch workshop! Marcus Smith and Markus Gylling on the implementation of the #LinkedArt data model to build a knowledge graph for Swedish #HeritageData

Markus Gylling and the levels of semantic enrichment

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Erik Lernestål and Rosemary Hanson on how the Swedish History Museums work with 3D digitalisation, importance of common work processes. Difficult to find perfect solution for both preservation, accessibility, and information.
samlingar.shm.se/object/F0DD4...
#Swedigarch

Erik Lernestål and one of the Vendel helmets in 3D

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Eva Vedin, Swedish History Museums, on the ongoing work with vocabularies and links to authorities in other sources like Wikidata. There are 21 different places named "Lund" in the database that need to be differentiated. #Swedigarch

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Sven Kalmring, National History Museum, on the work to enrich the Birka collection data and use it and GIS Data to generate 3D visualisations both above and below the water level around the old harbour. #Swedigarch

Sven Kalmring in front of screen showing the 3D visualisation of the marine remains

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Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · 21d

Full day workshop for #Swedigarch, national research infrastructure for #DigitalArchaeology. Meetup to discuss how we can ensure interoperability between museum, university and agency data resources through the SOCH aggregator.

Fredrik Gunnarsson presenting SOCH for the workshop attendees

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 23d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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