David Stott

@davstott.bsky.social

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Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.

GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.

Tinkerer. Aspiring bodger.

Glaswegian in Jutland.

Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc. .. more

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Nov 13

There's enough of us now to do one of these!

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23h

It's surely the Belts we should be worried about. Dastardly Swedes.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

... about that other than making sure we avoid vendor lock-in on our projects so when the time comes we can drop Azure / SharePoint etc without too much pain.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

This is good. I'd really like to ditch Android (for a while at least), but: MitID, Aula, Rejsekort / DSB, MobilePay etc. all make that difficult.

Our entire digital infrastructure at the unis, agencies etc being based on the MS stack makes me very nervous, but there's not much I can do...

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Jyllands-Posten @jyllands-posten.dk · 1d

Danmark er afhængig af amerikansk software. En embedsmand i Ribe bryder fri

Staten kan også spare en halv milliard kroner.

dlvr.it

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Avery Edison @averyedison.com · 1d

sigh

Post from Avery Edison: I wrote "I am alive" on a piece of paper, and placed it into a photocopier. What I saw next has shocking implications

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

I for one salute our new Crusty Crustacean overlord.

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 1d

Andrew's behaviour clearly needs criminal investigation.

But we should be equally outraged at the way the Monarchy bankrolled and protected him - including paying £12 million to settle a sexual assault case.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor must give evidence to US cops, demand Scottish Greens

Patrick Harvie spoke out after the King said his family were "ready to support" police in their inquiries.

www.dailyrecord.co.uk

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

The year is 2026, the distant future. The SAGA GIS processing provider in QGIS still gets thrown by non-ASCII characters in file paths.

Don't use those characters? All well and good until you work places with non ASCII letters in their alphabet.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Taphonomy is taphonomy I suppose.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

We need to spend some time gently educating our geological colleagues that we're here and we know stuff:

bsky.app/profile/davs...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting. I'm concerned by:
a) a somewhat cursory engagement with prior art & a large body of archaeological literature on this topic
b) referencing Graham Hancock 💀💀💀!!!

David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 4d

New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

That it is.

Wild / Leica also made the best survey tripods with the nifty interlocks on the legs when closed.

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Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 2d

These are so beautifully designed and built! 😍 and extend the existing 'The Bare Bones' learning materials from Forestry and Land Scotland and written by Gavin Lindsay, Matt Ritchie and Alison Sheridan.

Thanks for highlighting @thebefs.bsky.social 🙏

Image of one of the loanable 'The Bare Bones Toolkits': a portable wooden box with liftable lid and drawers, approximately 50 cm high and wide and 30 cm deep, containing various types of tactile learning objects.

For full list of box contents, nearest available and how to borrow, visit https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/learning/loan-kits/the-bare-bones-toolkit/

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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 2d

This would have been a good point for someone to have asked, is that really how things work? Or is vacuum in fact an excellent insulator? www.ft.com/content/a5cf...

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Elon Musk is betting that AI’s future lies not on Earth, but in orbit — a claim he has put at the centre of his $1.25tn plan to merge SpaceX with his lossmaking start-up xAI.

The tech billionaire, who aims to launch an initial public offering for the newly combined company this year, argues that vast fleets of satellites powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space will become the cheapest way to generate AI computing power. Musk believes this will happen within the next three years.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

I'm left handed & wear mine on the right but a people seem to think that's aberrant and wrong for some reason?

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

The M5 is the most beautiful of all the Leicas.

A Leica M5 film camera with a 35mm lens attached. It's a rangefinder. The design is a notable departure from other Leica rangefinders as it's somewhat bigger. The over sized shutter speed dial overhangs the top plate. It has a spot meter of incredible design.

The one pictured here is well used, against background of a beige mechanical keyboard.

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Jérôme OLLIER @jeromeollier.bsky.social · 3d

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea – Will there be a major inflow of saltwater from the North Sea? - IOW

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Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea – Will there be a major inflow of saltwater from the North Sea?

Photo of turbulent waves on the Baltic Sea during stormy weather.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Post a banger that isn't English

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Matthew Morriss @rockiceandsnow.bsky.social · 3d

Relative elevation models are both compelling visualizations of fluvial systems but also frankly useful for geologic mapping of terraces or quantifying zones of potential flood inundation. Several years ago Open Topography coded up an method for using python to make REMs (see below) 🧵

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

.. in particlarly br Kvamme and @gverhoev.bsky.social.

I'd recommend that you specifically seek out archaeological prospection specialists when you look for domain experts. There's not many of us, but we're nice:

go.bsky.app/M9FwG2K

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Good- citing Hancock is tantamount to uncritically citing a a young earth creationist in a geoscience paper.

In terms of the wider literature- multi-spectral imaging has been used by archaeologists for decades at this point, and there are some good papers on sensor fusion and spectral indices...