David Stott
@davstott.bsky.social
Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.
GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.
Tinkerer.
Glaswegian in Jutland.
Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc.
GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.
Tinkerer.
Glaswegian in Jutland.
Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc.
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David Stott
@davstott.bsky.social
· Nov 13
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Today is Quartidi the 4th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Quartidi the 4th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay
More information on medlar
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…
—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay
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Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world
A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors
As Esau Lopez was asphyxiated for the first 17 minutes of his life on Earth, the atmosphere in the room remained serene, even ecstatic. Acoustic music crooned from a speaker in a modest two-bedroom apartment in a suburb of Pennsylvania. “You are a queen,” murmured one of three friends in the room.
Only Esau’s mother, Gabrielle Lopez, felt something was wrong. She was pushing hard, but her son would not be born. “Can you help [him] out?” she asked, as Esau crowned. “Baby is coming,” the friend replied. Four minutes later, Lopez asked again, “Can you grab [him]?” Another friend murmured, “Baby is safe.” Six minutes passed. Again, Lopez asked, “Can you grab [him]?” Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Reading this as a historian of a period when women regularly wrote farewell letters to their families before giving birth because they knew how dangerous it was, and knowing how grateful they would have been for reliable medical care and medicine, makes me want to scream in frustration
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Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
November 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills
Incredible🤯
📷 My own
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Reposted by David Stott
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
1/
www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
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this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
November 21, 2025 at 7:28 PM
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time
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Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay
More information on cattle turnips
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By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
November 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.
30cm subsidence a year.
Yikes.
Yikes.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
30cm subsidence a year.
Yikes.
Yikes.
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'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:52 AM
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'
#Iran 🇮🇷
#Iran 🇮🇷
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We can reconstruct two Proto-Indo-European verbal roots meaning 'to fart' but still cannot reconstruct a common PIE word for 'finger'.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
We can reconstruct two Proto-Indo-European verbal roots meaning 'to fart' but still cannot reconstruct a common PIE word for 'finger'.
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One of my metallographies of #Bronzeage artefacts also impressed a jury panel. Third place in the Danish National Research Foundation's photo competition.
Hun læser fortiden i krystallerne - Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Marie Wrobel har vundet tredjepladsen i DG's fotokonkurrence 2025 med et foto, der kan fortælle os en hel del om håndværk, teknologi og samfund i bronzealderen.
dg.dk
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 AM
One of my metallographies of #Bronzeage artefacts also impressed a jury panel. Third place in the Danish National Research Foundation's photo competition.
Bōtīc Bōtfǣcesson?
November 21, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Bōtīc Bōtfǣcesson?
Congratulations @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social !
🎉 A big congrats to Luka Civa, @ucph.bsky.social, Marie Odgaard, @au.dk and Heide Wrobel Nørgaard, the winners of the DNRF Photo Competition 2025!
They will be celebrated today at our annual meeting in CPH. 📸✨
More about the winners👉https://dg.dk/en/the-winners-of-the-dnrf-photo-competition-2025/
They will be celebrated today at our annual meeting in CPH. 📸✨
More about the winners👉https://dg.dk/en/the-winners-of-the-dnrf-photo-competition-2025/
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Congratulations @heidewnoergaard.bsky.social !
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Coolaste nyckelbrickan på Gotland (kanske Sverige?)
November 21, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Coolaste nyckelbrickan på Gotland (kanske Sverige?)
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Looking for an osteo experienced (2+ years would be great) in excavating commingled burials who digs single context for an 8 week project in January. Paid, obvs. Email me: [email protected]
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Looking for an osteo experienced (2+ years would be great) in excavating commingled burials who digs single context for an 8 week project in January. Paid, obvs. Email me: [email protected]
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
(you people are like freaking golddust, yeeesh)
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"Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
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TONIGHT & TOMORROW!
The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
November 20, 2025 at 11:57 AM
TONIGHT & TOMORROW!
The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
The online live lecture link will go onto this webpage nearer the event ~ Glasgow Archaeological Society:
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/huma...
I've been looking forward to this one.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I've been looking forward to this one.
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A OA collection of essays that could be written about my entire academic career to date. I jest, this looks like a really useful volume
📣 Really proud to announce the publication of Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship, an #OpenAccess collection of essays co-edited with @amsichani.bsky.social and published by @uolpress.bsky.social that examines the role of failure in #DH and research more broadly
@sas-news.bsky.social
@sas-news.bsky.social
Reframing Failure in Digital Scholarship - University of London Press
Failure is ordinary. From technological failures and computational obsolescence to rejected applications and challenging collaborations, failure is an unavoidable part of any scholarly endeavour. This...
uolpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
A OA collection of essays that could be written about my entire academic career to date. I jest, this looks like a really useful volume
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November 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Today is Décadi the 30th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay
More information on the roller
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay
More information on the roller
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Today is Décadi the 30th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay
More information on the roller
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate the roller.#JacobinDay
More information on the roller
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THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
November 19, 2025 at 8:28 PM
THURS 20th & FRI 21st Nov
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.
See Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!
Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of UofG Archaeo for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.