Tim Gollins
@timgollins.bsky.social
Director SCUA at Vanderbilt University. Posts etc. my own - Loves #Kites #MorrisDancing #Archives #DigitalPreservation #Digipres #Libraries #Photography
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Archaeologists in Leuven, Belgium, just uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman wooden water pipe—remarkably preserved in marshy soil. Proof that ancient Romans knew a thing or two about plumbing! #RomanEngineering #Archaeology #Leuven #AncientInfrastructure #HistoryUncovered
Roman wooden water pipe unearthed beneath the Belgian city of Leuven
Archaeologists working in Leuven, Belgium, unearthed a Roman wooden water pipe that was remarkably preserved from the Roman imperial period
archaeologymag.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Archaeologists in Leuven, Belgium, just uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman wooden water pipe—remarkably preserved in marshy soil. Proof that ancient Romans knew a thing or two about plumbing! #RomanEngineering #Archaeology #Leuven #AncientInfrastructure #HistoryUncovered
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A pair of bronze foot-guards, found in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. Dating 520-480 BC.
Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose.
On display at British Museum.
📷 me
🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology
Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose.
On display at British Museum.
📷 me
🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology
April 7, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A pair of bronze foot-guards, found in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. Dating 520-480 BC.
Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose.
On display at British Museum.
📷 me
🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology
Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose.
On display at British Museum.
📷 me
🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology
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Thanks for buying #Burningtheboons hope you enjoy it!
Birthday-money- funded-Easter-break- reading-bookshop-swag #Booksky
April 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Thanks for buying #Burningtheboons hope you enjoy it!
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Giant cat in the searchroom alert!
"Contrary to general opinion the Modern Records Centre has not been established with the deliberate intention of creating new problems for the Library staff"
Strong #ArchiveBeginnings for the MRC in 1973. We've grown hugely in 51 years thanks to the work & support of friends & colleagues #Archive30
Strong #ArchiveBeginnings for the MRC in 1973. We've grown hugely in 51 years thanks to the work & support of friends & colleagues #Archive30
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Giant cat in the searchroom alert!
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sorry I can't make it to #bdcm25 this week but liking that there's a BlueSky feed emerging from the delegates. Like happier times on the other place. Thanks all! #digitalpreservation #dpc
April 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
sorry I can't make it to #bdcm25 this week but liking that there's a BlueSky feed emerging from the delegates. Like happier times on the other place. Thanks all! #digitalpreservation #dpc
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This week I'm at my old haunt, Senate House, for the already excellent #BDCAM25. So far today: new ontologies for the archived Web; LLM-enabled-metadata-generation-as-a-service, and more besides. And it's only day one.
April 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
This week I'm at my old haunt, Senate House, for the already excellent #BDCAM25. So far today: new ontologies for the archived Web; LLM-enabled-metadata-generation-as-a-service, and more besides. And it's only day one.
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And the badges look like this #bdcam25
Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 (Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory) Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres
April 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
And the badges look like this #bdcam25
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In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ
Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2
Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2
April 1, 2025 at 7:00 AM
In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ
Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2
Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2
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One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture.
Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.
Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.
Tech Life - Jamming and spoofing - BBC Sounds
UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.
www.bbc.co.uk
April 1, 2025 at 8:42 PM
One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture.
Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.
Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.
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Now I know 😀 @davidunderdown.bsky.social sent me the link to the University's history page for the Senate House, as well as this excellent article thecritic.co.uk/issues/april...
The building that inspired Orwell | Charles Saumarez Smith | The Critic Magazine
London was subject to a whole series of neoclassical plans for its development from the 1870s onwards.
thecritic.co.uk
April 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Now I know 😀 @davidunderdown.bsky.social sent me the link to the University's history page for the Senate House, as well as this excellent article thecritic.co.uk/issues/april...
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It was the Ministry of Information where Orwell’s wife worked! We even have a room 101.
April 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
It was the Ministry of Information where Orwell’s wife worked! We even have a room 101.
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Sunny spring day in London for the start of the #BDCAM25 Born Digital Collections, Archives & Memory conference www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
(I don't know why, but from the very first time I saw it years ago University of London's Senate House Building made me think of Orwell's Ministry of Truth)
(I don't know why, but from the very first time I saw it years ago University of London's Senate House Building made me think of Orwell's Ministry of Truth)
April 2, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Sunny spring day in London for the start of the #BDCAM25 Born Digital Collections, Archives & Memory conference www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
(I don't know why, but from the very first time I saw it years ago University of London's Senate House Building made me think of Orwell's Ministry of Truth)
(I don't know why, but from the very first time I saw it years ago University of London's Senate House Building made me think of Orwell's Ministry of Truth)
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Also yes these are beyond excellent #bdcam25
Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 (Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory) Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres
April 2, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Also yes these are beyond excellent #bdcam25
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Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 (Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory) Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres
April 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 (Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory) Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres
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Bird eats bird: White-throated toucan of Suriname, gently (surely!) holding another small bird in its beak. Protective! By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose day is today.
April 3, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Bird eats bird: White-throated toucan of Suriname, gently (surely!) holding another small bird in its beak. Protective! By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose day is today.
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Working in Winchester.
April 2, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Working in Winchester.
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A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations and you can browse all 3000+ of them.
daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...
daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...
April 2, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations and you can browse all 3000+ of them.
daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...
daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...
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Commuter #UnconfinedWalks. Still some splendid blossom out.
April 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Commuter #UnconfinedWalks. Still some splendid blossom out.
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I think this is really important.
Lockdown has changed us.
And I wonder whether this will just go away by itself.
Lockdown has changed us.
And I wonder whether this will just go away by itself.
I’ve written for @thespectator1828.bsky.social about people’s stories in focus groups of how they’ve turn inward and become less social since the pandemic and the risk it leaves us lonelier, more isolated less cohesive and less open to new experiences. www.spectator.co.uk/article/were...
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
I think this is really important.
Lockdown has changed us.
And I wonder whether this will just go away by itself.
Lockdown has changed us.
And I wonder whether this will just go away by itself.
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Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.
April 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.
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Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.
April 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.
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Medical historians! Any ideas in how common the use of Greek notation Phi Theta is to indicate TB?
Not seen it much before but it's in every record our researcher is looking at
Not seen it much before but it's in every record our researcher is looking at
April 2, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Medical historians! Any ideas in how common the use of Greek notation Phi Theta is to indicate TB?
Not seen it much before but it's in every record our researcher is looking at
Not seen it much before but it's in every record our researcher is looking at
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Today we are kicking off #Archive30 a month of posts celebrating the varied archives we hold covering over 350 years of medicine and medical education in Ireland. We hope you’ll be interested and entertained by this peak behind the doors into #YourArchive
April 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Bexley Local Studies #ArchiveBeginnings came in 1972 when records of the predecessor authorities of the new London Borough of Bexley were brought together in the new Library Service HQ at Hall Place Bexley. We stayed there until moving to Bexleyheath in 2000. #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
April 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Bexley Local Studies #ArchiveBeginnings came in 1972 when records of the predecessor authorities of the new London Borough of Bexley were brought together in the new Library Service HQ at Hall Place Bexley. We stayed there until moving to Bexleyheath in 2000. #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social