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drclairenolan.bsky.social
Archaeologist, heritage & wellbeing, ecocultural identity, social value of prehistory, landscape, depth psychology, music………… Web: https://research.ucc.ie/profiles/A009/[email protected]
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Using big LLMs for basic queries is 'like turning on stadium floodlights to look for your keys' - this is good on the AI environmental questions.

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This is extraordinary: "emissions by data centres needed to train and deliver AI services are estimated at around 3 per cent of the global total, close to those created by the aviation industry."

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The so called Leprechaun house at Carrowkeel, Sligo is a ruined Neolithic tomb. Sliced by a field boundary, some of its material is used in the stone walls… I was inspired by this to come out of “drawing retirement” (1/2) 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The ecological cost alone of AI should make us think before using it... "UK's 500 data centres currently consume 2.5% of all electricity in UK, while Ireland's 80 hoover up 21% of country's total power, with those numbers projected to hit 6% & 30% respectively by 2030." www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

@justrena.bsky.social!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Register to join this timely discussion on June 2, in person or on line, with @katecrawford.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social and @triofrancos.bsky.social, hosted by my Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab at the Institute for Advanced Study www.ias.edu/events/raree...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

𖦹 ⛏Burren Archaeology Festival 2025 - June 21st & 22nd ⛏𖦹 Burrenbeo Trust is delighted to launch the inaugural Burren Archaeology Festival 👇 burrenbeo.com/archaeologyf... #IrishArchaeology #ExploreTheBurren #AncientIreland #IrishHeritage #ArchaeologyIreland #HistoricIreland #ArchaeologyLovers

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“the supra-regional megalithic phenomenon may not reflect deep social integration, but rather a shared cultural expression without strong underlying biological connections.” Clarke was right (on that at least). Not everything maps. There is no such thing as a ‘culture’. @boothicus.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

@urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

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Artist's impression of the 'swan maiden' burial at Cawstone Edge in Hookland. 'Pulled from Mesolithic clay into our fluorescent now, the ochre-sprinkled bones of a young woman entered with the wings of whooper swan.' 🤍🐾🌿 #EmilyCBanting @hookland.bsky.social #whistpr

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Meayll Circle, Rhullick-y-lagg-shliggagh, on Manx lies near to the summit of Meayll Hill and has evidence from Neolithic to Medieval times. It is a chambered cairn, over one thousand years old. It has legends of haunting and Viking burials attached to it. #StandingStoneSunday

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

What’s Pure Gold? A collection of the more memorable interviews I’ve conducted as a journalist, including with Tony Warren, Brenda Fricker, Rudolf Nureyev, Ralph Steadman, John Mortimer, Eartha Kitt, J.P.Donleavy, Malcolm McLaren and many others. Also ones that didn’t go so well 😆 @MerrionPress

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

It’s May Eve: read more about old Irish customs and beliefs of this evening and the month ahead in my piece for @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Now, do you like gentle, conversational Irish History, Archaeology & Cultural podcasts which actually take you to the placed they talk about? If so then please give us a listen and follow... there might even be cake 🙂

submitted 189 days ago • 0 comments

Pat Brodie and I have a book coming out in September w/ @brisunipress.bsky.social Started with data centres and energy and turned into a story about monopoly tech, empire and Ireland's (under)development in the capitalist world system.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

One from a snowy morning at Callanish with the sun fighting through #StandingStoneSunday

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

No room for nature or the wildlife that sustain life on this planet in the unrelenting quest for more and more economic growth One day it will all collapse and that day is getting ever sooner

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

"The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did." Please be aware that beekeeping (bee farming) is a disaster for wild bees and other pollinators. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 39 days ago • 11 comments