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davstott.bsky.social
Asking big data 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.
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Today I am mostly meant to be writing about the depiction of *barbarians* in classical art All I can think of, however, is Arminius of the Cherusci playing a shouty bird man in Flash Gordon *Varus's alive?*

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Movie you've watched more than six times, using only a GIF

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If you need help coming up with a 'hypotheses' you shouldn't be a scientist. Every scientist I know has 100 project ideas and lack time to get to them. No on is sitting around twiddling thumbs without an interesting question to ask. We are in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Hooray! Obsidian is a brilliant tool for organising a complex mess of notes and todo lists.

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$DEITY bless the #GDAL crew #gis lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/gd...

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Sunshine bike selfie on the school run #cargobike

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If Starmer wasn’t such a plodder he would be increasing funding to research universities, changing visa rules, and actively poaching top quality scientists from America who have lost their jobs/funding. But he has no imagination or vision so he won’t be doing that.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 439 comments

May be of interest: Infrared Spectroscopy of Archaeological Sediments available in #OpenAccess www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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This is well cool but the penalties for violating RF pollution emissions can be scary

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Budget-Minded Synthetic Aperture Radar Takes to the Skies https://hackaday.com/2025/02/13/budget-minded-synthetic-aperture-radar-takes-to-the-skies/

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Illustrations of apples from the USDA Pomological Watercolors collection: search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/co... A handful of the more than 7,500(!) examples available. #handcrafted #dataviz

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I have a new obsession.

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Prehistoric #baby feeding vessels: marvellous feeding vessels in the shape of #animals from Vösensorf and Oberleis, Austria, dating 1200-800 BC. Baby bottles in the shape of animals are common in late Bronze and early Iron Age Europe. Photo: Wien Museum 🏺 #archaeology

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

I'm somewhat alarmed that there were so few other sceptical voices in this consultation on GenAI. Am I missing something?

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”Det at uddelegere kreativ tænkning til et avanceret prædiktivt tekstprogram, det synes jeg er sørgeligt,” siger David Stott. dm.dk/akademikerbl...

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Is this the most carnage caused by a Doge since Enrico Dandolo sacked Constantinople in 1204?

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

Remember to spread a little joy, even if it will be fleeting

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

Snowhill Lane Bridge, M6, by Jen Orpin, Manchester-based artist who paints a lot of motorways. (With thanks to @groomb.bsky.social )

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

An ammonite fossil, probably carved into a face during the Late Iron Age / Romano British period, with hair ingeniously styled from the shell A #FindsFriday / #FossilFriday crossover 🤩 📷 Feb 2022 Found at Great Bedwyn and a favourite find in the always excellent @wiltshiremuseum.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments

Job Alert!!! Postdoc position available in Marine Geophysics and Marine Geoarchaeology, as part of the @subnordica.bsky.social project. international.au.dk/about/profil...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

For #MosaicMonday, a late Roman woman feeding her ducks and chickens. Oderzo, Italy.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Like I said, never trust a man who actively hates trains.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

A little comic about desire paths.

submitted 38 days ago • 86 comments

portrait | landscape — brightness-derived depth — #genuary #genuary14 #generativeart #codeart #parametric #noAI #portrait

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know who needs to hear this (me, probably) but it's ok to just stop using platforms and products made by shitty and unethical people without worrying about whether you're single-handedly making any sort of difference

submitted 43 days ago • 13 comments

Generative AI is cooked. They can’t even make money charging people $200 a month for chatbots.

submitted 47 days ago • 25 comments

THREAD. So much rain has the fields floating in water. Not quite the conditions yet of 2021 - the images in this thread - but, in the east of England, still a practical lesson explaining so much about land use before under-field drainage began in the 17thC.

submitted 52 days ago • 10 comments