JOB: Data Curation Network Director hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

Qanta$ should change their name to crampedass or just tightass www.theguardian.com/business/202...

How strange. Australian elections always seem to feature politicians telling us renewable energy would increase prices so we need fossil fuels. It's almost like we are being lied to. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I am looking for a multispecies archaeologist with a strong theoretical and interpretive profile to join my group (100%, 3 years): uni.koeln/2E7CR Deadline: 30.09.2025. Apply here: uni.koeln/ZQMKA ("Wiss2508-21") @nakedprimate.bsky.social @mesh-research-hub.bsky.social @unicologne.bsky.social

I'll be at the National Museum of Scotland on Sunday, talking about Upon A White Horse. It will be my only Edinburgh date this year, I think, so if you'd like to buy a signed and dedicated book for yourself or perhaps as a Xmas gift for someone, please do come along. www.nms.ac.uk/events/in-co...

What was the role of short tales in late antiquity & early Byzantium? A new, open access book 📖 looks at how little stories say a lot brill.com/display/titl... I love that the short stories of Galen are included here & hagiographical stories alongside paradoxographical compendia (wonders & marvels).

Hmm. ••The Russian bishop praised Kirk for his willingness to preach his conservative, Christian ideology on American college campuses, calling it “not unlike preaching somewhere among a tribe of cannibals”. ** Food for thought!! Grr.

never thought of a chromebook as gaming-compatible www.protondb.com

If you have stuff in Academia.edu, it might be good to reconsider?

I knew they were stripping the functionality of sketchfab.com but did they have to make it look so ugly? sketchfab.com/enterprise?r...

#CFP dhandlib.org/dhlib-specia... Crafting Encounters with Humanities Data-special issue of dh+lib: explore ways of integrating critical making & data physicalization into library-based digital humanities pedagogy in a variety of forms and modalities ..Proposals (~250 words) by September 27, 2024.

www.watoday.com.au/politics/fed... "According to supplied evidence about salaries, 21 university heads were paid over $1 million in 2023."

This free online event in October from Dig Ventures looks like a wonderful opportunity for anyone with an interest in archaeology, gaming or technology in general 👇 digventures.com/product/reim...

The destruction of the Gaza city mosque is a devastating loss to humanity as a whole. A part of our global medieval heritage destroyed in furtherance to a genocide. I despair.

Don't forget, our collection of European #Archaeology is completely free for the rest of September! Explore the latest research on megalithic monuments, Ancient Greek chronology, medieval infection and more: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🏺 #Archaeology

AI, it's all good!

Hell yeah demo of Relooted is out???!!!!

What are the values of English-speaking people? I thought I was one of these 1.53 billion people but I fail to understand how we all share the same values www.news.com.au/entertainmen...

anyone who doesn't buy all the video games i direct will be at a cognitive, social, and spiritual disadvantage (they will go to hell).

My 89 year old mother turned on her laptop to a forced 'upgrade' to her OS and AI in all the software she uses. She's mostly annoyed because she can't find her files and everything is a bit different. But looking at this and I think there's more cause to be concerned.

As an archivist, this keeps me up.

3dprintingindustry.com/news/3d-scan... (old article but interesting)

Where was I? The violinist was playing Ave Maria, I think, if that helps!

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... the pressure now on Bishop must be intense. Sorry to see my old honorary university in this predicament.

📢 @rijksmuseum.bsky.social's 2and3D Photography call for papers is still open—I recommend you throw your hat in the ring. 👍 I sit on the advisory board and it is one of my favourite heritage imaging conferences with a very welcoming and fun atmosphere! www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/... #GLAM3D

Another serious game I heard about today in digital heritage 2025, charlesgames.net/we-grew-up-i...

Creamare: serious game for underwater heritage creamare.eu/project/

Videos like this should be required watching for all students (and all politicians) as basic tech ethics and media literacy. youtu.be/gKOzDU64iPA?...

Space for cultural and natural heritage workshop, ESA-ESRIN, Oct 2026

Horizon 2025 93.5 billion RI over 2021-27. Europe, I am a bit jealous! (DH2025 opening, Siena)

some really interesting projects at digital heritage 2025 conference in Siena, presented already, like warchildhood.org/we-grew-up-i...

There is an open source game engine with programming in Pascal? Blast from the past! castle-engine.io

Inside the ‘Devil’s Bible,’ the Largest Medieval Manuscript Ever Made #codexGigas 📜 news.artnet.com/art-world/hu...

fun fact: writing grants on how to use 3D AI meaningfully and contextually (for cultural heritage) always ends up at the engineering/IT panel not the humanities, and they never like it. Yet it's written for the humanities, who seem to get the point! I need to think wider horizons I guess.

Imagine my horror when I discover not will I not have time to visit and sketch San Gimignano this week thanks to a conference but it has arguably the best gelato in the area if not Italy/the world! I am reconsidering my career choices. www.gelateriadondoli.com

The Digital Heritage and Web3D conference/a take off tomorrow in Siena Italy.

A long essay on AI and culture. It’s well-written and thoughtful, but parts of it are utterly terrifying glimpses into the future www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Perhaps still the best general purpose explainer of how an LLM works and the one I give to students. Here’s why I like it (short🧵): ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

Just defending AI for a crazy second. If AI isn't very smart, then can we explain how it keeps avoiding being called onto academic conferene panels?

Did you know there was an Asia CHI conference series? I did not know this. Time to hand in my academic badge. (One can identify academic badges by their pale metallic shine, run down by years of institutional cynicism, watermarks from copious amounts of unfunded research-dreaming tears...)

2 UK universities asked me to examine/attend PhD vivas in December; I checked airfare prices from Adelaide South Australia, and, wow! In December they double from November's cheapest rate of 1000 pounds. Stay at home, Dick Whittington!

Maybe Del Toro could make an egotistical monster movie about a movie critic?

DiGRA 2026 will be hosted at Maynooth University in Maynooth, Ireland from 14 to 18 June 2026. The 2026 conference theme is Intersectional Pleasures. digra.org/digra-2026-h...

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age. This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

a bit of good news at least .. Australian ban on fish-shaped plastic soy sauce dispensers a world first www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's exciting that digital heritage is continually tantalised by new technological developments for reality capture. But what about the culturally intangible, unreality capture? Any promising technology on the horizon?

#firstworldproblem in a heartbreaking and headaching sideswerve to normal life I am trying to give up or at least reduce caffeine. Not many alternatives I found appeal. Has anyone tried Golden Milk (Turmeric Latte)? "A comforting drink made with turmeric, milk, and spices like cinnamon and ginger."