@stefan_hessbrueggen @joeroe The Minimal Computing group is famous for their use of static site generators, and they have some think pieces, although they don’t explicitly mention SSGs that much: https://go-dh.github.io/mincomp/thoughts/ The classic @proghist article on the topic has some […]

Can anyone point me to literature on static websites in open science/open data? I feel like the advantages are obvious and I'm sure I've read bits here and there, but I'm struggling to find a good reference for a grant application... #staticweb #opendata #openscience

Is there some way I can make "paste as plain text" my default at all times in all applications on all devices forever and ever until the end of time?

I've been off #academiaedu for years now—I post my papers etc. on my own homepage (https://joeroe.io)—but since many colleagues are now dropping it in favour of Knowledge (neé Humanities) Commons, I've taken the opportunity to activate my profile there too: https://hcommons.org/members/joeroe/

Today I'm #teaching my first class of the new semester (and of my new job), on finds processing in #archaeology I'm quite pleased that I've prepared a 3 hour class with zero powerpoint, and starting to wonder if I can pull it off for the rest of course too... #edchat #highered

A few years ago I used to transcribe data from printed gazetteers by propping the book next to my monitor, putting on a TV show, and spending an afternoon clacking away on my keyboard. These days I do it by spending an afternoon stringing together a fancy computer vision and document AI […]

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

How decentralized are the deployments of the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc.) and the Atmopshere (Bluesky, etc.)? I'm starting a project to track this! https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/

Great that data availability sections are becoming the norm in #scientificpublishing, but maybe authors need more guidance on what should go in there? In the past few weeks I've seen: - "Not applicable" on a paper describing a dataset - "No data was generated or analysed for this study" – then […]

🧵 from Martin-Perea Olduvai Gorge is one of the most iconic paleoanthropological sites in the world. Despite this, the stratigraphy and dating of its most recent Beds—where MSA and LSA archaeology is found—are poorly constrained. We studied the type localities of the Ndutu and Naisiusiu Beds to […]

The invention of the ox-drawn plough was a turning point in the #prehistory of #agriculture because it was the first time food production was decoupled from human labour (https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.105). This is why, from Medieval Europe to the ancient […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

We just saw this paper by Néhémie Strupler that cites #OpenData about surveys in #archaeology, including the "Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project I: Pedestrian Survey" that we published back in 2013. It's a great example of reusing older data for new research! https://doi.org/10.1002/arp.1964

Pleased to announce that my book, Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media, is now available online, and will be out in print in a couple weeks! https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com That site has more stuff, too -- links to related […]

Is archaeology a science? 🧪 Here's my new paper that has a go at answering this question by analysing 10,000 journal articles: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1lHjN_6yUMDGcY #archaeology #science

CALL FOR PAPERS #nordictag2025 Deadline: 15 October 2025 Conference: 6-9 May 2026, Kalmar, Sweden 'Commoning the Digital and Public Space: Activism for Sustainable Preservation' How can we preserve cultural knowledge embedded in digital technologies without adding to environmental harm? Can […]

CALL FOR PAPERS #tag2025 Deadline: 1 August Conference: 15-17 Dec 2025, York, UK How sustainable is archaeological research today? ATRIUM is seeking paper submissions TAG 2025 in York, UK. The session 'Towards adaptation: Environmental Sustainability in Archeological Workflows' invites […]

because I like making things, and I spent some time reading https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/2/index.html, and I want my intro to digital archaeology students to _do_ things, I elaborated my harris matrix webtoy/tool to allow for groups, phasing, and some rudimentary temporal validation […]

I plan to propose a "Box's law" session for #caa2026 (Vienna, https://2026.caaconference.org/): calling for papers on models that failed verification, approaches that didn't work, errors in implementation... generally non-successful outcomes in computational #archaeology and what we can learn […]

CALL FOR PAPERS CAA Danmarks <https://dk.caa-international.org/> næste seminar afholdes Tirsdag d. 17. marts 2026 @ Holstebro Museum i samarbejde med luftfotoarkæologisk Center. Årets tema ønsker at sætte fokus på "fjerndetektering og ikke-destruktiv arkæologi": - Hvilken metode og procedure […]

yelling at clouds, syllabus edition.

Here is how PCI is elevating the standards for open and reproducible science: introducing 4 already-existing and 2 new features 🧵👇 #OpenScience #reproducibility

My colleague Amaia Arranz-Otaegui is advertising a two-year research position (pre- or postdoc) modelling pedestrian movement in Epipalaeolothic West Asia. Based in Vitoria-Gasteiz with the opportunity for a stay with me in Copenhagen (but don't let that put […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

Unless you’re a Nobel laureate, the brain drain will be away from science and not to other countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/us/trump-federal-spending-grants-scientists-leaving.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ME8.sh9q.qy7jX0S1ZrBa&smid=url-share

Open position at Leipzig University, professor for Archaeology: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/stellenausschreibung/artikel/professur-fuer-archaeologie-des-antiken-mittelmeerraumes-und-seiner-umwelt-w2-2025-05-20

We've done it 🥳 Finally, there's a canonical paper on the #qgis project, its history, workings, and challenges: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666389925001138 Thanks to @timlinux and @mbernasocchi for joining me in trying to tell the QGIS story 💚 #osgeo #gischat #giscience

Thanks to @AlainQueffelec our community-maintained list of diamond open access (free to read, free to publish) #archaeology journals now has more than 80 entries: https://diamond.open-archaeo.info/ So if you're an archaeologist and you're still putting your work behind paywalls or paying […]

Mark your calendars! During our next meeting, @electricarchaeo will be presenting about his work using LLMs, including some material from his upcoming book that aims to make LLMs more accessible to archaeologists. ✨👩‍💻🤖🏺🤗 Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST […]

Last week I was in Athens for the International Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in #Archaeology (CAA) (see @CAA_int). Under the auspices of the @CAA_SSLA special interest group Martin Hinz and I had organized a session on […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

If anyone wants to use Typst for submitting and publishing a @PeerCommunityIn manuscript ( @PeerCommunityJournal ), I updated the template I made a while ago. I'd be interested in getting feedback on it and improving it. The nice thing? You can switch from the submission to the journal format […]

Last week I dropped my phone one time too many and it's a brick. On the plus side, I therefore had a super relaxing, completely offline Easter weekend. On the other hand, now I'm realising I that without a smartphone I can't: - Use my commuter pass on the train - Check my work email - Get […]

Can rail reduce British aviation emissions? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136192092400470X

Love this (re)definition of #archaeology from Greenberg (https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv31xf4jv.21, paraphrasing pg. 319): "The archaeological is anything that has been buried or anything that has been forgotten"

I'm hiring a PhD student in Copenhagen, Denmark to do #HCI research on #privacy and #interoperability in messaging apps! This is a fully funded 3-year position in the Copenhagen campus of Aalborg University. The student will join my project "mInt" (for "messaging interoperability" ;)) and will […]

NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. https://www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai-bot-traffic-costs-plan/

We have decided to sunset openSNP at the end of April. While triggered by the sale of #23andme, @PhilippBayer @i_dabble & I had been thinking about this for a while. Ultimately, we think that it's the most responsible act of data stewardship given the state of the world. I've written a […]

I wrote a quick summary of recently published and upcoming research using #xronos open chronological data: https://xronos.ch/news/research-using-xronos-in-2024 I'm very excited that 2024 was the first year in which we saw multiple published papers using the database, after it was […]

https://archaeo.social has defederated https://social.freysa.ai, which is flooding hashtags such as #archaeology and #history with repetitive LLM-generated posts. #MetaArchaeoSocial #mastoadmin

"Den danske stat står i et nyt milliardudbud til at indkøbe software-licenser og søsætter for første gang et samlet storindkøb af cloud-løsninger. Men det kan være problematisk i en tid, hvor man vil frigøre sig fra amerikanske tech-giganter, lyder det fra ekspert." Hvad er det #dkpol ikke har […]

Open letter from over 250 archaeologists and cultural heritage professionals calling on the World Archaeological Congress to join the Palestinian-led academic boycott of Israel in response to "Israel's crimes against Palestinians, including its genocide in Gaza and its underlying apartheid […]

Everybody knows that efficient and high-quality scholarly publishing is possible. The Global South has been demonstrating this for years, no decades, as have various journals and fields. A nice summary of how the European Geosciences Union shows the world how it's done has just been published […]

currycarbon v0.4.0.0 is finally available. This version comes with a number of visible and invisible changes, most obviously an extension of the neat command line plot. This version is again available for MS Windows. https://github.com/nevrome/currycarbon #archaeology #haskell #c14

After a long while I prepared a new release of c14bazAAR, our #archaeology #rstats package for accessing bulk #c14 data. This release finally includes a getter function for an up-to-date version of the huge xronos database: https://xronos.ch This was possible thanks to active support and code […]

📢 Quick reminder everyone 👉 Our next SIG meeting is scheduled for Friday, February 7, 2025, at 4 PM CET, based on the results of our survey. The invite was just send out via our google group. 📝👩‍💻 Don't know how to join to get all the 🔥 hot topics 🔥 in #ComputationalArchaeology or […]

Maybe scientific publishing is already federated? ☑︎ Thousands of community-led venues, i.e. journals ☑︎ Volunteer content review by peers ☑︎ Guided by codes of conduct ☑︎ Solid identity-management and hyperlinks across instances ☑︎ Exists alongside broader forms of public […]

With a lot of new people joining the #fediverse, it's maybe time for a new #introduction as we've been here for a couple of years now. This is the account of Suomen antropologi: The Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. We are a fully #openaccess, peer-reviewed and English language […]

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I just became a monthly donor to my Mastodon instance, archaeo.social. https://opencollective.com/archaeosocial #mastodon #crowdfunding

Several publications on the archaeology of the #A14 #huntingdon to #cambridge Road Improvement Scheme, coinciding with the simulantaneous release of the related ADS digital archive have just been released. A Route Well Travelled. The Archaeology of the A14 Huntingdon to Cambridge Road […]