Also, please remember to fill in the survey for meeting days and time slots, which Martin sent around! 📆 ✅ ❌ Especially if you've always wanted to come and couldn't because of other matters: Your vote counts and we would love to find a slot that works for everyone! 🍀 ⚠️ We will start with the […]

📢 Our next meeting is up 📢 and we’re delighted to welcome Emily Elizabeth Coco on **Friday, 7th Nov** for an invited talk on the insights for #reproducibility and computational practice in archaeology from her Agent-based modeling of #paleolithic #mobility and lithic recycling ! #abm […]

This week I've been e-chatting with photographer Lynn Gilbert who took this stunning portrait of Grace Hopper (1906-1992) legend & pioneer of language-based computer programming. 🧪👩‍🔬 You can read Hopper's own words about her experience in Lynn's wonderful interview: www.lynn-gilbert.com/free-chapters

XRONOS is an open data infrastructure for the backbone of the archaeological record – chronology. As described in our paper out today in the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (https://journal.caa-international.org/articles/10.5334/jcaa.191), XRONOS is the most comprehensive […]

I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#rstats Dev Diary: Realization about this rendering technique: I'm not warping the object, I'm warping space to be non-euclidean! "It is not the spoon that bends; it is only yourself." #thereisnospoon

Computational archaeologists – has your model failed verification? Or turned out to be unverifiable? Did you try a new approach that didn’t work? Make a mistake in implementation? Know of a method or tool that has been forgotten? Join @mattomasini and I at #caa2026 in Vienna, S16: '“All Models […]

#rstats Dev Diary - infinite repetition of a sphere in a signed distance field Pretty debugging plots 😍 #mood #art csg_sphere(3) |> csg_repeat_infinite(x = 10, y = 10, z = 10)

Pope Leo’s secret letter to U.S. bishops just leaked. TrumpWorld is not going to like what it says. This week in Rome, Pope Leo XIV quietly handed a letter to a group of visiting U.S. bishops. Inside were messages from migrants families separated by deportations, children afraid to sleep and […]

Still warm from the kiln, covered in warm earth tones—I’m so relieved this piece came out successfully on the other side of firing. I worked on it over the course of a month and remembered to document moments of process which I think I’ll share in a thread […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Postdoc in the Spatial Data Science and GeoCommunication group at @univienna https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdoctoral/1251977001/ #gischat #giscience #GISjobs

TIL you can use the constructive package instead of dput() to construct R objects with idiomatic R code for human-readable reproducible examples blog.stephenturner.us/p/construct-... #Rstats

A pretty cool thing about the Fediverse: It will still be around in a decade. Even two decades. Usenet still exists. IRC still exists. Email still exists. When you build platforms on open protocols and standards, it doesn't actually matter what corporations try and do to enshittify it. So long […]

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

On my way to the #nfdi4objects Community meeting to Bochum. Looking forward to discussing research data infrastructure and how to improve FAIRness of archaeological and archaeogenetic data! #n4ocm2025

📢📢 Our next meeting takes place 3rd October at the usual time 16:00–17:00 CEST (15:00–16:00 BST / 14:00–15:00 UTC). Germany will celebrate its reunification (🎉) , we will celebrate that we have Gabriele Gattiglia give a talk on #ai in #archaeology: implications for scripting practices […]

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?

Wrote some JavaScript code to customize #miniflux #feedreader to automatically sort articles by similarity. Now I can read similar articles one after another easily.

Frustrated by markdown checklists. Markdown translators should not produce seemingly-editable checkboxes for `- [ ] / `- [x]` because in most cases checking or un-checking the box does not actually effect the base document.

A recent preprint by Shastry, Musiani & Novembre 2025 (https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.02.10.637386) includes a neat human genomic dataset: c1global1nfd_public. I was originally compiled for Peter, Petkova & Novembre 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msz280) […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

#OpenAI Has a Fix For Hallucinations, But You Really Won't Like It. Via @sciencealert #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 💻 🤖 🧠 #LLM #ChatGPT

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Nächste Woche ist mein Workshop "Historische Karten mit #qgis referenzieren" im Rahmen des #praxislabor2025 auf dem #histag25 in Bonn. Anmeldung gerne an mich via Mastodon oder Mail auf meiner Mitarbeiterseite 👇 https://hil.hessen.de/ueber-uns/mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter/niklas-alt-ma Infos […]

Springer now demand that your pre-acceptance version of a paper on the arXiv comes with a disclaimer: “This preprint has not undergone peer review (when applicable) or any post-submission improvements or corrections. The Version of Record of this article is published in insert journal title] […]

I finally managed to fulfill my dream of using #futhark-lang (https://futhark-lang.org) in an #rstats package. v1.4.0 of my ggpointgrid package (https://github.com/nevrome/ggpointgrid) uses a futhark implementation of the core arrangement algorithm, transpiled […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

Excited to share our new preprint "High resolution analysis of population structure using rare variants" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.18.665597v1 where we investigate and formalise using rare allele sharing to quantify population structure, with application and examples in […]

Two papers to which I contributed came out back to back in Antiquity recently, which discuss African ancestry in early medieval individuals from England. Even though the data has been available since 2023, we now dedicated more space to these two special samples, and highlight this unusual […]

These days I see many website #feeds becoming inaccessible with a 403 forbidden error. I think it's because people are (mis)configuring their servers to forbid scrapping by bots. However, #rss feeds are meant to be accessible by bots (feedreaders) on behalf of their users. I've been reaching out […]

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 […]

I was just thinking to myself "It would be good if #mastodon let you follow someone's original posts without seeing all the stuff they boost, which is not relevant to me". Then it occurred to me to look and see if it does ... and it does! Click on the person's username, then click the […]

Every once in a while, someone says something like: “I do this, and that makes me safe from Facebook’s prying eyes!” It’s all complete nonsense. If you use our Meta products or services in any manner, we know who you are, where you are, what you’re doing, who your friends are, and so much […]

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 […]

The only thing ChatGPT ever does.

Finally found a solid lua filter for adding paragraph numbers to my documents: https://github.com/cysouw/count-para

Our next meeting is scheduled for this Friday, August 1st at 4PM CEST / 10AM EST/ 7 AM PST. Depending on attendance, we may cover these topics: - Planning a session for the CAA 2026 in Vienna, Austria - Project updates (TFQA, open-archaeo, etc) - SIG plans for the new academic session - General […]

In today's #gleo news: wind data! Or, more technically: a 2-band raster covering the globe and properly warped (EPSG:4326→EPSG:3857) containing UV speed data, visualised as a particle trail simulation. Thanks to the #FOSS4GE2025 for providing the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Still waiting for journal proofs so I decided to make the paper available on my site. Now with some animated gifs too --- a preprint exclusive! https://zackbatist.info/fuzzy-concrete/#learning-to-see-like-an-archaeologist

Fully-funded PhD position in experimental and/or computational psycholinguistics: https://tmalsburg.github.io/job_ad_2025_phd.html Application deadline is August 15.

The Journal of Trial and Error is hosting its second Trial & Error Award ceremony this year and nominations are still open! The aim is to celebrate researchers who have explored scientific failure in any scientific article published between April 1, 2024 and March 31, 2025. The scope is […]

Chapter 12: Spatial Statistical Learning 📊🌍 Boost your spatial models! 📌 Learn about spatial autocorrelation, cross-validation, and machine learning with `mlr3`, using a real-world landslide prediction case study. 🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/spatial-cv #rstats #rspatial #geocompx

Die @unibremen ist der Initiative #SaveSocial (https://savesocial.eu/) beigetreten. Diese setzt sich für ein freies, demokratisches Internet ein. Ziel ist es, alternative offene soziale Netzwerke zu stärken. Die Vorschläge richten sich an öffentliche […] [Original post on bildung.social]

Mastodon’s latest update readies the app for Quote Posts, revamps design https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/mastodons-latest-update-readies-the-app-for-quote-posts-revamps-design/

I spent some time today downloading and tidying hourly wind speed station data from the MIDAS Open UK data set: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uid/91cb9985a6c2453d99084bde4ff5f314/ R code and tidy (annual) csv files are on github here: ** […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Chapter 11: Writing Geoalgorithms 💻🧩🔁 Focuses on developing reusable and reproducible code for spatial tasks in R. Demonstrates algorithm design using examples like calculating polygon centroids. 🔗 https://r.geocompx.org/algorithms #rstats #rspatial #geocompx

Our next meeting takes place this Friday, July 4 at our usual time (4 PM CEST / 10 AM EST) The agenda is quite light this month, which is a great opportunity for open discussion. Please bookmark any inspiring papers, news or resources to share with the group! Otherwise, we can share what we […]

I don't think anyone actually uses it, but I've updated {ggghost} to align to the upcoming {ggplot2} release (an example was failing) https://cran.r-project.org/package=ggghost I also used the opportunity to update my cran_pkgs page to reflect total downloads of each package […]

New post: https://jcarroll.com.au/2025/06/29/counting-digits-quickly/ What if you could just wave a magic wand over your R #rstast :rstats: code and have it transform into something that ran as fast as or faster than C? @t_kalinowski's {quickr} 'R to Fortran Transpiler' does that for you! […]