This is what happens when ignorance and #ChristianFascism are elected as government. Science is disregarded, ignorance prevails, our Earth and us will pay the consequences for decades. Europeans take note please. bbc.com/news/article...

Ahhhh yes - that moment of the year, just before the #exams, where you realize that students do not really understand what you are trying to explain 🥴 #uni #AcademicChatter

It seems 300 years later the situation in Germany is quite similar with all those Prof. Med. Dr. Hab. Last name and the like 🤣

Meet the putto that is responsible for handing out academic and working titles: a figure blowing soap bubbles as a sign for vanity. Take this, #academicsky, feel addressed.

This political ad about a need for #digitalisation in Germany made my day…with my broken German I understood “No to time for fax machines” which is quite appropriate given the tech backwardness of this country an wide use of fax… the actual translation reads “No time for non-sense” 🤣

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

The “best” of two worlds… pagoda on ice at #WestparkMuenchen in Munich, Bavaria

#AcademicSky One more time they address the wrong issue, one more time they show that they care more about the NRA twisted ideology then citizen and student safety #BrownStrong…

Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

I am so excited being part of the LMU team led by @nicolalercari.bsky.social in the EXCALIBUR Horizon Project ( excalibur-eccch.eu ), where we develop open-source, cost-effective digital tools powered by AI/ML collaboratively with archaeologists, bioanthropologists, and conservators.

Today, we’re launching our new #DigitalHeritage guest speaker series @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #AcademicSky with my talk on investigating invisible ancient cities with #remotesensing and #AI www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

Just finished reading news on Trump’s speech trying to persuade generals and admirals to embrace his radical ideology edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p.... Americans shall not forget the #KentStateMassacre and what happens when the military is used to suppress speech and dissent at university’s campuses

#AcademicSky I've just finished presenting the paper Sun Stones Chronicles: Enriching the Bornholms Museum Brightest Artifact Collection through 3D Scanning and Semantic Web Technologies at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena. Many thanks to the Beckett Foundation for supporting our research

What a great panel @ #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena! With colleagues Maria Economou, Angeliki Chrisanti, Erik Champion, Angela Antoniou, and Stella Sylaiou we discussed #GenerativeAI and the #NarrativeTurn in #DigitalHeritage education. The highlight our pre-session in Piazza del Campo 😊 #AcademicSky

San Francisco came within a single vote of saving the Embarcadero Freeway from demolition.

#AcademicSky The first week of our international workshop on #DigitalPhotogrammetry funded by the #DAAD Ta’ziz short-term measures program has united an international cohort of students and staff from LMU Munich, Alexandria University (Egypt), Fayoum University (Egypt), and the University of Jordan

I’m proud of my PhD student Yiming DU for presenting the wonderful paper “StatueDiff: Regionally Enhanced Cross-Scale Diffusion for Single-View 3D Reconstruction of Classical Statues at #CIPA2025Seoul #AcademicSky

#AcademicSky It’s my pleasure to attend a keynote given by my former PI Maurizio Forte at #CIPA2025 conference in Seoul. Vai Maurizio!!!

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Another news of a blackmailing attempt against #UCLA, one of the top public universities in the world. How humiliating is it for a country owing its wealth also to science and research to destroy its higher education system from within? Don’t give in #UCLAStrong www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...

I just read this article about Japan being stuck in the past with fax machine and ink stamp. How funny is it that I found so many similarities with Germany where I had to learn how to use a stamp to do university business? edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/a...

We’re hiring a postdoc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social in #AI & #ML applications in #HeritageScience for 3+3 years www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42.... Do you know anyone interested?

Reading Susan Schneider’s analogy between #LLMs using adaptive language and the 2013 movie #Her. She say chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions nautil.us/ai-already-k...

#AcademicSky Did you know that #DPLA launched #TheBannedBookClub to ensure all readers have access tot the books they want to read despite their authoritarian government’s restrictions? America one more resource for you in case things get rougher… dp.la/news/the-ban...

#AcademicSky I’ve been coming across more and more papers related to #digitalheritage, #digitalarchaeology, and #digitalhumanities being published on arxiv.org as open-access preprints. Is anyone in these fields using it? What’s your perception of arXiv or other open review repositories?

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

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🔬 #AcademicSky ▫️ #AcademicChatter ▫️ #Research ▫️ #Career 🔬 Skills you need to see results in your research career Research careers are, for obvious reasons, extremely varied. However, there are a number of skills that all researchers, regardless of their industry or path, should consider learning.

Do you struggle to recruit postdocs #highered #AcademicSky. I failed 2 searches when candidates who were offered the job declined it due to family reasons… are early scholars disillusioned or am I just missing something? Our institute is at an R1-equivalent university in a top German city (Munich)

I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (Munich) today with my students. A powerful, sobering experience. While reflecting on the horrors of the Holocaust, I was struck by today’s echoes of the 1930s: rising authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism. So much to unpack, still processing…

Ice core samples from Greenland indicate a similar eruption caused famines during the 3rd millennium BC. Neolithic farmers from Bornholm, Denmark, may have ritually 'sacrificed' engraved sun stones to bring back the darkened sun 2/2 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

"But commercial success in these areas grew out of basic research ... in universities, funded by the federal government. With a bottom line to consider, for-profit businesses likely would not have started these disciplines from scratch." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪

Shame! Should proclamations and policies made by ignorants decide if a university’s “…conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers…” ? edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/u...

We congratulate all 19 participants of the 2025 LMU #WinterSchoolMDH on their successful completion of the program. Certificates of participation have been sent. Congratulations once again, and thank you for being a part of the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social LMU community! www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

Can’t miss it piece of comedy by Jon Steward. Elon gets DOGE’d youtube.com/watch?v=WIhl...

Art conservation or synchronized dance routine? This is a crucial moment in the treatment of a painting. After many months of painstaking cleaning, it is time for varnishing. This step is done to saturate the colors, and to ensure the painting underneath is protected.

Trump has fired Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery, calling her “a highly partisan person” and criticizing her support for DEI initiatives as “totally inappropriate.” Sajet has led the museum for over 12 years.

Anyone interested in #DigitalHeritage ? Join the pack go.bsky.app/EPzkJN6

Admissions Now Open for the New M.A. in Digital Cultural Heritage at LMU Munich @lmumuenchen.bsky.social · Duration: 4 semesters (full-time) · Language of instruction: English · Tuition fees: None · Applications Open: 5/5/25 · Deadline: 15/6/25 (23:59 CET) lnkd.in/dhcqHufP

All U.S. scholars and Ph.D. students affected by another blatant attack to academic excellent and freedom should know that European universities are open for business and would be happy to support them www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

"With Columbia having capitulated, and with Harvard and Princeton under pressure to follow suit, every university, not just across the US, but around the globe, must unite in standing up for truth-telling." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important new #LiDAR guidance now published by the European Archaeological Council as #EAC Guidelines 10, & freely available to download 🎉 zenodo.org/records/1460... Good to see some Welsh examples in there too! Please share widely #ALS @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social @rcahmwales.bsky.social

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If you have never heard of #ProNatalism and are down for 20 minutes of gut wrenching news plays this pod to inform yourself on how Techno Fascist are gearing up to multiple and rule our societies open.spotify.com/episode/0P3s...

BBC tells the story of Sampdoria, the Italian football team wearing the #magliapiúbelladelmondo jersey. Forza Samp!

Cutting-edge technology met ancient history as participants of the #WinterSchoolMethodsDigitalHeritage joined our team at the State Museum of Egyptian Art (SMAEK) for an immersive, hands-on 3D scanning workshop www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

#WinterSchoolMethodsDigitalHeritage participants are busy making #DigitalTwins of famous Greek sculptures at the Museum für Abgüsse Klassischer Bildwerke München www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...

19 talented participants from 10 different countries joined the #WinterSchoolMethodsDigitalHeritage @lmumuenchen.bsky.social www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-... We’ll be busy for the next two weeks!

It took me a while after seeing the sad spectacle of the Presidential Inauguration with SpaceX Elon making the Roman salute (Sieg Heil) to understand what it reminded me… here it is the Italian satirical show “Fascists on Mars” (add captions, its too good to be true) youtube.com/watch?v=ELgz...