⭐ New Video 🪓 Revolution, Fascism, & Magic: The Gathering Folks, this one's a bit big... youtu.be/4JghX1MBU68

Deadline extended to November 9th! Join us in Vienna ;)

@mattomasini * Assuming that CAA doesn't follow its age-old tradition of extending the deadline, of course...

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 […]

⚠️Paper Alert!⚠️ Excited to share this paper with @roccoro.bsky.social where we examined whether ceramic technology in Saharan Africa was the result of a single or multiple episodes of innovation & diffusion rdcu.be/eJi3g

🎉 Happy international RSE day from the Nordics! We have got some exciting events brewing for the future, including the Nordic Basic Scientific Computing days (No BS Computing) in Otaniemi, FI, in February and the 3rd Nordic-RSE conference in Tromsø, NO in June.

An important part of scientific practice! For a historical and non-digital comparison, in my research I highlight the role of engineers, technicians, instrument makers and similar categories in the complex workings of mid-20th century astronomy.

Happy International RSE Day! RSEs, or "Research Software Engineers" are a fundamental part of the scientific endeavor. We develop software and implement digital products to support, improve and advance the work of researchers in every field, from physics to archaeology.

🚪 NEW VIDEO 🕷️ Magic: The Gathering's Spider-Man couldn't be on Magic Arena so they turned Spider-Man into Magic: The Gathering cards. Does that make sense? NO! Let's talk about this fascinating mess! youtu.be/LNGowvILFXo

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

Why would anyone visit the US right now? Both professional & "low skill" international workers are being punished. Tourists are getting black bagged. Your visa can get revoked if you've made fun of some guy who was mates with the president. They're gonna host the OLYMPICS in these conditions??

MSCA received 17'058 applications, almost 65% more than last year's 10'360. My bet is that this is mostly caused by the tremendous stress that US research is under. Europe better up their budgets in 2027 to hope to get more of this talent. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Our autumn workshop starts tomorrow ⚒️ 🤩 We are excited and ready to guide our 350 registered learners from all over the 🌍 through three half days of version control and six sessions on reproducible research, social coding, Jupyter, documentation, automated testing and modular code development!

It took a few years, and in the meantime I quit the field, but I am so happy to see this paper out. It was a very fun paper to write together, and kudos to our first and last authors for seeing this through to its deserved end! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I wonder if they will apply the same zealot stupidity to businessmen who want to bring their capital in the US. It's so absurd to think that in 2019 I was excited to move to the US for a postdoc and now I would be terrorized.

Check out our new book on the maritime prehistory of Atlantic Europe. It's the first volume in our Maritime Encounters series and is available open access! www.oxbowbooks.com/979888857184...

It's a wrap! We had a good time in Göteborg with 45 registered participants, one keynote, 14 talks, four posters, two tutorials and three discussions on various topics around Research (Software) Engineering! ❤️ Thank you to everyone and see you next year June 9-10 2026 in Tromsø, Norway! ☀️

Off to the #NRSE25 Nordic-RSE conference and on to the #BIIF25 BioImage Informatics Finland symposium - can't wait!

The Nordic-RSE conference 2025 #NRSE25 has officially started!!! ✨ We are excited to welcome ~45 delegates from all over the Nordics (and even beyond) at Göteborg university!

This year Nordic RSE conference has started at the University of Gothenburg! #NRSE25 Very happy to host this event, which puts together research software engineers from the Nordics and beyond. Missing the conference this year? Join us to stay up to date! nordic-rse.org @nordic-rse.bsky.social

Cool bronze age cairns on top of a hill south of Gothenburg (in the Stora Amundön reserve), clearly visible from the surroundings. Always exciting to step by a piece of prehistory on a walk.

🚀 Just a few days to go until #NRSE25! We're excited to see what Research Software Engineers across the Nordics have been working on. Check out the full schedule and get ready to be inspired: nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/ 👥💻🌍 #RSEng

Looking back at the amazing week that was #CAA2025 in Athens! Our Australasia crew repped with some great presentations, and there was an excellent program of panels filled with digital ethics, archaeogaming, network analysis, digital field recording, 3D modelling, machine learning, and more!

I ended up not posting at all from #CAA2025, but I had a blast. Our session about maritime mobility in particular was a highlight, as were many of the conversations we had around coffees and dinners. Looking forward to connecting more and more with this community. See you all next year!

Finally in Athens for the CAA conference 2025. Not sure how much Bluesky presence there will be throughout the conference but come talk to me of you like ABM in archaeology, ecology-informed modelling and cultural evolution! (Or just if you'd like to chat - I don't bite!)

The ESTER Project at the Kiel University is searching for a postdoc in archaeological demography and proxy development. Go work with Martin, he's cool and doing some really fun work! ester-project.org/2025/05/01/w...

Are you a computational researcher, research engineer, and such? Join us at the Nordic-RSE conference 2025, in Gothenburg! It's the last opportunity to sign up!!!!! Join us for another great conference with great people. The schedule is online at nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/#sc... #RSEng #NRSE2025

Last chance to register for Nordic-RSE conference 2025! Meet the Nordic Research Software Engineering community in Gothenburg, get inspired, and grow your network. Schedule’s live: nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/#sc... Register before April 30, noon CEST: nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/#re... #RSEng #NRSE25

Last call, especially for people in the area around Göteborg: Join us on 20.+21.05.2025 for the second in-person Nordic-RSE conference to meet fellow research software enthusiasts and hear about cool tools and projects.

#Archaeology @flintdibble.bsky.social Archaeology with Flint Dibble New Discovery: Stone Age Seafaring to Malta with Dr @elliescerri.bsky.social and @huwgroucutt.bsky.social Conversation with Dr Scerri and Dr Groucutt about their archaeological investigations on Malta www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGRj...

Crowded skies are ruining ground-based astronomy.

Delighted that this paper came out as part of a PNAS special feature on “The Global Dynamics of Inequality over the Long Term” where together with a team of 27 scientists we collected and analysed a sample of over 53,000 houses from all five continents. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The Sandomierz ches set, c. 1100s, was found in Sandomierz, Poland. Made of antler; this set of obvious Arabic geometric design, made its way to Northern Europe at a very early time. A magnificent set! District Museum in Sandomierz

Survey request on interest in Skyscape Archaeology / Archaeoastronomy courses from Dr Fabio Silva at Bournemouth University: [https://forms.gle/K53yKDsz1DWp49ZE9](forms.gle/K53yKDsz1DWp...) 🙏🏻 Please do respond and share

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

#MaritimeMonday this beautiful bay is home to a hidden gem: one of the only excavated examples of a large merchantman shipwreck from the Hellenistic or early imperial period in the Eastern Mediterranean! 🏺 ArchaeologyBluesky 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Pile dwelling settlements' waterlogging provides a perfect means to examine lesser-surviving materials used during prehistory. At the submerged settlement of La Marmotta, Italy, survey revealed textiles, basketry, cordage and wooden tools were all widely utilised. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Historians of the ancient world who specialize in collapse are in the stands, sobbing

Will read with interest...! 🏺 (always wondered whether, like Vikings sailing to the Mediterranean, maybe some of that sexy Baltic amber might have reached the Mycenaeans by sea... or Aegean goods came the other way)

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: A #Roman glass model of a #boat, dating 2nd c. AD. It was found in St. Aldegund in a 4th-century woman's grave. Six of such boats are known. We don't know their function: Were they used as women's urinals, as components of...🧵 1/2 🏺

Really happy to see this paper finally out with Boel Bengtsson et al. We used ABM to simulate maritime contacts between Norway and Denmark, comparing direct sea crossings to coastal voyaging during the Nordic Bronze Age! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

📢 Abstract submissions for the Nordic-RSE Conference 2025 are now closed—thank you to everyone who submitted! 🎉 But it's not too late to contribute — poster submissions are still open until April 18th! Share your work with the community. Info on website: nordic-rse.org/nrse2025/ #NRSE25 #RSEng

🧵 Excited to announce the pre-launch of my new lifestyle app, PaleoTime (TM) Using a unique calculation, PaleoPersonHours (PPH), #PaleoTime will reset your lifestyle to an anthropologically informed time-budget baseline for health and happiness! For example… 1/n

Modelling the #demography of agricultural #transitions - a new potential standard tool for studying #prehistoric transitional periods. Study by @acortellnicolau.bsky.social, @ercrema.bsky.social, Javier Rivas & colleagues in @pnas.org. More: tinyurl.com/mvxxf65k & www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Waiting for my ferry home, I'm thinking back to my first Kiel Conference #KielScales25. I had a great week, and I come home enriched both in knowledge and human contact. It was a wonderfully organized event, and it had great scientific quality - plus the people were very cool. Thanks, Kiel!

Probably the last talk of #KielScales25 for me, @sarahbockmeyer.bsky.social talking about possible interpretations of personhood of certain stones used in Funnel Beaker burials. Such a compelling idea, and a cool talk.

Last day at #KielScales25! Yrja Skioerum passionately talked to us about the amazing encounters and relationships between human and red deer depicted on Scandinavian rock art.

Fun talk to follow by Albert Garcia-Piquer who took us through some impressive work of agent-based modelling of navigation developed to infer maritime connectivity networks. #KielScales25

Session 12 at #KielScales25: Niccolò Mazzucco opened the session showing the awesome finds at the site La Marmotta that speak to the advanced navigation technology that could be found in the Mediterranean Neolithic.