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 […]

📢 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 […]

For those who leave it till the last minute....Calls for Papers, Posters, and Workshops for CAA2026 have been extended to 9 November 2025!!🤩 2026.caaconference.org

Do you write code for your research? Then you too are a #ResearchSoftwareEngineer! 👩‍💻 🤓 Today is international #rse - day and we want to promote this community. Maybe you want to join one of these fab groups to connect to like-minded people? 🎇 @us_rse organises USA RSEs, @ResearchSoftEng is the […]

New publication: "Reviewing research software" "Every research project in computational science requires writing some code, even if it’s only a few scripts. This code is instrumental in generating results, and often important for understanding in detail what was done. Nevertheless, unlike […]

Today! Gabriele Gattiglia will give a talk at our meeting at 4 pm CEST / 3 pm BST / 2 pm UTC on #ai in #archaeology and its implications for scripting practices, #transparency, and #reproducibility. Want to join, but are not part of our google mailing group? DM us and we'll share the link. 🤗 […]

📢📢 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 […]

Dear all, our next SIG meeting will take place on Friday, September 5, 2025, at 4 PM CET (2 PM GMT). The plan is simple: 👉 Share updates from our summer activities 🏗️ 🤓 👉 Plan ahead for the coming year 📝 📢 👉 Enjoy a relaxed get-together 👩‍💻 🤗 Many thanks to @zackbatist who organized the […]

Dear all, our next SIG meeting will take place on Friday, September 5, 2025, at 4 PM CET (2 PM GMT). The plan is simple: 👉 Share updates from our summer activities 🏗️ 🤓 👉 Plan ahead for the coming year 📝 📢 👉 Enjoy a relaxed get-together 👩‍💻 🤗 Many thanks to @zackbatist who organized the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Join us this Friday for a special presentation by @electricarchaeo, who will be talking about his work using small, practical and locally controlled LLMs! ⛏️✨🤖👾📜 Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST mcgill.zoom.us/j/2320704440 #digitalarchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology

Join us this Friday for a special presentation by @electricarchaeo, who will be talking about his work using small, practical and locally controlled LLMs! ⛏️✨🤖👾📜 Friday June 6, 2PM GMT / 4PM CEST / 10AM EST mcgill.zoom.us/j/2320704440 #digitalarchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology

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 […]

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 […]

These five talks together made for a great, insightful session with solid attendance and discussion, despite the shockingly late time slot we were scheduled for (18:40-20:20!). It followed on seamlessly from the equally interesting preceding one on "Chronological modelling II: formal methods and […]

For the final talk "A command-line interface for chronological network modelling in R" Eythan Levy and Joe Roe (and Gilles Geeraerts) once more talked about an eDSL for age modelling. The #rstats package chronologr (https://github.com/joeroe/chronologr) is a […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

Back to the topic of web APIs, Jonathan Westin (and Matteo Tomasini, Tristan Bridge, and Aram Karimi) demonstrated how archaeological data can shine in the hands of a team of professional back- and front-end developers. The "Etruscan Chamber tombs Portal: a […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

In "Open-Source Bayesian Chronological Modeling: The Role of a Domain-Specific Language" Martin Hinz (and Joe Roe) shared ideas and a prototype implementation of an eDSL for probabilistic age modelling. Not unlike OxCal (https://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/oxcal.html), but open source.

Under the title "Untapped Potential or Unusable Complexity? Challenges of Providing APIs for Archaeologists" Lisa Steinmann (and Simon Hohl) talked about the challenges of providing useful and well-documented APIs for the web resources of the German […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

I had the honour of leading into the session with "Building a tree-walk interpreter - a didactic deep dive into the age modelling language of the currycarbon software tool". This talk was a plea to consider DSLs as useful software interfaces for archaeologists […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

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]

It seems like someone stole a book about #ethics in #archaeology at the #saa2025 exhibition room. I guess they really needed it?

Dear #DigitalArchaeology-sts , we will have our next meeting this Friday, 2nd May 2025! Looking forward to seeing you all and discussing recent issues in the world of scientific scripting languages👩‍💻 🔍 , the CAA conference 👥 👩‍🏫 and what else is interesting to y'all. 🤓

📢 The next SIG SSLA meeting takes place this Friday, 04th April 2025, 📢 at 2pm GMT, 4 pm CEST, 10 am EST... pick your time zone 😉 We have a few topics we wish to discuss, such as updates to our TFQA project, an update to our didactic map of computational archaeology -- don't know it yet? Check […]

Quick reminder to our members, to please fill in the survey regarding out summer plans, that Martin sent round! 📝 🤓 ✅ Thank you! 🤗

Dear all, our next meeting takes place, not today, not tomorrow, but the day after! 😉 We meet on *7th March 2025, at 4 PM CET*. As always, we’ll use this opportunity to catch up on ongoing discussions and look forward to your ideas and contributions. 🤗

Dear all, we did the survey, and we have a result! 📈 Our next meeting will take place on FRIDAY, 7th February at 4pm CET, 10 am ET or 3 pm UTC and following every first Friday of the month. We already changed the date in our calendar on https://sslarch.github.io/ . Check it out! 🤗 We've […]

To all our members: Please participate in the survey for a weekday and time for our monthly online gatherings which @ClemensSchmid sent round. 🗓️ 🔲 📝 We hope to make sure everyone who wants is able to join the meetings. ✅ 🤗

To all our members: Please participate in the survey for a weekday and time for our monthly online gatherings which @ClemensSchmid sent round. 🗓️ 🔲 📝 We hope to make sure everyone who wants is able to join the meetings. ✅ 🤗

Hello friends at #bluesky, 👋 the SIG Scientific Scripting Languages in #archaeology of the @CAA_int has now bridged from Mastodon over to you! Anyone interested in #digitalarchaeology #archaeoinformatics #ComputationalArchaeology #dh #digitalhumanities or #rse is welcome to follow us. 🤗