Matteo Tomasini

New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles Diplomats to look for ‘indications of hostility towards citizens, culture or founding principles of United States’

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.

Presenting Counterpoints to the Dominant Terrestrial Narrative of European Prehistory - Oxbow Books Challenges the terrestrial focus of European prehistory, emphasizing the significance of seascapes, maritime networks, and coastal societies in shaping prehi...

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...

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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!

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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!

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Panoramic view of two cairns in Västra Götaland, Sweden. One can see the shelteted seashore environment surrounding it.

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/ 👥💻🌍

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CAA Australasia member Corey Noxon standing at a lectern in a lecture theatre, with a large slide presentation behind him reading 'Multiscalar Digital Recording of Archaeological Features and Pottery Remains at the Suwahara Site, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan'.

CAA Australasia member Emily Tour sitting at a table and presenting, with a slide presentation behind her reading 'More than just pretty faces: Exploring shape data derived from 3D models of artefacts.'

CAA Australasia members Aleks Michalewicz and Brian Armstrong standing in front of a slide presentation with images showing the UNESCO Budj Bim cultural landscape and its location within Australia.

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...

The "stick and flick" method?? 🤢 even if it was a good idea from the fertilizing perspective, we share spaces with humans too. People other than dogs would like to walk in the grass or have picnics! And let's not forget the potential harm that poop can have on both humans and animals (parasites...)

For vocabulary I use Anki, which in itself is just an flashcards app. It's very customizable in terms of cards design and content, as well as repetition pace. Additonally, many people have their decks available to the public so that you don't have to make your own if you don't want to.

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.

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble New Discovery: Stone Age Seafaring to Malta with Dr Eleanor Scerri and Huw Groucutt

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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...

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeA8Y5oLWfb/ "The light pollution caused by satellites is quickly becoming a growing problem for astronomers. In 2021, over 1700 spacecrafts and satellites were put into orbit. Light pollution caused by SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are the worst offenders because they are low Earth orbit satellites, and they travel in satellite trains. One can only assume the issue will exponentially increase in the next few years, with SpaceX alone intending to launch over 40,000 satellites in total. The space industry is almost entirely unregulated, with no limits on the amount of satellites that anyone is able to launch and there is currently no regulation in place to minimise the light pollution they cause."

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

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Survey request on interest in Skyscape Archaeology / Archaeoastronomy courses from Dr Fabio Silva at Bournemouth University:

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

Aerial photograph of a bay. A sandy beach borders a clear blue sea. A red circle indicates the location of the shipwreck.

#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

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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.

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

Will read with interest...!
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(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)

A translucent blue glass vessel shaped like a boat, with a curved hull, upturned ends, and small protruding feet for support. The surface has visible cracks. A soft shadow is cast beneath the object on a neutral background.

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

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It is the first of hopefully many papers about ancient navigation modelling from this collaboration, and my first in archaeology. Looking forward to more!

Seafaring and navigation in the Nordic Bronze Age: The application of an ocean voyage tool and boat performance data for comparing direct open water crossings with sheltered coastal routes This study presents an “ocean voyaging tool” that combines predicted vessel performance data with agent-based simulations. This tool offers a new way to assess navigation and seafaring abilities in pr...

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...