CAA-UK 2025 | CAA UK
The organisers of CAA-UK 2025 would like to invite papers and posters for the 2025 meeting, to be held at the Department of Archaeology and McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, on the 9th and 10th of December 2025.
uk.caa-international.org/caa-uk-2025/
11.08.2025 07:45 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Indeed - the trouble comes when an institution which has done its own internal mini-REF doesn't do the same when it comes down to setting disciplinary budgets ...
06.08.2025 11:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interesting! As I recall the humanities fiercely resisted suggestions that REF move to bibliometric methods. But I note the paper only deals with journals, not books/book chapters, which is a potential distortion factor and I think a reason why bibliometric methods were resisted in the first place?
06.08.2025 10:59 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🤓Quite - as soon as it became the default I installed the Classic Editor plugin and never looked back ...
01.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Coming soon: Advances in Digital Archaeology. Proceedings of the 2023 conference Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology – 50 years of synergy
www.sidestone.com/books/advanc...
30.07.2025 14:05 — 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
Particularly struck by "... a museum needs to do more than just show you old things, or try to transport you to a past era. It should jar you into the realization that you exist in time, and see your present (and ideally, your future) with fresh eyes." @almostarch.bsky.social
29.07.2025 11:16 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
Songs and Lyrics by Tom Lehrer
Songs and Lyrics
by Tom Lehrer DISCLAIMER STATEMENTI, Tom Lehrer, individually and as trustee of the
Sad to hear of the death of Tom Lehrer - his songs provided the backing track for an archaeological field season many years ago. But thankful he put all his songs - lyrics and recordings - into the public domain tomlehrersongs.com or via the Internet Archive ...
28.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Depends what you want to use it for ... I took the plunge and created an academic blog ten years ago and have never regretted it. I use it as a scratchpad for thoughts/ideas, for extracts of talks that will never get published, etc. Cons include risks of plagiarism and self-plagiarism, I guess.
09.07.2025 09:55 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Original post on scholar.social
because I like making things, and I spent some time reading https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue61/2/index.html, and I want my intro to digital archaeology students to _do_ things, I elaborated my harris matrix webtoy/tool to allow for groups, phasing, and some rudimentary temporal validation […]
09.07.2025 01:12 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1
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24.06.2025 08:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
📣 Just published! Our new anthology reframes the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust shapes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. 1/5 datasociety.net/library/trus...
29.05.2025 17:15 — 👍 37 🔁 13 💬 1 📌 6
Thoughts and prayers 😉
19.05.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Change is often difficult but when a new interface constrains access compared to the version it replaces, it underlines the political nature of interface design in the ways that interactions with data are shaped and restricted.
18.05.2025 09:29 — 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 2
This ⬇️
The new site isn’t intuitive,
crap to search, & is just awful. Spent years, decades using RCAHMS/Canmore (love it!) & changing to a new system makes it harder to do research, & for neurodivergent people-
absolute nightmare to adjust.
Wonder how much £ was spent & were Canmore users asked?
18.05.2025 09:07 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Le Mans MotoGP Sunday Victory Notes: Ode To Joy | MotoMatters.com | Kropotkin Thinks
Sometimes a race will come along and remind you why you love this sport, what makes it so special, why your pour your heart and soul into the spectacle of people riding in circles on motorcycles.
Sometimes something magic happens in #MotoGP.
Sunday at Le Mans was one of those days. A celebration.
11.05.2025 23:22 — 👍 105 🔁 19 💬 10 📌 2
Insert joke about something visual metaphor something software stack
11.04.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
We Need an Interventionist Mindset | TechPolicy.Press
To stabilize and enhance democratic practices, danah boyd advocates for an interventionist approach to AI regulation.
Policymakers and technologists alike are stuck in a “solutionism” trap—but particularly with AI, we need to focus on intervention, not “solutions,” argues danah boyd. An interventionist framework ensures a more iterative and non-deterministic approach to shaping AI futures.
27.03.2025 15:46 — 👍 19 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 3
An image of the old Canmore website with an arrow to the new Trove website.
Do you use Historic Environment Scotland's data? If so you need to know that Canmore is being retired this June.
Trove (www.trove.scot) is replacing it and is now online in beta.
Please try it out and feedback your comments here: haveyoursay.historicenvironment.scot/heritage/470...
27.03.2025 16:39 — 👍 63 🔁 50 💬 19 📌 10
I recall a battle with a co-supervisor insistent on joint authorship of a PhD student's paper. Neither of us had written it and only I had commented on it. Student rightly got sole authorship, but the co-supervisor never spoke to them again ... In part down to disciplinary differences/expectations.
26.03.2025 16:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
National Library cracks down on public data access
Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.
Openly licensed cultural heritage vs GenAI: institutions are increasingly spooked re the few bad actors scraping content, so shutting off access to everyone. This is a clash of values: we're going to see more and more memory institutions trying to roll back on access to out of copyright material 😞
10.03.2025 09:23 — 👍 35 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 2
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05.02.2025 10:00 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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