Deborah Priß

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The world's time zones visualized on a spinnable, interactive globe.

Try out the code - it'll default to your current time zone and show you times around the world!

#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries

Code: gist.github.com/walkerke/c4a...

"I don't know if you've heard of the beginning of the oppression of women," he began. I said I hadn't. This delighted him. "In the early days, as Engels said, everyone 'lived frivolously' - everyone fucked." He looked wistful. "It was only with the start of class society we started producing a surplus, and men wanted to pass their surplus on to their children. So they couldn't let women sleep around." It all came down to who's inheriting your wealth. "You have to know your children are yours." He shook his head. "It blew my mind." The idea that class is the root of sexism - as opposed to, say, I don't know, men - is the sort of thing revolutionary communists like.

Well this is rather delicious from @emilylawford.bsky.social on being mansplained to about the roots of sexism by the Revolutionary Communist Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...

Doctor Wha by James Robertson Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels through endless versions o reality? Bit dis he ken himsel? Weel, mibbe sae, yet wha’s tae ken gin aw that’s kent by Wha maks mair or less or better sense ava nor whit we ithers ken, or think we dae? The universe is fou o parallels: wha’s like us? Hunners? Thoosans? We oorsels micht be mere glisks o life-forms yet tae be. Whit’s real? Whaur’s here? When’s noo? Wha’s quick or deid? Wha’s jist a thochtie in anither’s heid? Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he?

Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…

—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay

Ea-Nașir: Nabû-zeru-iddin enters the game.

Europe’s English skills

lmao France

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology

Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England.
#language #dialect

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Our article, co-authored with Matteo Rossi, “Modelling Economic and Human Mobility in the Landscapes of Monti Lucretili, Lazio, Italy: a Microregional Approach over the Longue Durée” has just been published in Acta Archaeologica @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1163/1600...

Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

@elsevierconnect.bsky.social @durham.ac.uk @geogdurham.bsky.social @arcdurham.bsky.social

The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems Analysing and understanding connectivity of human social networks of (ancient) societies offers new perspectives on their functioning. However, social…

We then translate established archaeological theories about the region into statistical ERGM terms to evaluate if those hypotheses are reflected in the network patterns.

Read the full open access paper here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We first convert prehistoric hollow ways in the Khabur Valley, #Mesopotamia (edges) and their associated archaeological sites (nodes) into period-specific #networks.

The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems Analysing and understanding connectivity of human social networks of (ancient) societies offers new perspectives on their functioning. However, social…

New paper out! 🥳

We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.

Read the full open access paper here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#Archaeology #NetworkScience

Zwei Kinder betrachten eine geöffnete Schublade mit sorgfältig arrangierten Mineral- und Gesteinsproben im Schaudepot des Ruhr Museums. Die Proben sind auf kleinen Plattformen mit beschrifteten Etiketten ausgestellt. Ein Kind zeigt auf ein großes, rosafarbenes Mineral, während das andere aufmerksam die Sammlung beobachtet. Die Szene vermittelt Neugier und Lernfreude in einer wissenschaftlichen Umgebung

Ob Mineral, Stein oder Fossil – Beim Bestimmungstag im #Schaudepot erfährst du endlich, was hinter deinen Fundstücken steckt. Unsere Expert:innen verraten dir morgen ab 17 Uhr, ob dein Schatz wertvoll oder wunderschön ist. www.ruhrmuseum.de/veranstaltun...

Know the difference. 😉

Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social

Hadrian's Wall section discovered in Drumburgh dig Volunteers uncover a section of Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh, near Carlisle.

📰 In a "once-in-a-generation" find, archaeologists have discovered a new section of Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh, ~10 miles (16km) from Carlisle

#ArchaeologyNews via the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!

Depends on where in the UK I am and if I want people to understand me or not 🤔

Extract from Taylor’s Course of German History: “It will be apparent. no doubt, to the reader that I have written this book by lifting facts from a great many other books and, from a few, even ideas. The American method, in such cases, is to list all the books that have been pilfered; I prefer the English method of mentioning none. If the reader does not accept my credentials, he will not be induced to do so by a display of the sources from which my plumes are borrowed.”

AJP Taylor: not a referencing guy

This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
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Only two of them issued press releases in […]

Elsevier showing what they think of the academic community.

Celebrating a Decade of Playful Past Exploration - It's more of a comment... I’m co-organizing The Interactive Pasts Conference 4 this October in Leiden! A seriously playful event where games, heritage & history meet.

🎮 I’m co-organizing The Interactive Pasts Conference 4 this October in Leiden! A seriously playful event where games, heritage & history meet.

Expect workshops, papers, demos & good vibes. New blog post ➡️ itsmoreofacomment.com/2025/08/08/c... #TIPC4 #VALUE #Archaeogaming

„Bist du nicht zu hübsch zum Buddeln?“ – Über die gläserne Decke, riskante Grabungen und das Schweigen aus Angst vor dem „Zicken“-Stempel.

👉 Lies den ehrlichen Erfahrungsbericht: www.miss-jones.de/2020/07/11/f...

#Sexismus #FraueninderWissenschaft #Archäologie #Gleichberechtigung #Arbeitswelt

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...

One of the greatest city maps ever made (by @chazhutton.com)