Kristine Hardy

Ad featuring map of Australia with very odd states like Idaho

I don’t want to click on this ad that appeared in my Apple News feed- is it AI? Click bait? Or did Idaho really move?

Groningen chill city 🧘‍♂️

⚡️infrastructure that works
⚕️healthcare you can rely on
💰living costs that stay predictable

A recent global index of 170+ cities placed Groningen 5th among the least-stressed cities to live in.

These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.

One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

Hivemind question: Palmer Penguins is doing great work avoiding overuse of Fisher's iris data. What other "dataset substitutions" do you like? Or just generally other cool, real, open datasets that are good for teaching because established methods work pretty well on them?

The 2025 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in pictures A preening brush turkey, a wise cassowary and some hungry terns are among the winning and shortlisted photos in this year’s prize

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tutorial screenshot: flow map shows migration of scientists on a world map

tutorial screenshot: positron is given priority over rstudio

scholarly migration database

This is the second year that I’m teaching a short session on Open Science and Reproducibility with Quarto, GitHub, and R for students in the European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) program (by @mpidr.bsky.social, @ined.bsky.social, @eaps.bsky.social). Materials: www.ekotov.pro/2025-EDSD-op...

Survey invitation poster with a teal background. The "Forward Linking" logo and text ask for participants to share experiences on linked data. University ethics review is noted.

Calling all #DH #LOD #GLAM folks! Please consider answering & sharing this survey on linked data: tinyurl.com/LOD-Ecosystem

The focus: your experience of linked data, the tools & standards you use, & your ideas about future directions for linked data for the humanities & cultural heritage sector.

Does anyone else use macrostrat? I started making links to it from my website and it seems to have died- or they are blocking me…

CAA Australasia 2025 Online Conference A free online conference on digital archaeology hosted by CAA Australasia.

Mark your calendars! The 2025 CAA Australasia Online Conference is coming Oct 2nd-3rd with 21 talks by speakers from across Australia, the Pacific, Asia & Europe discussing a variety of interesting digital #archaeology projects! 🏺 Get your FREE tickets here:
events.humanitix.com/caa-australa...

Have you ever used PH to learn a new skill and thought: "How would I need to adapt the method to a different environment, language or use case?"

Join our webinar on 31 July 14:30 BST to learn about adapting our lessons under CC BY.

Tickets for free: ph-community-adaptations.eventbrite.co.uk

Understanding the human settlement of the Pacific – Are we there yet? As a result of developments in genomic technology over the last 15 years, we have seen a major shift in our understanding of the settlement of the Pac…

Understanding the human settlement of the Pacific – Are we there yet? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Applications now open for 2 PhD scholarships at ANU as part of my ARC Future Fellowship Project, 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'. Open to both Aus & international candidates. Informal inquiries to brainstorm topics very welcome! study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

Home Learn R, R tutorials, R resources, blog posts and the latest updates about the statistical programming R language.

The latest #Rweekly issue is out!
Positron, Tidyverse + AI, Observable (another post by @nrennie.bsky.social in the newsletter highlights!)
#Rstats #reading
rweekly.org

If it’s an ANU managed mac rsb had an email about issues- which I deleted but I think said it was certificate update issue and to fix it via eduroam

I have run into issues with too many images now being an issue with the pythonanywhere site- although that could be fixed I think. Django is relatively easy to deploy on pythonanywhere although it does depend on the database used I think.

I’m not an expert- so this may not be useful- but as part of my PhD I’m using Django to make my site- the uni deployed it: kuden.fabrics.anu.edu.au, but for testing I used pythonanywhere. Which is free for small sites.

Two of the universities in Canberra Australia put these types of banners in our uni emails automatically- it was really annoying when you were having an email chain conversation with someone from the other uni - it looked like a weird competition.

Hey #StatsSky, what are you favorite papers to cite when you need to justify something that is obvious (I once had a reviewer ask we justify the use of logistic regression on a binary outcome)
or when you need to push-back on silly reviewer requests (e.g., asking for p-values in table 1)?

Screenshot of poster for the CDCS 2024 annual lecture by Alex Gil. The poster depicts three angels singing. Design motifs suggest Christmas, including a tree ornament.

An honor, a feather. I was invited to Edinburgh to give the UoE Center for Digital Culture & Society 2024 Annual Lecture. Will hector against "best" practices and standards developed in the Atlantic North when those don't align with the Global South. Register here: www.cdcs.ed.ac.uk/events/annua...

Panel in ceiling removed by possum for entry to office.

Possum in office trying to get out

While in Australian universities….

An Introduction of Archaeological Illustration: Small Finds Workshop This Friday, June 19th (Juneteenth), I taught an online workshop for the Newfoundland and Labrador Archaeology Society (NLAS). In case you missed the workshop or wanted a refresher after we wrapped…

@archaeologytube.bsky.social I did an illustration tutorial on my blog a few years ago, that might be useful for you!! 🏺

spadeandthegrave.com/2020/06/19/a...

The jewel in the crown – Structure Twenty-Seven in all its (3d) glory Get right into the trench and explore the remarkable Structure Twenty-Seven with Paul Durdin’s latest 3d model.

The jewel in the Ness crown. Get right into the trench and explore the remarkable Structure Twenty-Seven with Paul Durdin's latest 3d model.
www.nessofbrodgar.co.uk/s27-3d-2024/
#Neolithic #Orkney #Archaeology #Excavation #NessOfBrodgar

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sailaufilm.com I’m not sure if it’s streaming yet. I’ve just started Thor Jensen’s book about the voyage- it’s on Kindle Unlimited but the doc featured the 3 Milne Bay sailors and their views were the best.

White staffy chewing a chew toy.

A stressful weekend but -if you get the chance to see the PNG movie/ doco- Sailau- about sailing around PNG- do. hotel Kalifornia - a Vanuatu film was also great. Also if your staffy dog has a lump get it checked as soon as possible- my little demon girl had a mast cell tumor- waiting on the path.

In the movie she does start by saying she is weaving the father’s burial shroud. Thank you for the loom info though- I don’t know much about the period /area but it did look wrong.

@arc-tracker.bsky.social

They are.

Bright pink, green and purple minerals- pyroxenes, in a dark clay matrix.

Pyroxenes in PPL light, they appear very pale yellow-green, with angular shapes and cleavage lines.

My achievement for the month, getting the microscope camera software working again (or rather getting uni IT to get it working again). I took a photo of a pyroxenic placer temper, from a sherd found in Vanua Levu, to celebrate.