David Stott

Interesting. I'm concerned by:
a) a somewhat cursory engagement with prior art & a large body of archaeological literature on this topic
b) referencing Graham Hancock 💀💀💀!!!

A slightly magnetic rock or a bumpity rock?

(I work with both)

at this, and pointed out that referencing provably anti-scientific racist isn't really ideal.

Citing these dingdongs risks legitimising them. The state of the world at the minute shows us where that gets us. Beware.

To harp on: This is a problem that happens sometimes in interdisciplinary work. The authors aren't domain experts & aren't well versed in archaeology. Fair enough.

However- this is something that indicates a broken review / editorial process. At some point someone who is should've had a look...

Interesting. I'm concerned by:
a) a somewhat cursory engagement with prior art & a large body of archaeological literature on this topic
b) referencing Graham Hancock 💀💀💀!!!

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

Think I've heard that one too.

A drawn image of a sunny beach scene. To the right is a large cliff and to the left is a village with fields behind it, and in front a beach area. The artist (Cath Pennington, BGS) has drawn various cliff-based hazards, which can be spotted as one studies the image.

Cliffs might seem strong and safe but they can provide many hazards. Storms, prolonged periods of wet weather, cold snaps and heatwaves can trigger landslides.

Check the image below to see if you can spot the cliff-based hazards in this scene. Answers here: www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...

Is it non invasive / non destructive though?

(Insert story here about a certain professor accidentally giving a skull a third eye when probing the extent of a cairn...)

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

An elevation drawing of the south side of St Mary’s Church, Whitekirk, in East Lothian, Scotland, showing red sandstone walls, and a white lime washed tower and south transept gable. Drawing by Bob Marshall 2026. Created using the Procreate app for iPad.

Having fun this evening on the tablet visualising St Mary’s Church, Whitekirk with a lime render.

#Procreate #iPad
#EastLothian

And, as bonus here's a nice lidar scan of an enormous badger sett in a medieval fortress in Denmark.

bsky.app/profile/davs...

Archaeological sites do act as havens for biodiversity - the legal and social protections they have spare them from the worst of commercial forestry and agriculture.

I've been wanting to do a project on looking at fungal diversity on protected vs unprotected sites for ages.

A stark, bare landscape of flat ground, ploughed field and stream under a grey sky is enlivened by detailed studies in the foreground of the plants and flowers of February

“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves.
Yet the world is waking up”.

Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)

Comic, possibly?

(In that the New Labour tribute act plays *all* the old songs)

View down open valley and across wider landscape showing old and new growing pine forest. Photo credit: Regenerating Pine Forest, National Trust for Scotland, Mar Lodge, Scotland

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15 grand oven. Holy macaroni.

Turn gently!

The Knowth Macehead on display in the National Museum of Ireland. It is a small, rounded piece of flint. Variegated in colour between brown, beige and a greyish tint. It is decorated with megalithic art.

The Knowth Macehead • c.3300-2800 BC

It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.

All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

Great series of photographs from a 1911 zoology paper in which various types of flounder are put through their paces as regards camouflage ability, placed against bold and striking patterns (more than they’d experience in nature) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/f...

"Geographical Definitions Illustrated, 1893" This is probably still the best visualisation of its kind that I've ever seen! Source: buff.ly/CMe6rYn

There's a traffic light near us that breaks frequently. I'm always surprised at how well people negotiate it when it's broken- I suppose it's heightened awareness and being dependent on reciprocal courtesy.

HMS Thundermild

Make a warship mid:

Warshite

A female greater spotted woodpecker at a bird feeder. It's a bit blurry. I should wash the windows. In the background a snowy out of focus forest.

Thrilled that this woodpecker has become a daily visitor.

Handling warning from a cardboard box. Printed on black are two large arrows pointing upward. Betwixt the text reading "MUY FRAGIL" in block capital lettering.

Me too box, me too.

A female greater spotted woodpecker at a bird feeder. It's a bit blurry. I should wash the windows. In the background a snowy out of focus forest.

Thrilled that this woodpecker has become a daily visitor.

Incredible, and possibly just what I need to spice up presenting otherwise bland visibility analyses.

Anyone have any idea how this could be approached using GIS data? Some kind of Blender witchery? A weird projection?

#gis #gischat

A pair of white speakers with the woofers removed. The woofers are below this with clothes pegs clamping the foam to the frame. They look like mutant cybernetic daisies. Next to these a screwdriver and a scalpel on a silicone soldering mat. Everything is atop a rather fetching floral table cloth. There's some other clutter too.

Successfully refoamed a rather well-travelled pair of Beovox CX50s.

Easy job compared to other speakers I've done because I didn't have to cut the dust cap to centre the cone with shims or similar palavers.

They sound incredible.

A digital terrain model using a virdis colour ramp (blue - green - yellow) showing a bit of outwash plain and fluvial systems at the left and morrainic uplands on the right. Smack in the middle is a 5x2km rectangular patch that looks like an error in the DTM or a very neat area of subsidence, but it's a former open cast mine that's been landscaped.

Every time I see this bit in the national DTM I think it's some kind of weird z value error.

It's real- it's a former open cast extraction pit.

#lidar #gis #remotesensing