Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D

A good piece of advice. Learning how to be a good mentor requires work, reflection and advice.

🧵 Five years ago @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this so that no one would have to reinvent the wheel of revealing why research like this is so misguided it defies sense. hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Quiet Saturday, making sure all the articles in the upcoming issue of @fornvannen.bsky.social next month are accessibility compliant. Nice mix of time periods and topics. From Mesolithic arrowheads, to Bronze Age wetland, to runes and Medieval books. ☕️📝

Met museum photo of an ancient Egyptian rectangular wooden white-washed writing board with an exercise written in black hieratic script. It was written by a student named Iny-su whose spelling mistakes are corrected in red ink by the teacher. Hieratic script is an ancient Egyptian cursive version of hieroglyphics. The board measures 19 cm long x 43 cm wide and has a horizontal crack half way down the left-hand side. The wooden board was painted with white gesso, which now appears cream-coloured. This allowed boards to be whitewashed for use over and again. The exercise is a practice in formal letter writing. The student Iny-su addresses the letter (presumably jokingly) to his brother Peh-ny-su, treating him like a wealthy authority figure. Wood, gesso, paint pigment. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, c. 1981–1802 BC.

Some things never change!

4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂

📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

#Archaeology

New paper. Recording the female experience of UK archaeology 1990-2010. Anne Teather and I document how an industry EDI agenda evolved in the 1990s and was dismantled, uncovering the ramifications of that for women archaeologists over the next decade.

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#openaccess✅

Here is the first more in-depth article on the truly breathtaking discovery of a 6 kg silver hoard, containing thousands of late 1100s AD coins and ample Viking Age jewelry, found near Stockholm. Paywalled, but surely not the last you will hear of this. www.dn.se/sverige/hon-...

Rock art #boats coming alive! A captivating glimpse of its storytelling power. Enjoyed exploring the Ramberg #bronzeage #rockart site in eastern Norway with members of the CAS funded Climate, Crops and Crisis project (cas-nor.no/project/clim...). Video by @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social

We all are. We just can't stop thinking about the Romans... 😅

Interesting. Just finished listening to Anthony Everitt's book on Cicero. Impression left was that too few were as invested in the ideals as him, so restoration might have been very shortlived. But maybe present times make me too pessimistic...

Markus Gylling and the levels of semantic enrichment

Gloves off in the #Swedigarch workshop! Marcus Smith and Markus Gylling on the implementation of the #LinkedArt data model to build a knowledge graph for Swedish #HeritageData

Erik Lernestål and one of the Vendel helmets in 3D

Rosemary Hanson

Erik Lernestål and Rosemary Hanson on how the Swedish History Museums work with 3D digitalisation, importance of common work processes. Difficult to find perfect solution for both preservation, accessibility, and information.
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#Swedigarch

Eva Vedin

Eva Vedin, Swedish History Museums, on the ongoing work with vocabularies and links to authorities in other sources like Wikidata. There are 21 different places named "Lund" in the database that need to be differentiated. #Swedigarch

Sven Kalmring in front of screen showing the 3D visualisation of the marine remains

Sven Kalmring, National History Museum, on the work to enrich the Birka collection data and use it and GIS Data to generate 3D visualisations both above and below the water level around the old harbour. #Swedigarch

Fredrik Gunnarsson presenting SOCH for the workshop attendees

Full day workshop for #Swedigarch, national research infrastructure for #DigitalArchaeology. Meetup to discuss how we can ensure interoperability between museum, university and agency data resources through the SOCH aggregator.

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

A collection of 9 ritual face carvings from diverse archaeological sites in NW Argentina. They look shocked, horrified, and disappointed

Our expressions logging on every day to Bluesky

Hur kan det här kallas journalistik!? Blir illamående.

A bengal cat curled up on top of me in bed.

#Caturday means not being allowed out of bed until she says so

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS:

In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Nothing screams "First day back on the job", like urging colleagues everywhere to delete their Academia Dot Edu pages.

Which I'm about to do myself as soon as I got coffee in me.

This is such great stuff. Thanks for sharing. This is why I'm on Bluesky. #Academicsky

Everyone should check out all of the great modules at the History for the 21s Century project website:

www.history21.com

Taking part in this fabulous event at Uppsala University’s Gotland Campus in Visby, Sweden on Fri 7 November. Places will be limited. @kabweprq.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social @uu.se

Mia Carlsson showing two types of images and their metadata

Mia Carlsson: What is "data quality" in #DigitalHeritage? Very different depending on users and their purposes. Sometimes it's high definition images, for another it's rich metadata. For one it's an old blurred photo, and for another it's a closeup of a detail.

Mia Carlsson in front of a timeline showing the start of the development project in 2023, launch in 2026 and full implementation in 2027

Mia Carlsson, Operations Officer at my Unit, presenting K-Samsök (SOCH Swedish Open Cultural Heritage), national aggregator for #DigitalHeritage. Currently with 11,6 million objects (6,7 with media) from collections, archives, ancient sites and historical buildings.
www.raa.se/in-english/d...

Espen Nordenhaug in front of circle diagram showing how on a single day 27 million hits out of 31 were from AI bots

Espen Nordenhaug, KulturIT, on development of their Digitalt Museum web interface. As with everyone else the explosion of AI bots have caused issues. Far fewer site visits, but highly featured on Google search results used for their summaries
#OpenGLAM #DigitalHeritage

My colleague Mia Carlsson in front of the red brick museum

Tomas Brandt in the auditorium with blue theme symbolising the close relationship with the sea for people in Bohuslän, West Coast of Sweden.

Conference at Bohuslän museum for Swedish museums using the Primus collection management system.
Tomas Brandt at the museum welcoming attendees. A retrospective on how much has changed with digital solutions since the museum opened 1983.
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Och alla heder åt Kajans personal som verkar ha varit underbara pedagoger. Blir både ledsen och arg att det är lagligt att utsätta både barn och dem för denna hastiga stängning.

Ja verkligen! Det måste finnas resurser långsiktigt stöd kontinuerligt. Illa nog redan nu, blir orolig när man nu pratar om att dra ned på "anpassning" för elever.

Håller med. Visar hur värdefullt det är med en stabil och långsiktig verksamhet som inte är vinstberoende för barn med speciella behov. Och hur viktigt det är att kommunala skolan får de resurser de behöver.

#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺