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Reversal of Fates: Access Through Photographs can be a Counterbalance “Cultural losses continue to beset communities around the world, especially in areas subject to armed conflict...”

"Ongoing digitization and cataloging work not only serves the interests of scholars and manuscript communities—it also creates crucial, publicly-accessible provenance records that provide an increasingly robust bulwark against manuscript theft and trafficking."
hmml.org/stories/reve...

Photomontage showing the interrelationship between the five fragments of runestone U 115. Photo: Magnus Källström

Notes on the runic inscription on U 114 and U 115 in manuscript R 555, at the Uppsala University Library.

#OpenAccess
Källström, M. (2025). "Runstenen U 115 i Runby och en senvikingatida stormannasläkt."
[Eng sum: The runestone U 115 at Runby and a late Viking Age magnate family]
#Runic #VikingAge #Medieval #History
urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=...

Thank you!

That is insanely cool!
Do you have any tips om where I can read about the research done on this arrowhead?

A corroded metal arrowhead displayed upright on a thin stand. The triangular point is heavily weathered and rough, with two short side barbs extending from the base. Its surface shows a mottled texture of rust and mineral deposits, giving it an uneven, pitted appearance

#FindsFriday!
An arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.

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YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble Fall of Rome: Elon Musk’s Crazy Doomsday History

NEW VIDEO! Investigating Elon Musk's very weird claims (based off of no evidence) about the Fall of Rome and birth rates led me down a very strange rabbit hole that shows how his catastrophic view of history informs the decisions he makes

youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0

YouTube video by Overly Sarcastic Productions History Summarized: The World Between the Wars

Guys my Google image search history is *abominable*.
The amount of propaganda posters I swam through for this video, the search terms I had to type with my own to hands...
youtu.be/z3qD-R5Gapw?...
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The odds are low, but if you're interested in wikidata about bookbindings, look out for a new WikiProject next week!

a black and white photo of a woman holding her head in her hands . Alt: Utterly bewildered woman

I'm just bewildered. I can understand using AI to help with grammar and phrasing, esp non-English speakers. But for someone interested in *research* in the Humanities to not make the effort to do this basic thing?
Does not compute.

AI and your potential PhD supervisor: Dos and Don’ts (or at least my take on them). On the way in to work on Tuesday of last week, I dashed off a slightly grumpy LinkedIn post highlighting and decrying the use of AI to write PhD supervision enquiries. Here it is in full: I am gett…

A story of AI, communications, and a viral LinkedIn post: stuartdunn.blog/2025/11/19/a...

Read this whole thread.
It is worth it!

Back in the day, the datacenter LiveJournal was hosted in had the requisite emergency power off button in the event of fire suppression systems becoming necessary. It was placed on the wall right next to the exit door ... where it looked precisely like a button to open an automatic door.

Pane of glass covered in frost flowers

Early morning start.
Winter is coming.

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

Words really can’t express how important @archive.org is in the world of information science, but it’s also pivotal to preserving digital histories targeted and then erased by the federal government as well. If you can?

Donate Here. archive.org/donate

New story: www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

The emergence and diversification of dog morphology Dogs exhibit an exceptional range of morphological diversity as a result of their long-term association with humans. Attempts to identify when dog morphological variation began to expand have been con...

So my friend and colleague Carly Ameen just had a super cool paper on the history of dogs published with her collaborators. Dogs show considerable diversity in size and body shape from really early on! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Universities in 'battle of the century' with journal publisher Elsevier One New Zealand university told its staff all universities in New Zealand and Australia would "lose some degree of access" to the publisher's 1600 titles from the start of next year.

The irony here is that academics don’t just write the articles for free—we also referee and edit for them for free. Something is deeply broken.

“New Zealand's eight universities spent $30-million a year on journal licences and about half of that sum went to Elsevier.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A small square mosaic glass inlay displayed against a dark background, showing an ibis, a long-legged bird with a curved beak walking on a thin red ground line. The inlay is light green with a slightly porous, pitted surface and slightly chipped edges.

Fascinating world of ancient #glass ! A small-scale but colourful mosaic glass inlay depicting an Ibis. This inlay, originating from a workshop in Roman-era Egypt, was discovered in Tawern, near Trier, Germany.
The ibis was considered a sacred animal of Thoth, the Egyptian deity...🧵1/2

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Interesting. Is the meteoidvania genre the only one to have given rise to an "academic" term like this? Is there one for Soulslike? (And if so, is it a sub genre of Masochism?)

A Storm Hit Alaska. Now, a Native Community Is Racing to Save Its History.

“Some of them [children] have their mouths wide open when they first open a drawer,” she said. “I tell them, these are from your ancestors.”

Typhoon Halong ate 60 ft. of Alaskan shoreline in a night. This damaged not only recent infrastructure but also sites and deep time connections they hold.

UCS Is Building an Alliance for Independent Science UCS is working to build a powerful alliance for independent science. Its new web resource hosts information and resources for current and former advisory committee members, current and former federal ...

US science is under assault like never before, but in response the scientific community can build an alliance for independent science--that can fill gaps left by the decimation of Federal science and reimagine the role of science in policy and society. 🧵 blog.ucs.org/genna-reed/u...

Screen grab from Dropbox saying Emojis in file names are finally here!

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

Uploaded today´s #Swedigarch presentation at #HuminfraSweden conference:
"Swedigarch - Digitally Reassembling A Fractured Cultural Heritage." HiC 2025 Huminfra Annual Conference, Stockholm University. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#DigitalHeritage #Archaeology

Laptop showing first slide of presentation on Swedigarch, autumn trees in the background

Final preparations
#Swedigarch #HuminfraSweden

#digitalhumanities #experimentalhumanities #research #infrastructure #dariah | Huminfra Sweden ⏳ The countdown has begun! Tomorrow we open the doors to Huminfra Sweden's second conference, HiC 2025, this year hosted by Huminfra's node Digital Human Science (DHS) at Stockholm University! 100+ r...

Making last minute changes to my keynote at tomorrow's #HumInfraSweden conference. Because that's just how I operate. Even if it's just font size and spacing. (Me, I'm the problem)
#DigitalHumanities ##DigitalHeritage
www.linkedin.com/posts/huminf...

YouTube video by Daniel Greene Allegations of AI Art Used in Game of Thrones Special Edition

This is infuriating. A publisher has released a "special illustrated edition" of A Feast for Crows, where the art seems mostly AI generated (and so ugly!). They cant pay real artists even for one of the most successful Fantasy franchises?!
#ASoIaF #GameOfThrones
youtu.be/WBFdItxslcg?...

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Fragment of a yellowish-brown clay figurine depicting a cat playing a harp. The cat is upright, with detailed facial features and textured fur, holding the harp to its side. The surface shows signs of wear and age, and the piece is displayed on a clear stand.

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse!

A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp.

From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD.

On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover.

Have a lovely #weekend!

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A fake Bluesky suspension DM. "Bluesky @blueskyguard3453.bsky.social We regret to inform you that your Bluesky account has been temporarily suspended due to security-related restrictions. To prevent the permanent termination of your account, it is imperative that you complete the verification process within the next 24 hours by using the following link: (REDACTED) If the link does not open directly, please copy and paste it into your browser's address bar. ▲ Important: Failure to complete the required verification within the specified time frame will result in the irreversible and permanent ban of your account. We appreciate your immediate attention and cooperation in this matter. Sincerely, Bluesky Support Team 10:49 PM"

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DO NOT CLICK THE LINK.

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Stay safe!