Aoife Daly

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Jay on a branch, red tile roof in the background.

Back again 🪶

Monday, 1st December Sealed Roman Sarcophagus | Prehistoric Mass Murder | Stone-Age Chewing Gum | The Languages of Al-Andalus

My new project! 📰

A WHOLE LOT OF HISTORY is a new Substack newsletter written by me.

AWLOH curates fascinating history and archaeology stories and media from around the world - giving you the peer-reviewed paper link - and brings them all directly to your inbox: open.substack.com/pub/historyh...

Two Jays perched on a wooden garden fence. Redbrick house wall in background, out of focus greenery in foreground.

Visitors to a Copenhagen suburb this morning 🪶

Just listened to the @ria.ie podcast on this with the two authors - a really illuminating listen - podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/t...

Trump to recognise occupied Ukraine as part of Russia Plan breaks US diplomatic convention but likely to go ahead despite concerns among Kyiv’s European allies

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/7f62dca...
I’ve lived through the cost of losing ground. I’ve seen the bodies, the destroyed homes, and I’ve been tortured by Russia like so many others. Land is never ‘just land.’ It’s people. Families. Lives shattered.

A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data Save a bunch of files on a good ol’ magnetic hard drive, leave it in a box, and they’ll probably still be there a couple of decades later. The lubricants …read more

A Friendly Reminder That Your Unpowered SSDs Are Probably Losing Data

Very cool Coralie.
Any chance you could send me the report/publication on that, when you have a minute?

Yes. Remember it like it was yesterday. Had the camera bag on my belly, raincoat closed around it, looking like I was heavily pregnant.
Remember also finding yew branches in the trackway, thought they were modern roots, they were so tough and elastic, in contrast to the rest of the soggy wood

Gonna be in Belfast this weekend
"Measuring Tree Rings - Mapping Journeys"

YouTube video by UCD - University College Dublin 31 October 2025

youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

Sunrise. The sun just before it broke the horizon, over a flat danish landscape. Orange clouds.

Sunrise. Off to Eurodendro in Riga.

Fox writes that, under the photo of Epstein with a fake check, it reads "fully dedicated". Fox are liars.

And Fox lies.

It says "fully depreciated" you evil fucks!

Seagull on a wall, photographed in Naples last year. The city of Naples is out of focus in the background.

Here is my contribution to #superseabirdsunday

Yes, alot of this rings true, unfortunately 👇🏻

submit your paper here

Close-up view of one of the sculpture components from an altarpiece at Ringsaker Church, Norway. The carved surface also has a guild stamp, in the form of a hand, known from 17th century works from Antwerp.

Just a little reminder. Our Special Issue 'Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past'. Several papers online, and more being reviewed. But we decided to extend the paper submission deadline to the end of the year. Looking forward to your paper (detail from Ringsaker, photo: Aoife Daly).

Hear hear

It's the flowers and their colours that I like. What is it? Does it have a stamp on the base?
Chocolate cake looks delicious too, by the way 😋

I love that porcelain

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

It never ends. Last night three local Texas activists, along with a Democratic leader, gathered at the Texas Capitol to show support for Rep Nicole Collier. Collier who had refused to sign a GOP-mandated “permission slip” requiring a Department of Public Safety escort and instead staged an overnight

yeah I've had a sudden follow frequency of similar profiles. I'm not following back, and I'm blocking the obvious ones.

Thanks for that👍🏻

🌳Timber and wooden cultural heritage, forest history, dendrochronology, forest and wood education - all this and more will be covered in the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at

#ForestScience #dendrochronology

Strands #483
“Hue are my sunshine”
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A Revision of the Dendrochronological Date of the Grønhaug Ship – and its Methodological and Interpretational Implications. By Aoife Daly, Justin J.L. Kimball & Jan Bill. The doi link brings you to the article where there is also an audio link.

Latest paper out today, open access
doi.org/10.1080/0029...

Copenhagen, yes do come visit 🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚈🚉🚞👟

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...