In the last week days https://archaeo.social has received 398 AI-generated spam signup requests vs. 1 genuine human one. Unfortunately we might be at the point where it's more efficient to just disable registration entirely and say, "email a mod if you want an account" :/ #MetaArchaeoSocial […]

In my Introduction to Data Analysis in R for Linguists (https://elenlefoll.github.io/RstatsTextbook/), I spend a lot of time on project management, file naming conventions, file formats, and reproducible workflows using Quarto. Some might consider it a waste of time because it means I have less […]

The analogy of a sandbox as a contained environment has always confused me. Sand literally goes everywhere and follows you around in your shoes and hair long after you stop playing

Waking up in beautiful Lake Ohrid, #Albania where we are doing fieldwork at the important #Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Lin 3. Together with colleagues from the Albanian Institute of Archaeology, the University of Bern, Kiel University, and the […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

We are advertising two PhD positions in the Southwest Asia Palaeoarchaeology Lab at the University of Copenhagen. As part of a new project 'Networks Before Agriculture: Social Interaction in Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic Jordan', the successful candidates will work together to map prehistoric […]

archaeo.social is seeking two volunteers to help liven up our little corner of the fediverse! Specifically, we're looking for a community moderator to help draw out more active positive engagement among our members, and someone to support with more technical sysadmin-type work. Both roles will […]

I finally got round to adding classic single radiocarbon calibration plots to my #Rstats package {c14}. I think they turned out pretty nice! https://c14.joeroe.io/reference/plot.c14_cal.html

No one in the seven-person curl security team is on or runs Windows. People sending us Windows-only flaws makes us groan and roll eyes. And sometimes hyperventilate a little. Why this is so? Because no one in the team wants to be on Windows, and no other curl contributor is active enough […]

New release of the c14bazAAR #rstats package! c14bazAAR features a set of download functions for open #C14 date archives -- and now a new one for the machine-generated tegiszhol dataset (https://calgacus.srht.site). The package works as a quick and easy […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

Hello. I have questions. Firstly, we all love XML, right? How do you manage the piles of XML we create? A lot of what I've seen seems to be a bit Write Once Read Never. Are there examples of actively managing collections of XML?

I never thought of #QGIS as a PDF viewer 😂 ... but, honestly, by now everything beats #Adobe Reader

honestly i respect the sheer audacity

I did not have dependabot implements a default 3 day cooldown on my bingo card: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-14-dependabot-version-updates-introduce-default-package-cooldown/

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown - GitHub Changelog

Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…

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As a GP in Germany, I struggle with the claim that “people don’t want to work.” In daily practice, I see the opposite: many patients push themselves to keep working, even when they should rest. They worry about burdening colleagues, unfinished tasks, or upcoming deadlines. If we want to […]

Fucking "app culture" drives me crazy. I got asked to install a mobile app just to look at the itinerary and accommodation information for a trip I'm going on. Why isn't it just a web page? So obviously I said "fuck that noise, hold my beer", reverse-engineered the app, and re-implemented it […]

Since Monday, the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college has published 10 new and 103 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 18 individuals and external projects. The usual Monday blog post will summarize the full week's worth of such work, but […] [Original post on hcommons.social]

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@dbattistella/116840120508755510 This also hilarious because, according to one compelling theory, the invention of the plough "facilitated the emergence of substantial and sustained wealth inequalities" (https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2019.105). It was the first time in […]

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Sigh. Open Context now gets 10x more traffic than normal. We're approaching the Singularity of the bots obsessively consuming of sheep/goat and sherd data records. A paranoid my think "AI" cartels are punishing me for saying their technologies are […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Each broom agent can spawn additional, autonomous broom agents, each with their own pails. This allows apprentices to accelerate monotonous water-fetching tasks and save their time and energy for more interesting and useful work

The #CAA2027 Call for Sessions is now open! Researchers and practitioners are invited to propose Standard Sessions, Round Tables, and Other Formats https://2027.caaconference.org/2026/06/19/call-for-sessions-open/ #CAA2027 will be held in Santiago, Chile […] [Original post on archaeo.social]

#Mastodon 4.6 is here! It's been a long time in the works, but it's finally ready. In this release, we're introducing Collections—a way to share curated collections of profiles to help old and new users discover more of the #Fediverse. We're also updating the look of profiles, alongside many […]

Just submitted my review of an incredible new #dataset for historical #GIS #HGIS and #spatial humanities: The footprint of 1.3 million buildings in Victorian #London from the Ordnance Survey (OS) map. Incredible work with possible applications far beyond the field of history 👇 […]

In the end, we managed to avoid feature degradation in the latest #XRONOS release, aimed at mitigating abuse from bots and AI crawlers: https://xronos.ch/news/xronos-v121-stability-curation-workflows-and-infrastructure-hardening We'll see if these performance improvements will be enough. So […]

New release of trident and xerxes: v2.1.0.0! Please see the changelog here: https://github.com/poseidon-framework/poseidon-hs/releases/tag/v2.1.0.0 #aDNA #OpenData #Haskell

Release Release v2.1.0.0 · poseidon-framework/poseidon-hs

This release adds some new intelligence for merging genotypes across packages, and reworks the download of .zip archives from the webserver. Handling of strand flips Previously, trident forge or an...

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Our annual review of research using #XRONOS in 2025: https://xronos.ch/news/research-using-xronos-in-2025 #Archaeology #Radiocarbon #OpenData #OpenScience #Science

A reminder that the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology is looking for a new Managing Editor to start on 1 Sep 2026. This is a voluntary position, involving an average commitment of around 2–3 hours per week. More details on the role and how to apply in the link […]

Given that Facebook flat out refuses to delete my account (the deletion function on the website consistently errors out and emailing their DPO didn't help as the auto response just fwd me to the website), maybe I can talk their chatbot into deleting it for me? Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to […]