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joeroe

@joeroe@archaeo.social

Researcher in computational archaeology at https://mastodon.online/@unibern. https://archaeo.social admin. Wikipedian.

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joeroe, to random
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I love that the collapse of social media platforms is unearthing the internet I grew up with: blogs, forums, newsletters...

...and webrings! If you have a blog about archaeology or the ancient past, please consider adding it to archaeo.social's new webring:

https://webring.archaeo.social/

Just add the links to your site and send us an email at webring@archaeo.social.

joeroe, to Archaeology
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Call for papers: 2023, Turin & online, 12–13 December. https://www.archeofoss.org/2023/call-for-papers

@zackbatist and I are organising a panel on in the which, if you're reading this, you probably have thoughts about! We would love to hear critical and creative reflections on our https://archaeo.social project, archaeology on Mastodon, or the future of scholarly social media in our field more generally.

Submission deadline 20 October.

joeroe, to threads
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With and now with the new bridge, I'm really worried that s are doing a bad job of communicating what "federated" means.

Your Mastodon posts are PUBLISHED on the internet. As you read this they are being downloaded, legally, by hundreds of other computers. These computers belong to people you want to share with (other fedizens) and people you don't (surveillance capitalists). There is no reliable way to differentiate them.

This is by design. You cannot opt-out.

joeroe,
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I really sympathise with people who shared something with their circle of followers and are now surprised to learn that it might end up on Threads or Bluesky or in some data miner's hoard.

The Mastodon software should absolutely do a better job of telling people that when they sign up (it's in the privacy policy, but you know).

At the same time, nobody is helped by pretending that blocking this or that server will effectively control who gets to access public posts.

joeroe,
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If you want or need to control who can read your posts, you should urgently take steps to remove them from Mastodon* and switch to a secure communication protocol. I can recommend (https://www.signal.org) or (https://matrix.org) for secure messaging and (https://havenweb.org) for private (micro)blogging.

  • Though note that there is no way of forcing people to honour requests to delete data. Copies will almost certainly remain somewhere, indefinitely.
molly0xfff, to random
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been using vim keybindings for years and i still do this at least once a day

joeroe,
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@molly0xfff Mine is accidentally turning on capslock and concatenating every line in the file by mashing j 🙃

joeroe, to Archaeology
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: Research Associate / Postdoc (m/f/d) in the field of Digital Archaeology at the University of Leipzig

https://www.uni-leipzig.de/en/university/working-at-leipzig-university/job-opportunities/detailed-view-job-description/artikel/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter-postdoc-m-w-d-2023-07-12

joeroe, to random
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"Archaeology in the Fediverse and the future of scholarly social media"

@zackbatist and I are proposing this topic for a panel discussion at 2023, Turin: https://www.archeofoss.org/2023/panel-proposals

The proposals are open for comment until 15th September, after which there'll be an open call for papers. Let us know if you're interested!

joeroe, to Archaeology
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: if there was a non-selective, diamond open access (i.e. free to publish, free to read), post-publication peer review journal for field reports, would you use it?

The idea being to publish basically any description of primary archaeological results from anywhere in the world, subject to basic checks for research ethics, without worrying about things like significance, novelty, or English-language editing, that can otherwise make it difficult to publish that kind of thing.

joeroe, to Archaeology
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Digital Archaeology Bern – Ancient West Asia (#DABAWA) begins today at 13.00 (UTC+2): https://dabawa.hypotheses.org/

#Archaeology #DigitalHumanities

joeroe, to random
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Just saw a grant boosted here that demanded the recipient produce at least one peer-reviewed paper, participate in a conference and 16 smaller meetings/workshops, write public engagement material, and work part-time for the organisation... for the equivalent of 2-3 months postdoc salary.

Don't boost this stuff, call it out! This isn't "every little helps". They could have created a decently-paid and decent length fellowship for one person, instead of precarity for a dozen.

joeroe, to Archaeology
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The changing stories we tell about the of West Asia, summed up in one Ngram!

Tell Abu Hureyra was a poster child for new scientific methods when it was excavated in the 70s, and still has some of the earliest evidence of plant domestication.

Ian Hodder chose Çatalhöyük to put into practice his model of a postmodern social archaeology in 1993, and according to this graph it overtook Abu Hureyra in popular consciousness in 2007.

(A thread...)

joeroe, to Archaeology
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An AI-written journal of history:

https://codex.yubetsu.com/journal/history/1/4/1

...which, interestingly, appears to actually be a journal of prehistoric archaeology. A bias in the training dataset? Or is there something about prehistory that makes it easier to produce generative nonsense?

joeroe, to random
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I just finished a peer review for https://f1000research.com, which was... surprisingly pleasant. Nice easy to use interface, focus on written feedback instead of checkboxes, everything's open and citeable, and you're explicitly asked not to consider novelty or importance.

I see it's owned by one of the big publishers though, so I'm sure I'm missing a dark secret...

joeroe, to random
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Looks like the latest Twitter migration to https://archaeo.social is in full swing!

For new users, writing a post with the hashtag is a great way to get those first followers. Lots of people follow and boost posts from that hashtag (DYK you can follow hashtags here?)

For old users, now might be a good time to boost your introduction post to re-introduce yourself.

Follow for server updates and conversations.

antikemagie, to random
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@joeroe Firefox didn't want to load archaeo.social due to a potential safety risk and says it's probably because the SSL certificate is no longer valid.
Is everything okay?

joeroe,
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@antikemagie I was just doing some upgrades, should be all fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience!

ArchaeoIain, to random
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I have been warned by the Mastodon moderators that some of my posts will be marked sensitive. This was a direct result of a post which sought to show the direct consequences of book burning as has been reported in Gaza on this platform.

joeroe,
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@ArchaeoIain Important to note that moderators on Mastodon belong to a specific server and cannot take actions beyond that server. Likely your posts were only marked sensitive on one server, which could have many users or could have just one. We haven't taken an action on your posts or account here on archaeo.social (your home server).

joeroe, (edited ) to stackoverflow
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Initially I was sad about 's collapse, not so much because I've contributed a lot to it (and as a , I've already resigned myself to big tech trying to sell my own words back to me), but because I learned a lot of programming and statistics from it; it gave me focused answers to specific problems. It already bothered me that my students were turning to AI for that purpose, and now what I was telling them to use instead is turning into AI slop... (1/2)

joeroe,
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... (2/2) But thinking about it, it was actually a pretty crappy way to learn, making me much slower to see the big picture. I only used SO because I couldn't get formal training in those areas. When I got to the point where I could read books on stats and programming instead, I got a lot better a lot faster.

So I guess now I'll double down on encouraging students to focus on fundamental concepts and the ability to formulate the right questions to ask of high quality sources.

FlintDibble, to random
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I wrote some thoughts about my strategy and impact from facing down Graham Hancock. In the Guardian!

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/lost-civilisations-make-good-tv-ancient-apocalypse-but-archaeology-real-stories-hold-far-more-wonder

joeroe,
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@FlintDibble Following that link to the reddit threads, it looks like you changed a lot of people's minds, fantastic job! I think you've really nailed the coffin on the "don't give them attention" argument.

joeroe, (edited ) to Archaeology
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Does anyone know of a paper or dataset that compiles the earliest known dates of agriculture in a given region? Globally, ideally, but I'd settle for a continent or two...

(I know there are several options for the European Neolithic, but beyond that?)

joeroe,
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@mrundkvist Well yes, but I was kind of hoping that someone might have already done the work for me 😂

I'm basically thinking of something like Gronenborn & Horejs's (https://www.academia.edu/9424525/Map_Expansion_of_farming_in_western_Eurasia_9600_4000_BCE_update_vers_2023_1_) or Fort's (https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsif.2015.0166) interpolated models (or better yet the underlying data points), but beyond Europe.

Probably I'm just dreaming!

joeroe, to ai
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Got multiple 500 Internal Server Error responses when trying to download scientific data files from the Harvard Dataverse today... but funnily enough the totally unasked-for (and totally useless) summary of their contents works fine every time :/

joeroe, to Archaeology
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How do you review a paper (in its second revision) where the authors have made an honest attempt to make their analysis (computationally) reproducible, but not quite got there? Given that the field is , where reproducibility is still a niche concern and lots of work is published with no regard to it.

joeroe,
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@johnefrancis Well, there's a lot to say about how the concept does and doesn't translate in the palaeosciences, but in this case I'm talking about computational reproducibility.

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