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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, (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.

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 #archaeology, 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.

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) #AI summary of their contents works fine every time :/

#opendata

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?)

#archaeology #opendata

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!

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.

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 🙃

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!

ICAZ_News, to random
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What kind of content would you like to see on our channels? We've been a bit passive lately, but we want to create content you want to see!

X:@ICAZ_News
Mastodon: ICAZ_News@archaeo.social
Facebook: ICAZ News

joeroe,
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@ICAZ_News I think it's okay to be passive! One thing I like about Mastodon is the slower pace and lessened pressure to cultivate 'viral' content and engagement.

paregorios, to random
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For many years Brill's digital resources, though paywalled, have returned to unauthenticated requests a useful summary and citation for each discrete article or entry (in encyclopedic works and corpora). An exemplary practice in my view.

This morning, all those URIs are redirecting to the Brill home page. I dearly hope this is a temporary misconfiguration. Otherwise, they've single-handedly borked thousands of reference links in the Pleiades gazetteer (and elsewhere).

joeroe,
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@paregorios Wow, you'd really think you could rely on those being stable links. Do you know if they had DOIs?

joeroe, to random
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Really interesting point from Pickering & Kgotleng (https://doi.org/10.17159/sajs.2024/17473) – is the preprint model right for all fields?

> [P]osting unreviewed research on a preprint server is not new or controversial [...] But palaeoanthropology is not a field that needs urgent research and rapid breakthroughs. Given the huge and wide public interest in human evolution and our origins, this research field benefits from much slower, measured, and careful research.

joeroe,
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And could be said equally of prehistoric archaeology.

joeroe,
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@K_Reuss_Manaus I don't think the intended meaning here is that palaeo research isn't important or impactful (quite the opposite), just that it can usually afford to wait 6 months for peer review.

Maybe that's my fault - when the authors say "not urgent" it's in comparison to research on COVID-19 in the first months of the pandemic, but I had to cut that out to fit the quote within 500 characters.

joeroe,
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@isakroa I suppose the thing is do you need preprints to do open review, though? Conceivably (or PCI, etc.) could restrict access until the first reviews/recommendations are in. The end result would still be open, but it would reduce the risk of results being disseminated to the public before they're ready.

That said, the elephant in the room is the assumption that peer review—open or closed—is actually effective at filtering out bad science, which I'm not at all convinced of.

joeroe,
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@isakroa What the quote above really made me think about was whether we (i.e. the humanities) are adopting the preprint model because of its merits, or if we're just because it's bundled up with the "open" model of other fields that we want to emulate.

generalising, to ChatGPT
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I have a preprint out estimating how many scholarly papers are written using chatGPT etc? I estimate upwards of 60k articles (>1% of global output) published in 2023. https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887

How can we identify this? Simple: there are certain words that LLMs love, and they suddenly start showing up a lot last year. Twice as many papers call something "intricate", big rises for "commendable" and "meticulous".

joeroe,
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@ArchaeoIain @generalising Overfitting to certain sources/authors in their training data, I suppose? "Notable" for example is classic Wikipedianese.

politopoulosa, to random
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So excited to have this fun, fighty, hopeful article out: An Anarchist Archaeology of Equality: Pasts and Futures Against Hierarchy
A united and joyous effort with the most amazing individuals Cate, James, and Lewis https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/an-anarchist-archaeology-of-equality-pasts-and-futures-against-hierarchy/49631CB34E61B09D54E3134E58DBB5A0

joeroe,
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@politopoulosa Thanks for this, it's super thought-provoking and one of those rare academic papers that actually makes you laugh out loud.

joeroe, to random
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Is there a simplified version of the CRediT (https://credit.niso.org/) taxonomy of contributor roles out there? I love the idea but never got why anyone would care about about the four different types of manager or whether someone "curated" or "collected" the data used in a paper.

#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #OpenAccess

joeroe,
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@timelfen @dta_cthomas @christof Indeed, reading about the original design of the CRediT system (https://www.nature.com/articles/508312a):

"the sample [of authors surveyed] was relatively small and only corresponding authors were asked for their opinions. The taxonomy was developed and tested in the biomedical and life-sciences community — we have not tested its validity in other fields because we expect that there are field-specific contributor roles"

It doesn't seem like this caveat was ever followed up on.

joeroe, to threads
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With #Threads and now with the new #Bluesky bridge, I'm really worried that #MastoAdmin 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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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 #Signal (https://www.signal.org) or #Matrix (https://matrix.org) for secure messaging and #Haven (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.
joeroe,
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@evan Fair point. I'd edit in *public Mastodon posts, but I'm already at the character limit. The Threads federation and Bluesky bridge that people are worried about of course does not affect followers-only posts either.

joeroe,
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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Given a list of IP addresses asking to see your posts, how do you identify which ones belong to undesired scrapers?

joeroe,
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@shalien Your server and mine had no prior business with each other, but these posts, our names, and avatars were copied between them. There was no check to see if they were running the same software, or shared the same values - just that they used compatible protocols. Where is the border between "our" space and "their" space?

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