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josh, 9 months ago to random

Today's example of why I don't fear AI or Internet-driven cheating in my classes.

https://www.google.com/search?q=country+in+africa+that+starts+with+the+letter+k

josh, 9 months ago to random

Nice read. Buried lede: Mastodon is the overwhelming choice for an alternative. Now we need to improve the reach.
Vidal Valero, Myriam. “Thousands of Scientists Are Cutting Back on Twitter, Seeding Angst and Uncertainty.” Nature, vol. 620, no. 7974, Aug. 2023, pp. 482–84. www.nature.com, https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02554-0

josh, 7 months ago to random

This is an incredibly damning piece about administrative failures in academia and the persistent brilliance of Nobel Prize winner Katalin Kariko. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/mrna-coronavirus-vaccine-pfizer-biontech

josh, 9 months ago to random

Just bookmarked https://biobot.io/data/ to track COVID wastewater surge in my area.

Will keep it alongside https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#maps_new-admissions-rate-county

h/t @josh @inquiline

josh, 10 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Anthropology

Hello Mastodon World #Introduction! I'm Josh, a Prof of Anthropology & Social Informatics at Indiana University South Bend, principal investigator w/Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). I work at intersections of people, heritage, tech, & research, love to help folks use data systems more humanely, openly, & equitably

#anthropology #archaeology #culturalheritage #cyborganthropology #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities #dh #FOSS #GIS #informatics #openSci #openData #openGov

josh, 2 months ago to Anthropology

Living history piece by @Mer__edith

“The blueprint for modern digital computing was codesigned by Charles Babbage, a vocal champion for the … industrial capitalist class who condemned organized workers and viewed democracy and capitalism as incompatible … His influential theories on how “enterprising capitalists” could best subjugate workers are well documented in conventional labor scholarship.”

https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/origin-stories-plantations-computers-and-industrial-control/

#anthropology #dh #history #informatics #sociology

josh, 8 months ago to random

Swiss government testing national Mastodon communications

https://www.admin.ch/gov/de/start/dokumentation/medienmitteilungen.msg-id-97696.html

h/t @fediversereport

https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-episode-35/

josh, 2 months ago to Anthropology

Nice piece by @parismarx about the importance of physical media. and the right to control, for equitable access. The cloud is by definition somebody else’s property and this has real repercussions beyond mere entertainment. Too many in #heritage #opengov and lots of other sectors think that putting something online alone makes it findable and reusable.

https://disconnect.blog/why-is-it-so-hard-to-buy-a-blu-ray/

#anthropology #archaeology #informatics

josh, 9 months ago to SciComm

Excited to see @opencontext in the Fediverse!

Follow them for primary #data and #scicomm in #archaeology #anthropology

https://hcommons.social/@opencontext

cc @anthropology

OPEN . CONTEXT H Open Context @opencontext Open Context (opencontext.org) reviews, edits, annotates, publishes and archives research data and digital documentation for archaeology and related fields. Through advocacy, education, research, and wider collaborations we work to promote ethical data management in support of teaching and understanding. This account is managed by multiple colleagues at our organization (see: alexandriaarchive.org/about/pe...) JOINED Aug 14, 2023 SERVICES scholarly communications DISCIPLINE archaeology CONTENT open data COMMUNITY digital humanities

josh, 7 months ago to Archaeology

Rome, meh. How often do you think about Cahokia?

#archaeology #anthropology #history

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia

josh, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to scifi

Prepping next week's activity on #SciFi as #STS critique for my social #informatics and cyborg #anthropology students.

We all watch a short film version of Car Wars by @pluralistic and then the class examines the plot from three different critical perspectives.

Students are working together as teams in Google Docs within the same classroom, F2F discussion, shared workspace.

Whole class shares and debriefs toward end of session.

Feel free to reuse CC-BY.

#HigherEd #AcademicChatter

josh, 4 months ago to Archaeology

New #openaccess article out today describes how the Digital Index of North American Archaeology's (DINAA) strategies can help everybody connect heritage data better. Check out the whole open theme issue from @aap_saaorg

Neller, A., J. Heckman, E. Bollwerk, K. Myers, and J. Wells. "Making Archaeological Collections More Findable and Accessible through Increased Coordination." Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2024, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2023.31

#archaeology #curation #dh #oa #opendata

josh, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to academicchatter

My syllabus statement on AI generative text. Feel free to reuse CC0 and/or critique here with responses. Responses also welcome if you’re gonna use it (I might put a tally in the annual report)

#AcademicChatter #AcademicMastodon @academicchatter

josh, 11 months ago to random

Tell me you’re a bot farm without telling me … I got followed by this account targeting nothing but “Josh” people from a sketchy domain … it felt slightly weird at first blocking whole domains on Mastodon, but I’ve done it a couple of times now and have realized how important it is for both a personal and ecosystem experience.

3. Main page for truth social.co.in posts show basically nothing but the admin
2. Inspection of original truthsocial.co.in profile following nothing but accounts named Josh
4. Blocking the entire domain truth social.co.in

josh, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to Archaeology

Sharing syllabus for summer asynchronous online class: intro to human #evolution #archaeology #anthropology

CC-BY-SA-4, comments or emails welcome

Readings course (incl books by @jenniferraff @annaleen). Felt experimental for freshman but very successful. Students pull individual takes on sources but pushed toward shared goals by prompts and scaffolds. Feels more rewarding than exams. Students can see others' work for all but book reports

cc @anthropology #HigherEd

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EOxhhDuzUMCd6eXzHcGxj9x7jzC-AhLJBOlEAEy0tWA/edit?usp=sharing

josh, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

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josh, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

I find my best mobile Mastodon experience is in a mobile browser (usually Firefox). I find it just as easy to navigate as any app and I also have access to all my lists and settings. I just reloaded the apps this evening to see if I felt improvement (I did not).

What’s your preferred mode of mobile Mastodon? Feel free to add details in the replies.

josh, 7 months ago to Archaeology

220(!) authors work together to LIDAR the Amazonian rain forest and develop a predictive model for presence of earthworks. Astounding.

#archaeology #anthropology

Peripato et al., "More than 10,000 pre-Columbian earthworks are still hidden throughout Amazonia." Science382,103-109(2023).

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.ade2541

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josh, 1 month ago to Anthropology

Book Question for #humanevolution #anthropology #paleoanthropology #bioanthropology #highered peeps:

I want a more current book on human evolution for freshman/sophomore college students to read that has the sensibilities of Chris Stringer's Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

Suggestions? Thanks!

LGT publisher page for Stringer book that I've been using ...
https://academic.macmillan.com/academictrade/9781250023308/lonesurvivors

josh, 6 months ago to Birds

I spent the evening with about 8000 sandhill cranes in the Kankakee Marsh. Here’s a few of them (sound up!) #birds #birdsofmastodon #birding

https://youtu.be/adkF6Ohk0Kg?si=tFRkNfdsxhdqMvgp

josh, 2 months ago to random

Before lunch I ran 5K and had a call with a global publishing outfit that is very excited by my work. I should probably go back to bed right now.

josh, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Archaeology

This is not a problem for folks in #archaeology.

josh, 1 month ago to random

#ThrowbackThursday to last year when my favorite local Chinese takeout bought cases of remaindered #FTX fortune cookies. I'm still seeing them a year later.

josh, 2 months ago to random

Hi @Lotje I'm Josh, a PI with the Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA). We use archaeological site numbers as key identifiers to link site records, lit, & collections for pubsci. I'm writing a brief history of Smithsonian Trinomial system +its influence and found your great blog from 2014. I fail to find your email but fortunately the fediverse is here for us!

Could we talk/email/msg about your archival work? I'd love to reference you.

https://nmnh.typepad.com/rogers_archaeology_lab/2014/09/rbsshapedhistoricalarchaeology.html

josh, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

What are we expecting for Monday's eclipse?
#eclipse #eclipse2024