💻Time to start working on those #digitalarchaeology session proposals, everyone! 📅 Due 8th September 2024 🌍 Looking forward to a great #CAA2025!

You can come hear Madeline Robinson talk about photogrammetry as one of our panellists for our free online event “Photogrammetry Myths” on 28 August: events.humanitix.com/photogrammetry…

Wednesday 28 August, CAA Australasia holds the online panel: 'Photogrammetry Myths'! Hosted by Emily Tour, panelists Tom Keep, Dr Corey Noxon, Michael Rampe and Madeline Robinson. For more info and to book your free ticket: events.humanitix.com/photogrammetry…

The scriveners of ancient Egypt were more than papyrus pushers, but they suffered many of the same repetitive ailments as desk jockeys today, a new study suggests. Ancient Scribes Got Ergonomic Injuries, Too: nytimes.com/2024/08/16/sci…

I was very lucky to host this wonderful CAA Australasia panel last week (or rather, 'co-host' with my very present and opinionated feline friend, Mr Dudley 🐈). #Archaeologists and #3Dmodelling enthusiasts, check it out!

BREAKING NEWS: The Mummy (1999) just received a 55 minute standing ovation from me in my living room after watching it for the 200th time

ENCI, our mobile CT scanner for cultural heritage objects, is on its second major field mission: Our team is looking inside sealed #cuneiform tablets Müzekart in Ankara, reading #ancient contracts and letters for the first time: csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/2024-10-0…

Oct 26 Melb Hellenic Museum Melbourne Greek Love: Beyond The Veil "magic & monsters, inspired by Halloween & LGBTIQA+ History Month" Talks by Dr Jessica McKenzie, Noah Wellington, Dr Tanika Koozmen, Tobias Fulton. Book $ hellenic.org.au/event-details/… Dr Jessica McKenzie Noah Wellington @tanika_mk Tobias 🐉🏛🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈

Working on #GenerativeAI, #LLMs, and/or #TextMining in #archaeology? Alfie Lien-Talks and I are organising a session on these topics at #CAA2025! Please consider submitting an abstract, or joining the session at the conference. Session description: 2025.caaconference.org/call-for-paper…

No! You must not read from the book!

Very excited to be presenting at this event! Stay tuned for program/registration details over the coming week #digitalarchaeology

👀📜An exciting new #digitalhumanities article, co-authored by my wonderful PhD supervisor, Robert Turnbull!

The Incas used mysterious stringy objects called ‘khipus’ to record data. We just got a step closer to understanding them... New research from MDAP's Karen M Thompson theconversation.com/the-incas-used…

Super excited to be taking part in this #digitalarchaeology symposium next week 😊 I'll be presenting on a recent collab I've been involved in, looking at using #machinelearning in ancient script and language research (including undeciphered scripts, like Linear A). Check it out!

Don't forget, this is the last week to get your paper, poster or workshop abstracts in for #CAA2025, being held next year in Athens!🗓️ Due 24 November 2024 🗓️Select your session and get typing! 2025.caaconference.org/call-for-paper… #digitalarchaeology #archaeology #cfp

This Sat @ 13:30 AEDT, I'll be presenting at my first programming conference PyCon AU, on a little Python library I've been working on with some colleagues (including Robert Turnbull) 🐍 Nervous (but excited) about speaking in front of a technical audience! #digitalarchaeology

📢#booklaunch alert for my wonderful PhD supervisor 📢If Bayesian phylogenetics, manuscript studies or textual criticism are up your alley, you should definitely tune in this coming Thursday 13 Feb @ 3pm! In-person at UniMelb, or on Zoom.

Yesterday I had my book launch and I was honoured to have Emily Tour, Michael F. Bird, Alexander Treiger, Stephen Carlson and Joey McCollum speak about the book. Here is a playlist of what they had to say: youtube.com/playlist?list=…

It was such a joy to MC this event, and hear all about Rob's new book! The future of manuscript studies is looking very exciting with the increasing adoption of computational methods. You should definitely take 20 minutes over a coffee break to check out the talks on YouTube ☕

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