David Stott | Lightnews

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4h

We need to spend some time gently educating our geological colleagues that we're here and we know stuff:

bsky.app/profile/davs...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. I'm concerned by:
a) a somewhat cursory engagement with prior art & a large body of archaeological literature on this topic
b) referencing Graham Hancock 💀💀💀!!!

David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 2d

New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 5h

That it is.

Wild / Leica also made the best survey tripods with the nifty interlocks on the legs when closed.

Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 6h

These are so beautifully designed and built! 😍 and extend the existing 'The Bare Bones' learning materials from Forestry and Land Scotland and written by Gavin Lindsay, Matt Ritchie and Alison Sheridan.

Thanks for highlighting @thebefs.bsky.social 🙏

Image of one of the loanable 'The Bare Bones Toolkits': a portable wooden box with liftable lid and drawers, approximately 50 cm high and wide and 30 cm deep, containing various types of tactile learning objects.

For full list of box contents, nearest available and how to borrow, visit https://www.archaeologyscotland.org.uk/learning/loan-kits/the-bare-bones-toolkit/

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 10h

I'm left handed & wear mine on the right but a people seem to think that's aberrant and wrong for some reason?

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 11h

The M5 is the most beautiful of all the Leicas.

A Leica M5 film camera with a 35mm lens attached. It's a rangefinder. The design is a notable departure from other Leica rangefinders as it's somewhat bigger. The over sized shutter speed dial overhangs the top plate. It has a spot meter of incredible design.

The one pictured here is well used, against background of a beige mechanical keyboard.

Jérôme OLLIER @jeromeollier.bsky.social · 14h

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea – Will there be a major inflow of saltwater from the North Sea? - IOW

www.iow.de/message/item...

Record low sea levels in the Baltic Sea – Will there be a major inflow of saltwater from the North Sea?

Photo of turbulent waves on the Baltic Sea during stormy weather.

www.iow.de

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23h

youtu.be/lYc-WG6T5ok?...

Dibiye

YouTube video by Francis Bebey - Topic

youtu.be

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23h

Post a banger that isn't English

tidal.com/track/232840...

Matthew Morriss @rockiceandsnow.bsky.social · 1d

Relative elevation models are both compelling visualizations of fluvial systems but also frankly useful for geologic mapping of terraces or quantifying zones of potential flood inundation. Several years ago Open Topography coded up an method for using python to make REMs (see below) 🧵

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

.. in particlarly br Kvamme and @gverhoev.bsky.social.

I'd recommend that you specifically seek out archaeological prospection specialists when you look for domain experts. There's not many of us, but we're nice:

go.bsky.app/M9FwG2K

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d

Good- citing Hancock is tantamount to uncritically citing a a young earth creationist in a geoscience paper.

In terms of the wider literature- multi-spectral imaging has been used by archaeologists for decades at this point, and there are some good papers on sensor fusion and spectral indices...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

A slightly magnetic rock or a bumpity rock?

(I work with both)

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

at this, and pointed out that referencing provably anti-scientific racist isn't really ideal.

Citing these dingdongs risks legitimising them. The state of the world at the minute shows us where that gets us. Beware.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

To harp on: This is a problem that happens sometimes in interdisciplinary work. The authors aren't domain experts & aren't well versed in archaeology. Fair enough.

However- this is something that indicates a broken review / editorial process. At some point someone who is should've had a look...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting. I'm concerned by:
a) a somewhat cursory engagement with prior art & a large body of archaeological literature on this topic
b) referencing Graham Hancock 💀💀💀!!!

David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 2d

New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Photograph inside a stone-walled tunnel with one end open to the light. This structure is called a fogou, and is thought to have been constructed in the Iron Age. Location - Carn Euny ancient village, Cornwall. Thanks to English Heritage and Historic England Southwest for permissions.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Think I've heard that one too.

Simple Sabotage Field Manual @simple-sabotage.bsky.social · 2d

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

British Geological Survey @bgs.ac.uk · 2d

Cliffs might seem strong and safe but they can provide many hazards. Storms, prolonged periods of wet weather, cold snaps and heatwaves can trigger landslides.

Check the image below to see if you can spot the cliff-based hazards in this scene. Answers here: www.bgs.ac.uk/discovering-...

A drawn image of a sunny beach scene. To the right is a large cliff and to the left is a village with fields behind it, and in front a beach area. The artist (Cath Pennington, BGS) has drawn various cliff-based hazards, which can be spotted as one studies the image.

David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social · 2d

New paper from Adam Morley shows that some vegetation anomalies in multi-spectral satellite data correlate with geophysical data, and can be used to identify buried archaeological structures like tunnels and drains, with examples from Cornwall and Normandy.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d

Is it non invasive / non destructive though?

(Insert story here about a certain professor accidentally giving a skull a third eye when probing the extent of a cairn...)

Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite artifact in the "you don't need AI to do art" discourse is, of course, screenwriter Dan O'Bannon's sketch of the facehugger to explain it to Giger.

A 2 panel sketch disgram of a 1 meter tall pod. in the second panel, an oval section pops off and a demonic little face with short tentacles flies out, crudely drawn.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

And, as bonus here's a nice lidar scan of an enormous badger sett in a medieval fortress in Denmark.

bsky.app/profile/davs...

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · May 9

Results are good. Now just need to work out the best workflow for processing the data.

A combined visualation of the digital feature model and the VAT model. It shows the earthworks of the castle clearly. Also apparent is the badger setts disturbing the keep.

A combination of multi scale TPI and VAT visualizations. It's somewhat psychedelic, in a way that's hard to describe in words. Imagine that dodgy neon tie-dye stuff that was incomprehensibly popular in the mid '90s.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Archaeological sites do act as havens for biodiversity - the legal and social protections they have spare them from the worst of commercial forestry and agriculture.

I've been wanting to do a project on looking at fungal diversity on protected vs unprotected sites for ages.

Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

“February. Another cold, dead month, or so it seems. The elms are bare against the sky, the plough-ground is naked and wet, and still as brown as the sodden leaves.
Yet the world is waking up”.

Artists: Edith Hilder, Rowland Hilder (ShellGuide, 1955)

A stark, bare landscape of flat ground, ploughed field and stream under a grey sky is enlivened by detailed studies in the foreground of the plants and flowers of February

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

Comic, possibly?

(In that the New Labour tribute act plays *all* the old songs)

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 3d

15 grand oven. Holy macaroni.

David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4d

Turn gently!

Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk · 4d

Having fun this evening on the tablet visualising St Mary’s Church, Whitekirk with a lime render.

#Procreate #iPad
#EastLothian

An elevation drawing of the south side of St Mary’s Church, Whitekirk, in East Lothian, Scotland, showing red sandstone walls, and a white lime washed tower and south transept gable. Drawing by Bob Marshall 2026. Created using the Procreate app for iPad.

Tuatha @tuatha.ie · 4d

The Knowth Macehead • c.3300-2800 BC

It has been described as one of the greatest surviving artworks from Neolithic Europe.

All six sides of the flint macehead are delicately decorated. From this view, it appears like a human face, with the hole for the shaft as a mouth.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm

The Knowth Macehead on display in the National Museum of Ireland. It is a small, rounded piece of flint. Variegated in colour between brown, beige and a greyish tint. It is decorated with megalithic art.

Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Call for papers and discussion participation:

Into the Wild Conference & Discussion Meeting - 21st & 22nd May 2026, Glasgow.

Multidisciplinary event of interest to researchers, practitioners & policy makers.

Deadline: 2 March 2026.
Details: tinyurl.com/8twry2zc

Please share 🙏

View down open valley and across wider landscape showing old and new growing pine forest.

Photo credit: Regenerating Pine Forest, National Trust for Scotland, Mar Lodge, Scotland

Add to Home Screen

Light up
your news

Add to Home Screen

Light upyour news

Sign in to Lightnews

Sign up to start reading

Connect Bluesky

Connect with Bluesky

Light up
your news