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Erik Champion

@erikmc.bsky.social

670 followers 390 following 910 posts

Digital heritage, serious games, and digital inhumanities. 3D or not 3D. Usually based in Oceania but on land. https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/

Computer science 35%

Sociology 9%

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Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 21h

Out of cite, out of mind?

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

Russell Crowe is such a disciplined character actor. Putting on more weight for every role going forward.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

Sure, if you are interested in actual cars you can find more details about this actual EV (Skoda Epiq). But more importantly, I want to know if one can order the pebbles paint version!

Test drive of Skoda Epiq EV, against what looks like a Prague bridge backdrop.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

Morrison govt linked to bad policy? As if nobody could see that coming...

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

I can't believe I missed references to Link Hogthrob and Dr Strangepork? Keynotes for an (Inter)World Wide Web conference?

a group of cartoon characters are sitting at a table with a sign that says ' stv ' on it

Alt: Muppets on swinetrek

media.tenor.com

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

Far out! No, literally..

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 1d

A cosplay Muppet academic pre-conference is a terrific warmup event before the real or unreal thing..

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

He hated it apparently. It is a rare sport where one can play for five days without winning at the end.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

You want MORE republicans!?

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

Joi Ito just can't catch a break.. good speaker for what it is worth..

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

Today I like AI. It helped me design an antimatter garden (plants with decaying potassium create antimatter. Thank me later). I will however get a second opinion on the tiny-ness of radiation.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

Douglas Adams on Cricket: “A full set of rules is so massively complicated that the only time they were all bound together in a single volume they underwent gravitational collapse and became a Black Hole.”

Adam Rothman aced his cognitive test @adamrothman.bsky.social · 2d

I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

He spoke briefly Epic? I'm not sure that is what he meant...

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

Cricket? Or book edit proofing line by line?

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 2d

i liked this. Q: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Billy Crudup: If you commit to it, you won’t ever stop learning. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Scott C. Doney, Chris D. Clark, Elena Litchman , and 2 more Scott C. Doney, Chris D. Clark, Elena Litchman, Erik Champion, Tim Stephens

Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 3d

Antarctic ice sheet folk, I'm looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Antarctic Ice Sheet Reconstruction [readvertised] for a 3.5yr appointment in Tasmania. Very flexible start date!

Join our new team, figuring out what is happening and what may happen in East Antarctica. 1/4
❄️

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

Looks so 20thc to me!

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

"Yet 86% of bosses across these four countries report the technology has had no impact on labour productivity over the past three years" ... maybe if AI replaced the bosses rather than the actual workers?

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

I'd never have guessed a french bossa nova cover version of "Making Plans for Nigel" is great bkgrd music for marking grant applications (we played the original in the 80s as students in Nigel R's architecture studio). Band: Nouvelle Vague+Camille. Perhaps my spiritual home is a Luxembourg elevator.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 6d

‘A big new survey of executives in America, Australia, Britain and Germany… shows that almost three-quarters of businesses are using AI in some way. Yet 86% of bosses across these four countries report the technology has had no impact on labour productivity over the past three years’

Lord, make me productive
Chart - Estimated effect of the adoption of Al on volume of sales per employee, Nov 2025-Jan 2026,

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

In the version I read her dad was a bit of a goose.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

it's a knitwork network!

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 6d

but was it a good egg?

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Erik Champion, Malcolm MacLean , and 1 more Lesley A. Hall, Erik Champion, Malcolm MacLean, Keith Lilley

Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 6d

Full time AHRC doctoral studentships now available in Arts & Humanities at University of Hertfordshire for October 2026 start - please do share widely!! This includes both History & Heritage Studies among other subjects 🌟😀 www.herts.ac.uk/research/res...

AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentships

The AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award is a major new funding scheme from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Its aim is to grow the UK’s capacity for doctoral research in the arts and humanit...

www.herts.ac.uk

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6d

knittingit.com/knitting-abb...

A big list of the assembly language used by generations of women in knitting, an assembly language men didn't think an important or useful or *intellectual* skill worth learning.

Knitting Abbreviations List | Knitting It

New to knitting or seeing an unfamiliar abbreviation in a pattern? No need to worry! Discover the complete list of knitting abbreviations...

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 7d

Why? You don't think he would like it!!

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 7d

They can't handle the southern border let alone the bigger northern one!

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Dr N. Kıvılcım Yavuz @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social · 9d

FAO current UK PhD students: Check out the PhD placement scheme by @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Applications for the 2026-27 scheme are open until 27 February 2026: www.bl.uk/services/res...

Something for everyone but especially #medievalsky #bookhistory #digitalhumanities

PhD placement scheme

Our annual placement scheme offers doctoral researchers from all disciplines the chance to develop and apply skills and expertise outside the university sector.

Erik Champion @erikmc.bsky.social · 9d

Very interested in the issues and challenges leading to the Chief of War tv series (which I still haven't seen) being filmed in largely in NZ not Hawaii kawaiola.news/oha/trustees...

My Thoughts on Chief of War - Ka Wai Ola

The new Apple TV+ series Chief of War starring Jason Momoa has stirred many emotions in our Hawaiian community.