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Deborah Priß
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Network Archaeologist - Geoarchaeologist - Computational Archaeologist

Cat mum with too many hobbies - traveller
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Deborah Priß @deborahpriss.bsky.social · Jul 9
Finally #PhDone! It's Dr Debbie now 👩‍🎓

Although I already passed my viva in January, yesterday's ceremony marked the end of an era and the point where it became real.

#DurhamUniversity #durhamcathedral #geography #archaeology #congregation

@geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social
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andybrockman.bsky.social
The last word on Erich von Däniken should be from the great science communicator, Carl Sagan who wrote,

"That writing as careless as Däniken's, whose principal thesis is that our ancestors were dummies, should be so popular is a sober commentary on the credulousness and despair of our times."
January 11, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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nicosemsrott.de
So viele stabile Leute überall! 😍

Seit heute gibt es @pruef-demos.de in 3 Bundesländern! Trotz des Wetters waren wir 1000e in Hamburg, München und Düsseldorf.

Und nächsten Monat werden wir noch mehr! Dann auch in Berlin und Stuttgart! #pruef
Demo in Düsseldorf fordert Prüfung von rechtsextremen Parteien
In Düsseldorf haben am Samstag rund 2.000 Menschen gegen Parteien am rechten Rand demonstriert.
www1.wdr.de
January 10, 2026 at 2:28 PM
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anestudieswue.bsky.social
🏺📣 Einladung zum Vortrag: „Der Puls der Stadt - Neue Untersuchungen in Uruk (Irak) als Bausteine zur Rekonstruktion antiker städtischer Lebenswelt in Südmesopotamien“

🗓️ 15.01.2026 | ⏰ 16:15 Uhr
🎙️ Simone Mühl
@dai-weltweit.bsky.social

www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/altorientali...
January 8, 2026 at 11:07 AM
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bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social
Lucknow: Kebabs, biryani and much more in Indian city on Unesco culinary list
Lucknow: Kebabs, biryani and much more in Indian city on Unesco culinary list
Lucknow recently joined a select list of global cities recognised for their fine food.
www.bbc.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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petersuber.bsky.social
Surprise: "Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have."
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

#AcadSky #AcademicSky #Assessment #ScientificPublishing #SocialScience
@academic-chatter.bsky.social
Social Scientists: Policy Impact Undervalued by Universities
Researchers believe their institution values publication in highly cited journals more than any real-world impact their work might have, a new Sage survey finds.
www.insidehighered.com
December 13, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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phdcomics.com
Publication charges
December 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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kylewalker.bsky.social
The world's time zones visualized on a spinnable, interactive globe.

Try out the code - it'll default to your current time zone and show you times around the world!

#30DayMapChallenge Day 27: Boundaries

Code: gist.github.com/walkerke/c4a...
November 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Well this is rather delicious from @emilylawford.bsky.social on being mansplained to about the roots of sexism by the Revolutionary Communist Party
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
"I don't know if you've heard of the beginning of the oppression of women," he began. I said I hadn't. This delighted him. "In the early days, as Engels said, everyone 'lived frivolously' - everyone fucked." He looked wistful. "It was only with the start of class society we started producing a surplus, and men wanted to pass their surplus on to their children. So they couldn't let women sleep around." It all came down to who's inheriting your wealth. "You have to know your children are yours." He shook his head. "It blew my mind." The idea that class is the root of sexism - as opposed to, say, I don't know, men - is the sort of thing revolutionary communists like.
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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asls.org.uk
Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he
that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels
o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels
through endless versions o reality…

—James Robertson, “Doctor Wha”
in WHERE ROCKETS BURN THROUGH (2012) , ed @russjoneswrites.bsky.social
A #poem for #DoctorWhoDay
Doctor Wha by James Robertson Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he that jouks the yetts and rides the birlin wheels o time and space, shape-shiftin as he reels through endless versions o reality? Bit dis he ken himsel? Weel, mibbe sae, yet wha’s tae ken gin aw that’s kent by Wha maks mair or less or better sense ava nor whit we ithers ken, or think we dae? The universe is fou o parallels: wha’s like us? Hunners? Thoosans? We oorsels micht be mere glisks o life-forms yet tae be. Whit’s real? Whaur’s here? When’s noo? Wha’s quick or deid? Wha’s jist a thochtie in anither’s heid? Wha’s Doctor Wha? Wha better kens nor he?
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Ea-Nașir: Nabû-zeru-iddin enters the game.
moudhy.bsky.social Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Nov 21
Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey.

It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.
Photo of a map of the ancient city of Assur with a section in the middle zoomed in on in a separate box in the bottom right corner. The zoomed in part shows the plan of the house for a goldsmith archive
November 21, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
lmao France
Europe’s English skills
November 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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heimbergecon.bsky.social
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
Archaeologists have unearthed a Bronze Age metropolis in the heart of the Eurasian steppe: an early form of city as complex as those of contemporary, more traditionally 'urban' civilisations, showing how steppe polities were just as sophisticated.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

🏺 #Archaeology
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Those wonderful sheep-counting words from the North of England.
#language #dialect
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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archaeofer.bsky.social
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Our article, co-authored with Matteo Rossi, “Modelling Economic and Human Mobility in the Landscapes of Monti Lucretili, Lazio, Italy: a Microregional Approach over the Longue Durée” has just been published in Acta Archaeologica @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1163/1600...
November 12, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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tjohnwainwright.bsky.social
Delighted that our paper led by Deborah Priß "The social behind the physical" on connectivity of Bronze and Iron Age societies is now out in Journal of Archaeological Science. It's available Open Access at authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 PM
deborahpriss.bsky.social
New paper out! 🥳

We use MCMC-MLE Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models (MTERGMs) to assess which network patterns and social processes explain the formation of the ancient hollow ways.

Read the full open access paper here:

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

#Archaeology #NetworkScience
The social behind the physical - Assessing tie formation processes of ancient route systems
Analysing and understanding connectivity of human social networks of (ancient) societies offers new perspectives on their functioning. However, social…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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ruhrmuseum.bsky.social
Ob Mineral, Stein oder Fossil – Beim Bestimmungstag im #Schaudepot erfährst du endlich, was hinter deinen Fundstücken steckt. Unsere Expert:innen verraten dir morgen ab 17 Uhr, ob dein Schatz wertvoll oder wunderschön ist. www.ruhrmuseum.de/veranstaltun...
Zwei Kinder betrachten eine geöffnete Schublade mit sorgfältig arrangierten Mineral- und Gesteinsproben im Schaudepot des Ruhr Museums. Die Proben sind auf kleinen Plattformen mit beschrifteten Etiketten ausgestellt. Ein Kind zeigt auf ein großes, rosafarbenes Mineral, während das andere aufmerksam die Sammlung beobachtet. Die Szene vermittelt Neugier und Lernfreude in einer wissenschaftlichen Umgebung
November 4, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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jwhoopes2.bsky.social
Know the difference. 😉
November 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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lorentzcenter.bsky.social
Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package.
bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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antiquity.ac.uk
📰 In a "once-in-a-generation" find, archaeologists have discovered a new section of Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh, ~10 miles (16km) from Carlisle

#ArchaeologyNews via the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hadrian's Wall section discovered in Drumburgh dig
Volunteers uncover a section of Hadrian's Wall at Drumburgh, near Carlisle.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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cfeagans.bsky.social
What a Zoom call might have been like in 1878. The telephone and the phonograph were recent inventions at this time, so George du Maurier imagined this is what Edison might have invented next. A sort of "Victorian Zoom." The Telephonoscope!
October 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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richardcarr.bsky.social
AJP Taylor: not a referencing guy
Extract from Taylor’s Course of German History: “It will be apparent. no doubt, to the reader that I have written this book by lifting facts from a great many other books and, from a few, even ideas. The American method, in such cases, is to list all the books that have been pilfered; I prefer the English method of mentioning none. If the reader does not accept my credentials, he will not be induced to do so by a display of the sources from which my plumes are borrowed.”
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
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September 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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osteoconnor.bsky.social
Elsevier showing what they think of the academic community.
August 19, 2025 at 7:55 AM