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Erik Champion
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Digital heritage, serious games, and digital inhumanities. 3D or not 3D. Usually based in Oceania but on land. https://erikchampion.wordpress.com/
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“When AI is asked to show daily life in the deep past, does it reflect modern science or outdated ideas?” Matthew Magnani reveals how many AI depictions of Neanderthals rely on outdated assumptions, reinforcing old stereotypes instead of current research.
www.thebrighterside.news/post/new-stu...
New study finds AI depictions of Neanderthals are outdated and wrong
New research shows AI often depicts Neanderthals using outdated science, raising concerns about bias and misinformation.
www.thebrighterside.news
February 13, 2026 at 4:01 PM
I wonder if this can be 3D printed...
February 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
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The Romans loved their plumbing, and built large, underground cisterns in many settlements to provide water storage and distribution. These examples were excavated at the Hellenistic-Roman town Darazya, on the northern coast of Egypt.

🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
February 13, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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📢 EADH 2026 DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Good news to anyone who still hasn't prepared their submission.
📆 The new deadline is 27th February 2026, 23:59 AoE
❗There will be no further extensions
We are waiting for your proposals!
#EADH2026 #DH #DigitalHumanities
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl/cfp
Call for Papers - EADH 2026 - Jagiellońskie Centrum Humanistyki Cyfrowej
eadh2026.confer.uj.edu.pl
February 4, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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Digitization in countries beyond Europe and North America is often a fine balance between standards and realities on the ground.

Several institutions provide digitization guidelines (and grants) that have been developed for projects in such locations.

Here I point to some:
February 6, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Are you an archaeologist or heritage professional concerned with the increasing use of pseudoarchaeology to erode faith in expert opinion, rewrite history, or prop up supremacist ideologies?

This Call for Papers is for you!

Join us at the @can-arch.bsky.social 2026 conference!

Link in the reply.
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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"As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts" www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 9, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Thoughtful article: 'the question “is AI good or bad for learning?” is the wrong one. The right question, they suggest, is this. When does ease enable deeper learning, and when is ease a shortcut with a hidden cost?'
NEW on Wonkhe: Jim Dickinson explores the growing evidence that AI isn't just changing what students produce – it's changing what their brains are ready to do, and asks whether HE can redesign itself around a question it has been avoiding for decades buff.ly/uHtisNU
February 9, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Out of cite, out of mind?
February 9, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Russell Crowe is such a disciplined character actor. Putting on more weight for every role going forward.
February 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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!
February 8, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Morrison govt linked to bad policy? As if nobody could see that coming...
February 8, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Read all of the comments in this incredible thread.
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 8, 2026 at 10:20 AM
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
February 8, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Far out! No, literally..
February 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
A cosplay Muppet academic pre-conference is a terrific warmup event before the real or unreal thing..
February 8, 2026 at 5:37 PM
He hated it apparently. It is a rare sport where one can play for five days without winning at the end.
February 7, 2026 at 7:12 PM
You want MORE republicans!?
February 7, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Joi Ito just can't catch a break.. good speaker for what it is worth..
February 7, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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.
February 7, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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.”
February 7, 2026 at 3:59 PM
He spoke briefly Epic? I'm not sure that is what he meant...
February 7, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Cricket? Or book edit proofing line by line?
February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM