Kareina Talventytär
@kareinatalvi.bsky.social
I am lifelong scholar who never outgrew childhood, loves historical recreation (SCA), acroyoga, regular yoga, dancing, and I always have a sewing or nålbindning project in progress. I love doing geochemistry/archaeology research.
New inspiration, I want a rune boulder! A huge one! Not this one, my own.
See raa.diva-portal.org/smash/record... for source.
See raa.diva-portal.org/smash/record... for source.
October 29, 2025 at 7:41 AM
New inspiration, I want a rune boulder! A huge one! Not this one, my own.
See raa.diva-portal.org/smash/record... for source.
See raa.diva-portal.org/smash/record... for source.
I am delighted at the timing of today's Swedigarch workshop on Digital Environmental Archaeology for Early Career Researchers, as I will be both a student, learning more about the database I have just been hired to be a data steward for, and I am one of the workshop organizers.
May 15, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I am delighted at the timing of today's Swedigarch workshop on Digital Environmental Archaeology for Early Career Researchers, as I will be both a student, learning more about the database I have just been hired to be a data steward for, and I am one of the workshop organizers.
Ok, this is a very good point, and clarifies nicely why I haven't really been comfortable with AI in education.
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
May 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ok, this is a very good point, and clarifies nicely why I haven't really been comfortable with AI in education.
I had my supervisor mail the box of rock powder that I had analysed with XRD for my Master's project to a college in Germany. for XRF analysis. He just asked "do you have a list of which samples come from where?". It felt good to be able to just give him the link to the right file in Zenodo!
April 10, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I had my supervisor mail the box of rock powder that I had analysed with XRD for my Master's project to a college in Germany. for XRF analysis. He just asked "do you have a list of which samples come from where?". It felt good to be able to just give him the link to the right file in Zenodo!
Finally published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A brief introduction to how/why one can use lasers to make maps of tiny minerals in soapstone as a fingerprint to tell one quarry from another, for the archaeological provanancing of soapstone artifacts.
A brief introduction to how/why one can use lasers to make maps of tiny minerals in soapstone as a fingerprint to tell one quarry from another, for the archaeological provanancing of soapstone artifacts.
Author Services
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April 2, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Finally published! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
A brief introduction to how/why one can use lasers to make maps of tiny minerals in soapstone as a fingerprint to tell one quarry from another, for the archaeological provanancing of soapstone artifacts.
A brief introduction to how/why one can use lasers to make maps of tiny minerals in soapstone as a fingerprint to tell one quarry from another, for the archaeological provanancing of soapstone artifacts.
Some of my colleagues have put together an interesting looking webinar on creating open access educational resources:
cbs.libcal.com/calendar/ext...
cbs.libcal.com/calendar/ext...
Why is everyone talking about Open Educational Resources (OERs) and how do I get started?
Method, practice, and inspirational comfort from Umeå University Library
This webinar will explore the possibilities and pedagogical approaches when creating Open Educational...
cbs.libcal.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Some of my colleagues have put together an interesting looking webinar on creating open access educational resources:
cbs.libcal.com/calendar/ext...
cbs.libcal.com/calendar/ext...
Interesting job ad! Are you qualified for a post doc position in textile archaeology and would enjoy closely examining gypsum casts that had been made of dead people back in the 3rd and 4th centuries to learn as much as possible about the textiles the bodies had been wearing? Link in comments
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
March 20, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Interesting job ad! Are you qualified for a post doc position in textile archaeology and would enjoy closely examining gypsum casts that had been made of dead people back in the 3rd and 4th centuries to learn as much as possible about the textiles the bodies had been wearing? Link in comments
It feels like a good news week. My paper has finally* been accepted! I hope this is a good omen for tomorrow's second interview to be a research assistant at the Archaeology department at Umeå University.
March 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It feels like a good news week. My paper has finally* been accepted! I hope this is a good omen for tomorrow's second interview to be a research assistant at the Archaeology department at Umeå University.
Reading about how today's AI is really good at generating images, I decided to see if it is able to do fake LA-ICP-MS trace element maps yet, like the ones in this paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Nope. Prompt I gave it in the comments.
January 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Reading about how today's AI is really good at generating images, I decided to see if it is able to do fake LA-ICP-MS trace element maps yet, like the ones in this paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Nope. Prompt I gave it in the comments.
What a delightful illustration of the research cycle! It comes from: Fig. 8 of The Turing Way project, illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
January 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
What a delightful illustration of the research cycle! It comes from: Fig. 8 of The Turing Way project, illustration by Scriberia. Used under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3332807.
...and it is viewable!
Thesis Accepted
Your thesis, Viking Age Steatite in Sweden: Accessory Mineral Provenancing and the Biographical Approach has been accepted into Durham e-Theses.
You may view it at: etheses.dur.ac.uk/15889/
Thesis Accepted
Your thesis, Viking Age Steatite in Sweden: Accessory Mineral Provenancing and the Biographical Approach has been accepted into Durham e-Theses.
You may view it at: etheses.dur.ac.uk/15889/
Viking Age Steatite in Sweden: Accessory Mineral Provenancing and the Biographical Approach - Durham e-Theses
etheses.dur.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
...and it is viewable!
Thesis Accepted
Your thesis, Viking Age Steatite in Sweden: Accessory Mineral Provenancing and the Biographical Approach has been accepted into Durham e-Theses.
You may view it at: etheses.dur.ac.uk/15889/
Thesis Accepted
Your thesis, Viking Age Steatite in Sweden: Accessory Mineral Provenancing and the Biographical Approach has been accepted into Durham e-Theses.
You may view it at: etheses.dur.ac.uk/15889/
My thesis (MPhil, Durham University) has now been approved by the examiners, and I have just uploaded it to the University Library. Now for the wait that will seem the longest of this process: For the librarians to double check that it uploaded correctly and that it matches description I entered.
January 22, 2025 at 3:49 PM
My thesis (MPhil, Durham University) has now been approved by the examiners, and I have just uploaded it to the University Library. Now for the wait that will seem the longest of this process: For the librarians to double check that it uploaded correctly and that it matches description I entered.
If anyone wants to hear some of the highlights from my recently completed Master’s thesis on Swedish Viking Age soapstone artefacts, join me at the online Drachenwald Kingdom University event at 15:00 (Sweden time zone) on 25 January. ku-online.drachenwald.sca.org/classes/kare...
Drachenwald Kingdom University
Drachenwald Kingdom University
ku-online.drachenwald.sca.org
January 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If anyone wants to hear some of the highlights from my recently completed Master’s thesis on Swedish Viking Age soapstone artefacts, join me at the online Drachenwald Kingdom University event at 15:00 (Sweden time zone) on 25 January. ku-online.drachenwald.sca.org/classes/kare...
I am amused to see that now it is possible to learn good research data management from a game. I wonder how well this teaching method compares with traditional approaches?
marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/training-mat...
marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/training-mat...
SSHOC League of Data | Social Sciences & Humanities Open Marketplace
The SSHOC League of Data (SSHOC LoD) is a pilot gamification of the CESSDA Data Management Expert Guide® (DMEG). The game supports and motivates researchers to publish their research data by providing...
marketplace.sshopencloud.eu
January 10, 2025 at 6:17 AM
I am amused to see that now it is possible to learn good research data management from a game. I wonder how well this teaching method compares with traditional approaches?
marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/training-mat...
marketplace.sshopencloud.eu/training-mat...
I am filling in the Great Viking Survey, which includes the question "In just a few words, can you explain what a viking does?" I so enjoyed crafting my answer to this I will share it here in this thread (my "few words", while concise, are nonetheless too complete to fit in one of these boxes).
December 23, 2024 at 9:02 AM
I am filling in the Great Viking Survey, which includes the question "In just a few words, can you explain what a viking does?" I so enjoyed crafting my answer to this I will share it here in this thread (my "few words", while concise, are nonetheless too complete to fit in one of these boxes).
The joy of living with a blacksmith, is that one can have fun making a tree of useful tools and weapons that we have on hand, and turn it into a holiday card.
December 17, 2024 at 6:12 PM
The joy of living with a blacksmith, is that one can have fun making a tree of useful tools and weapons that we have on hand, and turn it into a holiday card.
Celebrating my birthday by uploading my thesis and list of corrections made since passing my viva to the university post graduate admin office.
December 10, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Celebrating my birthday by uploading my thesis and list of corrections made since passing my viva to the university post graduate admin office.
I think I have just finished the last of my thesis content corrections. Now it is "just" fixing the formatting and layout and page numbers for the thesis itself and all of the appendices before giving it a final read through.
December 3, 2024 at 1:50 PM
I think I have just finished the last of my thesis content corrections. Now it is "just" fixing the formatting and layout and page numbers for the thesis itself and all of the appendices before giving it a final read through.
One nice advantage of having used Scrivener's "Insert Image Linked to File" feature is that now, when I need to compile a nice, organised set of folders of my thesis figures to upload to Zenodo I can easily find them.
(See comments for my work-flow)
(See comments for my work-flow)
December 1, 2024 at 7:31 AM
One nice advantage of having used Scrivener's "Insert Image Linked to File" feature is that now, when I need to compile a nice, organised set of folders of my thesis figures to upload to Zenodo I can easily find them.
(See comments for my work-flow)
(See comments for my work-flow)
It is a fascinating contrast between my day-job, wherein I help researchers get started writing their Data Managment Plans (DMP) for their newly funded research project, and my evenings, wishing that I had heard of DMP years ago,when I started my the research for this thesis I am finishing up.
November 29, 2024 at 7:53 PM
It is a fascinating contrast between my day-job, wherein I help researchers get started writing their Data Managment Plans (DMP) for their newly funded research project, and my evenings, wishing that I had heard of DMP years ago,when I started my the research for this thesis I am finishing up.
I am delighted that a paper I have co-authored is now published.
tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...
tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...
Årg. 36 Nr. 1 (2024): By, marsk og geest - Kulturhistorisk tidsskrift for Sydvestjylland
| By, marsk og geest - Kulturhistorisk tidsskrift for Sydvestjylland
tidsskrift.dk
November 28, 2024 at 11:11 AM
I am delighted that a paper I have co-authored is now published.
tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...
tidsskrift.dk/BMG/issue/vi...
The advantage of having had an unusually long time between submitting my thesis and doing the Viva is that now that I am working on them, I am actually enjoying doing the corrections and seriously considering applying for funding for more research in this field.
November 27, 2024 at 7:04 AM
The advantage of having had an unusually long time between submitting my thesis and doing the Viva is that now that I am working on them, I am actually enjoying doing the corrections and seriously considering applying for funding for more research in this field.
An upside to my current job: reading about fascinating research that just got funded at our uni, so I can help the researchers get their data management plans started. The downside? I now know way more about how ticks infect people and animals with deadly diseases than I am comfortable knowing. Eww!
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 AM
An upside to my current job: reading about fascinating research that just got funded at our uni, so I can help the researchers get their data management plans started. The downside? I now know way more about how ticks infect people and animals with deadly diseases than I am comfortable knowing. Eww!
I had a wonderful time at Glötta Gillet in Gyllengran this weekend. Would have preferred not to need to most of the driving on the way home though.
November 24, 2024 at 7:24 PM
I had a wonderful time at Glötta Gillet in Gyllengran this weekend. Would have preferred not to need to most of the driving on the way home though.
The background photo I just uploaded is of a pretty, very folded, metamorphic rock in the wall of the ruins of Ramundeboda kryka, which we visited on 2024-11-08, on our way to Drachenwald Kingdom University , hosted by the Barony of Gotvik.
November 22, 2024 at 2:36 PM
The background photo I just uploaded is of a pretty, very folded, metamorphic rock in the wall of the ruins of Ramundeboda kryka, which we visited on 2024-11-08, on our way to Drachenwald Kingdom University , hosted by the Barony of Gotvik.