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laraband.bsky.social
Lara Band
@laraband.bsky.social
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I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I think I've changed several times since then // archaeologist, likes scapes: sea, land, film, sound
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laraband.bsky.social
Maritime Archaeology! Built Heritage! Trees! All together = perfect! Nice work here from @dendrorodbale.bsky.social
dendrorodbale.bsky.social Roderick Bale @dendrorodbale.bsky.social · Sep 10
Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology
Sampling timber for tree-ring dating Dendrochronology sample Ship’s floor reused as lintel
September 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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dendrorodbale.bsky.social
Ship’s floor (oak) reused as lintel. Removed during construction work from Cambrian Place Swansea. Dendro dated to spring summer 1778 and sourced from a locally grown Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 tree! #dendrochronology #wales #archaeology
Sampling timber for tree-ring dating Dendrochronology sample Ship’s floor reused as lintel
September 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Wishing my colleagues from ButCH Sef Penrose, @laraband.bsky.social & @angelapiccini.bsky.social a fabulous Gullfest more than human art and heritage FTW www.plymouthherald.co.uk/whats-on/wha...
Plymouth to celebrate its 'majestic' seagull population
'Gullfest honours them all'
www.plymouthherald.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
laraband.bsky.social
For #LondonRiversWeek I'm sharing a photo of the Channelsea, much culverted but where it emerges is a lovely marshy spot, cared for by #SurgeCollective #BlancSceol and the site, recently, for #LeakyInstruments workshops on how we can live ethically with rivers #RiverCommons
A glimpse through the fine branches of a tree at tidal marshland with a narrow river running through it A sample tube for microbial waters lies on a printed historic map, and a piece of paper with prompts for poems on marsh mud
May 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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lesleymcf.bsky.social
Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck for the 2nd week, and the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social has brought in a new model! This one is a scaled model of The Admiralty Dockyard. Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!
Scale model of The Admiralty Dockyard and the ships it built.
May 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
laraband.bsky.social
lesleymcf.bsky.social Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social · May 12
Thames through Time is back in Birkbeck, but the MA Archaeology & Heritage student Christopher Snary @bbkhistorical.bsky.social only brought in a scaled model of the Thames historical dockyards that he has made! Archaeology and model-making, it’s important!!
Scale model of historic ships on the Thames, a working foreshore with slipways and their associated dockyard.
May 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy
Excellent piece on sonification and why we might do it https://www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/metrics-sonification-as-a-new-way-to-convey-bibliometric-data
Metrics sonification as a new way to convey bibliometric data
When it comes to making sense of data, visualizations rule. But what about translating data into sound? This blog post explores the origins of ‘data sonification’ and its many applications in science and demonstrates how even bibliometric data can be turned into sound.
www.leidenmadtrics.nl
May 6, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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artefactual.bsky.social
This is well worth a go! Have you seen it @lornarichardson.bsky.social ?
diveamydive.bsky.social Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · May 5
Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly *in* Bluesky. And here it is!

Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me?

Enter the garden.
May 6, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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tom--scott.bsky.social
The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.
chrisw100.bsky.social Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · May 2
Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales

Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
laraband.bsky.social
Super 2 days teaching building recording & talking sound w/ @bbkhistorical.bsky.social #ThamesThroughTime BA & MA fieldschool students. We all discovered much more about this GII wall than the List description! Thx so much @lesleymcf.bsky.social @drclaireharris.bsky.social for the invite!
A close up of bricks in a wall. One of the bricks has three holes in it, where someone picked up the brick while it was still wet. A grey plastic soldier tucked in a gap in brick work
April 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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lesleymcf.bsky.social
Thames through Time @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and an archaeology of sound with @laraband.bsky.social and @drclaireharris.bsky.social!
April 29, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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claireboardman.bsky.social
@lornemacleod.bsky.social
shannonmattern.bsky.social Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 21
"We’re building a biomatter-powered low-cost webserver... This design will focus on low-carbon approaches to webdesign, reducing computational load, bypassing data center architectures, and experimenting with new graphical formats and protocols to create a form of web design minimalism..."
#15: Critical Climate Computing
A brief introduction to a new research group I've co-founded at UAL for critical practice at the intersection between technological and climate crises.
wesleygoatley.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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claireboardman.bsky.social
"This database provides the locations of 575 NBS projects distributed across 55 countries."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - An open-access database of nature-based carbon offset project boundaries
www.nature.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
laraband.bsky.social
Launched Friday - World Heritage Day - the latest @citiesandmemory.bsky.social project Sonic Heritage - the sounds of #UNESCO Designated sites : citiesandmemory.com/heritage/
Sonic Heritage - the sounds of the world's most famous sights
Sonic Heritage is a global tour to examine the role sound plays in the UNESCO-listed spaces deemed the world’s most culturally significant.
citiesandmemory.com
April 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
ButCH, Bureau for the Contemporary and Historic: Investigating Arts and Heritage since 2019.
We love finding bridges
A photo of a group of women in a fallen log in a forest in early spring. The log is creating a bridge. Three women are standing, one is sitting with one foot up on the log. The ground is covered with brown leaves and mossy branches.
March 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Like Section 28 in the UK, the 'promotion' of DEI is defined as any representation of diversity, showing anything other than cis, white, straight, able bodied men. And lazy implementation takes 'don't say gay' to ridiculous new heights
March 7, 2025 at 8:28 AM
laraband.bsky.social
Yellow #DistanceDrift for spring and (nearly) St David's Day. Fun to be joining in again with @soniaoverall.bsky.social longstanding remote and communal wander, felt just the weather for it!
Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - a curve of a yellow line road marking making a rainbow with a triple row of sets and the curb: 529 sprayed in yellow on a green wheelie bin, a square plastic plate in the pavement saying GAS; yellow lichen on a green metal gate Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - catkins in the sunlight, yellow plastic blocks for weighting down temporary fencing, a daisy with a yellow center, a bright yellow dandelion Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - a yellow.sign saying BE AWARE! Thieves operate in this area; 146 written in chalk on a green lampost; yellow plastic temporary fencing by the side of a road; the shadows of a fence cast on the pavement giving a grey and yellow pattern A yellow daffodil not fully open, next to a golden crocus
March 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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soniaoverall.bsky.social
Morning! We haven't had a colour #DistanceDrift for a long while & today's proximity to St David's Day tells me it's once again time to follow yellow. Wherever you wander, indoors or out, be led by yellow objects & flashes. Share finds as you go or at the end - bonus cheers for daffodils!
March 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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claireboardman.bsky.social
Just discovered that the Scottish Wildlife Trust publish downloadable snorkel trails! #tinyjoys
scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do...
Snorkel Trails
scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
laraband.bsky.social
Well that was a great day, thinking about silence as presence and ways of 'noising', socially engaged practice and the ethics of tech plus the ASR captioning providing a theme fitting accidental aural misguide. Fantastic conversations on and of stage #ListeningTogether #CRiSAP
The cover of the symposium programme which says ual: creative research in sound arts practice - Listening Together- practices for community centred listening, in black and neon orange
February 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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pastpostcard.bsky.social
Weather great nice site we've got a sex maniac one side and a Russian spy on the other.
February 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
laraband.bsky.social
Waiting for the #CRiSAP Listening Together: Practices for Community Centred Listening symposium to start at UAL: www.arts.ac.uk/whats-on/lis... A full house and super excited chatting and laughing going on for what should be a fantastic day with a stellar line up!
Listening Together: Practices for Community-Centred Listening
www.arts.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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drmorgan.bsky.social
Thinking of a PgT qualification? Come chat to me about MSc Heritage at UoS Open Day. Innovative course, leading experts, key theoretical & practical issues (eg identity, community, museums/collections, intangible cultural heritage, nature/culture, & more!) www.stir.ac.uk/study/visit-...
Postgraduate Open Day | Study | University of Stirling
By attending our Postgraduate Open Day, you’ll be able to explore our stunning campus, learn more about our diverse range of Masters courses and PhD opportunities
www.stir.ac.uk
February 13, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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johnnythin.bsky.social
Oliver Rackham died 10 years ago today; there’s so much in these books to inform a more ecologically minded archaeology that is relevant to current conversations about landscape and nature…
Photo of two books by Oliver Rackham: ‘The History of the Countryside’ and ‘Woodlands’
February 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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lrfheritage.bsky.social
We are looking for 8 Female Harbour Pilots for a new programme: SHE_SEES HER VOICE📸
A participatory photography programme to encourage more women to share their own stories.

Get involved👉🔗https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/news/rewriting-women-into-maritime-history-enters-a-new-international-phase
February 12, 2025 at 11:10 AM