Nicola Lercari
@nicolalercari.bsky.social
Digital heritage specialist, football (soccer) fan and Doodle owner
Today, we’re launching our new #DigitalHeritage guest speaker series @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #AcademicSky with my talk on investigating invisible ancient cities with #remotesensing and #AI www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...
Remote Sensing and AI Approaches for Investigating the Invisible Poleis of Heloros and Kamarina, Sicily
Within the LMU Munich’s Digital Heritage Research Colloquium Public Lectures Series
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November 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Today, we’re launching our new #DigitalHeritage guest speaker series @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #AcademicSky with my talk on investigating invisible ancient cities with #remotesensing and #AI www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...
Just finished reading news on Trump’s speech trying to persuade generals and admirals to embrace his radical ideology edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p.... Americans shall not forget the #KentStateMassacre and what happens when the military is used to suppress speech and dissent at university’s campuses
October 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Just finished reading news on Trump’s speech trying to persuade generals and admirals to embrace his radical ideology edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p.... Americans shall not forget the #KentStateMassacre and what happens when the military is used to suppress speech and dissent at university’s campuses
#AcademicSky I've just finished presenting the paper Sun Stones Chronicles: Enriching the
Bornholms Museum Brightest Artifact Collection through 3D Scanning and Semantic Web Technologies at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena. Many thanks to the Beckett Foundation for supporting our research
Bornholms Museum Brightest Artifact Collection through 3D Scanning and Semantic Web Technologies at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena. Many thanks to the Beckett Foundation for supporting our research
September 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#AcademicSky I've just finished presenting the paper Sun Stones Chronicles: Enriching the
Bornholms Museum Brightest Artifact Collection through 3D Scanning and Semantic Web Technologies at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena. Many thanks to the Beckett Foundation for supporting our research
Bornholms Museum Brightest Artifact Collection through 3D Scanning and Semantic Web Technologies at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena. Many thanks to the Beckett Foundation for supporting our research
What a great panel @ #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena! With colleagues Maria Economou, Angeliki Chrisanti, Erik Champion, Angela Antoniou, and Stella Sylaiou we discussed #GenerativeAI and the #NarrativeTurn in #DigitalHeritage education. The highlight our pre-session in Piazza del Campo 😊 #AcademicSky
September 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
What a great panel @ #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena! With colleagues Maria Economou, Angeliki Chrisanti, Erik Champion, Angela Antoniou, and Stella Sylaiou we discussed #GenerativeAI and the #NarrativeTurn in #DigitalHeritage education. The highlight our pre-session in Piazza del Campo 😊 #AcademicSky
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San Francisco came within a single vote of saving the Embarcadero Freeway from demolition.
September 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
San Francisco came within a single vote of saving the Embarcadero Freeway from demolition.
#AcademicSky The first week of our international workshop on #DigitalPhotogrammetry funded by the #DAAD Ta’ziz short-term measures program has united an international cohort of students and staff from LMU Munich, Alexandria University (Egypt), Fayoum University (Egypt), and the University of Jordan
DAAD-funded International Training in Digital Imaging
The International Training in Digital Imaging Techniques for Cultural Heritage and Archaeology in Jordan and Egypt has officially commenced in Munich.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
#AcademicSky The first week of our international workshop on #DigitalPhotogrammetry funded by the #DAAD Ta’ziz short-term measures program has united an international cohort of students and staff from LMU Munich, Alexandria University (Egypt), Fayoum University (Egypt), and the University of Jordan
I’m proud of my PhD student Yiming DU for presenting the wonderful paper “StatueDiff: Regionally Enhanced Cross-Scale Diffusion for Single-View 3D Reconstruction of Classical Statues at #CIPA2025Seoul #AcademicSky
August 26, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I’m proud of my PhD student Yiming DU for presenting the wonderful paper “StatueDiff: Regionally Enhanced Cross-Scale Diffusion for Single-View 3D Reconstruction of Classical Statues at #CIPA2025Seoul #AcademicSky
#AcademicSky It’s my pleasure to attend a keynote given by my former PI Maurizio Forte at #CIPA2025 conference in Seoul. Vai Maurizio!!!
August 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
#AcademicSky It’s my pleasure to attend a keynote given by my former PI Maurizio Forte at #CIPA2025 conference in Seoul. Vai Maurizio!!!
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August 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Another news of a blackmailing attempt against #UCLA, one of the top public universities in the world. How humiliating is it for a country owing its wealth also to science and research to destroy its higher education system from within? Don’t give in #UCLAStrong www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Another news of a blackmailing attempt against #UCLA, one of the top public universities in the world. How humiliating is it for a country owing its wealth also to science and research to destroy its higher education system from within? Don’t give in #UCLAStrong www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
I just read this article about Japan being stuck in the past with fax machine and ink stamp. How funny is it that I found so many similarities with Germany where I had to learn how to use a stamp to do university business? edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/a...
Japan used to be a tech giant. Why is it stuck with fax machines and ink stamps? | CNN
When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with int...
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August 11, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I just read this article about Japan being stuck in the past with fax machine and ink stamp. How funny is it that I found so many similarities with Germany where I had to learn how to use a stamp to do university business? edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/a...
We’re hiring a postdoc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social in #AI & #ML applications in #HeritageScience for 3+3 years www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42.... Do you know anyone interested?
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München hiring Postdoctoral Researcher (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) in AI and Machine Learning Applications in Heritage Science and Archaeology in Munich, Bavaria, German...
Posted 1:20:37 PM. About us:As one of Europe’s leading research universities, LMU Munich (LMU) is committed to the…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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July 22, 2025 at 6:36 PM
We’re hiring a postdoc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social in #AI & #ML applications in #HeritageScience for 3+3 years www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42.... Do you know anyone interested?
Reading Susan Schneider’s analogy between #LLMs using adaptive language and the 2013 movie #Her. She say chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions nautil.us/ai-already-k...
AI Already Knows Us Too Well
Chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions
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July 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Reading Susan Schneider’s analogy between #LLMs using adaptive language and the 2013 movie #Her. She say chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions nautil.us/ai-already-k...
#AcademicSky Did you know that #DPLA launched #TheBannedBookClub to ensure all readers have access tot the books they want to read despite their authoritarian government’s restrictions? America one more resource for you in case things get rougher… dp.la/news/the-ban...
The Banned Book Club now available nationwide
Readers across the country can now access banned books for free via the Palace app Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and our partners at Lyrasis have made over 1,300 titles that have been remov...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#AcademicSky Did you know that #DPLA launched #TheBannedBookClub to ensure all readers have access tot the books they want to read despite their authoritarian government’s restrictions? America one more resource for you in case things get rougher… dp.la/news/the-ban...
#AcademicSky I’ve been coming across more and more papers related to #digitalheritage, #digitalarchaeology, and #digitalhumanities being published on arxiv.org as open-access preprints. Is anyone in these fields using it? What’s your perception of arXiv or other open review repositories?
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July 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
#AcademicSky I’ve been coming across more and more papers related to #digitalheritage, #digitalarchaeology, and #digitalhumanities being published on arxiv.org as open-access preprints. Is anyone in these fields using it? What’s your perception of arXiv or other open review repositories?
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I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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June 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
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June 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Skills you need to see results in your research career
Research careers are, for obvious reasons, extremely varied. However, there are a number of skills that all researchers, regardless of their industry or path, should consider learning.
Skills you need to see results in your research career
Research careers are, for obvious reasons, extremely varied. However, there are a number of skills that all researchers, regardless of their industry or path, should consider learning.
Skills you need to see results in your research career
If you want to ensure a long and varied career in the research space, these are the skills you should add to your repertoire.
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June 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
🔬 #AcademicSky ▫️ #AcademicChatter ▫️ #Research ▫️ #Career 🔬
Skills you need to see results in your research career
Research careers are, for obvious reasons, extremely varied. However, there are a number of skills that all researchers, regardless of their industry or path, should consider learning.
Skills you need to see results in your research career
Research careers are, for obvious reasons, extremely varied. However, there are a number of skills that all researchers, regardless of their industry or path, should consider learning.
Do you struggle to recruit postdocs #highered #AcademicSky. I failed 2 searches when candidates who were offered the job declined it due to family reasons… are early scholars disillusioned or am I just missing something? Our institute is at an R1-equivalent university in a top German city (Munich)
June 13, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Do you struggle to recruit postdocs #highered #AcademicSky. I failed 2 searches when candidates who were offered the job declined it due to family reasons… are early scholars disillusioned or am I just missing something? Our institute is at an R1-equivalent university in a top German city (Munich)
I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (Munich) today with my students. A powerful, sobering experience. While reflecting on the horrors of the Holocaust, I was struck by today’s echoes of the 1930s: rising authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism. So much to unpack, still processing…
June 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site (Munich) today with my students. A powerful, sobering experience. While reflecting on the horrors of the Holocaust, I was struck by today’s echoes of the 1930s: rising authoritarianism, anti-intellectualism. So much to unpack, still processing…
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Ice core samples from Greenland indicate a similar eruption caused famines during the 3rd millennium BC.
Neolithic farmers from Bornholm, Denmark, may have ritually 'sacrificed' engraved sun stones to bring back the darkened sun 2/2
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Neolithic farmers from Bornholm, Denmark, may have ritually 'sacrificed' engraved sun stones to bring back the darkened sun 2/2
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June 6, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Ice core samples from Greenland indicate a similar eruption caused famines during the 3rd millennium BC.
Neolithic farmers from Bornholm, Denmark, may have ritually 'sacrificed' engraved sun stones to bring back the darkened sun 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Neolithic farmers from Bornholm, Denmark, may have ritually 'sacrificed' engraved sun stones to bring back the darkened sun 2/2
🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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"But commercial success in these areas grew out of basic research ... in universities, funded by the federal government. With a bottom line to consider, for-profit businesses likely would not have started these disciplines from scratch."
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America is ceding the lead in creating the future
The renowned American management consultant and author Peter Drucker is often credited as saying that “the best way to predict the future is to create it”—a view that applies to science as much as to ...
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June 6, 2025 at 6:53 AM
"But commercial success in these areas grew out of basic research ... in universities, funded by the federal government. With a bottom line to consider, for-profit businesses likely would not have started these disciplines from scratch."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
Shame! Should proclamations and policies made by ignorants decide if a university’s “…conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers…” ? edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/u...
Trump signs proclamation to suspend visas for new Harvard international students | CNN
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation to suspend international visas for new students at Harvard University, the White House announced Wednesday, in a dramatic escalation of its efforts to bloc...
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June 5, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Shame! Should proclamations and policies made by ignorants decide if a university’s “…conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers…” ? edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/u...
We congratulate all 19 participants of the 2025 LMU #WinterSchoolMDH on their successful completion of the program. Certificates of participation have been sent.
Congratulations once again, and thank you for being a part of the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social LMU community! www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...
Congratulations once again, and thank you for being a part of the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social LMU community! www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...
Winter School Methods in Digital Heritage 2025 – Program Concluded, Connections Continue
We congratulate all 19 participants of the 2025 LMU Winter School Methods in Digital Heritage (MDH) on their successful completion of assignments and handing-over of their certificates.
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June 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
We congratulate all 19 participants of the 2025 LMU #WinterSchoolMDH on their successful completion of the program. Certificates of participation have been sent.
Congratulations once again, and thank you for being a part of the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social LMU community! www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...
Congratulations once again, and thank you for being a part of the @lmumuenchen.bsky.social LMU community! www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...