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David Stott
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Paleotopographer. Asking how people changed landscapes and landscapes changed people.

GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.

Tinkerer.

Glaswegian in Jutland.

Archaeologist at Moesgaard Museum. Personal account. All views my own etc. .. more

History 18%
Political science 15%
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There's enough of us now to do one of these!

go.bsky.app/M9FwG2K

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Today is Quartidi the 4th of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate medlar.#JacobinDay

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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.

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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

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Landscape of the Early Bronze Age miners..⛏️

Driving home through Cwmystwyth valley yesterday in mid Wales, below the EBA mine on Copa Hill (out of picture, above right) it never fails to impress how a few true geniuses 4500 years ago managed to spot ores in these bleak hills

Incredible🤯

📷 My own
NEW: If you have *any* interest in the Nathan Gill story, you need to look at this.

We’ve put all the dates into a timeline & it’s incredibly revealing.
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www.thenerve.news/p/nathan-gil...
Reform UK and Russian bribes: a Nathan Gill timeline
As Reform’s former leader in Wales is sentenced to ten and a half years for taking bribes from a pro-Russian actor, here's a chronology of his actions and the wider context of Putin, Ukraine and Brexi...
www.thenerve.news
Today is Duodi the 2nd of Frimaire in the year 234.
Frimaire is the month of frost.
Today we celebrate cattle turnips.#JacobinDay

More information on cattle turnips

Nice. Thanks!

Should be a yawning maw of an open goal for labour as well, but I suspect that they won't do much to capitalise on it because they are abjectly incompetent and afraid of taking a stand on anything.

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By request, here's a thread of books that I think make excellent gifts this holiday season (obviously they're cartographically inclined, you know me)

1. Best anthology
"All Over the Map" by Betsy Mason and Greg Miller
A gorgeous, full color history of maps mind-bending maps from around the world.

One or two would be much appreciated

Late for both #gischat and the UK / Ireland version of #worldbookday, but what GIS related books would you recommend?

First on my list would always be How to Lie With Maps. It's essential reading for avoiding cartographic blunders and being able to review other people's maps and #dataviz

Which books about maps though?
this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

30cm subsidence a year.

Yikes.
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com

A friend built one of these: www.nerdygurdy.nl/product/ng-l...

It sounds surprisingly good.
NG Linotte v2 kit – Nerdy Gurdy
www.nerdygurdy.nl

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One of my metallographies of #Bronzeage artefacts also impressed a jury panel. Third place in the Danish National Research Foundation's photo competition.
Hun læser fortiden i krystallerne - Danmarks Grundforskningsfond
Marie Wrobel har vundet tredjepladsen i DG's fotokonkurrence 2025 med et foto, der kan fortælle os en hel del om håndværk, teknologi og samfund i bronzealderen.
dg.dk

🎉 A big congrats to Luka Civa, @ucph.bsky.social, Marie Odgaard, @au.dk and Heide Wrobel Nørgaard, the winners of the DNRF Photo Competition 2025!
They will be celebrated today at our annual meeting in CPH. 📸✨
More about the winners👉https://dg.dk/en/the-winners-of-the-dnrf-photo-competition-2025/

*Bōtīc Bōtfǣcesson

Bōtīc Bōtfǣce?
Coolaste nyckelbrickan på Gotland (kanske Sverige?)

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🎉 A big congrats to Luka Civa, @ucph.bsky.social, Marie Odgaard, @au.dk and Heide Wrobel Nørgaard, the winners of the DNRF Photo Competition 2025!
They will be celebrated today at our annual meeting in CPH. 📸✨
More about the winners👉https://dg.dk/en/the-winners-of-the-dnrf-photo-competition-2025/
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share

This drives me bananas. Also when they want a specific North arrow or scale bar that isn't available in free software
"Sapiens" is basically an indictment of the whole concept of the "thought leader," a guy with academic credentials who sounds smart and underpays graduate students to (poorly) do the research that he slaps his name on and publishes.
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com

I've been looking forward to this one.
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
Episode 46: Sapiens

It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com