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Aoife Daly
@dendro-aoife.bsky.social
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Dendroarchaeology, shipwreck archaeology. I'm Irish & Danish. TIMBER
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dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Gonna be in Belfast this weekend
"Measuring Tree Rings - Mapping Journeys"
ulster-archaeology.bsky.social Ulster Archaeological Society @ulster-archaeology.bsky.social · 11d
The 9th annual CCA and UAS Discovery 2025! Conference is *this* weekend, Friday 7th and Saturday 8th November at Elmwood Bldg QUB and online. Go to www.qub.ac.uk/sites/uas/Co... to purchase your ticket now!
-£20/regular
-£10 student
-£5 online

We hope to see you there!
November 4, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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aidanosullivan.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/aCnDu...
31 October 2025
YouTube video by UCD - University College Dublin
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October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social
Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Sunrise. Off to Eurodendro in Riga.
Sunrise. The sun just before it broke the horizon, over a flat danish landscape. Orange clouds.
September 15, 2025 at 6:04 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
And Fox lies.

It says "fully depreciated" you evil fucks!
Fox writes that, under the photo of Epstein with a fake check, it reads "fully dedicated". Fox are liars.
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Here is my contribution to #superseabirdsunday
Seagull on a wall, photographed in Naples last year. The city of Naples is out of focus in the background.
September 7, 2025 at 7:09 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Yes, alot of this rings true, unfortunately 👇🏻
benpatrickwill.bsky.social Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 7, 2025 at 7:02 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Just a little reminder. Our Special Issue 'Dendrochronology and Knowledge of the Human Past'. Several papers online, and more being reviewed. But we decided to extend the paper submission deadline to the end of the year. Looking forward to your paper (detail from Ringsaker, photo: Aoife Daly).
Close-up view of one of the sculpture components from an altarpiece at Ringsaker Church, Norway. The carved surface also has a guild stamp, in the form of a hand, known from 17th century works from Antwerp.
September 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Hear hear
archasa.bsky.social Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D @archasa.bsky.social · Sep 2
Bloody outlook thinks I don't know how to start a reply to an email. YouTube is trying to suggest what to comment. WhatsApp inserting an AI prompt I barely can avoid clicking on.
I want a law no AI feature can be added without my consent. I feel violated!
a man with a mustache and a striped shirt is saying `` i hate everything '' .
Alt: My spirit animal Ron Swanson stating "I hate everything'' and running away.
media.tenor.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
It never ends. Last night three local Texas activists, along with a Democratic leader, gathered at the Texas Capitol to show support for Rep Nicole Collier. Collier who had refused to sign a GOP-mandated “permission slip” requiring a Department of Public Safety escort and instead staged an overnight
August 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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iufro.bsky.social
🌳Timber and wooden cultural heritage, forest history, dendrochronology, forest and wood education - all this and more will be covered in the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026; 📍Klagenfurt, Austria

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at

#ForestScience #dendrochronology
July 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Strands #483
“Hue are my sunshine”
🟡🟠🟣🔴
🟢🔵🏳️‍🌈
June 29, 2025 at 5:05 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Latest paper out today, open access
doi.org/10.1080/0029...
A Revision of the Dendrochronological Date of the Grønhaug Ship – and its Methodological and Interpretational Implications. By Aoife Daly, Justin J.L. Kimball & Jan Bill. The doi link brings you to the article where there is also an audio link.
June 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com
June 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Jun 18
Vice-President JD Vance confirms he has joined BlueSky.

@jd-vance-1.bsky.social
JD Vance V @JDVance Just set up my page on @bluesky, hope to see you guys there! un valive @jd-vance-1.bsky.social Follow Hello Bluesky, I've been told this app has become the place to go for common sense political discussion and analysis. So I'm thrilled to be here to engage with all of you. States" supports this position). The implication of these arguments is that courts should defer to so-called expert con- There are several problems with appealing and deferring to the authority of the expert class. First, so-called experts have no license to countermand the "wisdom, fairness, or logic of legislative choices." FCC v. Beach Communications, Inc., 508 U. S. 307, 313 (1993). Second, contrary to the representations of the United States and the private plaintiffs there is no medical consensus on how best to treat gender dysphoria in children. Third, notwithstanding the alleged experts' view that young children can provide informed consent to irreversible sex-transition treatments, whether such consent is possible is a question of medical ethics that States must decide for themselves. Fourth, there are particularly good reasons to question the expert class here, as recent revelations suggest that leading voices in this area have relied on questionable evidence, and have allowed ide-logy to influence their medical guidand Taken together, this case serves as a useful reminder that the American people and their representatives are en- JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 47s To that end, I found Justice Thomas's concurrence on medical care for transgender youth quite illuminating. He argues that many of our so-called "experts" have used bad arguments anc substandard science to push experimental therapies on our youth. JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social • 46s I might add that many of those scientists are receiving substantial resources from big pharma to push these medicines on kids. What do you think?
June 18, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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mjmimages.bsky.social
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 85 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or, today, a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Andry José Hernández Romero
June 8, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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rostaylor.bsky.social
Lots of things I like about freelancing, but having to explain that I don’t get a paycheque every month and therefore can’t do things for free is not one of them.

Freelancers have no sick leave, no paid holidays and no benefits, and if we do something for free it means less time to earn in.
June 3, 2025 at 6:09 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
In 2022, Marta, Kristof and I started a tradition, gathering researchers of wooden cultural heritage for a hugely successful conference in Amsterdam, From Forests to Heritage. FF2H continued with a second meeting in Helsinki 2024.
now this: From Forest to Heritage 3 will be in Austria 🏺🌳💍
iufro.bsky.social International Union of Forest Research Organizations - IUFRO @iufro.bsky.social · May 26
🌳Timber and wooden cultural heritage, forest history, dendrochronology, forest and wood education - all this and more will be covered in the conference:

🌲From Forest to Heritage III
🗓️19-22 May 2026;📍Klagenfurt, Austria

➡️ www.from-forest-to-heritage.dendro.at

#ForestScience #ForestResearch
May 28, 2025 at 10:13 AM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
It's gonna be a very long but rewarding day for you Ronald.
Only 4 more sleeps!
See you Monday morning!
May 22, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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rufusgifford.bsky.social
So in a two hour call he got a commitment from Putin to begin negotiations to negotiate a ceasefire to lead to a negotiation to end the war.

Translation: Putin gave him nothing and continues to play Trump like a fiddle.
May 19, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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thegodpodcast.com
Thou shalt not claim to be a Christian whilst planning a reality show where you torture immigrants.
I Can’t Be Silent About This
How dare they call themselves followers of Jesus?
www.thegodpodcast.com
May 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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ronaldvisser.bsky.social
On Monday May 26 we will host a small symposium on current issues in #dendrochronology and #archaeology with many great speakers:
www.archonline.nl/may-2025/tre...
May 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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irishlittimes.bsky.social
For international followers celebrating Mother's Day today
Seamus Heaney ‘s poem in memory of his mother #seamusheaney #MothersDay
May 11, 2025 at 8:05 PM
dendro-aoife.bsky.social
Important piece
Habeas Corpus Is on Death Row
Stephen Miller plans to kill habeas corpus; giving Trump the power to jail critics, to jail anyone, indefinitely. They did it to me; you’re next.
open.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 5:29 AM