Dr Hannah Pethen
@hannahpethen.bsky.social
I am an archaeologist working with GIS, satellite imagery and digital humanities. www.hannahpethen.com
So near and yet so far.
August 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
So near and yet so far.
Got my birthday present. Ssssh nobody tell Ridley Scott!
August 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Got my birthday present. Ssssh nobody tell Ridley Scott!
When is the British Media going to wake up to the absolute scandal of an entire carriageway of the M20 coned-off for miles, forcing a contraflow, for post Brexit freight-holding for UK/EU customs barrier. Is this another of those Brexit dividends we were promised?
August 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
When is the British Media going to wake up to the absolute scandal of an entire carriageway of the M20 coned-off for miles, forcing a contraflow, for post Brexit freight-holding for UK/EU customs barrier. Is this another of those Brexit dividends we were promised?
I just had to spend time tracking down this piece of AI-generated orientalist garbage for a blog post, and if I had to see it, so do you. Paging @isisnaucratis.bsky.social and the Everyday Orientalism people, brace yoursleves for a new round of poor quality orientalist images.
August 14, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I just had to spend time tracking down this piece of AI-generated orientalist garbage for a blog post, and if I had to see it, so do you. Paging @isisnaucratis.bsky.social and the Everyday Orientalism people, brace yoursleves for a new round of poor quality orientalist images.
July 31, 2025 at 4:24 PM
If you see this quote post a tree.
2 trees here. The large one in the background on the street and the skinny pleached tree on the frame inside the wall.
2 trees here. The large one in the background on the street and the skinny pleached tree on the frame inside the wall.
March 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
If you see this quote post a tree.
2 trees here. The large one in the background on the street and the skinny pleached tree on the frame inside the wall.
2 trees here. The large one in the background on the street and the skinny pleached tree on the frame inside the wall.
One advantage of all these high buildings in the City of London is the opportunity to spy on hardworking archaeological colleagues below. Here 50 Fenchurch Street.
February 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
One advantage of all these high buildings in the City of London is the opportunity to spy on hardworking archaeological colleagues below. Here 50 Fenchurch Street.
Today the general mood in my discipline*
*Archaeology 🏺 this time - Egyptology 🔼 is not guilty in this specific case.
*Archaeology 🏺 this time - Egyptology 🔼 is not guilty in this specific case.
January 15, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Today the general mood in my discipline*
*Archaeology 🏺 this time - Egyptology 🔼 is not guilty in this specific case.
*Archaeology 🏺 this time - Egyptology 🔼 is not guilty in this specific case.
Here's the table that graph is based on.
January 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Here's the table that graph is based on.
Apropos of nothing . . .
December 22, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Apropos of nothing . . .
Most archaeologists: Here are some limited ideas about how these sites may be linked. Please look favourably on the array of evidence for this possibility.
Senior ⚪️🚹 academic archaeologist: This one big artefact from another place shows there was an LBA UK. It might have included Ireland.
Senior ⚪️🚹 academic archaeologist: This one big artefact from another place shows there was an LBA UK. It might have included Ireland.
December 22, 2024 at 10:06 AM
Most archaeologists: Here are some limited ideas about how these sites may be linked. Please look favourably on the array of evidence for this possibility.
Senior ⚪️🚹 academic archaeologist: This one big artefact from another place shows there was an LBA UK. It might have included Ireland.
Senior ⚪️🚹 academic archaeologist: This one big artefact from another place shows there was an LBA UK. It might have included Ireland.
Pronouns on corkboard!
January 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Pronouns on corkboard!
The first picture is obviously high level but it's also not very high resolution. Check out what happens when I zoomed right in. Sunbathing people are just fuzzballs, that means it's pretty low resolution.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The first picture is obviously high level but it's also not very high resolution. Check out what happens when I zoomed right in. Sunbathing people are just fuzzballs, that means it's pretty low resolution.
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This isn't AI but just because a picture is real, doesn't make it honest. I work with satellite imagery so I'm used to seeing earth from above. This type of comparison between high level imagery and a ground level picture is incredibly dodgy. Here's why 🧵
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January 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This isn't AI but just because a picture is real, doesn't make it honest. I work with satellite imagery so I'm used to seeing earth from above. This type of comparison between high level imagery and a ground level picture is incredibly dodgy. Here's why 🧵
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I went to look up my website, forgot the 'Hannah' part and discovered apparently I am a snake (at least in Hebrew according to this website).
January 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
I went to look up my website, forgot the 'Hannah' part and discovered apparently I am a snake (at least in Hebrew according to this website).
<Extremely medical advert voice>
'Are you threatened by the creed(s), ask your pastor if heresy (™️) is right for you'.
'Are you threatened by the creed(s), ask your pastor if heresy (™️) is right for you'.
January 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
<Extremely medical advert voice>
'Are you threatened by the creed(s), ask your pastor if heresy (™️) is right for you'.
'Are you threatened by the creed(s), ask your pastor if heresy (™️) is right for you'.
I offer this add from my Xitter feed in evidence that algorithms really are a gigantically long way from 'reading the room'.
January 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I offer this add from my Xitter feed in evidence that algorithms really are a gigantically long way from 'reading the room'.
Perhaps the most frightening thing I have ever seen.
January 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Perhaps the most frightening thing I have ever seen.
So they think it would be inappropriate to celebrate human transformation on a day we commemorate the resurrection of an agender divinity, incarnated as a human male? Right!
January 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
So they think it would be inappropriate to celebrate human transformation on a day we commemorate the resurrection of an agender divinity, incarnated as a human male? Right!
@theAliceRoberts look what my husband is watching! (It's not on the TV because SMALL is in the room playing).
January 28, 2025 at 2:23 PM
@theAliceRoberts look what my husband is watching! (It's not on the TV because SMALL is in the room playing).
Oh dear! I struggle to comprehend why this was necessary.
January 28, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Oh dear! I struggle to comprehend why this was necessary.
Hanging out at St Brelade
January 28, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hanging out at St Brelade
This is what happened when Paneb became an Akhu!
January 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is what happened when Paneb became an Akhu!
SciFi asking and answering all the important questions as usual!
January 28, 2025 at 3:08 PM
SciFi asking and answering all the important questions as usual!
I am in this photo and I don't like it!
Honestly this is so accurate it's painful.
Honestly this is so accurate it's painful.
January 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I am in this photo and I don't like it!
Honestly this is so accurate it's painful.
Honestly this is so accurate it's painful.