Just gave my last talk of the year!
2025 was quite packed, I gave talks about:
- the age-period-cohort problem
- making rigorous causal inference more mainstream
- mediation analysis
- marginaleffects
- causal graphs (x10)
If you're curious, check out my slides here: juliarohrer.com/resources/
Hey now Australian archaeology has theory:
1. Dig hole, get rocks and dates (optional, only if old rocks)
2. ***Immense handwaving and ad hoc explanation for 20 pages***
3. 'we conclude that our results are due to some combination of culture/population/environment, we need more data please fund'
Our next event is "Demystifying Digital Field Recording", a free online panel exploring the hot topics in digital field recording! The panel takes place next Wednesday 23 July, 6pm AEST, make sure to register at the link:
events.humanitix.com/demystifying...
"The President’s Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Budget proposes to terminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." bit.ly/4kEnEPo
More evidence that "geological timescale" is a useless descriptor.
Looks very interesting! Just confirming the timezone is EEST?
Image shows a archaeological figure showing the distribution of estimated use lives of basin hollows by technological stage. The graph is almost impossible to read as it has three dimensions (frequency, estimated use life, stage). It displays each stage as a different ribbon that looks like folded cardboard where foreground stages obscure background stages. The use of a line/ribbon graph is incorrect as the data comes from counts of individual items. A 2D histogram with the stage counts indicated by differing color or symbology would be much clearer and simpler.
found a pretty bad graph crime today
Looks really interesting!
Time is a flat circle, Excel is timeless. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
Participate in the AUTOMATA Survey flyer
AUTOMATA has launched a survey on the use, perception & future expectations of 3D modelling, non-destructive archaeometry, AI and robotics in archaeology to guide ECCCH tool development.
Access the survey on the AUTOMATA website: automata-eccch.eu/news-events/...
#EchoesEccch #AUTOMATA
Windows
> You are running out of storage
no problem I will select the option to remove temporary files
> Temporary files removed
Fantastic
> You are running out of storage
> The files are still there
fascinating
The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy/Smiley's People series are the essential OGs for cosy spy drama
Would accept "Has code" at this point, 90% of the papers that start with "we present a new computational method for.." really mean they present some pretty pictures, graphs and ignored emails.
Democracy sausages and school cake sales are integral to a functioning society democracysausage.org/queensland_e...
Looks fantastic! Are there any publications you'd highlight to get a lay of the land?
A raster birdseye image displaying Indigenous Australian Quarry pits for archaeological research, the image displays a complex of circular pits from the extraction of sandstone blocks.
Back to counting quarry pits again #Archaeology #GIS
New paper out in JAS on beta regression models of compositional variability in craft production studies!
Huge thanks to co-authors @ercrema.bsky.social, María Alicia Uribe Villegas, Juanita Sáenz Samper and @martinontorres.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Key takeaways: 👇
Tragic, at least you go to experience your beautiful photos another time. Hopefully with minimal carpal tunnel.
Always killer to manually update masks, hope you have a fast hard drive!
What software are you using? Does it have a mask from model option?
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
Some excellent sorting in lower layers followed by a high energy Biscuit dumping event? Protected wafers implies a civilized biscuit jar maintainer.
Are you an #archaeologist wanting to learn #QGIS for #archaeology? I have an entire course on YouTube, check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTY...
My small contribution to these great #archaeology starter packs is one collecting all the archaeologists (and closely aligned fields) working and/or based in Australia. Please let me know if I’ve missed anyone.
go.bsky.app/2kLkg7s
