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

GIS, remote sensing, archaeology.

Not that kind of doctor. Tinkerer. Aspiring bodger.

Glaswegian 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄 in Jutland 🇩🇰🦢.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · Nov 13
There's enough of us now to do one of these!

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 4h
Don't forget the Sand Worms

(Walk without rhythm etc.)

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 8h
Can't find the film scanner and this needs done urgently...

Not ideal but needs must.
A DSLR upside down in a tripod, pointing at a slide on a phone acting as an improvised light box.

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Kevin Thurston @del-boy.bsky.social · 23h

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 23h
'night
In the foreground an alder and the branches of a willow are silhouetted against the night sky. In the black bit is the burn, but you cant see it. I can't either, but I can hear it. Behind this is a hill and meadow lit by the moon. Little wisps of dal mist are forming at the foot of the hill.

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 1d
BLOOD WORK / EPISODE 51

I AM SITTING IN A ROOM: DRONES, PART 2

We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be retooled for riskless killers.
I Am Sitting in a Room: Drones, Part 2 | Blood Work
We return to Grégoire Chamayou’s Theory of the Drone to meditate on sacrifice, preservation, and what happens when warrior virtue must be re
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d
Yes! Those sense-making processes are so hard to replicate with digital recording.

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 1d
A Yorkshire witch cake collected in 1933. According to the label, these cakes were made every year between the 1st - 6th April and suspended behind the door to keep away witches. Hear more fascinating facts on our Witchcraft, Amulets & Magic tour, Wed 14 Oct, 2-3pm. £8/Members free.

bit.ly/4gauF9Z

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Ian R. Pearsall @ianrpearsall.bsky.social · 1d
'Track (to the beyond)'
Oil Paint & Graphite pencil
tangerine-helix-zh46.squarespace.com/gallery

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 1d
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d
one more
A flower with a detection bounding box

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d
Today's false positive barrow is a pretty flower in the marginalia
A detection bounding box drawn around a flower. This is from an old map.

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Moritz Mennenga @moritzmennenga.bsky.social · 1d
Just published my latest #openaccess article with @JournalCAA doi.org/10.5334/jcaa...
Many Paths Lead Through the Bog: Reconstructing Prehistoric Networks and Routes at the Southern North Sea Coast Based on Neolithic and Bronze Age Grave Mounds | Journal of Computer Applications in Arc...
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d
Morning.
The sun rises behind the trees. It's misty so it makes sunbeams radiate out from the centre

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 1d
Schismogenisis as style!

em—dash is dead! (for shame)

It's not just x, it's y is not just passé— it's dead!

Typos and bad grammer are a mark of human fallibility authenticity. Pedantry is dead!

Arguments in threes— dead!

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Devin Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 1d
I’m glad George Lucas watched Lawrence of Arabia and was like, yeah it would be better with lasers

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qmackie @qmackie.bsky.social · 2d
What could possibly be wrong with an AI generated map of first peopling of the Pacific? Almost everything. From Richards et al 2026 "Lessons from pseudoscience in the Pacific in face of GenAI" www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.... 🏺 (open access) #archaeology
An attractive AI generated map of peopling of the Pacific, showing Hawai'i twice, Lapita originating in NZ and proceeding westwards, New Guinea labelled as Borneo, and many other absolute clangers. From linked article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/03122417.2026.2706246?needAccess=true

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Geomorphica @geomorphica.bsky.social · 2d
New paper alert! Svennevig and Theusen present "Open Access 3D-printable Landslide Models for Outreach and Teaching" Check out the full article here: journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d
We're back! Thrilled to finally share the hate in my heart for Peter Duesberg, Thabo Mbeki and Dave Grohl
RFK Jr.'s Buckwild Belief That HIV Doesn't Cause AIDS
Podcast Episode · Maintenance Phase · September 21 · 1h 20m
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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d
I've been reliably informed that time is a flat circle, so you should be ok as long as you've got one of the models with a flux capacitor and updated firmware.

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David Stott @davstott.bsky.social · 2d
The footage is a bit wobbly- do you need to recalibrate your gyros?

Although the stabilisation always struggles in 4D.