Jeremy Huggett

Small Grants – Funded Projects 2026

Doh! Here's the linkl 😜 hsds.ac.uk/deposit-data... (when will Bluesky get an edit post button like Mastodon?)

A terrific range of #archaeology projects funded by the Heritage Science Data Service @hsds-update.bsky.social, with some interesting Virtual Research Environment developments as well as data resources ...

How inclusive is archaeological data? Carrie Heitman’s latest digital review examines #feminist data science. She highlights how power and bias shape everything from collection to interpretation, outlining approaches for more transparent and equitable #research. 🏺
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HSDS Early Career Professionals Focus Group Sessions Are you an early career heritage scientist, or a trainee or research student in a related discipline? We'd love to hear from you. The National Heritage Science Forum is running two online focus group…

Are you an early career heritage scientist? 👀 Shape how the HSDS develops by sharing what you need from our research platform. Sign up for two focus group sessions, March 11 & 25 - £100 (or voucher equivalent) or your time.

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20 February Katherine Fennelly Storytelling, Collecting Cultures and Transmedia Archaeologies in (K-Pop) Fandom 27 February Jeff Sanders Carved in Stone 6 March Tom Schofield AI Heritage Imaginaries: Critical Fabulation against Machinic Hallucination 13 March Maki Wardle Moonlighting at ESA: A Postcard from a Digital Archaeologist in Space 20 March Zack Batist Investigating archaeological information commons as coordinated, collective and community-driven action 27 March Émilie Pagé-Perron Access and "Digital Repatriation" of Cuneiform Heritage 17 April Peter Cobb Data for Data's Sake in Archaeology 24 April Loes Opgenhaffen The automated archaeologist. An app to record archaeological visualization practice

Yay! It's a new series of Digital Lunch, hosted by the DAH Lab at the @uoyarchaeology.bsky.social. Check out the fantastic series of speakers we have below. To sign up for the zoom link, fill out this form:

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Very much looking forward to the upcoming Garrod Seminar Series themed 'Artificial Intelligence & the Past's Future' with some fantastic speakers (see below!). You can attend the seminar series online via Zoom (registration link: talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/1...) - starting this Thursday!

Together with Krist Vaesen, I have written some words of caution about #replication in lithic analysis. We fear that the way the issue has been taken up in #Palaeolithic #archaeology can narrow the scope of disciplinary inquiry 🏺🧪🦣

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New post: A Prehistory of Digital Archaeology

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#digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

If I remember correctly, GUARD Archaeology, while still at the University (so early-mid 2000s?), excavated on the west side of Loch Lomond in advance of a golf course and leisure development and found prehistoric occupation and burial evidence ... Should be published now if I knew where to look! 🤓

Claude's Constitution Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

What is this?? Claude should have “good personal values”??? What does that even mean???

Arghhghgfhffh

www.anthropic.com/constitution

New post: AI, Access, and Acknowledgement introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com/2026/01/09/a... A number of archaeological/humanities websites are reporting problems with the sheer volume of traffic caused by web crawlers belonging to the various generative artificial intelligence systems ...

Luthen and the Louvre: How Andor foretold 2025 (part 1) By Adrián Maldonado It is long ago, and we are far away. In the imperial capital of Coruscant, the gallery of Galactic Antiquities and Objects of Interest receives some visitors. One of them admires.....

I spent the holiday break thinking about Andor, and so should you! The latest post on #AlmostArchaeology by @archaeonado.bsky.social, with a sequel to follow

Gone Digital: How Has Digitalization Changed Archaeology YouTube video by Norwegian Institute at Athens

Yup - youtu.be/OPqcBmLqrR4 - I'd say enjoy, but ... 😉🤣

Cyber Monday: One-Click Download from The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota People say to me all the time: Bill, I just can’t be bothered to click download every time a new free book comes out from your press. This is an understandable concern. After all, clicking download…

I have a Cyber Monday deal for you: a one-click download of 10 books (a so-called "Dakota Dozen").

No email, sign-up, sign-in, or other information required. Click. Download. Unzip. Read.

Free. #OpenAccess #CyberMonday #FreeBooks

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Thanks! I gather you can register via uib.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Opening Powerpoint slide for a talk on 'Gone Digital: How has digitalisation changed archaeology?'

Thinking I may have bitten off too much ...

www.uib.no/en/nia/17912...
#digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities

Sutton Hoo ship name contest urges no 'Boaty McBoatface' suggestions Sutton Hoo Ship's Company wants help naming their replica, but urges people not to make joke suggestions.

Boatwald Boatfaceson www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This looks excellent! So many contributors whose work in digital Arts & Humanities I so respect. Wish I'd had access to these voices a few years ago when trying to understand my PhD 'failings' and, if that's not enough, it's open access. 🙏

H/t: @eve.gd

Remember that contest/marketing stunt that openai put out to derive methods for identifying archaeological sites in the amazon? I finally got around to checking out the results, and they are unsurprisingly bad. The winner and first runner up really focused on the methods, and the first was […]

'Digital erasure is no accident. Whether data loss is nefarious or negligent; it’s a choice. It’s a choice we do not make.' #wdpd2025 #digitalpreservation #digipres More blogging by me. www.dpconline.org/blog/wdpd/cl...

Lecture series poster for talks on the 20th and 21st of November, 2025.

A great opportunity to see Prof. Steve talk about Govan and Glasgow over the last 1,500 years!

Stones, Saints, Ships and Slaves: an archaeology for Glasgow 850 - Prof. Driscoll of Glasgow Archaeology for the 2025 Glasgow Archaeological Society Dalrymple Lecture Series - FREE online and in person.

Fair point. But in a number of these cases, data are already free to download via data.gov.uk and INSPIRE - e.g. the HES data portal at portal.historicenvironment.scot. The ADS and others also provide and/or are developing APIs - e.g. archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/blog/unlocking-data-apis

Changing Interfaces We seem to be living in interesting times here in the UK, at least as far as changes to major archaeological digital infrastructures providing access to national historic environment records and as…

Changing Interfaces: changes to major archaeological digital infrastructures across the UK which provide access to national historic environment records and associated archive data ... #digitalarchaeology
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📣 We’re looking for a new #CAAUK Chair!

Join the committee & help shape the future of digital archaeology in the UK!

For details or to express interest, contact:
✉️ Lawrence.Shaw@forestryengland.uk

#CAAUK2025 #Archaeology #DigitalHeritage #DigitalArchaeology

Deep Concerns for Historic Environment Scotland - BAJR - British Archaeology Jobs and Resources By David Connolly and Hana Kdolska, BAJR Admins Controversy, Accountability, and a Way Forward Historic Environment Scotland (HES) has found itself embroiled in a series of controversies over the past...

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Trove is virtually useless and the inaccessibility of the sites is a real issue.

CAA UK 2025 Annual Conference Join us at CAA UK 2025, featuring research & workshops in the application of quantitative methods and computing to archaeology and heritage.

Registration is open for #CAAUK2025!

Join us in Cambridge, 9–10 Dec, for talks, posters & workshops on digital & quantitative archaeology.

👉 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/caa-uk-202...

I came to Zotero late - post retirement! - and now swear by it. It's much more than a reference manager as it also provides access to all the associated paper and book pdfs, so think of it more as a library manager ...

Looks like this should become a great resource. Any chance of an RSS feed?

Stack of books

It certainly does 😁 (and it's on top of the pile 😉)

ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web - Anil Dash A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

An interesting critique of OpenAI's Atlas - "the first browser that actively fights against the web ... fighting against the very idea that you should have control over what you see, where you go, and what watches you while you're there" (Anil Dash)
www.anildash.com/2025/10/22/a...