Clemens Schmid

🚨 Job alert in my group:
Want to do a PhD in Computational Linguistics working on figurative language (metaphor), on social media data, and in an interdisciplinary digital humanities environment, at one of the largest universities in Germany? Apply by March 30, 2026!
Contact me with any […]

📢 We’re hiring at WorldPop!

We're recruiting Research Fellows / Senior Research Fellow to join our team, producing high-resolution population data supporting governments, NGOs and UN partners globally.

This role focuses on geospatial data, statistical/AI methods, and international […]

'Introduction to Maritime Archaeology' Summer School (BA/MA, 7.5. ECTS) at the University of Copenhagen and Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde:

https://kurser.ku.dk/course/harks2026u/2025-2026

Open to Danish or international students; register before 9 April.

#Archaeology #MaritimeArchaeology […]

XKCD 2501 customized to be self-referencing, about the field of referencing XKCD. Mentions the competing standards comic, the all modern digital infrastructure comic, and 2501 itself.

RE: https://lgbtqia.space/@dianea/116083673458174334

A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Screenshot from the game Sonnenwende, depicting solar panels, batteries, and hydrogen storage tanks.

I wrote a small game simulating the transition to a solar-powered economy. You can build solar panels, batteries, hydrogen storage and sell your generated electricity at market prices. Electricity demand, pricing, and weather conditions are based on realistic […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]

When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it […]

I went to a fantastic seminar today at the University of Canterbury by Carl Bergstrom (@ct_bergstrom), titled “Information Foraging in a Social Media World.” Carl has been applying his knowledge of how information flows through ecological and evolutionary systems to better understand our digital […]

#typst PSA:

Typst is actually three languages in a trench coat:

* The default, a markdown-like language.
* A programming language, where you can do... well, programming stuff: define variables and functions, compute things, ...
* A language just for describing math expressions to be typeset […]

‘AltMetric’-style services, which track citations to academic papers outside of academic literature—so in the news, social media, etc.—have been quick to incorporate #BlueSky posts, but I’ve yet to see one that includes the #fediverse

I can see that (real) decentralisation makes it harder to […]

Panel 1: Some social scientists (five stick figure portraits of scientists) Economist Archaeologist Geographer Psychologist Anthropologist Panel 2: Some antisocial scientists (five stick figures scuttling out of the panel) Introverted Astronomer Solitary Mathematician Reclusive Biologist Misanthropic Chemist Withdrawn Physicist

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pandoc/116011707001692685

This is amazing! Such a neat interface for a common task, so easily accessible. I wonder how this was implemented and if I could use something like this for my own haskell projects.

“pandoc for the people”, the pandoc wasm web-app, is now available at https://pandoc.org/app/
It allows to run any kind of document conversion that pandoc supports in the browser. The documents never leave the computer, thus ensuring *full privacy*.
Conversions to pdf are done via Typst […]

Ironically a few weeks after reading this excellent piece from Dariusz Jemielniak, I've 'retired' from #Wikipedia, which I've been editing for more than half of my life:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

Academics absolutely should take Wikipedia seriously as the single most […]

Bereits Mitte Januar kamen die erfreuliche Nachricht für Freundinnen und Freunde #historischer #Geodaten #hgis aus #Bayern: Die topografischen Karten in den Maßstäben 1:25.000 bis 1:100.000 stehen nun unter einer freien CC-BY 4.0 Lizenz zur Nutzung bereit 🎉 👇 […]

And as a friendly reminder, we hold monthly meetings where we host amazing speakers, organize collectively-maintained projects, and discuss all things relating to scripting languages in archaeology! (we also sometimes spill out into other #DigitalArchaeology and #ComputationalArchaeology topics […]

Have you ever tried to contribute to an EU opensource project hosted at

https://code.europa.eu?

I did and failed.

Why?

#DigitalAutonomy #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #EU #Tech

3D Analysis SIG board elections The members of the 3D Analysis SIG Board are elected for a minimum term of 3 years with the right to be re-elected for a second term. All Board positions will be open to interested eligible candidates. 1. General Information about the Board of CAA-GR The 3D Analysis SIG provides a platform for bringing together researchers and practitioners to address the methodological, technical, and theoretical challenges of working with 3D data, from acquisition to analysis and dissemination. The task of the Board is to meet regularly for the purposes of the SIG. 2. Call for Candidacies The current interim board is launching the election procedure for new Board members. All eligible candidates are invited to apply for a Board position. The election of the Board shall take place at the General Meeting of the SIG during the CAA2026 in Vienna by show of hands. Submission of candidacy: Candidates should notify the current members of the 3D SIG Board for their willingness to stand for election by sending an email to the SIG’s email address (3d.analysis@caa-international.org) by Monday, 16 February 2026. In their email, the candidates should include a letter of intent (max. 1 page) and a short CV (max. 1 page) with webpage address and ORCHID-ID. 3. Important Dates Candidacy period open: 2 January 2026 Deadline for candidates: 16 February 2026 Voting: CAA2026 conference, Vienna, 31 March – 4 April 2026

4. Board Members Positions and Responsibilities The 3D Analysis SIG is administered by six Board members. The Chair provides coordination for the group. The Chair is responsible for making sure that the SIG’s activities are planned effectively, conducted according to the CAA-International constitution and that matters are handled in an orderly, efficient manner. They must be willing to commit a not insubstantial effort to the building of the community over the duration of their tenure. Apart from the Board’s Chair the remaining 5 positions have undifferentiated roles, to be further attuned by the newly elected board. Board members are expected to share steering responsibilities and workload as much as possible. All Board members act as representatives of the 3D Analysis SIG community in CAA International conference meetings and activities. They are expected to attend the CAA-International and National Chapters conferences to the best of their ability and work in connection with the relevant CAA-International committees to actively promote and coordinate the 3D Analysis SIG activities. At least one position on the Board is reserved for a PhD student. Candidates should indicate whether they opt for the Chair position. Geographic diversity is encouraged to enable broad international participation, and presence in forthcoming CAA International conferences.

Elections to the 3D Analysis SIG committee will be held at #CAA2026. Details below if you're interested in joining, and more info about the SIG can be found here: https://caa-international.org/special-interest-groups/3d-analysis/

I'm #colorblind and I use https://xkcd.com/color/rgb/ frequently.

Randall 'xkcd' Monroe did a survey of over 100,000 readers where he showed them random rgb colors and said "what would you call this?" and afterwards he did his best to sort the results into the most popular color names and the […]

Elefant sucht Mastodon Instanzen im Wisskomm Bereich

Gibt es eine umfassende Übersicht über Mastodon-Instanzen (nicht Konten) aus Deutschland, die aus Wissenschaft, Hochschulen, Forschung und Bildung heraus betrieben werden?

Hintergrund: Der idw steht regelmäßig im Austausch mit den Instanzbetreibern u. a […]

[Original post on idw-online.social]

🗺️ fastfocal: fast moving-window and point extraction for rasters in R, optimized for large windows and common focal stats via FFT. Built on terra.

https://cran.r-project.org/package=fastfocal

#RStats #GIScience #RSpatial

Coprolites aren't my favorite fossil but they're a solid number two.

#dadjokes #paleontology

Asking the #OpenScience Hivemind: been spending the last couple of weeks discovering that a lot of tools that I use, that download databases stored on #Zenodo, are failing with 403. But downloading the file manually via a `wget` command works... It happens regardless of which network I'm on […]

Teaching introductory archaeology is so fun. You get to flit back and forth between theory and practice and introduce students to many different skills. And get out in the fresh air!

My preparation for next semester's first year course includes organising two excursions, coordinating with a […]

This is so niche and yet so relevant to my interests: "Kip is an experimental programming language that combines Turkish grammar rules with a type system. Case endings, vowel harmony, and other Turkish morphological features are an integral part of Kip's type-checking process." […]

I've spent a long time asking myself why open source matters so much to me, why I keep coming back to it. I once joined a company purely because they promised I could do open source full-time (it didn't turn out well). Before that, I was doing open source inside and outside of regular jobs. And […]

✅ Testing your code involves including additional logic to test whether your code is operating as you expect it to. Aside from supporting users with different computational environments, they’re a great way to slow down and think about the code you’re writing and whether it supports your goals […]

RE: https://archaeo.social/@zackbatist/115894441545778394

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It's your first resource if you are looking for a software tool to solve your #DigitalArchaeology or #ComputationalArchaeology problem. And if you know a good one: Have a look whether it is […]

Unfortunately mostly what I've been doing so far in #DigiArchMaintainathon week is maintaining my sanity in the face of university bureaucracy.

But with what's left I will try to get my #Rstats package wrapping the #IntChron chronological data API ship-shape and ready for CRAN […]

📈 We’ve showcased many great projects throughout the week, many of which are developed by junior researchers and volunteer labour. If any of these are especially interesting to you, consider reaching out to offer support! This can take the form of contributions to the code base, helping promote […]