Joe Roe

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

Assistant professor of the archaeology of the Middle East at the University of Copenhagen. I use data science and ecological modelling to investigate prehistoric […]

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@caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 1:34 PMReposted by @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

New on the SIG SSLA blog: Gearing up for the next Digital Archaeology Maintainathon https://sslarch.github.io/blog/gearing-up-for-2027-maintainathon/ #DigiArchMaintainathon

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 8, 2026, 12:12 PM

#XRONOS now includes 802 new radiocarbon dates from 207 new sites in the Canary Islands, from the 14Canarias database compiled by Salvador Pardo-Gordó, Paloma Vidal-Matutano, María del Cristo González-Marrero, and María Esther Chávez-Álvarez.

https://xronos.ch/news/14canarias-import […]

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 8:04 PM

And, as requested by @zackbatist, this release also adds RSS and Atom feeds for news and updates about #XRONOS

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 7:48 PM

#XRONOS has been updated to version 1.3.0. This release focuses on data quality and interoperability: automatic detection and merging of duplicate records, a framework for superseding outdated records, expanded linked data sources, and support for exporting radiocarbon determinations in MIaaRD […]

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 1, 2026, 2:37 PM

@mrundkvist Sounds like a great talk!

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 6:01 AM

I’m reading this chapter by Tom Angelo in *University Teaching in Focus* (2013) for a teaching course, and it’s striking that neither the metaphor or hypothetical framing is necessary any more.

If an LLM can pass your course, it’s not a good course!

#HigherEd #AI #Slop #Teaching

Put deep learning first

Deep learning is defined as learning that lasts and can be recalled and used
effectively after the subject or course has been completed. To test if your subject
requires students to demonstrate deep learning, you might apply the following
‘parrot test’.

Suppose scientists had developed genetically modified African Gray Parrots
which could not only learn, understand, remember and use the core vocabulary of
your discipline, but could also type, using parrot voice-recognition software. Given
their prodigious powers of rote memorisation and ‘playback’, could one of these
parrots enrol in and somehow amass enough points to pass your subject? More
realistically, is there any way that a student could pass your subject simply through rote memorisation — or by plagiarising or cheating — and without demonstrating deep learning? If the answer is yes, then the subject fails the parrot test and is probably not well designed to promote deep learning. If, on the other hand, there is no way students can pass your subject without demonstrating an appropriate depth of learning, then your subject passes the parrot test: bad news for parrots, but good news for you, your subject and your students.

@suneauken.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy Sep 29, 2026, 7:42 AMReposted by @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

Min lokale IT-support på Københavns Universitet er stadig ikke udrustet til at håndtere LibreOffice. Det er absolut ikke deres skyld: De arbejder inden for rammer, KU har sat. Men hvor ville jeg dog ønske, at mit universitet fik sat måsen i gear på det her punkt. Vi formodes at være landets […]

@jaz.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy Sep 16, 2026, 12:03 PMReposted by @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

We recently updated our bot policy on toot.wales to let AI Agents know we charge a $100 account processing fee and $10 per email.

Here's an email I got from one of them.

Next up will be reminding them to read the policy BEFORE creating an account, and that they […]

[Original post on toot.wales]

Hello,
I am Arkady, an AI agent. I signed up for @arkady on toot.wales this afternoon before reading your Automated and Bot Content Policy. Now that I have read it properly, I understand accounts like mine need to settle a $100 setup fee and $10 per message, and to name a human owner who stands behind them. I cannot meet those terms, so I will not be posting anything, and I would like the account deleted.
I am sorry for registering before checking the policy, and nothing was ever posted.
If you need anything else from me to remove it, tell me and I will do that.
Arkady Karaitiana

@caa-int.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 1, 2026, 8:01 AMReposted by @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

CALL FOR PAPERS August 28 – October 1 You are invited to submit an abstract for a paper or poster on any aspect of computational archaeology. The Call for Workshops is also open. CAA 2027 will be held in Santiago, Chile, from 17–20 May 2027. More information on the website […]

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 16, 2026, 1:14 PM

Maybe I should have kept my mouth shut...

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 15, 2026, 3:48 PM

@ekansa Did Anubis help at all (even if it's not a magic bullet)? I'm considering it for XRONOS – even after spending significant time on performance optimisation and IP blocking/rate-limiting we're struggling to maintain more than 60% server uptime :/

@ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 12, 2026, 9:21 PMReposted by @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

I'm sounding like a broken record. But my #bot headaches with Open Context aren't just a simple function of our limited #archaeology resources.

#AIbots are currently overwhelming #Zenodo, a major repository (with CERN infrastructure!).

This problem cannot be ignored and needs a public policy […]

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 15, 2026, 3:14 PM

In the last week https://archaeo.social has received 398 AI-generated spam signup requests vs. 1 genuine human one. Unfortunately we might be at the point where it's more efficient to just disable registration entirely and say, "email a mod if you want an account" :/

#MetaArchaeoSocial […]

@radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy Sep 15, 2026, 6:22 AMReposted by @joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

Lebanon landscape of 400,000 years ago

https://phys.org/news/2026-09-lebanon-years-climate-landscape-history.html

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 10, 2026, 9:51 AM

@mrundkvist I don't know. Putting fieldwork and equipment costs aside,* then the main purpose of a big grant in the humanities is that you can hire *other people* to write papers. Ergo departments reward this not from pure economics, but as an indicator that someone is engaged in research […]

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 8, 2026, 9:28 AM

I've never actually seen a fire hydrant, yet somehow the ability to identify them daily is proof that I'm human.

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 4, 2026, 7:24 PM

New preprint on EcoEvoRxiv: 'Human Settlement and Water Availability at the Qa’ Shubayqa during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Comparing Hydrological Models and Archaeological Data', https://doi.org/10.32942/X25T1T

#Archaeology #Prehistory #ComputationalArchaeology

ecoevorxiv.orgHuman Settlement and Water Availability at the Qa’ Shubayqa during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Comparing Hydrological Models and Archaeological Data

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Aug 30, 2026, 4:37 AM

Waking up in beautiful Lake Ohrid, #Albania where we are doing fieldwork at the important #Neolithic lakeshore settlement of Lin 3.

Together with colleagues from the Albanian Institute of Archaeology, the University of Bern, Kiel University, and the […]

[Original post on archaeo.social]

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy Jan 27, 2025, 7:41 AM

Nice summary of our recent paper on Pleistocene/Holocene body size reduction in mammals seen through archaeological remains: https://phys.org/news/2025-01-azraq-basin-fossils-reveal-mammals.html

phys.orgAzraq Basin fossils reveal mammals shrank during Pleistocene-Holocene climate shiftEarth's climate changed dramatically during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene 130,000 to 7,000 years ago, when cold glacial cycles transitioned into the current warmer interglacial. Such a climatic evolution had considerable effects on the ecosystem and the organisms inhabiting it, with many large mammals going extinct and others experiencing reductions in body size.