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Zack Batist

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

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Postdoc at McGill. I research collaborative research practices and the uptake of new tools that reconfigure knowledge production, especially in archaeology and the […]

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@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 4:15 PM

looney tunes cartoons are music videos for classical music

@lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 12:31 PMReposted by @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

Do you have recommendations for a nice and easy poster theme and/or template for/with #Quarto?

(I know I can go looking on my own, but I'm interested in *your* recommendations^^)
#DigitalHumanities

@caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyOct 8, 2026, 6:31 AMReposted by @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

New on the SIG SSLA blog: International RSE Day! https://sslarch.github.io/blog/intl-rse-day-2026/ #ResearchSoftwareEngineers #DigitalArchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 7:14 PM

voting is cool

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 2:49 PM

Please get in touch with me or respond here if you would like to share any ideas or feedback for improving the next iteration of the Digital Archaeology Maintainathon! - Do you want certain kinds of resources or guides added to the website? - Any ideas for community engagement? - Constructive […]

@caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 1:34 PMReposted by @zackbatist.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

@caa-ssla.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gyOct 5, 2026, 1:37 PMReposted by @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

📝 The SIG SSLA now has a blog! Members will share news and ideas from our community, and we will announce each new entry here.

Read it 👉 https://sslarch.github.io/blog/
Follow it in your RSS feed reader 👉 https://sslarch.github.io/blog/index.xml

#DigitalArchaeology #ComputationalArchaeology

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 22, 2026, 5:36 PM

@felwert Yea, I hope it's the former! I also think it may be a shifting focus on different kinds of texts, which may be fad-ish? But this is just my spidey sense, not grounded on anything real

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 22, 2026, 5:15 PM

@felwert I think it really depends on what you're trying to achieve and whatever other forms of analysis and interpretation the study relies on in tandem

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 22, 2026, 4:00 PM

@felwert LDA seems to take language at face value, whereas BERTopic seems better for handling hierarchically-organized and context-laden semantic structures that resemble what one might experience when doing qualitative coding. BERTopic is also better for shorter text, snippets, etc, which is […]

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 21, 2026, 3:25 PM

Jeez I'm so glad I didn't end up submitting a MSCA proposal this year. Another 25% increase in application volume since last year, with even less funding provided for the whole lot than the years before

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 6:04 PM

Looking a bit deeper into the report, it's really great that they acknowledge the impact of what they're calling "narrative summaries" and of less formal contextual information, but this does not come across at all in the summary and prompts me to consider that these findings are deemed less […]

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 5:53 PM

In other words, yet another attempt to force a technical solution on a fundamentally social problem **deep sigh**

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 5:52 PM

> And yet much of the current system remains rooted in the logic of print. Publishing workflows, outputs, and fundamental concepts have largely persisted as artifacts of an earlier era. The journal article remains the dominant unit of recognition, while important contributions—including data […]

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 5:40 PM

RE: https://mstdn.science/@PLOS/117286257571977539

Ok so the solution is apparently just to produce more documents, gotcha.

Not redistributing resources, encouraging more meaningful involvement of under-recognized actors, or dealing with any of the material and social issues that need to be […]

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 17, 2026, 2:20 PM

Is it just me, or has @phanpy been really slow over the past couple of weeks? It's especially sluggish when first navigating to the web app and when opening posts to see the replies. Anyone got any tips to resolve these issues? #phanpysocial

@joeroe.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 15, 2026, 3:14 PMReposted by @zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy

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 […]

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 11, 2026, 11:28 PM

There was a moment when he proclaimed how proud he was that the team spent three whole days contemplating the nature of truth, and I was like dude, only three days?

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 11, 2026, 11:26 PM

Went to a demo for an "ai" flavoured data commons / scholarly communication / reviewer matching platform and while some of the things that the guy showed were really neat and would work in certain bounded contexts (some version of this would be great for internal review in large research centres […]

@zackbatist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gySep 11, 2026, 4:05 PM

@electricarchaeo I love it!

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