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@ekansa.bsky.social
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Research data curation, Python, Archaeology. Opinions shared here are my own, not of my employers or funders. Already burned by commercial social media. While nice now, I don't trust this place. I'll mainly be here on Mastodon: @ekansa@scholar.social

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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 18h
#archaeology #culturalheritage #section106 #policy #AI #governance
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
So, the ACHP wants to use Google's AI algorithms to regulate Google's AI data center plans? Doesn't this seem like a clear conflict of interest? #archaeology #culturalheritage #section106 #policy #AI #governance
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Chris Nicholson and I recently wrote about the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP)'s plans to use "AI" to streamline permitting workflows. This comes at a time when US historical preservation protections (esp. Section 106) face multiple legislative and regulatory threats. See […]
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
City Guards. I'm loving the character of Carrot.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thanks! I mainly hang out in Mastodon, but I keep a lurker account in the BlueSky too.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chis Nicholson (Executive Director of Digital Antiquity / tDAR) and I wrote an article with a critique of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) use of #AI for #culturalHeritage conservation policy. See: mydigitalpublication.com/publication/... #LLM #AIagents #Democracy #archaeology
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The SAA Archaeological Record • September 2026, Volume 26 Number 4 • Page 19
The SAA Archaeological Record
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It would also mean we'd have to abandon #openaccess and maybe introduce new privacy risks. I'm not sure I can stomach that yet.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We discussed putting in a login barrier and requiring a user account. Of course bots can also use email to sign up for user accounts. I'm at a loss.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We recently had to block all traffic from Singapore, Morocco, Brunei, and Brazil. Probably residential proxies centered on those places. Of course, that means I'm blocking > 300 million people too. 🙃
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have a graph here illustrating how Anubis was great for Open Context, at first. I still think it is great, but not as a standalone solution. #opendata #openaccess #bots #ai See: doi.org/10.11141/ia....
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Archaeology in the AI Era: Demystifying powerful and problematic systems shaping the future of the past
This essay explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) and the generative 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) services they power impact archaeology's information ecosystem. Most of the discussion focuses on...
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Anubis is helpful, but for some reason, Open Context has been targeted by bots that execute javascript and use up our map API quotas. The bots must want to take 10's of thousands of screenshots or something. All of this is insane and wasteful. The #AI_bubble cannot pop soon enough.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Malheureusement pour l'instant ! Mais espérons que dans le futur...
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
#archaeology #openaccess
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Thanks! I'm glad you're finding it useful! :)
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@willpooley.bsky.social @theotherkim.bsky.social Sadly, I don't think paywalls offers much protection from AI scraping. Some commercial academic publishers actually sell scraping rights. At least, Creative Commons is getting into some of these issues: creativecommons.org/2026/07/24/a...
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Attribution in the Age of AI - Creative Commons
Creative Commons makes the case there are reasons to be optimistic that AI systems can credit their sources.
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026
Well shoot. Google Scholar isn't indexing my paper about #AI in #Archaeology -- more than one 1 month since publication (doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.15). If I was a paranoid, I'd wonder if Google was trying to inhibit the discoverability and circulation of a paper very critical of #LLMs. I […]
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I actually tried that. Once I found out who did it. Their ISP actually threated to boot them from their network. So they stopped. But now, every refrigerator and doorbell (and whatever else is on a bot net) on the planet seems obsessed with #archaeology #opendata
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
Open Context turns 20 this year! To mark the occasion, we finally wrote up a long article that provides details about how we organize and publish data, and how we relate to the broader landscape of data repositories in #archaeology doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 #datacuration #openscience […]
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Internet Archaeology @internetarchaeology.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026
New in IA71: Kansa, E. and Kansa, S. Whitcher 'Open Context in a Changing Context: Data Publishing, Interoperability and Governance' doi.org/10.11141/ia.71.3 #Archaeology #datacuration #DataManagement #interoperability #FAIR #CARE #sustainability This paper describes the rationale and […]
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Dealing with US federal funding for #research, #education, or anything else worth doing now feels like dealing with Darth Vadar.
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darth vader says " i am altering the deal pray i don t alter it any further "
Alt: darth vader says " i am altering the deal pray i don t alter it any further "
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Freddie_Rose🌹 🇨🇦 ⚕️ @freddierose.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
#Protest
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy Easter
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 18/04/2025
I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night. Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:
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Van Hollen Holds Media Availability at Dulles Upon Return from El Salvador
YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"Last week we learned that six of our active NEH awards—totaling $789k in unspent funds—were immediately “terminated” by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Below you can read about the projects that were affected." -- Mullen
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I think this is amazing, full stop. I do worry that backfilling cuts at the federal level will lead to *disingenuous* arguments that this demonstrates the we don’t need fed funding after all (& I know funders know this is a danger). We most be prepared to dismantle such arguments immediately.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We were at our local theatre last night & cheered when they announced the production was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA, NEH, IMLS & so many other sources of positive government support permeate our lives. The loss of these agencies is a travesty.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Yes! Also, #GeoJSON, which is a key open format and Internet standard for expressing geospatial data was developed thanks in part to NEH funding to Pleiades. A huge array of mapping technologies use this standard.
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025
We just received a heartbreaking email from a colleague at a Federal granting agency. It was full of professionalism, dignity, and devotion to mission despite the cruelty and illegality of the regime's destruction of their agency. Their patriotism and service must be recognized. We're going to […]
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
More important reporting. And thanks to Steve Kidd and the entire @humanitiesall.bsky.social team for their vocal advocacy.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Can I just say (acknowledging I’m being petty here), the NEH termination letter reads exactly like some dipshit DOGE bro used a chatbot to finish an assignment they didn’t understand. I know the quality of our federal colleagues, and they sure as hell didn’t write it.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Given this rate of collapse, when do reach the era of spray-painting our mouths with chrome and throwing ourselves onto post-apocalyptic traffic in the name of Immortan Joe? 2 months?
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a man is wearing goggles and smoking a cigarette
Alt: mad-max warboy
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks Jason! This is invaluable advice. Also, thanks to all your (our) colleagues in NEH and IMLS for their dedicated service. I can't imagine the heartbreak they're facing now, but they should know that they have a grateful community that wants to help.
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Jason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A few tips for NEH grantees: 1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP. 2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Breaking Thurmond's record while talking about the Civil Rights leaders being called home is an incredible moment in America. This is one for the history books.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker. That’s the post. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I'm relieved the respected #journalist #JeffreyGoldberg handled this craziness with such professionalism. But I'm disappointed that #Buffy Summers wasn't invited into the #NationalSecurity #groupchat. She made it pretty clear that she expects to be in the loop about this kind of thing.
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a woman is holding a cupcake and saying if the apocalypse comes beep me
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Senator - "strongly oppose" is a milquetoast phrase to describe a stance on a bad policy. It is much more urgent to call Trump a traitorous piece of shit for this and so much more wanton destruction of our democracy and our society.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
this was successful “resistance” — the thing we’re being repeatedly told is done, over, can’t work, never to return
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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 31/01/2025
The White House says: - 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada What Americans feel: - Fewer options at the store - Higher prices for all of us, especially on food He promised to cut costs. Now he's implementing a Trump Tax on our families. The chaos continues.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
We traded liberty for cheap eggs, and now we have neither.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Since conspiratorial tropes seem so important in effective propaganda, how about some counter-propaganda? "What's Trump trying to hide by muzzling the #CDC? Is he trying to cover-up the #H5N1 situation?"
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Open Context @opencontext.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025
Just making sure we have updated a full copy of the data we publish. Internationally. Just in case. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14728229 #OpenData #archaeology
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Open Context Database SQL Dump
Open Context (https://opencontext.org) publishes free and open access research data for archaeology and related disciplines. An open source (but bespoke) Django (Python) application supports these data publishing services. The software repository is here: https://github.com/ekansa/open-context-py The Open Context team runs ETL (extract, transform, load) workflows to import data contributed by researchers from various source relational databases and spreadsheets. Open Context uses PostgreSQL (https://www.postgresql.org) relational database to manage these imported data in a graph style schema. The Open Context Python application interacts with the PostgreSQL database via the Django Object-Relational-Model (ORM). This database dump includes all published structured data organized used by Open Context (table names that start with 'oc_all_'). The binary media files referenced by these structured data records are stored elsewhere. Binary media files for some projects, still in preparation, are not yet archived with long term digital repositories. These data comprehensively reflect the structured data currently published and publicly available on Open Context. Other data (such as user and group information) used to run the Website are not included.    IMPORTANT This database dump contains data from roughly 190+ different projects. Each project dataset has its own metadata and citation expectations. If you use these data, you must cite each data contributor appropriately, not just this Zenodo archived database dump.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Now with the #archaeology, #opendata, #research tags truncated from the original #Mastodon post.
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ekansa.bsky.social @ekansa.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Feeling more and more like December of 2019, though the pace and severity of things will no doubt differ. History never exactly repeats. #h5n1
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Eric Kansa @ekansa.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024
California seems to be the epicenter of #h5n1 evolution in mammals. Yikes. I hope the state commits to vaccine development ASAP, since I bet the incoming federal administration won't be too helpful.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/12/2024
PLEASE do not feed raw milk to your cats. Or your kids. Or yourself. #H5N1
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