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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Open house at cider mill and orchard. Set your gps to Bristol Quebec and follow the portes ouvertes signs. Donuts are free!

Donut machine gearing up on a wood patio, under a tent, in front of a green wooden building

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

making slides for monday, trying to contextualize what digital archaeology has looked like for me / through me over the years. Managed to put it all into a snappy little table. (There should probably be a lacuna indicated 2002 - 2010 marked 'underemployed' but […] [Original post on scholar.social]

Table; rendered as markdown (and my apologies if this doesn't work). The table reads:

| Project | Research Question(s) | Main Analytical Methods |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ex Figlinis | How do social relationships translate into exploitation of Rome's hinterland? | Social Network Analysis; XRD & XRF |
| BehaviourSpace | What do we see if we reanimate Roman social networks? Hypothesis: social network shapes can enhance or dampen the sources of civil violence | Agent Based Modelling, Social Network Analysis |
| Computational Creativity | Where can computational creativity techniques enhance legacy archaeological knowledge? | Sonification, artificial neural networks, computer vision, archaeogaming |
| The Bone Trade Project | Why do people buy and sell human remains on social media? | Image analysis: similarity, composition, influence; Social Network Analysis; Word Vectors; NLP; Text Analysis |
| The Organigram Project | Uncovering antiquities crime hiding in the interstices of what we know | Natural language processing; Knowledge graph embedding models |
| The International Space Station Archaeology Project
| How do humans make a micro-society in space? What methods can we use?
| Image analysis: composition, tagging; assemblage similarity
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| The [Archaeology Impossible Project](http://archaeologyimpossible.github.io) | What methods can we use to study human societies that are not self-sustaining?
| Image analysis; OSINT; object detection models; assemblage similarities; network analysis; knowledge graph embeddings
|

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

the Adder political cartoon in the globe and mail: apple 1984 vs 2026

left panel, a rendering of the famous 1984 apple commercial, where the woman smashes big brother. right panel, apple ceo licks trump’s boot. at the bottom, a newspaper headline about apple complying with the onomastic vandalism perpetrated against lake ontario.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

image segmentation seems to be working... a close up from a photograph taken at one of the Everest camps; objects are outlined in the predicted class. There is a cairn in the middle proclaiming 'everest base camp', then a debris field in front littered with […] [Original post on scholar.social]

a close up from a photograph taken at one of the Everest camps; objects are outlined in the predicted class. There is a cairn in the middle proclaiming 'everest base camp', then a debris field in front littered with prayer flags and torn tents and possibly a canadian flag. Image segmentation routine appears to have captured everything.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I don't think very many folks in #dh at #carleton_u follow me here, but I'll be damned if I'm going on another social network. So! If you're at Carleton, if you like donuts, if you're interested in DH, drop by sept 16 in the afternoon at the history lounge.

poster - not AI generated - for 'Digital Humanities and Donuts, sept 16, 1-3, history lounge pa433. Socialize! Meet your cohort, meet your profs, see what's happening this year in DH @ Carleton U'. There are two vanilla donuts with sprinkles shown.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Doug the WonderDog (tm) would like you to know that he is Very Much Not Impressed.

A small yellow dog wearing a harness, staring at the camera with disdain

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

First apples of the season coming in. Variety: Summerland

Close up of an 800lbs apple bin featuring brightly lit red apples

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

@archaeoscape.bsky.social @ekansa I mean, if you're going to run the border and peddle Fine Canadian Booze, I think this car would do the trick. (picture from this: www.jalopnik.com/1823187/lifted-na-…)

A souped-up, lifted up mazda miata, which is probably naff as hell but I love it

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

'Last Dance at Coordination Hall', by the Pontiac community players (written by Greg Graham) on tonight! Play-in-the-round. Audience sits around the dance floor as the last night of the cottage season 1960 plays out in front of them. Live band! Dancing! Drama!

Old 1930s dance hall. Wooden floors, green chairs, stage at back.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

It took a while for my wee computer, but behold, the 12365 people who have climbed Everest, where connections are by virtue of participating in the same expedition. #archaeologyimpossible

A network diagram of black nodes and edges, looking rather like a Jakson Pollock painting, with areas of dark intensity towards the bottom right.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

settling down to read @roopikarisam’s new book

a hardback book with white colour. the title is ‘data empire: the power of information to organize, control, and dominate. By Roopika Risam

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Pressed a literal tonne of apples. Now, I have a taste of our oaked aged cider, in 30 yr old rum barrels

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

Class development going well, why do you ask?

Snippet from course website in development, reading: "what is digital archaeology?" And the response is "I'm glad you asked that, I'm not altogether sure". A large manicule points at the header question.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Montreal, waiting for the show to start. Kid playing jazz festival!

Top of an apartment building against a blue sky. The top of the building has panels in a variety of red shades

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2026

The production room in our #cider mill. I need a new belt press. Can I sell you the naming rights?

A long room, rather like a garage in style. In the foreground is a belt press. Behind it is a box tipper.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/06/2026

Weird to see my childhood home for sale, online. First time I've seen inside it in forty years. It was twee-ified at some point, clearly. I remember carpets. Anywhere, that chair stands where our c-64 was stationed. That's the ur-spot for what became a career in #dh!

A room with painted red wooden floor and twee wall paper. An antique chair sits in the corner.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

did my knowledge graph embeddings schtick this morning, using the approach and a clutch of model architectures (distmult, complex, transe, rotate) on archaeological literature.

Title slide, with a tilt-shifted image (I think) of men at work. Title: The Latent Space - Archaeological Literature through Knowledge Graph Embedding Models: What's Hiding in the Things We Think We Know? ...some rough work in progress...

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

trying to clean up my machine, moving stuff to external drive. things are going.... slowly.

Progress bar reading 'Copying 471 280 items to "code-experiments-archive". 720.5 MB of 48.21 GB - About 5 days

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

[cursèd clown generators] k, for some reason i have an early generated piece of ‘art’ of a cursèd clown on this device. i figured it would break this image-to-splat model huggingface.co/spaces/VAST-AI/Tripo… . it did not. and now things are even more cursèd.

output panel of a hugging face space that turns a 2d image to 3d splat. the clown is depicted, fully realized, in the round. the clown is evil.

source image of evil clown against an eldritch sky.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

The child wanted to practice driving. So we tried to take the back routes. Me, next thirty minutes:

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

The Ottawa looking up river towards the museum of civilization (now the museum of lesser horizons, erm, Canadian history)

A water vista. In the distance an iron truss bridge.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/05/2026

Did I show you this? Orchard is finally in bloom.

A row of apple trees in bloom. Beautiful white and pink buds. The grass between the rows is super green and the dandelions are coming out too.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

Doug the woderdog looking serene despite contemplating this betrayal of a visit to the vet

A small brown dog. Eyes closed he sits on my lap with a serene countenance on his face.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

At the market, first of the season. Neighboring stall is encroaching on our space, breach of etiquette!

Three large amber bottles of cider on a table.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/04/2026

our family's #cider mill opens for the season next weekend! (well, we're actually open now, but we're making a fuss next weekend). C'mon by if you want to see me in my aspect as cider maker and agritourism booster. #ottawa

Advertisement reading, "Season Opening. Tapping the keg on our NEW flavour of cider (1pm). Apple Cider Doughnuts (First one's free!). Free samples of our products! Cider-making activities. Guided tours of the cider mill and the historic dance hall. Hot cider soups! Apple Pie, our famous BBQ sauce, and all new products in our bake shop! Saturday May 2 10am - 4 pm. New Cider Flavour Reveal at 1pm. Coronation Hall Cider Mills. 206 River Road Bristol Qc. 819 647 2547. www.coronationhall.com

The donut making station. My brother runs this. A red tent over a stainless steel table and donut making device, outside on a wooden deck in front of where the old dance hall and tea room intersect.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2026

Kayaker on a branch of the Mississippi (Ontario version).

A kayaker in a red life jacket and yellow kayak about to go over a set of rapids

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Trying to capture the magic of what I can see through the TiltFive holographic system. 3d model of a historic gravestone.

A view through one lens of the TiltFive system. It projects the model against a prism, and the special table top somehow grounds the object in physical space. A turbo charged peppers ghost effect.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

There used to be a lovely little open air theatre here with trees. It's been like this for a couple years now. Hopefully someday something nice will emerge. #CarletonUniversity

A muddy construction site with a noticeable lack of construction.

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

First crossing of the ferry on the Ottawa River at quyon

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Shawn Graham @electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Now that's portability. Vintage competing open house Carleton u

A 'portable' computer in leather carrying harness. Machine has 'zorba' label

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