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John McCarthy

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Senior Lecturer in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University

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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There's no need to worry as any escape of AI super-intelligent agents will be immediately obvious because the number of data centres being built will mysteriously increase rapidly #superintelligence #datacentres
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CAA Australasia @caa-australasia.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Out next evenet is happening on the 18 June - Demystifying Gaussian Splatting for #Archaeology and #Museums! Free and online via Zoom events.humanitix.com/gaussian-spl...
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Demystifying Gaussian Splatting for Archaeology and Museums | CAA Australasia Seminar
Join us for a free seminar breaking down Gaussian splatting in archaeological and museum contexts!
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
In #Adelaide tonight - In Conversation: An Australian Jewish Person’s Look at the Occupation Wed 15 April, 7:00 pm. Gold coin donation. Pilgrim Church, 12 Flinders Street, Adelaide #Palestine
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In Conversation: An Australian Jewish Person’s Look at the Occupation — Australian Friends of Palestine Association
In Conversation: An Australian Jewish Person’s Look at the Occupation
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This is beautiful
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Corioli Souter of the WA Museum providing our AAA/AIMA conference keynote "All archaeology is maritime archaeology". @wamuseum.bsky.social @austarchaeology.bsky.social
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
So proud of the students in my new topic Digital Pasts: Applied 3D Capture and Reconstruction of Ancient Worlds. The class really stepped up, in most cases without any prior experience in 3D, and produced amazing work. handbook.flinders.edu.au/topics/2026/... handbook.flinders.edu.au/topics/2026/...
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Martin Porr @martinporr.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia. Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa Details here: www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
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Careers at CDU | Charles Darwin University
Discover career opportunities and find useful information about working at CDU.
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Rain pouring on battered tents. Water rising everywhere. Mattresses, blankets, and clothes soaked through in minutes. This is the reality for over 900,000 Palestinians who the Israeli military’s genocidal campaign in Gaza has displaced from their homes.
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Uncovering the ancient landscape hidden below Sydney Harbour
Maritime archaeologists at Flinders University have produced a striking 3D reconstruction of Sydney Harbour as it appeared thousands of years ago, when sea levels were much […]
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
lol
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Guest lecture for our Digital Pasts topic on #machinelearning for archaeology with the talented Dr Jarrad Kowlessar
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Flinders University @flindersmedieval.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
ARC2214 Europe Before Europe starts next week! Taught by @erinsebo.bsky.social, @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social, @janaanvari.bsky.social, Chelsea Wiseman, and @danclaggett.bsky.social
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
The TV coverage of our recent work with the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation. I'm really happy with it, although it does incorrectly state that I led the research since 2019, when it was @Jon_Benjamin and the DHSC team (deephistoryofseacountry.com) youtu.be/Ags54zpnG6A?...
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Discover an underwater frontier of submerged heritage sites | Landline | ABC Australia
YouTube video by ABC Australia
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Sean Ulm @seanulm.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Their Old People sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it’s found. Another fantastic achievement of the Murujuga Aboriginal Corporation collaborating with our Deep History of Sea Country project. Congratulations @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social for leading this. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
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Their old people sang of a place lost beneath the waves. Now it's found
For years, researchers have been trying to find ancient artefacts sitting on the ocean floor. Now they have brought in Indigenous rangers to help.
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Australian National Maritime Museum @seamuseum.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
SUNDAY LISTEN 🎧 Our new First Nations figurehead: who was she? Matt Poll, Manager of Indigenous Programs, talks to Awaye on ABC Radio National about this rare 19th-century ship's figurehead. www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/awaye/unravelling-a-19th-century-maritime-mystery/105490936 #FirstNations
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
AIMA-sponsored Maritime Archaeology session co-convened with @sea-greeny.bsky.social for #wac10 is all complete! We had a great time and thanks to all presenters! 🔱
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Important case study at #WAC10 from Ralph Behr (Wessex/Trident Archéologie) on archaeological mitigation demonstrating work on densely distributed submerged landscape sites and an early 18th-century wreck in the Baltic Sea ⚓🛠️ Excavation, 3D documentation & redeposition #MaritimeArchaeology
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Important insights from Carlos del Cairo Hurtado & Jesús Aldana Mendoza at #WAC10 on deep-sea heritage: the San José Galleon. 🏴‍☠️⚓ How can we safeguard its archaeological context from natural & human impacts? A crucial interdisciplinary challenge. #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025 @sea-greeny.bsky.social
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
📊 Weile Li (Univ. of Hong Kong) presents a structured analysis of shipwrecks in East & SE Asia (7th–13th C) using database frameworks, typologies & regression analysis. Ambitious quant meets deep time. #WAC10 #MaritimeArchaeology #ShipwreckStudies
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Ian McCann & team explore Quang Ngai’s pre-modern maritime past through shipwrecks, citadels & ceramics 🇻🇳🌊 Supported by a KAKEN grant & strong JP-VN collaboration. #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
At #WAC10, Mauro Frontini and team virtually presented their methodology for reconstructing historical maritime structures—using Aegina’s ancient harbor (Greece) as a case study. ⚓🏛️ #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Fascinating talk at #WAC10 by Sumit Kumar Pandey (Kongunadu College of Engineering & Technology) on the Chola Kingdom’s far-reaching influence on maritime archaeology. 🌊⚓ A powerful reminder of South Asia’s seafaring past! #MaritimeArchaeology #WAC2025
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Assistant Professor Saravanan, University of Calicut, on locating the ancient city of Muziris #WAC10
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
My presentation on the I-124 submarine off Darwin Harbour for #WAC10
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kicking off the WWII maritime archaeology session with Dr Fiona Earl of the Northern Territory Heritage Branch on the recent discovery of a Bristol Beaufort aircraft in the NT #WAC10
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Flinders Maritime Archaeology program @flindersmap.bsky.social recent graduate Sasha Joura on her community archaeology Masters research in Rakiura/Stewart Island, New Zealand #WAC10
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Karyn Moshe of the University of Cape Town on community maritime archaeology in South Africa #WAC10
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Dr Natali Pearson @sea-greeny.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
⚓️ 🌊 Today’s the day - our Global Approaches to Maritime Archaeology session is on all day in DFL1.11. We’ve got shipwrecky books for sale and free nautical-themed tattoos courtesy of AIMA, plus sessions on community, WWII, ports and harbours, and wrecks! #WAC10 🌊⚓️
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Dr Bill Jeffrey of the University of Guam opens the AIMA-sponsored Maritime Archaeology session at #WAC10 with a talk on #communityarchaeology for maritime heritage in Micronesia
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Professor Geoff Bailey of @flindersmap.bsky.social and @yorkuniversity.bsky.social on global submerged landscapes at #wac10
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Amanda Evans of Gray & Pape on submerged #palaeolandscapes off the south and east coast of the US #WAC10
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go follow @news.abc.net.au @abc-news.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Rock art expert accuses state government of rock art 'propaganda': www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-27/muru…
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Rock art expert accuses state government of rock art 'propaganda'
One of the world's leading rock art specialists accuses the WA government of burying evidence that shows current pollution levels in the state's north has left ancient petroglyphs resembling "Swiss cheese".
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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Hancock’s ideas have piqued the interest of millions of outwardly sensible people. They also resonate with those who denigrate experts while cheering the empowerment of today’s technological masters. They are especially popular among conspiracy theorists" www.economist.com/1843/2025/05...
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How Graham Hancock became conspiracy theorists’ favourite historian
His Netflix show claims to uncover the truth about our ancient past. Critics say he peddles dangerous nonsense
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Exciting wreck research in South Australia, a collaboration between the Australian National Maritime Museum, DEW, Silentworld and Flinders University www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
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Shipwreck lost for nearly 170 years finally found off SA coast
In 1857, the Koning Willem de Tweede sank off SA's south-east coast, and researchers are now confident they have found it.
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
hard to believe this is happening to research in the US
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Anthony Corns @anthonycorns.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Great opportunity for you to join the team here at @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social participate in the survey of many great Irish sites.
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Important points from Professor Sean Ulm, the Welcome to Country has become an issue in the election but is being misrepresented as though it is a way to alienate Australians from their nation, but it is a very different concept, and a way to mark the significance of truly ancient Aboriginal culture
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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
We need a sensible conversation about immigration but slashing intl students like this is a distraction rather than a long-term solution Intl students are here temporarily, a huge $ to our economy & ACT unis have invested heavily in student accomodation www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nationa...
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Testing what ChatGPT can do, it's quite effective #mcgregor
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Meanwhile, in Europe👇
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
HAPPENING NOW: Police arrested hundreds of protestors including Jewish elders, descendants of Holocaust survivors, and students, dragging them out of a sit-in at Trump Tower by their arms and legs. Jews say: Free Mahmoud, Free Palestine!
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Amazing discovery of some very early seafaring www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Ancient DNA shows Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa
Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry.
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Jonathan Benjamin @jonbenj.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Attention Indonesian Postgraduate Students 🚨 Fully Funded Opportunity: The LPDP scholarship covers your studies in Maritime Archaeology at Flinders University 🇦🇺 🇮🇩 www.linkedin.com/posts/wendy-...
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Wendy van Duivenvoorde on LinkedIn: targeted_page_file_1740453858.pdf
🚨 Attention Indonesian Postgraduate Students! 🚨 Dreaming of a career in Maritime Archaeology? 🌊⚓ Dive into the Master of Maritime Archaeology at Flinders…
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The Mary Rose Museum @maryrosemuseum.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
For #InternationalWomensDay meet Margaret Rule, lead archaeologist on the Mary Rose project from 1967 & leader of the operation that saw the ship return to the surface in 1982. Recorded in 2007, Rule describes how her first sea dive was rather special...
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Margaret Rule interview
Margaret Rule tells the story of how she learned to dive
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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From the midjourney community on Reddit: Extinct Creatures (Part 2) - Made using the "Retexture" feature
Explore this post and more from the midjourney community
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John McCarthy @johnkmccarthy.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
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Under Bass Strait's surface lies a vast land humans once called home
The mountain peaks of a landscape now under water are all that remains visible of a once grassy plain that connected Tasmania to mainland Australia.
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Flinders Uni Maritime Archaeology Program @flindersmap.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We have so much more to learn about the maritime archaeology of Australasia - incredible find in New Zealand www.teaonews.co.nz/2025/03/03/o...
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Ocean Waka: ‘Most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology’
What began as a a Rēkohu (Chatham Island) father and son's routine search has led to one of Aotearoa's most significant discoveries - possibly even in Polynesian archaeology
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