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Nicola Lercari

@nicolalercari.bsky.social
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Digital heritage specialist, football (soccer) fan and Doodle owner. Disclaimer: My posts on BlueSky reflect my personal views only and do not represent my employer.

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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🔗https://excalibur-eccch.eu/excalibur-at-the-2nd-european-researchers-night-in-conservation-restoration-of-cultural-heritage/ #EXCALIBUR #DigitalHeritage
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Eleven toolkits. Four use cases. One consortium. A growing ecosystem of digital heritage assets that all need somewhere to live. 🏛️ THE HUB is the centralized platform where every EXCALIBUR solution, digital twin, and discovery comes together. #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheHub #DigitalHeritage
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Soon the first two sentences in every student’s homework, peer reviewed academic article, novel, news item, and funding application: “AI did almost all of the writing. I remain the expert and the thought leader behind this piece”. #writingsky
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One artifact. 12 datasets. 6 institutions. 3 schemas that don't talk to each other. The insights are there — they just can't find each other. 🗂️ 🔠 THE TRANSLATOR maps it all under a shared ontology connecting every EXCALIBUR data source! #HorizonEU #ToolkitTuesday #TheTranslator #KnowledgeGraph
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What if you could see a threat to a heritage site before it happened? 🛰️ THE ORACLE fuses satellite+ UAV data into risk maps and time-series plots that turn conservation from reactive to proactive. Don't just map the past. Monitor its future. 🔮 #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheOracle #EarthObservation
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Bones hold an entire biography: age, height, physical history, cremation temperature. We just needed the right questions. 🦴 THE DETECTIVE asks them. 3D scanning+CT+SEM+ML, automating biological profiling of ancient remains at scale. #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheDetective #Bioarchaeology
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Every archaeology dig destroys the very context that makes it meaningful. Once a layer is lifted, it's gone. ⛏️ THE TIME MACHINE records every layer in 3D so you can follow exactly how artefact was found in the pit, long after the dig ends. #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheTimeMachine #Archaeology
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
What an exciting topic! My new Ph.D. student and #CINDAQ scientific cave diver, Julien Fortin presented his work on the exploration and protection of the aquifer and underwater archaeological heritage of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula @lmu.de #InstituteofDigitalCulturalHeritage #AcademicSky ‪🏺
LMU Munich Ph.D. candidate Julian Fortin is seen presenting his exploration of caves in Yucatan, Mexico
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Tens of thousands of heritage artefacts still waiting to be digitised. By hand. ⏳ THE ACCELERATOR changes that —AI algorithms for feature recognition, inpainting & completion, embedded across every EXCALIBUR toolkit. Twelve months of work. Compressed. 🏎️ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheAccelerator #AI
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
You're a facing a painted coffin from the Minshat Abu Omar cemetery but a small label can only say so much. 🏺 THE VOICE lets you ask for more — AI + a verified knowledge graph, built by LMU. Every artifact has a story. 🗣️ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheVoice #AI
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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Marketised model ‘clearly coming to an end’, says ex-Greens leader Natalie Bennett, saying the environmental party remains committed to free tuition, and building a system where universities are no longer ‘places of fear’, reports Helen Packer #highered #studentdebt #edusky ow.ly/x3Uz50ZjkbC
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Can VR help save a 2,000-year-old tomb? #EXCALIBUR pitched its XR + digital twin toolkits at Immersive Tech Week 2026 in Rotterdam. Here's how 👇 excalibur-eccch.eu/excalibur-at... #EXCALIBUR #XR #CulturalHeritage
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Satellites are watching 3,000-year-old burial sites right now. 🛰️ Meet EXCALIBUR #ΤK2! THE SENTINEL maps erosion, salinity & urban pressure on heritage sites. The wall won't warn you when it's about to fall. THE SENTINEL will. 🛡️ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #CulturalHeritage #TheSentinel
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🏺 Imagine inspecting a 2,000-year-old artifact by controlling a virtual sun from your laptop. 💻 Meet EXCALIBUR Toolkit #1! 🛠️ Our MLIC system lets non-experts digitize & remotely relight artifacts to uncover hidden history. 🔍✨ #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #Archaeology #DigitalPreservation #ECCCH
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This sarcophagus hasn't been opened in 2,400 years. 🏺 THE REVEALER looks inside anyway — fusing 3D scanning + CT imaging into one digital model. Non-invasive. Non-destructive. Exact. The lid stays on. We look anyway. 👀 #ToolkitTuesday #EXCALIBUR #TheRevealer #CTScan
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So, the Sony Alpha 7R VI has been launched prez.ly/DFGd Any suggestions if this camera can be a good buy for digital photography work? Budget is not an issue and we already own Sony FE lenses #photography #digitalphotogrammetry
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Ready to shape the future of cultural heritage? Ready to start/continue your academic career in Germany (while studying in English)? Apply for the new MA #DigitalCulturalHeritage at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München lnkd.in/dD_j2b4G
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Only one month left until the deadline for admission for the new Master's #DigitalCulturalHeritage @lmu.de Find all details at www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/study... Please share!
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Application and Admission
All steps from application for the Master’s program Digital Cultural Heritage to your registration at the university
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excalibureccch.bsky.social @excalibureccch.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
No more digital silos! 🏛️💻 EXCALIBUR is co-building the European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (#ECCCH) to unify burial heritage data. From 3D tombs to bioarchaeology, we're making tools open & reusable across Europe. 🇪🇺✨ 🔗Read More: lnkd.in/dDEjUpaz #ECCCH #EXCALIBUR
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We’ve just presented our #ML paper “Hierarchical Point Patch Transformer for Semantic Segmentation of High Resolution Multimodal Archaeological LiDAR Point Clouds” at #CAA2026. Thanks to all co-authors and @lmu.de Prof. Rügamer for connecting us with his wonderful Data Science students #AcademicSky
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
#ForensicArchaeology session at #CAA2026Vienna. What an interesting and macabre field! Folks from the #NetherlandsForensicInstitute are using the same #ProximalSensing methods as used in landscape archaeological research to help police investigations on clandestine burials #AcademicSky
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Finally, I’m attending the #CAA2026Vienna with my team of talented researchers from the @lmu.de Institute for #DigitalCulturalHeritageStudies. Go #DigitalArchaelogy!
Prof. Lercari and his LMU Munich IDCHS team at the CAA 2026 conference in Vienna
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
This is what happens when ignorance and #ChristianFascism are elected as government. Science is disregarded, ignorance prevails, our Earth and us will pay the consequences for decades. Europeans take note please. bbc.com/news/article...
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Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The White House calls it the largest deregulation in US history, but environmentalists say it will prove costly for Americans.
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It seems 300 years later the situation in Germany is quite similar with all those Prof. Med. Dr. Hab. Last name and the like 🤣
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Meet the putto that is responsible for handing out academic and working titles: a figure blowing soap bubbles as a sign for vanity. Take this, #academicsky, feel addressed.
A putto on a cloud with a soap bubble.
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
This political ad about a need for #digitalisation in Germany made my day…with my broken German I understood “No to time for fax machines” which is quite appropriate given the tech backwardness of this country an wide use of fax… the actual translation reads “No time for non-sense” 🤣
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The “best” of two worlds… pagoda on ice at #WestparkMuenchen in Munich, Bavaria
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
#AcademicSky One more time they address the wrong issue, one more time they show that they care more about the NRA twisted ideology then citizen and student safety #BrownStrong…
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US to pause diversity visa after Brown shooting suspect identified as green card holder from program
Claudio Neves Valente, the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting, was found dead tonight after taking his own life, Providence Chief of Police Oscar L. Perez, Jr. said. Follow for live news up...
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Ian Hutchins @bihutchins.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Can scientists get a fair shake publishing solid work in specialty journals? Definitely if article metrics were used; many such papers are revealed to be as influential as papers from high tier journals 1/4 #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #NIH #NSF #OpenScience journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Most researchers would receive more recognition if assessed by article-level metrics than by journal-level metrics
Are authors fairly judged by assessment of the prestige of the journals in which their work is published? This study compares article level metrics with journal level metrics, finding that the vast ma...
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Anastasia Eleftheriadou @aeleftheriadou.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I am so excited being part of the LMU team led by @nicolalercari.bsky.social in the EXCALIBUR Horizon Project ( excalibur-eccch.eu ), where we develop open-source, cost-effective digital tools powered by AI/ML collaboratively with archaeologists, bioanthropologists, and conservators.
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Today, we’re launching our new #DigitalHeritage guest speaker series @lmumuenchen.bsky.social #AcademicSky with my talk on investigating invisible ancient cities with #remotesensing and #AI www.kw.lmu.de/dch/en/news-...
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Remote Sensing and AI Approaches for Investigating the Invisible Poleis of Heloros and Kamarina, Sicily
Within the LMU Munich’s Digital Heritage Research Colloquium Public Lectures Series
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Just finished reading news on Trump’s speech trying to persuade generals and admirals to embrace his radical ideology edition.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p.... Americans shall not forget the #KentStateMassacre and what happens when the military is used to suppress speech and dissent at university’s campuses
National guard deployed against students at Kent State
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
#AcademicSky I've just finished presenting the paper Sun Stones Chronicles: Enriching the Bornholms Museum Brightest Artifact Collection through 3D Scanning and Semantic Web Technologies at #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena. Many thanks to the Beckett Foundation for supporting our research
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
What a great panel @ #DigitalHeritage2025 in Siena! With colleagues Maria Economou, Angeliki Chrisanti, Erik Champion, Angela Antoniou, and Stella Sylaiou we discussed #GenerativeAI and the #NarrativeTurn in #DigitalHeritage education. The highlight our pre-session in Piazza del Campo 😊 #AcademicSky
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Hayden Clarkin @thetransitguy.com · 05/09/2025
San Francisco came within a single vote of saving the Embarcadero Freeway from demolition.
Before and after of Embarcadeo Freeway in front of the ferry building
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
#AcademicSky The first week of our international workshop on #DigitalPhotogrammetry funded by the #DAAD Ta’ziz short-term measures program has united an international cohort of students and staff from LMU Munich, Alexandria University (Egypt), Fayoum University (Egypt), and the University of Jordan
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DAAD-funded International Training in Digital Imaging
The International Training in Digital Imaging Techniques for Cultural Heritage and Archaeology in Jordan and Egypt has officially commenced in Munich.
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I’m proud of my PhD student Yiming DU for presenting the wonderful paper “StatueDiff: Regionally Enhanced Cross-Scale Diffusion for Single-View 3D Reconstruction of Classical Statues at #CIPA2025Seoul #AcademicSky
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
#AcademicSky It’s my pleasure to attend a keynote given by my former PI Maurizio Forte at #CIPA2025 conference in Seoul. Vai Maurizio!!!
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Rachel Lambert, prof at UCSB, teacher! @mathematize4all.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
#AcademicSky #EduSky
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Another news of a blackmailing attempt against #UCLA, one of the top public universities in the world. How humiliating is it for a country owing its wealth also to science and research to destroy its higher education system from within? Don’t give in #UCLAStrong www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
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Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics
The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I just read this article about Japan being stuck in the past with fax machine and ink stamp. How funny is it that I found so many similarities with Germany where I had to learn how to use a stamp to do university business? edition.cnn.com/2025/08/09/a...
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Japan used to be a tech giant. Why is it stuck with fax machines and ink stamps? | CNN
When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with int...
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We’re hiring a postdoc @lmumuenchen.bsky.social in #AI & #ML applications in #HeritageScience for 3+3 years www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42.... Do you know anyone interested?
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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München hiring Postdoctoral Researcher (Akademischer Rat auf Zeit) in AI and Machine Learning Applications in Heritage Science and Archaeology in Munich, Bavaria, German...
Posted 1:20:37 PM. About us:As one of Europe’s leading research universities, LMU Munich (LMU) is committed to the…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Reading Susan Schneider’s analogy between #LLMs using adaptive language and the 2013 movie #Her. She say chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions nautil.us/ai-already-k...
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AI Already Knows Us Too Well
Chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
#AcademicSky Did you know that #DPLA launched #TheBannedBookClub to ensure all readers have access tot the books they want to read despite their authoritarian government’s restrictions? America one more resource for you in case things get rougher… dp.la/news/the-ban...
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The Banned Book Club now available nationwide
Readers across the country can now access banned books for free via the Palace app Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and our partners at Lyrasis have made over 1,300 titles that have been remov...
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Nicola Lercari @nicolalercari.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
#AcademicSky I’ve been coming across more and more papers related to #digitalheritage, #digitalarchaeology, and #digitalhumanities being published on arxiv.org as open-access preprints. Is anyone in these fields using it? What’s your perception of arXiv or other open review repositories?
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arXiv.org e-Print archive
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
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Too poor to science: How wealth determines who succeeds in STEM
From student to researcher, a career in science can come with a high price tag. This Perspective explores how persistent financial barriers limit who can succeed in science, revealing how wealth shape...
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@MontanaResists❌👑 @nancyskartveit.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 14/06/2025
🔬 #AcademicSky ▫️ #AcademicChatter ▫️ #Research ▫️ #Career 🔬 Skills you need to see results in your research career Research careers are, for obvious reasons, extremely varied. However, there are a number of skills that all researchers, regardless of their industry or path, should consider learning.
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Skills you need to see results in your research career
If you want to ensure a long and varied career in the research space, these are the skills you should add to your repertoire.
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