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Tim Gollins

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Director SCUA at Vanderbilt University. Posts etc. my own - Loves #Kites #MorrisDancing #Archives #DigitalPreservation #Digipres #Libraries #Photography LinkedIn uk.linkedin.com/in/timgollins Flikr flickr.com/photos/111510787@N06

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MythicBrush @efhoward.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Archaeologists in Leuven, Belgium, just uncovered a 2,000-year-old Roman wooden water pipe—remarkably preserved in marshy soil. Proof that ancient Romans knew a thing or two about plumbing! #RomanEngineering #Archaeology #Leuven #AncientInfrastructure #HistoryUncovered
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Roman wooden water pipe unearthed beneath the Belgian city of Leuven
Archaeologists working in Leuven, Belgium, unearthed a Roman wooden water pipe that was remarkably preserved from the Roman imperial period
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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A pair of bronze foot-guards, found in Ruvo di Puglia, Italy. Dating 520-480 BC. Only a few examples of foot-guards survived. The might have been too cumbersome to be of practical purpose. On display at British Museum. 📷 me 🏺 ancientbluesky #archaeology
A pair of bronze foot guards with anatomically detailed toes, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes. Laid side by side on a beige display surface. 

toe-shaped bronze foot armor, hinged at the middle, with worn surfaces and small holes.
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Thanks for buying #Burningtheboons hope you enjoy it!
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Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Giant cat in the searchroom alert!
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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
sorry I can't make it to #bdcm25 this week but liking that there's a BlueSky feed emerging from the delegates. Like happier times on the other place. Thanks all! #digitalpreservation #dpc
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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This week I'm at my old haunt, Senate House, for the already excellent #BDCAM25. So far today: new ontologies for the archived Web; LLM-enabled-metadata-generation-as-a-service, and more besides. And it's only day one.
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Peter Webster @peterwebster.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
And the badges look like this #bdcam25
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 01/04/2025
In a new episode of the BBC History Extra podcast, the Society's President, Lucy Noakes, considers the state of history in UK higher education today bit.ly/4cwSiaJ Lucy discusses the impact of cuts, restoring a student numbers cap, and history's contribution to national culture #skystorians 1/2
Image of the podcast for BBC History extra, special issue on Funding cuts and culture wars.
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Digital Humanities Research Hub @dh-researchhub.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
One of our conference organisers @naswells.bsky.social spoke with BBC's Tech Life programme about the importance of archiving digital culture. Listen from 7:00 to hear some teasers for this week's #BDCAM25 conference.
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Tech Life - Jamming and spoofing - BBC Sounds
UN agencies are worried about rising cases of satellite navigation signal interference.
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Roxana Maurer (Popistașu) @roxponinja.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Now I know 😀 @davidunderdown.bsky.social sent me the link to the University's history page for the Senate House, as well as this excellent article thecritic.co.uk/issues/april...
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The building that inspired Orwell | Charles Saumarez Smith | The Critic Magazine
London was subject to a whole series of neoclassical plans for its development from the 1870s onwards.
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
It was the Ministry of Information where Orwell’s wife worked! We even have a room 101.
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Roxana Maurer (Popistașu) @roxponinja.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Sunny spring day in London for the start of the #BDCAM25 Born Digital Collections, Archives & Memory conference www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... (I don't know why, but from the very first time I saw it years ago University of London's Senate House Building made me think of Orwell's Ministry of Truth)
University of London's Senate House Building in London, UK
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
So looking forward to the first day of #BDCAM25 tomorrow. We have things to celebrate even in difficult times.
Born-digital collections, archives and memory
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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Also yes these are beyond excellent #bdcam25
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Roxana Maurer (Popistașu) @roxponinja.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Brilliant floppy disk badges at the #BDCAM25 (Born-Digital Collections, Archives & Memory) Conference #DigitalPreservation #DigiPres
Born Digital Collections, Archives & Memory 2025 conference badge on a floppy disk
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Bird eats bird: White-throated toucan of Suriname, gently (surely!) holding another small bird in its beak. Protective! By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose day is today.
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Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Working in Winchester.
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A University of Virginia professor enlisted students to document the messages—profane, hopeful, despairing—left on library carrels by previous generations and you can browse all 3000+ of them. daily.jstor.org/graffiti-lim...
Book shelf with books on top with library stickers with call numbers on it. Shelf has blue painter's tape over it and the phrase "Carpe the fuck out of this diem" written on it.Wooden shelf or table with the phrase "I want sleep and chiken tenders" written on it and then "tenders" has been crossed out and replaced with "nugs"Side of a shelf in a library with book stacks in the distance. Someone has drawn a heart with an infinity symbol over it.
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Melinda Haunton @melindahaunton.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Commuter #UnconfinedWalks. Still some splendid blossom out.
Feet in brown boots on pavement with long early morning shadows stretching awayStreet tree full of white blossom Pink magnolia against blue sky. The petals are now very open and green leaves showing. Won't be flowers on here for much longer.
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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I think this is really important. Lockdown has changed us. And I wonder whether this will just go away by itself.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Born on this day in 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.
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Kate Jarman @ermerlindaj.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Medical historians! Any ideas in how common the use of Greek notation Phi Theta is to indicate TB? Not seen it much before but it's in every record our researcher is looking at
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RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Look who's joined @bsky.app 👇 Give them a follow for lots of interesting #HistoryOfMedicine stuff.
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Bexley Archives @bexleyarchives.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Bexley Local Studies #ArchiveBeginnings came in 1972 when records of the predecessor authorities of the new London Borough of Bexley were brought together in the new Library Service HQ at Hall Place Bexley. We stayed there until moving to Bexleyheath in 2000. #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
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Clare Rainsford @littlebonelady.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Absolutely blooming stoked to announce that the zooarchaeology resource pack that I wrote with Dr Michelle Feider for YAC has been published! Aimed at kids 8-16yo, four activities for learning about bones in the past with no skeles needed. Except your own. www.yac-uk.org/news/new-zoo...
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New Zooarchaeology Resource Pack - Archaeology for you
Zooarchaeologist, Clare Rainsford, and Michelle Feider from the University of York, have created a bumper resource pack of activity ideas based on zooarchaeology on behalf of the Young Archaeologistsr...
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Elvissa @elvissa.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The NEH does a lot of important work, but my favorite program is their Preservation Assistance Grants, which provide $10K to small humanities collections like local history museums and archives to care for their collections.
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Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
We have a big conference this week and the weather is going to be gorgeous. The University of London Senate House looks amazing in the sunshine.
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Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory
Conference
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Dr. Kassandra Ford @kassthefish.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Trying to come up with the words to say. I'm terrified for our students. We just received an email that an international grad student at UMN has been detained. Minnesota has laws stating police are not required to provide info to ICE. Admin claims no info was given. How can we protect our people?
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Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy would have been a lot quicker if Control had just thought to check who had added Karla to the group chat...
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵
US map via scienceimpacts.org visualization of economic loss due to IDC cuts to 15% as part of Feb 7, 2025 executive order, with shading denoting intensity of cuts.
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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’m so sick of people coming for librarians. If you don’t like the books, don’t read them. But don’t prevent others from reading them!
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Great example here of the data that's lurking in archival records, and what can be unlocked by crowd-sourced transcription. A genuinely *good* thing that emerged from lockdown...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
A lovely Neolithic knife - with its wooden handle - from a site with houses built on stilts on marshy land in Germany. Usually, the wooden part rots away and we just have the blade. This makes so much more sense! OP - David Connolly on FB: www.facebook.com/share/p/1EaR...
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Tim Gollins @timgollins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/food/2025/ma...
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Yotam Ottolenghi: I tried intermittent fasting, and hated it. This is why we need to ditch the diets and go back to basics
The chef says we need to forget fads and focus on the joy of good food cooked with love
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Mark Knight 🍉 @markknight63.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Low-vis! #Fenland #Archaeology
Two people side by side wearing orange hi-vis clothing stained with dark brown peat
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Tom Kimmerer, PhD @tomkimmerer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The oligarchs want to destroy our progress in addressing the climate and biodiversity crises. But our priority first has to be to prevent harm to our most vulnerable people. My banner reflects our urgent need to ensure the success and happiness of our transgender friends and families.
The Transgender Flag
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Colored Conventions Project @ccp-org.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Want to learn more about Sarah Loguen Fraser and the pharmacy she ran as the first woman doctor in the Dominican Republic? Check out our exhibit on Black Wealth! coloredconventions.org/black-wealth...
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Tim Gollins @timgollins.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
This! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Canada goose fights off bald eagle in rare, symbolism-laden battle on ice
Photographer captures 20-minute clash between birds emblematic of Canada and US amid high trade tensions
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
An incredible survival and rescue here.
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Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴‍♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social · 16/01/2025
David Lynch made the kind of films that were so beautiful to look at you couldn't take your eyes off the screen even though your brain was screaming at you to look away.
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Thanks for reading #Burningthebooks!
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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Always a good sign when your boss comes to your desk with the head of IT and starts the conversation with “don’t freak out”
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Archives Gig @archivesgig.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Interview with Nelly Panesso at Contenido Archivístico Nelly Panasso is a Colombian archivist, records manager and educator who is now based in the USA. She runs the Archival Content/Contenido Archivístico YouTube Channel, where she is having very interesting conversations with archivists all over…
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Interview with Nelly Panesso at Contenido Archivístico
Nelly Panasso is a Colombian archivist, records manager and educator who is now based in the USA. She runs the Archival Content/Contenido Archivístico YouTube Channel, where she is having very interesting conversations with archivists all over the world. A few weeks ago, she reached out to me to chat. Thanks for the great conversation, Nelly! Here is the video!
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Using the REACT Framework to Evaluate and Assess Generative #AI Tools libguides.lmu.edu/GAIL24/REACT...
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LibGuides: Accelerating Academic Research with AI - GAIL Conference '24: R.E.A.C.T. Framework
LibGuides: Accelerating Academic Research with AI - GAIL Conference '24: R.E.A.C.T. Framework
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Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Good grief; I suppose whenever I feel brassed off about rebranding waffle and corporate euphemisms, I should remember this and think that it's not as bad as it could have been. "Assistant planters", good God.
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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A rare poster from the 1930s has been donated to Cambridge University Library. The poster, which advertised a meeting of the #Lakenheath branch of the League of Nations, was discovered in a shed, still stuck to a piece of wood! Read the full story: loom.ly/VJ8iCIg. @emilydourish.bsky.social
The poster after conservation. We see text that reads, "Lakenheath Disarmament Campaign"
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William Kilbride @williamkilbride.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We're offering a bunch of leadership roles in the #DPC's Sub-Committees and Executive Board for 2025. There's a drop in session tomorrow (17th Jan) for anyone interested. The call remains open to the end of January. #digitalpreservation #digpres 1/2
DPC Stickers
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Katharine Schopflin @schopflin.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
thebritishlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/librar... free in-person event at The British Library for those interested.
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Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? from See Tickets
Buy tickets for Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? at British Library from the official retailer, The British Library Cultural Events.
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