Åsa M Larsson, Ph.D

70 percent of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Gentle reminder. Make friends with Archeologists near you--learn how to safely find things and not disturb historic sites. Or animal habitats, etc. British Archeological Society: thebaa.org

Unacceptable losses in order or importance: 1. Reece 2. Standish 3. Louisa #SlowHorses

Flysch cliffs, Zumaia, one of the most amazing geological formations I've seen. These vertical layers run for 8 kilometres along Basque coast, each a page, forming a book covering 60 million years of our planet's history. Created when Iberia crashed into Europe and things went all squishy.

Wake up, babe! Oldest dwelling in the Western Hemisphere just dropped. (Also, they had the oldest needles and maybe the oldest domesticated dogs.) 🧪🏺🐾

Working on this here at @uvalibrary.bsky.social also. #linkedart

My great colleagues Mia Carlsson and Marcus Smith from @raa-se.bsky.social presenting the new version of K-samsök, Swedish aggregator for Heritage Data soon to be launched. New datamodel based on Linked Art (CIDOC) and a graph database, open APIs etc. #Digikult2026 www.raa.se/ksamsok

We are on Bluesky now! SEHR is a journal publishing articles and reviews in the fields of economic, business and social history with a particular focus on the Nordic countries and the Baltic region. Here, we post about new publications and other important events.

Practising some self care by watching a documentary about bees, with a cat in my lap.

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BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

Top-tier weird little guy on an incantation bowl from Nippur, Iraq, c 500 BCE, in the Penn Museum.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

Happy weekend! 🦔 ❤️ Here’s a lovely ancient Egyptian blue faience hedgehog made some 3,800 years ago! Neues Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

🧵The rape kit was invented by a woman, named after a man and paid for by Playboy magazine. Her name was Marty Goddard. In Chicago, early 1970s, about 16,000 women were being raped in a year. When women went to the police they weren’t believed.

A shame that apparently even a valid museum ticket doesn't guarantee you can see the #BayeuxTapestry, but here's a breathtaking high-resolution resource that lets you get thread-counting close to it from the comfort of your own couch: www.bayeuxmuseum.com/en/the-bayeu...

Wow! Major new site discovered on Lismore, in the inner Hebrides. “The most exciting moment for me was when they were doing the post-excavation analysis and they found that they had been melting gold, copper, silver, and they were making jewellery on our little island in the seventh century.”

An amazing glimpse into Mesolithic everyday life: this more than 7,500-year-old ring was made from heather roots, carefully rolled up and prepared for later use. It was discovered at the settlement of Motala/Sweden, where the same material was used for fish traps. Dating 5750–5550 BC. 🧵1/2 📷me

A 2,300-year-old silver container in the shape of a scallop-shell decorated with an octopus 🐙 It may once have held cosmetics. From Paternò, Sicily. Altes Museum, Berlin 📷 by me #Archaeology

📣 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐓 Kick-Off! DARIAH team is in Heidelberg, Germany this week for the kick-off of 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐒𝐓 (𝐒𝐓𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐀𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭) project. 🔗 Learn more: cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... Stay tuned for more updates about #STARDAST and the other projects DARIAH is involved in!

Today we have a very special #FindsFriday ... a timelapse of the micro-excavation of the Iron Age Norfolk Carnyx Hoard. It’s pretty amazing to see the micro-excavation process and get a glimpse of the carnyx, boar standard and shield bosses as they're revealed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI9L...

Well said: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

New discovery: An archaeological complex with colourful mosaics and wall paintings dating to the 4th century AD has been discovered in Qesarat, Albania. 👉 www.finestresullarte.info/de/archaolog... #archaeology 🏺

SCOOP: Top researchers at Columbia, Stanford, and others thought they were elected to elite scientific societies alongside Nobel laureates. The catch? The organizations are a sham. I spent the last month diving deep into a massive academic scam spanning continents, for @nature.com

We uncovered a sprawling network of sham academies using digitally manipulated photos, plagiarized content and scientists' identities without their consent eg The "European Academy of Engineering", supposedly headquarted in Sweden, was actually using a doctored photo of the University of Gothenburg

Macedonians preserved the Mycenaean tradition of burying elites with gold masks. This was made for a priestess. The decoration is detailed & exquisite, including animals on the headband. However, the disks on the eyes & plate on the mouth are confronting & final 🕰️C6thBC 🏛️📷Pella Archaeological Museum

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

Claude Vecksler, a Jewish boy from Paris. He was murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz II-Birkenau on 25 September 1942. He was 11 months old. He arrived at Auschwitz in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 475 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

I don't know to whom the credit goes for this! It appears sans ™ on another platform. Brilliant. Students of #ashwell26... This was the soil matrix drawing you deserved, not my poor dry erase board scribbles 😂 #archaeology #geology Please shout if you are the clever originator!

The amazing “Elk’s Head of Huittinen” comes from a Mesolithic settlement in southern Finland, dating to around 6100 BC. The ~10 cm long steatite (soapstone) head was carefully ground and finished and features a shaft hole for mounting. Because the stone is soft, it is unlikely...🧵1/3 📷 me

Everyday objects make people from the distant past feel much closer to us! This Mesolithic paddle is remarkably well-preserved. It was made from ash wood, dating 5000–4500 BC. From Rüde, northern Germany. Currently on display at the special exhibition "The Shaman of Bad Dürrenberg"...🧵1/2 📷 me

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

so gratefulwhen museums provide images of all sides of an object, especially ivory objects, such that we can understand and mark the age of the elephant life which made this material (Louvre OA 4068)

A team of scientists and explorers go on an extraordinary mission to reach a forest untouched by humans. Their work is based on the research conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, recipients of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Watch the film in its entirety: https://bit.ly/4mEQFfT