Early career archaeologist ⛏️ PhD candidate @ UniMelb🏺 Scripts, tablets and sealings 📜 Phylogenetics, 3D modelling, GMM and machine learning 🤖 (she/they)
Melbourne, Australia
Joined January 2021
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It was such a joy to MC this event, and hear all about Rob's new book! The future of manuscript studies is looking very exciting with the increasing adoption of computational methods. You should definitely take 20 minutes over a coffee break to check out the talks on YouTube ☕
Yesterday I had my book launch and I was honoured to have @TourEmily, @mbird12, Alexander Treiger, Stephen Carlson and Joey McCollum speak about the book. Here is a playlist of what they had to say: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
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Yesterday I had my book launch and I was honoured to have @TourEmily, @mbird12, Alexander Treiger, Stephen Carlson and Joey McCollum speak about the book. Here is a playlist of what they had to say: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
📢#booklaunch alert for my wonderful PhD supervisor 📢If Bayesian phylogenetics, manuscript studies or textual criticism are up your alley, you should definitely tune in this coming Thursday 13 Feb @ 3pm! In-person at UniMelb, or on Zoom.
Join us for the launch of Codex Sinaiticus Arabicus and Its Family with discussion from author @RobTurnbull & scholars in Arabic manuscripts, textual criticism and New Testament studies.
Thu 13 Feb 3pm @melbconnect inc afternoon tea or via Zoom
Register events.humanitix.com/book-la…
ALT invite for the book launch inc the cover of the book and an image of Rob at his desk working with a manuscript
This Sat @ 13:30 AEDT, I'll be presenting at my first programming conference @PyConAU, on a little Python library I've been working on with some colleagues (including @RobTurnbull) 🐍 Nervous (but excited) about speaking in front of a technical audience! #digitalarchaeology
ALT Details of Emily's talk at PyConAU 2024, titled '"Introducing Potnia: A Python language library for the conversion of ancient texts to Unicode". PyCon AU is being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre from 22–26 November 2024. Speakers are Emily Tour and Kabir Manandhar Shrestha, and talk will be held at Eureka 2, Saturday, 1:30pm. Registration link is pycon.org.au/attend
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Don't forget, this is the last week to get your paper, poster or workshop abstracts in for #CAA2025, being held next year in Athens!🗓️ Due 24 November 2024 🗓️Select your session and get typing! 2025.caaconference.org/call-… #digitalarchaeology #archaeology #cfp
Super excited to be taking part in this #digitalarchaeology symposium next week 😊 I'll be presenting on a recent collab I've been involved in, looking at using #machinelearning in ancient script and language research (including undeciphered scripts, like Linear A). Check it out!
Registration for our next CAA-A event is LIVE! Join us for “De/coding Digital Archaeology” on Friday 29 Nov, a collaborative symposium with @MDAP_Unimelb. In-person and online tix available, free for members and non-members. View the program and book here: events.humanitix.com/de-codi…
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The Incas used mysterious stringy objects called ‘khipus’ to record data. We just got a step closer to understanding them...
New research from MDAP's Karen M Thompson
theconversation.com/the-inca…
👀📜An exciting new #digitalhumanities article, co-authored by my wonderful PhD supervisor, @RobTurnbull!
MDAP’s @RobTurnbull and Evelyn Mannix from @MelbCtrDataSci have just published a paper in IJDAR about their winning 🏆 submission to the 'Competition on Detection and Recognition of Greek Letters on Papyri' at @icdar2023 rdcu.be/dYigY
ALT A scrap or papyrus with Greek letters on it
Very excited to be presenting at this event! Stay tuned for program/registration details over the coming week #digitalarchaeology
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Oct 26 Melb @Hellenic_Museum Greek Love: Beyond The Veil "magic & monsters, inspired by Halloween & LGBTIQA+ History Month" Talks by Dr Jessica McKenzie, Noah Wellington, Dr Tanika Koozmen, Tobias Fulton. Book $ hellenic.org.au/event-detail… @Jessica__McK @lykophrons @tanika_mk @_31BCE
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Working on #GenerativeAI, #LLMs, and/or #TextMining in #archaeology?
@AlfieTalks and I are organising a session on these topics at #CAA2025! Please consider submitting an abstract, or joining the session at the conference.
Session description: 2025.caaconference.org/call-…
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ENCI, our mobile CT scanner for cultural heritage objects, is on its second major field mission: Our team is looking inside sealed #cuneiform tablets @Muzekart in Ankara, reading #ancient contracts and letters for the first time:
csmc.uni-hamburg.de/news/202…
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BREAKING NEWS: The Mummy (1999) just received a 55 minute standing ovation from me in my living room after watching it for the 200th time
I was very lucky to host this wonderful @CAA_Australasia panel last week (or rather, 'co-host' with my very present and opinionated feline friend, Mr Dudley 🐈). #Archaeologists and #3Dmodelling enthusiasts, check it out!
A big thank you to all those who made it to our online panel '#Photogrammetry Myths' last week! If you were unable to attend, or are keen to watch all over again, the panel recording is now live on our #YouTube channel: youtube.com/watch?v=ddtFtLIi… #digitalhumanities #3dmodelling
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The scriveners of ancient Egypt were more than papyrus pushers, but they suffered many of the same repetitive ailments as desk jockeys today, a new study suggests.
Ancient Scribes Got Ergonomic Injuries, Too: nytimes.com/2024/08/16/scien…
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Wednesday 28 August, CAA Australasia holds the online panel: 'Photogrammetry Myths'!
Hosted by @TourEmily, panelists Tom Keep, Dr Corey Noxon, Michael Rampe and Madeline Robinson.
For more info and to book your free ticket: events.humanitix.com/photogr…
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You can come hear @MGP_Robinson talk about photogrammetry as one of our panellists for our free online event “Photogrammetry Myths” on 28 August: events.humanitix.com/photogr…
Andrea Jalandoni of Griffith University reviews Madeline Robinson's brilliant new manual, Photogrammetry for Archaeological Objects. Available now: bit.ly/4bz9Kcs
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💻Time to start working on those #digitalarchaeology session proposals, everyone! 📅 Due 8th September 2024 🌍 Looking forward to a great #CAA2025!
Session proposals for CAA2025 in Athens, Greece are currently open! This year the theme is “Digital Horizons: Embracing Heritage in an Evolving World", full details and submission guidelines can be found here: 2025.caaconference.org/call-…