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Account age
3 yrs
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📊 Post engagement
3
Avg engagement / post
0.1%
Engagement vs followers
Oct 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: RE: https://social.osb-alliance.de/@OSBA/116964565142559834 “The · 10 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
6.1 / week
Posts several times a week.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 12 text · 0 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.3×
Follows 974 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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The kids are alright. Also, why aren’t more colleges and universities enlisting their students to help set policies?
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/30/nx-s1-5853571/students-set-ai-policy
RE: https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/116983720071725567
Did Firefox just reinvent “iGoogle” (2005-2013)?
https://www.versionmuseum.com/history-of/google-search
The Road
Twenty-Eight year old piece on anthropology at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and the influence of Dr. Lucy Suchman on interface design. Very interesting historical piece on what was then recent history that readers can connect to current…
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116965003274062643
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of Fritz lang’s *Metropolis*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis_(1927_film)
“Is Archaeological Data Labor Sustainable? Only through Ethical and Policy Reforms, Open Data Emphases on Public Engagement, and Indigenous Data Sovereignty.” Advances in Archaeological Practice, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2026.1016…
When you're in the torment nexus I guess cyberpunk becomes manuals all the way down ...
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jul/17/adversarial-clothing-are-garments-designed-to-confuse-facial-recognition-systems-about-to-go-mainstream
Really. I was just now standing at my window staring at the smoke while I ate a cracker and there went a damn lanternfly on the wing.
As I watched the spotted lanternfly flap its way through the wildfire haze, it was then that I knew the Anthropocene.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/116931925621534642
Earth is warning us
RE: https://werd.social/@ben/116931776205934285
This is an amazing read about re-imagining news and refocusing journalists on what matters to the people they serve. The headers alone are inspiring and hopeful: We are not alone, Libraries, …
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fediscience.org
Their home server on the fediverse — the instance a creator picks signals the community they belong to.
On Mastodon since
Oct 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 6.1× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
43/100
Fair
Credibility score
73%
Mixed
Real audience
Medium
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 73% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
- Low engagement (~0.1% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
Prof of Anthropology & Social Informatics at Indiana University South Bend. PI of Digital Index of North American Archaeology (DINAA).
#anthropology #archaeology #citizensci #civictech #culturalheritage #cyborganthropology #digiarch #digitalarchaeology #digitalhumanities #dh #digitalrights #FOSS #GIS #informatics #openScience #openData #openGov #STS
Also #biketowork #canoeing #cooking #HoosierMast #running #SciFi
All communications here are mine, do not reflect my organizations.
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