Some good news: I won the 2025 Teaching Award at the University of Cologne's Faculty of Arts & Humanities for my 3D documentation and modelling courses! 🎓 I wrote a blog post reflecting on what this means to me – why good teaching needs time, why practical components are often neglected in academia, and why awards like this matter for making teaching visible.

https://itsmoreofacomment.com/2026/02/13/teaching-award-2025-and-why-good-teaching-needs-time/

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🌟🗿 Explore Easter Island’s Rano Raraku quarry’s 1,000+ Moai statues in stunning detail with Binghamton U’s new interactive 3D model. Discover evidence of ancient tribes collaborating, now virtual for all. Plan your visit! Read more: https://thedebrief.org/hundreds-of-easter-island-moai-statues-can-now-be-explored-in-unprecedented-detail-thanks-to-this-interactive-3d-model/

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Hundreds of Easter Island Moai Statues Can Now Be Explored in Unprecedented Detail, Thanks to This Interactive 3D Model

Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

The Debrief
“As I dig, I am also destroying. Archaeologists must document it before. But with 3D documentation, we can understand the site better.” Interview with Paola Derudas, researcher in archaeology at Digital Archaeologt Lab, Lund University.
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https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/past-comes-alive-3d
The past comes alive in 3D

Lund University. “As I dig, I am also destroying. Archaeologists must document it before. But with 3D documentation, we can understand the site better,” explains Paola Derudas, researcher in archaeology at Lund University.

The answer to the question above was Lund. A lovely University city in South Sweden. I was there to be part of the assessment committe for the PhD defense of Paola Derudas.
Her dissertation "Documenting, Interpreting, Publishing, and Reusing: Linking archaeological reports and excavation archives in the virtual space" passed unanimously
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https://www.lu.se/lup/publication/25b31d91-1787-4ebe-ae7d-302ed14f4dc6
Documenting, Interpreting, Publishing, and Reusing : Linking archaeological reports and excavation archives in the virtual space | Lunds universitet