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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The British Iron Age is the pits There's somewhere between 140-170 pits recorded from inside the Caburn hillfort in East #Sussex (the largest being Roman) Plans: the 1928 survey by E Cecil Curwen and the 1999 #RCHME survey published in Sussex Archaeological Collections 137 #HillfortsWednesday

Black and white hachure plan of the ramparts to an Iron Age hillfort and multiple internal pits

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Emily Dourish @emilydourish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The cakes in the UL tea room tell it like it is.

A dish with a glass dome containing rectangular slices of cake with very pink icing, labelled “Candid toffee apple tray bake”

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

‘Mob rule’ is also, of course, an insulting way of referring to democracy.

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Very different, I’d imagine!! Good to hear from you Alastair :). Hope all is well? I’ll take one for the team and force down a cake in the THC next week!

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Back to the start of my day at #Leeds City Square 6/

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But the colours were also beautiful. 4/ #UniversityofLeeds Campus #Leeds #LoveLeeds

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

B&W brings out the texture in these beautiful Brutalist monsters! 3/ #UniversityofLeeds Campus #Leeds #LoveLeeds

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glorious day in #Leeds yesterday, so I couldn’t help but take some #architectural photos. #LoveLeeds town centre. 1/ Town Centre

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Back to the start of my day at #Leeds City Square 6/

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

B&W brings out the texture in these beautiful Brutalist monsters! 3/ #UniversityofLeeds Campus #Leeds #LoveLeeds

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Glorious day in #Leeds yesterday, so I couldn’t help but take some #architectural photos. #LoveLeeds town centre. 1/ Town Centre

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Harlinah Teoh, creates botanical ceramic art inspired by walking in the Australian landscape #WomensArt

A group of six vases in different shapes and sizes all ddcorated with flowering plant designs, all on a white surface against a white background

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ganja, or ganje, in late 80s Hereford at least. I would be very excited (and surprised) to hear you’re setting a plot in late 80s Herefordshire.

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Its almost as if the Tories, for the last 20 or so years, are either (1) willing to say and do stuff that actively harms everyone, for the sake of the votes of older, wealthier, more frightened folk; or (2) been terribly bad at fiscal and economic policy.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The idea that Oxford “competes for students” is laughable. But this is the great unsaid principle; that some universities are inherently superior, that they must be enabled to survive, and that all other institutions (and staff, and even students) are expendable.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Very strange that he holds to the principle that “universities should have to compete” for students, when he went to one of a small handful of universities that absolutely view competing for students as beneath them.

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Competition, with its lovely clinical simplicity, is an ideal answer to *any* problem, for policy makers wanting to keep their hands clean. It enables us to avoid arguing about the messy tensions between means, aims and values. And only the deserving survive, so competition can’t ever fail!

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I am tired of living in a Russel T Davies mini series plot

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this. this is the feeling. the climate is the pressing issue of our era! do you remember when it got to 40C in London this summer?! it's somehow a beautiful summer afternoon out there in early October right now! we do need this to be taken seriously politically!

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On a totally different issue, when I & many other women were furious about the Green Party position on reducing c-sections ("we will work to reduce the number of interventions in childbirth" to treat it as a "non-medical event") we were told that these policies sneak in, because of member voting...

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

one million, million percent. the current Israeli government are a disgrace to Judaism around the world, they have taken the most appalling extreme fringe elements of a millennia-old tradition of tolerance, generosity and education and used them to enact their horrific racism. there you go.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

once again I would like a see a long read on cocaine and the far right

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Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our AI-powered timetabling system has become self-aware and resigned from its position with immediate effect.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that performative sneering at whole genres of fiction is not a sign of intelligence, nor is performative misery a sign of superior talent. Read what brings you joy. No-one else gets to decide or to control what that means to you.

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Chartered College of Teaching @collegeofteaching.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Are you a school-based mentor, school leader or teacher educator? 🎓 Module 3: Assessment and Progression of our free certified Increasing Diversity in ITT course will help you embed more equitable assessment practices in your setting. Access the course here: chartered.pulse.ly/clqakq6p54

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

we’re all agreed the bacon sandwich thing was antisemitic now, right

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

One of those two looks like an invasion to me.

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Absent a poll function on BlueSky, could you reply please and say which feed you have as your default - 'Following' or 'Popular with friends'?

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don’t know how to do that, but I get annoyed when I discover I’ve unwittingly strayed onto the ‘popular’ tab.

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you’ve not discovered the BBC podcast “Human Intelligence” then please give yourself a wonderful treat. Naomi Alderman tells a fascinating story each episode, showing the worldly and bodily nature and unique character of human intelligence. pca.st/podcast/7db0...

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In Human Intelligence, Naomi Alderman dissects the minds of brilliant thinkers from the past; examining the myriad ways in which humans think and realising that great minds don't, in fact, think alike...

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Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If we were doing risk management on AI, one of the lines would be about misalignment (ie AI doesn't do what we think it's meant to) with catastrophic results This *might* have a low probability but it would certainly have a high impact, and you'd expect maybe this would make us slow down and think

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well, of course he would say that, wouldn’t he!

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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Check out my latest Director's Blog - Simply the Best, reflecting on the fantastic SHP Summer Conference in July director.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2026/09/05/s...

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SHP26: Simply the Best - Director's Blog

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’d bet that you can’t do anything rapidly, until some of that cheese has been digested…

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet.

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Powerful and important letter about artificial so-called intelligence from Sheila Hayman from Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, in the FT today

$Margaret McGirr’s letter (“AI can lend a hand, but it will struggle to replace one”, July 21) and Chine McDonald’s guest column (“This retro revival is more than a longing for the past”, Opinion, August 7) both touch (sic) on something that should be obvious, but is carefully ignored by almost everyone in the tech world. Namely that our intelligence is embodied, evolved and biological, and inseparable from our bodies. The brain’s job is to control the body in the world; it is the last organ to develop. Every square centimetre of our hands (and of the rest of our skin) contains about a 170 touch sensors or nerve endings, sensitive to different kinds of touch: a slap, a burn, a caress, a hug — each of which travels to different parts of the midbrain, prompting the appropriate response. Quickly to the autonomic nervous system for something dangerous; more slowly via a different channel for something carrying meaning. In addition to the hand’s limitless versatility, it is self-repairing, regulates its own temperature, knows without being programmed how much pressure to exert on an egg, a tennis ball or a day-old chick, and can fuse neurologically to whatever it holds. So when we put a glass down on the table or slide a knife through an apple, we feel the table, or the apple, not the glass or handle in our hand (try it!). Finally, and most urgently, the entire human body — including the hands — does everything on 25 or so watts of completely renewable energy: a tiny fraction of what a humanoid robot, even one of the current primitive iteration of robots, needs. The “retro revival” is thus not cultural nostalgia. It’s millions of years of evolution crying out to be heard, before we suppress it totally in the service of an automated — and dead — planet. Sheila Hayman Member of the Advisory Board, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, London NW1, UK$

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Meanwhile, @politico.eu reports: "Bank of America published a research note yesterday warning “the economy-wide productivity boost many expected has yet to arrive” from AI."

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Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Off into #Leeds again this morning for another marking shift at Albatross House.

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kay taylor rea but spooky 👻 @kaytaylorrea.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I feel like I spend so much of my time hearing insane conservative talking points that can all be explained by that chart about the prevalence of left handedness

Chart of the history of left handedness sbowing a decrease in the early 1900s when children were forced to stop using their left hands followed by a steady rise until it evened out and stayed at around 12% once children were no longer forced to use their right hands

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We are steadily being pushed towards 'if it didn't exist back when I was growing up, then it doesn't or shouldn't exist now'. Weaponised nostalgia.

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Richard Sims @simsre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#HillfortsWednesday It was a very parched Eggardon Hiil as we made our way to Dorchester last Saturday turning on to the #Roman road just beyond the hill

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