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Three Spires Singers @threespiressing.bsky.social · 22h

Tickets for our performance of the Monteverdi Vespers in Truro Cathedral on 21st November are now available from the Minack Theatre Box Office. Please click on the link: minack.com/whats-on/thr...

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Falmouth University's Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society welcomes PhD applications for 2027 that take creative, critical approaches to heritage www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/cen... #research #phd #heritage #ICH

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Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society

The Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society addresses people’s relationships with past, present and future cultural places and landscapes.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

It’s okay though because you can now find stuff out slightly more quickly, so swings and roundabouts.

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Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

To the 'AI is out of the bottle' folks: so were cigarettes, so was opium, so was uranium in household goods, so was asbestos. It's perfectly possible to look at a financially successful product, decide it's dangerous and work to control it it

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have data to show these algorithms are biased against specific groups of people, so I don't know how this is not malpractice at the very least

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 18/09/2026

Same question to my MP @benmaguiremp.bsky.social - as the MP for a coastal constituency, please can you ask in Parliament why attacks on RNLI personnel aren’t being treated as acts of domestic terrorism and arrests made accordingly?

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Join the conscientious objection movement

Image from vintage fan showing moon, sun and stars and words GenAI conscientious objector

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I want the Prime Minister to look into a TV camera and say the RNLI are heroes, that we do not change policy by street violence in this country, and that he expects any criminal action to face the full force of the law. That's it. That's all he has to do.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just a reminder, Professor James Orr, Reform UK head of policy, teaches 'ethics' to undergraduates at Cambridge University youtu.be/aXut3s90rUI

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

SUPPORT THESE DATA CENTERS (from magic city books : magiccitybooks.com )

Support These Data Centers: Schools, Libraries, Bookstores, Museums, Public Media, Concerts, Elders, Farmers Markets, Record Stores, Theaters.

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 21/08/2026

When I call for a peopled landscape I am asking for authentic place relations and deep landscape knowledge so that people everywhere can be stewards for and with the places they live instead of operating symbolic and unhealthy landscapes.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Oh hi! First hummingbird hawk moth I’ve seen this year - they love the Jupiter’s Beard.

Photo of a hummingbird hawk moth feeding on a pink Jupiters Beard flower

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Lauren Brent @ljnbrent.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The University of Exeter is not in budget deficit. Yet are proposing to cut 150 academic jobs. This include my job. Please sign and share the petition, write our Vice Chancellor, to your MP, and get the word out about the act of self harm this university is about to commit. c.org/yKcx6Zr29H

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This campaign needs you now

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Had to sneak in a bit of ICH at the Rural Geographies conference in Porto! Regata de los Barcos Rabelos (boats used to bring wine barrels from the Douro) - though going upstream with no wind it was quite a sedate race… #ICH #heritage

Photo of the Douro river in Porto with sailing boats amid riverbank paraphernalia

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Three Spires Singers @threespiressing.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Online ticket sales open today via the Minack Box Office for our concert on 4th July. The ideal way to spend a summer evening!

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I feel these two headlines should be shown together more

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Still depressed about the EHRC and what it says about the decline of feminism in my lifetime. But, to all my trans & NB friends, colleagues & students: try to remember that only a small, genital-obsessed minority want this (however hard the media try to change that). Many many people support you. 💜

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Chiaralbart: Trans Rights Butterfly

ALT: Chiaralbart: Trans Rights Butterfly

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Joe Sondow @joesondow.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The AI bubble as an interpretive dance

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

“A palantir is a dangerous tool, Saruman. We do not know who else may be watching.”

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Rachael Nevins ❌👑 @rachaelnevins.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Sitting in the Lustgarten in Berlin where ‘on 7 February 1933, 200,000 people demonstrated against the new Nazi Party regime of Adolf Hitler: shortly afterwards public opposition to the regime was banned.’ #localelections

Photo of formal gardens with fountain and grass in the centre, lined by trees

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 08/05/2026

🎉 6 Green councillors elected in Exeter! 💚 Huge congratulations to Exeter Green Party.

LOCAL ELECTIONS 2026
6 COUNCILLORS ELECTED IN EXETER
Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of The Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Really enjoyed the exhibition of finds from Göbleki Tepe at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Very interesting theme of human-animal hybrids picking up from visit to completely different context in Costa Rica earlier in the year - how could we glimpse this thinking to recalibrate our place in the world?

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/05/2026

📢 Polling stations are now open! 📢 Want to replace the failing Labour Party and defeat the hateful message of Reform? Get yourself down to your local polling station and vote Green today! Every vote counts. Make sure your voice is heard 💚 Don’t forget your Photo ID for voting in England!

Vote Green Poster by Artist Raissa Pardini - Vote Green - Join for a real change, real hope.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Fascinating find of the text of the Iliad in a Roman-era Egyptian mummy. Even more interesting that the Catalogue of Ships was their go-to excerpt. ‘Are you sure you don’t want the duel betw-‘ ‘No. All the ships.’ www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

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Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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Alex @potentiaspace.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

*Screams into a void* "Data centres built to power AIs produce so much heat that they can raise the surface temperature of the land around them by several degrees" www.newscientist.com/article/2521...

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AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

An example of every post with a compelling image or video now devolving into a confused debate in the comments on whether it’s real or AI. Thinking about how nature photography used to be a window onto a world bigger than us. What did we get in exchange for having that world’s reality ripped away?

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 16/03/2026

Is anyone on here a specialist in the landscapes of Devon? I might have a small but pleasant job for you.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

If Jim Ratcliffe wore 10 real £40,000 Rolex's on each arm, and they all got stolen, and he went into London every single day. It would take him 5,000 days, 13.7 years, and 100,000 Rolex's to pay back the £4bn he has dodged in taxes.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We’ve been in Costa Rica for over a week and this lovely little shop in Saint Elena is the first mention of its (still existing) indigenous people - check it out if you’re there for traditional crafts supporting them

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

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Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Mull / Cornwall Artist Exchange: We are inviting applications from artists based in Cornwall (incl. Isles of Scilly) & on the Isle of Mull, Iona, & Ulva to take part in a new cross-regional artist exchange exploring creative practice in rural places. associates.creativekernow.org.uk/mull-cornwal...

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An Tobar | An Fenten (The Well): Mull/Cornwall Artist Exchange - Creative Kernow Associates

Organised by CAMP, Creative Kernow Associates (CKA), and An Tobar and Mull Theatre

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Fleeting glimpse of god’s own river on the way to the station this morning #york #rowing

Frosty blue sky over still river in York uk

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

On Friday 13 Feb I’ll be at the perfect place to talk about extinction in natural history museums: Oxford University Museum of Natural History @morethanadodo.bsky.social. Free tickets available for “Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction” oumnh.ox.ac.uk/event/dead-a... #extinction

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Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction’

In the halls of natural history museums all over the world, you can peer through the glass and come face-to-face with the ghosts of extinction.

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 15/12/2025

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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