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Dr Laura Hodsdon

@laurhod.bsky.social
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Associate Professor and Research Centre Lead, Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University | Heritage, landscapes, social geographies | Lapsed Classicist. Rower, runner(ish), photographer, failing veg grower. Yorkie in Cornwall.

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The Guy From Yesterday @akma.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Without prompt, vigorous, costly attention, the 21stC will see the utter devastation of England’s reputation as a world leader in higher education, presided over by Tories, Labour, and Lib Dems, with hardly a word of protest from other parties.
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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
If anyone is in Truro in November, this is such fun to sing and is going to be epic
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Three Spires Singers @threespiressing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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
Sadly not :( Falmouth will be advertising some funded places via the Celtic Crescent DFA, which the brief I shared could potentially be fitted to - should be advertised in due course.
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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We're particularly interested in projects around our brief on The UK’s participation in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and its impacts for national minority identities www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
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The UK’s participation in the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Research proposals should capitalise on this crucial moment for ICH in the UK, and should pose research questions such as: What impact is the ratification of the UNESCO Convention having on conversati...
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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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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Petition to add a Cornish tickbox to the 2031 Census: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Petition: Add a tick box for "Cornish" in the 2031 census for national identity question
To add a "Cornish" tick box to the 2031 census for the question on national identity. Instead of Cornish people being forced to write it in the "Other" category.
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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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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Greenpeace uk "Five member of Just Stop OIl are currently serving a cobined sentence of 15+ years for discussing blocking roads in a zoom call."
Meanwhile, kent police are allowing the fash to block roads.
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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 · 13/08/2026
Terrible. Sending solidarity from Falmouth to all Exeter colleagues. Really bad news for Cornwall.
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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Yep, officially over-invested
A large seagull chick is picking fish up from the patio. I gave it the fish.
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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
Replaced by tanker trucks :(
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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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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Don’t know about the US but in the UK I’ve wondered whether it could come under the Equality Act on religion and belief. I think there’s case law around the belief part not necessarily being religious.
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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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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
It is worth reading David Graeber's piece on hope called, Hope In Common. davidgraeber.org/articles/hop...
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Hope in Common
We seem to have reached an impasse. Capitalism as we know it appears to be coming apart. But as financial institutions stagger and crumble, there is no obvious alternative. Organized resistance appear...
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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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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
On the tube
Photo of a fake OpenAi ad on the overground. Text: "Yes, we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves.

But — it might also help them with their homework."

Chatgpt logo
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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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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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witchy raerae 👍🧙🏻‍♀️ ❌👑 @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?
Carved image of bird-human hybrid being
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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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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I've not been involved personally but sure this is something that colleagues at Falmouth University are now starting to do (inc the creative practice part) - I'm sure they'd be happy to help www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/phd...
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Research Degrees
Falmouth offers both theoretical and practice-based research programmes leading to a PhD or MPhil.
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The Oxford Nature Network @biodivoxford.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
1% of the population owns half the land in England. What does that mean for nature recovery? Really interesting conversation with Guy Shrubsole on land, power, and stewardship. www.buzzsprout.com/2135393/epis... @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
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Guy Shrubsole: The Lie of the Land. Is Stewardship a Myth? - The Nature Recovery Podcast
Hosted by Wallerand Bazin, a DPhil researcher in Geography and the Environment at Oxford whose work focuses on the political ecologies of climate and conservation in heritage landscapes. In this ...
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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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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Grant application: submitted.
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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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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 15/03/2026
An important reminder about how colonial-type exploitation is at the centre of the AI revolution: www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intel…
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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back
Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.
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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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