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Morwenna Ludlow

@morwennaexe.bsky.social
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Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks. I lift my eyes to the hills.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 15h
'What the islanders discovered were extensive burial grounds, decorated stonework and early buildings – all the features belonging to a major sixth-century monastery, comparable to the much better known site of Iona a little to the south-west.'
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‘Hugely exciting’ finds on tiny Scottish island shed light on spread of Christianity
Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore
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Gina Gwenffrewi @ginagwenffrewi.bsky.social · 15h
Solidarity to UCU staff at the University of Edinburgh as they fight to save jobs against a relentless senior management 'downsizing' crusade.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Innovation ys not just tech. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'The Westminster government’s contribution to funding domestic undergraduates studying in England fell in real terms from £8.9 billion in 2012-13 to just £3.3bn in 2024-25, a drop of more than 60 per cent, an analysis has found.'
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Agenda des médiévistes @rmblf.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Colloque – L’homme riche et le pauvre Lazare. L’exégèse patristique de Luc 16, 19-31 rmblf.be/2026/09/29/c...
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Colloque – L’homme riche et le pauvre Lazare. L’exégèse patristique de Luc 16, 19-31
La parabole de l’homme riche et du pauvre Lazare (Luc 16, 19-31) a été diversement commentée par des auteurs chrétiens de langue grecque, latine et syriaque. Elle a donné lieu à d’importantes réfle…
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Great news: the School has sacked a third of its academic but we've acquired 2 new interim managers on top of the extra permanent ones. Fine work all round.
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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart
Three images, one of a window surrounded by blue floral patterns on a white exterior wall, two other images of an elderly womam painting the designs
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'We thought this time would be different – it hasn't been. Perhaps we need to accept an uncomfortable reality: higher education simply isn't high enough up the government's political priority list.'
wonkhe.com
If universities aren’t a priority, at least give them certainty
With Labour Party conference underway and universities still well down the queue, Ian Turgoose argues the sector’s most realistic ask is certainty about what government wants it to look like
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Members of the University and Colleges union (UCU) will stop work until 30 October. The union said the cuts could lead to 1,800 job losses, and hundreds of staff had already lost work when contracts were not renewed. The university announced the closure of 90 courses earlier this month.'
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems: “Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
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Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What’s really peculiar about the “rapture” theology is that it’s based on a really convoluted and selective reading of scripture, dates back no further than the 19th C, is rejected by the Orthodox, Catholics, Anglicans, Lutherans, Reformed, and is basically contradicted by the Apostle’s Creed. But…
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Last repost: I used to have family on Hoy. The story there was the Longhope disaster of 1969. Many coastal communities have stories like that, and every one deserves to be retold, and anyone who attacks the lifeboats has declared war on humanity. www.scottishmaritimemuseum.org/the-1969-lon...
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The 1969 Longhope Lifeboat Disaster - Scottish Maritime Museum
By Amber-Louise Thornborrow Fifty-six years ago, on the evening of the 17th of March 1969, the volunteer crew of the TGB lifeboat assembled, venturing out into a south-easterly force…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
'The number of students taking A-level music is at a record low: under 5,000, a drop of nearly half from 15 years ago....Music GCSE entries have also fallen. It has the widest attainment gap for disadvantaged students of any subject.'
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The Guardian view on music and drama education: reversing elitism starts at school | Editorial
Editorial: The number of students taking creative subjects at A-level and GCSE is at a record low. The arts must not become the preserve of the most privileged
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It took a lot: the threat of an IPSO investigation, insults and rank hypocrisy from Michael Gove, refusal to publish a right to reply & a last minute excision without consultation, but at last I got The Spectator to publish a counter to its propaganda war against Project Spire.
Letter published in The Spectator correcting some of its misinformation about Project Spire’s historical basis.
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Andy Westwood @andywestwood.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
He may have been thrown under the bus by Farage, but this from @helenwarrell.bsky.social is still essential reading. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
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James Orr and the gospel of the new British right
Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’
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Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Haven’t got tickets for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum? Don’t worry you can visit Reading's full-size copy, faithfully embroidered by 35 women in 1885-86 (plus extra pants!) Or latest blog compares the two tapestries www.readingmuseum.org.uk/blog/comparing-bayeux-and-reading-tapestries
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Comparing the Bayeux and Reading tapestries
Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry is a full-size copy of the original 11th century tapestry. It was created in 1885-1886 by 35 women of the Leek Embroidery Society 'so that England should have a copy of its o...
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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The University of Exeter has confirmed that it won’t proceed with compulsory redundancies “at this time”. This means colleagues do not need to complete the pro forma, and there will be no selection process.
NO COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES photo of Nicole Kidman looking incredibly joyful and free after her divorce from Tom Cruise was finalised
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reading work email today and all I can say is that it's amazing how flexible course provision can suddenly be when you've fired most of the staff and teaching starts in 2 weeks. Almost as if academic regulations, credit-counts and the Office for Students (ho ho) don't exist.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
plese god brynge back general recognition of the usefulnesse of expertyse
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Jamey Walters @jedwardwalters.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m so glad that this is now available in paperback! Hopefully it will be useful and now even more affordable for people to assign it as a textbook.
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Today's university with the upcoming cuts and redundancies is Glasgow. Looks like they've reached Stage 2 or Stage 3 of the 8-9 Stage regimen each university in the UK is being subjected to: voluntary first, compulsories later. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2650036...
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Leaked email states university jobs 'may be affected by restructuring programme'
The University of Glasgow has stressed that any redundancies will be exclusively voluntary after details of the severance scheme were seen by The…
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
'Eryn Lawley, a 27-year-old politics graduate, said future-proofing her career meant walking away from the digital world. She is now a second-year bookbinder apprentice at Ludlow Bookbinders in Shropshire, learning a trade whose core techniques have not changed for centuries.'
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
NEW FROM ME: I'll be speaking about rights of way, access to the land and visions of a future Britain at Senate House in London on Friday 25 Sept... Come along! Booking link below, and there's an online option there too. It'd be great to see you all there. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...
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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON
'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR
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David Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Camille Pissarro @camillepissarro.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Picking Apples botfrens.com/collections/49/content…
Picking Apples
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Sophie Germaine: (1776 - 1831): was a mathematician, number theorist, and mathematical physicist. #CelebratingWomen
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I reviewed Sarah Williams' book on Josephine Butler - one of the most extraordinary women in modern British history, who should be *much* better known. It's "both a biography of a remarkable woman and an argument about how to write the history of Victorian Britain". academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
"Josephine Butler (1828–1906) was one of the most famous women of her age. She led an international crusade against sex-trafficking and child abuse. She brought prostitutes out of prison and into her home; challenged governments, police chiefs and judges; and spoke of rape and sexually transmitted disease on public platforms. Over a long career, Butler fought for women’s education, argued for female suffrage, served on the Married Women’s Property Committee and supported Home Rule for Ireland. She wrote numerous books, pamphlets and articles, as well as biographies of her husband, her father and the fourteenth-century mystic St Catherine of Siena. Most famously, she led the victorious campaign against the Contagious Diseases Acts (CDAs), which allowed the detention, medical inspection and imprisonment of women suspected of prostitution without trial. Millicent Garrett Fawcett thought that ‘No other woman in history has had such far-reaching influence’, and the suffrage movement carried her name on its banners. Yet she is largely forgotten today; and when the Fawcett Memorial was erected in 2018, her name was not among the fifty-five pioneers inscribed on its plinth."
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Rebecca Parton RIP, ❤️ US singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman and humanitarian #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph feating a white woman in a doorway with raised leg holding an acoustic guitar, smiling
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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Me too! We’re going to be taking about ‘A New Heaven and a New Earth’ and Hope for All Creation
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Anupama Ranawana @msamrc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Looking forward to joining @benmfulford.bsky.social for one of the @churchofengland.org 's webinars on the new document on the environment. @durhamtheology.bsky.social You can sign up here: churchofengland-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
'Universities are expected to widen participation, support student success, respond to skills needs, sustain regional and local provision, improve teaching quality and remain financially viable. These goals are not cost-neutral, they change the structure of teaching.' 1/2
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Teaching costs vary, but not in the ways funding categories often suggest
Mark Rahimi and Gwilym Croucher reflect on their recent research on teaching costs in Australia and argue that funding systems should recognise how teaching is delivered, not just what is taught
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Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Somewhere out there is a kind man who drives a red car with a child seat in the back, who was randomly hailed on the street yesterday & ended up taking the groom’s parents to a wedding (taxi failed to arrive). It was my daughter’s wedding. Whoever you are, the finest of Exeter, we are so grateful!
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Prof Penny Endersby @pennyend.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti... I had an early brief on this and ordered a pallet of sandbags for my marginally flood-prone house. They’re easy to obtain in the middle of a drought! This is a good article by the BBC covering some of the global impacts to be expected from such a strong El Niño.
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El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office
Scientists say the growing El Niño weather pattern is an "unprecedented event" and means 2027 is likely to be the world's hottest year on record.
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George Eliot @georgeeliotsays.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing?
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BCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the people shall not be at so great charge for books, as in time past they have been
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Alice Goodman @revdalicegoodman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
And if your brain is still tired, here is GM Hopkins SJ's ms of The Windhover.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 18/08/2026
Pretty in pink 💗 This is an elephant hawk-moth, one of our most striking visitors and we think it's really rather beautiful. You may have seen one fluttering around at dusk in your garden. They can also be seen in parks, woodland edges or grassy habitats. 📸 Rob Coleman, Sheringham Park
A beautiful pink furry moth with a pink underside and light brown back, pink-tinged wings and antennae sits on the purple curve of a foxglove flowerA moth with a pink underside and brown back hovering beside bright magenta foxglove bell-shaped flowers, wings blurred in flight and reaching toward a blossom against a soft green backgroundA close up of a striking furry brown moth, its long antennae resting either side of its head, its furry pink underside and face visible as it sits on a purple foxglove flowerA striking pink furry moth with brown upper portioned of its wing and head rests on a purple foxglove tubular flower with a blurry green background
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
'Dr Neil O'Brien said: "With two doses needed four weeks apart, we'd urge anyone who is eligible not to put it off. Get your first dose now so you can start university with the best possible protection".'
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Meningitis jab plea to North East and Cumbria students
A one-off summer vaccination programme is in operation for students preparing to start university.
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Ben Fulford @benmfulford.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Amidst the drought and fires, ‘There has never been a more critical moment to study’ Hope for All Creation, the new Church of England teaching document, says @churchtimes.bsky.social editorial this week. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
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Leader comment: Creation groans
‘Perhaps because the stakes are so high, the drought has swiftly become a political football’
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In case your brain’s also tired and sad here’s a floral pick-me-up I grew:
Flowers I grew in my garden arranged in a rainbow of colour on a white linen background
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Today's the feast of St Helen, 3rd Century Greek empress and mother of Constantine, traditionally associated with the finding of the True Cross. Here she is in 15th Century glass at Wiggenhall St Mary Magdalen, Norfolk.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Elizabeth Blackadder, Cats on a Kelim, 1978 #WomensArt
Two cats sitting on a rug in a dark interior
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Marianne Majerus, one of Europe's leading specialists in garden photography #WomensArt
Photograph featuring a section of garden with colourful plants in sunlight
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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Catastrophic impact on students at Falmouth. 2nd & 3rd year Geography students at Exeter Falmouth have already signed legally binding contracts with private landlords for their 2026-2027 accommodation. The move to Exeter adds to their costs. Is there even enough accommodation in Exeter?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
'Geography courses at the University of Exeter’s Cornwall campus have been shuttered, with staff and students only learning of the decision on A-level results day.' And it's not 'just' Geography. The week that 'doing an Exeter' entered the UK higher education lexicon. Don't do an Exeter.
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Exeter shuts geography courses in Cornwall on A-level results day
University closes programmes just as applicants find out if they have gained a place, with students told to transfer to other courses or study 80 miles away
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Job opening: Assistant Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity at Loyola Marymount University lmu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Career...
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Assistant Professor of Christianity in Late Antiquity, Department of Theological Studies
Our Invitation The Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University (LMU), a Carnegie classified R2 institution in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education, seeks…
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
What a loss for the people of Clacton!
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is catastrophic www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students
Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’
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