@laurhod.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Research Centre Lead, Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University | Heritage, landscapes, social justice | Lapsed Classicist. Rower, runner(ish), photographer, failing veg grower. Yorkie in Cornwall.
If your priority is stopping Reform you need to know who to vote for to do it. This site has the answer. 👇🏻
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.
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...
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
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
Over 26,000 have emailed their local trust to keep Palantir out of the NHS.
Will you join them?
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=PalantirNHS&utm_medium=social_media
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...
Fleeting glimpse of god’s own river on the way to the station this morning #york #rowing
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
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
It really shouldn't be so hard to source vegetarian + organic dairy products (veggie parmesan, organic sunflower spread etc). Does anyone out there know someone who will deliver to the far west of Cornwall...?! (or preferably make it here obvs) #organic #dairy #sustainable #food
"From today, 2 December ... trans girls and young women will no longer be able to join Girlguiding.' 😡😢
www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...
This is why it's important to have Arts/Humanities courses AND STEM courses. It all fits together, they compliment each other.
There's no such thing as useless education.
Whistlestop trip to Versailles this week to share reflections on the Re:voice project and hear about other JPI CH funded projects.
Also, pleasingly I was asked for directions by French people twice, which made a nice change from being pegged as a tourist. Think it must be the hat.
Oh and also my favourite piece Brahms 4 for good measure. Yes please.
Brahms’ Requiem has been on my singing bucket list for ages - super excited for tonight’s concert with @threespiressing.bsky.social - tickets available on the door if you’re in Truro!
Ask a stupid question, dry up a river.
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
A nicely timed walk at Godrevy yesterday
“Only 5% of migration is from small boats, but it gets 95% of the headlines. It would be ludicrous to cut legal migration when we have 150,000 NHS vacancies."
Zack Polanski says politicians must stop fuelling fear and start telling the truth about immigration.
#Peston
Autumn colours ❤️ #alsace #elsàss
And it turns out lettuce doesn’t need to be wrapped in plastic either
Always delighted to see the veg sections in French supermarkets - these are local mushrooms, thoughtfully and respectfully presented, not just shipped in from wherever and vacuum packed as in the UK. And a real celebration of local produce in general. (Very little organic choice though, sadly.)
Flyover linking two banks of the Nile and a billboard planted on an island, itself only accessible by boat
Door with hands, Cairo
Mural in the City of the Dead, Cairo
So lucky today to visit Qursayah Island on the Nile with @landscaperesearch.bsky.social - farming and fishing communities just a stone's throw from the modern city - and to support verynile.org up-cycling programme of plastic waste from the river plus their delicious community cafe
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please tell BBC News we’re sick of 4 MP Party Reform being rammed down our throats daily with drivel like this👇🏼report
The @libdems.org.uk have 72 MPs, Greens 4, SNP 9 but they don’t get a look in 🤷🏼♂️
Soon BBC News will report what Farage has for breakfast 🙄