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Gilbert White @gilbertwhite.bsky.social · 3d

1776: Black snails are still about, tho' the shell-snails have withdrawn for some time. Slugs keep-out all the winter in mild weather. It seems strange that naked snails should be more hardy than those that have houses to their backs.

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Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social · 8d

Can anybody recommend an open geospatial dataset that might contain errors that my students can look at to assess data quality? I've got police crime data but I'm looking for more

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Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social · 10d

Cubone 🥺

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gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social · 17d

How awful. There’s been a break in at the St Fagans Museum of History in west Cardiff. Artefacts have been taken including Bronze Age jewellery. I hope they are caught quickly. #heritagecrime

South Wales Police statement on the burglary at St Fagans Museum of History early on Monday 6th October.

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Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social · 26d

This looks so good!! Congratulations!!

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Tori Herridge @toriherridge.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Calling all #ESHE2025 participants and hashtag followers!

Open Quaternary is looking to appoint a new Editor-in-Chief as @mlaw.bsky.social, @suziebirch.bsky.social and I step down after 10 years of shared service.

Apply here: openquaternary.com/announcements

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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Sep 17

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.

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Tim in Bath @timinbath.bsky.social · Sep 15

A lovely review article (and my first dissertation citation🍾) on Scottish archaeological mollusc exploitation from @jenniferbones.bsky.social & @mlaw.bsky.social. Makes the point that culture ("taste" if you like) may be just as important as economic considerations www.mdpi.com/2571-550X/8/...

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Dawn Butler MP @dawnbutlerbrent.bsky.social · Sep 14

As Chair, here is our cross-party joint statement from the Parliamentary Black Caucus, regarding the rising threat of racism and violence from the far-right.👇🏾

The Parliamentary Black Caucus condemns in the strongest terms the recent rise in racism, abuse and anti-migrant hatred that we have witnessed in many parts of our beloved country.

Whilst all people have the right to peaceful protest, we are clear that racism, intimidation and violence have no place in our society and must be met with a clear and robust response from the police authorities.

From people being assaulted and abused in public because of their ethnicity, religion or dress, to racist graffiti sprayed on buildings, to intimidatory and violent protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, this is an alarming time for many people, especially those from minoritised communities.

We stand in solidarity with all those who are fearful, targeted or at risk.

The Government must show leadership. It must take urgent steps to reduce tensions, call out and challenge racist rhetoric and behaviour wherever it occurs, and take far more seriously the threat posed by the far right — which police have identified as the UK’s fastest-growing threat.

We also call on the public to reject the divisive agenda of the far right, who are seeking to exploit recent tensions to spread anti-migrant hatred as well as mis and disinformation. This country is stronger when we stand together.

We absolutely should have space in our country for informed discussions around migration, immigration and integration. This should be based on facts, compassion and most importantly, humanity.

The Parliamentary Black Caucus believes in a patriotism that is inclusive, welcoming and proudly anti-racist — because only unity and solidarity will defeat the far right.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · Sep 14

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday.

I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric.

Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · Sep 14

This is, I believe, the first official word from the Government on what happened yesterday in London. Not only inaction in the face of violence and hate, but a celebration of it. I passed through London twice yesterday with my two kids & what Labour seem to be missing is that people aren't just...

'Scale of unite the kingdom march shows free speech alive and well in UK, says minister

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Archaeologists Against Apartheid and Genocide @archagainstaparth.bsky.social · Sep 3

Archaeologists Against Apartheid urgent call for action! We are not anonymous. We are members of both the EAA&global archaeological community and more committed than ever to holding our representative organisations to account and anti-democratic influences.

aaaeaastatementseptember3rd.tiiny.site

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Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fun idea: the government emergency alert test on your phone, but the alarm sound is a new song by U2

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Dr Matt Law @mlaw.bsky.social · Aug 24

matthewlaw.wordpress.com/2025/08/24/a... 🏺🌱

[An Archaeologist’s Guide to British Species] #104: Clover

In 2025, I am continuing to blog an A-Z compendium of human interactions with species in the British landscape. A list of references for information used in this series can be found here. An index …

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Aug 13

😱 and this is the issue with the academy not building/ having the resources to build its own infrastructure…

Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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