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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 11d

Flyover linking two banks of the Nile and a billboard planted on an island, itself only accessible by boat

There's a lot happening in this photo. It's an island taken from a boat. On the left of the island bank is a felucca sailboat, and a line of chairs is an informal ferry queue. In the centre, sprouting from some trees on the island, is a billboard. To the right are the concrete struts of a flyover.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 11d

Door with hands, Cairo

Large blue wooden door with Arabic writing above the threshold, and two white painted hand prints in its centre

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 11d

Mural in the City of the Dead, Cairo

Image shows a wall with a bright yellow background and a mural of mosque domes and minarets, with city buildings behind

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · 16d

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

Photo of a run down but lush looking farm land, with a cow grazing in front of a ramshackle barn and palm trees, with a minaret nearby and modern city buildings in the background

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20d

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

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Patrick - Here for the craic 👍🏼 @patrickopatrick.bsky.social · Aug 25

@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 🙄

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms

The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

www.bbc.com

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · Aug 11

As it happens I met this fella a couple of weeks ago. He was doing voluntary work to make habitat for bees and butterflies.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Aug 2

Yup

Photo of a glass calm sea with a kayak and paddle in the foreground

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jul 30

You can now read all of Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage for free via Open Access www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · Jul 14

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jul 1

Oh yes, hello #TidesOutTuesday! Definitely a hashtag I can embrace.

Concrete plinths, all that remains of Newlyn WW1 seaplane base, forming a stone circle, with the ruins of Penlee quarry behind

Black and white photo of square concrete blocks on a rocky foreshore. They are at strange angles and could pass for ordinary rocks.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jun 23

Thank you my dear! Xx

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jun 13

We propose a heritage literate ‘revoicing’ of ICH that accounts for these increasingly plural social contexts, and ensures ICH's role in societal resilience into the future.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jun 13

It focuses on live cultural events as ICH in Cornwall in the UK, Frisian, in The Netherlands, and Livonian areas in Latvia and Estonia. We asked a wide range of people - from locals to tourists and everyone in between - how they engage with and value national minorities’ ICH.

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jun 13

revoice.falmouth.ac.uk

Re:voiceRe:voice - Start Page

revoice.falmouth.ac.uk

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jun 13

*Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe* is out today!

Using data from the JPICH Re:voice project, it explores the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural heritage

www.routledge.com/Revoicing-In...

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage: Perspectives from the Margins of Europe

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural he...

www.routledge.com

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jun 5

it seems like AI has got really good at making up footnotes, including a jstor stable reference (that links to something else) and a journal title/volume number/page range (for a different article) -- so on first glance they all look totally legit

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Jun 4

Photo of post titled ‘most people seem unaware of AI’s climate impact’ with text underneath explaining that ChatGPT uses a surprising amount of water.

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · Jun 2

This is my PhD thesis

I did not ask for this

I did not consent to this

I did not approve of this

I was not compensated for this

I would not have advised this

I do not like this

And worst of all, the number of people who've read my thesis has still not increased.

Email saying "An AI created a podcast of your paper"

Said paper is my PhD dissertation, "The Role of The Hippocampus In Configural Learning"

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · May 21

Last week to apply for this funded heritage PhD with Historic England - application window closes 25 May.

Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Apr 22

*Fully funded PhD in heritage klaxon*

Excited to invite applications for an AHRC-funded CDP with Historic England and the Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University.

Deadline 25 May.

www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/centre-heritage-culture-society/participatory-practice-and-heritage

Participatory practice and heritage for all

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: The potential of participatory practice to positively engage both und...

www.falmouth.ac.uk

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · May 9

Not the worst day at work

Photo of castle keep silhouetted with blue sky and grassy meadow

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Michelle Ma @michellema.bsky.social · May 8

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most

A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

www.bloomberg.com

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Dr Laura Hodsdon @laurhod.bsky.social · Apr 22

*Fully funded PhD in heritage klaxon*

Excited to invite applications for an AHRC-funded CDP with Historic England and the Centre for Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University.

Deadline 25 May.

www.falmouth.ac.uk/research/centre-heritage-culture-society/participatory-practice-and-heritage

Participatory practice and heritage for all

This Research & Knowledge Exchange Doctoral Project brief summarises our priority areas of research interest under the heading of: The potential of participatory practice to positively engage both und...

www.falmouth.ac.uk

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Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · May 2

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform.

This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Chris Williams @chrisw100.bsky.social · May 2

Another record year for the Green Party 👏
859 Councillors on 170 Councils in England & Wales

Now join us to keep Greens growing and to take the fight to Reform join.greenparty.org.uk

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