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Dr Laura Hodsdon

@laurhod.bsky.social

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 · last wk.

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.

KateW@kateweb.bsky.social · last wk.

The Home Office refused twice as many student visas on the first half of 2026 as they previously, while halving the % of visa rejections universities can have before they're not allowed to ti recruit international students. Are those refusals on good grounds? Oh no, not at all.

Sarah May@sarahmay1.bsky.social · 3w ago

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

MwahahahahahadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 4w ago

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 🧪

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 4w ago

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful. Review process As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it. Feedback on your application Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · last mo.

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?

Aditya@adityamandrekar.bsky.social · last mo.

Hi @dannychambers.bsky.social since you're an MP from Hampshire, can you please ask Andy Burnham in parliament why the actions of the balaclava-wearing goons in Portsmouth isn't being treated as domestic terrorism? Thanks.

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · last mo.

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.

Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · 2mo ago

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.

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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.