Dr Laura Hodsdon

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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.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

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...

Photo of a shop front ‘Brilliante’

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

Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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

An Tobar | An Fenten (The Well): Mull/Cornwall Artist Exchange - Creative Kernow Associates Organised by CAMP, Creative Kernow Associates (CKA), and An Tobar and Mull Theatre

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...

Frosty blue sky over still river in York uk

Fleeting glimpse of god’s own river on the way to the station this morning #york #rowing

Dead as a Dodo: The Haunted Heritage of Extinction’ In the halls of natural history museums all over the world, you can peer through the glass and come face-to-face with the ghosts of extinction.

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.

Selfie in a hat at Versailles

Fountain pool and reflection of Versailles with warm evening sun

Front view of Versailles illuminated at night

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.

Photo of choir and orchestra rehearsing and the nave of Truro cathedral

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??

Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.

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...

Double rainbow over a white lighthouse with sandy beach

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

Photo of vineyards in autumn yellow colours

Autumn colours ❤️ #alsace #elsàss

Huge lettuces in a supermarket

And it turns out lettuce doesn’t need to be wrapped in plastic either

Photo of vegetable section in a supermarket with baskets of different types of mushrooms, with an autumn leaf decoration

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.)

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.

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

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

Door with hands, Cairo

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

Mural in the City of the Dead, Cairo

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

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:

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.

@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 🙄