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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 15h

I would find it much more interesting to name all the women who won Nobel prizes for men. I can start with Franklin and Meitner, anyone wants to go on?

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🚨 Breaking news: we fucking WON!!!!!!!!!! 🚨 www.unitetheunion.org/news-events/...

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Dozens of publishing staff at Legalease, the publishers of legal industry-bible The Legal 500, have won a dramatic victory in their industrial dispute over pay.

Staff who had been on strike for two and a half weeks accepted an offer that fully met their original pay claim of a £2000 pay increase for every worker. This was despite the company originally claiming it would not pay such an increase.

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William Blanc @hmedievaliste.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Bon, j’ai regardé le spectacle « historique » donné au Stade de France à l’occasion de la visite du pape. Réaction et analyse d’un show qui développe une vision fantasmée et délirante de l’histoire de France et du catholicisme 1/

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This was an entirely predictable act of economic self-harm - both the Sunak and Starmer government decided that the priority was to cut migration *when it was already falling fast*. ukandeu.ac.uk/immigration-...

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Immigration is falling but the economic cost may be high - UK in a changing Europe

Jonathan Portes analyses the latest immigration figures from the Home Office and Office for National Statistics.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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.

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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.

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Raphaël Pradeau @raphpradeau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ça va être un régal de voir tous les candidats de droite et d'extrême-droite qui passent habituellement leur temps à fustiger les prières de rue des musulmans assister à la prière de rue de la Concorde cette après-midi 😎

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Over the past two years, I4R partnered with Psychological Science (@psychscience.bsky.social) on a large reproducibility project. 67 independent teams reproduced 64 articles published in 2024–2025, about 44% of eligible papers. Paper: www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10... Here's what we learned 🧵

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Estelle Faye @estellefaye.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sur une polémique du moment, rappels : AUCUN détecteur d'écriture en IA n'est fiable (tous ont pris pour de l'IA des textes écrits avant 2020). Depuis des siècles, des auteurs sont accusés de ne pas avoir écrits leurs textes. Ce sont souvent des auteurs qui ne rentrent pas dans certaines cases.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“Deeply disturbing”, “Take sexual violence extremely seriously”, “Confidential” When a university is confronted with a serious problem, the response is to recite its commitments, policies & resources Anything except engage with what has been disclosed statements.cornell.edu/2026/2026092...

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Doug Savage @savagechickens.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nicer. www.patreon.com/savagechicke...

Chicken 1: You'd look nicer if you smiled.
Chicken 2: You'd look nicer if you #@$*ed off.

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Steven Watson @nostawnevets.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It is apparently essential we make them AI literate, so I explain how AI will make them illiterate.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 22/09/2026

I hope the hackers hit Profiles next, that platform is garbage and is used by so many universities omg

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

We approve of this behaviour. Everyone. Be more spiteful.

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Dr 🫥 @draevans.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Another needless death. Some people think ADHD is made up. Others that it is something mild or just an excuse. Sadly such ignorance kills. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Runcorn woman died after three-year ADHD assessment wait, report says

Bethany Hewitt was referred for an ADHD assessment in February 2023 but died earlier this year.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

Between the human verification, and the three factor authentication and so forth, I can transfer my life savings to a random bitcoin account easier than I can read a Nature paper my library subscribes to.

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 19/09/2026

You asked and we answered - just for the fun of it! Which It’s a Superpower?? character are you - the official quiz!! uquiz.com/quiz/zNnazQ/...

Five people on a purple background, with the text "It's a Superpower??" below. Left to right, we have a brown woman with purple hair holding a tabby cat, a white woman in frilly shirt and long skirt with a massive bag, a young woman holding a jam roly-poly, a scruffy white guy with a hamster on his shoulder, and an attractive, scared-looking white guy hiding at the end.

Artwork by Fraser Geesin.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women

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Mark Hebden @unionlib.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Scotland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Huh? Wales: We want to leave the UK BBC: What? Northern Ireland: We want to leave the UK BBC: Lolz Some shithole in Oxfordshire: We want to leave the UK because racism BBC: REPORT THE HELL OUT OF THIS #Piddington

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Humans are reading your ChatGPT chats. Just like humans are behind your food delivery robots and various other applications of automated technology. Usually underpaid humans in other countries.

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Dr Amélie Gourdon-Kanhukamwe @afrenchparadox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Raoult's anti-autistic ableism in episode 4, just to seal the analogy 🤢

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Richard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Let's encourage them to pursue careers as newspaper columnists. Can't do much worse than the commodified bigotry currently on offer.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 13/09/2026

The Telegraph is mad that the PM is ethnically (non practicing) Catholic and trying to remove laws that curb Catholic and Jewish prime ministers from roles Protestant prime ministers undertake that kinda underlines some shit in this country.

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Catholic PMs shouldn't be appointing Anglican bishops

Andy Burnham should stick to his own bishops as spiritual shepherds

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nick Robinson on Today is literally talking about ‘legitimate concerns’ after second night of organised men dressed in black - sorry ‘protesters’ - mobilising en masse in another littoral town. This is how street fascism is normalised

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Sophie Tlk @sophietlk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Donc je récapitule : Christian Nègre, ancien DRH au ministère de la Culture, mis en examen et sous contrôle judiciaire pour avoir drogué + de 250 femmes, est toujours autorisé à travailler dans les ressources humaines. IL A ÉTÉ DEMASQUÉ IL Y A 8 ANS. 8. La justice de ce pays nous met en danger.

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L' ex-DRH Christian Nègre, mis en examen pour avoir drogué près de 250 femmes, travaille toujours dans les ressources humaines, sous pseudonyme

Cet ancien haut fonctionnaire s'était déjà fait remarquer pour être intervenu dans des écoles de commerce à Caen, sous le nom de "Bernard Genre". Il officie toujours comme coach professionnel indépend...

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

Dear Professor Bee,

Thank you for your email, and again for the time that you, the handling editor, and the reviewers have devoted to my manuscript, "Method: Using generalized additive models in the livestock animal sciences". I am very grateful for the constructive review of the paper and was pleased that it was accepted for publication in animal – open space.

I have considered the requested changes to remove first-person formulations such as “I show”, “I describe”, and similar expressions. I respectfully disagree with this stylistic requirement and am not willing to revise the manuscript throughout to adopt an impersonal style. The use of first-person, active prose is a deliberate authorial choice, and there is substantial contemporary guidance encouraging clearer, more direct scientific writing of this kind, including Brennan (2024, *PNAS*, doi:10.1073/pnas.2316966121) and guidance from Nature advocating active rather than passive scientific prose (https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/effective-writing-13815989/).

I would therefore be very happy for the manuscript to remain with animal – open space and proceed to publication, subject to normal copy-editing, provided that the requirement to convert first-person formulations throughout the manuscript to an impersonal style is withdrawn.

If the journal considers this stylistic change to be a condition of publication, please treat this email as my formal request that the manuscript not proceed to publication.

As I signed the publishing agreement following acceptance, I would be grateful if, in that event, you could confirm in writing that the manuscript will not be published by animal – open space and that, pursuant to the “Reversion of Rights” provision in the agreement, all rights granted under the exclusive publishing and distribution licence have reverted to me. I would also appreciate confirmation that I am free to submit the manuscript for consideration by another journal.

I regret that we have reach…

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Atul Haria (immigrant) @atulharia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The BBC can go fuck itself. Try being black/brown in the middle of that mob and then tell me if it was "intimidating".

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.

Photo from the telegraph. Red background with a roll of wheelchair stickers on white paper. Text reads “how having a disability became cool”

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Well, I feel mightily reassured.

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Mark Berry @boulezian.eurosky.social · 06/09/2026

I have no intention of teaching anyone to use ‘AI’. I am not qualified to do this and will refuse to become so. It is of purely negative value. Very few, if any, students wish to use it. They are generally its strongest opponents. It should not only be shunned; it and its promotion should be banned.

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draglikepull @draglikepull.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This is like if you invented a calculator that made basic mathematical errors and math professors were like "Well what am I going to do, *not* teach my students how to use the broken calculator?"

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Academic Chatter @academic-chatter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Universities rarely use research evidence in their decision-making, so why do they expect anyone else to? blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

ugh so now people are doing this abt ariely bec apparently there's nothing else to criticize about him than his half beard. it's public info folks. he was in an explosion and half of his body and face burned. it's not a "shtick" and he's definitely not doing a "half man, half woman" routine. sheesh.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I’ve gone in search of that group of cosplaying men with a perverse idea of national pride who are holding up traffic. I think I’ve found them

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Goodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.

A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊 And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥 Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It was never going to stop with Jason Arday. Our resident Bluesky creeper Ben Ryan is now turning his attacks onto Jason Arday's students--no doubt the fact that the student is a Black woman has nothing to do with Ryan and Wright's apparent concern for "academic rigor"

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and I obtained a Cambridge PhD thesis—one of questionable academic rigor—that Dr. Arday examined and that was put under a new, five-year embargo just after the scandal about Dr. Arday broke.

The PhD thesis of a student in Cambridge’s Faculty of Education—in which the late Jason Arday held a professorial chair, in the sociology of education, until he resigned hours after Cambridge on Aug. 5 announced it was investigating him—has been put under what British and Canadian academics have told Colin Wright and me is a remarkably long embargo, shielding it from public view until 2031.

Crucially, among the panelists who reviewed the thesis was Dr. Arday himself.

The thesis, which we have obtained and which we review in this Substack, raises important questions about whether the Faculty of Education, including Dr. Arday’s own contributions, let down the basic standards of higher education.

Written by Damilola Folayan, the thesis is entitled Of, but not in: A poetic exploration of how Black women students respond to the coloniality of Oxbridge—referring to the portmanteau of Oxford and Cambridge. It garnered her a coveted Cambridge PhD in 2025. Following what’s known as an autoethnographic style, it is in essence an epic poetry-slam interpretation of the plight of Dr. Folayan and three other black women at Oxbridge and their experiences navigating, with considerable ambivalence, these historically, and still overwhelmingly, white elite institutions.

The sprawling thesis unabashedly thumbs its nose at the rigors and demands of academia even as it demands in return an elite PhD and all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto.

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

8pm! 42 minutes from time of posting

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Apparently it’s because this popped up behind Tice on a timer while he was speaking. So, now they are checking for other protests.

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🌍Peter🔥Antifa✊ @peterru.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Despite EU sanctions, AI agents serve Russian propaganda on demand | RSF, 01.09.2026 This Reporters Without Borders (RSF) investigation reveals the extent to which generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools facilitate the circumvention of these restrictions. rsf.org/en/despite-e...

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Despite EU sanctions, AI agents serve Russian propaganda on demand

When prompted, the chatbots Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Vibe retrieve content produced by Russian state media outlets sanctioned by the European Union (EU) and, therefore, banned from broadcasting in ...

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 03/09/2026

Is it just me or is it bad that, if you want to submit to a journal, you can only do so if you promise you'll accept all review requests for the next six months or else you'll get desk rejected for future submissions? What if you're ill or disabled or have caring responsibilities?

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 03/09/2026

> You can be for it or against it, but you can also think that EDI has not gone far enough and that it has failed utterly and terribly. As I do. This third position demands a different ethic of the university. [And so] EDI was defeated a long time ago, regardless of what its proponents say.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is excellent

stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)

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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 03/09/2026

However, if your original Professoriate, and the structures you have in place, simply concentrate a homogenization of the academy, continues to look quite different from the society it serves, then I am happy to say we have a problem & we can use targeted injections of evidenced based interventions

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is happening Friday, if anyone's interested. To be honest, it's happening if nobody's interested. That was a completely pointless caveat. #ADHD

September 4th, 8PM (BST)
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simine vazire @simine.com · 02/09/2026

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

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