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Dino

@dinok.bsky.social
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Geography postdoc. Young people's politics, feminist geopolitics, art, embodiment. Cambridge, UK (he/him)

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Andrea González-Ramírez @andreagonram.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"My assailant was found responsible for my sexual assault ... His punishment? He received a 'written reprimand,' was ordered to write a 'reflection paper,' and was placed on behavioral probation until he graduated two months later." Must-read by a Cornell grad: www.thecut.com/article/i-wa...
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I’m Not the Only Cornell Student Title IX Failed
When I was raped in 2023, my attacker, too, only had to write an essay. Now, I see I’m not alone.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon
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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/10/2026
Nearly 2,000 French high schools are blockaded or closed amid massive student-led protests. The demonstrations began at a single school in the economically deprived suburbs of Paris, where students protested teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and dilapidated school buildings.
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Police Violence Causes Serious Injuries as French High School Students Protest
Students protest teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and dilapidated school buildings beset by rats and debris.
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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 05/10/2026
What should an academic do when their government, institution & some colleagues make it clearer & clearer that the work they have invested energy & care in is just not valued?
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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.

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.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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A Vietnamese man was beaten on the tarmac in Fort Worth when he refused to get on the plane. Another man, who was shouting, “This is not right!” and “political things” during the flight, was knocked against his seat, dragged to the back of the plane, and put into the full-body straitjacket known as “the WRAP.” Guards stood over him and laughed. He doesn’t know when the man was let out of the WRAP, but he saw that he was back in his shackles by the time they got to Ghana. (All adult passengers on ICE flights are shackled and the ankles and wrists tied to a waist chain.)

Most of the guards were drinking alcohol from red and blue cups and laughing at the detainees. (Another passenger on the flight who did not want to be identified confirmed this.) If anyone stood up to use the lavatory, the guards swarmed them and shouted at them, “Get down now!” An older guard who was not drinking said this was going to be his last ICE flight, because he was going to quit.

The flight medic was repeatedly summoned to check on a man from Maryland, who had gotten a concussion a few days earlier when the driver of an ICE vehicle braked suddenly. The man kept passing out. He was shaking uncontrollably and saying his head hurt. The flight medic told him there wasn’t much he could do.
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
People will say “i’m off the grid🛸” but they are posting from bosnia and herzegovina
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Without being cruel, I do want to say that actually reading the article makes this story a lot more interesting
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This article is incredible. Apparently Ross Douthat is a widely respected journalist. Are the people who respect him in the room with us now?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A lot of problems with the perverse incentive structure that now exists for humiliated people to regain the mainstream press’ respect, which is either to become a rightwing grifter who quadruples down until they are president or get harangued until you have a psychotic break or kill yourself.
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Really shocking and dispiriting to see how people are treating their neighbours here, but not surprising given the years of hotel protests we've had and the kind of public behaviour I have been witnessing for years. It is hard to even imagine how you might get through to people who act like this.
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My brilliant colleague Evelina Gambino is featured on the latest episode of Material Crimes, which explores the haunted and haunting road that links Tblisi to Russia. Check it out! open.spotify.com/episode/5xZy...
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Ghosts of a Military Road (Evelina Gambino and Elisabed Gedevanishvili)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/06/2026
I remember when non-binding language suggestions from university HR departments were national news, subject to repeated outraged columns in multiple media outlets. Do you see any of that national outrage about this real, bona fide, state-enforced intimidation & censorship?
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
There was a lot of talk last year about ending the culture wars and reaching a reasonable accommodation, and what I think those people consistently refuse to understand is that *what the Right wants* is to be at war with the rest of the country. We're seeing what that looks like in the UK now.
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Serious content warning -- reading this made me physically sick. It is heartening that it won the European Press Prize. But it's heartbreaking to know how distant justice and peace are for the people of Gaza at this moment, as the violence of the war continues in multiple forms.
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Dino @dinok.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This sucks!!!
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Cambridge Geography @camunigeography.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Today at 5pm Alex Jeffrey in conversation with Maksym Demydenko (founder of the Ukraine War Archive) at Emmanuel College, Queen's Building Lecture Theatre. Exploring the archive’s origins, preserving testimony, and the search for justice. All welcome.
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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are also looking for a postdoc to conduct a study on socialist Bulgaria for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55196
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Čarna Brković @charnab.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We are looking for a doctoral researcher to conduct a study on the GDR (or Yugoslavia) for my ERC project "Racial Socialism". Please share widely! stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de/jgu/job/55297
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