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glamourphonic electronic disco baby ❤️🏳️‍🌈 Neurodivergent queer trade unionist yarn fan gamer I guess! ✨♾️🌈✊🧶🎮 Community Garden Radio Wiki-lover

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Science Magazine @science.org · 16h
Following backlash from scientists, CRANE says it has suspended all grant decisions for this funding call and committed to sending rejected proposals for human review. scim.ag/46Qiqv3
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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
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Science Magazine @science.org · 30/09/2026
“I don’t use [generative AI] when I write grants or papers. … So I don’t particularly want them reading my work either.” scim.ag/46Qiqv3
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U.K. funder uses ‘AI triage’ to reject grant proposals—leaving researchers dismayed
The AI-based assessment, which wasn’t explicitly described in the funding call, has raised privacy and fairness concerns
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Jonathan Wojcik @bogleech.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Truly hate how badly the well has now been poisoned for every kind of technology involved in or adjacent to what's been forced under the "ai" umbrella. Neural networks are in fact really special and amazing. Generative algorithms have uses that don't run off a tesla data centers.
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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026
This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of our strike at the University of Edinburgh while senior management shrugs and says 'crisis, what crisis?' at the complaints about the inevitable falling educational standards and job losses.
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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The UK is likely to try to reduce ADHD & autism diagnoses this week even though its own National Health Service funded a report saying ADHD is underdiagnosed & undertreated. Autism's criteria are already narrowed. See my anchor post & gifted article previewing UK report: inews.co.uk/news/claims-...
inews.co.uk
ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find
Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*
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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I feel this is the vibe that @dandouglas.bsky.social’s lockdown project Duke Smoochem went for and achieved.
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.
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Night of the Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"unions are like condoms: the more insistent somebody is that you don't need one, the more important it is that you have one"
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 18/09/2026
The University of Edinburgh is a world-class institution and our members are determined to protect it. With an estimated 1,800 jobs at risk, staff are ready to strike for 25 days to defend jobs and the future of the university. Management can end this dispute: rule out compulsory redundancies.
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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 17/09/2026
The absolute scourge of the ‘informal meeting’ - a technique management now regularly use to avoid accountability. Always ask what ‘informal’ means, always demand the full formal process with union support, and always remember that it is definitely not an ‘informal meeting’ if HR are there.
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Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Delegates at #TUC26 have voted to condemn the EHRC code of practice and to back self-ID for trans people
leftfootforward.org
TUC votes to condemn EHRC code of practice and back self-ID for trans people
Delegates backed a motion branding the EHRC guidance 'discriminatory and unworkable'
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the things that Brighton university management has decided it simply… no longer recognises? it also no longer recognises UCU or Unison? again: how is this legal!!!!
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is worrying IMO. Whilst research that benefits civilians can be mutually beneficial for the army eg work in malaria vaccines this agreement to siphon NIH funds meant for clinical and applied research to DOD is very concerning.
nature.com
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
GTA 6 looking awesome, cool merch too gameworkers.square.site/s/order?cs=t...
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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.
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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026
The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan
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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Here is a postcard which I bought several years ago + never wrote.
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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make a band bigger Rainbow Cat Surprise
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Mike Fowler @theorecol.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The total failure of VCs and 'senior' managers/administrators/governors across the UK to develop a sustainable funding model is a national scandal. Every VC quote in the press boils down to shrugging shoulders and 'sector-wide problem, innit? Nothing I can do.', while rewarding themselves £100ks.
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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Physical media for ever thanks
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
'A prolonged fall in the number of international students applying to study in the UK means “the wheels are rapidly falling off” the student loan-funded higher education system in England, sector experts have warned.' The world's 2nd best university system being killed by malign neglect. 1/3
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
People using someone's life as a political football are now saying his death shouldn't be used as a political football. Arday's death is political. It's one of the longest running polical ideologies in British politics. The one so much wealth is built on: anti Black racism.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 05/08/2026
Good Law Project are supporting a legal challenge against this transphobic code of practice. Please join our fight back 👇 goodlaw.social/n8fy
goodlaw.social
Fight back against the code of practice
The government’s transphobic code of practice is now up and running. But we’re not going to take it, we’re helping to fight back. Join us
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 02/08/2026
Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:
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My father was a Conservative...

...my mother voted Labour...

...so suppose, by rights, ought
to be a Liberal Democrat...

...but in actual fact, I'm a Nazi!
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
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Sunken Nazi warships resurface as water levels drop
Scuttled German WW2 warships have reemerged from the Danube in drought-hit Europe.
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stevehookham.bsky.social @stevehookham.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
For decades, Jodrell Bank has helped us understand the universe, but now it's facing pointless funding cuts. Withdrawing funds won't save much money, but it will seriously hurt UK science. I’ve added my name to help stop this—please join me and sign the petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk
Save Jodrell Bank
For decades, Jodrell Bank has helped us understand the universe, but now its funding is being threatened. Add your name to help stop these short-sighted cuts and protect UK science:
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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Fern Brady. I mean it would be so embarrassing and she’d call out all my stupidities but at least it’d be funny
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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Looks more like the Skyrim dragon logo to me
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MK Hardy @mkhardywrites.com · 16/07/2026
It's here! The haunted swimming pool book is ALIVE, and available wherever books are sold! Check it out if you like: spooks, mysterious things beneath the surface, plucky true crime girlies, and hardcore 2006 nostalgia*. *sorry not sorry for the earworms
penguin.co.uk
Splasher
Come on in, the water’s fine! Autumn 2006. Low-rise jeans are in, grunge is out, and all Spencer Ward should be worrying about is his new job as Assistant Swim Coach at Richardson University. It’s be...
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Paul Tobin @paultobin.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In space he's just Jay Hawkins.
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/07/2026
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content. www.wired.com/story/meta-n...
wired.com
Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out
As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.
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Lauren @fleurione.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Absolutely brilliant training today by the @ucu.org.uk NW Regional office on Mapping Membership and Organising. Key takeaways below: 1. the members are our most useful resource. 2. Most people join a union because someone else talked to them about joining a union. (1/2)
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Lorraine Wilson @rainewilson.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Very grateful to Bona Books for reporting on this with such transparency.
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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Simple truth is if you’re mad about trans people then someone’s lying to you.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 03/07/2026
🚨 WE NEED YOU 🚨 As a new Prime Minister comes into power, we want to show that an overwhelming number of people support trans people, and want the government to take serious action to protect their rights. Will you say you stand with trans people? And share with everyone you know?
goodlaw.social
I stand with trans people | Good Law Project
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David Firth @davidfirth.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
22 years ago today I released Salad Fingers.
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"The report, which tells the story of each child killed by Israeli forces last year, quotes Israel's top West Bank commander, Avi Bluth, who ... boasted that Israeli forces are 'killing like we haven't killed since 1967' — a reference to the Six-Day War in which Israel seized the West Bank."
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Trans rights are human rights always and forever.
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Steve Akehurst @steveakehurst.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes
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The Blogging Goth @theblogginggoth.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Silhouetted against a painfully bright blue sky is a billboard on which in neon are the letters THE UPRISING COLLECTIVE

In temporary letters below are the words IT'S HARD TO BE GOTH IN THIS DAMN HEAT
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badly drawn boo! 🎃👻🧛🏼‍♀️ @soapachu.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
What is it Starmer thinks kids will *do* instead of spending that time on social media? Because last I checked we were a bit short on accessible and welcoming youth spaces and activities
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Before it disappears down people’s timelines please as your MP to sign EDM 240 against the Starmer/Philippson transphobic “guidance”, and to explain why, if they have not. More than one-sixth of all MPs have now signed.
edm.parliament.uk
Draft Code of Practice on Services, public functions and associations - Early Day Motions - UK Parliament
That the draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations, a copy of which was laid before this House on 21 May, be disapproved.
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 11/06/2026
If the NHS won’t protect trans children, we will 🩵 🩶 🩷 We are dedicating funds to support at least 10 trans kids’ gender affirming care after the NHS suddenly dropped their treatment If you'd like to help us support more trans children's access to healthcare click here👇 goodlaw.social/nl30
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
"83% of LLM users could not quote a single line from essays they had written minutes earlier. When the LLM group was forced to write without AI in a follow-up session, their brain activity did not bounce back to baseline; the researchers coined the term 'cognitive debt' for the lingering deficit."
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Rosalynd Southern @rosalynd.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
So like...are @universities-uk.bsky.social going to do anything about this beyond the usual 'strong words' and tutting? The sector is on the brink of collapse and the government are doing this. Are we just supposed to silently accept our sector dying? The damage this will do is immeasurable.
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