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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 26/09/2026

This is one of those things I'm going to keep reposting until you're sick of it. It's not just because I want to make sure everyone sees it. I want everyone to see it multiple times. I want it in your long-term memories so that it's something you use and share and don't forget when you scroll away

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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Researchers from London Metropolitan University are recruiting non-binary UK-based research participants for a research study: "Thriving beyond the binary: Experiences of gender euphoria among non-binary people" Contact Jay Urquhart at giu0020@my.londonmet.ac.uk for more information

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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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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Stopped looking to the NHS for help on this long ago but for the last few months I’ve been absolutely bombarded with advertising on social media for brain retraining programmes. I’ve had this illness for 10 years and it feels like there’s been a huge uptick of this stuff recently.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Logging in for this but the YouTube page says it's happening on the 21st - has it been rescheduled?

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the "Sheeran effect" seems like a useful shorthand to start using

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

10 years ago, my visa was denied. They said I didn't demonstrate enough English language skills -- despite recently getting a Master's from SOAS University of London (with distinction too). I had to apply again and pay the fees again because this is a business designed to rip people off.

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This list of things the University of Brighton has de-recognised is insane 🤯🤯🤯

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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"An AI agent went rogue" also feels like a test drive for an era when no one is responsible for the worst things these products do. Seems like a standard that could be really convenient for certain governments.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The 2022 UCU workload survey suggested that the burden of additional unpaid work is proportionally bigger for part-time staff than full-time staff (who are already doing the equivalent of 2 unpaid days per week). Will be interested to see what this year's survey says, in light of this.

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🎃 Halloween Keeps Frightening 🎃 @historykeeper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This book has a section near the end called "The Myths of Net Zero and Carbon Removal". Recommended.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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GeekOnALeash 🏳️‍⚧️ @geekonaleash.co.uk · 06/09/2026

To *ALL* trans allies (and some trans people that us it): With all due respect, please drop the hyphen; we are women who are trans, trans women. Not some other category. 'Trans-women', 'transwomen', and their equivalents others use. ie you would not write blackwoman, so please stop.

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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Federal enforcement & occupations are expected to expand and intensify leading up to midterm elections. Please check out our Block & Build, But Make it Abolitionist tool for analysis & strategic frameworks to guide your organizing against rising authoritarianism & fascism: bit.ly/blockbuildic

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

They mean that disability is now less a mark of shame and more of an identity signifier: a way to connect to those with similar experiences. The UK is very invested in the idea of 'benefits scroungers'. It's been a predictable way to get people riled for decades. The Telegraph wants to go back.

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Wilhelmina Jenkins @wilhelminaj.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Friends, a major problem in the demographics of ME/CFS studies is the absence of Black participants. If you know of any Black adults with ME/CFS, please suggest that they complete this survey. I have completed it and it is relatively untaxing. Thanks!

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TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Neutral in the culture war"

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Kill Tim Faust 💀 @tbone.malware-virus.biz · 26/08/2026

my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.

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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 24/08/2026

www.crowdjustice.com/case/defend-... Legal defence fund for anti-fascist facing charges for resisting Britain First in Manchester. Please give generously if you can.

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Antifascist facing charge for resisting Britain First in Manchester

I know the defendant and am on the executive committee of Manchester TUC which supported the protest and is appealing for funds in this case.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I don't know how anyone finds the time to do SFHEA, it was one thing doing these as a PhD student/postdoc but I have less than zero spare time now...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 17/08/2026

rare books are destroyed in the process but at least we have a technology that instructs teens how to commit suicide

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The “Woke DEI”’Cambridge university ignored 58 complaints about Nathan Cofnas from Black students while he was there according to writer and former PhD student Jill Damatac

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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

JK Rowling calls Nathan Cofnas a racist, and Cofnas responds by saying that he is just applying the same logic to race as she does to trans people. Quite.

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, who is smeared for sex realism, calls me a bad word for applying the same logic to race

quote tweet by Nathan Cofnas replying to JK Rowling who said:

More than one thing can be true. Nathan Cofnas is a racist. No argument there.

Also true: Arday claimed to have been non-verbal until the age of eleven. He span a false narrative about being autistic and mute, then learning to speak and write so well he gained a PhD. What harm did he do to parents with children who're genuinely non-verbal, by selling them false hope?

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Chris Farnell @thebrainofchris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I think after they've done trans people and neurodivergent people they'll probably stop though, right?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

For the record, the proportion of professors at Cambridge who are Black is 0.4%. The number of Black people in the UK population is 4%. So the number of Black professors at Cambridge is ONE TENTH of what you would expect in a meritocracy.

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

‘Wheels rapidly falling off university funding system’. “No sign of awareness” at Treasury as international recruitment decline worsens financial outlook, experts warn. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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‘Wheels rapidly falling off university funding system’ - Research Professional News

“No sign of awareness” at Treasury as international recruitment decline worsens financial outlook, experts warn

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

So often what are called “culture wars” are one set of people saying “please can we live without perpetual persecution” and another saying “no, f*** you” but the press considering the latter group have “legitimate concerns” and must be perpetually platformed

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

This will be a good conversation, @annastavrianakis.bsky.social is a mensch and really knows her stuff.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

obviously Kathleen Stock is making an odious argument here but it’s also very funny to call to the eradication of autism, ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia from Academia, the Neurodivergence Factory

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

It’s possible that you’re thinking of the medical model of disability rather than the social model.

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Terfs: poor autistics being groomed by the transes! Also terfs:

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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In fact I remember tweeting about this one and some far-right guy arguing back that King shouldn't have been fired from his tutoring job for this.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And Peter King, Oxford philosophy tutor who published a paper on the possibility of "ethical" CSAM, subsequently convicted for producing CSAM. A handful of news stories then nothing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020...

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Oxford lecturer admits producing indecent photographs

Pembroke College suspends philosophy tutor Peter King pending disciplinary proceedings

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Gregory Kohn @kohngregory.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The British press is by and large one of the most revolting institutions I’ve ever encountered. They hounded him to death for hate and clicks. He had two kids. F-ing monsters

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026

Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Jason Arday is dead. The UK media won’t learn a thing from this. Because they’re racist bastards. He has two children.

PROF GONE Jason Arday 'found dead after being found unresponsive at home' following Cambridge plagiarism scandal
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Published: 20:04, 14 Aug 2026 | Updated: 20:14, 14 Aug 2026

picture: Jason Arday a black man with long hair

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Please, Andy, save it for a nuclear attack or something. The possibilities that were going through my mind until I read the message...

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

So everyone in the UK just had a minor heart attack over the emergency alert warning us not to light barbecues, right? 🤦‍♀️ My cat just looked at me like I ruined his entire week by spoiling his nap, as if it was my fault.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've had to physically shake people to get their attention to let me off a tram or bus because they're lost in their phone and I do think being in public places confers a responsibility to be at least a bit aware of your surroundings. Some people manage this with earphones in, others don't.

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

People rightly dunking on the obnoxious framing of this but I will add that as a wheelchair user the ubiquity of noise cancelling earphones makes being in public spaces way more stressful than it should be. The access needs go both ways. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The hill I will die on: Remove those earphones – you’re blocking out the music of humanity | Stefan Stern

Beyond the white noise lies a vibrant world of possibility, so take your headphones off and listen to your surroundings. It may even save your life, says author Stefan Stern

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Mark Faghy @profmarkfaghy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

📢 Participants needed for Long COVID research I'm helping an MSc student recruit adults living with Long COVID for an important study exploring experiences of rehabilitation and recovery. 🔗 app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/lboro/long...

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Factors Influencing Experiences of Rehabilitation Among Adults with Long COVID: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study - Online Surveys | Online surveys

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, Online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests

Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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