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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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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People think crude oil is a wild market, but let me tell you about potatoes, man. in Europe we've gone from them being given away for free last year to an impending shortage because of the heat. www.ft.com/content/8eda...

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Heatwave triggers potato shortage in Europe

Extreme weather wiped out about 3.1mn tonnes of spuds, worth up to €620mn

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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

10 tips if you're moderating a panel. Trust me I have learned these the hard way by watching 1000 bad ones (including with me in the chair), and a few great ones. Panels need to be lively, engaging and enlightening. Here's a few pointers on how to make that happen (if you're lucky).

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Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Intelectual Geneologies is a series of reports that (unlike surveys) track forward in time the spread of computer science concepts. The calibration report was with CRDTs, and the first report is on Lamport clocks’ paper. Open to community feedback on the idea.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A friend found this clipping in some old files. Haven't seen this before. Mind blown.

Color political cartoon by Danny Hellman from the New York Press dated October 6-12, 1999. In it, Donald Trump and his then wife Marla Maples being shown a model of the White House with many added stories and a shiny gold T on the top, with Taj Mahal towers on the side and flags flying with a T. It is labeled "Proposed White House Renovation." A ghoulish Philip Johnson says, "Granted, It's in violation of several of Washington D.C.'s landmark and zoning codes. But of course as president of the United States..." Trump, licking his lips, says, "It's tremendous, Philip, when do I move in?" The caption beneath is Spectacularly unqualified egomaniac Donald Trump contemplates a White House run"

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 02/01/2026

It's time to start my 2026 reading log! 💙📚 One thing I love with books is working through them as extended conversations with other minds, that I can live inside of for a time. I hope you'll get to enjoy some of them too. Previous episodes: • 2020: tweets.berjon.com/121259142400...

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a woman in a blue jacket is standing next to a man in a brown jacket with the word kepler on the bottom

Alt: Andor: I have friends everywhere.

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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

They looked from reality to AI slop, and from AI slop to reality, and from reality to AI slop again, but already it was impossible to say which was which

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon

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Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses

The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Those of you were saddened that Research Professional is closing down should be excited to hear @williamcb.bsky.social is setting up an alternative - let’s sign up and support! I hope this gives a potential home to good journos from RF williamcullernebown.substack.com/p/coming-soo...

williamcullernebown.substack.com

Coming soon: a new publication on research, higher education and industrial strategy from the guy who brought you the old one (me)

Research Professional News, which I founded, is being closed on 31 December. My new, independent publication will start up on 1 January

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

So it's official, DSIT is no more Jonny Reynolds is secretary of state for...DBIST? BIST? The officials will have to be called BISTOs... x.com/i/status/207...

x.com

UK Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) on X

Jonathan Reynolds has been appointed Secretary of State for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade.

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Ed Stern @edstern.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Astonishing story and typically great reporting.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Some lovely internet person made SMBC searchable: smbc-search.com

smbc-search.com

SMBC Search

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A kick-ass chart by Matt McLean in @sondreus.bsky.social's fantastic retrospective of 250 years of American power www.economist.com/interactive/...

Stream graph by The Economist showing the share of world GDP of a number of countries and empires, from 1820 to 2025

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William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

You may want to apply for this if you know anything about technology and its regulation apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/9471

apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk

Appointment details – Regulatory Horizons Council (RHC) Member – Apply for a public appointment – GOV.UK

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Gotta hand it to @tommctague.bsky.social for this doubly timely cover

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Robin Bisson @robinbisson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The official statement on this from the Research Funders Policy Group was published today: wellcome.org/about-us/pos... Noteworthy that they say only "enterprise data protected" AI tools will be used in processing grant applications (i.e. not the free ones..)

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Olaf Kolkman @olaf.social.secret-wg.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

For all my Open Source DNS friends: Nominet DNS Fund opens second application window - Nominet nominet.uk/news/nominet-dns-fund-op…

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92

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NetBlocks @netblocks.org · 24/06/2026

⚠️ Confirmed: Metrics show internet connectivity has been knocked out in Sevastopol, occupied Crimea, amid power outages following overnight Ukrainian drone attacks targeting energy infrastructure 🔌

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Filippo Teoldi @fteoldi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Italian Prime Minister has now seen off three British Prime Ministers

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Hana-fr @h-a-n-a.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026

bsky.app/profile/marm...

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ændra. @aendra.com · 08/06/2026

This is very well put.

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ACM Internet Measurement Conference @acm-imc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Call for Workshops & Hackathons — IMC 2026! 🎉 We invite proposals for Workshops and Hackathons co-located with the ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany. #IMC2026 #NetworkMeasurement

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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 08/06/2026

Hey @proton.me — I'll be cancelling in the next 24h unless you explain yourselves.

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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 01/06/2026

When people say 'AI isn't a bubble because the technology isn't going away', it just shows they don't know what a bubble is. The internet didn't go away. Railways didn't go away. Tulips didn't go away. An asset can be overvalued, even if its useful.

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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

That interview is available here for all to listen. This is a gift link. Would greatly appreciate your help in getting it to a wider audience. Perhaps it will get more coverage! 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

bloomberg.com

How Reform Plans to Upend Decades of UK Climate Action

Richard Tice, Reform UK’s deputy leader, wants to revive Britain’s oil and gas industry and cut back on renewables.

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 04/05/2026

AI-reviews seem strikingly good at the AAAI-26 peer+AI review experiment arxiv.org/abs/2604.13940

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Very cool analysis of the submissions to a major management journal that shows how much the system of science, built for humans, is under strain as a result of AI. AI can be used to do better science or it can be used to just do more stuff. The danger is that "more" is winning due to incentives.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

a picture is, it turns out, worth a lot more than a thousand words

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 20/04/2026

“the future of European rightwing parties lies in Europe” and that relations with other Europeans “are always more important to us than any special hotline to Moscow, Beijing, or Washington” -Jean-Pascal Hohm, AfD’s youth leader.

ft.com

Home - Financial Times

News, analysis and opinion from the Financial Times on the latest in markets, economics and politics

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 17/04/2026

Explicación (breve) de que es Bluesky y de la caída del servicio por un ataque de DDoS

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026

"For services to the European project, there should be a statue of Nigel Farage in Brussels, at least the equal of Manneken Pis in dignity and craftsmanship."

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Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 14/04/2026

Personally I think writing formal proofs is one of the best applications of AI, and I think we're going to see a lot more of it in the future, as I wrote a few months ago (martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...). I've adjusted my own research agenda for the coming years to help make this happen.

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Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream — Martin Kleppmann’s blog

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026

Interesting working paper on effect of CEO having connections ot Epstein. Makes me want to break things papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My cartoon in the first issue of Now Voyager, a new print magazine dedicated to long form international reporting, photography and art. Plus cartoons!

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 01/04/2026

<<Trump was “rather hysterical”>> sounds accurate

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Top cover 10/10

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Ignacio Castro @ignactro.eurosky.social · 27/03/2026

"(...) the barrier to scale is not competition policy, but the fact that the single market remains incomplete."

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Chat Control 1.0 has been rejected by the #EU Parliament. Good news! www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/docume...

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Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · 24/03/2026

Standards work is notoriously hard to track. Let’s explore if grounding AI in working group records can make that history more accessible. www.mnot.net/blog/2026/03/25/using_…

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Ministry of Justice of Finland has decided to halt the plans to move Finland’s election platform to Amazon Web Services due to the changed international political situation over the past year yle.fi/a/74-20217101

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Oikeusministeriö peruu päätöksensä: vaalidataa ei siirretäkään Amazonille – ”Voidaanko luottaa, että ei tulisi yllätyksiä?”

Oikeusministeriössä luottamus amerikkalaisiin pilvipalveluihin ei ole enää samalla tasolla kuin vuosi sitten. Pilvipalvelut on edelleen vaihtoehto vuoden 2029 vaaleihin.

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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

I wrote about the ICML LLM witch hunt and why it's paradigmatic of the absurd bureaucratic scaling of peer review.

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Information Transit Got the Wrong Man

The mechanized tradition of peer review and the absurdity of bureaucratic conference review.

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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

USA bans foreign-made consumer network routers, considering those produced outside the US a national security risk, and prohibits them from being imported or sold. docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Why did UK trade policy fail? Unrealistic expectations, tariff and secrecy obsessions, poor appointments, pressure from Number 10 for announcements over actual substance of them, difficult global environment, lack of good objectives - a lot really.

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