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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 21h
Devasted that Antar died a fully preventable death
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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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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Israel's contemporary hegemonic ideology is Kahanism. Unabashedly supremacist and racism, sectarian to its core, expansionist and violent in its practices, and theocratic in its outlook. It has led the campaign of annihilation of Gaza and is pursuing similar aims in the West Bank.
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 22h
Wow
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Support for the 2 state solution among Israeli Jews went from 40+ in 1994 to a peak of 70% in 2007-8. Netanyahu came to power in 2009 and it has been falling ever since. Source: Israel Democracy Institute.
https://en.idi.org.il/articles/24664 
Support for the Two States, among Jewish-Israeli Population

(%) 1994-2018
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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 23h
“Reports of civilians eating weeds draw harrowing parallels with the sieges of Yarmouk and Mariupol, both used by Russia to refine its use of starvation as a weapon of war. Following in their genocidal Holodomor in the 1930s, Russia is again using starvation to punish, terrorize, and humiliate…”
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Something I wrote on facebook about the @centreaccec.bsky.social which has just had Gideon Saar speak at an event. Horrific. As someone commented underneath - the 'radicalisation spiral has been grim'.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Why does the UK press continue to treat Trump like a normal politician when he is demonstrably wicked and insane inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...
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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Statement from Progressive Judaism leaders - Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charley Baginsky “Holding an Israeli government accountable for its actions does not cause antisemitism. Antisemites cause antisemitism. progressivejudaism.org.uk/rabbi-charle...
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Rabbi Charley Baginsky and Rabbi Josh Levy: No single response can speak for British Jews - The Movement for Progressive Judaism
As we approach the High Holy Days, we enter a season of teshuvah, of looking honestly at ourselves, taking responsibility and asking what must change. Yet there is a temptation, on days like these, to...
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
European democracies are running out of time to turn away from the abyss www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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European democracies are running out of time to turn away from the abyss | Rafael Behr
Far-right parties, Maga ideology and Kremlin money are conniving to suffocate liberal idealism for another generation, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
❤️
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Gloria Steinem died with fewer rights than she had during her lifetime. That fact needs to be front and centre of every media report, every dedication, every discussion of her death.
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Need urgent help getting him admitted to a hospital in Istanbul. Please get in contact if you can help somehow
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Very saddened to share this fundraiser for an old friend Antar from Gaza who I have lived with and written about. He has been living with HIV for many years and has now been diagnosed with Lymphoma. He is in Istanbul with limited rights and access to treatment.
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Help save our friend’s life
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Piccadilly Circus at Night by Frederick Lawrence Tavaré.
Painting of Piccadilly Circus bathed in golden light
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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
oh ok so it’s full blown democracy-ending stuff
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 01/09/2026
A trial began on Tuesday of a British man accused of drugging and raping his unconscious wife over two decades, alongside a dozen men accused of conspiring with him.
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Husband and 12 Men in Britain Are Accused of Woman’s Yearslong Drugging and Rape
Prosecutors said that the man, in his 60s, drugged and abused his wife while she was unconscious, alongside a dozen other men aged 28 to 73.
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Robert Firth @robjfirth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
With five years now passed and Asma's circumstances conclusively altered, will the UK ever prosecute Asma al-Assad? anewz.tv/region/middl...
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Asma al-Assad: She grew up in London. Her husband ran Syria. Why has the UK never prosecuted her?
Around five years ago, British prosecutors reportedly decided against pursuing war crime charges against Asma al-Assad, the then First Lady of Syria, because she was unlikely to return to the UK.
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi @ajaltamimi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hey everyone. I need to raise funds in order to pay licensing fees related to my next book with Routledge. If you are willing to make a contribution, even small, I will be more than happy to acknowledge you in the book itself! Please donate and share www.aymennaltamimi.com/p/fundraisin...
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Fundraising Appeal: Help Pay Licensing Fees for my Next Academic Book
‘Chronicle of the World’
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Domestic violence plus easy access to guns is killing people — mostly women — across the country. And because it’s mostly women, the societal response is to throw up our collective hands. Call the killings isolated incidents instead of seeing the larger pattern of violent patriarchy.
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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The Torture Regime
How Israeli prisons went from centers of Palestinian resistance to machines of Palestinian death
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Published in 2024: N. Vigna. “An Urban-Rural Divide of Political Discontent in Europe? Conflicting Results on Satisfaction With Democracy”. In: European Political Science Review 16.4 (2024), pp. 596-611. dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1755773924000110.
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Simon Dalling 🇪🇺🇬🇱 @simond1954.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Reform say they are going to fast track building more reservoirs. The government have already planned to build 9 new reservoirs and are already fast tracking planning. Where will Reform put reservoirs 10, 11, 12 etc, and what further levels of scrutiny they will be dropping? bsky.app/profile/sexa...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This is a fundamental tenet of Catholicism
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Help me keep documenting what the world needs to see. Your support keeps this work going. www.gofundme.com/f/help-fared...
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Donate to Help Fared Recover and Return to Photojournalism, organized by Sean Hastings
Fared is an independent conflict photojournalist whose work has brought… Sean Hastings needs your support for Help Fared Recover and Return to Photojournalism
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Michael Kapp @michaelkapp.com · 15/08/2026
BREAKING: the Democratic National Committee just unanimously approved a resolution calling for the abolition of ICE! After terrorizing our friends, families, and neighbors, ICE has no place in our nation. I'm grateful @democrats.org agreed. Now we're onto the hard work to make that happen!
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sami 🔵 @hellosami.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I made a website that lets you cut out old magazines from the internet archive (or any PDFs you own) and make collage art out of them: ✂️ clipart.studio
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Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Only just clocked this was the BBC. Come on, there’s no excuse for this
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Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
They're building God so God can build angels. Zuck's vision is (has been for many years) incredibly theological. But his theology is Santa Claus level. "I need infinite compute so we can see when you're sleeping/awake/bad/good...so we can climb down your chimney with presents!" What could go wrong
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 05/08/2026
New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
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Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots
The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.
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imogen @imogenl.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
My episode with Sahrawi activist Mohamedsalem Werad, on Africa's last colony and American complicity in Moroccan occupation, is out now open.spotify.com/episode/4GcG...
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Morocco’s US-Backed Occupation of Western Sahara
It Could Happen Here · Episode
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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Leaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Flags on the Abingdon Road
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Part of the problem that many liberal Zionists have not fully dealt with is that if "liberal Zionism" means anything, it has to mean full support for a two-state solution, which puts you in opposition not just to Netanyahu, but to every Israeli political party except Hadash and the Arab parties.
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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Reminder that the Tories believe any non-British person who commits more than a minor parking or traffic offence should be automatically deported. They “believe in second chances”, apparently, but only for literal Nazis.
theguardian.com
Kemi Badenoch defends selection of man jailed for harassing Jewish MP in council election – as it happened
Conservative leader tells press she stands by decision to select Joshua Bonehill-Paine as a candidate for local election in Somerset
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Israel is on a destructive and self-destructive spiral and it cannot break out of it without external intervention. Those who are shielding Israel from accountability form a much greater risk to the future of Jewish Israeli society (and diaspora Jews) than critics like Mamdani.
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Julia Is Waving, Not Drowning @booktweeting.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
irony is dead but also I am reminded of Macaulay's "the Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators" except with anti-Arab cruelty
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 03/08/2026
Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
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Former neo-Nazi activist selected as Tory candidate for Somerset council election
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, creator of satirical Crewkerne Gazette, has convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP A former neo-Nazi activist with convictions including for harassing a Jewish MP has been selected as a Conservative candidate for a local election in Somerset. Joshua Bonehill-Paine, the creator of the viral Crewkerne Gazette series of AI clips, is due to stand for election to Somerset council next year in a new Crewkerne South district. He told the Guardian he was an executive member of the Tories’ Yeovil branch, working as an events organiser. Continue reading...
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Simon Glendinning @simonglend.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Larry Kramer is right - and we really need to think this through if UK universities are going to flourish as they should. www.ft.com/content/e14d...
ft.com
Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says
LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance
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Illiberalism Studies Program @illsp.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reminder that there is still time to submit your proposals for our conference on the return of religion to politics! Check out the full call for papers at the link here: tinyurl.com/54rbr9xj Travel and accommodation covered!
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Yes
sciencebasedmedicine.org
The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020
It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Seems bad that this existed in the first place. www.fodors.com/world/europe...
fodors.com
Italy Shuts Down Site Tracking Jewish Tourists
Fodor's provides expert travel content worth exploring so you can dream up your next trip. The world is a weird and wonderful place—we want to show you around.
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New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“For Israeli Jews, the tragedy of the war in Gaza is in the deaths of soldiers. For the rest of the world, it’s in the deaths of the Palestinians killed by those soldiers. There’s no reason to believe this cognitive gap will narrow anytime soon.” | @lisang.bsky.social 
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‘Mamdani Is More Popular With American Jews Than Netanyahu’
During a recent interview for Israeli TV, presidential hopeful Rahm Emanuel dished out some hard truths about feelings for Israel in the US
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🇬🇧 PM Andy Burnham: Volodymyr, you're first leader I've welcomed in person since taking office, that's no accident. It's intended to send very clear message: We're with Ukraine 100%. I'm with you 100%, and I will honor every commitment this country has made to Ukraine in full.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Home Office genuinely needs to be abolished and its responsibilities split up, with immigration and asylum under an independent authority. Even by its low standards, standards which are being supported by the reappointment of Mahmood by Burnham, this is sickening. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza
Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory
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The Provost / سيدة الفتنة @msentropy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
UPDATE: oh my fucking God on my search for The Lore, I discovered that apparently there’s a Bluesky blocklist of people who said “inshallah” Who’s the idiot responsible for this unhinged asshattery? I NEED THE DETAILS bsky.app/profile/escm...
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A small tribe in Northern California is set to purchase nearly 40,000 acres of scenic, mountainous terrain near the Oregon border, in what would be the second largest “land back” deal in state history. www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...
sfchronicle.com
Tribe to acquire 40,000 acres of ‘absolutely beautiful’ ancestral land in Northern California
A tribe in Northern California is set to purchase nearly 40,000 acres of mountainous terrain near the Oregon border, in what would be the second-largest “land back” deal in state history.
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