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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️

@jaytoddgla.bsky.social
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Non-binary researcher of trans lives in the UK. Human geographer. ABBA devotee. Geordie in Glasgow. they/them www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/jay…

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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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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The institution no longer bothers to put up any façade that it cares about pedagogy, its staff, or “student experience”
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In a sector-wide system like this it makes it easy to make technocratic decisions to “kill off” degrees/pathways/modules in a fantasy of increasing the efficiency of endlessly substitutable staff.
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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trying to describe what it’s like working inside British universities at the moment is very hard. One small vignette: not a single week of my teaching this semester looks the same as any other. We have virtually no courses/modules that are taught by
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Thank you so much to the hundreds of trans people and allies who joined today's mass lobby! The queue stretched across both sides of the road outside Parliament, and so many MPs participated in meetings and responded to green cards. Together, we delivered a powerful message for change 🏳️‍⚧️
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Russell Garner @rgarner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What one has to remember, when reading an AI puff piece that has plausible-looking notes of caution in it, is that The Guardian is in partnership with OpenAI. I found myself looking for the "sponsored advertorial" badge that never came.
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I’m a father of three who studies the impact of artificial intelligence: this is what parents need to know about AI
A Dr Seuss-style story written in seconds alerted me to the power – and perils – of the technology. But how can children embrace it without forgetting core skills?
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Robot Mel @robotmeile.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
For those of us outside Wales - now is the time to be following Wales trans organisations and activists, and keeping an eye on how we might act in solidarity. Also potentially writing to our own local representatives and expressing our concern.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This is the most fucked up and immediately harmful policy decision I think I've ever seen in adult trans healthcare in the UK, and that's saying something. The Welsh Gender Service is one of the best in the country. It is widely praised by the patients it helps. That is why it is being targeted.
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This is utterly shocking.
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TACC @tacc.org.uk · 27/08/2026
We’ve written to the UK Supreme Court with a formal complaint about its permanent “The Law and Us” exhibition and its presentation of For Women Scotland TACC, alongside @translucent.org.uk and @transparentaction.bsky.social, are calling for a full review of its wording, imagery, balance and context
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Yeah sure I could answer my emails, or I could lay down on the floor and stare at the ceiling while feeling incredibly overwhelmed, you know?
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TransActual @transactualuk.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Can you help us reach more people than ever before? Respond to our Trans Lives Survey today, and share on your social media, so we can get a full picture of the experiences and views of trans people in the UK. Take the survey here: form.typeform.com/to/BRppksJ3 #TransLives #TransSurvey #Trans
A pink and blue graphic with a black and white cartoon of some people on the bottom. 

Text reads: TransActual is launching its biggest survey for the trans community yet!

TRANS LIVES SURVEY

2026

We want to hear about your experiences as a trans person living in the UK.

It's quick, anonymous, and will help us campaign for our community!
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A.V. Deggar @avdeggar.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Pretty much everything you need to know about the British Right in two images.
Arday was a stupid intellectual poisoning BritainLiddle was a freedom fighter
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Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Also, there IS a crisis in British universities. It has nothing to do with EDI or allegations of plagiarism. The Higher Ed sector is heaving under the weight of managerialism, and brilliant institutions like Exeter, Nottingham, Sussex, are being gutted. Can we get 53 articles about that in 16 days?
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
An amazing PhD project opportunity with an incredible researcher
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I am resharing this in light of recent news that HESA, the NHS and other bodies have changed their data collection approach to sex and gender, erasing trans people’s realities in light of the Sullivan Review.
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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Once again, I come back to the fact these guys have created a situation where one of the UK's leading, cis female athletes is scared to go to the loo alone, and the fact that they are celebrating this as a step forward for women's rights.
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
HESA is now citing the Sullivan Review to mandate categorising all student data in England and Wales by binary “sex at birth” - no possibility to answer otherwise (unless non-British national with different “legal sex”). Gender to now be “gender reassignment”. www.hesa.ac.uk/collection/2...
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HESA - Experts in higher education data and analysis
We collect, process and publish data about higher education (HE) in the UK. As the trusted source of HE data and analysis, we play a key role in supporting and enhancing the competitive strength of th...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/08/2026
Look how simple those questions are and it all falls apart. Now look at the questions media outlets usually opt to ask, instead.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 05/08/2026
"Human beings are very good at telling the sex of somebody that they're talking to; we've evolved over thousands of years to be able to do that." Which is why, after thousands of years, we now require you and your good friends to legislate on this pressing issue—proportionately, of course.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 20/07/2026
🚨 Bridget Phillipson remains as the Minister for Women and Equalities After FWS Phillipson publicly stated that trans women should use men's toilets. She recently signed into force harmful & discriminatory statutory guidance which will devastate trans lives. Suggests no change re. trans rights.
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I keep getting asked to peer review these papers that are so clearly LLM generated. We need to do a much better job of weeding these out before it gets to that stage.
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Aidan Comerford @aidancomerford.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
In July 2024, JK Rowling said called the Cass Review, "the single most authoritative and comprehensive review of the affirmative model ever conducted." Today, she retweeted a tweet saying that Cass should be "derided" for her "ridiculous comments" on the puberty blocker trial. Do you see?
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
New important statement from Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention. On the EHRC Code: “In its attempt to erase trans and intersex people from public life, this document is genocidal in nature.” www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-n...
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Statement on the Anti-Trans and Anti-Intersex EHRC Code of Practice in the United Kingdom
June 20, 2026 The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security condemns the Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) updated Code of Practice for services, public functions, and a...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
'A less than five-minutes-long Teams call with no opportunity to respond is how staff at the University of Dundee heard that their jobs, the courses that they teach and their livelihoods might be at risk. I ask members to think about that for a moment.' (Maggie Chapman (North East Scotland) 1/5
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The Scottish Parliament
The Scottish Parliament examines what the Scottish Government is doing, makes new laws on devolved matters and debates the issues of the day.
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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Stonking article by @iandunt.bsky.social. Nailed, just as he and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social do in their JK Rowling podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o... Thank you, thank you, thank you from this cisgender woman. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-ehrc-t...
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The EHRC trans code explained
What does it say, how will it work, and what happens next?
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Email your MP now: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Alongside TransActual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, we have written to the prime minister to express our deep concerns with the new Code of Practice and urged the government to legislate now to protect trans people’s rights, dignity and inclusion. www.scottishtrans.org/jointpmletter/
Graphic with a pink to blue gradient background. It says '‘The choice before you is clear: intervene now, or accept responsibility for the consequences.’' 'Read our joint letter to the Prime Minister on the Code of Practice, urging the government to act now to protect trans rights.' At the bottom there are the Scottish Trans, Trans Actual and Trans+ Solidarity Alliance logos.
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Fascism is already here. What matters is acting now to stop its foothold getting deeper.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
BREAKING: Police beginning to arrest people holding signs saying: "Saving lives is not terrorism. I support Palestine Action." outside court after Lady Justice Carr, read the judgement of the court ruling the Government’s proscription of Palestine Action to be lawful.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 15/06/2026
If the UK government thinks Palestine Action is that dangerous and harmful why don't they just ban it for under 16s and consider the issue put to rest
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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
It’s such sad news for ABBA fans that their “anchor and mediator” Görel Hanser has died. In 1979 ABBA recorded a song in tribute for her 30th birthday, that they privately released. I’ll be spinning my replica in tribute. RIP Görel. youtu.be/XGljiu70eR4?...
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ABBA & Stikkan - Sång till Görel (1979) (Now: Stereo!)
YouTube video by Hovas Vittne
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Tomorrow's front page 📰 Refugees are woven into Scotland
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Alex Sobel MP @alexsobel.co.uk · 10/06/2026
I was invited to attend the Women and Equalities Committee this week, in my role as a member of the Joint Committee on Human Rights, to question the Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) about the recently tabled Code of Practice.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The thing that is so deeply exhausting about this whole thing is that the end result is basically to provide legal backing to people harassing people who they perceive to be gender non-conforming and little else, there just isn't another outcome here.
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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 09/06/2026
Any trans fem wanting to use the female bathroom at the mass lobby come find me, I'll happily accompany you in if you're worried about transphobic harrassment. www.transsolidarityalliance.com/mass-lobby-2...
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Mass Lobby for Trans Equality
Last year we broke the record for an LGBT+ mass lobby of Parliament. Will you help us break it again? Join us on 25th June 2026 to demand better.
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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Love and strength to every single marginalised person trying to build a life+care for their needs+look after their loved ones+work towards a future+give back to community+actually build upon their ambitions and follow their dreams in the midst of all of THIS.
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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If anyone is following this and thinks that EHRC chair Mary-Anne Stephenson hasn't met trans people - she has. A bunch of us, myself included. She knows perfectly well that you cannot tell whether or not someone is trans based on their voice. She is just a bigot who cares not a jot for our safety.
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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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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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Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
We are really concerned by Seema Malhotra's statement to the commons that: "Most people have the common sense to step in when necessary, for example when a person of the opposite biological sex enters a single sex facility in error - and when to alert a member of staff."
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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Wrote a letter to my MP, it’s probably not the most coherent thing in the world but I couldn’t not say anything.
Dear
For the five years I have lived in
, I've been proud to have you as my representative. Your
intervention when my gender identity clinic did not send my surgery referral for over a year was crucial in getting them to acknowledge and, vitally, rectify their error. I will remain forever grateful to you for this.
But I'm afraid will not vote for you again, not whilst the red rosette you proudly wear remains a symbol of my exclusion.
Your government's proposed guidance is innately dehumanising. It prioritises the comfort of others over my ability to use the toilet, to access services, and to play the sport love with my friends. Ultimately, it seeks to confine me to my home - away from those who view me with disgust. A dangerous precedent has been set that it is more important for others to be protected from acknowledging the existence of those they deem unworthy than for marginalised people to exist publicly at all.
No matter how hard your party tries to spin this, there can be no dignity and respect for trans people with this guidance in place. As a trans man, I am told am not permitted to change with my football team who have called family for the last five seasons - that I must use separate female facilities alone. But if a woman walked through the door whilst I was lacing up my boots, I could be removed from these facilities too if she objected to my presence. Where is the dignity and respect in changing in a corridor? I suppose the preference is that don't play at all and stay at home so others do not have to perceive me.
I expect this behaviour from the Conservatives and Reform. Had this guidance been proposed by the previous Minister for Women and Equalities, I would have been devastated but not batted an eye. To watch a party I campaigned for, a party I was proud to represent for several years as a candidate, the self-identified "party of equality" usher in the biggest rollback of LGBTQ+ rights since Thatcher's Section 28 is shameful. I will not choose betwe…
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Mark Grimshaw @markgrimshawtism.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Just to be clear how little I’m exaggerating, in 2016, the UK Government actually advised trans people against travelling to certain US states due to the implementation of bathroom bans. @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social is now implementing those same bans across the UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-u...
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UK warns gay travellers about US anti-LGBT laws
The UK government warns LGBT travellers to be careful in the US due to laws affecting LGBT people in North Carolina and Mississippi.
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Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog · 21/05/2026
There are several trans research groups covering what's happened over the last decade in terms of attacking trans rights in the UK and they don't seem to appear to be sources amnesty have taken interest in.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
What is this even doing, honestly? What do you mean saying "same sex sexual activity is sinful" doesn't mean you have negative attitudes towards gay people?
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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 20/05/2026
Today @drjogrady.bsky.social wrote to the University of Reading. Trans staff and students are being forced into formal grievances just to find out why policies that affect their daily lives exist. That is not legal compliance. It is institutional opacity. We’re calling on Reading to act.
Letter to reading Letter to reading
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tina tittyfag @antinoe.prettyfem.me · 21/05/2026
if you're cis and you are asked by your management to police bathrooms, "can you confirm in writing that you are ordering me to approach customers to discuss their sex?" is an email no manager wants to reply to
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