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@leoguari.bsky.social
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Systems thinking ★ Modelling for global health ★ Root causes of health equity ★ Hot sauces ★ VeneBelga opinions and hottakes are all mine

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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes! Daily Sun is amazing and has been for a very long time
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a Cornell problem, or an Ivy League problem. It's not even a rich kids problem. It's a societal problem. Women are abused everywhere since they are girls and men/boys get away with it. Even all the way to the White House. We need a good hard look at ourselves.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This isn't a Cornell problem, or an Ivy League problem. It's not even a rich kids problem. It's a societal problem. Women are abused everywhere since they are girls and men/boys get away with it. Even all the way to the White House. We need a good hard look at ourselves.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
go big red 🫩
thecut.com
What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They're nearly to their goal! Throw a few bucks to independent journalism.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Fellow GenXers: remember how often we were bombarded with images of late-period USSR? Old, decrepit men in charge, clinging to an ossified ideology. Political repression, nakedly false propaganda, empty shelves, food shortages, inadequate health care, deep-seated cynicism, crumbling infrastructure
static.klipy.com
Ironic Star Wars Moment
Alt: A smirking emperor palpatine says "ironic."
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
They're nearly to their goal! Throw a few bucks to independent journalism.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The AI bot review process described by an applicant to a @ukri.org funded call is so depressing. How about weeding out Ai produced applications? If they are flooding the calls, treat them like the problem. Use the bots to identify and reject. It's not rocket science.
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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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Howard Beck @howardbeck.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Cornell's student journalists broke a big story over the weekend and (like most student newspapers) could use your support. Link:
cornellsun.com
Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun
The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
25 years after I worked there, the Cornell Daily Sun continues to make me so proud
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Xero now with 100% more 🎃 @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Weimar vibes.
nytimes.com
The Fuel That Feeds Europe’s Far Right: Nostalgia and Lost Pride (Gift Article)
The populist emphasis on national identity and threats to it, real and imagined, finds a deep response in voters adrift in a world they no longer understand.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is a beautiful, sad, powerful and ultimately deeply truthful story of what it means to experience systemic racism in America. It mirrors so many personal experiences.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Proud to see Barbados and UWI'S osn Sir Hilary Beckles leading the way on reparations.
theguardian.com
Caribbean nations draft action plan to push UK to redress reparations over slavery
Leaders hope UK will agree to targeted discussions around reparatory justice, but could consider legal options if Britain resists
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
''Others are drawing a much harder line, like the University of Chicago’s school of law, which announced it was banning the use of phones, tablets, and even laptops in class for first-year courses earlier this year." OMG yes
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Elections? What elections? Interim government for life!
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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026
Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I love this much
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Mass literacy is a recent phenomenon,” Marriott writes. “So is mass democracy. We simply don’t know whether one can survive without the other.”
theguardian.com
Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This will make the people profiting off of Venezuelan heavy crude very happy.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Some much needed good news today
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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 29/08/2026
The easiest path for Dems to turn Texas blue *by far* is only two steps: 1) Don't piss off Black voters 2) Make sure that all the Black people in Harris that want to vote, can actually vote But we don't want to do that. So instead we try: 1) Piss off Black voters🤡 2) Hope the GOP lets them vote🤡
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tiranía, soberbia y abuso. Éso es lo que vivimos los Venezolanos. Estamos hartos.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I admire this man so much. Truth sayer
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm reading this having just filled out forms here in Belgium for my kids' vaccination status to be double checked and updated for free via the school. If they opt out, the local health services follow up with the parents and the doc. Easy as pie and reassuring. Access in the US is dying.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Be serious, Brussels 😂😂🇯🇲
A sticker on a pole that says Gros debout to translate the Jamaican expression Big Up. Silly nonsense.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sharing distressed eye contact with the other introverts in the quiet car. Chatting people, speakerphone conversations, videos with the sound up. It's chaos!
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PLOS @plos.org · 20/08/2026
Discover @plosglobalpublichealth.org Welcoming qualitative and quantitative primary research in a range of topics from maternal and child health, global health security, and evidence use and policy, to infectious and non-communicable diseases and environmental health. 🔗 Learn more: plos.io/4eeOb5x
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Once again and over and over until it gets through: archives and libraries scanning something for preservation is an entirely different story than private citizens and companies doing it, because there are strict ethical standards for the former and the latter consider them annoyances.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I really dislike reviewing work that has been written with AI, even as a grammar checking tool. It is obvious. The style is dry, choppy, and boring. Bring back spelling mistakes and small grammar errors, but give me your voice!
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I did my university at an Ivy League in the US as an immigrant from South America. It started even in high school, the people who would tell me I got in because of my race. Other parents, friends, even my teachers. While there, every day I had to prove my worth.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
"Greenland Energy has retained Phil McGraw, better known as Dr Phil, a prominent rightwing former chatshow host who served on Trump’s religious freedom commission, to make a documentary series that will “capture the mission of these modern-day wildcatters”.' Wait, what??
theguardian.com
Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Angels among us.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A sad accounting of what happens when surveillance and reporting systems are absent in one of the most vulnerable communities in the world.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In short, yes.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
One of the most extraordinarily beautiful paintings in the Mauritshuis and the world.
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Last week's heatwave in Belgium caused the highest peak of excess mortality since the pandemic. Terrible. And it will only get worse.
rtl.be
Les chiffres de la canicule tombent : 1.222 morts et une surmortalité inédite de 39 % constatée lors des fortes chaleurs
La récente vague de chaleur en Belgique a provoqué une surmortalité provisoire de 39 %, selon les données du Risk Management Group, mettant en évidence les conséquences sanitaires des températures ext...
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
No tengo palabras. Solo llantos
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Tale as old as time
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There are always tears left to cry for Venezuela. Tanto dolor, mi gente. Que Díos los ampare.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Trop fort RDC!
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Dr. Tedros is humanizing this epidemic. It is not about fear, stigma, phobia. It's about showing up and helping people. Exemplary to see him there in person. Bravo @who.int
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RT @ryankturnbull.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Finally, a clear repudiation of the brain-dead “it’s just a tool” argument that gets floated cynically about every new technology:
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Platillo @leoguari.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
There are too many true and powerful statements in this reporting to just choose one. But fundamentally, Africans are experts in disease response. If there are gaps it is the result of a profound and deliberate social injustice. #ebola
nytimes.com
Ebola Outbreak Opens Old Wounds About ‘Saving Africans’
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Amidst hantavirus & Ebola outbreaks, the world has not paid much attention to this devastating (and totally preventable) outbreak of measles in Bangladesh Since mid-March, the country has seen more than 60,000 suspected cases and 528 suspected measles-related deaths!! www.npr.org/2026/05/24/g...
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