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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One more than I would have guessed…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I’m guessing this is US based? UK - no way you are wearing shorts (for weather or safety)

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Never delete and this has saved me a few times... however, I am terrible and it is on a server and therefore saving me is destroying the planet...

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On top of this, UK certainly is suffering from lavk of funding so this call is a rate chance to get a position here…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Not disagreeing here at all, but I think we have to acknowledge as well that the high numbers are also probably due to the collapse of almost all other sources of funding not just AI making writing easier...

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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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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thanks! We're getting somewhere with it, and it does work well, but it has taken quite a lot of time to work out how to interpret the outputs. Happy to discuss if you want at some point!

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also with Ravi Sonani and Ed Egelman providing cryoTEM, and SAXS carried out @maxivlaboratory.bsky.social. Tying all of this together has been a huge amount of wok by Helen Futty in the group

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Latest work from the group in collaboration with Drew Thomson - using AlphaFold to look at designing small peptides that coassemble: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

sciencedirect.com

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are we now saying that using grammar correctly is a sign of AI? Em dashes can do one and are not needed, but an Oxford comma is actually meaningful.

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Emily Draper @profdraper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The MASC/WISC are looking for applications for the EDIA award. Have you done something amazing for the supramolecular community? We want to hear about it and celebrate it! Apply here mascgroup.co.uk/masc-wisc-ed...

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MASC/WISC EDIA Award

MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group MASC/WISC EDIA Award MASC: The Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Interest Group WISC: Women In Supramolecular Chemistry…

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Simon Coates @simonjcoates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The only reason I can think of as to why there are fewer than 50,000 signatures here is that people haven't seen it yet. — Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now — goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...

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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project

Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I think you'll find we have always been at war with Eurasia...

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean, what exactly did they expect after making universities financially depend on international students, and at the same time making international students feel increasingly unwelcome in the country?

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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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tobyontour @tobyontour.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

He got about twice as many votes as the Count. Maybe we should start calling him Nigel Two Bins simply because I imagine he’s the kind of person who’d find that really annoying.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

When you don't listen for *years* to what loads of us who actually understand universities say, when you listen to a load of know-nothing frauds from think tanks and consultants and media loudmouths instead, this is the university disaster you make. Govts could have listened. They didn't.

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Or, could it simply be that polls are made up nonsense based on a small sample size..?

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I have started running Claude alongside the book I am writing on ants, as well as just letting Google Gemini do its thing at the top when I do Google search. It is not doing any writing I am using, and I am always checking the results against primary sources.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

So the one minister with Treasury experience is a no-go because he‘ll spook the markets, while a minister with no treasury experience, who hasn’t expressed a single idea on fiscal policy, and whose main contribution to the economy will be negative won’t be? Sorry, this is just ridiculous.

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I started making these gelators in 2008 and thought naphthol would be a good platform as lots of functionalised ones are available… still finding cool new things 16 years later!

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Latest work from the group, led by Dipankar… pubs.rsc.org/cc/article/d...

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That was true before AI where most reviews are pointless. Now, it’s staggering the lack of quality in almost all… we are essentially accepting mediocrity as a means of increasing h index…

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David Firn @davidfirn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Patriotic duty in making Britain a success, you say?

Invest in Britain or I’ll force you to, minister tells pension funds

Headlines about recent custs to science funding

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Depending on your music taste, Pork and Beans?

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Learnt loads but am scarred by the singing…

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

And that’s the mass-murdering handiwork of Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society. Who is also an inciter of racist violence. But he’s incredibly rich, so the @royalsociety.org giggles, smiles shyly, and looks the other way.

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The world is falling apart, but at least I am getting spam emails from dead novelists who had things to say about situations like we’re in…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Mostly not a problem - we have had issues 3 times in 10 years ( twice on Skye and once at Loch Leven) - also, follow themidgeforecast on instagram and you’ll see where to go…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The answer here is Scotland…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It’s like he is replying to grant referees…

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Michael O’Neill @michaeloneill.org · 03/06/2026

Not being dramatic, but this probably signals the effective end of Chemistry in English Universities. An *efficient* Department loses something like £2k per Chemistry student per year; this change will roughly double that loss. Universities would be mad to keep teaching Chemistry.

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Watching in real time how any chance for wildlife to exist disappears as people decide it is more important they can park immediately outside their house… at least the tree is so far ok

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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The credit acknowledgements for authorship states Resources is a valid reason to be an author

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

No or fewer…? What is she doing to get to fewer than zero children??? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Just started these in this series. Beautiful books, some of the language is… dated

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

At the risk of being critical, doesn’t this seem like a control that should have been done a bit earlier…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It was a real challenge - I remember being at a key point and some tool joined and killed me and laughed. Referee 2 appearing in a game was not what I needed...

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Beating Dark Souls should be an achievement listed on my CV…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I’m still getting over that game and I reckon I could probably still get around that ****ing maze with the swinging axes and other traps today due to the sheer number of attempts it took…

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Maleic acid hydrogenated gives butyric acid

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

You’ve got the right week for Arran! Have fun

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Also if you haven’t been to Culzean, it’s well worth a trip and has a great play area for older kids

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Dave Adams @profdjadams.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Go and find the other ruins about 20 mins walk away - well worth seeing

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