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I have no need of that hypothesis.

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pixelframe.design @pixelframe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's so frustrating that basic lessons have yet to be learned, after 30-40 years (or more) of being told.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tice pretty much said that, the smug arsehole.
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Quiet Majority @majorityquiet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We loved this so much we just had to put English subtitles on it, apologies to the French speakers for our translation. But this is what it would look like here in the UK if Farage or Lowe or another of their ilk got their own way.
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The level playing field is through highly regulated spending with long prison sentences for breaches. It requires courage which, so far, has been completely absent from the UK government.
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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It’s not too late to stop this madness - the government has said the uk mega donors are a problem. The lords can bring in a cap on UK donors to stop any attempt to buy the next election. Share this and ask your MP to join us protecting British democracy.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is unintentionally funny for residents of the south west London commuter belt.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can anyone explain why it is that when you move house, it takes months for your old GP to send your medical information to your new GP? I moved in May and... still waiting. This seems a basic piece of patient care.
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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland
A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)
You cannot conduct a fair match when one side is playing with a ball and the other with bombs and, if democracy is to survive, it must be conducted according to definite and recognised rule. One of them is that no political party should resort to any weapon other than reason and argument. The introduction of private armies, as I see it, strikes at the root of democracy. I know it is contended that the Blackshirts are not armed and, therefore, are not an army, but I do not think that argument can be upheld. … Uniformed men in military formation suggest, and are meant to suggest, the idea of force. It is no argument to reply that at this or that demonstration no force is intended. It is an inescapable fact that a uniform in politics symbolises force, to be used either now or in the future.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes I'd always wondered why aircraft didn't go in a straight line, burrowing through the earth.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I really think you are making much too big a thing out of this.
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Last year, I publicly complained multiple times (see e.g. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...) that the open access movement had been captured by publishers, and we are now worse off than before open access. Well people got mad at me for saying it. But I think things are still getting worse.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Words "for me" accidentally-on-purpose omitted
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Neil Scott (He/Him) @nwscotty.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Where data centres are to be built in Scotland. Time for action. aprs.scot/data-centre-...
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Data Centre Map - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
We have made a map of the hyperscale data centre projects being planned in Scotland. Click on the map to find out information on the capacity, stage of planning, developer. And each proposed site has ...
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patthepublican2 @patthepublican2.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
UK energy bills are the highest in the World and will get even higher. They are nearly 60% profit. France has Nationalised their Energy grid and their bills are 40% lower, and they still make a profit, and the people who sell them Uranium and Natural gas still make a profit too.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 27/08/2026
Twenty years on from Gardasil vaccine launch, Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer
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Australia on track to eliminate cervical cancer 20 years on from vaccine launch
Twenty years on from the launch of the world-first vaccine against cervical cancer, Australian Immunisation Register data shows HPV vaccine coverage for girls and girls is dropping.
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵
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Journal of Clinical Epidemiology @jclinepi.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Choice of estimands and estimators affected the interpretation of results for some outcomes in a cluster-randomised trial (RESTORE) due to informative cluster size - Journal of Clinical Epidemiology www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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Choice of estimands and estimators affected the interpretation of results for some outcomes in a cluster-randomised trial (RESTORE) due to informative cluster size
In cluster-randomised trials (CRTs), different estimands can be targeted, such as the individual- or cluster-average effect. These two estimands can differ in magnitude when outcomes or treatment effe...
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Great to get this trial published! (early results as mandated by the DMC)
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Finally
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Bit of shameless self-promotion: a bunch of us are running a pre-conference workshp on design and analysis of trials in rare diseases, at ICTMC 2026 in Birmingham. Workshop is morning of Monday 14th September. Places are limited! Info here: ictmc.org/workshop-pro...
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Workshop Programme – ICTMC 2026
14-17 September 2026
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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The tragic death of Jason Arday is an awful story. There's been much (often nasty) commentary on Arday's scholarship, with UK redtops pretending now to be concerned bastions of research integrity. Utter nonsense: misconduct in academia is EXTREMELY common, and media rarely cares. Let's review 🧵
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Kert Viele @kertviele.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
CHIPS trial (Cold Platelets) published in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... Adaptive trial to assess how long platelets can be stored cold while maintaining noninferiority to warm stored platelets (the trial gradually extended the duration as noninferior data came in).
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Cold and Room-Temperature Platelets in Cardiac Surgery
This noninferiority randomized clinical trial determines the maximum cold-storage duration and hemostatic efficacy of cold-stored vs room-temperature platelets in patients undergoing transfusion for a...
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thank you for this
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Yes - I'd say these are a different sort of thing, that don't rely on adding up arbitrary scores to get an ordering. The levels represent clinically different states.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
So the message is to model the things we actually measure rather than the abstraction constructed from a load of arbitrary rules.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
SOFA isn't an ordinal score! It looks like one but there are multiple ways of getting any particular score and no guarantee that they represent equivalent disease severity.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is sound advice for clinical trials, where people are waaaay too fond of constructed outcomes (RECIST, SOFA and the rest).
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yeah the whole "masks work/don't work" discourse was maddening.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
COVID analogy: do masks stop pathogens getting into your airways? Yes, definitely. Does that mean that a policy of using them in (say) schools or hospitals will stop infections? Not necessarily ( though unlikely to make it worse)
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
So randomising care homes or whatever might be informative about whether it's worth investing in them as an infection control strategy. Just need to interpret correctly. (Haven't read the JAMA article because I'm on holiday)
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If you do a trial of using/not using air filtration on infection rates that doesn't (can't) tell you whether the filters "work" in the sense of taking pathogens out of the air. (We saw a lot of this sort of thing with masks too).
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yes and no. But I don't think the article gets it quite right. The problem is that it depends on what the trial is trying to do (estimand), what it measures and how it is interpreted.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Please
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Piece I just wrote for Current Affairs. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Massive Climate Lie That Will Destroy Human Civilization
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What does his fourth criticism "widespread research with incredible certitude" mean?
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Also "hints of improvement in mental skills" are quite a long way from reducing cognitive decline.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
At the same time as universities became completely financially dependent on those exact people.
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Yeah toast is disgusting
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Great post though!
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Simon Gates @sim0ngates.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
There's a typo here too (word missing) "As a refresher, Type I error occurs when the null is true and we mistakenly it"
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