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Ben Eidelson @beidelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

4/ At the same time, anti-Zionism can be a pretext for anti-Jewish discrimination. Excluding “Zionists” by picking out people with Jewish-sounding names, for example, is ancestry discrimination. The report rightly acknowledges that this is a point of broad agreement too.

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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

kinda feels like the time to say something was before charging people with phony crimes for protesting and then waging an elaborate conspiracy to cover up prosecutorial misconduct but who asked me?

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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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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 25/09/2026

23 and cloudy??? why not just STAB ME IN THE HEART

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

trump can solve this by renaming "disapproval rating" to "approval rating"

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

if I actually repost this to show my awareness of it and deep sympathy for @sarahjeong.bsky.social will people give me my mentions back and stop tagging me lol guys I have been tagged hundreds of times 😂

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 23/09/2026

Seems like that demented bus driver who kidnapped @musicologyduck.bsky.social and took all those greyhound passengers to the wrong state was appointed CEO of British Airway

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've had life insurance for years. Haven't used it once.

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 23/09/2026

Seems like that demented bus driver who kidnapped @musicologyduck.bsky.social and took all those greyhound passengers to the wrong state was appointed CEO of British Airway

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 23/09/2026

Whomst among us has not wondered

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the requirement that people do some semblance of the reading before leaping into a scholarly discussion is what makes a discussion scholarly

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Johan T. @johant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sartre made a distinction between consciousness which we share with animals and self-consciousness which is specifically human. When a human is conscious of something there is always a self-consciousness on top. We are conscious of sth. and at the same time conscious of us being conscious of it.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is not the language of war, this is a language of annihilation, and that's genocide and it's a threat of a committing it. There is no war in which you're allowed to annihilate a country.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If we're radically redrawing the moral community, animals that have been engaged in sociality with us for thousands of years get dibs on inclusion before highly capitalized machines that happen to possess language

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 23/09/2026

Okay, I'll buy this idea that we should extend moral concern only to beings that "experience life as we do" but then the hard question becomes what defines the human experience. Does the house from @thomasha.bsky.social's Alabama Circus Punk count?

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jmk @jmikaelk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not really. I share a life with the people around me, with all that it entails. In order to come to this conclusion you would have to reduce life to just an exchange of ideas. Not even thinking is just an exchange of ideas.

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 23/09/2026

One reason the question of "AI" classification is hard is that if we define humanity around cognition, we're pushed toward arcane, metaphysical approaches to "thinking" to exclude algorithms, but if we focus on biology and capacity to suffer we might have to include animals

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

In simple terms, this is antisemitism

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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/09/2026

“to the victor go the spoils” is basically the whole thing the UN was designed to prevent

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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Julian Hamann @julianhamann.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy to share our new article on academic freedom. @paulita.bsky.social, Christiane Thompson and Gregor Fabian examine how academic rank shapes experiences, expectations and perceptions of restrictions on academic freedom, based on a survey of 9.083 academics in Germany. doi.org/10.1111/1468...

Screenshot showing abstract: This article investigates the relationship between academic career ranks and restrictions on academic freedom. Drawing on a representative survey of 9083 full-time academics at German higher education institutions, we examine how academics across different career ranks assess their freedom in teaching and research. Although precarious employment conditions and professional hierarchies may suggest otherwise, our findings show that doctoral candidates and postdocs on fixed-term contracts do not report experiencing restrictions on their academic freedom significantly more often compared to tenured professors. However, distinguishing between experienced restrictions, on the one hand, and expectations of restrictions as well as broader perceptions of academic freedom on the other, we find that non-tenured academics report more often to expect or perceive their academic freedom to be restricted compared to professors. We explain these rank-based differences with a chilling effect generated by a polemical and polarized discourse on ‘cancel culture.’ Academics on fixed-term contracts are more likely to be receptive to often polemical debates on ‘cancel culture’ and for the concerns that come with it. This suggests that structural employment insecurity plays a key role in shaping how academics assess their academic freedom. Our results challenge simplified accounts of ‘cancel culture’ by showing that discourse and institutional hierarchies intersect to produce differentiated vulnerabilities within academia. Although based in Germany, the findings speak to broader international concerns about restrictions on academic freedom and precarious academic labour.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 21/09/2026

Chris Van Hollen issues the first ever call by a Democratic member of Congress for US officials to be sanctioned by other countries

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

“School choice” is pernicious inequality rebranded as a type of consumer-based freedom.

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 20/09/2026

This thing I made two years ago continues to hold up pretty well

AI and consciousness political 2D grid.

Authoritarian
Al is not conscious and neither am I
Authoritarian
Left
Al is conscious but l am not
Authoritarian
Right
Economic-
Left
Economic-Right
Libertarian
Left
I am conscious but Al is not
Libertarian
Right
I am conscious and so is Al
Libertarian

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So the model acted in pursuit of goals imposed on it, which spawned sub-goals: that is how agents work. But did OpenAI know how they work? If so, why deploy this in the way they did? Why build a system that *does this* at all? Perhaps to ask: why build a gun that can go off at random?

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 18/09/2026

The oracle told Trump that if he attacked Iran, republicans would be contesting elections in places they never had before

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/09/2026

NEW: @amnesty.org says Ahmed Soliman & another man, Samson Birhane, had bags put on their heads, were beaten when arrested in Equatorial Guinea. They demand their immediate release. Both lived in the US since they were kids, ICE expelled them unlawfully. TAKE ACTION: www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

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Equatorial Guinea: Risk of torture for unlawfully detained men: Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane - Amnesty International

On 11 September, the Equatorial Guinea authorities unlawfully arrested Ahmed Soliman and Samson Birhane, accusing them of “breaking a mirror” at a hotel in Malabo, where the two had been arbitrarily h...

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UnionMaidNS.bsky.social @unionmaidns.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government is proposing to steamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect nature, not treat it as red tape. 🌿 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social act.gp/3UGBqcn

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Stop Federal Environmental Rollbacks in Canada

Nature is our home—not an economic zone. The federal government wants to streamroll ahead with major projects by weakening environmental protections. Tell them to protect the nature that sustains us, ...

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Marie is right, and in that spirit, what is the best song by an otherwise unimpressive artist? Macklemore being back in the news has had me listening to "Can't Hold Us" again and it is an absolute bop. That kinetic drum beat, lightly picked piano, it absolutely captures a certain club vibe.

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Casaubon @zas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kraken parent eyes U.S. Hyperliquid perpetuals happened in Book of the New Sun too

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 16/09/2026

Oh is she concerned? Is she seriously concerned? Does she have serious concerns?

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 16/09/2026

The thing about the GW Bush book of paintings is that it aligns with my basic view that he wasn't in much control during 2001-2009; that he feels pretty bad about the horrors he unleashed; and that he's too much of a coward to wrestle directly with his legacy. He paints stuff he can't say out loud

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As a sociologist, can confidently say, this is not an ethical experiment.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 16/09/2026

saying "damn, GTA 6 is cheaper than a tank of gas" and making everybody mad just to feel something

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noam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran being not complicit the way Michael Scott declared bankruptcy

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/09/2026

Aerospace Flowchart xkcd.com/3298/

Comic: Aerospace Engineer Problem-Solving Flowchart. [Start→Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?→(No)→Try other solutions→(four arrows leading off-panel)]

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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The "I consent" meme but the man and lady are Carney and UvdL and the "I don't" Jesus is Merz, a grain elevator, and every dairy farmer in France.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

4-year postdoc at @wzb.bsky.social in the research group Globalization, Work and Production led by @martinkrz.bsky.social. Start: January 2027. Deadline: 30 September. wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

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Liam McHugh-Russell @xntl.info · 16/09/2026

A depressing day for UK higher education and its workers, but also a useful case study in the big differences between UK and North American labour law. In Canada, this is just...not a thing

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June 8 @junayt.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

No shit, this is literally how the world worked pre-League and -UN Concert of Europe baybeeeeeeee, great powers eat everybody else then celebrate with a world war and lose it all resulting in another scramble killing millions before equilibrium is reached again for a generation and then repeat

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/09/2026

none of this is *good*, the effects will be bad for *everyone*, but MBS and the kingdom learning why everyone else on the planet knows not to trust trump *is* kind of funny

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