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Jon Dean
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Associate Professor in Politics and Sociology, Sheffield Hallam University. Charity researcher. Views my own

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d
Good luck to the Hampshire police. Requiring those present to be identifiable could be one key to deterring disorder

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 1d
The caller’s delivery of this is just perfect. Always worth watching.
davidrvetter.bsky.social Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 1d
Happy Kicked In The Head By A Horse Day, to all who celebrate. It's the 7th anniversary of this absolute banger.

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 1d
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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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 1d
Nurse at centre of trans hospital row takes on nursing union
Nurse at centre of trans hospital row takes on nursing union
A nurse has said she felt discriminated against by a union representative after she was suspended following a complaint over her behaviour towards a transgender colleague.
www.channel4.com

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 2d
Not to harp on this, but one man has now coordinated the disruption of a port, two separate attacks on the RNLI, and interference with the border force and the police have no further questions? And the Home Secretary has not noticed?
joxley.jmoxley.co.uk John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d
The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 2d
I think once black clad men are interfering with rescues at sea, we are past "legitimate concerns".

Once they're attacking boats, and risking the lives of everyone on board, it's just thuggery.

The Home Secretary's statement is on the side of criminals. There's no other way to read it.

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 2d
The man who filmed himself stabbing one, with a person on board, is still seemingly at large.

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Nick Davies @njdavies.bsky.social · 2d
Great to hear the PM say “We are going to be much prouder in standing up for our values and the rule of law” re foreign information warfare. I wonder if he or the Home Secretary might consider doing the same when it comes to masked vigilantes shutting down infrastructure and harassing the RNLI

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 2d
Hi @stephanie-peacock.bsky.social. As the Minister for Civil Society do you have anything to say about far right thugs trying to drown RNLI volunteers in the Channel? Some defence of volunteers using their freedom to help others? Maybe asking the Home Secretary to do something?

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 2d
I have a file on my computer called charity and fascism. It gets bigger every day.

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Jon Dean @jondeanstuff.bsky.social · 2d
Last week, at the UK volunteering conference, my colleague Jurgen Grotz said he felt it was no longer safe to volunteer in the UK. That no one would protect you. We now have far right thugs trying to drown RNLI volunteers at sea. What the fuck are we doing?
yeomans.bsky.social Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 3d
6. As far as we can see, the rescuer was okay - though this is bordering on attempted murder.

RNLI then headed towards the Solent, AIS off and chased by the far-right. Authorities in Portsmouth likely were warned that people would be offloaded and processed at Gosport, so Thomas rallied activists.

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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 2d
I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.