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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've seen the future and it's bleak. Coming to an inbox near you soon too I imagine. I don't use LLMs for anything I do and never will but it's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected. 🧪 #academicsky
More academics should take up embroidery. It can be good to have something socially acceptable to stab over and over during certain meetings. 🪡 🧵 🪲 #academicsky
Bring back engraved invitation tickets to university lectures! Look at this beauty from 1798: an invitation to a lecture on "Dramatic Literature" at the School of Eloquence on 3rd May 1798. #academicchatter
I miss the glory of days of lectures being events where torches were waved, and books were being thrown upon those who speak nonsense ... #academicchatter #edusky
Insect starting out as a PhD student and ending up a full professor #AcademicSky
Are you aware that the AI-generated online encyclopedia #Grokipedia is creating and publishing entries on academics and their work? I recently found my entry, and some is correct, some is wrong, and all of this is collected from various we…
The psychology job market may be showing some early signs of regaining strength, relative to last year. A week ago last year, fewer than 200 jobs had been listed - today, it is nearly 300, a figure we didn't hit till early October in '25. …
“Yale should not engage in any kind of legal settlement with the Trump Department of Justice … there is no legal basis for this." @aaupyale.org #academicsky
In UKRI's defence this was funding they had devolved to others to dish out but still their money originally. 🧪 #academicsky
“You have people who are furthest from the classroom, curriculum design, and the subject area of a subject saying all students must take this thing. How is that good for students? How does that suggest they will get the best education?” #…
We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr…
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