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Dave Adams

@profdjadams.bsky.social

I work in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. Interested in gels, soft matter, castles, guitars and mountains. All views are my own!

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John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 4w ago

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.
tobyontour@tobyontour.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.

Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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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Alex Wild@alexwild.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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.

Derek Lowe@dereklowe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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.

Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For the first time in 30 years, child deaths are now rising, in large part due to USAID cuts Lancet modelling shows USAID cuts will cause 14 million deaths including 4.5m children, by 2030. Independent CGDev research backs this up

Michael O’Neill@michaeloneill.org · 5mo ago

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.

Research Professional News@resprofnews.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Breaking: Government set to cut strategic priorities grant. The government is on the cusp of cutting public funding for higher education teaching, the head of Universities UK has told MPs, placing institutions under even more financial pressure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Dave Adams@profdjadams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We need someone to come and run our SAXS facility at Glasgow - brand new machine to be installed, perhaps with your help running it? If interested: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

Research Facility Manager: Small Angle X-ray Scattering

Job PurposeThe purpose of this post is to lead the installation, set-up, and subsequent day-to-day running and management of the newly established small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) facility withi...

jobs.gla.ac.uk

Dave Adams@profdjadams.bsky.social · 5mo ago

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 · 5mo ago

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 · 5mo ago

I am so interested to meet colleagues and essentially find out that all everyone wants to talk about is the issue with students, authors, referees etc using AI whilst also talking about how useful AI is to write grants and papers...

Dave Adams@profdjadams.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our latest work is out - if you are looking for a distraction from the doom, and are interested in gel noodles, how to actually work out how aligned the structures within them are and what you can then do with them, here's the link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Shear‐Induced Anisotropic Supramolecular Gel Noodles for Improved Cell Guidance in Polarized Tissue Engineering

A simple two-stage extrusion aligns supramolecular fibrils into 1D gel noodles. The residual pressure in the viscous pre-gel drives the formation of a thin filament that is locked by Ca2+ cross-linke...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com