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Lorna Richardson

@lornarichardson.bsky.social

Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap

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MwahahahahahadScientist@mads100tist.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 3w 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.
Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Week 1 of Critical Approaches to AI. We’re starting off with a deep dive into critical thinking. What it is, how you do it, and why it matters. We’ll also pose the essential icebreaker question: dogs or cats?

Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 3w ago

On this week’s carer menu since Sunday: two falls, one trip to emergency out of hours service, one trip to GP, one urgent ECG, one more fall for good measure, a swallow assessment with speech therapist, day care delivery, financial management & house cleaning. Plus Week 1 of semester!

Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 3w ago

Being an unpaid carer and working full time is absolutely not compatible. Parenting my parent is quite exhausting mentally & physically. I don’t know how you actual parents of children manage, I take my hat off to you all, you are powerhouses

Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 3w ago

If you're interested in digital heritage/preservation, read this report on 3D heritage data. Like so much digital data, this material is "archived nowhere in particular & managed, in the majority of cases, by a single person without succession planning, dedicated budget, or institutional mandate"

UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk (H3DAR) Final Report August 2026

UK Heritage 3D Data at Risk: Developing a Strategy for Long Term Access & Storage (H3DAR) Final Report By Thomas Flynn, supported by Wikimedia UK, funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. About t...

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Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 4w ago

Just a reminder as the new academic year kicks off - the UK government has deliberately, ruthlessly, throttled the recruitment of international students, solely to pander to racists, and the resultant 25%+ fall in numbers can and will only accelerate some universities into bankruptcy.

Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 4w ago

At this point, should the question be ‘what WILL British archaeology look like under the Reform government’? How can a fragmented occupation like archaeology (commercial, HE, volunteer sector) counter white supremacist narratives? Can we be activists or should archaeology be politically neutral?

Lorna Richardson@lornarichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CfP for our TAG Exeter session 'After the Election: Archaeology & Cultural Heritage in a Post-Reform UK'. Imagine it's 2029, Reform wins a landslide election victory, the Department for British Culture has oversight of all cultural output. What next for archaeology, museums & cultural heritage?

Screenshot of the call for papers for the session for Exeter TAG, which says: This session imagines the archaeological and heritage implications of a Reform UK government following its victory at the 2029 general election. The newly created ‘Department for British Culture’ oversees urgent revisions to Britain’s heritage and cultural sectors, operating under a mandate to suppress ‘woke’ approaches to the past. Institutional overhauls are in progress at museums and archives, at National Trust properties, in media, and publishing, and the DfBC are revising how the past is taught in schools as part of the new ‘National Curriculum Reformed’. Government policies call for the withdrawal of funding from museums and heritage sites that address difficult histories, particularly those related to colonialism, the Atlantic slave trade, and migration. New national guidance has been issued that prioritises narratives of ‘traditional’ British culture, economic and wartime achievement, and Christian heritage. This session seeks reflections on this imagined future, focused on its implications for the present: Is this prediction accurate? To what extent? How can we better understand the structures and dynamics that shape the far-right framing and usage of the past? In what locales, and through what narratives, is the past mobilised towards far-right political goals? What about in 2029? Can archaeologists contribute to avoiding a future such as this? Where are we going wrong? How might we prepare? What does activist-archaeologist resistance to far-right state power look like? What are the political responsibilities of those who work with the past? How can we attempt to prevent political harms and marginalisation through our work? Conversely, should archaeology remain politically neutral?
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · last mo.

'Humanities & social sciences research is central to ask questions about how and in whose interests technology is being developed, how it can be adopted, deployed & governed and how to create a world where AI can benefit the many, not the few' My blog for @ukri.org ukri.substack.com/p/why-ai-wil...

Why AI will fail without the humanities and social sciences

AI can transform society. But only if society has a say in shaping it, writes Hetan Shah, Chief Executive of The British Academy.

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Plashing Vole@plashingvole.bsky.social · last mo.

British universities are both thinner and greedier now. They’re thinner in that they’re doing less and offering less (fewer courses, fewer modules, fewer assessments, fewer staff, far less student and staff support). They’re greedier in that they demand more of both students and staff: more money…

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

'Students are attending less, reading less, participating less, and often treating university as one commitment among many.'

University and College Union (UCU)@ucu.org.uk · last mo.

Reform routinely attack universities as a "scam" and denigrate the value of higher education. The VC of Manchester Met and president of Universities UK should be defending the sector. Not cosying up to those who want to undermine it. Full response ⬇️ www.ucu.org.uk/article/1463...

University boss criticised for appearing at Reform UK conference

The University and College Union (UCU) today criticised Universities UK president and Manchester Metropolitan University vice-chancellor, Malcolm Press, for appearing at Reform UK's conference in Birm...

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Anti-Fascism and Far Right@ffrafaction.bsky.social · last mo.

The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just the laundering of thuggery After 2024 Southport riots, 41% of arrested had been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why does the hard right have such a high tolerance for domestic abusers in their midst?

The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just the laundering of thuggery

theguardian.com