Juliet J. Fall

@julietjfall.bsky.social

Prof (she/her) political geography, University of Geneva🇹🇭 Borders/territories/infrastructure/visual methods/comics. Books: "Along the Line: Writing with Comics & Graphic Narrative" 2025, "BornĂ©es: une histoire illustrĂ©e de la frontiĂšre", MĂ©tisPresses 2024

Kids are rioting for the right to be educated with dignity, in buildings that are maintained, for their teachers to be sufficiently supported, and for a hopeful future — and not to be gassed by police when they ask? The kids, I tell you, are ok. The grown-ups, however, have some soul-searching to do

Kids are rioting for the right to be educated with dignity, in buildings that are maintained, for their teachers to be sufficiently supported, and for a hopeful future — and not to be gassed by police when they ask? The kids, I tell you, are ok. The grown-ups, however, have some soul-searching to do

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 đŸ§Ș

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 2w 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." đŸ§Ș #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.

[11/12] Toute relation Ă  l’espace est aussi sociale. Certains groupes ont plus de pouvoir que d’autres pour dĂ©finir ce qui mĂ©rite d’ĂȘtre protĂ©gĂ©, transformĂ© ou ignorĂ©. DĂ©possĂ©der des habitants du droit Ă  un cadre de vie de qualitĂ© relĂšve aussi de la domination, de la justice et de la rĂ©sistance.

[1/12] LĂ©a Sallenave, gĂ©ographe Ă  l’UniversitĂ© de GenĂšve, dirige scientifiquement le FIG 2026. Elle dĂ©fend une idĂ©e forte : le #paysage n’est jamais un simple dĂ©cor. Il est Ă  la fois expĂ©rience sensible, construction sociale et objet politique. #geography #landscape #FIG2026

« Le paysage est toujours un objet politique en plus d’ĂȘtre une expĂ©rience esthĂ©tique »

Directrice scientifique de la 37e édition du Festival international de géographie, Léa Sallenave décrypte les enjeux du paysage, thématique 2026 du festival.

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Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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I would like media to care more about the reality that tech tycoons want to kill people than what they’re imagining about AI wanting to kill people. We have multi-millionaires (with support from billionaires!) calling for ethnic cleansing, a thing that has happened in living memory. Not theoretical!

La plus longue série de données satellitaires jamais constituée sur l'évolution des calottes glaciaires montre que le Groenland et l'Antarctique ont perdu 11 000 milliards de tonnes de glace depuis les années 1970, provoquant une élévation du niveau moyen de la mer de plus de 3 centimÚtres.

Cet aprĂšs-midi, on sera dans la rue pour puiser de la force collective pour dire non Ă  l’inaction climatique! J’espĂšre retrouver l’espoir des manifs de 2019, oĂč tout semblait encore possible. đŸ”„đŸ”„đŸŒŽđŸŒđŸ”„đŸ”„

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I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

Dave Willner@dwillner.bsky.social · 3w ago

Certain kinds of smart people tend to have a "sexy apocalypse" problem when it comes to thinking about risk. E.g. skynet turning everyone in paperclips, while bad, is also *kind of cool and fun* at the same time. Where the reality is that most actual disasters are both stupid and disappointing.