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Swaledale Mutton Co.

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The Swaledale Mutton company, a small family business. We supply top quality prime mutton direct, and also run Sheep Keeping courses for smallholders!

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Madame Pinkness@madamepinkness.bsky.social · yesterday

I've been on one of these & if you're interested in keeping sheep & in the NE it's worth a go. Very understanding & supportive of my physical limitations & supportive of women in farming, knowledgeable, lovely chap. Got to wrestle a Swaledale ewe amongst other things.

Swaledale Mutton Co.@swaledalemutton.bsky.social · yesterday

I am running another of the very popular Sheep Keeping courses on Saturday the 10th October between Bedale and Leyburn. Suitable for complete Novices or those with some experience, we cover the theory and practice involved in some detail! www.swaledalemutton.com/sheep-handli...

Christophe 🔬 Leterrier@christlet.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here's a balanced account of where the microscopy community stands on AI use by this year's Small World in Motion winner. My main issue is that no one seems to have seen the original data despite requests (no mention of it being reviewed by the organizers) www.the-scientist.com/allegations-...

Allegations of AI Use in Nikon Competition Spark Controversy | The Scientist

Microscopists raise concerns about inappropriate AI usage in Nikon's microscopy contest-winning video. Nikon stands their ground, citing no policy breach.

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@mad4fev.bsky.social · 4d ago

If he'd pled guilty now the opportunity to grift ends almost before it's started. He'll probably plead guilty at Crown Court next week once the cash is safely in his bank account.

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 4d ago

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 5d 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.
Kate Baker@ksbakes.bsky.social · 4d ago

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d ago

Andrew Bridgen - once a high profile MP - now a basement dwelling conspiracy theorist who trots out garbage like this. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

No, this video doesn't disprove the 9/11 attack on the south tower of the World Trade Center

A former British member of parliament implied that a video filmed from a helicopter on September 11, 2001 shows that no planes actually hit the World Trade Center's south tower, but this claim would…

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Dr Ellie Chowns MP@elliechowns.bsky.social · 5d ago

The fact that the entire funding pot for the SFI was allocated within mere hours of applications opening demonstrates the huge ambition of our farmers to invest in sustainable practices - but without proper support from the govt to do so, countless farmers will be left unable to take on this work.

I am writing about the closure of Window 2 of the Sustainable Farming Incentive 2026 (SFI26) and the farmers who have been left without an agreement - despite making genuine efforts to apply. The window opened yesterday morning, 22nd September, and closed at 15:48, after the £233 million budget had been committed. The fact that the entire fund was allocated within hours is striking evidence of the level of demand from farmers for support to adopt and maintain sustainable, nature- and river-friendly farming practices. Farmers have contacted me directly. One told me they pressed the application button at around 16:00, only to find the budget had already been exhausted. Another, whose SFI23 agreement expires in November, encountered a Rural Payments Agency (RPA) functionality problem, followed RPA advice to re-apply, and ultimately found SFI26 closed before they could secure the support they had been trying to obtain. A further farmer described confusion over the status of their different applications within the RPA system. These cases raise immediate questions about how farmers who made every reasonable effort to apply will be treated. But they also point to a wider issue - the speed at which the funding was taken up suggests that the problem is not a lack of willingness among farmers to deliver environmental outcomes, but a lack of sufficient, reliable public investment to enable them to do so. I therefore ask that your Department urgently: 1. Provides a remedy for farmers who made genuine and timely attempts to apply but were unable to secure an agreement - particularly those whose existing environmental agreements are expiring before the next SFI opportunity. 2. Reviews cases involving technical or administrative problems, including farmers who followed RPA advice to withdraw, reject, or reapply - and ensure that farmers who lost access to funding because of such problems have a route to redress. 3. Publishes a clear account of Window 2,…4. Sets out what support is available to farmers with expiring agreements who have been left without a new agreement - rather than simply asking them to wait for SFI27. Your Department specifically created an early application mechanism for farmers with eligible agreements, so I hope you will agree that continuity for these farmers needs to be addressed quickly. 5. Uses the evidence from SFI26 to set a significantly more ambitious level of funding for future environmental farming support. The fact that £233 million was committed in less than six hours should be treated as evidence of substantial unmet demand. I would be grateful if you could set out how the Government will ensure that farmers who want to improve soil, protect nature and rivers, build resilience and produce food sustainably have the resources to do so. In July, you said that you remain committed to bringing greater stability and predictability to the SFI, and that your Department will keep the core offer largely stable for the remainder of this Parliament to help farmers plan ahead - but that stability will only be meaningful if farmers can also have confidence that sufficient funding will be available to participate. In North Herefordshire and across the nation, farmers are stepping up to deliver environmental outcomes for the public, and the response to yesterday’s window shows clearly that many are willing to do so. As Government policy should meet that ambition, rather than creating a system in which the available support disappears within hours, I would be grateful for a response on (1) what urgent action you will take for those affected by Window 2, and (2) what assessment your Department has made of the level of investment required to meet the evident demand for sustainable, nature- and river-friendly farming.
Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · 7d ago

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

DaemonSky@dsky.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is as good as the vegan I know who doesn't wear wool because she thinks it's part of the sheep's skin that makes it come off in one piece. Yes truly, she thinks they skin the sheep every year. I tried and failed to fix this impression.

Jay Edidin@edidin.bsky.social · 7d ago

One of my favorite cases of someone being Wrong on the Internet was a very earnest, very confused vegan who was telling people how cruel honey is; and it eventually turned out they thought honey was made by putting bees in a centrifuge and spinning them around until they threw up.

Swaledale Mutton Co.@swaledalemutton.bsky.social · 6d ago

Trying to sell a car at the moment, and have it on multiple platforms. It has had lots replaced, so should be problem free and is reasonable priced, but despite lots and lots of views, most of the contacts have either been bots, timewasters or derisory offers. Is it just a bad time to sell a car?

Seeadler@seeadler.bsky.social · last wk.

This is the same Balloux who said "the wide, open spaces of Ukraine are unsuited to mechanised warfare" back in 2022, so I take his views on misinformation with more than one extremely large grain of salt.

Zach Hensel@zachhensel.bsky.social · last wk.

Disclosures on this preprint appear to be lacking. The last author and, apparently, the funder of the study is a long-time snake oil salesman and more. Picture and google-translated caption from this article by Maurizio Mascitti: www.facta.news/articoli/int... FYI @narsimarsi.bsky.social

Funding This study was supported by a grant from HAHASIAH S.r.l., Rome (Italy) to MC for the project “Preclinical assessment of candidate treatments for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome (PACS, “long Covid”) and post-COVID-19 vaccination syndrome.”Competing interests GVF holds an equity interest in HAHASIAH S.r.l. All the other authors declare that they have no competing interests.Google translated (from Italian) picture caption: On the left, Giovanni Frajese. On the right, Marco Raurati holding some supplements from their collaboration. At the bottom right, there's a checkmark for Red Ronnie's channel, where the image comes from.
bioRxivpreprint@biorxivpreprint.bsky.social · last wk.

The COVID-19 RNA vaccine SpikevaxTM transfects human umbilical endothelial cells and induces Spike protein production, inflammation and leukocyte adhesion https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.09.15.751712v1