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Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸

@lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social

Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her

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Rich Welsh@rdwglass.bsky.social · 6d ago

In Manchester this week a church was demolished by the council. So were the windows. It is very easy to remove stained glass windows. Costs - a cherry picker and two/three people a day or two. Would they demolish a museum with artefacts in place, a gallery with paintings on the wall? #stainedglass

Church and stained glass being demolished
Charlotte Lydia Riley@lottelydia.bsky.social · 4w ago

while the British Academy is using partial randomisation on its small grants -- and awarding more women/and POC researchers than ever before -- UKRI is feeding your painstakingly-developed proposal into an AI. But it's okay because they then get *two* AIs to debate whether you get the money.

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.
Gabe Moshenska@gabemoshenska.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Race scientists are like asbestos: unwisely built into the fabric of universities many years ago, will absolutely kill people, and require careful but total removal. Also, mostly harmless if embedded in concrete.

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Think of all the mediocre white men with their plagiarism/stealing student work/sexual harassment who kept their jobs or quietly retired but are alive. Jason Arday’s situation did NOT have to play out or end this way, no matter his errors. And the media and everyone with a hot take is responsible.

📝Saline & District Heritage Society@salineheritage.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Also: Saline Session House (which happens to host our wee museum!) so it's a perfect place to visit to escape the heat & learn about our archaeological projects 😊🌡️ ❄️ Parish Church, Main St, Saline KY12 9TL Sundays 1030am - noon Tuesdays 6pm - 8pm #Fife #heritage

Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸@lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Reminder for all those suffering in the heat: churches are generally nice and cool if you need a breather.

A thermometer with the chancel of Whitekirk (East Lothian) in the background.
Dr Florence H R Scott@florencehrscott.bsky.social · 4mo ago

hate it when I am twenty words away from meeting my word count for today and then wikipedia shows me an image with the caption 'thought to be the oldest depiction of a pretzel' when I KNOW of a picture of a pretzel from decades earlier and I am now down a rabbit hole and I can't escape

Dr Will Wyeth@willwyeth.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🗣️ Medievalists! 🏰 Check out this page, we’ve done a reconstruction the medieval chapel at Chester Castle! www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places... Please share widely! There’s loads of info and *lovely* images from the repertoire of medieval art - and also more reconstructions!

The Chester Castle Chapel Wall Paintings

The walls of the medieval chapel in the Agricola Tower at Chester Castle were richly painted around 1240 with scenes including miracles of the Virgin Mary and St Edward the Confessor. From the fragmen...

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Coleen Murphy@ctmurphy1.bsky.social · 4mo ago

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

Mel Andrews@bayesianboy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸@lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Long Covid at work. What you see: my big smiley face at and event trying not to trip over my words. What you don’t see: having to lie on the floor of a gorgeous auditorium because I’m too unwell to do the walking tour. Grateful to NLHF for accommodating my illness but it’s still bloody hard.

Me in a red dress with a name badge on in front of a Heritage Fund sign. The main auditorium of Paisley Town Hall. You can see my feet in work boots and a seat. I’m clearly lying on the floor.
Tom Cox@dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Yes it could be argued that keeping up with world events is important but alternatively can I interest you in hugging an ancient mossy boulder that looks like a face and quietly listening while it tells you stories from centuries cloaked in mist.

A lovely mossy boulder with a face. I walked past this venerable stone gentleman on Dartmoor when I was beginning to write my first novel, Villager, and it whispered all 104,000 words of the book to me. So now I have to pay it all of my royalties. Unfortunately my ex-publisher stopped paying me royalties last year. Understandable, the boulder was not happy. But now I have a new publisher and the book has been republished. So remember if you purchase a copy you will be helping a boulder to eat, pay the rent on his riverside moss garden, and feed his boulder family.
Fiona Chartres@chartresfi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This stunning 15th/16thC aumbry at St John the Baptist, Oxenton has some of the loveliest carving I've seen in a while. The detail in the tiny windows and vaulted bay ceiling is so fine that I'm amazed it's survived in such good condition. I don't covert much but this.... want it! #TraceryTuesday

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