Kathy Richardson

The UK's National Lottery Community Fund has created a simple, explicit & sensible set of rules for charities using AI tools for funding applications - the first example of this I have seen anywhere in the world. Please alert me to more examples if you know of any. #grants #nfp #philanthropy

Legibility and Legitimacy Reasonable People #56: On recognising the limits of reasoned decision making.

Here's one for the #grantnerds - a really interesting discussion about good decision making in grant assessment (and the need to ensure your methods are not only just, but explainable).
Legibility and Legitimacy open.substack.com/pub/tomstaff...

‘So far, the basic journalistic mission of bearing witness would seem to be an innately human activity.’ Agreed. But reporting styles and distribution methods need to be rebuilt for modern people, modern tools. We are still trying to fit old methods to the new world and it’s not working.

Another absolutely useless government response to gambling harms.

If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them | Simon Jenkins The terrible toll that smartphones are taking on young people is now undeniable. We need to start talking about a ban Every parent of a school-age child should watch Swiped, the Channel 4 documentary on smartphones shown last week. It was devastating. It…

If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them | Simon Jenkins

#grant-rage #grantnerds

‘With great engagement comes great responsibility, which means Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has to do a lot to keep her promise to not “enshittify” the platform with ads while still funding its explosive growth.’

Dodgy science in crosshairs as fraud audit censures Australia’s top research agency The National Health and Medical Research Council has been criticised over its lax approach to scientific misconduct in an audit that lays the groundwork for changes in the way bad science is policed.

"Australia’s top research agency has been savaged by government auditors over its lax approach to scientific misconduct and fraud."

This is not good enough. We must wring every precious cent out of the $1.5 billion the NHMRC disburses PA.

www.smh.com.au/national/dod...

#grantnerds

I’ve seen quite a lot of dodgy fake-famous-people on here. They will need to set up a blue tick process asap.