Jessica Ratty

First ever all female #spacewalk - thanks @NASA - you’ve made two little girls from #cornwall #england very happy, and wonderfully ambitious 😇 #space #women #inspiration

Announced at today's Astra Carta Plenary session, the @astroscale_UK ELSA-M mission in partnership with @esa will carry the Astra Carta Seal, marking a commitment to responsible stewardship in space. #TheSMI

The Astra Carta seal will fly on our ELSA-M satellite, a powerful symbol of the shared commitment to protect Earth’s orbits and promote responsible activity beyond our planet. Supported by @spacegovuk, @esa and @EutelsatGroup through the Sunrise Partnership Project, ELSA-M will remove a Eutelsat OneWeb satellite at the end of its life and show what sustainable space operations look like in action. astroscale.com/en/news/elsa-m…

#glasto GUTTED. Closer than I've ever been anyways 😂😂

Sending love to the marketing bod from @fastic that just sent a test email to their subscriber database 🫶🏽 be kind Fastic bosses - be kind!

@PetulantWench @Tesco I feel for you - @Tesco are horrendous at looking after their community, they don’t care at all. I’m a next door neighbour and they have a tree infected with sudden ash die back in their car park and it’s very likely to fall on my house. They won’t even talk to me about it.

@hannahfearn You raised a chuckle right there from me. That countdown as the stuff goes in - those precious few seconds where NOTHING MATTERS - bliss. (I had a general in Dec, still fondly remembering!)

@FindingAda @zsk Generation - generations for Ada please :)

@zsk I'm glad we've had some sort of impact, though we really do need PRs to promote stories about women in STEM all year round! Maybe I need to make it Ada Lovelace Year.

Ada Lovelace Day is next week - I know this not only because of @FindingAda but also because the seasonal deluge of "would you like to speak to my client, she's a WOMAN!" has hit my inbox. FYI I am always interested in hearing about and speaking to women who work in and around STEM - not just for a few days in October.

@zsk @FindingAda Hold up - what about March 8th? I'd like to put forward every single woman I know for 2025... I'll start pitching them individually at you now. That's 157 articles for you right there ;)

Exclusive: ALL.SPACE, a satellite communications technology company, will this week announce a £33m fundraising led by Boka Group, a defence-focused investor which has just recruited Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, as a partner. news.sky.com/story/advanced…

Advanced communications firm ALL.SPACE secures £33m from blue-chip backers Read more🔗 trib.al/Cbnieww

There are “whole parts of the world” which have been excluded from conversations about how best to regulate and control artificial intelligence, a new report is warning. An international panel of 38 tech experts tasked by the UN Secretary General to advise it on AI issues has today (Thursday) released its findings – and it is highly critical of what it describes as a “patchwork” of existing rules and guidelines (anyone on the AI beat will tell you we have read a *lot* of codes, pledges, commitments on responsible AI in recent years - almost all of them voluntary)   It looked at a number of recent high-profile multi-national AI treaties, including the Bletchley Park declaration and the G20 AI Principles, and found that only Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US had signed up to all of them. More than 100 of the UN’s 193 member states were missing entirely. Many of those are in the global south.   The UN secretary-general’s high-level advisory body on artificial intelligence also criticised the voluntary nature of many existing guidelines which are currently in place in various countries.   “No one currently understands all of AI’s inner workings enough to fully control its outputs or predict its evolution,” the report states. “Nor are decision makers held accountable for developing, deploying or using systems they do not understand.”   It further claimed that “many terms routinely used with respect to AI – fairness, safety, transparency – do not have agreed definitions” leading, it argued, to the creation of industry standards which are “divorced from the values that they were intended to uphold.”   The group,  which included the brilliant UK computer scientist @DameWendyDBE ,  is recommending that the UN should set up its own global AI scientific committee, similar to the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change. It suggests establishing an AI office in UN headquarters, and a global AI fund to ensure that more countries are able to access AI tools and training.   “Of the top 100 high-performance computing clusters in the world capable of training large AI models, not one is hosted in a developing country,” it notes.   The UN will now consider the recommendations.   As part of its research, the group also surveyed 340 tech experts and asked them to rate their concerns about the use of AI in 14 different areas. The use of AI to compromise information (such as in the generation of misinformation and deepfakes), and the use of the tech in armed conflict, emerged as the two themes which worried them the most.   There are already growing calls for the UN to update its treaty on autonomous weapons, including from the Red Cross.   “The Advisory Body considers it essential to identify clear red lines delineating unlawful use cases, including relying on AI to select and engage targets autonomously,” the report says.

@petetrainor 😂😂😂😂 maybe call it something else 😂

@_Jessification_ I mean… it’s definitely going to get good attendance. When we organise an Ai Consultants team dinner it’s a proper grind to get anybody to turn up.

Overheard in @Tesco (from one teammate to another) “Are you going to the Self Service Party” 😂😂😂

@withplum I know all that. Obvs! It’s about how you communicate, not what you are communicating. But it’s ok, if you guys were joined up - you’d know I’ve already spoken to the team.

@_Jessification_ Hi Jessica, We fully understand your frustration, however, Plum is a regulated institution, so we’re obliged to follow certain rules issued by supervisory and regulatory bodies. This includes conducting checks and the timeframe of these checks depends on the case.

Spent a good few years recommending @withplum to friends & family but NOT anymore due to them freezing access to my savings w/ little to no communication or explainers. It’s been a week now. I recommend if you save a/ them you check your funds are safe & remove when possible.

I’ve asked @withplum to send me T&C’s where they explain their process for freezing access to funds and they have repeatedly ignored my request. I understand they are held to @TheFCA regulations - but they are not communicating clearly their actions and or reasons.

The full - unexpurgated - and BRILLIANT broadcast by DARREN from READING this afternoon on Shelagh Fogarty's show on LBC. The man is a legend after just a couple of hours.

Nothing more dismal than being sent emails from @glastonbury selling merch for a festival I’ve never successfully got a ticket for… how fun. Not.

Loving some of the questions at the Reach for the Sky festival this morning. What a panel. Go girls! @_Jessification_ @TECgirls

In case you missed it... This week we announced investment from @NATO as part of their Innovation Fund. Through empowering innovative technology, they are enabling enhanced resilience across global #manufacturing and infrastructure. @FinancialTimes 🔗 ft.pulse.ly/ypo5hymoid