iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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ET Heisenberg @utdheisenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Man City when asked to provide their “irrefutable evidence.”

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Random: I’ve got a pair of tix for First Aid Kit tonight at the RAH, 70 each. We can’t go.

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Velour Shirt @object.works · 29/09/2026

This is a metaphor for so many things these days that I couldn't choose

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My prediction - and I am happy to wrong about this - is that this will soon turn out to be inconsequential and will be quietly forgotten, in the overgrown garden of forgotten big claims. The hype IS the product.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is 4 for £1.00.

Sign in a Clacton charity shop which reads Books 99p each. Fact based books 4 for £1.00

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Bex Luther @superbreeze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

They should merge Manchester City and Manchester United. They could call the new club Manchester United

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

guy who fell into a coma after the last episode of fawlty towers wakes up and looks at the internet

5 panel comic

Panel 1: Purple Guy looks at a laptop and says “boy o boy! I wonder what my comedy hero’s up to”

Panel 2: A tweet from John Cleese that reads “This is where the Arabs were ahead of us

By castrating all their slaves, they made sure that there were no descendants who could claim reparations”

Panels 3-5: Purple Guy slowly closes laptop with a mystified look of revulsion

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Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! To start our new series about what it means to live in a world of ageing populations, David talks to geneticist @adamrutherford.bsky.social about the benefits and pitfalls of increasing longevity. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not my normal field but something I’ve been studying for a while - drugs, healthspan, lifespan and longevity. Always a pleasure speaking with David.

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Lyndsey Stonebridge @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You're going to be needing specialists in: languages, narrative, history, psychology, information, mythology, conspiracies, etc, etc. then? #humanities #socialscience

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I dunno man, I would consider renaming this marble work surface.

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

David Olusoga's new series Finding Britain's Slave Traders airs tonight at 9pm. In anticipation, we are resharing an article from Dr Michael Taylor on the West India Interest, the pro-slavery lobby in Parliament, where many members had a vested interest in the continuation of slavery.

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The West India Interest and the Parliamentary Defence of Slavery, 1823-33

This blog, which explores the parliamentary context of the abolition of slavery, is based on Michael’s full-length seminar paper, ‘The West India Interest and Colonial Slavery in Parliament,…

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You should all read this. It’s superintelligent, organically so.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This book is a joy from page 1. Very excited for an adaptation. Gillian Anderson?

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m back on Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 at 9: Carlo Rovelli on philosophy and physics, Lavinia Greenlaw on difficulty in poetry, and James Graham’s new play about John Maynard Keynes. Stick that heady mix in yer podcast pipe. How lucky we are to have the BBC.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's close run between bottlenose dolphins (gang coercive sex, infanticide, kidnapping) and Sea Otters (drowning females and using their carcasses for sex; sex so violent that the females die, followed by using their carcasses for sex; also with Harbour seals).

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Daughter asked a friend in RE if she was 'Catholic or prostitute'.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are doing a whole house renovation. This is the new water system, which I believe also allows us to travel through time and space.

A megaflo boiler resembling early Tardis designs.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In my endless quest to read ALL THE BOOKS, I have just finished Farewell to Eden, by Sebastian Faulks. It's been a while since I read Birdsong or earlier classics, but I am convinced that this is his best novel to date, which is stupidly high bar. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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Farewell to Eden by Sebastian Faulks review – conflict and compromise, from a veteran of the genre

A returning British soldier is haunted by his time in Palestine in this panoramic epic set after the second world war

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I’ll be chewing the fat with Sebastian Faulks tomorrow night if anyone is at a loose end. His new book is truly excellent. www.intelligencesquared.com/events/an-ev...

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An Evening with Sebastian Faulks - Intelligence Squared

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Ajay Narendra @pipilika.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We have a fully funded 3-year PhD position to study jumping spider navigation. Open to both domestic and international candidates. Details below. Join us! @animbehav.bsky.social @austentsoc.bsky.social @ausevosoc.bsky.social @neuroethology.org @asab.org

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Blimey Craig Brown in the Sunday Times!

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I know this is clickbait hence screenshot not link; but there is something perfectly encapsulating about toxic masculinity that thinks it’s OK to raise and slaughter definitely sentient beings for food but worries the ladycoded robot who tells them they’re big strong and clever might get turned off.

Bsky post from The Guardian reading “Can chatbots feel or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for Al rights

Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just…” with a photo illustration of a balding white man with tedious facial hair in a cowboy hat presumably sat on a horse

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The sign of a truly great biography is one that you cannot put down even though you had no previous interest in the subject. The Great Dictator by @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social is precisely that. What a writer. Sweet, not Babs, that is. What a life - Babs that is.

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Chris Hind @hindchristopher.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Anthropic comms team, yesterday

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’d like to know who is on the Anthropic comms team

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I’ve read this book and it’s excellent.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I haven't yet seen The Odyssey but I suspect this thread is dead right. Nolan is a bad filmmaker. He makes boring, badly edited, spatially and temporally incoherent movies with the same banal, reactionary theme over and over again: we should feel sad for asshole men because life is hard for them.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I saw the Odyssey tonight. Rarely have I seen a more boring film. Nolan is a uniquely bad film maker.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I saw the Odyssey tonight. Rarely have I seen a more boring film. Nolan is a uniquely bad film maker.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

These are fabulous positions in a great new lab. Gemma is a rising supernova. Come and join us.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Elon Musk overheard genetics in a pub one time and now is an expert.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been revisiting my 2021 book How to Argue With a Racist, in light of the Cofnas situation - i didn't name him or the scientifically illiterati with who he breaks bread. But I thought these sections from the end might be of interest.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is a weird position to take even among theologically illiterate evangelical powermad lickspittles.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Well deserved. Greg’s scholarly work challenges our passive assumptions on Mendel, and explores the ramifications for genetics education - subjects very close to my own passions.

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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Aaaand back to Cofnas. It’s is so clear how lousy his scholarship is, what a facile, shallow intellect he has, and what a committed ideologue activist he is.

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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This chap de Vries is the recipient of an actual ERC starting grant. Cofnas got a Leverhulme fellowship. Where is the scrutiny directed at these funding bodies? The mind boggles when you look at their publications. It's Faculty of Education level stuff.

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