iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Sam Gilbert @samgilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just published - what happens in the brain when people offload memories into external reminders? Using fMRI decoding, we found that the corresponding neural trace fades until it becomes statistically absent. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵...

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Cognitive offloading weakens the neural representation of to-be-remembered information - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Cognitive offloading weakens the neural representation of to-be-remembered information

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Katherine Yngve ❌👑 @purpletiger.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thought some of you might appreciate this analogy. @josheyler.bsky.social

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Abi Stevens MCM Ldn R-12 @abistevensart.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Getting really bloody sick of saying NO to cookie data then having to scroll through sometimes mile-long mazes to untick 'legitimate interest' boxes because I ACTUALLY MEANT NO. 😑 Ticking no cookies shouldn't mean they still sell my data to 82+ mystery vendors unless I put more time into my no.

A screenshot of a data preference pop up. First box reads 'measure advertising performance'. Tick boxes I've turned off for 'consent (83 vendors)' and 'legitimate interest (62 vendors)'. Second box for 'content performance' has 'consent (35 vendors)' and 'legitimate interest (20 vendors)'.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: In a library: A woman (50s?) with a gloriously messy bun, in a tartan dress is embroidering a cross-stich sampler. An overspilling basket of colourful thread at her feet. A tranquil expression on her face. People browsing shelves around her. (1)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (30s?) is drawing big chalk love hearts on the pavement in front of his tattoo shop. A friend calls out a hello and he pauses to give her a welcoming smile. Pink chalk streaked across his cheek but he doesn't seem to mind. (1)

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Shane Littrell, PhD @metacognishane.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

🧵Happy to announce, "The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes" is now published! 😀🥳 (see replies below for more info) Official version: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Open-access version: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes

From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty and of…

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I cannot evangelize enough for @zotero.org for citation management. It's a game changer. If you're a student, and you're writing a paper right now, and you're NOT using Zotero, I ask you...why? Why are you making things harder than they need to be?

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a woman is sitting at a desk with her arms outstretched in front of a map on the wall .

ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her arms outstretched in front of a map on the wall .

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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Annual reminder to water your Christmas tree poems …

This poem is written in the shape of a Christmas tree (well, most of it is) …

Needles

I
wrote
a poem
in the shape
of a Christmas
tree but then forgot
to water it and only a few
days
later

[but the words beyond this point are scattered around the bottom of the page, like needles which have fallen from a Xmas tree)

there
were
words
all
over
the
carpet

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Akira Miyake @amiyake.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

This new article on media multitasking (MM) by Drody, @effiejp.bsky.social, & Smilek is terrific. What makes it unique is that it holistically considers 5 key factors contributing to engaging in MM behaviors: cognitive architectural, dispositional, metacognitive, task valuation, & environmental. 1/2

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Attention in our digital ecosystem: The five interactive components that drive media multitasking - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

Advances in the portability of digital media devices and the sophistication of digital media platforms have dramatically changed how we engage with media content and the degree to which we media multi...

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🧵Spotted on Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (1?) is helping Mum sell things. While Mum is greeting customers and taking payments--all one-handed. Tiny Human is propped on her hip, blowing big raspberry kisses of thanks. Giggle-snorting when people blow kisses back. (1)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple (70s?) walk into a steampunk cafe and are delighted by all the ephemera on the walls. One says to the other: "Could you imagine wearing this?!" The other says: "Yeah. I could actually, it'd be fun. I'd be a steampunk man." He grins. (1)

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Unless you need some kind of specialist textbook, you basically need never buy another physical book again once you get used to the Libraries app. And the authors still get paid! www.librariesireland.ie

librariesireland.ie

Library Services in Ireland | Libraries Ireland

Welcome to the Library Services in Ireland. With Resources for Business and Employment Support, School Services, Reading Adventure and Digital Reading.

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I don't know why anyone determined to buy a book online in Ireland wouldn't get it from this place, genuinely.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A good piece of advice for learning guitar or bass: Spend like half an hour looking at pedals and such, windowshopping, filling your shopping cart with like 2 or 3 that are in you budget. Then take that money you have and were gonna spend, and instead buy books and lessons with it.

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José Picardo @josepicardo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

How does learning really happen? This postersummarises how cognitive science can help us unlock deeper learning in the classroom. Clear, practical, and research-informed through the work of @carlhendrick.substack.com Link in next post.

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Jenna 🐻🍫 @jennegatron.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

wholly believe you should have at least 1 hobby of each of these types: 1. make things! (bake, knit, draw, woodworking) 2. experience art! (read, watch movies and tv) 3. move your body! (dance, lift weights, play sports) 4. community (volunteer, bar trivia, book club, discord movie night)

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 08/05/2025

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵

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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

linkedin post screenshot:

Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Think you're unbiased? Then look at this and click on the image: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Co...

upload.wikimedia.org

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Jason B Jones @jbj.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

This is the best TikTok I’ve ever seen

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Fuck Jeff Bezos, don’t shop at Amazon

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Brendan Hark! T'is nearly Halloween. @brendanjharkin.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

An easy start for cutting Amazon out of your life is to treat it like a catalogue; look for the product you want then go and buy it from the website of the actual business instead. Requires very little effort to make a big difference in who you're giving money to.

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Kennys Bookshop & Art Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Irish businesses will struggle to compete with Amazon ie, both online and in the high street. Shop direct with your Irish retailers, who already exist. Support local, not the billionaires.

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Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Happy St Patrick’s Day. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbu...

m.youtube.com

Danny Boy

YouTube video by Blakwulf

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Spotted at a Country Market in Aotearoa New Zealand: A burly man (70s?) with a Canadian accent is talking to a friend at a used book stall. He says: "You know, some people come here for the beautiful scenery, but I'm here to look at the tractors!" (1)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A couple of cafe regulars (80s?), originally from Portland, Oregon, are leaving after their morning coffee and slice of pie. As they head for the door, they're stopped by almost every table. These two are well loved and everyone wants a chat. (1)

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Learning, Media and Technology @lmt-journal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🟨New Publication in #LMT 🟪 In this study Shaheen argues that in/accessible technology-mediated education is an assemblage of learning, access labor, teachers, technologies, temporalities, and affectivities. Read more (🔓): tinyurl.com/2c46t2du

Blind and low-vision students as surveyors of in/accessibility in
technology-mediated formal education
by Natalie L. Shaheen
ABSTRACT

K-12 institutions are slowly realizing (a) that many of the instructional technologies they use are inaccessible and (b) that technical debt oppresses blind and low-vision (BLV) students. Herein, I report the findings from a qualitative exploration of how BLV students differentiate between accessible and inaccessible technology-mediated education. The findings suggest that in/accessible technology-mediated education is an assemblage of learning, access labor, teachers, technologies, temporalities, and affectivities. I argue that to construct technology-mediated education that is equitable and accessible to BLV students K-12 institutions must do more than pay off their technical debt. I conclude with recommendations for how K-12 institutions could extend their accessibility work beyond technical debt repayment.

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Aidan O’Neill @aidanonlearning.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Especially when you see “Legitimate Interest 572 vendors”

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Colm O'Regan @colmoregan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

When these are your cookies options, with no reject-all button, know that I hate you.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🧵Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand: A man (30s?) is shepherding four small humans (3?) in fairy costumes down the street. It's starting to rain, and he's trying to huddle them all under a pink unicorn umbrella, but they're having none of it. Nothing's gonna dampen their sparkle! (1)

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Aidan O’Neill @aidanonlearning.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Can any #Edusky or #LnD people recommend academic conferences in Europe where aspects of workplace #e-learning would be a suitable topic for an oral presentation? Most conferences I see where e-learning is on the agenda focus on second- or third-level education rather than workplace learning.

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Today I want to tell you about the Brown-Stigler incident. 20th December 1943 these two pilots would be the centre of an episode that would last decades.

Black and white pictures of
Charlie Brown (left) US pilot and Franz Stigler (right) German pilot

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Mick Muldoon @mickmuldoon.eurosky.social · 21/01/2025

If you attended an Irish 3rd level institution you have 2 days to register at seanadvoter.ie to be on the register to vote in the new 6 seat constituency. 2 more days.

seanadvoter.ie

SeanadVoter.ie

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

When I see such drivel I think: He was a poet. If you value what he says about teaching, then you'll love my poetry! He knows as much about good teaching as I do about writing a good poem. What Robert Frost, Albert Einstein...say about teaching and learning is their opinion. Period!! #EduSky

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Rosemary Hoyle @hoylerosemary.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Help needed ! Final push for this to finish off the weekend - English State School Exec. Leaders and Chairs of Governors please spare me 10 mins of your time to complete this anonymous survey! Help me get to my target for participants 🙏

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/01/2025

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

eff.org

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data

If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Spotted While Roaming in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: At a beach side park: A tiny human (2?) is questing to find as many piggy wiggies as she can. She gleefully waddles around a large family of people at a bbq, pointing at their toes and shrieking with delight when they wiggle them. (1)

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

🧵Spotted on Market Day in a Small City in Aotearoa New Zealand: A tiny human (1?) has worked out that blowing raspberries at strangers is a LOT of fun. Especially when different strangers of all ages, makes and models blow raspberries right back at her. Delighted chortles ring through the air. (1)

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William Ngiam | 严祥全 @williamngiam.github.io · 06/01/2025

Announcing a side-project that I have been working on for the past few months – introducing quokka, a free-to-use, in-browser app for qualitative coding. My goal was to make an app that was fairly intuitive and flexible so that it could fit most workflows. An app demo here: youtu.be/9jJK70W0hAI?...

youtu.be

quokka – an in-browser qualitative analysis app

YouTube video by Dr William Ngiam

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

If you care about learning, the theories that describe it, and how to improve and apply those theories to educational contexts, then you need to read this by @mattbernacki.bsky.social article! (1/2) #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky buff.ly/3Pn7Dj4

Screenshot of an article in the Journal of Educational Psychology entitled "Leveraging Learning Theory and Analytics to Produce Grounded, Innovative, Data-Driven, Equitable Improvements to Teaching and Learning"

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology Only when a science of education develops that sorts truth from fancy - as it is beginning to develop now - will dramatic improvements in educational practice be seen. #EduSky www.kirschnered.nl/2025/01/05/r...

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Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology - kirschner-ED

Only when a science of education develops that sorts truth from fancy - as it is beginning to develop now - will dramatic improvements in educational practice be seen

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

See now *this* is the content we need here

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University of Limerick @unioflimerick.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

UL graduates can now apply to be entered on the Register of Electors for the Seanad Éireann Higher Education constituency. This constituency will be in effect for any election after 1 June 2025. Visit seanadvoter.ie to apply by 23rd Jan.

A purple poster with the text: The electorate for future Seanad university elections is expanding. You could be eligible to vote. Seanadvoter.ie

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Paul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Can interleaved retrieval practice enhance learning in classrooms? The unequivocal answer here is yes, especially when it comes to longer term retention. The results demonstrate a cost-effective strategy to promote classroom learning. #EduSky doi.org/10.1177/0956...

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