iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026

Hits different when proclaimed by a eugenicist.

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I don’t think many nondisabled people realize that laws mandating accommodations are purposefully weak. Your employer gets to decide what an “undue burden” is. They hardly ever get called to account anyway, but if they do, they can cry about money or work hours or pretty much anything they like.

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Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Omg

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Babe wake up, new moral panic about psychosomatic conversion in young women just dropped.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’ve been talking about being epileptic online because I grew up being told never to speak about it because it was shameful/people would think I’m mad/abnormal. I can’t tell how many people with epilepsy/some family members have reached out to me about it. But for Poppy, such concerns are immaterial

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VOID 🔞ART CATCH UP. @v0idm0nster.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Burnout's no joke kids

A cat on a space and sky background that says "sorry i havent finished a project in months, i have been at war with myself"

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm a Renaissance man and by that I mean I have a ton of really good ideas and I never finish anything.

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Robert Hewitt Wolfe @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Happy Bell Riots Days to all who celebrate. #DS9

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/09/2026

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

…that means that YOU CANNOT PROMPT ENGINEERING YOUR WAY OUT OF THE FUNDAMENTAL ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SYSTEMS. They are GOING to output bullshit, because they are Bullshit Engines.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 29/08/2026

It's really upsetting that people still think that this is how any of this works. First of all, i hate that people are still using this word, but since they are I guess we should put it in terms they understand when we go out & tell them that EVERYTHING A CHATBOT DOES IS A "HALLUCINATION." Second…

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

*looks pointedly at 'social prescribing'*

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GibbertyFlibbet @thecorrection.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

offs I am livid about this. GP's aren't 'diagnosing in the dark' they are SPECIFICALLY and SYSTEMICALLY ignoring what women tell them and failing to improve obstetric care. We need a global operation Semmelweis for best practices.

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Thousands of new mothers suffering undiagnosed PTSD after childbirth

 A new report reveals that tens of thousands of new mothers in the UK may be suffering undiagnosed PTSD following childbirth. The analysis suggests that emotional and psychological trauma follow...

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

As an expert sleep study taker and someone who has been a real buzzkill whenever anyone has mentioned at-home sleep trackers to me for YEARS, I am feeling so smug right now

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

necessary collapse #triage

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

The most crucial part in each "AI Winter," & the thing that I genuinely think cannot come soon enough, is when we as a culture remember that we're able to disambiguate the term "AI" & we go back to actually descriptively naming the process(es) we mean. Really can't wait for that to come around again

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 21/08/2026

“The lawsuit alleges that Oura Ring‘s algorithms and sensors can’t detect the physiological signals required to accurately measure the details of the different stages of sleep. Instead, the suit alleges that Oura’s devices rely on ‘AI-generated guesses” that are no better than “a coin flip.’”

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Oura Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Innacurate AI Sleep Tracking - CNET

A proposed class-action lawsuit accuses the popular smart ring company of false advertisement.

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Who has two thumbs, has been largely absent from social media for a couple years due to unending burnout and is trying figure out a chill way to announce they're starting a PhD on addressing epistemic in justice in the diagnosis of chronic pain?

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Jim Halpert: This Guy!

Alt: Jim Halpert from the Office saying "this guy!"

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It never really mattered what kind of person Arday actually was/if he did the things he said he did. To the baying mobs of journalists, Twitterati, pundits, and academics that drove and continue to drive the frenzy around him, he was not human. Just the embodiment of the sins of DEI/EDI made flesh

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Palestinian patients stage a sit-in outside the Ministry of Health in #Gaza, demanding evacuation and expanded access to treatment abroad." www.threads.com/@apaimages1/... #BDS #BoycottIsrael #FreePalestine #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #MiddleEast #News #Palestine #PalestineNews #WorldNews

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 18/08/2026

One reason for this is that a lot of accessibility tech isn't designed to help create accessible spaces, but to make people feel like we don't have to

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Knowing the extensive ways institutions I've been at have gone out of their way to protect plagiarizers and even reward them with less labor as if it were an act of “benevolent protection” just reminds me what profound double standards scholars of color must endure to be members of the academy.

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Orcspiration @orcspiration.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

SEIZE JOY FROM THE JAWS OF PAIN. DO YOU HAVE MEDICINE YOU NEED TO TAKE?

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The main two UX trends I've noticed in 2026 are 1) glitches are in and 2) logical and consistent information architecture is out

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You know who wasn't hounded to suicide for dodgy academic research? ANDREW FUCKING WAKEFIELD.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"there are so many cases of people who are just like Arday" for Cofnas that is every non-white person in academia. Lets be clear about this, and who Cofnas is.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026

I'm going to keep saying this until it's rote practice: If you are in official connection with let alone in charge of an archive of data, if is your professional & moral responsibility to secure that archive, as a backup or otherwise, against just such an emergency, so we're not Hoping some kid did.

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"Your platelets probably dropped to 45 because of stress"

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

First, this is fantastic. Second, it gives the lie to the idea that people need to “learn” how to use AI given that it’s become compulsory. What lurks behind the notion that people need tutorials in it is that AI “education” is just a how-to in avoiding its hazards. The real education is this ⬇️

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

The fact that there is no coverage for many healh promoting things is that the goal of capitalist medicine is profit, not health. Whatever good that is is done is done inspite of that.

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Been thinking lately about how mattresses aren't a thing you can get health coverage for and what that reveals about the lie at the heart of 'biopsychosocial' approaches to pain. Because a good mattress has got to be one of the most effective conservative treatments for most types of chronic pain.

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/07/2026

"Cognitive surrender" is a fascinating concept to think about the impact of AI as it exists under reactionary tech Preventing people from thinking for themselves and imagining different worlds is a godsend for authoritarians thenextweb.com/news/wharton...

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Wharton researchers coined 'cognitive surrender' to describe what happens when people let AI think for them

A Wharton study found people accepted wrong AI answers 80% of the time, as apps like Moot now let five AI personas vote on your life decisions.

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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️ @equitableforall.com · 23/03/2025

"He pulled out an intake form... Through clenched teeth I hissed, “I am having 12/10 pain, sir.” He wrote 2/3 priority category" Please read this from @chisaraokwu.bsky.social who recounts her experience as a Black patient & physician with undiagnosed pain: www.midnightandindigo.com/brief-histor...

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A Brief History of Pain | .CHISARAOKWU.

This essay by Black woman writer .CHISARAOKWU. recounts her experience as a patient and physician dealing with undiagnosed pain.

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Katie @looktogod.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

If they only knew how complicated our lives were/ are with all the lifestyle changes we've adopted in order to ease and improve our lives of chronic illness. But they tend to get annoyed every time they do get a glimpse bc we need their help with it.

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Everyone: you know, if you just made some lifestyle changes you'd feel a lot better Chronically ill person *starts using fragrance-free products, going to bed before 9pm and getting groceries delivered* Everyone: not like that

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

tfw you start adding a review cycle to your emails and chat messages to add contractions and minor grammar errors so people don't interpret your autism as condescension

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Post a ficitional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains

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Alex Haagaard (they/them) @alexhaagaard.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today in wild algorithmic ableism: did you know that if you request a refund through certain food delivery apps, they use an algorithm to decide how much you're entitled to based on your initial description of the problem, and the agent can't adjust that to account for basic human logic?

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Hetty Mulhall @hettymulhall.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

⏰Free, virtual session on March 20th for all members of the #HealthResearch team. Learn about writing an effective narrative CV, how to apply #OpenScience principles, and frameworks to measure #ResearchImpact. Panelist biographies: cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/54201.html ✅Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Research Impact and Open science virtual half day. Photos of six panelists.

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