iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 4h

"anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world" ~ The Talmud 🕎🍉

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: H-2A worker Carlos Vargas Moreno experienced a catastrophic heat stroke when his employer, Florida Orange Gold, subjected him to unsafe working conditions. The same company was cited two years prior for the heat-related death of H-2A worker Carmen Sebastian Hernandez Mosqueda.

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Despite farmworker death and another disabled by heat stroke, employer keeps sending people to fields

Florida Orange Gold has exposed workers on H-2A visas to extreme heat, but continues to bring hundreds of migrants to North Carolina

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 4h

Applied mathematics has met the machine before Denys Dutykh "My point is simple: applied mathematics welcomes these tools, and I expect a major boost for our discipline if we embrace them with our usual standards of verification and validation, because we have been here before."

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Applied mathematics has met the machine before

Why does AI worry applied mathematicians less? We have met the machine before: human computers moved up to designing algorithms, and a computer run led to the solution. Driven by problems rather th…

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Timothy Gowers @wtgowers.bsky.social · 5h

The advisory group on mathematics and artificial intelligence, of which I am a member, has just published a set of recommendations concerning the responsible release of mathematical results generated by AI companies using internal models. 1/3 agmai.org/general-sep29/

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Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …

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Tristan Bouchard @tristanbouchard.bsky.social · 6h

I'm making the long trip to my childhood home tonight as my grandmother is not doing well and we're saying our goodbyes. If I'm gone here for a bit, that is why. I remember her enjoying this piece from the Ken Burns Civil War documentary. Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

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Tim Verstynen @tdverstynen.bsky.social · 8h

Looking for a postdoc in comp neuro and human brain imaging? Interested in foraging? Join our international collaboration with Jon Rubin, @jyotikab.bsky.social, & @davidrobbe.bsky.social be.bsky.social to study the neural basis of foraging behavior! cmu.wd115.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

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Postdoctoral Research Associate – Cognitive Axon Lab – Dietrich College

The Cognitive Axon Lab, in the Department of Psychology and Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, seeks applications for a multi-year Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University. T...

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John Holbo @jholbo.bsky.social · 6h

‘The Gulf of Intelligence’ was right there. I give up.

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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 6h

Caladenia paludosa - Swamp Spider Orchid Often found growing in dense coastal heathland in areas that are swampy in winter, hence its common name. Endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

Picture of a single orchid flower that has long, thin petals and sepals that are greenish yellow in colour with a deep red tip to the central labellum. The labellum has long red-tipped fringing. The ends of the three sepals have think brown tips.

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Abood Radwan @aboodradwan1.bsky.social · 13h

I DON’T WANT TO LOSE MY LIFE… I JUST WANT TO LIVE. 💔 This photo was once a beautiful memory, and the smile on my face was real. But today, looking at it hurts my heart. I don’t know what the coming days will bring. All I wish is to stay alive, see my family safe, and live to smile from my heart

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Aziz Abu Sarah @azizabusarah.bsky.social · 16h

This morning, Maoz Inon and I briefed the UN Security Council. We made the case for a better future, built on equality, justice, and peace. We demanded protection for civilians. supporting Palestinian elections, ending torture in Israeli prisons, and the rebuilding of Gaza. We want a real peace!

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 16h

What math means to me By Larry Guth "This is a personal essay about how I see math, what I value about it, and what it means to me."

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What math means to me

This is a personal essay about how I see math, what I value about it, and what it means to me.

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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The 5th edition of the CSHL meeting on neural #organoids, #assembloids & human development is approaching! Since the first meeting in 2017, this has become a special forum for the field. This edition promises outstanding speakers, strong trainee engagement & the perfect setting to hear the latest

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 17h

Is this a covid "contrarian" wishing people to get infected? "At some point you have to jump on the train, otherwise you won't get any further. The good news is: at the moment, the train is moving pleasantly slowly, because Omicron is milder, so it's a good time to jump on it." (Jan 2022)

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Miquel Jover @miqueljover.bsky.social · 18h

2020 vs. 2025, el caporal austríac n'estaria satisfet.

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nailbomb3 @nailbomb3.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

and people are impressed with LLM's solving math problems? Dr. J has you covered.

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 23h

lord almighty, they haven't done anything and already ran out of ideas

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Tessa Montague @tessamontague.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm excited to share our new preprint: Generation of a transgenic cephalopod tinyurl.com/pc86jxz8 Cephalopods (cuttlefish, octopus & squid) are crazy critters that dynamically camouflage to their surroundings by changing the color, pattern, & texture of their skin, which they control w their brain.

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Here’s an unconventional thing I’m proud of: In both of my classes this quarter, I have students who are retaking the class because it didn’t go as they had hoped the first time. I work at a large university where many students operate anonymously — their redo could have gone unacknowledged.

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 29/09/2026

The report from the AI + TCS Working Group held at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social is out, including "twelve concrete near-term recommended actions." Currently reading it: while I have some reservations, but there is some good in it! Notably items 7, 8, and 11. simons.berkeley.edu/ai-tcs-worki...

7. Best works and technical talks in interviews.

- Emphasize quality over quantity. Evaluate candidates on no more than three works of their choosing, with this fact explicit in the instructions for candidates and their letter writers.

- Test technical depth. Evaluate the depth of the candidates’ understanding of the aforementioned works more than was done normally until now.

8. Additional postdocs. Establish additional postdoctoral positions for the TCS community, a temporary measure that will be phased out after a few years.

9. Workshops for identifying new theory directions. First, organize a workshop (or several) with the goal of identifying a list of modern topics related to AI; and second, run a series of workshops on each of these topics to identify fundamental directions and establish foundations and agendas for future work.

10. “TCS in the Age of AI” series at the Simons Institute. Establish a recurring and widely accessible “TCS in the Age of AI” series at the Simons Institute.

11. Opportunities for training and evaluation without AI assistance. To ensure development of necessary skills for a successful career in academia, a PhD in TCS should partially include training and evaluation components where the use of AI is forbidden.

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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Fall in the hood!

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank?

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Jianing Yao @jianingyao.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very excited to finally share our new preprint! It has been a great experience co-leading this work with Robert Phillips and developing a 3D view of cellular organization across the human nucleus accumbens. Please check out our new preprint below!

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

Buried lede: among those speaking out against this is Gregory Baylor, senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom, a major conservative Christian legal group: “The government shouldn’t punish people who pursue socially valuable callings just because in its judgment they don’t earn enough money.”

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Red Morning Glory (Ipomoea coccinea) shot on the 6th in the East Oregon neighborhood. #Bloomscrolling #MorningGlories

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hey! Jobs as Assistant or Associate Prof in the Univ. of Kentucky Dept of Biology w/focus on Cell and Molecular Neuroscience. Peeps using iPSC/organoid models, or those working with invertebrate model organisms be sure to apply. Be a colleague with @anncmorris.bsky.social !

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Assistant or Associate Professor of Biology

The Department of Biology at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor, with expertise in the field of Cell an...

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Very excited to share our newest preprint, led by @rphillips3.bsky.social and @jianingyao.bsky.social , reconstructing the molecular and cellular organization of the nucleus accumbens (NAc) in the human 🧠 in three dimensions.

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Robert Phillips @rphillips3.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Very excited to share our newest preprint, led by myself and Biostats PhD Student Jianing Yao, where we generate a three dimensional reconstruction of the human NAc to understand how cell type heterogeneity and topography change across the anterior-posterior axis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation @laskerfdn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“I’m probably the first high school-dropout to sit on this stage,” 2026 Public Service Award winner Michael J. Fox says during his #LaskerAward acceptance speech. Fox reflects on his journey from founding the Fox Foundation in 2000 to the ongoing fight to “defeat Parkinson’s & all brain diseases.”🧪

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 29/09/2026

Well-deserved. The guy is a hero and an inspiration

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/09/2026

When I was a PhD student I went to a lab fridge and opened a soup container, and very unexpectedly several dozen crickets jumped out (very slowly). 🦗🦗🦗 They were for a class. It took me a full minute to recover and scoop them back up

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

They cited nobody, and I wondered what kind of a monstrous sociopath would welcome this. Folks,

While the Trump administration is framing the policy as “accountability” for higher education, and _some are welcoming the move_, others see it as an attack on those whose work is important regardless of salary.

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This seems like a reasonable idea with precedent from
Obama's education department.
The government shouldn't be in the business of encouraging
people to take loans they won't be able to repay.
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Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don't make
enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social
work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit
the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/09/2026

By my wonderful colleague Katy Gero: A 4-month artist residency, Feb to May 2027, at the School of Computer Science at #USyd, "to support artists working on projects that involve serious consideration of computation and its related subjects." Share broadly, and apply! www.writefutureslab.com/air/

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Artist in Residence

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/09/2026

I don't mean to brag, but this is one of the best videos I have ever taken, feat. @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

J Street envisions a Jewish and democratic Israel, of which it has been said: "One day, Jewish-Israeli society will recognize that this 'Jewish and democratic' thing gradually tightened the noose around it from the day of its founding." - Assaf David

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Erin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mahathir Mohamad's wife Siti Hasmah, has died. She has her own amazing obituary after hitting a ton herself and a medical doctor background. www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nat...

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Dr Hasmah dies, aged 100

The wife of former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad died at the National Heart Institute this morning.

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the Gwilliams Lab and friends are at SNL 2026!! if you're into speech comprehension, intracranial and non-invasive time series, from single neurons to the whole cortex, across ages, using both classic linguistic approaches and advanced ML techniques - we've got something for you! 🧠 🌀 ✨

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Andrew Tan @andrewtanyongyi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"The LZ event: a simulated community response" "An offline AI simulation wrote 100 papers on LZ's 248 keV nuclear recoil event. The real community has posted 82 to arXiv. What each concluded, and where they meet." By Reza Ebadi

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The LZ event: a simulated community response — Reza Ebadi

An offline AI simulation wrote 100 papers on LZ's 248 keV nuclear recoil event. The real community posted 82. What each concluded, and where they meet.

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ǝʞɐlq ǝʌɐp @blakestah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Indeed, NIH submissions with biosketches signed before Saturday are bouncing with errors today. Just incompetence in administration at NIH.

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Natalie Christie Peluso 🧠 @nataliepeluso.com · 28/09/2026

How observers decode pain from facial reactions. Distributed patterns of facial muscle contractions drive pain judgments in both naturalistic and synthetic expressions. osf.io/preprints/ps... #PsychSciSky

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Mohadeseh Shafiei Kafraj @mohishafiei.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I’ll be presenting a new biologically plausible associative memory model tomorrow at the Bernstein Conference, in the Hippocampal Memory Circuits workshop. Supervised by Peter Latham, in collaboration with @krotov.bsky.social @apalmigiano.bsky.social @saxelab.bsky.social @yiotapoirazi.bsky.social.

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rhythmic stimulation elicits multiple, concurrent neural responses academic.oup.com/cercor/artic... by @katduecker.bsky.social @lauradugue.bsky.social @olejensen.bsky.social et al.; "responses are differentially shaped by endogenous oscillatory dynamics that vary across participants."

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 28/09/2026

Just saw this news now (looks like it is a few days old) arXiv has received private funding -- $17.2M to be distributed across the next 3-5 years to help it establish and transition to an independent not-for-profit. This is good news for the preprint server and open access resources! 🔭🧪

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arXiv receives Multiyear Philanthropic Commitments to Support Its Launch as an Independent Nonprofit

arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear…

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