iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

PCOS (polycystic ovary syndrome) is now PMOS (polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome). The name change follows a multiyear process stemming from a recognition that ovarian cysts aren't the primary aspect of the condition, which affects multiple body systems, and many patients don't have them.

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P.C.O.S. Has a New Name. Doctors Hope It Will Improve Care for Millions.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

“The move disqualifies loans for those studying for careers as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech-language therapists, social workers, counseling and mental health practitioners,..” www.forbes.com/sites/judyst...

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Admininstration Redefines “Professional,” Limiting Loans For RNs, PT, MPH And More

The administration redefined "professional" degrees to limit loans to RNs, PT/OT, CRNAs and more, sparking fears about the worsening healthcare worker shortage.

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ACOG @acog.org · 13/02/2026

Helen Octavia Dickens, MD, FACOG, FACS, lived a life defined by firsts and guided by an unwavering commitment to reproductive health, education, and equity. This #BlackHistoryMonth, read about her incredible legacy and how she changed lives: bit.ly/4tzgdhE

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

MOTHER JONES: “You should be paying attention to the race in Tennessee’s 7th congressional district”

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 21/11/2025

This is why we need the humanities

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/10/2025

Jamaica could face one of the strongest landfall storms in its recorded history as Hurricane Melissa moves through the Caribbean. Forecasters predict it will hit the island as an “upper-end” Category 4 hurricane on Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 14/10/2025

This one's hitting different. I'm sad, I cried, but I'm reacting mostly angrily, like something was stolen from me personally. D'Angelo really got inside of me all those years ago, I dunno. It hurts pretty bad.

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tru @thetrudz.photo · 14/10/2025

What D’Angelo said Black Messiah means. It came out at the end of 2014 and it was so needed.

Article (Nolan Feeney; TIME) excerpt reads: “Black Messiah is a hell of a name for an album. It can be misunderstood. Many will think it's about religion. Some will jump to the conclusion that I'm calling myself a Black Messiah. For me, the title is about all of us. It's about the world. It's about an idea we can all aspire to. We should all aspire to be a Black Messiah.

It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen, D'Angelo writes in a statement about the album It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them. Not every song on this album is politically charged (though many are), but calling this album Black Messiah creates a landscape there these songs can live to the fullest. Black Messiah is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.”

“D’Angelo’s First Album in 14 Years Is Finally Here, and It’s Surprisingly Timely” via TIME.

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

"For many years, American shoppers have been able to buy inexpensive foreign items without paying tariffs and completing complicated customs paperwork. No more."

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This is terrible.

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

“Fibroids impacted my career,” Williams said. “I never had enough energy most times to play a real match the way I wanted to, and, of course, it affected my results.”

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

10 years ago #tdih 2015, nine African American churchgoers murdered 💔 inside Charleston’s historic Mother Emanuel A.M.E. Church in act of white supremacist terrorism, one of countless (ongoing) massacres in the U.S. Read words of Rev. William Barber & Bree Newsome ⬇️ 🧵 Art by Panhandle Slim

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June 17, 2015: Charleston Church Massacre

Nine African American churchgoers were gunned down inside a church in an act of white supremacist terrorism.

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 26/04/2025

By accepting the grant award, recipients are certifying that: (i) They do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, DEIA, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws…

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o... "This is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more...students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base."

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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare

It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

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FoodLab Detroit @foodlabdetroit.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

“Whether engaging in political organizing, enhancing economic growth, or serving as a source of relaxation, Black beauty shops have curated a defiant history & unique experience. The women who own & work in these shops have done far more for the advancement of Black communities than meets the eye.”

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Black beauticians have always done more than style hair — they’ve built power

Inside their salons, they’ve reshaped what community work looks like, creating spaces for political organizing, economic independence and healing.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

New story from me: Imani* was in class when she discovered a scholarship program she relied on had been shut down. “I don’t come from wealth ... Ending the program puts a burden on individuals who don't have it like most of the wealthy people here at the University of Michigan"

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A scholarship program helped boost diversity at U of M. Trump’s DEI crackdown just killed it.

The University of Michigan Alumni Association has ended the LEAD Scholars program, a merit-based scholarship that worked to improve enrollment for minority students.

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Fodera, who studies fibroids—non-cancerous growths that affect 70–80% of women by age 50, and can cause severe pain and infertility—is just one of numerous scientists affected by the decision...to cancel $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia."

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‘My career is over’: Columbia University scientists hit hard by Trump team’s cuts

The US government has begun slashing US$400 million in research grants at Columbia University over pro-Palestinian campus protests.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 13/03/2025

On this day in 2020, Louisville police officers shot and killed 26-year-old Breonna Taylor during a no-knock raid in the middle of the night.

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Mar. 13, 2020 | Louisville Police Kill Breonna Taylor During Nighttime No-Knock Raid

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... "In our roles as editors [we will continue] to do what we think makes a difference: publishing the highest-quality research, analysis, opinion, and educational content that can improve patient health...even when topics are controversial."

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Order out of Chaos | NEJM

Eric Rubin comments on the effects of the raft of executive orders from the current administration on scientific research and public health.

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Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP @soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Interesting and deeply depressing. Only set of physicians who live longer than their non-physician colleagues are...white men. "Black female physicians had higher mortality rates than all other physician subgroups and White females in non–health care occupations" www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...

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How Physician Mortality Stacks Up Against the General Population

Lower mortality among U.S. physicians did not extend to women or racial/ethnic minorities

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Anna Kirkland @annakirkland.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Great letter from my colleagues @sbagen.bsky.social, @mjschlanger.bsky.social and other legal scholars across the country explaining why it is not necessary to start eliminating university programs because Trump

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OGC Memo re Trump DEI and SFFA 2025 02 20.pdf | Powered by Box

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

In times of political defeat and civic annihilation, Black history/feminism directs us to nonetheless make space for recognition, critical thought, and even celebration. We will do so next month in honor of Michele Mitchell’s scholarship at the University of Michigan. lsa.umich.edu/history/news...

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All Events | U-M LSA Department of History

Learn about the latest events presented by the U-M History Department.

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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 10/02/2025

Read our latest issue in full ➡️ tinyurl.com/2rz7b357 bsky.app/profile/thel...

Cover of The Lancet Feb 8, 2025 issue. Quote on cover reads: "Health institutions may be hesitant to criticise the new administration publicly, but this timidity is a mistake. Trump's actions must be called out for the damage they are doing."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025

6. The policy does not just affect funding going forward. All existing NIH grants will have their indirect rates cut to 15% as of today, the date of issuance. For a large university, this creates a sudden and catastrophic shortfall of hundreds of millions of dollars against already budgeted funds.

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Da Real Juicy J (10/13 🥳) @realjuicyjay.blacksky.app · 06/02/2025

According to this attorney, ICE detained a Black American citizen, of Jamaican heritage, and her 8 YO son and detained them for 24 hours Let that sink in…

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NBER @nber.org · 31/01/2025

African Americans who changed their racial identity and "passed" as white in the late 19th and early 20th centuries lived approximately 9.4 months longer, on average, than their non-passing siblings, from Hamid Noghanibehambari and Jason Fletcher www.nber.org/papers/w33394

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😈Miss Hell Batkeeper😈 @mishellbaker.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Jimmy Carter was right about climate change. He was right about the Mideast conflict and apartheid in Israel and South Africa and the ongoing plagues of poverty and racism. It was he not Reagan who freed our hostages in Iran. A true man of God, he died beloved, which not many presidents do or will.

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Naima Cochrane @stillnaima.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

If ever there was a "Well done, thy good and faithful servant" given at the gates, I know it was given to President Carter.

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/h... "Dr. Emily Von Bargen, a urogynecologist...often sees women who have undergone a hysterectomy but don’t know exactly which of their organs were removed. 'I would say 50 percent of patients don’t know the specifics around their surgery,' she said."

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So You’ve Had a Hysterectomy. Do You Know What Was Removed? (Gift Article)

Patients often are in the dark about which organs remain and which were removed — particularly the ovaries, which profoundly influence lifelong health.

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

"We have two months before Trump takes office, though, so rather than panic, now is the time to prepare. Take a deep breath, allow yourself to process your feelings, then get to work." www.teenvogue.com/story/what-t...

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What to Do Before Trump Takes Office in January

From getting birth control to updating your passport.

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Alex @minnabird.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... A colleague and I wrote this article after working on it for several years and unfortunately the interplay between reproductive oppression and mass detention during the period of Japanese incarceration feels more relevant than ever

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

go.bsky.app/UcExAK2 tag a colleague

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Ava Purkiss @apurkiss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

[*copied from Twitter 4/11/23*] My first book, Fit Citizens, is officially published today!! It chronicles Black women who exercised for health, beauty, leisure, and citizenship. Thank you to all who supported this project, especially UNC Press! See more here: uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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Fit Citizens | Ava Purkiss | University of North Carolina Press

At the turn of the twentieth century, as African Americans struggled against white social and political oppression, Black women devised novel approaches to t...

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