iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 8h

October 15 is the deadline to apply for a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Social Science, including the "Understanding AI" theme year. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 7h

Sighs in women's and gender studies.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19h

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Odyssey (IMAX)

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 19h

"[Genocide denial] begins inside the killing, in the euphemism that administers it," I wrote last week. Here "security reasons" are mustered to prevent recovering the victims' corpses. jewschool.com/when-jews-de...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 11/10/2026

Anyways, the internet is just a thing you can shoot

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 11/10/2026

I'm saying that it's obvious universal that if you give someone something stupid to do with no reward for doing it well and then make it harder, they won't try as hard. The study has nothing to do with AI except for the fact that you can shoehorn an AI task into this broader principle.

$We recruited 354 US-based participants from the online research platform Prolific and paid them $2.60 for participation (our study took approximately 13 minutes to complete). In the experiment, participants were given a series of 15 fraction problems to solve of varying difficulty. Participants were explicitly informed that there was no penalty for providing wrong answers, their payment didn’t depend on how many questions they solve correctly, and they were requested to do the task to the best of their abilities$

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Williams Institute @williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Today is National Coming Out Day. Our research finds that younger generations identify and come out as lesbian, gay, and bisexual earlier than older generations. Learn more at tinyurl.com/Coming-Out-Generations

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

This eventual outcome has long been obvious to any good-faith observer of the right's supposed concerns about free speech. Me in 2017: www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...

Weaponizing Free Speech
By targeting the comments of presumably left-wing professors, the right is using free speech as part of their long-term strategy of delegitimizing higher education itself, writes Victor Ray.

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am completely fascinated by this, because I had a ringside seat to a company's attempt to digitize every single aspect of their internal operations. It was the most amazing mess that demonstrated that even people who are quite sophisticated in their use of computers are not at all so in how ...

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Brown University’s widget shows that the energy costs of the Iran war have just passed $1,000 per household iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

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American University School of Public Affairs @au-spa.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

SPA @perilresearch.bsky.social's Cynthia @milleridriss.bsky.social talks to @cnn.com about the severely lacking gender-based violence reporting policies at Cornell and Greek life in general, which have failed victims and survivors for decades and still do today. Watch: cnn.it/3VDGrDe

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

In my Gender and Jim Crow class, we have a whole session on lynching images. I don’t show the victims, I show the crowds. We zero in on the faces in the crowds, their expressions, the children, the mothers, the picnics, the jubilation…all of it.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

This is an official purpose tho, the official purpose is the game show host president wants a taxpayer funded pentagon snuff film, officially

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Ive been thinking about lynching postcards a lot this year both because of the increasing evidence that this dark desire to witness and take joy in the suffering of the other has gone nowhere, but also, because Im teaching Pain and the Humanities again

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

we have a policy for the use of genAI at the @aial.ie. we reflect on values key to scientific integrity, such as replicability, and err on the side of not using it blogpost: aial.ie/blog/gen-ai-... pdf: zenodo.org/records/2322...

A flowchart that guides reflective thinking around generative AI in the context of research. It highlights key, interconnected values underpinning scientific integrity, alongside practical and wider socio-political considerations when deciding whether to use generative AI for research.

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 09/10/2026

Anthropic's new User Policy forbids you from engaging in "sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward our models". It does not, however, explain what the fuck this could possibly mean.

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2026 Usage Policy update

We’re publishing a new version of our Usage Policy. In this post, we summarize the changes we’ve made.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/10/2026

My sample is N=190 (a) American or U.S.-based researchers, who (b) published a paper in a demography journal in the past three years, and (c) described them themselves as demographers or say they research birth rates or population trends. The response rate was 28%.

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 09/10/2026

Is America in a demographic crisis? Demographers don’t think so. I conducted a survey of U.S. demographers, and this is what I found: 3%: “The low birth rate is a demographic crisis” 25%: "serious concern” 53%: "should be monitored, but no intervention necessary” 20% :“not a problem at all.”

Fig. 1 The United States has a total fertility rate around 1.6. Which of these statements
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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm actually torn at which is more dehumanizing: televised executions or dressing up executions as bloodless "medical procedures"

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Academia distilled.

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Lisa Stampnitzky 🤷🏻‍♀️ @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The US govt is destroying higher education with an open ideological agenda; here in the UK, meanwhile, it’s all being knocked down via bland neoliberal logics.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On the history of protests against sexual violence at Cornell. What an amazing quote for a protest here! www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

“Shame!” was a prominent chant on Monday at the largest demonstration Cornell University has seen since I first arrived here as a graduate student in 1973. I have been affiliated with Cornell ever since, as a postdoctoral fellow, faculty and now graduate professor and professor emerita. Through all these years, I have taught, researched, written and been active in gender and social justice. And I have wanted to see the institution I gave my professional life to live up to the promise that brought me to it in the first place: To be the original co-educational and non-denominational school in the Ivy League that was founded to offer a place where “any person can find instruction in any study,” and home to one of the very first programs in what was then called “women’s studies.”

“Shame” was the message we wanted to convey to the then-president of Cornell in the midst of mid-1970s campus frustration at what came to be called “sexual harassment.” We presented him with a copy of this ancient admonition from Homer’s Odyssey in the original Greek: “Men of Ithaca, it is all your own fault that things have turned out as they have; you would not listen to me, nor yet to Mentor, when we bade you check the folly of your sons who were doing much wrong in the wantonness of their hearts.”

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.

Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power, corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.

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Stephen Vaisey 🇺🇦 @stephenvaisey.com · 07/10/2026

BTW this means no funding for GSS, ANES, or PSID. GSS 2026 is in the field now, but then it looks like that's it. Devastating for social science.

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Kitty WH 🚺 @kittywashere.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is one of those things about rape that everyone needs to understand. From what was said to her as she regained consciousness following the assault, these men were raping her in an effort to assert social control over her. They don’t like her political views or her run for office.

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Was at a Faculty Council yesterday & it was like I took crazy pills. Lots of talk of the challenge of the demographic cliff but 0 discussion of the distinct environment since Covid began, GOP attacks on higher ed, move of public unis toward vocational training, AI threat to declining enrollment. 1/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

There’s no A.I. “literacy”. There is only power, to either rebuild or eradicate commonly shared knowledge production. They haz it. Remains to be seen if we haz some too.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The “literacies“ framework is as intellectually bankrupt as polarization right now. We will keep using it because when you’ve got one hammer and the NSF social science funding has dried up everything looks like a nostalgic managerial class nail.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Like many many Israelis and Palestinians I am still waiting for that horrible day to end.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Israeli government was determined not to allow Israeli citizens the time to grieve and process the atrocities of the 7th October. Instead, it immediately plunged them into a genocidal campaign against Palestinians, and a never ending war against the entire region.

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The 7th Oct was the biggest single-day massacre in the modern history of Palestine/Israel. It was followed by the most lethal campaign in the history of the country. In the last three years, Israel inflicted a 7 Oct on Gaza every three weeks on average (in absolute terms; more in relative terms).

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

anti-trust anti-trust Anti-Trust Anti-Trust ANTI-TrUST ANTI-TRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST ANTITRUST When the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 banned mergers that threaten to significantly reduce competition, this is the sort of thing they had in mind.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is a classic Voughtism: we have not eliminated the program - it still exists. It is just not distributing any resources.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I spent a year watching school administrators do their jobs—and interviewing the students most impacted. I spoke to @thecut.com in a long-form Q&A about what I saw. Mainly, a system designed to protect perpetrators and punish victims in each and every case.

thecut.com

The Reason Why Colleges Still Fail to Address Sexual Violence

The “Cornell Seven” case highlights what’s wrong with Trump’s Title IX rules — and how the system was always designed to fail.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I was told Zohran Mamdani would instantly turn New York into a crime-ridden hellscape. Yet murders are down almost 20%, year over year. 203 people have been slain, about 22.5 per month. In 1990, that average was *251 per month.* NYC has never been this safe.

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Lisa Wade @lisawade.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I made the same case for the impossibility of reforming historically White, generally wealthy fraternities a while back. (Hey TIME, I pitched you a follow up. Check your inbox.)

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Why Colleges Should Get Rid of Fraternities for Good

'Reform is simply not possible'

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet another brilliant piece by @katemanne.bsky.social. "Education is, in the end, an individualistic and shallow response to a deep and structural problem. And it mistakenly identifies false beliefs rather than bad desires as the problem."

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They Didn’t Want Consent

On the fallacy of educating men not to rape

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"baby tracking tools present users with normative expectations about correct child behavior, especially regarding sleep... these apps represent a technological quick fix for deeper social problems and add an additional burden of digital labor to the lives of busy parents."

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Affective Engineering: A Theory of Digital Infant Surveillance - Danya Glabau, Aala Siddiqi, 2026

Baby tracking apps and devices promise that they will optimize every aspect of baby care for today's parents. However, these benefits come at the cost of a...

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 06/10/2026

US naturalization approvals have dropped 74% in the last year

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