iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It's harder to sound absurdly paranoid these days. Too much weird, unthinkable shit has happened. So, I look at the plague outbreak in Russia, and it's impossible for me not to think how convenient this could be for Trump and MAGA. A lockdown. Martial law for midterms. Etc.

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Studio Mineralia @studiomineralia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Translucent, glistening, velvety octahedral crystals of deep green Fluorite with magenta-purple phantom color zones within. De'an Mine, China. 3.75" wide. 🧪 #minerals #crystals #nature #geology #artgallery #earthscience #sciart #musem #mineralcollecting #natural #mineralcollector #mineralcollection

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I so wish I could be there. It sounds like it will be brilliant.

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Mike Keesey @tmkeesey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

PhyloPic is having an October fundraiser. The goal is to raise enough money to cover web hosting for the past six months. Please share the link, and chip in a bit if you can! www.phylopic.org

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PhyloPic

PhyloPic is an open database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses. Download silhouettes for use in educational materi...

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The GOP walking a tighwire: Can they can keep hurting the people hated by MAGA xenophobes in great enough numbers that said xenophobes will overlook the destruction of the American economy? "Sure, I lost my job & insurance, but just look at all this ICE torture porn. Look at those libs get owned."

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Warsaw, 1962. Imagine walking through a garden and casually overhearing this conversation between Paul Dirac and Richard Feynman.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Planck time points to a gap in our understanding of the earliest universe. At roughly 10⁻⁴³ seconds, quantum effects on spacetime are expected to matter, so general relativity alone is insufficient.

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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Blues Brothers (1980) directed by John Landis stars John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd with Carrie Fisher and Henry Gibson in supporting roles. Musical numbers by singers James Brown, Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and John Lee Hooker.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Coming very soon! Sirenia Digest 238! New fiction, plus...you never know! Subscribing has never been easier. www.patreon.com/c/CaitlinRKi...

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

via Ministry of Wibble

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.

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BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception

The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure

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Rep. Brendan Boyle @congressmanboyle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Today is the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks of September 11th, 2001. We will never forget the memory of the thousands who were lost that day and the heroes who put themselves on the line to protect and rescue their fellow Americans.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

It's a traditionally neglected, but now rapidly growing, subfield of philosophy of science. I am currently writing a book on the philosophy of the geosciences that gives introduction, but in meantime I can recommend this survey paper by two members of my #PhiGeo research group

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What is Philosophy of the Geosciences?

The philosophy of the geosciences is an emerging subfield in philosophy of science. Although past and present geoscientific disciplines differ substantially, we argue that they frequently face common...

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Gabriel Bertoja (commissions open) @gabrielbruh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"Yin Yang" An unusual sight on the western interior seaway (cretaceous, north america), Two Tylosaurus rex find themselves in a dance among the drifting ammonites, and regardless of intent, it is for certain quite a special moment, especially for such usually violent creatures.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Today’s rally to save the academy of natural sciences was incredible. Hundreds of people turned out. This is only the beginning. Follow along with save-the-academy.org

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roterote @roterote.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

These posts should be treated as the serious national security threats they are. Former US allies either band together or will be crushed by Trump and his successors.

Trump post showing all of North America, Greenland and Iceland as part of the US.

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

SPECIAL REPORT Last month, Alpha School invited people to follow student social media accounts "if curious about life in our high schools." I accepted their offer. What I've found shocks me. Forget the AI and ask instead: Is Alpha Schools a cult? Follow along for a summary of my findings.

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SPECIAL REPORT: My So-Called Alpha School

What is it like to be a student in Alpha School’s high school boot camp?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026

New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation “I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."

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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Wonderful world of cephalopod evolution in deep time... " Here we provide an overview of some exciting fields in cephalopod research, where (in our biased opinion) the most impressive advances have been made." 🧪⚒️ #Geology #Paleobio #EvoBio www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Morphological changes during the evolution from bactritids (top) to the first and slightly derived Devonian ammonoids and changes in ecology.

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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“With the possible exception of the cyclospora outbreak, I fear people haven’t really seen the consequences of the worst things that can result from a government run by and for the trolls.” @ninajankowicz.com in @atrupar.com’s PN open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

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Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation

“Memory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.”

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The United Nations has voted to adopt a resolution for the world to formally phase out the traditional Mercator map of the globe, which, for 5 centuries, has depicted European countries disproportionately larger than they really are www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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UN votes to adopt new world map that shows Africa’s true scale

Togo-sponsored resolution called to phase out traditional map that depicts continent as similar size to Greenland

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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 05/09/2026

My cousin’s shirt took me a second. He said “it’s great because anyone who would be offended by it couldn’t understand it anyway.”

A shirt with the following words in rainbow colors:
Fluorine
Uranium
Carbon
Potassium
Titanium
Rubidium
Uranium
Magnesium
Platinum

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I pray (and I don't pray) that damnatio memoriae will prevail, and as the ancient Egyptians struck from every monument the names of Hatshepsut, Thutmose III, and Akhenaten, so to will we strike King Assclown's name from EVERYTHING.

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Trump says ‘nobody will’ build monuments for him once he’s gone

(CNN) — President Donald Trump did not dispute that he is building monuments to himself amid his architectural blitz in Washington, DC, saying in a recent interview that “nobody will

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Andrej Spiridonov @andrejpaleo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ordovician-Silurian Baltic Basin keeps in it's layers the record of mega-colossal volcanic eruption events (VEI8 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcani...) in a form of metabentonites. Apparently some of them came from England--many thousands of km away back in the day doi.org/10.1130/B388... 🧪⚒️ #Geology

Paleogeographic reconstructions for Late Ordovician (ca. 454 Ma) and Early Silurian (ca. 440 Ma), after Torsvik and Cocks (2016) and Domeier (2016). Super-eruptions from arc volcanoes in England and backarc volcanoes in Wales and Ireland (Eastern Avalonia) deposited thick tephra of Sandbian age in Baltoscandia. A contribution from an inferred volcanic arc located on juvenile crust of the S North Sea Lüneberg Terrane, now concealed beneath the Mid-North Sea High (Fig. 1), cannot be excluded.

Schematic and conjectural illustration of Wash Igneous Complex (WIC) evolution constrained by thermal ionization mass spectrometry U-Pb zircon ages and igneous apatite microphenocryst chemistry.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

From Senator @campbell4tn.bsky.social : “DOLLYWASHING — Tennessee politicians love Dolly. Her values, not so much… Dolly believed in loving your neighbor. The question is whether (Republicans) praising her do.” @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn

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Dollywashing: Tennessee Politicians Love Dolly. Her Values, Not So Much.

You don’t get to claim someone’s values just because you shared her geography

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Tess Gallagher @tessasaurus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I am excited to announce that I am collaborating with the NDGS to investigate Dakota the dino mummy for color patterning and cellular preservation! but we need your help to continue this research🫵. Check the link in replies 🦕🔬

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

A sale in our Dreaming Squid Sundries shop through Labor Day, 15%-off all books (and Sirenia Digest back issues), and I will sign and personalize all purchases (except, obviously, the Digest). Sale code BOOKS15. Blixa says have a look, humans

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Dreaming Squid Sundries

This shop will feature handmade creations by Kathryn Pollnac, as well as books by Caitlin R. Kiernan, and random other bits of ephemera.

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Caitlín R. Kiernan @caitlinrkiernan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

#TrilobiteTuesday This beautiful specimen of Ditymopgyge sp. is among the very last of the magnificent trilobite dynasty which survived the whole of the Paleozoic Era, only to succumb, as did most of life on earth, during the "Great Dying" at the end of the Permian Period.

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