iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Gavin in ‘28: I’m just a chill, fun loving left wing presidential candidate who’s into pervert glasses and going downtown to throw out homeless people’s shit myself

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

the sad part is that survivors fought like hell to even get expulsion for rapists on the table. when I was an activist > 10 years ago, administrators were *shocked* that we wanted expulsion as a disciplinary option.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

1 in 8 students experiences sexual violence in college, incl 1 in 4 undergrad women (26%)+ 1 in 14 undergrad men (7%) University administrators: "Imagine if we had to refund all that tuition! Could you imagine!?!" Everyone else: "Imagine if you made systemic fucking changes to prevent rape!"

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

WHO: Global cholera deaths rose by 30% ⬆️ in 2025 The 7,870 cholera deaths reported in 2025 represent the most since 1999. Read more: bit.ly/4z5jrLB 📷: Oxfam East Africa/Flickr cc

African woman with a bullhorn in front of a sign warning about cholera

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Measles: What is likely going to happen in Florida (and much of the US) as MMR vaccination has dropped below the threshold needed to prevent outbreaks? Hundreds of deaths in the next 5 years projected throughout the US. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

ICE is now lying in wait outside convenience stores, or at busy intersections. Agents are arresting people at international airports. Local police and sheriffs, deputized by the federal government, are detaining immigrants during traffic stops. ICE is now detaining more immigrants than ever before.

A chart that shows a timeline of ICE immigration enforcement against different significant events (Los Angeles raids, Minneapolis and Chicago raids), with a line in late March 2026 that says "New enforcement strategy begins" before a peak of over 1,500 daily arrests in July 2026.

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026

At the height of the ICE raids earlier this year, agents in armored military vehicles rolled through residential neighborhoods. Masked agents patrolled public parks and stationed themselves outside elementary schools; squadrons of ICE agents snatched pedestrians off the streets. 🧵

Federal agents line up in front of community members at the scene where federal agents fatally shot a man while trying to detain him, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., January 24, 2026.

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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Dear software companies, I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever want to save time by viewing an AI summary of the document I just opened. Please stop asking. Kthanksbye

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The way we fight this fight every time

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A telling quote in this @npr.org analysis: "I think it was clear to just about every observer, left, right, and center, that the NIH of recent decades is a very unhealthy institution and has really desperately needed substantial reform." -Ian Banks, Foundation for American Innovation 🧵

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These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump

Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration. These six graphics show how those changes have affected U.S. biomedical research.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is human trafficking on a massive scale.

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Get used to us shutting down your meetings like we did today, Chancellor García. Five Unions, One Fight #FundTheClassroomNotTheBoardroom

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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

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letithappenalreadymama @pnutsmama.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

insulin should be free for anyone who needs it. is 2026 ffs

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

one thing worth saying about the disorder Mandani discourse is that it matters what you're using "disorder" as evidence of. here's some public health research using "broken windows" as an indication of "need for public investment" i.e. fixing the windows penntoday.upenn.edu/news/Penn-Co...

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Abandoned house repairs reduced nearby gun violence | Penn Today

Installing working windows and doors, cleaning trash, and weeding at abandoned houses led to safety improvements and should be considered in efforts to create healthy communities, according to researc...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22/09/2026

Organize *with* people, not *for* them. It’s different

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How forever chemicals (PFAS) block our immune response to viruses www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Tell me again how good and important A.I. is for human flourishing? Between this and the killer drones, I’m struggling to find the pro-human balance. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/b...

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At DraftKings, AI Targets the Gamblers Likeliest to Lose (Gift Article)

Data science helps determine who receives betting incentives, but the company has resisted using similar technology to protect gamblers at risk of addiction.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Semi regular reminder that when (white) men declare the end of humanity they usually mean the end of their dominance.

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Panic and fury are not the same thing. That’s why I used one word and not the other. this also responds to something that isn’t happening — it’s not that people aren’t furious; it’s that they are. And they are organizing around it. Manufactured panic is an op.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

STOP LISTENING TO THE DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANT CLASS

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These centers are the guy who thinks hot young women aren’t showing up to the bar he stocked with weird dude things because pink-haired woke commie broads won’t let them.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

You don't solve a budget shortfall by auctioning off 45 million acres of national forest to the timber industry. It's not a management plan; it's a taxpayer-funded liquidation of public land. Demand your representative block this corporate giveaway: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from destroying 45 million acres of our National forests

Contact Congress today!

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SB @sbridger.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Blunt, earnest, & thoughtful MIT report on numerous deleterious effects of AI on student learning, with recommendations for teachers and universities (more in-person activities and assignments, rethinking grades, etc.). aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!! NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate. We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record: ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I'm just going to keep yelling this louder and louder until it clicks: weird overpaid AI nerds hand-wringing about human extinction are trying to distract you from the extremely deadly and serious harms they are causing yesterday, today and tomorrow www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Headline: "US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations" above a photo of natural gas compressor towers, power lines and a crane at an industrial site, illustrating rising gas use tied to data centers.

News excerpt reporting that U.S. data centers’ natural gas use is expected to grow by 15 billion cubic feet per day by 2035—amounting to more gas than every country except China, Russia, Iran and the U.S., citing the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Jay Bhattacharya’s NIH is censoring research—including blocking funding—if it contains any of his banned words, like “equity,” “advancing diversity,” “racist,” “gender,” “Latinx,” & “climate change” He ❤️ censorship A new class action lawsuit challenges him💪💪💪 protectdemocracy.org/work/researc...

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Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy

Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Developing a plan that captures the best aspects of what NSF and NIH were while addressing some long-standing issues is what the effort at the @standupforscience.net policy shop is developing.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

We are exactly 173 letters away from hitting 12,000 on the Yosemite campaign. When the total hits that number, congressional aides are forced to brief their bosses on the backlash. Take 60 seconds and be one of the final 173: 👇 actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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Tell Congress: Stop Trump’s Yosemite Giveaway

Contact Congress today!

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/ Pennsylvania has now reported a fourth measles-associated death in 2026. That’s the most measles deaths the U.S. has seen in a single year since 1992. The first two were infants, followed by a 40 year old woman, and now an 18 year old. The state has reported 693 confirmed cases so far this year.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 14/09/2026

Our latest Zooming In is a wide-ranging convo between @bernybelvedere.bsky.social and @noupside.bsky.social on today's discourse ecosystem, and what it will take for liberals to win in it. Along they way they also talked streamers, David French and Zohran Mamdani, Covid and RJK Jr., and much more

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Liberals Need to Loosen Up to Play the Social Media Game Against Authoritarians: A Conversation with Renée DiResta

Their need to stay on message makes them less effective communicators

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I made this video *just for you*...here's a link to read the compact and if you scroll down you'll see the button to click to email your university leadership! www.standupforscience.net/sufs-compact...

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Denmark hasn't identified a single case of congenital syphilis since 2016 New research attributes this achievement to a comprehensive prenatal screening program. Read more: bit.ly/4hbjA9d

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026

Alanis Morissette joined Brandi Carlile on stage at Red Rocks tonight. They sang Uninvited and Hand in my Pocket. I nearly passed out. It was amazing

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There have been a few cancer stories in the press of late so I hope you enjoy my summary of some of the ways that immunology is transforming cancer care 🧪🧵

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How Immunology is Transforming Cancer Care

A summary of recent highlights and emerging directions in immunotherapies and cancer care

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