iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Lily Emmanuel developed fatigue, brain fog, breathing problems and multi-system illness after suspected COVID. Years of fluctuating disability led her into Long COVID research, where she now helps shape clinical trials. fnih.org/patient-enga...

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Long COVID Struggle Inspires Interest in Medical Research | FNIH

Grappling with Long COVID as a high school freshman changed everything for Lily Emmanuel. Over time, this led to an enduring interest in science and research.

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Steven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Your occasional reminder that being the first person to study a specific area is not a rationale for a study. It may be the first because the entire field decided that it is not worth doing.

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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Maybe helpful for others here, too A: “You cannot prove the student used AI to write” B: “No need to. It suffices to show that the text is disconnected from and/or misrepresents the cited literature.”

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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We cut down the trees and then wonder why the Earth is getting hotter. The shade we destroyed yesterday is the heat we are suffering from now. A tree is not just wood—it is oxygen, rain, cool air, shelter, and life. Plant trees. Protect forests.

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Devastating. How the hell does this help people trust science? And why should they?

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ah, yes. My favourite mountain to climb: the one where I get to put kids in the hospital for how sick they become after consuming my products.

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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

A blanket ban is not the way to go. Instead, we need regulations for these companies that create better, safe experiences for users. Regulate tech, not kids. For those in Canada, check out @smgrimes.bsky.social great work on this. Links below.

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Ottawa planning social media ban for children under 16 — The Globe and Mail

Platforms that meet new safety standards could be exempt from the ban, source says

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Has such a great time presenting my MA thesis, volunteering, and attending sessions at the 2026 @canadianpsychology.bsky.social convention in Montreal!

Me on the left and Stephanie on the right, standing on the sides of my MA thesis poster.

A selfie I took with a group of attendees & presenters after moderating their snapshot session!

Picture of a presenter and title slide “How Parenting Support Services Exclude the Lived Experiences of Teenagers’ Parents: An Institutional Ethnography Analysis”

Moderator beside a slide showing “Advances in methods for detecting careless responding in survey data”

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I just returned from two back-to-back conferences. Students, I noticed that a lot of your slide decks had an oddly similar layout structure and I was able to confirm in conversations that these were AI-generated/assisted. Some thought about this for your own professional development: 🧵

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Adam K. Dubé @edtechprof.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

It’s official. Canada’s AI strategy is out. Our G7 policy report on children and AI and our AI in education tip sheet are perfect resources for this moment. Let’s set the right course! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Carney unveils national AI strategy, says it prioritizes safety, reliability, sovereignty | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney officially unveiled Canada's long-awaited artificial intelligence strategy on Thursday, saying his government's approach will ensure the technology is built with safety, rel...

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Excellent news! Nature is expanding Registered Reports to all the fields in which they publish! A great result by all those proposing this strong solution to publication bias and selective reporting (and getting expert feedback before data collection)! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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mcgilleducation.bsky.social @mcgilleducation.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

How can we help children become smarter, safer, and more critical internet users? 🌐In a recent CJAD interview, Prof. Krista Muis discussed the importance of teaching digital literacy skills early and how to recognize misinformation: mcgill.ca/x/5mb #digitalliteracy

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Krista Muis Interviewed about Teaching Digital Literacy to Kids

Prof. Krista Muis’ digital literacy research helps children separate facts from fiction online by identifying credible information sources, using better search techniques, and improving cognitive skills....

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“You think [your hypothesis] just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.”

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The whole “who actually reads all the papers they cite?” discord is crazy because what do you MEAN I could have written this dissertation on vibes?!?!? I read so much lit the past four years that I gave up on leisure reading—because I had to get up to speed on preclinical AND clinical lit.

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Aaron Fisher @aaronjfisher.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

We just got approved to hire a teaching professor in Quantitative Methods! This is the *very* rare tenure track teaching position at Berkeley. I'll be chairing the search committee. Official job ad coming later this summer!

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/05/2026

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Title: Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity

abstract: Over the past decade, the AI industry has come to exert an unprecedented economic, political and societal power and influence. The well-functioning of regulatory and oversight structures and processes that govern the industry thus have paramount ramifications for everything from fostering public trust in systems marketed as AI, the credibility of scientific knowledge, educational and healthcare services and products, information ecosystems, the environment, rule of law and integrity of democratic process. In this paper, we first develop a taxonomy of mechanisms enabling capture to provide a comprehensive understanding of the problem. Grounded in design science research (DSR) methodologies and extensive scoping review of existing literature and media reports, our taxonomy of capture consists of 27 mechanisms across five categories. We then develop an annotation template incorporating our taxonomy, and manually annotate and analyse 100 news articles. The purpose behind this analysis is twofold: validate our taxonomy and provide a novel quantification of capture mechanisms and dominant narratives. Our analysis identifies 249 instances of capture mechanisms, often co-occurring with narratives that rationalise such capture. We find that the most recurring categories of mechanisms are Discourse & Epistemic Influence, concerning narrative framing, and Elusion of law, related to violations and contentious interpretations of antitrust, privacy, copyright and labour laws. We further find that Regulation stifles innovation, Red tape and National Interest are the most frequently invoked narratives used to rationalise capture. We emphasize the extent and breadth of regulatory capture by coalescing forces — Big AI and governments — as something policy makers and the public ought to treat as an emergency.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My colleagues and I are launching a new study this week about weight-stigmatizing experiences during pregnancy and post-partum, and I am SO excited. Lots of planning. Lots of RQs. Qualitative and quantitative data incoming. A dream!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

73% of mothers with kids under 18 are in the workforce. More than flowers or brunch, working moms need: -Paid family leave -Equal pay -Universal childcare -Universal healthcare (But get your mom flowers, too)

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Designed and ran my first ever workshop this evening! Guided fellow graduate students through valuable conference networking strategies. Had them practice interrupting conversations for clarification and reflect on their systems for long-term network growth.

Photo of me with my hair up taking a picture of myself on laptop camera as I wait for participants to complete a breakout room activity. A slide is partially visible saying “Elevator Pitch” subtitle “Jargon-free opportunity to connect.”

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/04/2026

remember what Thiel wants

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

"Writing a single paragraph often required reading dozens of papers, abandoning weak ideas, and slowly learning how to synthesize evidence into something coherent. It was difficult, frustrating, and time-consuming. But that difficulty was not incidental. It was how scientific thinking was formed."

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

NIH Director's stump speech lists stats on how it's hard to be early career & proposes no solution past "elevate new ideas" while he slashes our opportunities. If you're a scientific org inviting him & don't point this out, I'll assume you don't care about us. deevybee.blogspot.com/2026/04/that...

So including for instance elevating elevating the ideas of early career scientists

We have a problem, we have a major problem, right

For for the last 30 years it's gotten worse and worse

Where where you have the time to first- like the age at which you get your first large grant, the age has gone up from the mid-80s was about 35 years old to now it's like in your mid 40s.

We have a biological research ecosystem where you need 1,2,3 postdocs

Early career scientists are the ones who have the newer ideas

and so, like, when you when you elevate the new ideas you allow- essentially empower the institutes to have newer ideas funded, you're automatically organically going to fund early career scientists. You just are.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Yes. All of that has a purpose. And we're teaching students they don't but also that their own brains don't need to develop those skills.

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

In what follows, I will resolve the contradiction I made up

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Gi-normous meta-analysis using individual participant data from international large-scale assessments shows math anxiety negatively related to math achievement. Cognitive & affective facets of math anxiety more negatively related than worry. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Psychological Bulletin" titled: "High Math Anxiety Is Associated With Lower Math Achievement Across 90 Countries: An Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Representative Student and Adult Samples."

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Love this. I do believe it is from this very PI that I learned the phrase "if it's not written down, it didn't happen."

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

People are...whole people! They have thoughts, motivations, and emotions, therefore, we need to understand how they regulate those phenomena together, not separately. This is exciting work by Stockinger et al toward that goal. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1080/0046...

Screenshot of the title page of an article published in the journal "Educational Psychologist" titled "Interwoven systems: Towards an integrative framework of students' motivational and emotional self-regulation."

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Education Graduate Students' Society @egss-mcgill.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Here's the next Education Graduate Student Conference announcement! Conference Registration: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ➡️ Pre-Conference Professional Development Event from your DISE & ECP reps (register via link in bio) ➡️ Keynote Talk by John Ngala and visit our website for more!

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CAST @cast-udl.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Our first UDL‑Con 2026 keynote is here. Dr. Shelley Moore, Ph.D. is joining UDL‑Con: Live Online to explore inclusive design and access for all learners. Early Bird pricing ends April 29. www.cast.org/connect/even...

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TheMeriLibrarian @bemeredith.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is the beauty of inquiry-based instructional practice, it supports curiosity and thinking.

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

“Can actively lead and contribute to marathon meetings” goes on the CV, right?

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Cold-calling for jobs like I'm 15 again. Except this time, I am so much better at using Excel.

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Chelsea Kisil @chelseakisil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Not me thinking Scholarly Kitchen is reviewing space-related data from the Société de transport de Montréal

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ashlee, mph @avs.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i know people are probably tired of seeing this but i have 45 participants with a goal of 280. if you qualify for the survey, please consider taking it! if you do not qualify, it would be very helpful to repost and boost in your networks! (also i am very happy to answer any questions)

An image of a pair of hands being held while a clipboard is in one person's lap. The text to the side indicates Participants Needed for a research study on miscarriage and workplace leave policy use among full-time workers. People are eligible to participate if they have experienced a miscarriage at or before 20 weeks gestation, 18+ years of age, they were working full-time at the time of loss, were living and working in the United States, can read and write in English, and have internet access.

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Every bad thing that could happen to the Petersons keeps happening, and it’s always way worse than anyone has ever experienced before—real martyr stuff. And somehow, we’re supposed to listen to them to stay healthy.

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

She calls this theory “well established research;” it’s not. I’ve looked into mitochondrial dysfunction, and while it is real, it’s the latest bit of scienceploitation used by quacks to explain everything: www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

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Mitochondrial Dysfunction Is a Bit of a Fad

There is a shell game at the heart of Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again campaign, and it has to do with the mitochondrion. I doubt, though, that RFK Jr, who has been confirmed as Secre...

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

They’ve always *figured it out* though and are quick to shout their revolutionary answer (and monetize it)… until they haven’t figured it out, and they need to add a layer to their theory.

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

The Petersons have the worst health, the worst symptoms, the worst diagnoses. If there’s a bell curve for symptom severity, they’re always at the catastrophic end.

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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

By her own admission, the Petersons (which include her dad, vaunted intellectual Jordan B.) have had “many health problems.” In fact, to take health advice from them at this point is equivalent to taking financial advice from a guy who’s recovering from his fifth bankruptcy.

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McGill Office for Science and Society @mcgilloss.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Contrary to what some videos on YouTube suggest, you will not shorten your life by reheating leftovers. The key to avoiding illness is taking the proper precautions during food preparation and reheating. Get the full scoop in Dr. Joe’s article. mcgill.ca/x/5Ao

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Scary Videos Claim That You Are Risking Your Health by Reheating Leftovers. Are You Really?

Bacteria are everywhere. Most are harmless but some are “pathogenic,” meaning they can cause disease. They can carry out their mischief in two ways. One possibility is that they can survive passage th...

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams completed the #BostonMarathon in 2007 in 4:23:46 from the International Space Station while orbiting the Earth at ~17,500 mph. First person to run a marathon in space. She qualified for Boston on Earth with a time of 3:29:57 in the Houston Marathon. #WomenInSTEM

An official NASA portrait of astronaut Sunita Williams wearing a full white Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit. The bulky suit displays an American flag patch on the left shoulder, a mission patch on the right, and various controls on the chest pack; she holds the gold-visored helmet. With long dark hair framing her smiling face, she poses confidently in front of a large draped American flag against a cloudy Earth-toned backdrop, symbolizing American space exploration.

A color photograph of NASA astronaut Sunita Williams captured mid-stride running on a treadmill in zero gravity, secured by a white harness and bungee cords attached to her waist and shoulders. She wears a navy blue sleeveless top and shorts, athletic shoes, and gray socks, with her curly dark hair floating weightlessly. The busy ISS module around her features blue handrails, equipment racks, cables, monitors, and various floating items.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/04/2026

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Simon Hammann @simonhammann.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

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Education Graduate Students' Society @egss-mcgill.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Welcome to the first instalment of our Graduate Student Education Conference announcements! Register to attend: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... ➡️ Pre-Conference Networking Workshop ➡️ Keynote Talk by Dr. Elisa Schaeffer and more! Stay tuned and visit our website for more info (link in bio)

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