iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

one cool thing about reading old records is when you glimpse a very human moment across centuries. these three sisters all got married within weeks of each other in 1818- not super weird, but unusual enough it caught my attention. i wondered if there was a reason.

three records of the brides of a series of marriages. They are Barbara, Theresia, and Anna Maria, the daughters of Georg Weninger and Elisabeth, neé Robl (or Roblin, with the customary feminine marker used in the area on the surname)

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Your emails this Friday afternoon can't hurt me. I've gone into the woods to pick berries

Photo of spice berry bush with red berries

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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

After 167 years, this Salish woolly dog pelt has returned to B.C. thenarwhal.ca/salish-wooll... If you haven't heard of it, this dog pelt, and Salish wooly dogs in general, are fascinating. See: hakaimagazine.com/features/the... hakaimagazine.com/news/the-sto...

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The Story of the Indigenous Wool Dog Told Through Oral Histories and DNA | Hakai Magazine

A biologist, an anthropologist, Indigenous weavers, and an epic collaboration to unveil the life of an ancient dog breed found only in the Pacific Northwest.

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Emily K.D. Smith @ekds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was holding off on announcing this until things were formalized, but my PhD dissertation has formally been accepted following a successful review by my committee. After a lot of blood, sweat, and tears - it's PhDone. 🔥

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Kristina M. Gill @kmgill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

💯 coffee is key!

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Emily K.D. Smith @ekds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Coffee and tea are big ones. Chocolate, even though it tends to melt a bit. Also I've learned to bring UCB rechargeable fans with me for hot fieldwork days.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People who travel far for field research (archaeologists, biologists, any of y'all): what do you make sure you bring with you from home? For me, medication, obvs, but I bring my Aeropress so I can have coffee how I like it

Photo of laptop and small cup of coffee on top of handwritten notes on balcony

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/09/2026

Apropos to discussions today, a piece I wrote in 2017 -- the "before times" here on Bluesky -- about how the Brain Eater comes for (some, not all) writers and other creatives, and what happens then. whatever.scalzi.com/2017/05/03/t...

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The Brain Eater

So, let’s say, there’s this writer. (It doesn’t have to be a writer. It could be a musician, or painter, or actor, any aspirant in any creative or indeed competitive field, in whi…

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My parents are on some sort of group tour, and I got a classic my-dad terse text: "First injury on the trip. Your mom taking a photo of a fellow travellor on a Sinclar dinosaur, and an arm was broken"

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"...the concept of “African literature” is fluid in nature, continually in motion and never reducible to stable or enclosed boundaries." Read more at: www.theelephant.info/analysis/202... The Elephant - African analysis, opinion and investigation

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KATE QIYU CHEN - Teaching African Literature in a Small American Town - The Elephant

I dedicate this essay to all sincere and generous young scholars working across China and Africa.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I'm a month out from the conference, so I'm sending furtive lil notes to people I like- "will you be there?" so I know there's people I don't need to be nervous with.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm so tired with this evening class, but my students are so good. It's a stacked class of undergraduates and graduates, and the discussions are great 😊

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Americans are an amazingly brave people, who have accomplished so much,” Bunch said. “They’ve got to be brave enough to face their own history.” 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/a...

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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch Is Resigning

In the face of escalating White House attacks about how museums present American history, Lonnie G. Bunch III has announced his decision to depart.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How's this semester going, you ask?

J.B. Pritzker (a white guy with brown hair) wearing a checkered shirt and drinking alcohol straight from the bottle. The alcohol is Malort, infamous for it's terrible taste.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hope the Hugo Awards continues to have a 'judge's packet' of review materis like they did this year- most of the novels, novelletes, novellas, short stories, etc, all in one place upon registration. I can see 2,492 ballots cast this year with this system, compared to 1,338 from last year.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

One of my students took her CV to the university career center. No one read her content, they just gave her an AI prompt for formatting.

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Man with beard says Huh?

Alt: Man with beard says Huh?

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I've decided. In honor of Dolly, I'm going to let Jolene take him. Just once. As a treat.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

What would it take to convince Seal to change the lyrics to 'kiss from a rose on the grave' in a re-master

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oblivion.txt @oblivion-txt.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I shall do my best.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Hardest to-do at the end of the list

Handwritten to-do list, with the last entry reading "clean up your code, you goblin"

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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The results of the video I posted earlier was this iconic shot 👏 Danny León and his crew smashed it.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Am I hallucinating that the Rolex awards for oceanic sustainability research and philanthropy also involve being given a watch?

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Close-Up Rolex Watch Display

ALT: Close-Up Rolex Watch Display

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

One more week until the votes for the Hugos need to be in! There's so many good nominations this year, across the board.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

horse girls, historical reenactors, train guys, trauma nurses...i'm NOT saying you should collect neurodivergent friends on purpose btw. i'm saying you're a writer so your friends are already neurodivergent

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Someone is sleeping that deep sleep of finally being back in their own house, and alone

Grey, brown, and black dog deeply asleep on his grey couch

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Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Copper alloy button taken in for recording by my Finds Liaison Officer (FLO) last week on the Portable Antiquities Scheme, part of the T&Cs of having a mudlarking permit. Usually items have to be over 300yrs old to be recorded, but this button is rare & has an important London transport story 1/

Copper alloy livery button from the WLER - West London Extension Railway found on the Thames Foreshore.

A close-up of a copper alloy uniform button with the initials WLER on it. It once belonged to a porter or railway worker who was employed by this line.

The back of the copper alloy WLER uniform button seen posed in my hand on the Thames Foreshore. The shank is still visible though flattened with age.

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Lynn: Let's storm the Bastille @auberon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I am not sure how many more stories like this that I can handle before snapping. What kind of evil justifies abducting a grandmother on chemo?

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15/07/2026

That's about 2/3 the annual National Science Foundation budget.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Yeah, I teach stats as a professor. I am also re-running all my code for my personal research because I forgot negative numbers exist.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 14/07/2026

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Who doesn't love a bit of gossip?

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James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Nice day foraging for chanterelles

Dog sitting in Forest with orange mushrooms in front of it.

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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹 @jalaneschmidt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This Friday 6pm come to @jsaahccville.bsky.social & celebrate the 5th anniversary of the removal of statues. And…🥁…the Swords Into Plowshares project will announce which design firm has been selected to use the bronze ingots to create new public art! Hope you can come! You helped make it happen.

Announcement of the Jefferson school’s 6pm Friday June 10 event which celebrates the 5th anniversary of the removal of Confederate statues and where the Swords Into Plowshares project will announce which design firm will create new public art for the city of Charlottesville

Bronze ingots produced from the melting down of Charlottesville’s Confederate statue

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm not sure what I like more, MTV Unplugged or the Tiny Desk series.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Harvey Pratt created one of the most moving memorials on the National Mall, the National Native American Veterans Memorial. A citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and Dakota, he was also a premier forensic artist, sculpting reconstructions of faces. He died last year, RIP.

photograph of pond with metallic circular memorial in afternoon light, surrounded by green trees.

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Chris Stantis @chrisstantis.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

A drag queen pointed out wearing a harness for pride was a good choice.

Happy dog in a pride bandana with people with large rainbow flags behind him

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The Verge @theverge.com · 12/06/2026

If you were to count out a million seconds, it would take you 11 and a half days. A billion seconds would take you 31.7 years. But a trillion seconds would take 31,700 years — to reach that point today, you would have needed to start counting around the time that neanderthals went extinct.

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A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

No one man should have all that power.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 09/06/2026

If you or I had installed a water connection without the utility company's knowledge that was not linked to our account, we all know they wouldn't be saying that we have to be partners. Link to article: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...