iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) @kanarinka.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

MIT spent $3 million on 500 AI-capable surveillance cameras while laying people off, shutting down libraries, and canceling journal subscriptions. In this article, 4 faculty & I discuss our new arts initiative to celebrate surveillance and repression on college campuses: fnl.mit.edu/how-we-learn...

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How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Campus Surveillance – MIT Faculty Newsletter

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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 24/09/2026

New book incoming! Everybody has ideas about learning, but much of it is confusing, demoralizing, and flat out wrong. In How to Learn Anything we pull together research on cognition, play, and design to share how we can all create powerful, more meaningful spaces for learning. Coming soooon (ish)!

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HOW TO LEARN ANYTHING By Matthew Berland, Nathan Holbert
Imprint: Basic, John Murray, NHK
Professors of the learning sciences Matthew Berland and Nathan Holbert's HOW TO LEARN ANYTHING, which translates the latest scientific research on learning into an approachable guide to grappling with new ideas and creating habits that stick, showing that doing, playing, and even failing in community with others can teach us far more than solitary study of any kind, to Brandon Proia at Basic, by Jay Mandel and Dara Kaye at WME (NA).
Rights also to John Murray (UK); and to NHK (Japan).
Translation: Alex Levenberg

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AU

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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AraInfo @arainfo.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

📹 VÍDEO ACELERADO | Así se ha visto el eclipse solar sobre Zaragoza, condensado en unos segundos. El cielo oscurece mientras la Luna cubre por completo el Sol: arainfo.org/todos-los-de... Video: Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Facing federal science budget cuts, biologist Daniel Blumstein resorted to uploading marmot videos to OnlyFans to raise funds for his marmot research. However, when he uploaded his driver’s license for verification, OnlyFans informed him that his appearance didn’t match the marmots in the videos.

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‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research (Gift Article)

A team of scientists uploaded videos of the squirrel-like rodents in the wild on the adult-content site OnlyFans to raise money amid government budget cuts.

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Heather Toomey Zimmerman @heather2mezimm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Our department at Penn State is hiring a postdoctoral scholar to support a collaborative group of faculty conducting research at the intersection of learning sciences and artificial intelligence. Full details and the application portal are here: bit.ly/3TrVa2O

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/07/2026

Proud to make the black and gold bumblebee the official Illinois State Bee today. And it’s thanks to the students of Lincoln Junior High who demonstrated the power of young people brought together by curiosity and civic engagement.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

it is impossible to post about this game because something else happens before your finish the last thought

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Cape Verde defeats Argentina via a 2-3 loss in extra time

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Wow. What a game. Major props to Cape Verde.

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today.

To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university.

The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026

The trans sports ban are almost completely an invention of the media, conservative and mainstream. it has been years of lies, of shoddy fact checking on just completely false conservative claims, years of phony concern trolling.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

There are fewer transgender athletes in the NCAA than there are women who have publicly accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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And at the watch party you will ask the organizer if he's from Cape Verde. He will say yes, from Praia. And you'll say oh! I lived there for two years. I was a teacher. And he will ask, "What's your name?" You will tell him and he will say,
"You were my teacher."
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And across 30+ years and 6,000 miles you will hug a now man who tried to find you and remembered the songs you taught him and his classmates and he will apologize for how badly behaved they all were. And you will laugh and try not to cry and gape in wonder at at this crazy world.

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You will remember how much you love the World Cup. And what the Peace Corps meant to you. What those students, 40 to a class with no glass on the windows, meant to you.
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Ivan, the grown man with a touch of grey in his beard, will tell you later he has struggled to describe what it meant to him to meet again - that he shared our photo with classmates.
And when he returns from watching the Cabo Verde game, we will try to find the words together.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker • 20h And then you read that the US
House of Representatives will vote a day before that game on an amendment to eliminate the Peace Corps, which costs 1/6 the price of the Tomahawk missiles the US used in the war on Iran.

Jill Tucker @jilltucker •20h And you wonder: How much is a magical world worth?

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

"Program managers would normally rush to inform potential and current grantees about such dramatic changes. But the memo tells program managers to keep their mouths shut. 'This information is highly confidential...Please do not communicate anything to PIs.'” www.science.org/content/arti...

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Exclusive: NSF slashes research programs to support new tech initiative, insiders say

Unexpected shift in funds has meant sharp drop in grants this fiscal year

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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

what if they’re just building an elaborate set for a community production of rent

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

58,000 people watching the livestream. Feels like we could get this to a million in the next hour. Would make a great headline.

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LIVE: See Donald Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center as it happens

YouTube video by MS NOW

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ILSSA Committee @islsilssa.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

💸 Attending #ISLS2026 on a budget? Check out our Affordable Travel Crowdsourcing doc for tips, resources, and our Roommate Matching Spreadsheet — 2 people are still looking for roommates! Let's take care of each other 🤝 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Affordable Travel Crowdsourcing

Affordable Travel Strategizing (Irvine 2026) People familiar with Irvine! Please help us vet these options! If you notice one that might be inaccessible, unsafe, or otherwise problematic, comment on...

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I didn’t want to do any grading today anyway. 🙃

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/05/2026

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

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“PAY OR LEAK”: Hackers Target Big Higher Ed Vendor

The criminal extortion group ShinyHunters breached Instructure last week. The hackers, who have also attacked individual universities, demanded the ed-tech giant pay up or face a data leak.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Update on NSF grant funding: As of April 27, NSF has spent money on 737 new grants for FY26. Avg. for '21–25 at this point is 3303, so NSF is at about 22%. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

Cumulative number of awards. FY26 is 22% of average, a large outlier.

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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 28/04/2026

It's hard to overstate how catastrophic this is for US science. We are all scrambling to find replacements (there aren't any) or putting work on pause. Everything is frozen. Meanwhile students--the biggest line item on most grants--are having their lives turned upside down.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

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Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 22/04/2026

Q: Why weren’t faculty consulted? A: On the contrary, Skynet was trained on an extensive archive of pirated humanities articles—hence its misanthropy, overuse of the em dash, and proclivity for always already predictively adding “already” after “always.”

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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Innovative New EdTech Collaboration

“With a free Skynet Edu account, students can gain the career-readiness needed to navigate an exciting future in which they will be hunted by a remorseless, ...

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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Now that Sal Khan failed to use AI to revolutionize math worksheets, he is gonna "revolutionize" post-secondary ed 🙄 Read @ddmeyer.bsky.social's post-mortem of the rise & fall of Khanmigo (RIP 2023-2026) to see what I mean. We need guardrails on this stuff danmeyer.substack.com/p/rip-khanmi...

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RIP Khanmigo & Edtech Industry Dreams of AI Tutors

Never forget.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Science is good. We should fund it.

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

You don't say

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

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Cake or Death @johngcole.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

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They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free?

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 03/04/2026

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 31/03/2026

I’m excited about this upcoming talk sponsored by the Campus Faculty Association: "AI Is Not Inevitable" with Britt Paris We’ll be making some talk-related posters @skeuomorphpress.org with CFA members & they’ll be available at the event! cfaillinois.org/2026/03/31/a...

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AI Is Not Inevitable

17April2026AI Is Not InevitableA Talk with Britt Paris Rutgers Associate Professor and chair of the AAUP committee on AI4:00pmiSchool Building Room 4045614 E. Daniel St. RSVP Here Review Meeting Ag…

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Nathan Holbert @snowdaylearninglab.org · 31/03/2026

i-Ready is, and I don't say this lightly, one of the biggest scams in education in decades. It is absolute trash, kids hate it, and for the dumbest reason--numbers as a substitute for meaning--school leaders can't get enough.

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Katie, LLTID (little lady till i die) @katieandcatburger.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Using Canvas agentic AI to do your work for you signals that your work is worth less than it was prior to that act. The idea that this will, long term, free faculty time is belied by every single thing we know about the history of labor automation. It either puts you out of work, or you work more.

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bryson @brysonm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

holy shit

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Cynthia D'Angelo @cmdangelo.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

New pub alert! In a special issue of JEDM about Human-AI Partnership for Qualitative Analysis: A Framework for considering exploration, interpretation, and confirmation during data analysis: Computationally assisted analysis of teacher-group interactions. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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A Framework for Considering Exploration, Interpretation, and Confirmation During Data Analysis: Computationally Assisted Analysis of Teacher-Group Interactions

Education researchers increasingly analyze heterogeneous, multimodal data with computational tools. Yet, reporting rarely makes explicit who (human or computer) leads meaning-making at different point...

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New post: Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers? (No. No it can't. Come on, now.) davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/can-ai-rep...

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Can AI Replace Social Science Researchers?

No. No it can't. Come on, now.

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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 28/02/2026

My department is hiring! Specialized teaching faculty to support our EdD programs! illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Let me know if you have questions. It's great here!

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College of Education: Open-rank Teaching Professor – Education Policy, Organization & Leadership

Duties & Responsibilities

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