iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Evolution leads to greater ... diversity, complexity, homeostasis, & stability of the living world, in a physical environment that is increasingly uniform, simplified, & chaotic. The extraordinary feature of this conceptual structure is that is has no apparent basis either in fact or in theory."p21

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Liam U. Taylor @liamtaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thread for bangers from The Dialectical Biologist

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 5h

but he can't win whatever he's trying to win without your help. Chancleta's opponents, whoever they may be, have -- or may have -- the support of Wicked Special Interests who probably put their seats back on airplanes whenever they want. Donate here and stand with Chancleta for something or other

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 5h

🚨 ENDORSEMENT ALERT 🚨 Chancleta has been endorsed by a family of three random raccoons who saw him from outside. One of them even stood on our patio chair on two legs, like a person. This is incredible news for Sandal's campaign to represent whatever it is he is running for.

A mock political endorsement graphic on a blue gradient background. At the top left is a photo of three raccoons beside the words “A FAMILY OF THREE RANDOM RACCOONS.” Below, red text reads “PROUDLY ENDORSES,” followed by “CHANCLETA” in large white letters. At the bottom right is a large photo of Chancleta, an orange-and-white cat looking directly at the camera.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 6h

Had one myself a few weeks ago. How it all goes smoothly (pun intended?)

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 6h

There's also just not enough money to go around when we rely solely on private sources of funding

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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 6h

I’m not saying private foundation support for social science and education research is bad. Not at all. I’m just saying that it’s not a substitute for public research funding and it definitely gives foundations more leverage over researchers, disciplines, and institutions.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 6h

Every PDF reader is terrible, except for FoxIt, which is also terrible

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 7h

We've often seen this in our nightmares. bsky.app/profile/cpsc...

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 7h

It would be immensely satisfying to me if Vought's articles of impeach included each of the dozens(?) of times he's violated the Impoundment Act

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 7h

Nice and cosy for babby

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United Wizards of the Coast - CWA @uwotc-official.bsky.social · 11h

This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...

unitedwizardsofthecoast.com

Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA

Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 8h

Mostly this kind of thing is good for getting to meet colleagues across campus

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 10h

At an even more basic level, it's like: advice for ... what? There is no agreement on what counts as success and how to measure it. How could advice be useful when the goal is already massively underspecified and under significant normative contestation?

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Shen-yi Liao 廖顯禕 @liao.shen-yi.org · 10h

My advice would be that most advice are given from N = 1 and should be treated as such.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 11h

They simply only made one season of Westworld. Same way there are only nine seasons of The Simpsons.

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Maki Scare-O @makinaro.com · 12h

I would like to submit Jamie Wyeth’s 1980 painting “A Very Small Dog” for consideration.

An ornate white wicker pram rolls on thin metal hoop wheels through a sun dappled garden. Inside the pram, barely visible, is a tiny ferocious dog—likely a Pomeranian—with its gross little teeth bared. You can imagine the awful snarling and barking sounds it is making.

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nude antifa goat @goat.sex · 12h

no matter how wide spread and otherwise accepted agentic coding becomes, doing shit like this needs to remain wholly unacceptable and treated the same way as any other purposely malicious behavior towards open source projects

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 13h

Poor neglected Otis 😿

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 16h

Very nice application of @owasow.bsky.social's recent @polanalysis.bsky.social article in the latest (paywalled) issue of @gelliottmorris.com's newsletter www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-10-06... Polling folks, this is one subscription worth paying for

gelliottmorris.com

If the polls end up missing, this may have been our early warning sign

“Low-effort” survey respondents vote very differently than other poll-takers, and that could be biasing polls by up to 3.5 points against

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Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social · 15h

If anybody reading this is a working scientist who would be interested to learn about and co-develop a public philosophy of science course for scientists, dm me, thanks! Shares appreciated!

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 15h

It's Knife Ghost season.

A pumpkin patch. In the distance, a faint image of a blue ghost surrounded by a halo of carving knives. The text reads: you're carving. The knife ghost waits. Because you're using a knife. Instead of a pumpkin carving kit. Always use a pumpkin carving kit, never a knife.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Constitution allows it. South Korea has proven it works. If you want to make impeachment viable—and so much else is pointless if you don't—then it can be done by a simple majority adopting a simple rules change: vote on the verdict by secret ballot.

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A Democratic Senate Should Adopt Secret Impeachment Ballots on a Priority Basis

Such a change, requiring no constitutional amendment, would free senators to vote their judgment instead of their fears

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Finally, it's a matter of research integrity that one designs and performs the best study possible at any given point in the scientific process, given the resources, where best = one that has the highest probability of producing net epistemic gains. 50 years later, the original design ain't that.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Replication cannot be an epistemic shortcut to bypass the scientific process of incrementally eliminating error. At this point I find this kind of lack of understanding and lack of respect for the scientific process infuriating. There are no shortcuts.

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There are no shortcuts to theory | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

There are no shortcuts to theory - Volume 47

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Happy Monday Fishtopher, I hope today is a good day

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You can do it! We believe in you!

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Three Cats Photography @three-cats-photo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Contemplating the Forms. 2 February 2026. #cats

Photo of a big white cat. He's laying on top of a cat condo next to a sunny window, with shadows from the window cast on the wall beside him. Rather than staring out the window, the cat is staring at the shadows on the wall.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In re Australia: Did Britain go republic while Australia decided to keep the monarchy?

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

We, the US people, can change those incentives, via a tremendous lever: university revenue is largely tax exempt, because of the good they do for society. It's not crazy to say that exemption only applies if board members are chosen for their educational or research qualifications. We can try it. 3/

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fond memories of the time I (b.1980) made elder niece (b.2008) watch the entirety of Charlie the Unicorn

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Still haven't figured out gender

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Establish that violations of the Emoluments Clauses and the Establishment Clause are impeachable. Establish that war crimes are impeachable. None of these require the mens rea questions that so sidetracked the first two Trump impeachments. The facts are the facts.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

such that the impeachment votes could be held seriatim on day one of a new Congress. There could be fifty different charges against Trump. Let the Senate try ' em all. Establish that violations of the War Powers Act, the Budget and Impoundment Act, or the Antideficiency Act are impeachable.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm not naive enough to actually believe this will happen, but Democrats could be preparing, right now, lists of impeachment charges against (at a bare minimum) Hegseth, Kennedy, Mullin, Patel, Blanche, & Trump, as well as Bondi, Bovino, & Noem (still worth doing!) that rely purely on public facts,

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Happy birthday! Pinnacles is great.

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Dj Connell @itbodes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“Black cats are not photogenic” I beg to differ. Meet Max the Manx. #HappyCaturday #AdoptDontShop #kittens Notes in alt text

Photo of a calm, sweet, small and fluffy black kitten with light green eyes. I am holding him in one hand while wearing a purple Cat Adoption Team t-shirt. We were at the shelter, and he is looking up at the lucky lady who gave him a forever home.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The author of the novel was a neuroscience professor?!

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Italian author and neuroscientist

Ali Hazelwood is an Italian romance novelist and neuroscience professor based in the United States.[1][2][3] Many of her works center on women in STEM fields and academia. Her debut novel, The Love Hypothesis, was a New York Times best seller and was adapted into a feature film.[4]

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My Love Hypothesis hypothesis is that everything the writers know about higher ed is from watching other Hallmark(?) movies

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok my husband has a great idea. Maybe this movie is Stanford propaganda to suggest you shouldn't attend Harvard, where they humiliate grad students at faculty parties.

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