iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Noise/useless science rather than AI slop is a current challenge: "If medical schools and universities don't want the literature to be overwhelmed with garbage, they should stop giving every applicant ... an incentive to publish a lot of crap." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

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Is AI Flooding Medical Journals With 'Meaningless' Research?

'It's not fraudulent, and it's not really slop,' one expert says

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 16h

Calling all Ogres. Repeat. Calling all Ogres. Over.

Massive harp in the shape of a scary, wingless, dragon type creature.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18h

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

Can the president use taxpayer funds to air his old campaign ads on TV?

No. Federal appropriations law has long barred using taxpayer funds for political advertising.

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P. G. Woodlouse @pewtertankard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Also, and huge comms failure, this could well be presented as good for pensioners. Am of an age where I have to plan out when I can retire and how far my pension will last. The spectre of "you might need an insane amount of cash late in life to pay for care" is one I'd gladly see the back of.

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 21h

i wish they weren’t called “settlers”. Makes them sound quite cosy. How about “invaders”?

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We scream into the void. We stare blankly into the abyss. We post into the ether

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Air to Ground Message: THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS WOULD LIKE ME TO PASS ALONG THAT THE GALLEY CART IS COVERED WITH ANTS. Area: Washington DC, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #a64a1cc29e5 F: #f08f1cc5b3f

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Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 29/09/2026

A friend of mine has found an ancient relic, with which it was possible to watch very small videos and communicate extremely awkwardly via text

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 28/09/2026

When I was a PhD student I went to a lab fridge and opened a soup container, and very unexpectedly several dozen crickets jumped out (very slowly). 🦗🦗🦗 They were for a class. It took me a full minute to recover and scoop them back up

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Please read this letter with important considerations for training the next generation of clinical trialists. Its powerful that so many organizations came together. Thanks to everyone involved. Consider commenting on the NIH RFI by the 9/30 deadline: grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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NOT-OD-26-095: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): INPUT ON POTENTIAL NIH FUNDING APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE CLINICAL TRIAL INVESTIGATORS

NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI): INPUT ON POTENTIAL NIH FUNDING APPROACHES TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF FUTURE CLINICAL ...

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is not satire: HHS issued an RFI calling for evidence on potential health effects of electromagnetic fields, radiofrequency radiation, and wireless radiation exposure. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...

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Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In which the Trump administration achieves a two-fer: heightending US and global peril in the face of pandemic disease, and undermining women’s health, again, worldwide. It’s infallible: any policy choice, yea or nay, made by Trump et al. is the wrong one. Amazing (disastrous) consistency.

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Ben Fulcher @bendfulcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Today I'm releasing the "1000×1000 collection": a unified place to learn about dynamical structure. 1000 simulated time series (1000 samples each) spanning 133 dynamical processes. Have a play? 🐛 #timeseries #dynamicalsystems #complexity #opendata dynamicsandneuralsystems.github.io/1000x1000/

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Jessie Slater PhD @subbasegirl.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'confidence given by reproducibility packages needs to be tempered by 1 important consideration...If the underlying dataset is flawed or analysis isn't suited to the research question, then the conclusions may be unjustified, even if the whole analysis reproduces perfectly' -@deevybee.bsky.social 🧪

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Trust in data: reproducibility packages do not guarantee validity

Note : This post builds on a series of PubPeer comments made here . Last year the World Bank made news when it announced that all its outp...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

These new Enid Blyton stories are a bit bleak for me

Five arrested on terrorism charges after explosives found near RAF base used by US

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ingmarvisser.bsky.social @ingmarvisser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New paper 🍼📄 ManyBabies 3 is out (open access, registered report in Developmental Science). 30 labs, 33 languages, 839 infants set out to replicate a textbook finding: 7-month-olds learn abstract rules from speech (@garymarcus.bsky.social et al., 1999). We didn’t find it. 🧵

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Today's winning Biology All email--in fact this is a contender for best this year

Hi all,

We received a package with no name to GSB 2144 with 80 sheep brains in it. If you are expecting this package, please reach out and we can coordinate the pickup!

Best wishes,
Jenna

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Erin Hanson @erinhansonartist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crystalline light filters through the boughs of a fiery maple tree in Kyoto, Japan. Crystal Maple by Erin Hanson, 2019 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 in www.erinhanson.com/portfolio/cr... #autumn #kyoto #oilpainting #impressionism #treeclub #landscape @bsky.art #art

Crystalline light filters through the boughs of a fiery maple tree in Kyoto, Japan. The slowly moving waters of the Arashiayama river reflect the light from above. The brush strokes fit together like a mosaic of stained glass, breathing color and motion into the scene.

Crystal Maple
by Erin Hanson, 2019
Oil on canvas
36 x 48 in

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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

“Tarot Reader Girl - Optical Illusion Skull“ by Olga Beliaeva

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Who could have guessed that the editors/reviewers of "Evidenced based complimentary and alternative medicine" might be pretty bad at the evidence-based part. 😆

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Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New evidence raises questions for UKRI on edited STFC minutes Funder insists amended minutes are “accurate summary”, despite differing with slide presented to council www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...

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New evidence raises questions for UKRI on edited STFC minutes - Research Professional News

Funder insists amended minutes are “accurate summary”, despite differing with slide presented to council

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart

Photograph of an owl peeping out from a hole in a tree trunk

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

interesting analysis of measures to reduce car usage of relevance beyond Oxford.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One of these is not like the others.

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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 27/09/2026

Current mood...

Padmé meme.

Anakin: "I can't share my data yet as it may contain other interesting stuff"
Padmé: "But you're going to write those analyses up as exploratory, right?"

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high king pʰɪɫnɒk @pilnok.dad · 10/12/2025

fat bear week is good, but don't forget about borb season

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Today I'm posting a new video about a team of ophthalmology researchers in Germany who scribbled on their figures! t.co/X2U6zCw9pn

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds. Here is my contribution; a stunning European Shag on the Isle of May #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

is this new, or did I just not notice it before? Media obsessed with discussing what future government would look like on current polling, even though we’re years away from an election?

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Andrew @ads60nyc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Any excuse to post this.

Meme: Barn owls when humans invented barns:

“Oh yeah. It’s all coming together.”

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Alison Denham @paddymaid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I do too. I like this one too, Daniel. Your mother can explain it, if you don’t recognise the saying. ☘️💚

A T-shirt with a disgruntled crow with the words - I got up early….there was no worm.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

There was a bit of a fad for posting photos of trees here once. Not seeing so many now. Oh well. Always a few years behind the curve.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel you, Daniel L

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25/09/2026

M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint @willyandbill.bsky.social

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M&S Custard Cream Spread: Britain has completed food

One jar of M&S Custard Cream Spread has caused us to question civilisation, breakfast, mashed potato and the limits of human restraint

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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Should be reposted every month....

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Jamie Smart @jamiesmart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Can’t eat a sandwich until you subscribe to sandwiches. Can’t eat today’s sandwich until it has applied daily sandwich updates. Sandwich now has adverts even though you paid for ad-free sandwich. Can pay again to have less sandwich adverts. Now you can eat the sandwich, but it’s smaller.

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 26/09/2026

My top 4 Crow Full Moon shots tonight. P L E N T Y of video to edit someday! 🪶 🐦‍⬛

a crow flies in front of the moon, greyish sky, the crow is flapping their wings down

two crows fly in front and near the moon, in the middle and the bottom left, a snowy egret is out of focus below the moon, greyish sky

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark sky, the crow is flapping their wings up but not fully extended

a crow flies in front of the moon, dark purple sky, the crow is in full cruise mode

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

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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American Museum of Natural History @amnh.org · 25/09/2026

It’s a stupendous Fossil Friday! Let’s celebrate with Stupendemys geographicus, the “stupendous turtle.” This reptile lived during the Late Miocene some 5 million years ago, and it’s one of the largest turtles to have ever existed. Photo: D. Finnin/© AMNH

A photo of a fossilized Stupendemys hanging from the Museum ceiling. The turtle is massive with a strong blunt head.

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