iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is good quote

Elihu M. Gerson @emgerson.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

ISHPSSB out-of-year workshop on "A Novel "Third Way:" Synthesizing Autonomy and New Mechanism". Oslo, Sept 11 - 13, 2026. Details at philevents.org/event/show/1...

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

we have no reason to believe science is or has ever been linear, homogenous, rational, or inevitable. what scientists do also hardly ever mirrors our reductive, idealized statistical models. we need to know exactly what purpose those idealizations are meant to serve and use them in that capacity.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 15/11/2025

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

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Hwch Ddu Gwta 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏳️‍🌈 @mochyn.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Need people to understand the difference between "this is a social construct" and "this is not real"

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Elihu M. Gerson @emgerson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The problem is organizations and institutions that create fear and hatred of autism, trans people, and immigrants, as well as ignorance of the ways that organizations can be destructive. Especially, e.g., reductionist individualism.

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Workers of the UC stand together to protect people, not just money. Join your UC Faculty Association or union!

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Stand Together for Higher Ed (STHE) @standhighered.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Please help us build a following for Stand Together for Higher Ed! We are helping build a national movement to defend against attempts to dismantle, defund, and disparage the greatest #highered system in the world! Please follow, re-post, share widely on other sites. www.standtogetherhighered.org

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Elihu M. Gerson @emgerson.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

This is true for all scholars, not just grad students. And the list is always growing no matter how fast you read. The only thing that changes is that after a while, you get to move some titles to the "history" section of the list.

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Jérôme Denis @jrmdns.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The Center for the sociology of innovation learned with great sadness that Michel Callon has passed away. A graduate of the École des Mines, Michel joined the center in the late 1960s and was its director from 1982 to 1994.

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ve, the ghost of info past @vortexegg.com · 27/07/2025

My provokation of this matter is that the fascist right actually beat civil society and academia to the punch in truly internalizing the lesson that all systems, information, data are biased, that neutrality and objectivity aren't real; and then put this knowledge into practice for social control

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Prof Madeleine Pownall @maddipow.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

“In qualitatively oriented research, where data are often personal, and deeply contextual, sharing data raises ethical dilemmas and tensions and may compromise the relational foundation of qualitative inquiry” Lovely paper

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Nature Reviews Psychology @natrevpsychol.nature.com · 10/07/2025

Bridging qualitative methods and open research Comment by Madeleine Pownall go.nature.com/44U1qnj

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 08/07/2025

This. 100% We need to reward that invisible work more. What many male academics do is not the normative standard that we should be encouraging everyone to emulate

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

"Men who sell machines that mimic people want us to become people who mimic machines. They want techno feudal subjects who will believe and do what they’re told. We, as people, are being strategically simplified. This is a fascist process." organizingmythoughts.org/some-thought...

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Some Thoughts on Techno-Fascism From Socialism 2025

"This is the endgame of our isolation."

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The intense embrace of LLMs at metascience 2025 is a recipe for handing over the reigns of scientific decision making to private interests and governments.

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Sabina Leonelli @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

#OpenScience lobbyists, skeptics and everything in between: consider coming to Munich in May 2026 (gorgeous time to visit..) to discuss the future of Open Research! FOR2026 is open for submissions: opensciencestudies.eu/for-2026-con... pls help spread the word 🙏 #philsci #sts #methods #policy 🧪

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FOR 2026 Conference – A Philosophy of Open Science for Diverse Research Environments

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Heather 💙 🐸 💙 @featherfrodis.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

BREAKING: The White House lashed out at the creators of this ad for "fear-mongering". It must have really struck a nerve. Maybe they don't like being outed as fascists. You know what to do: SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE! #MAGAKidnappers

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It's pretty irritating how many pundits would hear the ideas "I want to shove 100 live scorpions in your mouth" and "I want to shove 0 live scorpions in your mouth" and sagely declare: "The wisest course of action is to let someone shove 50 live scorpions in your mouth."

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

What happened in Minnesota is a direct consequence of the violent way that Trump talks about his political opponents.

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Alan Richardson describing Quine’s autobiography perfectly: On the Road if it had been told by the car. @roberttalisse.bsky.social

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 14/06/2025

my mom just sent me her sign for tomorrow. no notes.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 13/06/2025

JUST IN: Judge Charles Breyer finds that President Trump exceeded the scope of his authority and violated the 10th Amendment by federalizing the California National Guard and orders him to return control to Governor Newsom. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

On June 6, 2025, the federal government initiated immigration raids across the City of Los Angeles. Protests swiftly followed, and some individuals involved in those protests were unruly and even violent. State and local law enforcement responded. The following day, President Trump ordered that members of the California National Guard be federalized, and thereupon assumed control of those forces.
At this early stage of the proceedings, the Court must determine whether the President followed the congressionally mandated procedure for his actions. He did not.
His actions were illegal-both exceeding the scope of his statutory authority and violating the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He must therefore return control of the California National Guard to the Governor of the State of California forthwith.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Possible to start to tell a unified story: "Trump is personally too old, crazy, and confused to run things, so at any given time the question is which co-president is in charge. At first it was Musk, & we got the crazy chaotic DOGE era. Then Navarro: a trade war that crashed markets. Now Miller..."

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Dominic Berry @djberry.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Modern management prioritises attitude over substance. So if someone is acting placid & another person is acting agitated, the placid person will be rewarded regardless of the disagreement. I think this happens because it means managers aren't required to understand the substance or make a decision.

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endora bullshit @endora-bullshit.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

this is going around as people finger wag about optics and peaceful protests and i just want to note that the cop here - john pike - received retirement, 8mos of suspended leave pay, and $38k for the pain and suffering of macing kids the students received $6k-30k, most at the lower end

cop john pike pepper spraying a peaceful pile of subdued students at uc davis during the occupy protests in 2011

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

The reason to put on the uniform is precisely so as NOT to have tanks in your own cities.

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Elihu M. Gerson @emgerson.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Went for a diagnostic procedure at Kaiser Santa Clara pulmonology yesterday. Was asked to fill out a form asking for "ethnicity", with choice of "white" and 6 or so geographic areas.

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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I’m a collective behavior scientist at heart and all of my work is around how groups understand the world. Metascience seemed like a good fit but it’s structured more like a belief system than a scientific discipline.

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rose novick @rosenovick.com · 02/06/2025

philosophy is the ethos that we should judge all positions in their strongest, most defensible forms, except relativism, which we should judge based on the views of undergrads

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Nicole C. Nelson @nicolecnelson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Seeing lots in my feed today referencing the @cos.io statement and @theguardian.com op-ed on gold standard science, and IMHO most people are worrying about the wrong thing -- it's not *closing down* the flow of science into policy that worries me, it's a radical *opening up* of data for reanalysis

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 28/05/2025

The whole notion of "research outputs" is a fallacy. Science doesn't make products. It's a process that maintains and updates a web of facts, theories, tools, techniques, etc. You can interrogate this web at any time but it doesn't deliver products for out-of-context consumption.

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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Spring is that magical time of year when the birds yell about how horny they are and the plants try to have sex in your sinuses

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Also the anti-pluralist stance embedded in the reform to further this reductionist narrative has from the getgo had authoritative, at times fascist tendencies. This isn't the time to talk about our good intentions; we're way past that. It's time to take responsibility, to be humble and accountable.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Instead of burying our heads in the sand, we must face up to the very serious risks we took when we aggressively pushed for a "science is in crisis" narrative, reduced scientific process to a collection of rules & procedures, promised easy scientific progress. Such reductionism invites exploitation.

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Rick @rickylongthread.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

College degrees can be revoked. Your move harvard

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Kat Q @kataquin.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Bluesky is “screen reader accessible” the way a staircase with curb cuts on each step is a “wheelchair ramp.” No keyboard nav. No useful landmarks. No focus memory. I lose my place every time I interact with a post. Compliance ≠ usability. Day 14 asking @support.bsky.team to fix this #A11yFail

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

“What I care about very much is a situation where education is so corrupted that it can no longer serve its true function, the one that isn’t reducible to diplomas or grades or career-oriented learning outcomes: giving young people the tools to survive whatever the world will throw at them.”

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

What I don't get is why, after so many years and so many of these conversations, insist on promoting such misconceptions and oversimplifications about science and statistics? Why not allow for complexity, nuance, uncertainty, context, humility?

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I think this is the most harmful narrative to come out of the science reform yet. This is the objectivity myth all over again. Metascience has been trying to shed all scientific context when making prescriptions about science. It is folly. And now it's not just a harmless narrative anymore.

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