iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science @mcps-philsci.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

“The costs to access and share knowledge continue to increase, often dramatically. Why? Who benefits?” Some of the questions to consider from this year’s International Open Access Week, 19-25 October. The 2026 theme is “The Cost of Knowledge.” buff.ly/sDmSZoT

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International Open Access Week

International Open Access Week is held annually to inspire global momentum toward the open sharing of knowledge in order to address important social issues affecting people around the world. Open…

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17h

You know a gene is selfish when its DNA twists the wrong way, as demonstrated by the left-handed double-helix proudly adorning the 50th Anniversary Edition of the multimillion copy bestseller on this topic.

The front cover of the 50th Anniversary Edition of the multimillion copy bestseller "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins, featuring an image of DNA that is bold, colourful, and chirally incorrect.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Well that's very kind of you but sadly I'm busy that day... whenever it is... I'm busy.

Meet Britain's most low-tox couple:
seaweed thongs and no vaccines

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Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The Martian was entertaining in the same way

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Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Yeah. Me too! The film was actually a pretty good adaptation. And I’m a sucker for nerdy Ryan Gosling.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Today I found out that Umberto Eco crafted a version of this meme in the 1980s…

Beware the
alibi of photocopies ! Photocopies are indis-
pensable instruments. They allow you to keep with you a text you have already read in the library, and to take home a text you have not read yet. But a set of photocopies can become an alibi. A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things that I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This is a must read for everyone. There are measurable costs to being a woman in academia.

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When someone says "Gender ideology" they mean "trans people". It is a euphemism designed to make it possible to say; "I oppose trans people existing" by saying instead "I oppose gender ideology" enabling them to avoid being accused of genocidal fanaticism and an esprit fasciste.

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Saraarrgh Clarke @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Rules out a coalition" is largely meaningless tbh. Labour will form a coalition with the Greens if they have to to stay in government. And if they don't have to, they won't.

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Toronto Mike @torontomike.com · 14/10/2026

shame

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Jonathan Pettitt @genotripe.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

And I know you said no fiction, but the Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, read by Ben Miles (who played Cromwell in the stage play versions), is so engaging.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch and share this excellent news story. Ford LIES that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. Remember and share this as Ford tears out Toronto bike-lanes.

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Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes

Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes removed.

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The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

By the end of August 1944, around one third of the 5.7m forced labourers in the Greater Reich were women. The majority of female forced labourers came from Eastern Europe. This series of photos was taken in Kaunitz following an evacuation march when the camp was liberated by American troops.

Four women gathered at a doorway: three in coats and headscarves and a younger woman in a short-sleeved sweater with bandaged forearms looking to the side.

Six women in work clothes and headscarves clustered in a doorway; three look at the camera while a young woman in a trench coat inspects a small wrapped item and another holds a bread roll, a candid mid-20th-century group moment.

Three people standing with large white crosses painted on the backs of their coats, indicating they’ve been visibly marked for identification or public shaming.

An older woman wearing a headscarf has her arm around a teenage girl; both stand close and look solemnly at the camera in a historical black-and-white portrait conveying closeness and quiet resilience.

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Pickwick The Dodo @lesleyhustler.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Well said. How many of Tommy Robinson’s Sport’s Direct paramilitary division go and help or worship at the churches they claim they want to protect. It’s much easier to don a balaclava and shout at the RNLI. #HopeNotHate

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Prominent ‘gender critical’ transphobe in UN called out for “proximity to US conservative groups [ADF]”… “Reem Alsalem, has taken views that regressively depart from UN human rights doctrine, displaying how an ideologically skewed mandate can undermine the consensus of UN human rights bodies.”…

The UN's human rights system is being hollowed out so it can be captured
By Victor Madrigal-Borloz

Protecting UN human rights spaces becomes more urgent when one considers that the architecture is not being weakened for destruction but for capture. The current UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, has taken views that regressively depart from UN human rights doctrine, displaying how an ideologically skewed mandate can undermine the consensus of UN human rights bodies on gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, the human rights of LGBT and gender-diverse people, rainbow families, sex work and surrogacy. Their proximity to those of US conservative groups such as the C-Fam and the Alliance Defending Freedom raises questions about how far they might go in supporting policies set out in the Trump administration's blueprint, Project 2025.

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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 13/10/2026

Great British Railway updates that aren’t shit on face value for once. Level boarding! 🥳 Possibly not always defaulting to renting trains off foreign train landlords (ROSCOs) responsible for 25% the cost of your ticket but maybe acrually buying some actual trains. 🤯 www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Great British Railways rolling stock and infrastructure strategy

Secretary of State for Transport sets out how Great British Railways will plan trains and infrastructure to improve passenger journeys.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Apart from once again proving himself a dead eyed socipath, Jenrick is forcing Reform down a cul-de-sac. "How about war crimes" is not winning 35% of the vote.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

IN GRETA WE TRUST

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 13/10/2026

Well, my partner’s ancestors really, really could have chosen an uglier looking Italian village to be from - up above Barrea in Abruzzo.

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Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I don't really know what to say about the fact HM Treasury can't seem to get its head around the fact that heat pump grants are industrial policy not household subsidy. It doesn't signal great depth of policy thinking. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Ireland against Fascism @irlagainstfascism.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Chants of 'Don't protect the women, we can fight. We don't need your fascist shite' rang out in Glasgow tonight. As anti-fascists, women's rights groups and trade unionists protested against 'patriot platform' and their supporters pushing their racist agenda in the city. Things you love to see ✊

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thomas @tgracchus1781.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

*looking at the worst post of my life* I must not post. Reactive posting is the mind-killer. Dunking is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the Bad Take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. When the TL refreshes there shall be nothing. Only I remain.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I think it’s going to become increasingly important for cis queers to resist the nice man in uniform who is hustling us this way toward the lifeboats on the deck of the Titanic while explaining that trying to squeeze in the trans folks will just slow the boats down so jump now and don’t look back

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

83 years ago today, Willi Graf, a member of the White Rose and a student at LMU, was murdered by the Nazis after 8 months in custody. During his imprisonment, he remained silent despite relentless interrogations and torture by the Gestapo. In doing so, he saved the lives of many who battled Hitler.

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Heat pumps ARE defence. We are fighting a war against fossil-fuel backed petrostates whose Achilles heel is our energy independence. Our weapons are as much heatpumps, EVs, grid upgrades, batteries, solar, wind as munitions. (I made this argument last week, speaking at @friendsofeurope.bsky.social)

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My cohort of PhDs first had to deal with bottom falling out of academic job market post-2008, and now – whether they were lucky and got a job fast, or clung on through rolling postdocs – after ever-worsening conditions in employment, all are facing current sector collapse. Absolute betrayal

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

‘Protect the Dolls’ is a term meaning ‘take care of trans ppl’. Its origin is due to the campaign of persecution & violence aimed at this vulnerable part of the Gay community. LGBTQ ppl nationally, & internationally, have been flagging that UK state TV is actively transphobic, for years. More proof!

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

THREAD: For those who don’t understand the significance of the BBC censoring the phrase; “Protect The Dolls” on a Strictly contestant’s T-shirt. TLDR: the BBC, like Labour, is deeply transphobic.

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Sue Fletcher-Watson @suereviews.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The UK higher education sector delivers world leading education & research delivering real impact. Until UK governments fund it properly & end reliance on international student fees, Universities will keep having to make these kinds of devastating decisions in order to stay afloat.

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Centromeres are key to mitotic spindle attachment and high fidelity chromosome segregation but change rapidly during evolution. Check out these novel insights into the relative role of particular DNA sequences, using powerful chromosome manipulation tools in Drosophila! 🧪

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Today I'm posting a new video to my YouTube channel! I am revisiting the story of Sam S. Yoon who was a top cancer surgeon in New York. My investigation led to the retraction of twenty cancer research papers: youtu.be/hWKvLAM7QNI

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My Investigation Led to Twenty Retracted Papers for Top Cancer Surgeon

YouTube video by Sholto David

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Rachel Fairbank @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

“The children who are randomly selected not to receive the birth dose of the vaccine, those who “lost the lottery”, face in their earliest days the risk of contracting hepatitis B, which can cause irreversible lifelong damage.” No words. I am speechless. This violates all ethical boundaries.

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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

We all need a timeline cleanse, so here is the most adorable #chess piece ever! A knight, made of antler. Dating 11/12th century. Found at the Burgstein, Lichtenstein-Holzelfingen. 📷️ me

A carved chess piece representing a knight, depicted in an abstract, stylized form with a triangular head, amd wide circular eyes,. The figure has a hunched, cylindrical body and is displayed on a dark surface with an other game pieces and a die nearby.

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Infinite Monkey Cage returns this week and it hit hard when I woke up this morning - then a picture of my beaming former workmate popped up and I felt another fist to the gut - I’m still making podcasts - many tackling subjects considered “unseemly” by the mainstream Patreon.com/robinince

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Robin Ince — conversations and blog posts about creativity

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/10/2026

‘In a capitalist society, you also have a degree of unfreedom, but it comes out of the complicity and of the everyday acts of millions of people.’ @leaypi.bsky.social on how we get back to ‘committed literature’, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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On Politics: What is political writing?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 8 October · 57min

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Estonian PM Kristen Michal after Trump's diesel deal with Putin: “It will be worth discussing in Estonia and at the European Council next week whether we can quickly contribute more to Ukraine so they can blast Russia's oil refineries to smithereens.”

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Lisa Severn @lisasevern.uk · 11/10/2026

The BBC charter section 6.4: "...the BBC should accurately and authentically represent and portray the lives of the people of the United Kingdom today, and raise awareness of the different cultures and alternative viewpoints that make up its society"

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Them Fatale, @mxthemfatale.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

There is a Reclaim the Night protest organised in Glasgow for Monday. There are many local grassroots organisations and unions all pitching in. There has been nothing but the chirping of crickets from any of the TERF orgs who have vast wealth behind them. I need cis folks to understand this.

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Matthias Eberl @eberlmat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Meanwhile in the UK. Was. "Let's make our universities financially dependent on overseas students." Then. "Let's make overseas students feel increasingly unwelcome." Now. "Screw that, let's just withdraw our offers so they don't come in the first place." Next. "Who needs universities anyway?"

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UK universities withdraw offers from international students to avoid blanket ban

Pullback comes in response to doubling in number of study visas being refused by the Home Office in the first six months of 2026

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Your regular reminder that my daughter Alice’s death wasn’t counted in Appleby’s report, despite her meeting all the criteria. And when I emailed the Tavistock adult GIC to inform them they could take Alice off the waitlist, because she’d died by suicide, they never replied. It’s a disgrace.

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 11/10/2026

Only a financial journalist would look at academic publishing and think "what that sector needs is more mergers and private equity" to deal with the mess that financialisation has caused. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Mergers could help by creating savings that offset the increased costs of quality control. The industry’s biggest four groups account for two-fifths of articles published. That leaves plenty of scope to roll up the unwieldy long tail that includes university publishers and professional organisations such as IEEE. There have been a few smaller transactions so far, such as Wiley’s £337mn acquisition of Emerald Publishing in June. But Informa’s decision earlier this week to separate Taylor & Francis from its live events business may give dealmakers a boost.

Private equity can help, having already dipped a toe into the sector: Springer Nature was previously owned by companies including EQT and BC Partners. And the financials still look attractive.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The BBC is institutionally transphobic! 😣

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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1. CRISPR came from basic research on bacteria. 2. Optogenetics started with a discovery in algae. 3. The GFP protein comes from jellyfish. The biggest breakthroughs all trace to scientists following their curiosity, and this is one huge reason why we must keep funding basic research!

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EmmanuelSPV @emmanuelspv.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Avant / Après la piste cyclable le long de la départementale à Zegerscappel dans le Nord. Longue d'un kilomètre, elle permet d'aller à Esquelbecq, où se trouve la gare du coin.

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If you can, you should support everyone you know who makes music, art, literature whatever. It‘s easy to click a link, or to spend a tenner on a cd or book instead of a couple of shop bought coffees. I don’t understand people who don’t actually buy their mates‘ music / art / books etc.

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