iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Cultural Evolution Society @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A compelling and thought-provoking podcast interview with a legend in the field of cultural evolution. Well worth a listen!

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Amanda McAlpin-Costa @grumpygumption.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Saw my first owl in the wild today. Of course I didn’t have my camera with me 🥲 #greathornedowl

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Petergeist Clines @peterclines.com · 06/02/2025

There's a post bouncing around about how "any four Republicans could stop this, that should be the big story, not the Democrats." I get the idea, but it's awful framing. It's like saying "the school shooter should be the real story, not all the Uvalde cops standing around doing nothing."

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/02/2025

It's a lot. Every day, new onslaughts in so many different spheres. It's hard to keep up, let alone act. Simply being a patriotic American today feels like being an epidemiologist in the early days of the pandemic. Do what you can—then be gentle with yourself. Take time. You need your strength.

A sea otter looks at the camera, hands to its face.

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here are some nice mushrooms

A small family of splitgill mushrooms grows from the underside of an upturned stick like a bouquet of flowers. Behind them is a gray, bare, winter forest

All photos by me

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

My therapist seemed genuinely puzzled that I don’t know the difference between fear and anxiety.

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Scott Sigler @scottsigler.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

It’s all about the money. It’s always about the money. Those who care for others want it but are not fixated upon it, will not sell out their morals for it. Those that obsess over it, that can never have enough of it, do not have morals to begin with and will always sell you out to get more of it.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/02/2025

Thank goodness we replaced the word "barriers" with the more pompous "impediments" in our recently funded NSF grant.

Collaborative Research: Understanding and overcoming the
impediments to high-risk, high-return science

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025

So it turns out that compared to centralized distribution of digital information on the web, printed material in libraries provided a kind of distributed defense against the casual whims of an authoritarian government aiming to rewrite history.

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Amanda McAlpin-Costa @grumpygumption.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

So many amazing projects in the responses…Wow. I am so worried for us all

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Amanda McAlpin-Costa @grumpygumption.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Our neighborhood feral cats agree, I’m a menace and must be stopped. #spayandneuter #tnr #feralcats

White cat looking through a cage, loudly meowing

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/01/2025

1. Sabotage public institutions. 2. Claim they don’t work efficiently. 3. Eliminate them. — That’s the playbook.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 21/01/2025

Reminder to those who need it: 1. You can mute the name of the current president and/or anyone else you don't want to constantly hear about here 2. You can mute/block/unfollow accounts that impinge on your calm 3. Social media doesn't have to be a doom scroll, curate your feed to make you happy

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 18/01/2025

Hello new followers! Here's one of my favorite older comics.

A four-panel comic called Instinct is Weird. In panel 1, a yellow warbler looks at a beautiful nest in a shrub and says "I made this for some reason". In panel 2, there are five eggs in the nest and she says "these are my smooth round children". In panel 3 an egg has hatched into a yelling hatchling, and she says "Oh no now it's loud". In panel 4 she looks distressed as five hatchlings now fill the nest, begging for food, and she says "help".

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 12/01/2025

This afternoon I got out in the water with my beloved Barrow's goldeneyes. I've got far too many frames to sort through, but here's one I was really happy with. 🪶

A pelagic duck with a brown head, orange bill, and bright yellow eye flies low over the blue water.

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