iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dave wagner @davewagner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

new research reports that cats vocalize more when greeting male owners. researchers suggest that this is because cats have apparently learned that men require additional explanation when provided with basic communication. I don't like the idea that cats are judging me this accurately.

Freya, a fluffy gray cat, sits on a light blue table, staring downward with a serious, slightly concerned expression.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Successful 'bird launch' today, but really weird being on the other side of it!

A photo of the back of a large car boot filled with student paraphernalia

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Pip Wren @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A joyous fat bear week to all 🐻

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One Angry Eyebrow… @oneangryeyebrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IKEA is releasing a Pallas Cat plush, and they have nailed the expression…

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Scenes (smells) from the office today: "Update: something has fallen through the building and died and the cabbage smell is basically a dead animal decomposing and then the smell is coming through a vent at the side of the building". This follows last-year's Maggotgate and open sewer situation

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Steven Kapp @drstevenkapp.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The UK is likely to try to reduce ADHD & autism diagnoses this week even though its own National Health Service funded a report saying ADHD is underdiagnosed & undertreated. Autism's criteria are already narrowed. See my anchor post & gifted article previewing UK report: inews.co.uk/news/claims-...

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ADHD is not being overdiagnosed, major Government report set to find

Landmark report expected to rule out mass overdiagnosis but warn support can be hard to obtain

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Started watching Sky’s War Game last night where Michael Gove is the PM during the Russian attack and I’m afraid it is just very difficult to watch it without thinking of this, one of the great cartoons ever published

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On Sunday, I was one of a few people first on the scene of a horrible car accident with a fatality. I saw some stuff I didn't especially want to see, though not the worst of it, and didn't really do anything of much help to anyone. But I've learnt some stuff that genuinely astounds me...

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Prof. Pam Birtill @diervilla.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

If you or someone you know is starting Uni, share our student guide to the hidden curriculum with them. It’s a no nonsense guide to the things we might forget to explain, and it might just help them make sense of the first few weeks. What is a tutorial anyway? qaa.my.salesforce.com/sfc/p/#58000...

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I decided I'm going to start a thread of things I love to add to now and then, just because. Music, art, games, whatever. First up: the viscacha, a rodent native to South America. They like to sit on rocks and warm themselves in the sun, which I can greatly emphasise with

A viscacha, which kind of looks like a spherical rabbit with brown and grey fur, sits on a rock and looks very chill.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Thoughts and prayers for all the other bird launchers who currently have a room in their house which looks like this (we've still got a week to go, that pile is only going to grow!) #Freshers

A large pile of packing boxes, blue ikea bags, and a clothes airer sitting against safe green cupboards

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KS_1968 @karenroberts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This is really good.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

My mum was a stalwart supporter of the RNLI, organising and attending countless events and activities over the years, and I've continued that with my only monthly donation. Maybe you could too - or buy some of the RNLI merch from their website, and wear it proudly to show support

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Happy Rice Truck Day to all who observe

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I well remember the milk round when I was at Cambridge, and in particular, the times I was asked by potential employers whether I had 'family working in the City' or 'useful connections'. I did not, and also had no intention of going anywhere near the City, or, in fact, the milk round, ever again

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is set up for laughs, but it’s actually one of the best demonstrations I’ve seen of how being capable of producing convincing sounding language and understanding meaning are two completely different things. A chatbot does not understand you, it just has automated responses based on your words.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The problem with trying to run with the dog at this time of year is the perpetual handbrake turns and hanging about while he spots and hoovers up all the blackberries he can find...

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I see that various top names are having a bit of a disagreement. I also note that Professor Frith is in it, and now seemingly claiming that autistic researchers don't know what they're doing with autistic research, because they're...autistic. Never dull, is it... 👀

bbc.co.uk

A split in the spectrum? The ongoing battle to define autism

There is a continuing row over whether it matters if such a broad spectrum of people are defined as having autism

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Congratulations to all parents and supporters who have, like me, survived their kids getting A Level and GCSE results all within 7 days. The relief is palpable, feel like I've been holding my breath since June!

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Nobi Exchange: We Did It Celebration

Alt: A clip from Seinfeld in which the three main characters are celebrating with the caption 'we did it'

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I happened to spend quite a bit of time in a Nationwide branch last week and was very impressed with their Speak Easy cards. Working out how we might do something similar in Disability Services in HE.

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Sam ooOOooOoo Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The ADHD conspiracy and the gender critical movement and the Prof Arday story and the crackdown on disability support are all the same story. There is a default ideal human: a cishet non-disabled white male. The further you deviate from that ideal, the more suspect you become.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Going to sleep listening to the sweet sound of thunderously heavy rain 🌧️

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A similar thing happens with the number of disabled professors (somewhere around 4.8%, of those have told their uni they're disabled). People may think that % is higher...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Presenter: [The argument was put that DEI advanced people not on merit] Woolley: "There are 975 Professors at Cambridge. How many do you think are black? Paddy O'Connell: "Its a fair question you're asking me. So I am going to say 30%" Woolley: "I tell you: less than half a per cent"

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Bijan Parsia @bparsia.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

This is partly why I don’t like “superpower” that we see in eg the Disability Confident scheme. Disabled people deserve opportunities even if they don’t have superpowers. We can be ordinary folks just like most workers and that doesn’t mean we don’t deserve to live in the world and flourish.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thanks to @eicathomefinn.bsky.social for making clear the distinction and context that has been bugging the bejesus out of me. DEI is not EDI. Different laws, different frameworks, different drivers and perspectives, different definitions, different applications.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

All I would ask is if you work or study in a uni, check in with colleagues who may need help. And continue to do so. A duty of care should apply to ourselves and each other. Help here www.papyrus-uk.org www.thecalmzone.net anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/tools-inform... blackbritishacademics.co.uk

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Well that spiced up my evening run 😱

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

In 1999 I watched the eclipse whilst having just graduated. Now I'm watching it over the top of my daughter's school as she awaits her A Level results before heading to uni 🤯

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Choosing to believe that a solar eclipse the night before our eldest gets her A Level results is an auspicious sign, rather than a doomy one, and that any bad eclipse luck is outweighed by a thousand wishes on Perseid shooting stars 🌠

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This is very similar to what happened when I was 18 and off with my friend on our gap year travels, and we were about 5 minutes into a canoe safari on the Zambezi, still working out how to go in a straight line (we worked it out VERY quickly). Ruddy terrifying. We do not belong in their river.

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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

www.linkedin.com/pulse/narrow... What a write up! Goodness me, this is good. About e.g. the 'rise' of autism and ADHD. And why the world simply made us visible, then blamed us for it.

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The Narrowing Door:- Neurodiversity, Capitalism, and the Invention of the Abnormal Mind

An essay on autism, ADHD and the political economy of diagnosis by a Mum who is just trying to figure out what is happening. I.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I'm currently 5 months into a LinkedIn RSD doom spiral created by someone tagging me and then, well, slagging off my work, so I can't currently go near the place. But even before then, the amount of AI slop was rendering it virtually unusable (also, I'll take any excuse to avoid LinkedIn!)

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Still scarred by my youngest's imaginary friend ZaZa who was the naughtiest 'child' on earth and hung around for 3 long and tedious years

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Tom Humberstone @tomhumberstone.com · 16/07/2026

The Luddites loved technology. They owned looms at home and would ‘mod’ them to count threads. Their battle was against worker exploitation. The degradation of their rights, safety and wages. They were against a handful of rich businessmen owning the means of production. Sound familiar?

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I know next to zero about football but even I can tell that was a monumentally rubbish game that's made me rage with fury. What on earth did they think would happen?! Did they forget how to play football? Forget which end was theirs?! I'll go back to tennis, thanks!

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

And those churchyards do like to give up their bones from time to time. Which is why it's never a good idea to organise an Easter egg hunt for small children in a churchyard (as I know from traumatic experience)

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Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I often say the rise in students coming to our dept with diagnoses of various kinds of neurodivergence has been matched with a corresponding fall of students coming with generalised depression. Because, you know. They're getting a diagnosis of the actual problem rather than feeling they don't fit.

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My fairly niche caseload these days is almost exclusively autistic/AuDHD PhD students and I think we would all agree that this is pretty relatable!

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

In today's episode of reports which tell us what we knew all along...There is no overdiagnosis of autism, ADHD and poor mental health amongst young people. There's just diagnosis, for a variety of reasons, none of which relate to 'gaming the system' - but may relate to engaging with the system

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Registration for the Men B vaccination opened today. Two doses, at least 28 days apart, so make sure any young people you know about get booked in early so there's time before the new school/uni term www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Free NHS meningitis jab available for some teenagers - what you need to know

It follows the UK's largest and fastest growing meningitis B outbreak to date in Kent earlier this year.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Maybe I'm not overthinking, maybe I'm just regular thinking about stuff that’s overhappening

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Harriet Cannon @harrietcannon.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Such sad news about Sam Neill. Loved him in so many films, but this one is still a personal favourite youtu.be/0AmZgyGbdsk?...

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THE DISH Official Trailer (2000, Sam Neill, Patrick Warburton)

YouTube video by Trailer World

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