iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Amina Samee @aminasamee.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

“And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

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ArTrapnell @artrapnell.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

With all the bad shit happening, take a moment and watch a Raccoon catching snowflakes. You're welcome 🙏

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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I don't think "mental health conditions are being over-diagnosed" but that "real suffering is being over-medicalised". These are very different things. The former tries to justify cutting support, but the latter does not: it acknowledges real suffering but asks for different (psychosocial) provision

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Alan Regenberg @aregenberg.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to AI Chatbots. Despite privacy risks and inaccuracy concerns, people are feeding blood test results, doctor’s notes and surgical reports into ChatGPT and the like. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/w...

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People Are Uploading Their Medical Records to A.I. Chatbots

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Joseph Oooooooooo! @josepho.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Beyond irony. It steals from all human creativity to function. It destroys our environment to operate. And using it robs us of our core skills. It's the perfect economic weapon.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

'Small changes to the tone of posts fed to users of X can increase feelings of political polarisation as much in a week as would have historically taken at least three years, research has found.' 1/3

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Small changes to ‘for you’ feed on X can rapidly increase political polarisation

Study finds that a week of political content can bring about a shift in views that previously would have taken three years

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Annie Hickox @dranniehickox.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A week is a long time in social media. Look after your mental health by taking breaks from it. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/h...

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Study Finds Mental Health Benefit to One-Week Social Media Break

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Claudio Tennie @ctennie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Orangutan youngsters reach the broad diet they need to survive only if they culturally learn what to eat & where to find it -> This is the first clear evidence for cultural dependency of any kind in apes <- More info, and link to the paper in this thread by Elliot [the master-modeller behind this]

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

The use of patient testimonials for marketing on health websites is a major pseudoscientific red flag and is unethical. And for good reason:

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Tiny Octopus @tiny-octopus.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The Moment Leaves spiral downward; the lesson of sakura - Ev'rywhere I look. #poetry #Haiku

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Cristian Vlad @cristianvlad.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

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Joseph Harney @josephharney.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Human beings evolved as a social species, with empathy, and our capacity for it, at the heart of our ability to bond, collectively survive. Billionaires are outliers. You need an empathy defect, total lack of conscience, inability to share, to enable you to amass that kind of money and resources.

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions

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To Be Happier, Try One Tiny Act of Joy Each Day

A community science project finds that modest reminders to find joy in the day can have benefits that are on par with those of more ambitious well-being interventions

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Simone Cremaschi @simonecremaschi.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New UN report warns that welfare cuts can fuel far-right support. It features my work on public service deprivation with @paularettl.bsky.social @catherinedevries.bsky.social @marcocappelluti.bsky.social and on climate-related disasters and far-right incumbents with @pstanig.bsky.social

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Dr Dwight Turner @dturner300.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Intersections of Privilege and Otherness in Counselling and Psychotherapy amzn.eu/d/gMTaboL The Psychology of Supremacy amzn.eu/d/ho9aQr3 Decolonising Counselling and Psychotherapy amzn.eu/d/gryYFcq A Phenomenology of Racism in Counselling and Psychotherapy amzn.eu/d/9yZ5eUL

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Joseph Harney @josephharney.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

God damn it this is such a loss… D’Angelo is indeed the ultimate essence of soul, the purest of the pure… love to infinity 🙌🙌🙌

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John Drury @profjohndrury.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

'Groupthink' - a zombie idea in social and organizational psychology, from @bpsofficial.bsky.social @psychmag.bsky.social (Yes there are drives to uncritical conformity in some groups, but that's because of particular group norms not some quality of being a group) www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Groupthink – a monument to truthiness? | BPS

Ramon J. Aldag re-examines a familiar concept.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 14/09/2025

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

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JP @jpasiwonder.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

“The long-term therapeutic relationship is a casualty of today’s healthcare.” “The quality of the [therapeutic] relationship…profoundly influences the quality of the information the therapist uses to make the diagnosis.” “Good chemistry [of therapeutic alliance] is literally good chemistry.”

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 08/09/2025

Ironically, it appears that AI chatbots hallucinate for the same reason that students feel compelled to use them: They were socialized in a high-stakes testing culture that rewards guessing and maybe getting it right over admitting when there's something you just don't know.

Why Language Models Hallucinate, by Kalai et al.

Like students facing hard exam questions, large language models sometimes guess when
uncertain, producing plausible yet incorrect statements instead of admitting uncertainty. Such
“hallucinations” persist even in state-of-the-art systems and undermine trust. We argue that
language models hallucinate because the training and evaluation procedures reward guessing over
acknowledging uncertainty, and we analyze the statistical causes of hallucinations in the modern
training pipeline. Hallucinations need not be mysterious—they originate simply as errors in binary
classification. If incorrect statements cannot be distinguished from facts, then hallucinations
in pretrained language models will arise through natural statistical pressures. We then argue
that hallucinations persist due to the way most evaluations are graded—language models are
optimized to be good test-takers, and guessing when uncertain improves test performance. This
“epidemic” of penalizing uncertain responses can only be addressed through a socio-technical
mitigation: modifying the scoring of existing benchmarks that are misaligned but dominate
leaderboards, rather than introducing additional hallucination evaluations. This change may
steer the field toward more trustworthy AI systems.

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses. - #ThichNhatHanh

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Talib Kweli @talibkweli.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

@justus4all4one.bsky.social Elon Musk's grok is literally praising Hitler, attacking people with Jewish names and calling for a Holocaust and you out here tone policing Black people for calling these people Nazis. This is why white liberals fail. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust

The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Donald Trump gives people permission to be their worst selves. His politics are not just representative, they are generative. His words seep into people’s souls and slowly corrode whatever potential for human decency ever resided there.

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pro.democracy.truck.driver (Steve) @pro-democracy-otr.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

They don’t believe in any gods and can’t read the Bible. How can they possibly do the morally correct thing?

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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience @kingsioppn.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"you shouldn’t take ADHD drugs at all if you don’t have ADHD..." Prof. Katya Rubia sat down with ‪The Telegraph to discuss how #ADHD drugs work and their effects on the body. Click the link to learn more 👇 #IoPPNInTheNews @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social bit.ly/4e7dvbN

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The dangers of taking ADHD drugs when you don’t really need them

A rise in diagnoses has led to a spike in prescriptions, many of them unnecessary. Here, experts reveal the risks of ‘brain doping’

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The corruption has now eaten its way into the spiritual layer

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Joseph Harney @josephharney.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

He’s got them hooked, juiced, on anger. Aided and abetted by RW media. They’ve got ‘all’ the political power, everything they need and want, to do what they want. And yet… they remain angry, stuck in it like thick treacle and can’t see their way out of it.

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Dr Lucy Foulkes @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Really important new study looking at self-diagnosis of mental disorders This is one of those papers that documents something pretty obvious – that YP look up their symptoms online ahead of seeking/receiving treatment, and then self-diagnose – but... (cont)

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Joseph Harney @josephharney.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

And you, Elizabeth? Where are you finding it!

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Joseph Harney @josephharney.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Finding small joys in everyday real life and limiting time online!!

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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Boat of refugees. Sculpture in Vatican Square. Thank you for being such a bright light, Pope Francis.

A metal statue in front if the Vatican depicts a boat of refugees.

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Jonas R. Kunst @kunstjonas.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Why has acculturation research focused only on minority groups when it's defined as mutual cultural change? My meta-analysis of 37 studies (N = 11,000+) reveals how majority groups also transform—and how colonial mindsets in academia created this blind spot. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Redefining the mainstream: A review and meta-analysis of the evolving dynamics of majority-group acculturation

Socio-historical factors – including coloniality – have perpetuated the long-standing neglect of cultural change among majority groups but also recently catalysed a paradigm shift. After outlining ...

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Cory @evilmam.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I think sometimes we on the left do sabotage our cause by blaming folks for not already being at the finish line when they're just getting ready to join the race. Like, how does anyone change if the only acceptable starting point is to already be knowledgeable and experienced?

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Paul Smaldino @psmaldino.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'll be teaching some students about the Lotka-Volterra food web model tomorrow, and this historical aside feels particularly relevant. Pretty stark that, in 1931, only 1% of Italian professors refused to sign a loyalty oath to the fascists.

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Prof. James Davies @drjamesdaviesbskys.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

While research found most interviewees gained validation from close relationships with chatbots... these were hollowed out versions of friendship: providing entertainment when bored..."There’s was no sense of growth or development or challenging yourself.” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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‘She helps cheer me up’: the people forming relationships with AI chatbots

From virtual ‘wives’ to mental health support, more than 100m people are using personified chatbots

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Joseph Harney @josephharney.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

My god yes… they’re like a psychoanalytic textbook on defence mechanisms come to life…

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The Psychologist @psychmag.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Left speechless… The psychological toll of living in a warzone is causing children in Gaza to lose their ability to communicate, writes Sarah Dawood, editor at @indexoncensorship.org www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

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Left speechless | BPS

The psychological toll of living in a warzone is causing children in Gaza to lose their ability to communicate, writes Sarah Dawood, editor at Index on Censorship.

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Jared Green @jaredwgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Right. Sometimes it wakes you up. Sometimes it warns you. Sometimes it calls you to get bigger. And sometimes it just sucks.

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