iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

meanwhile people have been telling us since 2025 that we have to vote for him in 2028

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Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Around here, #OskiBday is never just one day. Today is your final chance to double your impact. An anonymous donor is matching every gift to ISSI, up to $10,000. Help us reach the match and invest in the next generation of scholars working to shape a more equitable future.

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Oski's B-Day Bearathon 2026

September 16–18

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Whole thread is worth reading, but the point about making research funding "secure and independent from political or financial influence" cannot be underscored enough

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

So we had a teach-in at Yale yesterday with over 300 students, faculty, and alums. The Chronicle of Higher Education covered it here. www.chronicle.com/article/yale... 1/

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What’s Behind the Rule-Defying Campus Resistance Against a Yale Trump Deal

Students, faculty members, and alumni joined in an unauthorized demonstration.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

like gregg said, there's something really rotten happening with yale's leadership. why do all this just to make a bad deal with the most reviled double-crossers on the planet?

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yale’s Office of Public Affairs banned reporters from Yale’s campus today. It’s corroborated by Francie Diep in her story for the @chronicle.com. This was an attempt to squelch press coverage today of the rally protesting Yale’s attacks on freedom of expression, their pending deal with Trump. 1/

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"The work and everyday labor of living with ME/CFS contains this recursive loop of everyday labor of being ill." For @motherjones.com, I interviewed @elimrogers.bsky.social on her book tracing the history of ME/CFS and what it's like to be exhausted in America. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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The relentless work of being sick

A new book examines the labor of getting chronic illness diagnosed and treated—for those lucky enough to get care.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.

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Immigrant Defenders Law Center @immdef.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Four people have died at Adelanto in less than a year. Yet the govt's plan repeats “the same policies and practices that failed to prevent years of suffering,” said ImmDef Attorney Alison. Without real change, people will continue to die in detention. tinyurl.com/muk4shcu

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What is — and is not — in ICE’s plan to improve conditions at privately run Adelanto

The federal government said the facility already meets many standards and asked the court to hold off on enforcing a July order. Advocates for detainees disagree.

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The NIH has quietly dropped its loan repayment program for researchers doing health disparities research and for researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds. As an LRP awardee who had six figures in medical schools loans, I know how transformative this funding can be. Losing this funding will…

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NIH Extramural Loan Repayment Programs: Simplified Structure, Continued Commitment | Grants & Funding

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026

When I've been in psych wards, because they're carceral, every attempt I made to assert my autonomy or stand up for myself was seen as further proof of my madness & met punitively. The psych ward is run by all these stringent codes that staff enforce with sadistic cruelty.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 03/08/2026

You can't fight for yourself in a psych ward because your every attempt to do it is met so harshly it further entraps you in the psych ward, because you're not seen as having the human right to stand up for yourself. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social @katherinewolf.bsky.social @prisonculture.bsky.social

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 31/07/2026

The youngest person held at the ICE center in Texas called Dilley is two months old according to Julian Castro as I’m wrapping my radio stories up for deadline. Get your head around the fact that you live in a country that abducts, incarcerates, & tortures actual babies. That should revolt you.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

If you really think that something is "impossible," why then spend your precious time trying to "convince" others of this?Shouldn't you just relax since the thing won't happen?

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

RFK Jr. and Oz attacked California for its Medicaid home care, citing growth as proof of fraud. For @motherjones.com, I reported on how the growth isn't proof of fraud, and growth of participants is proof the program is more accessible than in other states. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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California does Medicaid home care well. They're being punished for it.

Republicans are deferring $850 million from the state because of unfounded fraud claims.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Wednesday next week, I'll be speaking at a @sfdcc.bsky.social panel on disability reporting! Come in person or online to hear about my disability reporting experience as a disabled journalist at @motherjones.com. disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/disabi...

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Disability + Journalism with Pushing Limits – Disability Cultural Center

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

I know it's out of style in the U.S. in 2026 but racism has explanatory power.

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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Rich people get to make "mistakes." Meanwhile, a disabled person makes one mistake that results in them losing their most basic legal rights.

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Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe @aaberhe.com · 23/07/2026

Hong Wong today became the third woman to win a Fields Medal. She started out as an earth science major. Her geophysics prof affirmed importance of math to science for her, ex. for explaining how seismic waves are used to map Earth’s interior ... math related to the Kakeya problem.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The report “calls for the government to invest in young researchers, without noting that the administration fired scores of young scientists and terminated hundreds of grants to early career researchers.”

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 22/07/2026

alternate hed: UC faculty demonstrate superior fulfillment of fiduciary obligations vs board of regents

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

MAID has in effect worked as a "pressure release valve" on an underfunded, overburdened disability support system; whether that was the intention or not, that is how it operates, and that is how it is experienced by way too many disabled people.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Russell Vought is the director of the Office of Management & Budget. He is promulgating a new rule to install political control over ALL federal grant-making. Forget the experts. Russ is the decider-in-chief now. Write your members of Congress today. And share this. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

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Oppose OMB Proposal to Put ALL Federal Government Funding Decisions in the Hands of Political Appointees

On May 29, 2026, the Office of Management and Budget issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), OMB-2026-0034, Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance. The scope of this proposed regulation is...

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/06/2026

Fuck the Trump admin and its little enablers and fuck Congress for not reining this man in BUT REMEMBER that a shitty memo is not a law nor is it legally enforceable and we should NOT treat it as such.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/06/2026

You do not, in fact, get to decide that decades of settled case law, regulations, and legislation don’t apply because daddy and his eugenicist friends hate disabled people.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

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ICE is offloading seven concentration camp warehouses. What does it really mean?

A Q+A with Michael Wriston of Project Salt Box

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

One of the very insidious expressions of sexism in academia is when men tell women their scholarship is ‘emotional’ or frame their anger or emotions as the first framing perception of our work, and at this point in 2026, I refuse to give people who do this any benefit of the doubt

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Here's a great training from @peerresearch.bsky.social explaining how researchers can provide the most effective public comments! static1.squarespace.com/static/68c72...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

In this newsletter I outline important actions to take. 1. Submit a comment opposing the rule change. 2. Contact state legislators to ensure states are engaged with the impact at the state and local level. 3. Contact members of Congress. 4. Spread awareness. This rundown is a great source:

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Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Russell Vought is going to destroy American Science

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2026

NEW: A lot of bad has happened to American science over the last year but nothing comes even close to what’s about to happen if we don’t speak out in opposition to the OMB rule changes and I hope @aaas-socsci.bsky.social @apsphysics.bsky.social and others will launch public campaigns about this. 🧪🔭⚛️

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It's the End of American Science As We Know It

We have 45 days to express our opposition to catastrophic changes.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Daily Memo reporting from Adelanto on the five hunger strikes happening around the U.S.

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truerg.bsky.social @truerg.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

For those of you not living in California, who don't understand what we're going through.

The California ballot for Governor. A long piece of heavy cardstock. Four columns, each with 16 candidates, each box filled with the candidate's name, party, and self-reported job title in both English and Chinese.

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Short-sighted and harmful

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

tl,dr; Scientists no longer allowed to use federal funding to publish, attend meetings, or talk to the public. They cannot collaborate internationally. Grants can be cancelled for any reason, at any time, political appointees have a final say over what gets funded, and who gets funded.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/05/2026

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

If I weren’t so burnt out by trying to convince people the systemic multi decades long attacks on the humanities are dangerous for many reasons, I would laugh (bitterly, yes) at the AI bros and management types ‘discovering’ why ‘human skills’ and ‘critical thinking’ matter

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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 25/04/2026

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

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‘Hyperscale’ data center project in Utah — expected to generate and consume more power than entire state — nears final approval

Led by "Shark Tank" investor Kevin O'Leary, a massive data center project is near final approval in Utah — including tax deals aimed at helping it “lure the hyperscalers” like Amazon, Microsoft and Google to the state.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/04/2026

Report: Every Place On Earth Has Wrong Amount Of Water theonion.com/report-every-place-on-…

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Part of the history of eugenics is using healthcare and reproductive rights to get people to not have kids if it is seen as a burden on the public good.

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Debt Collective 🟥 @debtcollective.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The Trump Department of Education wrote a dangerous new regulation that would strip Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) from people based on their "political ideology." It's a completely naked fascist attempt. But Senate Dems can stop him—it just requires a few more votes.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 07/04/2026

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

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