iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

(thread up and down for details) #skystorians and other scholars in the UK - is there *anything* available for finishing up historical project or completing a manuscript (that's not limited ot ECRs?). UK funding has always had a novelty vs. maintenance problem...

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Lin King, who translated Yang Shuang-zi's #TaiwanTravelogue from Mandarin to English, charges an European publisher for copyright infringement over commissioning a translator who cannot read Mandarin to create a third-language translation using King's English text, original footnotes, and afterword.

How is a translated work distinct from the original work? In literature, there is no such thing as an “objectively accurate” translation. Even this statement you are reading can be translated into millions of word permutations. Language is an imprecise human creation that evolves, imprecisely, over time. This is a concept that the public understands in the context of classical texts like The Odyssey, but less deference is paid to a translator’s creative authority in contemporary literature.

一部翻譯作品，如何與原著是不同的個體？翻譯文學中，並沒有所謂「客觀精準」的標準答案。就連您正在閱讀的這段文字，也能被翻譯成數百萬種用字組合。語言本身就是人類創造的不精準產物，且隨著時間不精準地演化。對於《奧德賽》這類古典作品的不同譯本，大眾似乎都能理解這個概念，但是面對當代文學，譯者的創作自主權卻鮮有對等的尊重。

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 06/10/2026

there's a flash sale on @europeansleeper.eu, so if those of you without kids* fancied travelling from eg. brussels to milan on an overnight train, fill your boots: www.europeansleeper.eu/flash-sale *there's not really any availability in half term

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Good Morning Flash Sale | European Sleeper

Night train tickets from €49 between Brussels, Milan, Paris, Berlin and Prague. Limited places, book before 6 October.

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Min Chao @wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TING TING DEFENDS HER TITLE GOLD 🥇~~~~ By unanimous decision against China's Yang Chengyu in the gold medal bout at the 2026 Asian Games

Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting wins gold in the 65kg division at the 2026 Asian Games

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

i'm gonna have to find a pillow to scream into real quick T.T

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Roland Geisheimer @rolandgeisheimer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Das war Hans Litten auch. Ihm zu Ehren wurde in Berlin die Neue Friedrichstraße in Littenstr. umbenannt. An ihr liegen der Sitz der Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (im Hans-Litten-Haus) sowie eine Dienststelle des Landgerichts Berlin. Im Landgericht steht eine Büste des Rote-Hilfe-Anwalts.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Artist once known” is what everyone should say instead of “artist unknown”. Heard Museum, Phoenix, AZ

“Artist once known” replaces “artist unknown” on museum labels, Heard Museum, Phoenix AZ

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China Historical Photos @chinahistorypics.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

May 1979. The great misperception. Young Maoists crowd around China’s leaders, unaware that the political world they believed in was already disappearing. Hua would fall; Hu Yaobang ( left) would help Deng dismantle the old order,then be sidelined himself in 1987. Deng remained and transformed China

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

中秋節快樂! Jung chow jit fai lock! Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!!

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T.N. Kayzel @kaijzel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m organising a workshop on the history of economic planning, 10–11 December at Sciences Po Paris. It's open to scholars from all disciplines engaging with the history of economic planning (philosophy, sociology, intellectual history, political economy) philevents.org/event/show/1...

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What is Economic Planning? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The workshop aims to bring together scholars working across intellectual history, political theory, socio-economic history, political economy, sociology, and related fields in order to foster dialogue...

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 19/09/2026

haden mangoes, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1910

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Sam Jackson @sjacks26.myatproto.social · 18/09/2026

I’m *sure* I’ve seen a political scientist out there who wrote a guide to book workshops. Maybe it was @mirya.bsky.social in her newsletter? Help me, friends.

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hey, that's a proprietary idea from my start-up pitch deck!

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Obviously it's also gotta be a subscription model where you can pay more to skip them faster

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Seems like every other website I access is under some kind of anti-bot protection now, which makes it feel like the whole internet has slowed down - maybe this is what dial-up felt like 😭

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Laura @vegasmus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

In meinem nächsten Webinar zu Einfacher Sprache Ende September sind noch ein paar Plätze frei. Das ist die günstigste Möglichkeit, bei mir einen Kurs zu besuchen: www.abp.de/seminar/kw/b...

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Einfache Sprache – nach DIN-Norm (Webinar)

Gute Kommunikation schließt niemanden aus. In den Seminaren zu Barrierefreiheit und Diversität an der Akademie der Bayerischen Presse lernen Sie, Inhalte so zu gestalten, dass sie für alle zugänglich ...

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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...

nationalmuseums.org.uk

Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website

Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It was quite interesting that there was a lot of convergence for what students considered a good class policy re 1) transparency if you use any and 2) mostly trying to keep writing itself free of AI generated text (except for grammar fixes)

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah openness was my main motivation - i had the sense that there is shame attached to these questions at times, especially if students assume the policy is a total ban. So i tried to come up with a way of giving them space to be open & hopefully, this can be a foundation for further convos.

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

(I'm also more than happy to share the questions i asked if that would be useful as inspiration)

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Please do, and I'd love to hear how it goes for you! I'm also using it for thinking about assessment design. I originally had the idea because i felt like i just didn't know enough about how students use it or even think about it to make any of these decisions (policies, assessments, any of it)

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I did the survey to make a final decision on the AI policy for class & I'm gonna be thinking about these answers for a while. Obviously only a snapshot, but in general, they make me feel a lot more optimistic than I expected, considering the ongoing conversations about this in higher ed.

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I taught my first class of the semester today & asked my ~20 students to fill out an anonymous survey on their genAI use & their thoughts on good/bad AI class policies. I'm obv not gonna share any responses, but most were really thoughtful or helped me notice things i just hadn't before.

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

There was a really good podcast convo about this and especially how it intersects with race and interracial dating. (unfortunately, it was an NYT podcast so I don't really wanna share/promote it :/)

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

it's actually illegal to be a scholar of bureaucratic politics if you can spell "bureaucracy" correctly on your first try more than 2 out of 10 times (average)

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Whenever I set up a meeting with someone who hasn't met me in person, I tell them that "I'm the person with blue hair" as a way of identifying me. About half the time, people seem to think I'm joking 😅

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 03/09/2026

Nothing, absolutely nothing, says your nodes need to be circles

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Yeah i actually had been thinking of something else that also would have gotten them up and moving, but would've involved less talking to each other, so this seems like a better activity in the same spirit :D

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ooooh i might steal this (with credit), I love that idea 👀 I'll probably make some adjustments though, espeically finding a French speaker at a Swiss university might be too easy :D

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scarykine @clairikine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🎨🐴 I will also be tabling at Art Horse Comic Bazar, my fave outdoor indie comics market, on Sunday August 30 from 15-20:00 at Wagenburg Lohmühle! Come say hello & check out the Art Horse Festival programming over the rest of the weekend!! arthorsecomics.noblogs.org

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ART HORSE COMIC COLLECTIVE BERLIN – UNDERGROUND COMIX – DIY CULTURE – COMMUNITY – ANTICAPITALISM

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scarykine @clairikine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Here’s a reminder that your EU friends who live in Berlin and aren’t German can only elect their district assemblies, & your friends who have neither citizenship can’t vote here at all! If you’re thinking of sitting out the Berlin government election next month, please reconsider! Thank you!!!

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Franca Parianen @fparianen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Wahlkampf, die Jahreszeit in der die Berliner SPD so tun muss, als hätte sie nie Berlin regiert, wäre gerade erst angekommen, und ehrlich gesagt auch ein bisschen schockiert von den Zuständen hier

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Fabrizio Gilardi @fgilardi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I'm hiring! Three-year postdoc (80%) in my research group at @ipz.bsky.social, starting January 2027. Digital technology and politics, some teaching. Deadline: 30 September 2026. Questions welcome, and please share! www.ipz.uzh.ch/dam/jcr:bbee... (pdf)

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rbb|24 @rbb24.de · 26/08/2026

Am Mittwochmittag wurde in Neukölln eine Fliegerbombe aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg gefunden. Die Polizei hat inzwischen einen Sperr-“Kreis" von 500 Metern rund um den Fundort am Weigandufer eingerichtet und mit der Evakuierung begonnen. Die A100 und die Sonnenallee sind nicht betroffen.

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

That's what i thought first, but sociology is eligible - isn't that usually the prime example of a "woke" social science?

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This is such an odd list in so many ways, i hope someone FOIAs docs from the process of coming up with it bc I'd love to know how it came about

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This website is so confusing, i haven't even been able to find the place where define what's included in the social science call. So political science grad students just can't apply for NSF fellowships this year? Oo

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It was disturbingly absent from any of my grad school reading lists!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Tl;dr:

2017 Paul Musgrave tweet/thread "Around the Department"

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Das frage ich mich aber auch nicht nur bei dem Plakat.

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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 24/08/2026

IT SAYS AN HOUR TO GO YOU GUYS WANT COOL BOOKS RIGHT??

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 24/08/2026

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Institution Grinnell College
Enrollment data 15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data 50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data 25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data 37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data 10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data 42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year

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Katharin Tai 戴恺琳 @ktai.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Final tally on the remaining comfort SF(F) reads: ancillary justice trilogy, trade of blood (F instead of SF & non re-read bc the previous two were so good), Winter's Orbit & the Indranan War trilogy

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