iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I guess I am comfortable saying that in cases where people you formerly respected, or presumed you did, are now actively choosing to sunset their own minds & surrender them to machines invented by incels and billionaires, then yes there should be a stigma for that. This is what society is for

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Would you like to join the BAVS committee? We have 9 voluntary positions open! To find out more please visit our website: bavs.ac.uk/committee-va... Applications are due by 3rd August 2026.

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Join the Committee – BAVS

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Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I had a wonderful time sharing my work yesterday! Huge thanks to all attendees for such thoughtful and engaging questions 🐾

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

What he said www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/o...

I’m done ceding my brain — the core of all that makes me who I am — to the financial interests of a small number of technology billionaires or the shortsighted conveniences of hyperactive communication styles. It’s time to move past fretting about our slide into the cognitive shallows and decide to actually do something about it.

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Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Still a few days left to send in an abstract for what promises to be another brilliant BAVS conference! 👩‍💻

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

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Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

“I don’t doubt that it is a great privilege to be a human being. But may it not be the happier destiny to be an animal or a plant?” — Wilkie Collins (1875)

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

You can sabotage AI with poetry, pass it on

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Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

We’d love to see you! 🙂‍↔️

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Calling @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECRs! Our next BAVS Tea Time will take place tomorrow (Weds 22nd) at 5pm-6pm (UK) on Zoom - join for all or part of an informal catch up about all things Victorian and ECR. DM me for link! We will also welcome our new BAVS ECR Rep @laurenicullen.bsky.social 🎉🫖☕️

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a woman in a lace top is drinking from a cup

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security (thread of papers below)

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This point is well made. During the prospectus and methods portion of my dissertation, what I realized was that the committee was not there to give you lots of known things but rather to gently steer you away from trying to make entirely unknowable claims. Expertise is understanding limits.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 22/09/2025

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I will say this: if you use the toys of rent-seeking billionaires to do your writing for you, I promise I will never care about a single thing you write or think, ever

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 07/05/2025

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

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Dr Lauren Cullen @laurenicullen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Now that I’m (mostly) settled into my new West Coast life, I’m thrilled to write that I’m a postdoctoral research fellow at gorgeous #UBC. It’s wonderful to be back in Canada — and there’s no better place for me to sink my teeth into a new project centring “wild” places in 19thC literature.🏔️🐳

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