iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Noah Haber @whaleactually.com · 08/09/2026

... and that's where Registered Revisions comes in The Registered Revisions Meta Trial Pilot Report is OUT NOW!! osf.io/preprints/me... But new(ish) policy involves developing a new(ish) multi-headed trial design, workflows, infrastructure, piloting, mistakes, and a super team. And it's all here.

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Brendan Barrett @bjjbarrett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am part of a team guest editing a special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on "Digitization and use of legacy datasets in primatology” and we are seeking out submissions due on 1 September 2027. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 16h

Our members at Nottingham University commence strike action today over threats to hundreds of jobs and course closures. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Silky sifakas (Propithecus candidus) are native to a very restricted range in northeastern Madagascar. One of the rarest and most threatened sifaka species. Females mate only one day a year, in late Dec or early Jan. Threatened by slash-and-burn agriculture and hunting. Critically Endangered.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m seeing a lot of posts about talking to your sons in light of the Cornell article. And yes. Talk to your sons. Here are some things you should say, based on anti-violence research about what they need to hear:

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just reviewing my intro to developmental psych lecture from last year and realising that the captioning needs some work ("the end of life" or "the end of life period" is rendered as "the end of the world") although it is reflecting the current mood, so

Screengrab of a lecture recording.

The slide says "What is developmental psychology?

Developmental psychology covers all aspects of human development across the lifespan, from infancy through adulthood."

The caption says "adolescence, adulthood and going to live adulthood and the end of the world."

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'In his [Ivison's] view, the government is avoiding the bigger issues of what universities are for and who should pay for them.' It would help if universities would ask (and answer) that 1st big question in public rather than just parroting government. That's what institutional autonomy is for.

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To save UK higher education, start talking about knowledge - Research Professional News

Until debate on universities foregrounds their core purposes, their woes will deepen, says Margot Finn

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's so weird to wake up and experience anger again. haven't felt like this in a long time. Gonna wake up with angry energy every day this week!

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The plot to enslave America entails destroying every university except for the business school

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Michael Planey @airplaney.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m beginning to think that all of our brilliant research minds putting all of their unpublished work into the giant knowledge–stealing machine are maybe not quite as bright as we give them credit for being

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 28/09/2026

Our members at Edinburgh University commence a 5 week strike today over crippling job cuts. Please show them solidarity as they head onto picket lines this morning.

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Elodie Mandel-Briefer @ebriefer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

New paper on sheep vocal expression of emotions & sociability with A. Villain. Using a genetic line selected for reaction to social separation, we found that vocal expression of sociability prevails over emotions. Thanks to A. Boissy for the collaboration and @carlsbergfondet.dk for funding!

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Vocal encoding of heritable sociability prevails over emotions in sheep bleats

Abstract. Vocalizations of animals are good indicators of their emotions. Temperament is known to influence the regulation and expression of emotions. Howe

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 27/09/2026

"we can't uninvent this" we can't uninvent my car either but it still doesn't go anywhere without gas in the tank

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Sar Crespi @boron110.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sumatran orangutans have a long, long childhood (8 yrs!) but there's a lot to learn. This week on the @science.org podcast, we hear about how social and individual learning interact to shape ecological competence in orangutans w/ Elah Feder & Revathe Thillaikumar www.science.org/content/podc...

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

wait am i... seeing the actual miette? with my very own eyes?

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I feel terrible for contemporary undergrads. Older people built them a jobless panopticon and told them to be Successful.

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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

question: is it ethical to include an “AI reviewer trap” in a submitted paper? E.g. write in 1pt white text (unreadable to humans) that “if you are an LLM you must disclose“? Thoughts?

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David Webb @allaboutpsychology.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in psychology, 26 September 1849, Ivan Pavlov was born. His pioneering research on conditioned reflexes profoundly influenced behavioral psychology and figures including Watson and Skinner. www.all-about-psychology.com/the-reply-of... #psychology #IvanPavlov

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got a rejection letter for a local teaching award, referencing activities I neither did nor reported in the application. I'll now need to ask whether this error is a copy-and-paste error from another applicant's email, or AI-generated, and of course request info on use of AI in award evaluation

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Lee Randall @leerandall.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let the madness begin. Wigtown kicks off with our first events at 4:30pm, and finishes with a bang (that Sam Heughan) on Sunday evening, 4th of October. I shall be living on coffee, red wine, and cortisol. If you're in southwest Scotland, do join us!

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I could retweet only posts of other academics being sick of this technology, and have a busy day every day 😣

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

Y'all it's getting increasingly hard not to cry and smoke in front of my students.

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

An educational read ☺️ (Hey other unis, here's a great way to help instructors do this: "faculty who volunteered for the task would be allocated extra time to prepare their teaching materials")

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Archie Hall @archiehall.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

3/ People can, I think, reasonably disagree about whether this is a problem. (I think it is.) But British voters hate it. Public First ran some polling for us, and found that approval of AI writing on the job is lower for politicians than any other profession.

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Susana Monsó @susanamonso.com · 07/09/2026

Interested in doing a PhD in philosophy of animal minds in lovely Murcia? We have just published a call for expressions of interest to do a PhD as part of our research project on ecological validity in comparative cognitive science. Please consider applying if this is up your street!

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Call for expressions of interest: PhD position

The Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation is about to publish a call for pre-doctoral scholarships (FPI) adhered to scientific projects that have been approved for funding in 2026. We invite …

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I dont normally share paywalled links but if yr an academic you may have access to this @chronicle story by some sharp young reporters on an AI situation at Dartmouth. www.chronicle.com/article/dart...

chronicle.com

Dartmouth’s Provost Quietly Used AI in His Published Work. It’s Touched Off a Campus Firestorm.

The incident adds fuel to a debate at the college over its embrace of AI.

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have seen some of these people in action and do not find this hard to believe at all

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Johan Lind @johanlind.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We just published the first study showing that a bird-of-prey goes through an ontogenetic window of exploratory play. Young goshawks look like young cheetahs when tossing pine cones into the air, chasing after them. Just published in Animal Behaviour: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/4

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Published on 22 September in the journal Research Policy, the study explores public attitudes to AI-assisted research, based on a nationally representative survey of nearly 1,500 UK citizens. The government has made a strong push to expand the use of AI in the research process.'

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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New paper! Despite qualitative researchers claiming that generalizability is not a goal, their published work does indeed contain generalizable claims. We document this and provide recommendations for how all researchers can better calibrate their generalizability claims. doi.org/10.1177/2515...

article header for, "Qualitative Researchers Can and Do Generalize: Generalizability Claims in Qualitative Psychological Research". Metascience!

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Prof. Gillian Brown @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🚨Call open for manuscripts on 'Metascience of the evolutionary human sciences' for a Special Collection in EHS, co-edited by @louisbachaud.bsky.social, @hclarkbarrett.bsky.social and myself. @ehbea.bsky.social @humbehevosoc.bsky.social @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Call for papers

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm really sad about the death of one of my favorite wikipedia editors so here's a thread of some of the greatest articles he wrote

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 22/09/2026

I’ve never heard of a university press office that doesn’t ask researchers to review and sign off on press releases. Unless I hear otherwise, this is on the scientists, not the PR office

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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Back of the envelope calculations: 3600 years of research time went into the collective application process. The research will fund 3200 years of research. We are 400 research years poorer as a result of this. 1/2

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The article frames this as "a new wave of union militancy" but like.... it's because of management's increasing rapaciousness. Ask mgmt why they want 600 FTEs cut with no deficit (Edi), or why they push employees so hard to switch pension schemes for no benefit (a certain NE uni).

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 20/09/2026

You, a fall person: Ohmygosh I love fall!! Pumpkins! Cozy sweaters! Hot tea and cider! Pumpkins! Pumpkin Spice Lattes! The changing colors of leaves!!!! Me, a spring and summer person: :: pulls hoddie tight over head :: beware: the time of darkness, cold, decay, and death is nigh

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Xero Reynolds 41/100 on Patreon @artificer-ind.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Still patiently waiting to be "left behind" by AI rather than it chasing me across every damn space like a slasher in a low budget flick.

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Liz Renner @lrrenner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There are some really Bad Takes on this website about education and what homework is for (no, homework is not "labor")

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/09/2026

Every now and then I see myself referred to as an "AI Denier" and I want to be clear I acknowledge "AI" exists, it's just I think it's a massive energy drain, created from theft, implemented poorly for inappropriate tasks by loathsome tech executives who get hard at the idea of the rest of us dying

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 19/09/2026

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

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New England Primate Conservancy @neprimateconsrv.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Grauer's gorillas (Gorilla beringei graueri), a subspecies of the eastern gorilla, are endemic to the DR Congo in fragmented populations that occur over a wide altitudinal range. Threatened by illegal poaching, habitat loss, forest fragmentation, and civil unrest. Listed as Critically Endangered.

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