iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 2h

Squeaky told me to tell you that she loves you, and to remind you that the news has been quite stressful lately so you need to remember to give yourself some extra rest to recover

fluffy white black and orange calico cat sleeping on a gray couch, curled into a cozy little ball with her nose tucked by her back legs

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 2h

Drone photographer Theresa Graham (tgraham.photography on IG) captured this Ornate Eagle Ray (Aetomylaeus vespertilio) off Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia. These rays are called the "unicorn of the sea": fewer than 100 sighting have been documented. We suspect they're critically endangered.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 6h

Reminder that if you follow we-news.com instead of following real journalists, you are making it harder for real journalists to investigate news. This article explains why it's an issue, with a focus on AI generated "Leah Qammaniq" who is modeled after Inuit newspeople nunatsiaq.com/stories/arti...

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‘The theft is blatant’: Nunavut AI ‘correspondent’ regurgitates northern stories

Leah Qammaniq, an Inuk journalist raised in the North, understands first-hand the issues that she reports on in Nunavut. She covers Inuit self-governance, food security and, generally, daily life in t...

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 8h

Wabanaki leaders just endorsed Hannah Pingree for Maine governor after she promised to restore their full tribal sovereignty. A 1980 law binds Maine's tribes to state law—treating them like towns, not nations. "Sovereignty is not a favor from the state."

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Don Yee @mosquitolab.bsky.social · 7h

We've now learned that Scaramucci's are divisable into Zacharia's.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 7h

"Tell Katie... I want her to know it was me"

Natalie Harp superimposed in famous "Tell Cersei... I want her to know it was me" meme

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Mike Nitabach @mnitabach.cryptoanarchy.network · 8h

Imagine that your entire life's pinnacle achievement is not even lasting an entire scaramucci...

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IYKYK 🌮 @nisslbody.blacksky.app · 8h

They pulled her out like she was finna cause Toxic Shock Syndrome

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 8h

This is beautiful writing Carl! Thank you for sharing that experience with us.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10h

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

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The Birds I Waited 45 Years to See

An evolutionary biologist returns to New Zealand to find the rare birds he dreamed of seeing as a child making an extraordinary comeback.

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Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

A new mixtape, I've been gathering links for three frigging months, including a bunch of new peer-reviewed papers about DEIJ in STEM. 🧪 scienceforeveryone.science/academic-mix...

scienceforeveryone.science

Academic mixtape 40

It's Friday, we've made it this far, we deserve some links

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Environmental Data & Governance Initiative @envirodgi.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Is a nearby industrial facility polluting more than its legal limit? EPA’s enforcement records should answer this question, yet they are incredibly difficult to access. A new search portal released today by @peer.org, EDGI, & Toxic Docs changes that. Learn more: www.eyesonenforcement.org

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026

What if you see ICE at the polls? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!) @indivisible.org roped me in to design and illustrate a new zine! Check it out in this 🧵 - and visit linktr.ee/wewillvote to sign up for the Election Protection Program and find all the resources you need!

Page 1: text reads "WHAT IF YOU SEE ICE AT THE POLLS? (Don't worry! Read on for the plan!)"

Image shows pen and ink drawings of an ICE agent peeking around one side of the word ICE and a determined looking person holding up a cell phone as if to record peering around the other side.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15/10/2026

The administration and its allies have refused to rule out sending ICE and federal agents to polling places this fall. But it's illegal! Federal law bans armed agents at the polls, period!

Page 2. Text reads: "The administration and its allies have refused to rule out sending ICE and federal agents to polling places this fall. But it's illegal! Federal law bans armed agents at the polls, period!"

Page 3. Text reads "We protect us! Intimidating voters in once community is an attack on all of us, and we answer as one. Vote early, protect the vote, and defend the 2026 election so voters' choices are respected." Graphic reads "Indivisible / Hands Off Our Vote"

Art shows ICE agents stuck behind a big circle with a line through it. One of them is saying "Hmp!"

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Reminder that the mission of public universities is not to be profitable.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Turns out the only unit on campus that is making a profit is central administration. And you're not going to believe this, but that's the unit who gets to decide the formula for how profitability of an academic unit is calculated.

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Matthew Buckley @physicsmatt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

One fun thing about being in the faculty union is you get to hear what administration tells the STEM faculty and what they tell the humanities faculty. Turns out we're both too expensive and costing the university money and can't be afforded. Just for completely opposite and contradictory reasons.

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Black-eyes Susans cheering up a dreary day #BloomScrolling 🌿 🌱

Yellow flowers with 6-8 petals and dark brown centers against a blurry backdrop of green leaves. They’re very cheerful.

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Fab to see Leon's review now published in Gut Microblogy! 🎉 It explores how undernutrition, infection & EED shape early-life gut microbiome assembly in LMICs, and what this means for child health interventions. Congratulations Leon and all co-authors 👏 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Early-life gut microbiome assembly in low- and middle-income countries: Interactions between undernutrition, infection, and environmental enteric dysfunction

The uninterrupted assembly of the early-life gut microbiome is central to growth, immune maturation, and resistance to infection. In low- and middle-i…

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Thank you so much @jtsangwrites.bsky.social for this lovely article on our #Ancientbiotics research 💜 #MicroSky

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Hey, those are UConn folks! I was on Makayla's committee, her work is very good!

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Another elder has just died from their injuries from that incident at Tsawwassen Nation during TRC Day. The family is clearly skeptical about how it happened - as you can see from their FB timelines, and the police aren’t saying much. I will remind you of this history here…

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 14/10/2026

I'll be discussing the forthcoming graphic novel Framing Emmett Till with its creators, illustrator Eric Battle & writer Christopher Benson this Friday at 4 @cunyenglish.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Free and open to the public! #booksky

CUNY Graduate Center English, Biography +Memoir, and DSC CUNY Comix welcome
Eric Battle + Christopher Benson to discuss their book
FRAMING EMMETT TILL: EXPOSING DARK FEAR

ILLUSTRATED BY ERIC BATTLE
WRITTEN BY CHRISTOPHER BENSON

New York City Pre Release Event
Friday, October 16, 4-5:30 pm, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave @ 34th Street
English Department, 4406

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Another packed Indigenous People's Day celebration at UConn! @noodlz2020.bsky.social taught people about the different types of drums and songs, food was provided by James Beard award winner Sherry Pocknett, and lots of good conversations were had with community members & UConn folks.

A bowl of soup, a plate with sausage and Indian taco fixings on Hawaiian bread (I got to the lone too late for the fry bread 😭), sweet tea, and apple/peach crumble with whipped cream on a table

Chris Newell, a man with glasses, hair in a pony tail, blue button down shirt and jeans, holds up a handmade drum and speaks into a microphone

Five Native American Indigenous Studies faculty stand in front of a warm colored wall and a huge piece of art of an Indigenous woman. Sandy Grande, a woman in a black sweatshirt and pants, speaks at a mike

Sherry Pocknett, a woman with white hair, glasses on the top of her head, wampum earrings, and a black sweatshirt that says "Land back", speaks into a microphone. A man with glasses and blue shirt and jeans stands behind her, listening

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Erica Nieves @ericanieves.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Reminder that Columbus was put in prison for the atrocities he committed against the Tainos in the Caribbean (by the way, we still exist). There’s nothing to celebrate about him. Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day 🪶

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Lydia (waiting for fall) @motherofbeanz.myatproto.social · 12/10/2026

It’s Indigenous People’s Day. Dropping my links here. Fellow Indigenous folx, add yours in the comments. Will be sharing throughout the day. CA / $LFGPHOTO Venmo / @motherofbeanz ko-fi.com/motherofbeanz

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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/10/2026

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So well deserved!!!! Congratulations 🎉🎉🎉🎉

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026

It's official. I AM AN AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR!!! WOW 😭✨ #TheDoubleTax has won the prestigious 2026 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize, awarded to one author whose work advances gender equity. Past winners include NYT Bestsellers and National Book winners. #GodsPlan womensway.org/events/18th-...

WOMEN'S WAY

2026 Ernesta Drinker Ballard Book Prize Winner
Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, Economist and Author of The Double Tax

Anna Gifty stands in front of library, smiling, wearing an oversized yellow sweater and holding THE DOUBLE TAX with the cover facing the camera

photo credit: Corban Swain

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026

fun fact: in 1992, berkley replaced columbus day with Indigenous Peoples day. then no other city or state did until 2014,when i was a policy aide for Alondra Cano and some friends and i convinced her to pass the resolution in Minneapolis. i got to write it and plan the celebration.

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SICB journals @sicbjournals.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This #IndigenousPeoplesDay read Indigenous #Sciences As #Scientific Systems in Dialogue with Integrative and Comparative #Biology Jessica Hernandez , Keon Vereen doi.org/10.1093/icb/... ; & read more about co author Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D.https://www.jessicabhernandez.com/

Integrative and Comparative Biology (ICB) seeks to explain #biological diversity through the integration of form, function, development, #physiology, behavior, and #ecology across #organisms and environments. Yet the field’s history of synthesis has largely excluded Indigenous sciences, not because they lack empirical rigor, predictive capacity, or explanatory power, but because colonial scientific institutions have narrowly defined what counts as legitimate knowledge. Indigenous sciences are longstanding, place-based systems of inquiry grounded in careful observation, experimentation, interspecies relationships, and sustained intergenerational monitoring. They are not complementary supplements to Western science, nor alternative ways of knowing awaiting validation. They are autonomous scientific traditions that have generated sophisticated understandings of ecological processes over millennia. This paper argues that the exclusion of Indigenous sciences from ICB reflects broader histories of colonial knowledge production and the co-development of biological science with ethnological frameworks that marginalized Indigenous intellectual traditions. Drawing on Indigenous and decolonial science studies scholarship alongside canonical histories of comparative biology, this paper examines Indigenous salmon and fire stewardship as living scientific systems that continue to generate ecological knowledge while confronting state-imposed management regimes. Rather than asking how Indigenous sciences might be incorporated into existing biological frameworks, this paper asks what ICB can learn from scientific traditions that have long practiced integration across species, ecosystems, and generations, and what a genuinely reciprocal dialogue between sovereign scientific systems would require.

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DocLB2 @doclb2.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"After 30 years of adjusting myself, I stopped. I decided I would no longer chase an ideal that was never made for me. I am quiet and loud. Joyful and angry. I wear my hair in twists. I wear sneakers. I laugh loudly and cry when I need to. I am not here to make anyone comfortable." ~ Ragan Mozée

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Virginia Schutte @vgwschutte.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

... after saying "we are still here", the rest of the museum was an invitation for visitors to know and understand modern Ute tribes. Details about ceremonies, how to join festivals, etc. The end destination for the museum's story was joy. The Ute Indian Museum is one of my favorite museums ❤️

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Looking for a microbiology PhD at the interface between microbial community ecology and clinical micro? Interested in biofilms, medical devices, microscopy and/or antibiotic tolerance? I am advertising two projects that may interest you! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Christopher Columbus was an unimaginable, genocidal monster, even by the standards of his fucked up era.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Off topic, I also appreciate that Native America Calling has links to guests or the programs they are associated with so you can learn more. Some podcasts don't even name their guests!

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Happy Indigenous People's Day! We are still here :)

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Joey Clift @joeytainment.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's Indigenous People's Day Eve everyone don't forget to leave out your Pepsi and meat pies for Wes Studi!

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My quote of the day If anyone can say 'go back,' it's Native Americans. My Pueblo ancestors, despite being targeted at every juncture - despite facing famine and drought - still inhabit this country today. But indigenous people aren't asking anyone to go back to where they came from. Deb Haaland

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Get To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A reminder that alt text is great for many reasons, in addition to providing info about an image for people with visual impairment. I use it all the time for reading text images. Also the second reason listed below made me giggle and also applies to me.

A sassy blue bird with a white throat and belly looks towards the camera with a speech bubble above saying: do you add alt text to your images.

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Carolyn Bertozzi @carolynbertozzi.bskyverified.social · 11/10/2026

“Much of the behavior…is plainly harassment and bullying, often filmed without the subjects’ knowledge or consent…every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls.” futurism.com/artificial-i...

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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.

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