iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/03/2026

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “In a short span of time, we transformed the way we thought about health,” Cal Newport writes. “I’ve come to believe that a similarly rapid revolution is possible in how we respond to our diminishing ability to think.”

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Opinion | Technology Weakens Our Minds. It’s Time to Resist.

Just as we changed our thinking around physical fitness, we need to change our attitude toward cognitive fitness.

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

A quick reminder that Congress not only needs to pass budgets, but also enforce them.

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 12/11/2025

"American universities, institutions that sh'ld be bastions of critical thought & democratic values, make the same calculations that S. African universities made under white supremacy: that capitulation is pragmatic & that survival requires accommodation." www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

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The triumph over apartheid offers hope to US universities

The parallels between apartheid-era South Africa and contemporary threats to academic freedom from the Trump administration in the United States are n...

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Cornbread Hemp @cornbreadhemp.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Hemp products that contain THC could be made illegal nationwide - as soon as next week - as Mitch McConnell uses the government shut down as leverage. Please repost this & share it with everyone you know! Link here to contact your reps: hempsupporter.com/bill/stop-he...

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

“Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world,” writes @sivav.bsky.social in this brilliantly belittling essay. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

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Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

UPenn professors have responded forcefully to the Trump administration's that colleges sign a "compact" in order to secure funding: "When an invitation is accompanied by consequences for not accepting it, it is in fact a threat, not an invitation." aaup-penn.org/statement-by...

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Statement by the AAUP-Penn Executive Committee on the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education | AAUP–Penn

October 2, 2025 We have received reports that Penn has been “invited” to sign a so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” by the federal government, and that failing to do so wou...

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Grants are awarded to faculty, not university administrators. The "compact" with universities that Trump is offering would completely dismantle the peer review process by awarding funding based on administrative policies rather than the merits of the research. Just say no.

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Howard Lutnick on new H1B visa fees: "If you're going to train somebody, you're going to train one of the recent graduates from one of the great universities across our land." How does that work when you're simultaneously defunding research and training programs at all American universities?

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I think we are dangerously underestimating how many jobs we will lose to AI and how deep the spiritual cost will be. The industry tells us strong restrictions on AI will hurt us and help China. I wrote this to explain how they pulling one over on us. www.chrismurphyct.com/p/in-our-scr...

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In our scramble to win the AI race against China, we risk losing ourselves

A fraud is being perpetuated on the American people and our pliant, gullible political leaders.

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Tulane making the news for all the wrong reasons.

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

This is absolutely insane. As faculty face funding cuts, the University of Michigan is spending millions to hire incompetent undercover investigators to surveil student activists.

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University of Michigan using undercover investigators to surveil student Gaza protesters

Revealed: security trailing students on and off campus as video shows investigator faking disability when confronted

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

At #handsoff New Orleans with my son rocking his Weezer shirt

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Michelle Lacey @nolastatprof.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

And now they're coming for the statisticians... "The longtime head of the American Statistical Association (ASA), Ronald Wasserstein, says these panels also serve an important role as watchdogs. 'Disbanding them eliminates an important check on how well the government is doing its work,' he says."

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Panels giving scientific advice to Census Bureau disbanded by Trump administration

New commerce secretary tells advisers to federal statistical agencies that their mission has been “fulfilled”

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