iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've gotten a lot of requests from faculty about how to talk to their students about the Cornell 7. I'll post a few resources I've built over the years that I've heard are the most helpful:

4263126

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

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

The main reason you haven’t heard about campus sexual violence in a few years is because Trump and SCOTUS have made it much, much harder for survivors to come forward. You might vaguely remember that Title IX was a big battleground in his first term. And that we lost.

31867637

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think its important to understand the campus sexual assault crisis is way worse than you think. universities suspend just 1/12,400 students each year for sexual misconduct & expel 1/22,900. once you read title ix administrators in their own words, you get a sense why that is:

jezebel.com

Not Only Do Campus Sexual Assailants Go Unpunished, They Often Get Special Treatment

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

1761272

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

The Ebola virus doesn’t need to spill back. It abides in its reservoir host, and awaits its next opportunity. A virus can’t climb out of a bat or a monkey and fly off in search of human prey. It can only spill over. If humans left the reservoir host alone — not hunting it, not capturing it, not eating it, not exporting it live, not disturbing its forest habitat — the virus wouldn’t re-emerge in humans. It would remain where it is, harming no one. But of course that’s not what happens. And when viruses spill, they often spill into us, because the human population is such a big, busy target.

10528224

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Chemjobber @chemjobber.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From 2022 to spring 2025, American PhD-granting universities posted an average of 289 openings in departments of chemistry and biochemistry. Starting in the fall of 2025, that number fell to 185 openings.

a graph of the normal growth rate of the Chemistry Faculty Jobs List, showing two deviations, the year during COVID (fall 2020-spring 2021) and the first year of the second Trump Administration (fall 25-spring 26)

36030

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk · 08/09/2026

DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE is now published in the UK, Canada, and the US! 🏳️‍🌈📚🦋🗃️ Every recommendation helps get this extraordinary history into more hands, so please ask your favourite libraries and bookstores to stock it. Thank you! 🙏 #booksky #reading #libraries #histsci #queerhistory

A copy of Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science standing vertically on two others placed horizontally, with a vase of flowers behind them, on a table of other books. There's a bookmark visible in the vertical copy.

36630

Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Passed this mural on my way to work in Chicago this morning

Mural of Dolly Parton with lots of flowers left in front

030

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(2/2) gave her and recognized the value of giving children a chance to love music as she did. To this end, she frequently funded uniforms, flags, instruments, and even multiple team travel budgets. Her only stipulation was to not have her name attached. She didn't want to distract from the kids.

31175139

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

(1/2) Since I haven't seen anyone else mention this one... It was an open secret that Dolly Parton secretly funded a massive number of southern high school bands, most especially predominantly Black high schools. A marching band member in her youth, Dolly never forgot the joy that playing snare drum

1839681159

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

(spo)okie 🎃 @okie.gay · 25/08/2026

Texas’s drag ban was found to be unconstitutional this morning and one of the plaintiffs who brought the suit was an Austin-based drag queen who often impersonates Dolly Dolly was named in the final judgement itself and after hearing about the lawsuit, she sent that drag queen a signed guitar

21113432633

Paula Adams, PhD @peadams.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

😭😭😭 I have to teach a class in 45 minutes 😭😭😭

000

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Dr. Twink, Microplastic Surgeon @subtlebeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I hope Mexico beats England today as revenge for Mexico week on the Great British Bake-off

13787651934

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Jim Woodgett @jwoodgett.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Think I might have chosen the experts at one of the worlds most admired zoos *that has been doing this for 50 years*.

"It seems like a bit of a risk for the U.S. government to place biomaterials in a for-profit company that doesn't have a very long track record", said Oliver Rydfe, a conservation geneticist at eh San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, which operates a storage effort called the Frozen Zoo that has been preserving cells for about 50 years."

25322

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”

insidehighered.com

Auburn Board Takes Curricular Control, Dissolves Senate

The policies mirror the directives laid out in HB 580, which doesn’t take effect until October and doesn’t apply to the institution.

12512288

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The Trump regime actually let two guys with zero government experience use ChatGPT to cancel $100M in grants—including Holocaust education. A federal judge just humiliated them, called it unconstitutional, and reversed every single cut. Read how she did it: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

10136381139

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

STAT @statnews.com · 07/04/2026

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...

statnews.com

A star scientist showed that better genetics lessons could reduce racism. It was the death knell for his career

Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught.

212964

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

28805390

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 12/02/2026

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

157102983045

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

1055651587

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Sean Landry @smlandry.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Honestly, if we win, great, very funny. If we lose, everyone will be extremely mad all over again, which, also great, also very funny.

265

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Brian Oliu @brianoliu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The case for Alabama: they are my favorite team & therefore deserve to be in

2223

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

nytimes.com

U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance

11479198

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Nic Gulas @nic-gulas.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

#TheRefs are never not involved if Auburn doesn’t win

2101

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

If Books Could Kill @ifbookspod.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Episode 46: Sapiens It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.

podcasts.apple.com

Sapiens

Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m

1271604213

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

TW @twesq.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Thanks to Congress slashing funding for PBS, Alabama Public Television, the nation’s oldest public educational network, may sever ties with PBS, which would effectively kill the network. www.al.com/news/birming...

al.com

Alabama Public Television could lose millions, members and programs if they drop PBS

Board to discuss potential disaffiliation on Nov. 18 as some commissioners claim PBS has become "enemy" to conservative values.

5118

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Daniel Kim, MD, DrPH @socialepi.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty Tenure-track faculty are up to 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. Moreover, this rate nearly doubles at prestigious universities and is stable across the past 50 years. #AcademicSky

nature.com

Socioeconomic roots of academic faculty - Nature Human Behaviour

Studying socioeconomic backgrounds and intergenerational transmission in the US academia, Morgan et al. find that faculty have a parent with a Ph.D. degree a striking 25 times more often than the gene...

64327

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Micah @rincewind.run · 16/10/2025

like basically everyone who works in software I embody this tweet and do not under any circumstances want to talk to my computer

Tweet from @PPathole

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don’t recognize.

251131235

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

alaskacf.fcsuite.com

/erp/donate/create/fund

7370424

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Claus Wilke @clauswilke.com · 07/10/2025

Biology is much more complicated than most non-biologists can imagine. And AI is not going to change this anytime soon. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/we-still-c...

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

We still can’t predict much of anything in biology

Biology is hard. Yes, even for AI.

517167

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

8223813516945

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Smith Bee Lab @smithbeelab.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The Smith Bee Lab is HIRING! 🐝🐝🐝 - Postdoc (2-4yrs, flexible start-date) - 1-2 Graduate Students (to start Fall 2026) No prior experience with honey bees needed, we encourage people from diverse research areas to apply! (no jerks, plz)

Advertisement for applying to the Smith Bee Lab

2910

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 28/09/2025

What are you gonna do, tackle him?

712815

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Surprisingly, the phylogeny implies (equivocally, to be sure) that the Elegans Supergroup of species, which includes C. elegans, is derived from American ancestors, and that a lot of the groups diversification may have taken place in Oceania, prior to subsequent invasions of Asia.

Biogeographic ancestral area reconstruction, with pie-charts at the nodes of a phylogeny indicating estimated marginal probabilities for each region. This phylogeny excludes a bunch of species whose distributions reflect human activity and whose pre-anthropogenic-movement distributions are unknown. The main result is that there's a lot of red (Oceania) in the deeper nodes of the Elegans Supergroup. There's other colors too, to be sure.

2194

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Matt Rockman @wormsrock.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

C. elegans is a real animal and we set out to understand how it comes to have its distinctive biogeography. Its ancestral center of diversity is in the higher elevation forests of Hawaii. Its closest relatives are spread across east Asia. Did they travel from Asia? [Preprint 🧵]

516477

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Científico Latino @cientificolatino.com · 09/09/2025

Applying to the NSF-GRFP (or another fellowship) on a tight deadline? We built a 7-week guide + timeline to get you from draft to submission. It’s not too late — you’ve got this! ✨ 🔗 cientificolatino.com/apply-in-7-weeks #NSFGRFP #GradSchool #Fellowship

06465

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 08/09/2025

Vaccines are battle training for your immune system. If you could give it intel on the enemy, why would you withhold that? Give me ALL the vaccines! I want to be prepared for everything!

534347800

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Obligatory sharing of John Oliver's take on this administrations fight against research and Universities #academia youtu.be/xk94il8L820?...

youtu.be

Trump vs. Higher Education: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

28038

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.

13358164

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

José Cerca @naturalselection.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

docs.google.com

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

5207214

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

There are a lot of details in yesterday's sweeping executive order, but the bottom line is that it gives political appointees immense power over scientific grants, which have until now been stewarded by career civil servants and experts. My reporting: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

nature.com

Trump order gives political appointees vast powers over research grants

Researchers are alarmed that the move might upend a long-standing tradition of peer-review for grants.

12214111

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Kelly Lane @aklane.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

@emilydriessen.bsky.social and I wrote a letter in Science calling for us to lean into our communities and increase support for change agents during this time of adversity and funding cuts. #DBER #BioEd Community support for inclusive US education | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

science.org

Community support for inclusive US education

The Trump administration is working to dismantle inclusive education efforts by opposing diversity, equity, and inclusion (1); encouraging divisive actions in K-12 schools such as banning books (2) an...

1107

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Daniel José Older @djolder.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

147177556413

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 01/08/2025

Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?

27961218

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. The Washington Post has just published every single known name. A seminal moment.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names.

Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

5526851519

Reposted by Paula Adams, PhD

Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

STEM ed has been foundational to NSF's mission & mandated functions ever since its founding in 1950. Ex: Remember the Magic School Bus? NSF funded that. Bill Nye the Science Guy? Zoom? Reading Rainbow? NSF was a key funder in all those [with others like the imperiled Corp for Public Broadcasting]

youtube.com

PBS - The Magic School Bus Ending Credits and Fundings

YouTube video by RoadRunnerCoyote2015

1133