iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026

not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.

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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You cannot read this post in a courtroom. You can read it aloud to your family and friends. You can print it out on leaflets and pass out the leaflets on the steps of the courthouse.

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Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is not permitted to request jury nullification during a trial but it is permissible to discuss it abstractly. Jury nullification is the synthesis of two rules. First, the prosecution cannot appeal a jury verdict of not guilty. Second, a jury issuing a verdict of not guilty need not explain itself

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I hope the survivors who came forward years or decades ago know that they are the reason the Cornell case is resonating the way it is. Every single one of you helped pave a path for people to understand the harms of rape and institutional betrayal. Thank you. I know it’s hard. But thank you.

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Killian McLoughlin @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Know a grad student who wants to give a talk at Princeton's Department of Psychology? Nominate yourself or someone you know using this form: forms.gle/6zN9QVAu3hBK... Priority given to non-Ivy and URM students. International applicants welcome. Deadline is this Friday (Oct 2)!

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Emerging Scholars in Psychological Science Speaker Nominations

Nominate yourself or another late-stage PhD student to speak at Princeton's Department of Psychology this academic year (2026-2027). The Emerging Scholars in Psychological Science (ESPS) talk series...

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

In many ways, the only thing boys need to learn are the lessons we already teach girls. They need to learn to be part of a community. And if they understand that, then the lessons on consent and sexual violence come naturally.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I managed to mostly not know any of this until today. This detail is new to me. The horror coursing through my body feels like poison. My God, men. Decide RIGHT FUCKING NOW what you'll do if a woman is sexually harassed or assaulted in your vicinity. Ask another man to do the same. TALK ABOUT IT.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

In which I am introduced to the poet Craig Santos Perez in the public school library at my teen’s curriculum night.

Love in a Time of Climate Change
BY CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ

recycling Pablo Neruda's "Sonnet XVII"

I don't love you as if you were rare earth metals,
conflict diamonds, or reserves of crude oil that cause
war. I love you as one loves the most vulnerable
species: urgently, between the habitat and its loss.

I love you as one loves the last seed saved
within a vault, gestating the heritage of our roots,
and thanks to your body, the taste that ripens
from its fruit still lives sweetly on my tongue.

I love you without knowing how or when this world
will end. I love you organically, without pesticides.
I love you like this because we'll only survive

in the nitrogen rich compost of our embrace,
so close that your emissions of carbon are mine,
so close that your sea rises with my heat.

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026

When federal grants are abruptly terminated, the effects cascade through the network of researchers, scientists, & practitioners. But the impact can be far more devastating for trial participants, who have consented to volunteer & risk their lives. A terminated trial can’t easily be replaced.

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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It seems to me that most people think we can overshoot emission targets a bit and then easily correct that later. We need better communication of the tipping point risks involved and the extreme difficulty of reversing warming.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 21/09/2026

The best defense we have against the flu is the flu vaccine. The flu kills a lot of people every year. It seriously sickens even more. Now is a great time to get the flu vax

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Your regular reminder that if you have ANY reason not to fast on Yom Kippur (and mental health IS HEALTH) -- it's not just "ok" to eat -- you're *commanded* to do so --

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At A Mitzvah to Eat, we empower Jews needing ritual accommodations to safely connect to sacred Jewish practice and community. We provide resources, support, and advocacy for these Jews, as well as the...

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking around a microscopic volvox algae colony. 🫧🐻🧪

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026

The only correct way to "triangulate" your position with trans people (or any marginalized group) is that "I don't understand everything about this or what these folks go through every day but nobody should be discriminated against or deprived of their constitutionally protected basic human rights"

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My mom had polio when she was five. She was living on a US military base in Japan (1947). Four kids on the base died. She was the only survivor.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Every democratic candidate deciding to moderate on a social issue to 'take it off the table'

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 13/09/2026

This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Stéphane De Greef captured this video in 2014 near Angkor Thom in Siem Reap, Cambodia, part of a study on 'blue ants' in genus Leptogenys. The ants hunted this Thyropygus millipede as a group, paralyzed it with venom & are forming chains to haul it back to their nest. 🧪 (📷: Stéphane De Greef)

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/09/2026

We’re on a path to lose the Senate but win the House. Let’s make sure we win both. We can’t move forward with the plan to expand the supreme court if we don’t win the senate.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Y’all this is satire! It’s about AI!! 😂🤦🏻‍♀️

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I'm glad folks keep noting the egregiously stark contrast in legal regard for GenAI companies vs Aaron Swartz

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 09/09/2026

In just the first week after the 9/11 attacks, 645 separate acts of hate against members of South Asian communities in America were documented. This site captures those stories, from across the country: post911.org and also compiles the narratives into a groundbreaking report.

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What happened the week after 9/11?

Documenting hundreds of hate incidents against Muslim, Arab, South Asian, and Sikh Americans in the week after September 11, 2001.

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Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“Every fraction of a degree of warming avoided means lives saved” is going to remain a true statement for the rest of our lives

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 23/06/2025

Prevent child heatstroke deaths. A child can die from heatstroke in minutes. From NHTSA: A sweltering heat wave is affecting millions of Americans this week. 🔥🌡️ Protect yourself and your child in the back seat! It's NEVER safe to leave them alone in a vehicle. This is how quickly a car heats up.

A chart showing how quickly a car can heat up. Outside temperature is 90 degrees a car can reach 109 degrees in 10 minutes, 124 degrees in 30 minutes, and 133 degrees in 60 minutes. If the outside temperature is 100 degrees, a car can reach 119 degrees in 10 minutes, 134 degrees in 30 minutes, and 143 degrees in 60 minutes.

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 08/09/2026

I can get helpful, usable, work out of these models. It requires *significant* expertise to determine which outputs are useful and which are false, fabricated, or biased as fuck. Unless you have quite a lot of expertise, it's simply not possible to determine what's usable and what's shit. 🧵

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Space Witches, Esq. @popelizbet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

kill the MAHA in your head, a non-exhaustive list: -stop using the word "chemicals" in a derogatory way. When criticizing specific types of chemicals, be specific. -stop saying "clean eating" for whatever diet you're on. food you're avoiding isn't dirty or bad just because you are avoiding it.

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Gernot Wagner @gwagner.com · 06/09/2026

Fun(?) fact: @naomioreskes.bsky.social & @erikconway.bsky.social's merchantsofdoubt.org, the book that is, came out in 2010. We've all known for a loooong time what's happening, and it's only gotten worse.

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Monica Sircar, PhD (she/her) @phenomonica.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Childhood around the Great Lakes Midwest and college/adulthood in the SF Bay Area…this tracks.

Map of regional dialects my speech is closest to, with most similarity to Michiganders and SF Bay Area.

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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 04/09/2026

One unfortunate fact of climate is that even if we quickly reduce CO2 pollution, climate impacts will continue to get worse *over time*, even as they get better *compared to business as usual*. Whereas reducing fossil air pollution will make health and mortality outcomes noticeably better over time.

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Shoo, Dagnabbit @ofwithye-go-on-git.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Rabies facts & safety protocol reminders: Treat *ALL* encounters with rabid animals as exposure. It can develop between days or months. Contact your county health department as they can provide Post-Exposure Prophylactic vaccinations at a greatly reduced rate if you are uninsured or underinsured.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It was even worse than this; Married women were often referred to not simply as “Mrs. [husband’s last name]” but as “Mrs. [husband’s first AND last name].” Both the title “Ms.” and the magazine were seismic.

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scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I love R.E.M., I love R.E.M.-related content, and I love librarians 💜

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Donna Howard @donnachka.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I have long been the person who sits in the front row (I’m short) and who nods their head when listening (it’s an unconscious habit). I heard a speaker say exactly this one time, so now instead of being embarrassed about it I consider it a service to the speaker.

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katekimball.bsky.social @katekimball.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Years ago, a professor relative gave me advice as I headed off to college: I should smile and nod when I was enjoying a lecture because most students wore stony expressions and profs need positive feedback. But no faking. She claimed she could tell suck-up at a thousand paces.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Students who nod and smile during lecture when we try to make a point? Heroes

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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I try to pay it forward by doing the same at conferences when I'm in the audience.

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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A devastating pattern San Francisco’s legendary, world class California Academy of Sciences, in Golden Gate Park, just laid off 53 people, whose jobs will now be done by AI I don’t think AI can do content creation & exhibit design for natural sciences FFS! www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am unironically mourning the internet they took from us.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Online lecture on "Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution" by Prof. Lawrence Principe, this Thursday at 7:00 p.m. CDT, hosted by The Linda Hall in Kansas City: events.lindahall.org/alchemyandsc... #HistSTM #EarlyModern

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Alchemy and the Scientific Revolution (Virtual)

Although alchemy was once considered unrelated to the history of science, or even imagined to be an “obstacle” to the emergence of modern chemistry, historians now recognize it as a crucial contributo...

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Dr. Raven the Science Maven @ravenscimaven.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I am still on the job hunt. It has been a year. I'm a master science storyteller, recognized on Fortune 40 Under 40 and Forbes 30 Under 30 for my ability to make science desirable, and engaging to all. 1/

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

Protecting against "inappropriate influence" is no longer a "hallmark" of scientific integrity

The Commerce Department updated its policy for promoting a "culture of scientific integrity" in January 2025, days before Trump's second inauguration.

A new Trump administration order bans the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis from using statistical “noise,” or data for fuzzing survey results, to protect people’s privacy in their statistics.

The 2025 version included bans on attempts to shape or interfere in data collection, statistical analysis and other scientific activities "against well-accepted scientific methods and theories or without scientific justification."

The department's policy, the 2025 version said, involves ensuring scientific findings at its agencies "are not suppressed, delayed, or altered for political purposes and are not subjected to inappropriate influence," as well as making sure there's "independent review of facilities, methodologies, and other scientific activities as appropriate to ensure scientific integrity."

That language is missing, however, in the Trump administration's revision of the policy, according to an NPR analysis of text posted on the Commerce Department's website.

And while the revision adopts a definition for "scientific integrity" that is similar to the previous version, it no longer says that "protection from inappropriate influence" is among the "hallmarks of scientific integrity."

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Hella Hannah 🌟 [Comms Open!] @hellahannah.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first Przewalski’s foal born on the steppes of Kazakhstan in 200 years <3

A digital sketch of a Przewalski’s horse mare and foal trotting on a blank background. The text beneath them reads “restoring the species with mama”

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.

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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92

A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Genuinely it is not okay that we've lost Dolly and Wendell within a week

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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I've confirmed Walgreens will let people self-attest that they qualify for an updated Covid shot—meaning they won't require proof of a high-risk condition—in all states EXCEPT AZ/OR/UT, where prescription is required for now. (Rx requirement in those states could change) Pls see next post in thread

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F.D.A. Approves New Covid Vaccines, and They Should Be Available Soon (Gift Article)

The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just a heads up. I was able to schedule my COVID vaccine appointment. Online it may ask “do you have a condition that puts you at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 virus.” Click yes and it will allow you to schedule an appointment. No questions asked. No proof required. Pass it on.

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Spam emails have gotten lazier. What do you mean your name is Editorial Office 😂

A spam email starting with the line “my name is Editorial Office”

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