iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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atsurvey26.bsky.social @atsurvey26.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New survey: Tell us about 'buddy' 'bud' 'pal' 'hon'! pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Address Term Survey from Pitt

How do we use address terms?

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Matthew Scarborough 𓀀 @mattitiahu.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Just about ten years now in the making: The IE-CoR database paper has finally been published. C. Anderson, M. Scarborough, [ ... 96 further authors ... ], R. Gray & P. Heggarty. 2025. The Indo-European Cognate Relationships Dataset. Scientific Data 12:1541.

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The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset

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Mitch McConnell's shambling corpse 🧟‍♂️ @checarina.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

a passel of masked goons refuse to identify themselves, beat up a man, and throw him in an unmarked vehicle = they can do this to anyone + anyone claiming to be a federal agent can do this

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Don't mess with CMU students! www.instagram.com/p/DMaogIgMPS...

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

AI is a marketing term; before we discuss "AI is fake" vs "AI is real" we need to unfold what we *mean* by AI. For example, "artificial general intelligence" is fake and can't hurt you. Layoffs excused by "AI efficiency" are real and can hurt you. Linkedin discourse is fake - but it CAN hurt you.

Auto-complete: real, can't hurt you
Super-intelligence: not real, can't hurt you
Layoffs: real, can hurt you
LinkedIn: not real, can hurt you.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Terrible. Notice the priority is always securing the mask. Happy July 4th.

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Jen Christiansen @jenchristiansen.com · 25/06/2025

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

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Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science

These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

So much for "Leges sine morobus vanae."

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Yep. And they'll have less alumni contributions too. Not that I ever gave them anything but it's a 'nope, never' at this point.

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Does R have any packages for constructing implicational scales? #linguistics #stats #academicsky

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Mallory Harris, PhD @malar0ne.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The White House's proposed FY26 budget would cut NIH funding by >40%. Our new #SCIMaP report projects the budget would lead to economic losses throughout the US with $10M+ lost in almost every House district. scienceimpacts.org/fy26 @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @asinclair.bsky.social @cl10.bsky.social

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SCIMaP - Impacts of Federal Cuts to Science and Medical Research

Developed by an interdisciplinary research team, this website shows how funding cuts reduce economic activity and employment nationwide

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Elizabeth Bailey @elizabethbailey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Donating the limit to whomever primaries Fetterman

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The extreme enthusiasm some folks in higher ed have for AI is strange. They truly see it as a source of potential liberation from the impossible bind they're living in. The reactions when you pour cold water on it is like you farted in the elevator. My fart: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-...

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More Than Words

A veteran writing teacher makes a “moving” (Rick Wormeli) argument that writing is a form of thinking and feeling and shows why it can’t be...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 16/06/2025

Alright everyone, one last push. If you or anyone you know is: - LGBTQ+ - 13-24 years old - In the US Trevor Project is recruiting responses for their survey on LGBTQ+ mental health. It has HUGE impacts on policy, please take it and share widely if you can :) trvr.org/survey2025

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To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.

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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

University is not a business, education is not a product.

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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I’ve seen a few variations of this making the rounds. I like this one best. I don’t know who the original artist is but thank you to them.

An image of an American flag flying over a hill. The words say:
How to Plan a Trip to the USA.
1. Don’t.

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Jason Kincade @jasonkincade.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Man, fuck this guy. What a disappointment.

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New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 @nwavconference.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Don't forget!!! Abstracts for NWAV53 are due June 15. There will NOT be an abstract deadline extension; this is in an effort to bring NWAV in line with other large linguistics conferences and we aim to continue it in NWAV 54 and beyond. Get your abstract in today! nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu

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UM | NWAV53

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I know there's a lot going on right now to overthink, so here's a little distraction about overthinking. open.substack.com/pub/sfkiesli...

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Overthinking 'Overthinking'

Cognitive identities and cognitive habits

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

As someone who has tried to keep this argument alive, I find that it still resonates with most people! It’s just drowned out by all the screaming from the right. But we have to keep making it.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t... >>

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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Sorry @thenewrepublic.bsky.social but the Inquirer is NOT Fetterman's hometown paper. He's from Braddock (which it says in the article), which is outside Pittsburgh. SMH. John Fetterman Trashed by Hometown Paper in Scathing Critique newrepublic.com/post/195976/... via @newrepublic.com

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John Fetterman Trashed by Hometown Paper in Scathing Critique

The Philadelphia Inquirer’s editorial board held nothing back in its condemnation of the Pennsylvania senator.

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Marcie Sundaram @alliterative.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is HABEAS CORPUS/PROHIBIT/MIDRIFF #wotd #HabeasCorpus #prohibit #midriff

Two random things about conservatives: they can’t define habeas corpus and they often want to prohibit bare midriffs, and strangely that’s etymologically appropriate. Habeas corpus, the legal principal that a detained person must be brought before a court to make sure their detention is lawful, is a Latin phrase that literally means “(you should) have the person”. Habeas, the 2nd person singular present subjunctive form of the verb habere “to have”, can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root *ghabh- “to give or receive”, which is also the source of English give (but surprisingly not have). When combined with the prefix pro- “away, forth” Latin habere becomes prohibere “to hold back, restrain, hinder, prevent”, with the past participle prohibitus that came into English in the 15th c. as prohibit. Latin corpus meaning “body” comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *kwrep- “body, form, appearance” (which as a verbal root probably had the meaning “to appear”), and this root also came into the Germanic languages as the Proto-Germanic root *hrefiz- which became Old English hrif “belly”, a word which only survives today in the compound word midriff.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Proud of Harvard for pushing back, exercising some creativity, and, maybe, helping folks get some needed education. Harvard is making many of their online government courses FREE. I just signed up for "Citizen Politics in America". They even asked me my Gender. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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Government | Harvard University

Browse the latest Government courses from Harvard University.

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

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Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 06/05/2025

A selection of characters from Nüshu, a secret women’s script of China. Nüshu is the only known female-specific script in the world. Read all about Nüshu in issue No. 50 of *Babel: The Language Magazine* @BabelZine.bsky.social babelzine.co.uk #Nushu #writing #China #linguistics #language #women

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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 26/04/2025

Even though 22% of U.S. resident report speaking a language other than English at home, only 8.4% of those residents speak English less than “very well”.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

seeing a lot of hate for the AI marking software but let’s be real if we embrace this it cd free up so much time todo important stuff, such as editing online learning environments, filling in extra paperwork invented this year, sitting in meetings abt unis ‘exciting’ plans something something growth

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I wrote about all these bro-words, including #broligarchy. Maybe this is brotymology? open.substack.com/pub/sfkiesli...

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 28/03/2025

🙌🏼 I’m not sure who had the amazing idea to invite this constitutional lawyer to a senate hearing that intended to prove Biden colluded with Meta to censor conservatives, but she took the opportunity to speak truth to power ✊🏼 on the hypocrite 👑 KING OF FREE SPEECH, Donald Trump, himself. 👏🏼 Brava!!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now

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niraliberalism @niral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

If you could please repost: I’d like to create a centralized list of resources for anyone in this situation - especially legal. Send me anything you know about.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/03/2025

Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...

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Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism

The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...

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Rob DenBleyker @robdenbleyker.com · 11/03/2025

white house says the economy is trans and must be abolished

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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

the word "BREAKING" sure is doing a lot of work these days

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/02/2025

I’m a scientist working on dark matter and neutron stars and I wouldn’t be who I am today without Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Haile Germima, Toni Morrison, Jane Austen, A.A. Milne, Errol Morris, Star Trek, Herman Melville, Lorna Simpson, Edward Lear, Tina Turner, and so many others.

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Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

“Academics should learn how to incorporate AI into literature reviews.”

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Scott Kiesling @pittprofdude.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Agreed - really, does the comma in the wrong place make you a worse writer? Can I still find the reference? (And really, does it matter where a book is published?) www.chronicle.com/article/cita... #AcademicSky

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Citation Obsession? Get Over It!

When students are finally learning how to write seriously, why derail them with nitpicky rules?

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Jason P. Steed @profsteed.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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