iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you are attending #AERA2026 come see me Friday!

Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I enjoyed speaking about teens and social media on @ctpublic.bsky.social this week! If you are interested in this research, please give it a listen.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Definitely an interesting and intentional phenomenon.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Nerds unite (great minds!). Hegseth even sounds like a PT word.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

This is absolutely correct. Discovering these gems alongside my 12 year old has been magical.

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SF Said @whatsfsaid.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I believe this is a golden age of children's literature. There are books being published today that will shape the minds of generations; life-changing books whose readers will change the world. There really is a book for EVERYONE now - if we can just help every reader find those books!

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Besides the SS reference, as a millennial nerd I immediately thought it was like parseltoungue and that he’s a stupid death eater.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

To the employees at JFK that I encountered this morning, I wish you warm socks, 8 hours of sleep a night, and a winning lottery ticket.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Just looked at this in a session!

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I recently published a paper with an elementary teacher about supporting young kids in their understanding of digital concepts off screen. ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... We talked about it on this local pod:

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Ridgefield Tiger Talk 133: Preparing Students for The Digital World Article

Podcast Episode · Ridgefield Tiger Talk · 11/21/2025 · 16m

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I’m at #NCTE2025 and it feels like home! Come see me at 3:15 in Room 710/12

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 19/08/2025

Super exciting paper showing that high schools vary in their impacts on civic engagement. Schools that are better at improving academic outcomes are also better at creating voters. Kirsten was a @wheelockpolicybu.bsky.social postdoc when she began this work, so it's thrilling to see the result.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Ms. Nelson is Missing! Plot twist got me every time.

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Heather Turner @techielibgrl.com · 08/08/2025

Amen Book Wrangler! #TLSky #EduSky #Skybrarians #Booksky #Schoollibrarians #Educators #Books What a book you remember being read to you? That book you could not wait until the next day to hear more?

Alt text: Bold black text reads “Reading aloud is the lesson plan and it is enough” with three illustrated people below holding open books, including a woman in a patterned top, a person with short hair and a yellow book, and a woman with curly hair and glasses.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

More than sufficient, especially when you are actively fighting them into a car seat daily. ♥️

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I’m sorry, but I will never ever ever call the Tappan Zee bridge anything other than the Tappan Zee bridge. Every time I see a Mario C*omo sign I want to scream and it’s been so many years.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 25/07/2025

"Exciting news to announce! The robbers I let into the house have agreed to give back the money they stole!"

Tweet from Republican Rep. Don Bacon, saying "Exciting news to announce! All frozen education funding for the upcoming school year have been released, following my letter to the OMB! It helps centers like KidsCanOmaha and our schools!"

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Coming up empty?! That is a fully grown dinosaur, and I’d like to see the lizard hunter’s credentials.

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betty deville @bettydeville.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

People can have differing politics. You can oppose immigration, have views on limited taxes, be tough on crime, support an Israeli state - you can believe all of these things, but you also MUST have empathy and realize that your political views are not an excuse for intolerable cruelty.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Good news Wednesday! I have never submitted to #LRA, but I did this year, I was accepted to present my paper- “Navigating Digital Realities: Understanding Young People's Engagement with Social Media for News, Political Information, and Identity Formation” 🎉

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Karrie Jacobs @karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The problem, of course, isn’t that NPR has a liberal bias, it’s that facts have a liberal bias and today’s GOP is almost unanimous in its opposition to facts. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Where Congress’s Cuts Threaten Access to PBS and NPR

The loss of federal funding threatens scores of public TV and radio stations across the United States.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

She had me a prostitution wh*re- I’m not proud of myself, but I have to be true

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/07/2025

Roosevelt understood that boredom, frustration, and social isolation could easily turn people (and especially young men*) toward violence, hate, and conspiracies.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Vicki, Tamra, and Ramona are three housewives that just make me rage. However, I hate myself because I am also a Teresa apologist.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Sooo bad. Tech developers are basically like, what will annoy the people the most, let’s create it! 🫠

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Oh Clippy, I want to say I miss you, but you were kind of annoying and jumpy and my brain can’t take that kind of writing distraction.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This made me smile! Congrats Elizabeth! ♥️

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Ma’am. I feel like she should have been a little more frightened, but I’m glad she wasn’t. When I passed, she was still hanging.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Woah. If you need me, I’ll be contemplating my existence for the foreseeable future.

Book cover of wild dark shore by Charlotte McCarty

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This just happened to me in public with Charlotte McGonaghy’s gorgeousness “Wild, Dark Shore”.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Baby elephants are my new hyper fixation

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Funny, years ago I was at SPP and I was feeling uncomfortable about not being as cool as the philosophers. I did not feel “together” at all in comparison. It could also have been that I was very early career- like presenting my dissertation early.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you. It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Sending her love and pup cups ♥️

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I feel like we all need this ♥️

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

I don’t care what you call it- investment in education, communities, and children will always have positive reverberations.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Sound contemporary literacy instruction could support young learners in becoming critical thinkers and information consumers, particularly in deciphering scripture as politics. Bible literacy is not a real thing- though I guess you could slap literacy after any term and make it so 🫠

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I agree! I’m in the US (pray for me 🫠) so I’m not completely familiar with this legislation, but I think all of these attempts to control how we understand these digital spaces are futile.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Great thread. This is what social media is for! I learned a lot. Thanks for sharing.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I research all of this for a living, but I have a 12-year-old daughter that I am now experimenting with. I pretend to be an expert, but really she’s giving me an education and how we need to do this! I have a paper coming out soon about how schools should address this with very young kids.

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Rachel Besharat Mann @rbmann.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I love this whole thread. No matter how you feel about these digital spaces, they aren’t going anywhere. We need to figure out how to harness them to bring about this curiosity and critical thought!

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