iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🤔Heads we lose, tails Putin wins. Every time. Must be a coincidence!

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Robert Mahon @bedform.org · 09/10/2026

He is and always has been a Russian agent.

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why are tech bros so intent to strip us of the most joyful elements of human endeavour? Thinking, creating, shared social experience, all getting outsourced to tech when these are the things that make human existence wonderful.

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Rebecca Williams @volcanologist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes, but also, I just find this deeply sad. I love reading to my kids. We've done it from birth, before they could really listen along to the story. It's bonding, soothing, enjoyable. Following the stories together as we snuggle, a shared experience. Glorious. Why wouldn't you read if you could?

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Nature @nature.com · 07/10/2026

None of this year's science Nobel Prizes have gone to women. The number of these prizes to go to women remains at 27 out of more than 600. See how many you can name in our quiz: www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

4/4 white men so far. We're off to a strong start for this year's Nobel prizes.

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Prof Ben Britton @bmatb.expmicromech.com · 04/10/2026

It appears to be that time of year when we need to remind ourselves that the Nobel prizes are basically awards for the Best* Men in their Fields www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Gender bias in Nobel prizes - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Gender bias in Nobel prizes

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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 02/10/2026

And they’re off! ✈️ The first of our Twin Otter aircraft and their flight teams have begun the journey south, from Calgary, Canada, all the way to Rothera Research Station in Antarctica to start a new season of polar science! 🇨🇦➡️🇦🇶 (1/3)

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another one in Macron's dreadful legacy. Never used to see so much police violence in policing protests in France, this time directed at teenagers.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lol. Relieved they told Trump they won't do it again 😅

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Lol. Like the Paris Agreement to keep global warming under 1.5°C was morally binding?

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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm embarrassed. It's embarrassing.

Screenshot of another political ad posted by Jared Isaacman on his official agency account, this one bizarrely claiming that Trump "is a builder. He's rebuilding our industrial base in America, infrastructure right now, he's rebuilding our military, he's helping rebuild our space program."

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Markus Eichhorn @markuseichhorn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"I didn't know anything about X so I asked chatGPT." You still don't know anything about X. You have read what a sophisticated summary-generating tool predicts as the answer to your question. You have no critical insight, no direct experience, no awareness of the underlying evidence. Stop talking.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Amazing! How do we turn it off? 👀

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Tamir Buchshtav @tamir-buchshtav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The question here is that with Microsoft shoving Copilot down our throats, and with Google shoving Gemini into everything they offer, how long will it be until anything we right down in a Word or Google Docs file will also be targetted?

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

People die trying to cross the Channel between 2 of the richest countries on Earth. And 2 of the largest colonial empires, which spent centuries fighting wars, stealing resources from all over the world and arbitrarily drawing borders. There really is no excuse to let these people die.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Some data may or may not be available upon reasonable request"

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cannot tell you how much I hate this & how ashamed & angry I am that @ukri.org have taken this step. We KNOW this sort of gAI is socially biased, we KNOW it favours slopAI output over human-written. Our research landscape is falling apart due to underfunding, & they do this? it's *appalling*

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MwahahahahahadScientist @mads100tist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is it. This is what everyone is enabling by humoring genAI: you spend months writing something that took you years to get at, for an opaque algorithm that a few control to spit a number and cut you off right there and then. This is what we're up against 🧪

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

1/ People keep saying AI is inevitable. History disagrees. Plenty of technologies were called unstoppable, and societies stopped them or shrank them down to a niche. A thread 🧵

evitable
adjective
uk /ˈev.ɪ.tə.bəl/ us /ˈev.ə.t̬ə.bəl/

able to be avoided or prevented:
He believes that world war is evitable.
Inevitable suffering due to persecution is to be distinguished from evitable sickness.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Surely in cases like this you'd thought they'd allow to defer the role to a co-I...

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is what demand management at institution level is for, no?

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apparently this is arms-length funding in some way rather than core research council. I don't care. No UKRI money should be or not be disbursed with AI involvement. I cannot believe anyone in that organisation thought it would be okay.

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

UKRI is using AI to "screen" grant applications? That is beyond awful and we are so very screwed.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On what ground being on paternity leave disqualifies you from applying? Surely this is discriminatory?

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In case it’s not clear; this is fucking rude and an insult to the people who put actual human effort into writing proposals. How the fuck were these things verified? Nonsense.

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Tom Gernon @gernon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI language models will favour stuff that it already knows about. So much for pushing the frontiers...

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John Stott @jpsastro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've seen the future and it's bleak. Coming to an inbox near you soon too I imagine. I don't use LLMs for anything I do and never will but it's depressing that I wrote something that no one ever read before it was rejected. 🧪 #academicsky

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Every proposal was read (...) by AI models". What on Earth are you doing @ukri.org?!

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Home Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in Kent

Usually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 23/09/2026

Also I should reiterate - my goal is never to turn someone into a geologist, but to reinforce that if you want to understand how our Solar System works, let alone do space exploration, you need to start with a foundation for how planets work. And that's geology, folks!!!!!

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Gourdo! 🎃 @posting.fan · 23/09/2026

the BBC all but ignored this and pushed out a small story at 4am that absolutely soft soaps the blackshirts and frames their concerns as essentially legitimate without ever once mentioning the violence they committed

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Dozens of migrants taken to Dover after more than 30 hours at sea

Protesters had earlier gathered in Gosport after an initial report that the small boat would be brought further west.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A) 70/80 hour weeks? Right. When are you working on air con? 9 at night? B) NHS, free education, welfare system, bin collections, roads, wider state services. Go fuck yourself Dave

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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.

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Emily J @emexastris.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

USRA continues to suck. Glad I don’t have to go to LPSC at this point in my career.

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Hayley Simpkin @pipkinzoo.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

One of my unpopular opinions is that roast dinners are vastly overrated. I might have to change my mind because I can't have it that I agree with the telegraph on something 😬

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Dr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Australia to the US: “You run a country where 600k people will sleep on the streets without a home, where 40% of adults cannot cover a $400 emergency expense without borrowing money, where a dose of insulin costs more than a monthly car payment, forcing people to ration their insulin to stay alive

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just the thought of this shit makes me sick 😫

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"I'm Spartacus." Bellend. Such privilege on display. This prick somehow thinks that by virtue of already huge entitlement he deserves more of it. That he controls a miles-radius round his lilywhite castle. You pay same tax as this douche. Do you get to dictate who lives half a mile down the road?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

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Romain Tartese @romiche29.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Sorry you had to deal with racist scum again Chris 🤬 great job on running it!

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Tim O'Brien @proftimob.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There are repeated statements of "Jodrell Bank is not closing". Jodrell Bank is the name of a hamlet from which Jodrell Bank Observatory took its name. This decision means Jodrell Bank Observatory will no longer be an observatory, in my view that is effectively closure...

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