iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

This is the situation we find ourselves in

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Each university, acting independently and rationally to maximise its own market position, makes decisions that seem optimal when viewed in isolation. Close the underperforming philosophy department. Expand the business school. Withdraw from modern languages. Double down on computer science
But when every university follows the same market-share playbook, the collective result risks the sector becoming a monoculture, with some subjects vanishing from entire regions or parts of the tariff tables - despite their broader societal value
The implications of coordination failure aren't just theoretical - they are reshaping the physical and intellectulal geography of education in real-time
Let's imagine three post-92 universities in the North East and Yorkshire each offered degrees in East Asian languages, all with madast onralmont Lanh inetitutian

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

What is the shared conceptual definition of what science is or what it is for in a group like this? What narrowmindedness, quite literally

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 29/03/2026

As a result of that incident, we were inspired to develop semantic search for political ads. It's a cutting-edge tool that lets you explore our FB & IG political ad database by meaning rather than just keywords, allowing users to find ads that are semantically similar but don't use the same words.

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PoliDashboard Launches Major Update to Advance Transparency in Political Advertising On Facebook and Instagram - Social Media Lab

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJuly 25, 2025 Toronto, ON — The Social Media Lab at Toronto Metropolitan University is pleased to announce a major update to PoliDashboard.org, a free public web app that enhances...

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

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Stephanie @blooming-burbs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

www.fox47news.com/news/state/m... The tool enables Michiganders to report and document concerns about actions taken by federal immigration officers in their neighborhoods. Nessel said the platform collects details, photos and video of those events.

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Michigan AG launches tool to track immigration agents amid controversy

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced a new online tool Wednesday that allows residents to report alleged misconduct by federal immigration agents.

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

There is a lot to be mad about in the world. But I am inspired and astounded by my pop-culture students' creative, earnest, and deep thinking about the "fluffy" stuff. What culture tells us, reinforces, represents and conveys is not small potatoes, and they really are a constant source of joy.

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

The misapprehension that the president's opinions and statements are somehow legally binding rather than ACTUAL LAWS continues to get more baffling (and more dangerous)

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Brad Bolman @brad.bolman.com · 12/01/2026

Such an unreal, death cult headline

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Juan Moreno-Cruz @jmorenocruz.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

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The Government of Canada introduces new programs for international researchers - Canada.ca

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

The destruction of the enterprise of US academic science has been one of the most confounding aspects of a hugely confounding year. My @statnews.com colleagues are writing about the consequences for individuals & the country. You want to read this series. www.statnews.com/american-sci...

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American Science, Shattered

An eight-decade partnership between universities and the federal government made U.S. science preeminent. It took Trump less than a year to shred that

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵

Abstract: Recent political communication scholarship finds that groups and identities play a central role in the crises faced by political and media systems globally, particularly in democracies. Yet an individualist orientation in the literature has resulted in key theoretical and conceptual limitations, preventing a broader group-centric theoretical framework from emerging. We synthesize disparate bodies of theory on groups, politics, and communication to offer three basic propositions underlying a group theory of political communication. First, it is the group—not the individual—that is the fundamental organizing unit of social and political life. Second, groups are constituted through communication, which is central to how they define their politics. Third, groups and politics are reciprocally influencing forces through political communication, oriented around power. We offer a framework for studying the role of groups in political communication at the micro, meso, and macro levels, providing a concrete agenda for the study of groups in political communication.

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

A gift in 2025 Handmade chocolates from local artisans: $20 Basic shipping to UK in-laws: $32 Reciprocal anti-Trump tariff on arrival: $26. I may never give holiday presents ever again. What a way to stimulate the economy.

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Agree, NIH staff saved the day. Despite their heroic effort, the bad multiyear funding (MYF) policy from Vought's OMB means fewer grants, fewer cures, & research workforce brain drain. Any NIH appropriations bill must include language that limits the use of MYF in FY2026 - or this trend continues.

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The Communication & Technology Division of ICA @icacat.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

JOB Institution: University of Georgia Rank: Professor Area: Health Communication Deadline: December 1, 2025 Link: www.ugajobsearch.com

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University of Georgia | Home

Welcome and thank you for your interest in a career with the University of Georgia

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/11/2025

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

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Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

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Alicia Gilbert @aliciagilbert.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

📬 Pub alert Do effects of digital disconnection interventions translate to well-being benefits in *daily life*? Our new ESM study concludes: yes but no... kinda 👽🔋 @klingelhoefer.bsky.social @adrianmeier.bsky.social Out now in Communication Research doi.org/10.1177/0093...

A screenshot of the article title "Disconnect to Recharge: Well-Being Benefits of Digital Disconnection in Daily Life" and the abstract.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 07/11/2025

As I mentioned at my talk today for the @stanfordaaup.bsky.social teach-in, over 4,500 federal grants have been terminated at over 600 institutions. Those grants are valued at~$8B, with ~$3.5B being stolen from universities when those grants were terminated. The type of grants terminated varies +

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Kevin Collins @kwcollins.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

This morning federal agents arrested two hard working immigrants on my street because they didn’t have their papers on them, and tried to arrest my neighbor because his green card was in his house rather than on his person. We are now a “show me your papers” state, and it is outrageous. Get angry.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 05/11/2025

I eyeballed it. Okay, turns out it's nearly *half* of Senators got fewer votes than Mamdani.

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Brian Owens @scibri.com · 05/11/2025

Canada makes pitch for US researchers to relocate with $1.7bn in new funding. My story for @science.org 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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Canada’s new budget aims to lure U.S. researchers to relocate

Spending plan also calls for smaller research spending cut than feared

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This is a really helpful bird’s eye for #healthcomm #scicomm interested folks

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Had an absolutely wonderful time chatting with @andyluttrell.bsky.social about tv, movies, sports, games (and of course brains) and what it’s all about. A very casual hang if you’re new to this, but some really insightful questions get at the heart of why researching entertainment even matters

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Possibly the best week in my wonderful Communication & Pop Culture class: analyzing how and why their favorite songs became trendy, from audio cues to normative aesthetic structures to business practices and memeification. I feel a playlist coming on...

meme from Pen15 of Steve Buscemi (middleaged dude) trying to pass as a high schooler saying "how do you do fellow kids"

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Anna-Verena Nosthoff @annanosthoff.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

We are hiring! We are looking for two post-docs in our interdisciplinary research group “SCEPTIC” at the University of Oldenburg, 4+years, on the dynamics and drivers of (dis)trust in digital environments, more info below 👇

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 20/10/2025

An OpenAI executive said GPT-5 found solutions to 10 "previously unsolved" math problems when in reality all it did was find online references to places where people had already solved them techcrunch.com/2025/10/19/o...

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OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math | TechCrunch

No, GPT-5 did not solve a bunch of previously unsolved math problems.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here's a gift link to the New York Times' coverage of the initial Tea Party rallies in April 2009 which inspired the media to treat it like a massive movement. Check out how tiny the crowds were: Philly: 200 DC: "several hundred" Boston: 500 Austin: 1,000 Houston: 2,000

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Tax Day Is Met With Tea Parties (Published 2009)

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Have international students in your sphere? ICE wants to limit grad student visas to 4 years (and limiting their timelines in a variety of other ways), then they get kicked out. Commenting is open until Sept 29 (and you can comment anonymously). www.regulations.gov/document/ICE...

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Youngki Hong @youngkihong.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Job alert: I'm hiring a postdoc for my lab at CU Boulder starting Fall 2026! We study person perception, stereotyping & prejudice, and intervention science using behavioral & neuroimaging methods. Link: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta... Review starts Nov 1 and continues until filled.

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Postdoctoral Associate

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Dan Vock @danvock.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It is as if our government has decided that there is no crime in the country worth pursuing other than immigration enforcement.

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Communication always be happening on multiple levels

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

If RFK Jr. will not resign, he must be impeached and removed, for the sake of the nation's health and safety.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

There’s a thin line between staying as informed as you should and making yourself anxious in a way that is completely unproductive and every single day the news is trying very hard to push you over into the latter

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YouGov America @today.yougov.com · 20/08/2025

NEW Economist/YouGov Aug 15-18 % who think federal funding for scientific research done by American universities should increase | decrease U.S. adult citizens 39% | 13% Democrats 63% | 2% Independents 39% | 14% Republicans 17% | 22% today.yougov.com/politics/art...

A chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "More Americans want funding for university scientific research to increase than
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The chart's sub-headline is: "Do you think federal funding for scientific research done by American universities should...? (%)."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

NEW: McCarthyism returns to immigration law, as @USCIS announces that it will begin screening applicants for immigration benefits for "Anti-America ideologies or activities." The term has no prior precedent in immigration law and its definition is entirely up to the Trump admin.

August 19, 2025 PA-2025-16
Policy Alert
SUBJECT: Clarifying Discretionary Factors in Certain Immigration Benefit Requests
Purpose
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS
Policy Manual regarding the factors that officers may consider in certain benefit requests where an
exercise of discretion is required, including factors relating to aliens’ past requests for parole and
any involvement in anti-American or terrorist organizations.
Background
For certain immigration benefit requests, such as adjustment of status, the alien bears the burden of
proof to demonstrate that a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted.1 For these benefit requests,
the discretionary analysis is a separate component of adjudicating the benefit request which occurs
after an officer determines whether all threshold eligibility requirements have been met. The act of
exercising discretion involves weighing positive and negative factors and considering the totality of
the circumstances in each case. There are various factors officers may consider when conducting a
discretionary analysis, including facts relating to an alien’s conduct, character, family ties,
immigration history, and any humanitarian concerns.
USCIS guidance provides that an alien’s compliance with immigration laws is a relevant factor when
determining if a favorable exercise of discretion is warranted. USCIS is updating the Policy Manual
to provide additional guidance for officers on the significant negative discretionary weight USCIS
assigns in circumstances where an alien has endorsed, promoted, supported, or otherwise espoused
the views of a terrorist organization or group, including those who support or promote anti-American
ideologies or activities, antisemitic terrorism, antisemitic terrorist organizations, and antisemitic
ideologies, in any case involving an exercise of discretion.2
In cases where the alien has engaged in such activities, USCIS will enforce all relevant …

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Daniel Lakens @lakens.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

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Sara Grady @saramgrady.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

In the last few days admins have published “guidance” that students are prohibited from chalking any campus sidewalks & land acknowledgements are prohibited on syllabi or at campus events under the new state law. Welcome to campus, everyone!

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