iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Phillip Ayoub @payoub.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Thrilled to see this piece with Douglas Page & Sam Whitt) published in PRQ! We examine how LGBT+ activists can counter backlash by discrediting anti-LGBT+ messengers. Huge thanks to the PRQ editors and reviewers for their thoughtful feedback. 🔗 Read it here: 🧵 (1/4)

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

“Outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action. The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.”

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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The AI Opportunities Action Plan (Matt Clifford report), trailed in today’s morning news is now out in full. I’ve read it, and here’s a few observations 1/10 Link to full report assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6784eb...

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 18/12/2024

UK WRITERS: You need to fill in this consulation. Govt is very clearly looking to an opt-out model of rights licensing that puts all the burden on creators instead of profiteers. It's long and boring but this is important. www.gov.uk/government/c...

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This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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The Love Tank CIC @thelovetankcic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We are deeply concerned by the decision by @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social to ban puberty blockers. It's hard to fathom how he can say he cares for the wellbeing, safety and dignity of trans people, based on this decision. This is wrong, cruel and heartless.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

With the UK Parliament reportedly considering a longer-term ban on puberty blockers, here is the evidence against the ban I provided to the UK Government and Commission on Human Medicines. I have no doubt that Parliament will ignore that evidence today. But this is a long fight we intend to win.

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Puberty blocker consultation: my response

In early September I recieved an email from the Department for Health and Social Care, inviting me to participate in a closed consultation on the Labour government’s proposed extension of the…

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 11/12/2024

Caroline Litman is the mother of Alice Litman, a young trans woman who died to suicide at 20. An official inquest found NHS delays in offering medical transition contributed to Alice's suicide. Today, she has found an audit of trans suicides used to exonerate the NHS did not include her daughter.

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Tucked into the Cass Report, deep in the appendices, you'll find that they reviewed thousands of patient records and found no one who'd been harmed by puberty blockers and fewer than 10 detransitions.

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UCL Science and Technology Studies (STS) @stsucl.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Day 6! 🎁🎁🎁 @simonjlock.bsky.social is reading Systems Ultra by @gsvoss.bsky.social which "brings a multidisciplinary eye to the importance of large-scale technological systems from industrial ports to air traffic control to car crash testing, unpicking and challenging how power flows through them".

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RKK @ronakkapadia.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Queer & Trans Studies Cultural Studies Starter Pack. This one was a bit tricky and there’s lots of room left in here still. LMK who I’m missing —was looking to build a list of queer & trans cultural studies (and adjacent) folks mostly, as I haven’t seen on of thede on here yet. go.bsky.app/6tcCTzg

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 28/11/2024

I can only assume that the Times wanted to keep these definitions

Define a woman? Now French dictionary falls foul
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Charles Bremner - Paris
The sages of the Académie Française have done nothing in a hurry since the august institution was created in the 17th century to police the French language. This week, however, they have been called on to “urgently rectify” entries in their new official dictionary because they are said to be sexist, homophobic and racist.

The Human Rights League (HRL), founded in 1898 to defend Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the Jewish army officer falsely accused of spying, has taken exception to definitions including “woman”, “race” and “heterosexual”. According to the left-leaning organisation, they convey out-of-date attitudes that conflict with modern views on inclusion and tolerance.

Its protest followed criticism of the lexicon of 53,000 words released last week by the 24-member academy, after the completion of a four-volume update of the previous eighth edition, which was published in 1935.

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

“How’d the world die? A pack of no-talent tech grifters created a digital artbarf machine to spew endless artbarf and each time the machine threw up it drank more water, destroyed more resources. Nobody wanted it but they did it anyway! Eat your roach paste.” www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

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New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This obsession is unhealthy. Our horizons are fine. Also social media, for most, is not a job. It is not school. It is socializing. And it’s fine to say “I don’t want to hang out with Nazis, homophobes, transphobes etc in my free time.”

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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/11/2024

I have created a Starter Pack for British Trans Activism Let's start organising and making the UK a better place. We've been on the defense for too long 🇬🇧🏳️‍⚧️✊ go.bsky.app/N6Qai5F

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/11/2024

There can be no left resistance to the reactionary onslaught without an uncompromising radical intersectional commitment You can't fight fascism if you're not fighting racism, transphobia, ableism, classism etc There can be no pick and choose and no opposing one to the other

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. We have witnessed another year of violence, harassment, and policing of trans people. As we mourn, we must continue to challenge politics that ritually subjects trans folk to debates about their existence and degrades trans lives as an “ideology” or “agenda.”

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Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Normalize Professors: ⁃ Having tattoos ⁃ Having body piercings ⁃ Having colored hair ⁃ Wearing casual clothing - Wearing (excessive) jewelry ⁃ Speaking non-academic English

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

since all the "gender critical"/TERFs are migrating here, thought I'd share this primer explaining their history, dissecting their beliefs, & debunking their talking points. no-paywall links, pls share! Substack: juliaserano.substack.com/p/a-gender-c... Medium: juliaserano.medium.com/a-gender-cri...

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A “Gender Critical” and “TERF” Primer

for readers trying to make sense of “feminists versus transgender activists” debates

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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I briefly put principles and values aside to make a saltier, crankier case for leaving X: Elon Musk is uniquely insufferable holapapi.substack.com/p/x-out

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X Out

A salty, cranky case for letting Twitter die

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Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Whenever I posted this in the bad place I got a load of spam and fake people applying, hopefully I'm in the right echo chamber 🤞🏿

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Phil Samba @idiosyncraticxl.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Want to help improve future sexual health services in the UK? Take part in one of our upcoming focus groups. If you take part in a focus group, you will get a £50 e-voucher as a huge thank you! To take part go to thelovetank.info/shresearch

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My new dating profile just dropped…

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Susan R Burgess @srburgess.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

This is a great starter pack go.bsky.app/9oFYM1Z

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South/South Movement 🍉 @southsouthmvmt.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Activists and academics working and writing from/for/with the global souths in social and political studies. Please help us build this list. Suggestions very welcome. go.bsky.app/xCeFhi

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Shaun O’Boyle @shaunoboyle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I used to keep a thread (on the other place) of papers and reports relevant to LGBTQIA+ experiences in STEM. @prideinstem.bsky.social have been kind enough to share it on their website, in case the list is helpful to anyone. prideinstem.org/2024/11/18/t...

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The experiences of LGBTQIA+ people studying or working in STEM | Pride in STEM

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/11/2024

Every reactionary centrist after this election.

Fictitious headline of the New York Times by Pamela Paul titled "To Appease My Bigotry, We Must Sacrifice Trans People By Throwing Them Into a Volcano"

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It’s International Day of LGBTQIA+ People in STEM so I’ll share some writing by myself and my lovely colleague @ellietheelement.bsky.social from BUP’s ‘Queering Science Communication’ One is a chapter on Queering Public Science institutions bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/display/book...

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I couldn’t agree more (full disclosure: I may also have two chapters in said book)

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Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🔥 free ebooks to help get free 🔥 www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

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Pride in STEM @prideinstem.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

November 18 is the International Day of LGBQTIA+ People in STEM! Today more than ever we want to stress the importance of communities, building connections, and raising each other up. Let's keep leaving our mark for the betterment of us all! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 #QueerinSTEM prideinstem.org/lgbtstemday/

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Cllr Dr Max Morris @maxmorris.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This public lecture is happening TOMORROW but there is still time to register to attend! Having seen Finn present on similar themes in the past, I know that you will be in for a treat. It's also a critical question: How do we do feminist, queer, radical research in the context of political backlash?

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 17/11/2024

It's telling that a lot of people went "No, we want better than this, we want a place of ideas and support and fun and truth" and the centrists all lost their shit we weren't letting fascists call us pedophiles.

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

All this discussion of echo chambers and having to “disagree well” *cough* and you’ve gone and made me tap the sign already.

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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Oddly, you never hear Fox News viewers criticized or even questioned for inhabiting a hermetically sealed bubble. It’s almost as if this entire canard is about the right’s ability to infect, infest, and dominate us.

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Niels G. Mede @nielsmede.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

New starter pack: I created this one for people interested in research on #science #communication and public #engagement with science. Feel free to follow them, share the list, and suggest additions! #scicomm go.bsky.app/3qW3UL2

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Dr Alex Fitzpatrick @animalarchaeology.com · 17/11/2024

The recent uptick in ‘echo chamber’ rhetoric, alongside the weaponisation of ‘dialogue’ as a means of obscuring power dynamics between opposing sides of an issue in favour of ‘civility politics’, really needs to be watched carefully, tbh.

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Come for the incisive critical perspectives on science and technology stay for the baking spam. Vegan carrot cake cup cakes with cream cheese frosting was this morning’s bake.

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

And yet science isnt “apolitical” and always has been shaped by politics and culture and yet this has been the go to refrain from sci institutions for centuries including the “we need everyone to think like scientists” (good luck with that).

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Science is neither red nor blue

Long before the 5 November US presidential election, I had become ever more concerned that science has fallen victim to the same political divisiveness tearing at the seams of American society. This i...

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Is #caturday a thing over here? I found a magical plant in Greece last week that grows kittens.

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Oh here you all are… ☺️ go.bsky.app/mmGK19

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Simon Lock @simonjlock.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

POV: you’re a tiny queer mushroom 🍄

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