iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 18/09/2026

Hmmmm... thinking. Are workplaces actually measuring Emotional Intelligence (EI)... or just rewarding people who perform "neurotypical vibes"? Our new paper in the Journal of Applied Behavioural Science breaks down why style keeps trumping substance in modern leadership. Hi there @sagepub.com

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 17/09/2026

The invisible pass: Digital platforms love linear metrics, but human brains rarely move in straight lines 🌀🧠 In my new paper with Ceri Pimblett out in EDI, we explore 'enforced passing' in workplace e-learning - and why we desperately need recognition design over rigid compliance.

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The invisible pass: asynchronous e-learning and the enforcement of neurotypical identity performance in neurodivergent adults

Purpose. Digital learning environments are increasingly framed as flexible and inclusive, yet the identity work required of neurodivergent learners within these spaces remains largely unexamined. This...

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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For me it's more corporate greed - my 5-year-old iPhone 12 proves we don't need a new phone every two years. Stop the upgrade cycle!

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 06/09/2026

Everything does not sound awesome 🎶

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Beautifully written description of a gathering, and enlightening. English farmers seek advice on land management from American ranchers to deal with drought.

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The Cumbrian shepherds racing sunrise to beat the heat

Ancient farming practices are having to adapt to Britain’s increasingly brutal summers, writes James Rebanks

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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What could go wrong...?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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Nepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet border

Entire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 21/08/2026

You can do 🌿🌙🌱🌳🍁🐌🐛🍂🍃🦇 everything

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

'A Russell Group university will no longer use ubiquitous anti-cheating tools provided by Turnitin because of concerns that the company might use students’ work to train artificial intelligence.' Maybe time for UK universities to develop and commercialise their own tools?

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Southampton dumps Turnitin over use of students’ work to train AI

Academic integrity giant denies accusations as university declines to renew contract in favour of ‘other options’

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

45% of this year's 18-year old intake expect to live at home and commute to university, up from 43% last year. Disadvantaged students are 3 times more likely to commute than other undergraduates. Very comprehensive, but doesn't address impact of programme closures and growing cold spots. 1/2

ft.com

Student digs: the end of an era?

High costs mean increasing numbers of those going from school into higher education are opting to live with their parents

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 14/08/2026

Imp read: EDI \ DEI are not the same.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

'for many organisations and corporations symbolic representation has been a substitute for deeper reform, leaving it vulnerable to just this kind of backlash. It has also meant that the right has enjoyed a near monopoly on criticism of DEI, leaving it to frame it entirely on its own terms.' 1/2

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The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

August is your last chance to see all of the Big Eight bumblebees 🎱🐝 Of the UK’s 24 bumblebee species, these eight are the most common. Have you spotted any bumblebees recently? How many species have you seen? 🔎 Brush up on your bumblebee identification skills: ow.ly/11BQ50ZoP6O

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 21/07/2026

3. Creates toxic ‘productivity’ loops that makes it harder / longer to complete projects. 4. Techbros are not the answer.

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 18/07/2026

Seven weeks, two days. When summer deletes the school run, an empty hour feels like a vacuum. My new piece explores the raw reality of the dual-neurodivergent household, using Doris Lessing’s The Fifth Child to map the survival, isolation, and radical acceptance of the non-standard family club.

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“What Are We Doing Today?”

Child-Parent Dual Neurodiversity and the Architecture of the Empty Holidays

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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This should be the standard everywhere.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 30/06/2026

The Green Party is clear on what real change looks like: • Proportional representation • Taxing billionaire wealth • No new oil and gas • Public ownership of water • Rent controls • Ending arms sales to Israel

Open letter dated 29 June 2026 from Green Party MPs, addressed to Andy Burnham MP, urging urgent reforms on electoral system, taxation and climate; includes a parliamentary emblem and bulleted policy demands.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 16/06/2026

What happens when a controlling connection runs a compression algorithm over your entire soul? You down-sample your multi-dimensional, neurodivergent "thought-shapes" to keep the peace. My post bridges Dickens, Wyndham’s mid-century sci-fi, and the terror of interpersonal LLMs.

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Deviations from the Definition of Belonging

Deletion and the Thought-Shape

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 15/06/2026

New on Substack: Parasites in Waistcoats. Blending Charles Dickens's Bleak House with systems engineering to analyse weaponised incompetence as a localised Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack. For every developer, teacher, and peer anchor currently drowning under an outsourced administrative payload.

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Parasites in Fancy Waistcoats

Dickens and the High Art of Passenger Living

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 03/06/2026

🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 01/06/2026

Waving to the horizon of co-pilot reading and ‘suggesting’ my email replies.

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Andy Tseng @andytseng.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 26/05/2026

The social contract and economy of writing. "It’s infuriating to invest time into reading something only to realize the author didn’t invest the corresponding amount of time into writing it." jola.dev/posts/the-so...

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The social contract of writing | jola.dev

About the value of genuine writing in a world being drowned in slop.

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 19/05/2026

Boosting a Microsoft Outlook thumbs-up emoji to a formal institutional response represents the ultimate triumph of low-friction bureaucracy. My latest essay connects Jacqueline Harpman’s dystopian fiction with platform architectures to decode the heavy, silent weight of algorithmic containment.

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I Who Have Never Known Thumbs-Up

The Foundation of Confinement

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 21/04/2026

Inspired by Han Yujoo’s The Impossible Fairytale, I’m looking at why the Literature Review feels like a bear trap for the neurodivergent and chronically ill. Hello, my students :-)

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The Diagnosis of Student Anxiety in the Ivory Town

Finding Your Place in the Architecture of Belonging

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 09/04/2026

The candles on the alpaca cake were still warm when the advice started. 🦙🎂 My daughter is ten. We must now perform "distance." My ND brain hears a suggestion and translates it at 100mph into an IMMEDIATE MANDATE to rewire our entire life. 🧠💨 I am the wrapped mother.

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The Rational Affection of the "Wrapped" Mother

Mary Wollstonecraft, Neurodiversity, and the Tyranny of Parenting Advice

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

'In 2023, UK universities spent a total of £500m on education agents – but there is very little oversight of how these agents operate.' 'Once students got their offers, they were passed on to the visa team, and finally delivered to universities as a fully wrapped, fee-paying package.'

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‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK

The long read: Universities in Britain rely on overseas applicants paying full fees, which has given rise to some unscrupulous recruiters and left many hopefuls and their families deep in debt

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 30/03/2026

Human judgment tells me this is a v v v v v bad idea.

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 28/03/2026

Anni Albers is the best visual artist in the world (says me)

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 25/03/2026

'Sexism in football - a problem that isn't going away', covered by BBC Sport including an interview with @staceypope.bsky.social as a leading expert on female football fans and gender inequality in sport. Take a look at the full BBC Sport piece: www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Prof Maz Hardey @thatprofmaz.substack.com · 22/03/2026

The read of all PullRequest reads, compliance and incompetence.

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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 20/03/2026

Our spin-out company Nevrargenics has won the @bionow.bsky.social Project of the Year Award for its pioneering work on a potential new treatment for neurodegenerative disease. Learn more: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Durham spin-out company wins major life sciences award - Durham University

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