📰BREAKING📰 SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force Macquarie University to make work health and safety improvements to their consultation on proposed workplace changes. Thanks to NTEU members at MQ who spoke out about the harm of workplace changes to staff mental health and wellbeing.

Workload is the major factor forcing academics to quit their roles, with some of the perceived benefits of working in universities actually adding to the strain, finds a new study. Juliette Rowsell reports https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/benefits-working-academia-can-add-workload-stress

Crucially not the sort of thing that qualifies as a question in a question session...

What he said, and amen to it.

Education minister refers ANU concerns to regulator. Even Jason Clare has had enough! The shenanigans at ANU perfectly underline the case for pulling #HigherEducation into line, curtailing executive power and giving staff a voice in how their #universities run. www.afr.com/work-and-car... #auspol

Today's 5min MUST READ is from @tseenster.bsky.social and @drmeagantyler.bsky.social and looks as memes as a route into the hidden curriculum, and their utility to help unpick pervasive messages that shape our research culture. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i...

New writing! "I can has research culture? Using memes in researcher development" - @drmeagantyler.bsky.social's and my post on the Hidden Curriculum blog, published the other day. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i... Do you use memes in your teaching? If so, why? #AcademicSky

Wooo! Fab publication by fab team of authors! If you don’t think you deal with distance PhD researchers, think again. #AcademicSky

Free session about support for researcher wellbeing when working on sensitive topics - 22 May, 5:30pm AEST. Very important issue, amazing line-up of speakers from around the world. More info and registration here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/researcher... #AcademicSky

We are tracking executive orders, statements from Trump, and agency actions that affect higher education, plus legal challenges directed at those measures. Here’s the latest. chroni.cl/3YFXsLO

This article explores the hidden curriculum in research careers, its influence on research culture, and how dedicated support in HE can uncover the ‘hidden treasure’ (Elliot et al., 2020) that makes success more attainable for all researchers. Read it here: postly.app/3rmQ #researchimpact

Still no outcomes announcement, or heads-up tweet, for Linkage Projects. Now also expecting the same for Laureate Fellowships (9–19 May). Sometimes the ARC tell the recipients a few days ahead of the announcement, under embargo of course. Anyone heard anything? My DMs are open.

Great post here from @tinakatsaros.bsky.social on what she learned about research communication and awareness raising through the 3 Minute Thesis and Visualise Your Thesis competitions #3MT #VYT #resdev redalert.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2025/05/me-a...

Recognised these immediately! Love it. bsky.app/profile/pinc... // bsky.app/profile/drme...

Applications are now open for the Dr Jennifer Fitzgerald Research Grant. This grant of up to $30,000 is available to support researchers with disability to carry out a project that aims to improve the lives of people with disability. www.scopeaust.org.au/news/applica...

Just ran one of my favourite workshops in our research education & development program (it has lots of memes, which may or may not have to do with its favourite status) on conferencing - always give a shout out to #betterposter in it & was happy to find @mikemorrison.bsky.social is here on Bluesky!

Read the full report from the @australiainstitute.org.au: australiainstitute.org.au/report/elect... #highered #highereducation #universities #auspol2025

Join us for this week’s #LTHEchat which explores where teaching, learning and assessment in HE has been and is going with @profsallybrown.bsky.social and @philrace.bsky.social on Wednesday April 30th 8-9pm BST. Read the blog post at:

“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”

My latest article for @resprofnews.bsky.social Coping with the university funding crisis Positive steps in uncertain times, including how to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered. Spoiler: 1st positive step is to join a union. If you weren't already a member. Which you should have been.

A new post by @tarynbell.bsky.social uses the lens of the hidden curriculum to examine how narrative CVs are still proving a mysterious art for researchers. drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/t...

In the spirit of this birds are good, bird sharing BIRD PROTOCOL, I offer you this musk lorikeet on a sunny evening, from some years ago. bsky.app/profile/chuc...

Whoa … this is getting real! Thanks, @mikejennions.bsky.social for putting this together. I'm blushing! 😊

Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained. #highereducation #highered #universities #auspol25 #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NEW BLOG POST: Paying yourself first by time-blocking your writing, thinking and researching time www.raulpacheco.org/2025/04/payi... Making yourself and your own work a priority isn't selfish. It's an important, delicate balancing act between your commitments to others and to yourself. #RPVSky

A little series about writing with research partners, starting with why partner at all patthomson.net/2025/03/31/w...

Among those who reported experiencing harassment, women were affected almost twice as much as men by non-sexual forms of personal harassment. theconversation.com/two-in-five-...

An interesting point of reflection for our team this week. What do you wish you'd know when starting your PhD? #phdsky #phdchat #academicchatter #academicsky redalert.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2025/04/what...

What do researcher developers which they'd known when they started their doctorates? #academicsky #resdev #research #highered redalert.blogs.latrobe.edu.au/2025/04/what...

I have my first piece in The Conversation today, co-authored with Lucy Montgomery and Karl Huang. We look at the increasing frequency of editorial board resignations and the tension between for-profit publishing and research integrity. theconversation.com/academic-pub...

Join us Wednesday 8pm for #LTHEchat led by @kayguccione.bsky.social to discuss Coaching as an educational practice: holding space for a learning conversation lthechat.com/2025/04/07/c...

"Far Eastern Curlews have been hammered by habitat destruction up and down the entire flyway for the past 40 years”

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com reporting on the proposed changes to the ARC grants system. There’s concern that getting rid of standalone fellowships will have lots of unintended consequences, especially for Early-Career Researchers. By @donnadlu.bsky.social

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

"Australians are obsessed with SUVs and huge utes, but experts say they are making our roads deadlier" www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Barriers to Success for Women in Academic Life: Perceptions of Participants in a Colleague Pairing Program (1994) www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

It feels like this happened just the other day. But it also feels like an almost-lifetime ago 🙃 - 5 years since having our very own episode of The Minefield to talk about International Women's Day #IWD www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Are you working on an academic writing project - your PhD, MA thesis, article/book chapter, grant application, ... ? Do you want to write with other deaf academics? Join us at the #DrDeaf Spring Writing Retreat 25-30 May. Registration deadline 7 April. www.al.fhs.no/en/dr-deaf/?...

Number of UK universities leaving X grows. Seven institutions have now quit the platform formerly known as Twitter. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

The pop-culture news cycle is short. The academic timeliness cycle is a lot longer. Hopefully we can count a few days after the event as meeting somewhere in the middle...

Q1: Have you tried using podcasting for assessment, or other non-traditional assessments in your teaching or work? What has worked well, and what challenges have you faced? #LTHEchat

A few strategies to overcome writer's block: www.raulpacheco.org/2022/06/a-fe... I get writer's block. All. The. Time. This block post describes a few strategies I've put into practice to help me break through the block. #RPVSky #WritingSky

What do you do as ‘writing’ during your scheduled #AcWri time? What do you not do? Would love to hear fellow writers. simplifyresearch.wordpress.com/2025/02/05/1... #KPBlogpost #AcademicWriting

“How’s writing going?”

Big thanks to @brkeogh.bsky.social for this resource - and make sure you check out the whole thread. 🔥 #AcademicSky #PhDsky #HigherEd

That glorious (and, for me, quite rare) moment when you open a document you haven't looked at for a month and you've actually done MORE on it than you remembered! 🎉

Super useful post about navigating (the sometimes unreasonable) authorship expectations of supervisors after a PhD project has been completed. bsky.app/profile/patt...

I’m starting a little series about writing post PhD. The first is about gift authorship. That’s when someone gets credit for writing without doing any work patthomson.net/2025/01/12/a...

Position going in our #DeakinRDA team for a Level B or C in Grad Researcher Development - 12-month mat. leave cover: careers.pageuppeople.com/949/cw/en/jo... Check it out if you're a fabulous researcher developer and interested in joining our squad! #ResDev #AcademicSky #HigherEd

t-minus 27 minutes until I let the Icelandic horses do their thing! 🐴 🎉 #OOF bsky.app/profile/tsee...