Digital Humanities Research Scientist – Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute, Italy. Full-time research position in #DigitalHumanities and AI. Deadline: 12 Jan 2026. Apply: 🔗 higherjobz.com/digital-huma... #AcademicJobs #ItalyJobs #ResearchOpportunities @bhmpi.bsky.social

Just took the dog for a walk, clear sky and no moon. ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ So so many stars visible in the Milky Way! Awesome

I saw these peonies and instantly thought of @brontelee.bsky.social So they *had* to go into this vase The house is now full of peony power 🌸

This little one is checking out the world from a cosy pouch position just outside my window #lutruwita #wallabybaby

Congratulations @francoisebaylis.bsky.social and Royal Society of Canada!

Call for Papers: Philosophy of Science in Public Policy Synthese Topical Collection (Guest-Editors: Sabina Leonelli, Richard Williams, TUM) Deadline: 10 April 2026 Submission: www.editorialmanager.com/synt/default... Link: link.springer.com/collections/... @philosophynow.bsky.social

What’s Lost When Liberal Arts Schools Close www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

From our new Olga Tennison Endowed Chair in Autism Research, Professor Dawn Adams. "...blaming the use of painkillers in pregnancy and promoting an unproven therapy, marks a deeply concerning moment for science and public health." Read more on LinkedIn

Piper enjoyed a cold wet windy dog park this morning! 🐾

Not just the US

Friday night dinner with comfort food requires the perfect tableware, care of @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social x @brontelee.bsky.social

theconversation.com/studying-phi... Heartening evidence to support the value of education and ways of understanding, as well as skills

best cartoon plates you can have in your home, baked here in Tasmania!

kunanyi/ Mt Wellington looking fine with a dusting of snow this morning

I’m honoured to give the keynote at CAVAL’s AI-driven Metadata Futures conference on “Preparing Ourselves for Ethical AI Futures: Strategies for Investigation, Experimentation, and Development” today at RMIT University

We had to pass under this magnificent Wedge-tailed eagle 🦅 sitting 5 meters above our driveway at the end of our dog walk this morning #naturenotes #putalina

An appealing senior job in medical humanities at Lund. Perhaps especially attractive to some of our US friends? If I were better at empathy and compassion I might even consider it myself! lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Such a beautiful, dangerous mountain

Blue sky while waiting for the tram this afternoon #BlueSky #Melbourne

New paper! What does it mean to be epistemically prepared for the next disease outbreak? gh.bmj.com/content/10/6... Led by @wombatscholar.bsky.social with @sonjavw.bsky.social @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @rachelankeny.bsky.social @engelmal.bsky.social @mstoove.bsky.social @cwaldby.bsky.social et al

Nuclear war. It's nobody's fault sadly these things just happen. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This sounds totally fascinating. A fully funded PhD in the Netherlands, working on DH and early modern trade: trifecta.dhlab.nl/2025/05/

Does @bsky.app make everyone seem grammatically challenged by inserting and deleting punctuation and “autoincorrecting” skeet’s [like that]. Or is it just me? You’re your yore’s It’s its its’ [!!] Their they’re there’s Maddening 🤯

Googly eyes

I can’t think of anything more Orwellian than waking up to find out you’d transformed into a giant bug

Found an old piece of lino under a great deal of mess and art materials. Decided to finish the edition. First one off the press.

Great to be in the room at National Press Club of Australia address by colleagues at @science.org.au & Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia — Distinguished Prof Brian Schmidt & Prof Richard Holden FASSA backing Australian ideas and research as drivers of inclusive social and economic growth.

You may remember this (extraordinary) story I reported back in February. The ANAO audit has just been tabled and it is scathing of Health department. Procurement rules were not followed. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/02...

Morning all!

Yesterday - Margate

Good morning folks - shepherds and sailors, you are on notice

A quiet morning at Kettering polling station. Piper came along but no sausages in site. Please do good people. #AusVote

A philosophy talk next week at La Trobe (in-person or online): "Temporal Projectivism & Temporal Transparency" by Philippe Chuard (SMU) @phichuetfoutu.bsky.social. All welcome! #philsky #philosophy philevents.org/event/show/1...

The Path to Crumpet Perfection is a Holey One. (Still testing recipe - not quite ready for release yet - stay tuned etc) #food #foodporn #dev

Friday

I'm going to promote my recent book once more bc if not me, then who? #philsky #philosophy #epistemology #socialepistemology www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Turbo chooks! Everyone loves turbo chooks! Especially the BABY ONES!!! omg so cute www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We just published some new #science on forest habitat loss in Tasmania! here's a quick thread! Swift parrots are Critically Endangered because of habitat loss. Until now, nobody has quantified the amount and trends of forest loss and degradation! 1/8 🧵 🦜🧪

Fuzzy photos of an impressive wedge tail eagle we saw on our walk this morning

Saturday

Register now for the April 16 webinar "Better Together: ORCID + ROR" to learn more about how ROR and @ORCID.org work together to streamline research workflows and improve the quality of open scholarly metadata.

Ok - I feel compelled to connect you @crowbar.wtf to @tomshakespeare.bsky.social because you share a fascination with crumpets and cheese that I can only admire (just don’t mention the recent marmalade catastrophe!)

Piper is supervising my efforts in building cages for plants — she thinks she could do a better job of keeping the wallabies and pademelons await, if I let her! #TasmanianGardening #LockUpYourSeedlings

Working on a new homemade crumpet recipe. #food #foodporn #experiment

“I know that I don’t have much … control of what may happen south of the border but I do hope here in Canada we will make sure that we do safeguard the integrity of the mission of our universities.” www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Excellent news UK