Yes, pls.

Unfort true. 😩

There have been *so many* Academia[dot]edu warning signs over the past decade; I’m glad these new terms of service — claiming world rights to your work, your voice, your likeness, your signature, etc — are driving even more people away. May it advance the Ed Tech Luddite Revolution ✊

If you’re a doctoral researcher You need to understand and practice criticality patthomson.net/2025/09/12/w...

I deleted my Facebook account a while back. I don't miss that much of it but I do miss @chubblenauts.bsky.social there.

This is a shocker. Having to kill something else to feel in touch with life is pathetic.

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.” - www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

#BREAKING 🚨 'A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by artificial intelligence' ✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social in the AFR on the consultancy's $440,000 Targeted Compliance Framework report: www.afr.com/companies/pr...

RTYI, @wadekelly.com ? 😬

So much distress has been caused by the ANU’s PR mess that I understand there have been formal workplace hazards lodged. Again, ANU execs giving more details to the media than to actual staff. Heartbreaking.

Many weasel words to parse here in ANU statement. Paper could be written about terms for restructuring and redundancies in the uni sector (‘renew’ ‘refresh’ ‘reimagine’), and ‘natural attrition’ when the institution is demoralised to such a degree that ppl leaving is actually unnatural attrition.

Hot-desking as a standard workplace environment requires this new work tool.

The number of major news outlets that declined to publish this when it is timely and significant AF. 🤔

What a great way to raise awareness of Australia's wonderful wildlife, congrats, rakali! Wonderful to see a native rodent getting the gong! #NationalScienceWeek www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

On the bus before 7am. Just me and the driver. #PTzen

Sometimes, it’s a pancake and golden syrup kind of day.

AKA “We’ve stolen your dissertation and built models”

A thread you can direct some action to this Monday morning. The damage the policy has done, and the mindset it encourages, is significant and ongoing. An Arts degree is good for so much more than getting a job (which it also does, contrary to popular mythology).

It is time to stop debating whether face-to-face or online is better. Tommy Soesmanto shares ways to focus on thoughtful preparation and effective delivery for hybrid teaching in higher education. loom.ly/DpPr6RE

It absolutely makes sense that men are using AI more and seeing more job benefits, because confidently spouting nonsense in the shape of information (what LLMs are programmed to do) has always been much more of a pathway for career advancement for men than for others.

I'm not sure how this will (if at all) translate to the UK HE context, but it looks timely and useful and probably time for academics across contexts to link arms.

Finally! More, please.

My colleague @roseychang.bsky.social and I were just talking about narrative CVs. The internets eavesdropped on us once again. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

I hope these get to stay up until his visit in Sept. You can help fund more of these by donating to the Everyone Hates Elon project: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/trump-uk-v... I have. And I hope the Trump Baby balloon follows him around the UK again.

Not the point of this fascinating article, but it remains darkly ironic to me that the Humanities have fallen backwards into being the safe financial bet of degrees

MEDIA RELEASE: A National Crisis in HASS The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has issued a public call for urgent action in response to widespread cuts to staff, programs and entire disciplines across Australian universities. chass.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

I seem to be using the word ’anathema’ a lot these days. 🤔

And AI use in universities is about to make this problem exponentially worse, until the inevitable backlash, in which everyone in university administration will say that they always knew AI was a bad idea.

This is on par with re-animated lifeforms found in ancient ice cores. And we don't have Mulder and Scully anymore. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/07... (ht @kcar.me)

IYKYK 👿

This is a great starter pack of worker-owned media cooperatives!

A *huge* problem. It also includes search committee positions, review requests, letters of recommendation, P&T reviews (so, so many of these post tenure)—it goes on and on. And the social penalties for women saying no are so dramatically higher than when men say no.

Moody feels at a winter bus stop when you miss the bus because it ran early. #PTzen

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

Indiana Jones and the overdue annual cybersecurity training module.

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

"This isn’t about becoming more efficient AI users. It’s about maintaining agency in relationships with systems designed to be persuasive, predictive and opaque." - Daniel Binns

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch

Kill it with fire. 🔥🔥🔥

Weekend horror fix: 28 Years. Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ And if anyone can explain how the last 5 mins fit into the same ’verse as the rest, I would appreciate it. 🤔

A good day to post this from @therealrw.bsky.social, written by the fab @geraldroche.bsky.social. All power to researchers' rejoinder arms over the next couple of weeks. Writing an ARC DECRA rejoinder: An unofficial step-by-step guide researchwhisperer.org/2022/04/28/w... #AcademicSky

DECRA assessor reports are now available in RMS.

Senior researchers, what are you doing tomorrow? Helping DECRA applicants navigate their referee reports, that's what you're doing tomorrow. Book in some quality time with them now. Normally reports drop around ~11am AEST.

Hobart is my kind of city. 😄