No one taught the idiot fake history robots about the Columbian exchange it seems.

Doesn't take long to stuff up a mandate. With Possum Park and a ridiculous pivot to fracking, Malinauskas has gone from unheard of levels of popularity to completely on the nose in SA.

Genau das habe ich befürchtet: erst die Daten abgreifen, durch KI verwurschten (übrigens schlecht, ich hab meine Familienmitglieder nämlich nicht gefunden, obwohl sie im Datensatz drin sind) und dann die, die die eigentliche Arbeit sorgfältig und verantwortungsvoll machen, angreifen.

Oh and it gets worse now

Teachinge young people how to reade literature and poetrye and novels ys teachinge them how to access an olde and goode and powerful system for sharinge messages yn tymes of emergencye. Readinge literature ys key to the ongoing struggle for a bettir and more just worlde.

Wondering if at any point in this article the Times Higher reflects on its own role in relentlessly pushing the league tableisation of HE which has contributed to this new utilitarianism.

twenty years ago people attacked universities by deriding “Mickey Mouse degrees” like media studies in favour of “proper” subjects like history, and now universities are skipping that step and simply abolishing everything that isn’t economics

We now know that the Chief of Navy has ordered every Australian embedded in every US nuclear submarine to follow all orders given them by the US military. If they don't they face disciplinary charges. We need to end AUKUS before we become the official 51st US State.

What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.

Lethal apartheid in the West Bank. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Thinking about it, it was probably a mistake to allow public universities and the precious cultural, social, and intellectual artefacts and practices they conserve to be captured by a rapacious set of wash-out philistine consultants and CEO mummers whose dearest wish is to kiss the very finest boot.

Zodra Hitler in 1933 de macht greep werden linkse partijen verboden, de actieve leden opgepakt en in kampen opgesloten. Communisten, socialisten en anarchisten verdwenen bij 'nacht und nebel' Herdenk ook hen op #4mei Ernst Busch - Die Moorsoldaten (al in 1935!) youtu.be/3NDitxFQHcA?...

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Jo Dyer in good form here, on the collapse of the LIV golf adventure ($) www.crikey.com.au/2026/05/04/p...

It’s also explicitly ethnic cleansing, again as per the article.

Oh, the irony! We direct our Defence $$$ away from fuel storage and instead towards #AUKUS subs (that won’t be delivered) so we can one day join the US in a fight against China … and then when there’s a conflict elsewhere, we have to turn to China for our fuel security. #auspol

it's pretty rad

This week the AHA gave evidence at the Parliamentary Inquiry regarding Job-Ready Graduates. Here's President Michelle Arrow on repealing JRG as an important first step in reforming Australia's tertiary education sector.

12‑month fixed‑term fellowship for early‑career historians in Australian history at the University of Sydney starting 2027. Historians of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander descent, and scholars working in Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander history, are especially encouraged to apply.

“It’s always a sad day when I have to remind people of fossil fuel lobby talking points,” said the PM chaser.com.au/national/pm-...

the irony is that there are many journalists who are threatened and killed for their work globally, except they don’t overlap at all with the people willing to attend the MAGA White House correspondent’s dinner

"Namibia: Lüderitz Weighs Lubowski Name Proposal," via The Namibian www.namibian.com.na/luderitz-wei...

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

Somewhere Bismarck is looking down in confusion as Germany projects power by sending 4,000 pensioners, 12 buffet stations and a TUI loyalty program through the Strait of Hormuz

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No? You mean the CGT discount? No? You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No? You mean the free gas for multinationals? No? You mean the failure of the PRRT? No? You mean the tax dodging trusts? No? You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No? No you mean the NDIS FFS

I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖

It is an iron law of Australian politics that the last resort of a bankrupt policy is “get the money from people’s super” www.afr.com/policy/forei...

Last year I went to a great symposium where we talked about the failure of the Voice referendum here in Australia. Some of us at the conference put together our thoughts in this volume, edited by Dan Tout, Emma-Jaye Gavin and Julia Hurst. Great to see it out! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

It's a great pity that these regional links are seen as the exception in Australia, seen as an emergency, second best stop-gap option to the retrograde AUKUS Anglosphere nonsense.

The only thing worse than a Defence project blowing out by billions of dollars is a Defence project that will never deliver the intended capability blowing out by billions of dollars. #AUKUS #auspol

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-... The Amazing 2026 South Australian Election: Final Lower House Results And Poll Performance Estimated 2PP 57.89 (+3.3) to ALP, may be revised later ALP vs ON est 58.19 #sapol #savotes

Ah yes the good old classic longue durée lighter – as used at every Annales School barbeque 🙃 🗃️

Did this bloke sing every ad in the 70s?

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PUBLICATION DAY academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

My latest article: 'We don’t know who did it. We don’t know their gender, their ethnicity or their political beliefs... What we do know is that in the summer of 1983–84, a fungus called Phragmidium violaceum was introduced to Australia – deliberately, secretly and illegally.' Call it 'plant noir'!

Further confirmation, if it was needed: The Adelaide Festival board was aware that Writers Week would probably be wrecked if they cancelled Randah Abdel-Fattah, but they did it anyway.

Working the morning shift as a scholar in 1540, a browser tab and a word document opened on two screens, other needed texts opened and handy, an overfull mail account nearby, and a hot beverage in reach to make for the best working condition. Bonus: wearing a thinking hat. #academicchatter

Sometimes the Melian Dialogue ends differently.

A US president threatens genocide. No word of condemnation from the Australian government. Because submarines.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

“Overpaid university managers are fixated on KPIs, global rankings, reputation building among donors, cutting costs, shedding full-time staff, casualising teaching, downgrading research, advancing their own careers, and awarding themselves handsome bonuses.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

researchers discovered that a coin, when flipped, overwhelmingly yielded a useful “heads” or “tails” result and almost never landed on edge. this indicates that the coin has situational awareness, intelligently refining its outcomes to those with the greatest contextual value

It's publication day! We have a complete issue now in "German History". With @aselmeyer.bsky.social I edited a volume on "Colonial Transactions in the German Empire". The contributions offer new insights into the construction of railways and colonial societies. academic.oup.com/gh/issue/43/4

Second review in a week! Thank you for the thoughtful and kind appraisal.

"Few German socialists would ever meet a member of the Herero or Nama peoples, but they spoke out in defense of their human rights and their right to rebel."