“The debt of gratitude Australians owe CSIRO for Aeroguard alone can never be repaid. Which is why it’s so alarming to watch its funding – and its people – bleed away,” writes Ebony Bennett, Deputy Director at The Australia Institute. Read the full op-ed: australiainstitute.org.au/post/who-nee...

Book club nerds of Canberra unite!

Australia news live: Husic says ‘driest minds’ in treasury and finance need to see science as an investment not a cost after CSIRO jobs slashed 👏🏼 Preach. Don’t they know the fine folks at CSIRO invented WiFi?👏🏼

Hello EU/UK #STS and #digitalsociology folks! I’ll be in the area in April 2026 to host a symposium in London and am looking for some side trips to make it worth the CO2. If you or your research group have a symposium / workshop / conference etc worth my time then I’d love to hear from you.

It’s a hard no from this card carrying Anglican and digital sociologist.

I’m currently reading a benchmarking report about digital government from the year 2000 and it’s rather jarring reading about the internet and pre-euro currencies in one document.

Obligatory Aurora Australis pics 💁🏻‍♀️

Data colonialism in the most literal sense

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents suggest that Meta earns $3.5B(!) every 6 mo. from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

A soggy mortarboard fished out the creek is surely a metaphor for something. Just not sure what 🤔

On this very day, the 1st of November I heard the first Christmas song blared over the speakers at the shopping centre. Thankfully it wasn’t Last Christmas so I didn’t lose Whamageddon before it even started 😑

Book launch o’clock! DOUBLE book launch o’clock! Anna Munster’s ‘Deep Aesthetics’ and Adrian Mackenzie’s ‘1000 Platforms’.

I attended an event yesterday about creative bureaucracy and I posed the question to senior public servants on the panel: Creativity is perceived as something only middle/upper class have the luxury of doing. How do you give licence for all your staff or colleagues to be creative in their roles?

I haven't posted anything yet! Quick! I'll do 9 fun facts in honour of my 9 followers/bots who followed me sight unseen. 1) I'm currently listening to a Father John Misty song.