Normalize just posting a recipe with no backstory at all.

It's not just that HaSS thinkers will challenge the status quo as to why Arts degrees get slashed. Investment in higher education is flowing towards data-rich domains, while disciplines (like HaSS) that are less likely to produce viable, commercialisable data are cancelled.

#PhD research callout! I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form. forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Ethics approval: H16788 Please share!

Peer review is broken. Academia broke it with publish or perish, and AI is picking over the carcase. markcarrigan.net/2025/09/26/p...

Just catching up on the good news! 🦁🦁🦁🏟

Here @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social is giving FAR TOO MUCH AWAY about the dark inner workings of the @australia.theguardian.com bird of the year poll. FAR. TOO. MUCH. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI exists because of all out critical behaviour and discussions online. Not just because of the creators of texts. Its stolen all our ideas.

Books which changed the way I think

Politicians do a fantastic job of alarming us about non-problems, a terrible job of focusing us on real problems and an even worse job of telling us when real issues have actually improved it seems.

What creature should we sculpt? Currently thinking a wide mouthed frog

The division of labour always comes before the machine. The way to make AI useless is to collectivise the dismembered parts back into the body of knowledge.

Dykes on bikes ready to lead out #Pride Brisbane

So a standards matrix or criteria sheet is the ultimate expression of the capitalist division of mental labour that makes the infiltration of AI into education so easy. Education/ learning design has been completely captured by this assessment tool.

My ND-NB kid got their first job and is literally reading the employment contract out to me getting excited about all the OH&S policies about discrimination and harassment. 'The first thing they define is consent!!!' 'They specifically mention sexuality in discrimination!' Love them so much

Let me know. Don't have to be in education research. Would love a youth or media researcher who can simply speak to it as advice for what teachers/parents can do. I'm asking because the algorithm is throwing up the live assassination in kids' feeds. The blog gets google news aggregated

Crusades sound heroic until you realise who they are aimed at, why, and how they are carried out.

Please tell me this is real. I so desperately want it to be real. @brkeogh.bsky.social @svegaard.bsky.social

Dark Winds S2E4 Love it when period pieces comment on the present

Kid off to comicon

Word of the Day is ‘snerdle’ (19th century): to stay warm and still beneath the covers for as long as humanly possible.

If education is the vehicle through which the social fabric of the nation is realised, look no further than the education policies developed under his government but ultimately delivered by Rudd/Gillard

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

As we head into the new academic year in Australia, I'd like to reshare this document of #neurodivergent study tips that I compiled. It's based entirely on tips by neurodivergent people, and I have had learning advisors tell me it was very helpful and had good info. #historysky #academicsky 1/3

lmao the great Aussie novel is actually an aluminium can

Moby Kinda Cool Really

Slightly diminish a book: Gone With The Breeze...

We are now debating which are 'real' teacher skills and which are 'mundane, repetitive and boring' that can be handed over to AI. Babbages work on the intellectual division of labour, set to the rhythm of the factory has become in the 21st Century, the rhythm of mainstream schooling.

I've banned my children from the whole internet. Take that, social media ban.

Like History and linguistics the development of the discipline of mathematics is caught up in imperialism and capitalism.

This

Sleeping the sleep of a puppy that's been a successful nightmare all day

Read this today. It's pretty good on the way AUKUS is changing higher education funding link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"What’s striking for me is the contrast between this really rich life that you find in literature and in academia, and the platitudes of politics." This is wonderful of the current golden age of humanities in an era of demagoguery and simple politics. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

So I'm making my second mud oven. Thought I'd do a thread in case people are interested in the process. At the moment we're collecting rubble to fill the base with. When we reach the final course of bricks, we'll flatten it out with gravel/sand whatever. Then it's glass bottles to the top 🍾

This is what makes me hate social media more and more... as she reposts a blog on social media..

OMG the opening pages of Katabasis 🤣 #academiclyf @christie-lover.bsky.social @zarasaunders.bsky.social

FFS. This country is literally famous for its droughts. We already regularly have to be told to limit showers, use recycled water on gardens, turn off taps while brushing teeth... And they want us to spend our water budget on the lying plagiarism machine? REALLY?

<laughs in QLD 50c fares>

Just saw Julia. I'm so torn. The play was brilliant. Justine Clarke was transcendental. But I couldn't stop critiquing lines about her legacy. Like why is passing the most Bills in the history of PMs a good thing? Especially when the fallout of many Bills are the problems of today? Eurgh idk

Can we take a minute to appreciate that over a QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE marched on the east coast today? That's phenomenal 💜

The Australian Queer Archives are offering a brand new Research Fellowship - up to $5000 to assist with the expenses of a trip to AQuA to conduct a project on Australian queer history. Applications are due September 1. 🌈🎓 Details are here: queerarchives.org.au/posts/latest...

Buster Keaton borrowed Chiquita, Ramon Novarro's chihuahua, 1931

That Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin were on opposing sides of the public discourse about whether Eyre (of "Eyres Lake" in Australia) ordered a massacre when Governor in Jamaica. Darwin said it was an unjustified massacre. Dickens said it was martial law. Sounds familiar, eh..Dickens' side won

The Google recommends wonderful movies on Netflix feed on my phone is always incorrect

🚨 We have a new article out in Political Studies Will hopefully be of interest to scholars of the far-right, party politics, social movements, and anyone drawing breath really Led by the excellent Imogen Richards, & Callum Jones & with Jordan McSwiney & me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This is the first year in many I do not have a child doing book week. They have, however, pivoted to Comicon but that's their father's world.

Tomorrow, I'm on a panel to talk about academic freedom. I'm talking about the social contract between universities and society. I think that contract has been broken, and not just by the government. I think universities have failed their students as places to interrogate ideas.

Over 2.5 million Israelis joined today’s anti-Netanyahu protests, organisers estimate. 300,000 are now in Tel Aviv's Hostage Square. (Haaretz)