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I’m Ahmed in Gaza, and I’m asking for your support for my mother. She suffers from a retinal disease, and hasn’t had her medication in a year and a half 💔 She urgently needs an injection treatment, so she can see again. It costs $1000. Any amount helps. Thank you 🙏 chuffed.org/project/157281

The stolen generator also provides backup power to the Mt Gordon fire spotting tower in the Marysville Triangle area. A district that's already been thru Black Saturday. With catastrophic fire conditions forecast for later this week, this theft puts lives at risk. As such, I urge you to reshare.

Fire tower back up generator stolen #ausnews #vicnews #cfa #marysville #polive #vkc #theft #emergency #wx #investigation #mtgordon #ugfm

I have supported Naser’s Treatment and Escape from Gaza - will you? chuffed.org/project/1552...

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

A University of Wollongong student says she left the institution after being unable to complete core subjects due to course cuts.

Whhyyyy do we have to hear Christmas Muzak in every space? Do people generally like it ? Most of it is downright awful.

🎉 Dec 11 Fidaa update: ✅💌 only 2 days to raise $118 to pay for psoriasis treatment. The rash has spread & is leaving her incapacitated with pain If 6 ppl 💸 $20 she can pay the cost of care $32/$150 raised for clinic fees 🔁💸 - Nicola ❤️‍🩹 bit.ly/save-fidaa @mommunism.bsky.social #SaveFidaa

Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social reviews ‘Germaine Greer, Celebrity Feminism, and the Archive’, by Anthea Taylor Published by Routledge tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Macquarie is purging Arab and Palestinian women from its staff. Two were forced out. One suspended. Three Arab women targeted in one year. This is a crisis of racism in Australian academia. If you’re outraged, hit repost.

macquarie uni has an internationally renowned group of classics and acheological scholars, a group that is now being squeezed by higher admin for resources as part of cutting arts courses and presumably prioritising other areas in which the uni has less comparative advantage. great.

The more that comes out about the fabricated crisis at Macquarie University, the worse it gets. Wanton destructive ideologically driven managerialism targetting scholars at the peak of their careers, robbing students of choice & expertise, destroying disciplines vital to the whole sector.

Macquarie is my alma mater & my former workplace. I loved working there with brilliant, dedicated teachers & researchers. Shows no care for the student experience either.There aren’t enough continuing staff NOW to teach the courses.

More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2

Shocking analysis of the gendered, racial & disability dimensions of the sackings in Arts at Macquarie University. 7 women and 2 men made redundant. 5 of the 7 women sacked are Women of Colour. 3 of the 4 people pushed onto teaching only roles are PoC. 1/2

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...

Just had my first experience with bed bugs in my hotel (in Auckland). 0/10 do not recommend.

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...

Project Bring Ruaa and Her Family to Safety chuffed.org/project/help...

Congratulations to Dr Amy McQuire from QUT for being awarded a DECRA ARC grant for a project which argues for a new form of scholarly journalism, grounded in conceptions of Black Justice, as a critical intervention needed to address the ongoing media misreporting of Indigenous affairs.

Applications Now Open for the University of Glasgow Library Visiting Research Fellowship scheme - supporting scholars from across academic disciplines to come to Glasgow to work on our unique research collections. Please RT or pass on: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Hanna Hammarström 1st person in Sweden to produce phone wires commercially. Worked out how to make phone wires after making wire ornaments. Started factory making wires for Swedish phone company. Held monopoly 1880/90s. Employed only women. d. #OTD 27 Nov 1914 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_H...

New Zealand is the land of the cheese toastie. And eggs. Lots of eggs.

Franz Josef Glacier - Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere ca 1867 | 2022 Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥 The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield 1/

Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.

Cult '90s show Race Around the World is back, and we're on the hunt for fearless storytellers! Got a passport, an epic sense of adventure and an eye for a story? We want to hear from you.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

It's such a pleasure teaching talented students in documentary filmmaking and podcasting. Very proud of my students who produced outstanding, original docos. They are also just lovely people to work with.

This SOUNDS like an excellent way to spend a day.

How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling? A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio. To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':

Thrilled to announce I have been awarded the Dr AM Hertzberg AO fellowship for my project Sydney: Australia's First Media City. Congratulations to all the amazing incoming fellows and thank you SLNSW & donors for your incredible support for original research. 2/2 www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...

Fabulous evening at the State Library of NSW to hear the outgoing Coral Thomas Fellow @ncushing12.bsky.social deliver a fascinating & entertaining talk about the bond between humans and more-than-humans in urban Sydney. Congratulations Nancy! 1/2

Furthermore, women broadcast by BBC were heard internationally (like 1930s woman pastor) & intersected transnational womens orgs. One Euro intl womens mvmt archive was looted by Nazis then Soviets: not open to researchers til 2000s. So when *can* we expect removal of hurdles to womens history?

"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmad. Ahmad was a barber before this. He has five children Hala, 16, Verimas, 15, Muhammad, 14, Mahmoud, 13 and Ali, 6. His wife is also 9 months pregnant. Muhammad was injured and is suffering from lack of pain medication and malnutrition.

Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome Go through these steps to disable it: opus.ing/posts/how-to... #chrome #aibullshit

Terrific story - 17,000 photographs taken by tailor & amateur photographer Allan Doney have been returned to Bendigo. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I signed this petition to demand @albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social deliver on their promise for streaming regulation & local content requirements. International streaming platforms must invest in Australian storytelling & creators. #auspol #AusFilm c.org/TwF6yZZS46Sign

COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 2 October 2025 🔹Active cases: 290 (+53.4%) 🔹Active outbreaks: 54 (+14.8%) 🔹Resident cases: 230 (+54.3%) 🔹Staff cases: 60 (+50.0%) 🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 390 (+3) @SamRaeMP Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...

‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding” John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives: