The scale of Australian universities managerial & governance surrender/capture is ASTOUNDING "Twelve of the 14 universities had council members, who had substantive roles as consultants from firms such as Ernst & Young, PwC, KPMG, Deloitte, McKinsey, and Boston Consulting Group"

I feel genuinely flabbergasted by the defiantly anti-journalistic approach of NYT Comms here. They're saying the NYT's reporting on the stance of the American Medical Association is correct, despite the American Medical Association saying their stance is different from what NYT reported.

One day it may even be able to transport passengers

Self-censorship is what we are increasingly seeing now among Australian institutions, a consequence of the relentless efforts of the pro-Israel lobby, Murdoch media and both major parties to silence any dissent to Israel's acts. In short - it's worked.

It's time for new ideas, new voices, new gatekeepers, new strategies, new incentives, new politics to support Australian culture and the arts. Submissions to the Australian Government's consultation on its new cultural policy close 24 May. #ausarts #auslit #revive www.arts.gov.au/what-we-do/n...

Read the full @australiainstitute.org.au submission here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/the-a...

Remember all the talk of healthy young people dying suddenly after COVID-19 vaccination? Our new study in @plosmedicine.org shows there's absolutely nothing to that. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Voted in the South Australian election. Always a privilege, even if I would have voted for the sausage in bread had it been on the ballot. #SAVotes

Good news! The final ENTSO-E report into the Spain blackout is out A complex stew of different factors, but "too much solar" is simply not even among them, let alone a major component. As always: the narrative built by fossil/nuke advocates was wrong www.entsoe.eu/news/2026/03...

As part of our ongoing revival plan, the inaugural Southerly Poetry Prize is now open to all Australian poets. Entries from both established and emerging writers are welcome. #southerly #auslit #poetry #poetryprize

Australian governments subsidising fossil fuel use by more than $30,000 a minute, analysis finds

Lovely.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

No, Tom. The biggest factor distorting "debate" is a mainstream media all too ready to report Hanson uncritically. You mention in passing that the Canberra press gallery will need to adjust how they treat her. But why are they not calling out her racism and toxicity now, as they did 30 years ago?

3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)

An antibiotic used by the Tasmanian salmon farming industry is detected in native species more than 10km away from the closest fish operation using it.

I wish more people knew this

In the middle of ar street

A supermassive black hole of slop collapsing under its own slop gravity

Sweden curling set up a sting operation to catch Canada cheating i’m fucking losing it

I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly. Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Bearing Witness #monoprint Acrylic on Paper #art #printmaking

I think LinkedIn might be the only place on the internet where the widespread and unstoppable spread of machine generated text has made zero noticeable difference to anything

49 years ago today Fred Schneider, Cindy Wilson & Kate Pierson of The B-52′s making their worldwide debut at a Valentine’s Day house party in Athens, GA, February 14, 1977. Photo by Kelly Bugden #punk #punkrock #newwave #womenofpunk #theb52s #history #punkrockhistory

Happy birthday, Chuck. Proud to carry on your legacy of studying evolutionary biology while going through it

A few months later, 'Meanjin' rides again. www.artshub.com.au/news/article...

Vale @kudelka.bsky.social

Jon Kudelka, much-loved Australian political cartoonist, dies aged 53

As the mother of a daughter whose multiple disabilities led to her having to leave her physical high school at 15 to do distance education, I hate to think how isolated she would have been had she not had access to social media. It probably contributed to her still being alive.

Please sign my petition to start an Autumn Olympics where all events empty into a pile of delightful leaves and whatnot.

The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit. Gentle Spades "I'm a veteran"

‘Ignazio Silone, a writer about Italian fascism wrote a book called A School for Dictators, and his line is: “fascism is a counter-revolution to a revolution that never took place”.’ 🔥 podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/v...

And it's only February...

"In 2026, Australian literary festivals are under threat from the culture wars, climate risks, new hate speech laws and ongoing funding scarcity." All true. And also - maybe - at risk from their proliferation. #auslit

It'll be fascinating to see how Australia's first Poet Laureate acts, speaks and writes in fractured times for human rights, free speech, principled dissent, the meaning of social cohesion, & the writing industry. Note the carefully crafted selection process. #auslit creative.gov.au/investments-...

What's the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Japanese meal??

Nonfiction publishers: why not try including the phrase "making of the modern world" in your subtitle?

Laughs bitterly in Australian ...

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

The part of the Australian Music World that we love has a hole in its heart today. Rob Hirst had kindness, substance, drive and ability. Songwriter, Drummer, backing vocalist extraordinaire, entertainer, agitator. Condolences to all those feeling this loss.

So the existential threat posed to humanity by continuing to burn fossil fuels is just not a problem any more? Guess we can all just chill out or something.

Full survey results show American public have high levels of confidence in scientists while revealing some partisan differences (including on how to fund science), but statements asserting lost trust should be read instead as intentional efforts to degrade trust. www.pewresearch.org/science/2026...

Well I think we can all agree that it’s been another big week for social cohesion .

Seemed like a good day for my new shirt

Weird prize takes a weird turn. #Nobel

What we need is a Festival of Hot Takes.

Swiss author Erich von Däniken died last week, aged 90 years. In 2021, I wrote about his 'Chariots of the Gods', among other things, for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy: lithub.com/on-ancient-a...

maybe even a literary magazine

This is an excellent week to go read a book. #Radelaide