If I need to read one more piece of Auspol/USpol crossover fan fiction I am going to scream

We have two upcoming guest lectures with Professor Ghassan Hage (@manchester.ac.uk). Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html Friday, 14 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html #envhum #envhist #environmentaljustice @anthroprofhage.bsky.social

What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.

Abbott's new book really should be sold with a free raw onion

This is properly brilliant 👇

"People with a disability and Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in the data. About 33% of all suspensions affected those with a disability, and at least 26% of all suspensions affected First Nations people."

Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind

Bit more Aussie outback ❤️

Australian outback ❤️

Two years ago, burned out to the point of random vomiting, I put my hand up for a voluntary redundancy from the academic job I loved. On my first day unemployed I took a train to the outback.

Time for a ruin photo ... This one was at Wongyarra, South Australia.

I've been a member of @aaup.org for years, and I couldn't be more pleased, now that we've affiliated with @texasaft.org, to say I'm a union member too.

OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

So, exactly as Horne put it in 1964 then?

Something strange about how history and qualitative methodologies are so deeply embedded in the work of the last few economics Nobel picks, while the field itself does not appear to reward these interests in younger scholars.

This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.

This is at 5am Saturday for me in Australia but I’ll be trying to attend the LABOR Big Book Forum, This Friday, 10/17, 2-4 pm ET) via Zoom. The forum features Rudi Batzell's new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025 to register for the event.

Laugh. Cry. Another cracker from @thejuicemedia.com. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

It Is spring In Australia ai the garden is full of woke, useless flowers hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-econom...

(By the way, nobody knows more about this than @hannahforsyth.bsky.social and you should subscribe to her blog right now! hannahforsyth.substack.com)

I love how cops are trying really hard not to look at the donuts.

We are millimetres from the AirBNB university.

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Omg it’s the bird vote again. 😳

It was hell, reveals former egg.

The campaigning organisation that represents disabled people within Labour had to cancel plans to attend this week’s conference in Liverpool after the party asked it to pay thousands of pounds in fees. #Labour #LabConf25 www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-l...

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️ Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians? 1/

Union for life. So honoured.

Oof

#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!

This helped me improve my understanding both of rail ballast and how oral poetry traditions convey information

Just to clarify: Respect the dead or you’ll be fired(charlie kirk) But don’t respect the dead or you’ll be fired (george floyd)

A lot of Hmmmmmmm!ing happening whenever your work appears. 🙌

Much attention has been on ANU but the governance crisis is broad and deep across the sector. Close scrutiny needs to be applied *everywhere*. This is shameful from UTS management.

Just posted this up at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social and you can read and respond here. It's an excerpt from "What Have The Police Been Doing?" published in San Francisco, in 1866, and it's a Twain piece I've wanted to share in this forum for years. It felt like the right moment.

Watching the Appleton Ladies Potato Race and 💯 appreciate the way the subtitles specify the bird call [currawong song] not just [birdsong]. 👩‍🍳😘

PS I think our takes on the meaning of the abundance agenda are somewhat similar jacobin.com/2025/07/klei...

Shauna Bostock on Aboriginal truth telling at the Blackheath History Forum.

Most read in Labour History '“Selling Their Jobs?” Thatcherism, Voluntary Redundancy and Worker Resocialisation' by Greig Taylor & Matthew McDonald Read it online: bit.ly/LH-Thatcherism @drdrehistorian.bsky.social @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

Just to emphasize: in these three letters, written in Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cádiz, by Portuguese, Dutch, and Tuscan merchants, between 1663-1681, and held in three different archives (Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, Stadsarchief Amsterdam, and Archivio di Stato di Firenze), they all love chocolate

Purple sprouting broccoli. ❤️

A piece of this I tried to capture is that, even if Trump and the MAGA media succeed in deflecting some of this from Trump, this document offers so much evidence that supports the *broader* framework of elite rot and corruption. All of that has to go somewhere. I fear it's not gonna go anywhere good

Matthew Ryan reviews @hannahforsyth.bsky.social 's Virtue Capitalists: The Rise and Fall of the Professional Class in the Anglophone World, 1870–2008 @universitypress.cambridge.org tinyurl.com/2pyxhch5 🧵4/5

I miss when “purity tests” were simply called “principles.”

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution