The value of democratically organised universities for making urgent change, in this case at the New School: check out utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/12/line...

This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.

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This Is Just To Say I have eaten Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, and who you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me he was delicious so sweet and so cold

Merry Christmas one and all, from the Vaders 🎄

I don’t want to brag, but Christmas in summer is the best. 🎄🥂

What a time to decide to learn less about the world. dailytarheel.com/article/univ...

All you have to do is look at the ed tech pushed over the last few decades! Little of it worked, unless you assume the goal is to find ways to stop paying teachers and professors.

Yesterday the IT guy told me that my authentication app is in German because my phone is too old for the app to update and this is my punishment for not buying a new phone. OTOH my very poor German is very slightly improving so I’m winning actually.

“Ahmed Al Ahmed. He saved my life & my 4yr old” “I can only say thank you to that Muslim brother” This is what the media should show. Messages of unity & hope from survivors. Despite that it’s not the answer this Sky News journo was seeking. #auspol #Bondi

I am undone by “it may take many flushes,” when referencing getting a rat out of your toilet. #pnw #flood

Shocking to blame Gaza protesters (which include his own MPs), but even more disturbing is the rationale for protest repression. It isn’t about risk at the event. It’s that expressing contentious political views might vaguely undermine community harmony. The problem is political expression itself.

Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger" theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

A university is so much more than its bricks and mortar facilities. It is also an eduroam network with intermittent access

Neither MUP nor the Melbourne University council even tried to save Meanjin. In fact they chose *not* to pursue offers to help save it. They also actively ignored the advice of the independent review they commissioned into Meanjin's sustainability. They just shut it.

Cartoon by @bagleycartoons.bsky.social.

guy who can't use the printer and refuses to learn: we need to embrace the new and transformative potentials that AI offers

A must-read from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/love-and-h...

Actually means “don’t email me or invite me to a meeting until February”.

Hard relate to seals stopping the world rn.

Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"

Horrific. Wanton destruction of what was a thriving faculty.

This is fucked 👇

From experience I can say that Academia is as cultish and exploitative as evangelical Christianity. However the conferences are more fun.

That’s because it’s a cult. I mean it’s a great cult and I love everything about it. Well, except for the cultish bits.

Thank you Liam, I’m going to hunt through the arbitration records for property titles too now 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

WTF Flinders. 🤬

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

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1/5 The attack on the BBC is an alignment of four interest groups that has been years in the making:

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

If you are interested higher education, read this. If you are not, read this. Excellent from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

godamnnnn i feel seen

The world needs is even as the universities collapse. open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Won't say which r/Australian_university this comes from, but someone gets it.

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.