Another craven act of surrender by Big Tech. There is exactly zero merit to this lawsuit. For Google to pay Trump off adds it to the long list of companies that have decided to be complicit in his attack on free speech www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Taking time off for school holidays. Got to September and realised tank was empty... Teddy helps

I have a piece on "Ivory Washing" coming out shortly which looks at the misuse of academic expertise to provide unwarranted legitimacy to political views. This is one of my case studies

🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio. It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence... 1/2

Hmmmmmmm! www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Even the external barrister hired to do the internal review of a NSW GIPA (FoI) decision was told it didn't exist. But it did. It had been emailed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Prof. Kathryn McGrath, as requested. She said she discussed it with the VC. The VC signed the contract!

University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Black Hawk-Eagle at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #nature #birds

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

Fat Bear Week has begun

Tozi just paused chewing on her bone to snap at a passing fly, caught it expertly, then spat it out because yuck. It moved, she killed it gently with her teeth taking care to not let the yucky thing in her mouth then went back to her bone.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

interim report by Senate cttee on university governance - www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Last week a badly injured Powerful Owlet was rescued, so @lucyparkerpaul.bsky.social & I went & found the parents so that if it recovered it could be released. Hearing today the Owlet was doing well, I went to see if they were still there & found this adult with a bat. Fingers crossed for the Owlet.

Governance at #ANU has been a disaster in recent times. But fixing it doesn't mean aligning it with practices at other universities - the problems are widespread. @nteunion.bsky.social is among those calling for new models of governance altogether. ✊ www.abc.net.au/religion/anu...

No Heron Here. Here's No Heron. Here? No! None at all!

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Chipping Sparrows are always smaller than you think they're going to be. I have a pair that migrates to the neighborhood every year! They love to check next to curbs (in and out of the street) and patrol (hop, hop, hop) sidewalks 🪶 🌿

Perth Big spring Orchid show is on this weekend! The smell of the native Dendrobium speciosums is soo intense!

🎉🎉🎉 Captured one of my favorite birds in flight this morning in Central Park. You can only really see the Northern Flicker's yellow-shafted feathers in flight! Just spectacular! 💛❤️💛 #Flicker #CentralPark #birding

The weather is very wet & windy, the power is out (so no coffee 😢) and my eldest has flu 😷… so looking back at some of our best moth visitors from last year. I really hope this stunning Dichromodes sp. visits again! #teammoth #mothsmatter #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera

No wonder I was excluded. ANU Council voted on so-called renewal, that paved the way for forced redundancies. I would never have supported this. Shame on the Council. This is shocking governance. www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-educa...

RIP Conor Gearty

We are busy writing a grant proposal today #sophiefromromania

North Korea executing more people for watching foreign films and TV, UN finds

OK, all you pantaloon fans, check out the legs on this stunning Red-tailed Hawk! Spotted atop a lamppost in Central Park this morning. 👖👖👖 #Hawks #CentralPark #birding

AHRC scoping review on health inequities in Australia - humanrights.gov.au/our-work/rac...

That's it my friends, I have received my thesis examination reports. I'll have three weeks to address my examiners' concerns. I'm so grateful for their comments and recommendation 🙏🙏🙏 Stay well and I hope to see you all soon 🥰

A grassroots group of academics campaigning against the staff cuts said ... “The issues at the heart of this crisis go beyond the vice chancellor. This has been years in the making, the product of deep governance failures that have damaged the university’s finances, reputation, and community trust.

regulation problems - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

I'm really pleased that @royentsoc.bsky.social is hosting a workshop on ethics in insect research later today at #Ento25. It's an area where the UK entomology community can and should lead the way. Can't make it? You can still access my slides here: drive.google.com/file/d/1rBzi...

New addition! 🌍 Hamerkop (Scopus umbretta) #AfricanBirds #ArabianBirds #AsianBirds | #Hamerkop #Hammerhead #HammerheadStork #Umbrette #ScopusUmbretta | #Hamerkops #HamerkopFamily #Pelecaniformes #Waterbirds 📷: Photo by Pixel-mixer🦜 #MyBirdcards | #birdsoftheworld #birds

Tax Practitioner Board has banned former PwC Australia boss Tom Seymour for 4 years over the audit and consulting firm’s misuse of confidential government tax plans. A missed opportunity for structural reform. 🧵

A handy dandy swooping magpie map 😆 www.magpiealert.com

waiting on overdue departure of two people down the road: You have sat too long for any good you have been doing lately. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of good governance, go!

We're calling on #ANU to clarify what is actually going on. While palace intrigues go on behind closed doors in Chancelry, more than 100 staff are still facing forced redundancies. The VC's leadership is untenable. Join the @nteunion.bsky.social at www.nteu.au/join. ✊

NZ Law Commission report 'Ia Tangata: Protections in the Human Rights Act 1993 for people who are transgender, people who are non-binary and people with innate variations of sex characteristics' www.lawcom.govt.nz/assets/Publi...

Eastern tiger swallowtail on a bottlebrush buckeye #Inverts

Black Swallowtail on bottlebrush buckeye ... some summer day #Inverts

Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement is simultaneously groundbreaking and trivial, a paradox that reveals how AI has fundamentally altered the economics of copyright infringement. Full story up now on Copyright Lately: copyrightlately.com/anthropic-se...

building a fit for purpose TEQSA - www.education.gov.au/download/194...

"A genuine and in-depth engagement of cognition, knowledge and education reveals that education is a thoroughly complex, relational, dynamic and interpersonal human endeavour... qualities that defy datafication, measurement and automation"

Dydd Sul hapus i chi oddi wrtha'i a'r Drudwy 'ma - nawr yng ngwisg y gaeaf. Happy Sunday to you from me and this Starling - now in Winter Plumage. #birds #birdphotography #nature #NaturePhotography #BirdsOnBlueSky @rspb.bsky.social @mybirdcards.com @wicicymru.bsky.social @thephotohour.bsky.social

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‘In what Wilderness Australia described as “the most significant outcome for forest conservation in NSW in 25 years”, the government has committed to the full 176,000 hectares.’ www.smh.com.au/environment/...