Finally going to see One Battle After Another today: wheeeee!

It’s nearly a year since my Night Shift colleagues and I submitted a paper to a journal (April 2025), then revised along the lines suggested and re-submitted (in Oct), then today received an acceptance (with a few more revisions optional)… academic publishing sometimes moves slowly hey… #AcademicSky

I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T

Ugh. This is climate change:

Graffiti, Firenze #vivagaza

My current office, in one of the spaces for visiting fellows at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze

So terrifying that this not made up.

The cafe/bar of my one of my favourite public libraries in the world, the Biblioteca Delle Oblate in Firenze.

Waiting for the storm, Firenze (on a day of a national general strike).

Not only dreaming spires, but tagging ‘SPIRE’ #oxford

Library life:

I love me a nice library

In Oxford, far right nationalists on one side of the road, and anti-racism protesters on the other…Cops in the middle of the road.

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."

Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.

All too recognisable.

Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol

"In an announcement (...) San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith said that it would no longer carry books by J.K. Rowling because of her ongoing support of anti-trans policies. Accompanying the post was a list of fantasy books that 'might fit the Harry Potter brief for you and yours.'"

Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Read this. #freepalestine #ceasefire #sanctionsnow

I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to

No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.

New ink

🚨 Important database of cases where lawyers were found to have used AI-hallucinated materials. Covers multiple jurisdictions, mostly anglophone systems.🚨

I'm going to try to write a thread to entice people to read this piece I published last night. A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about. You should be. 🧵

Kaliane Bradley, sparkling and funny as she chats about The Ministry of Time, Melbourne Writers’ Festival #BookSky

Samantha Harvey, reading from Orbital, at the Melbourne Writers Festival #BookSky

Here it is!! The first in a series from new voices. Chloe Young of Edinburgh Uni discussing her #research on #women in the #Nighttime economy for #sensory #criminology: sensorycriminology.com/2025/05/12/t...

Just throwing this out there but is Tixel a scam? I sold two concert tix through the site and they’re now claiming there’s an error in my account and payment can’t be made, and there’s no way of emailing them and only a bot to answer queries… #tixel

FUND UNIVERSITIES. PROPERLY. #ausvotes

Worried about the electorate of Melbourne now…#auspol

Can’t believe Dutton has the nerve to invoke this year’s ANZAC Day after neo-Nazis hijacked the Welcome to Country, creating an opportunity for Dutton to criticise Welcomes as ‘divisive’. It’s not really a gracious speech, he was always a cruel and opportunistic politician #BinNight

Loving all the potato masher and baked potato imagery on this site #auspol

I’m enjoying the ‘Peter Dutton has lost his seat’ narrative but would also like it if we could have a bit of ‘Ali France has won, what a triumph’ #auspol

Exhaling with relief, and just starting to acknowledge how scared I was that the result would go the other way #auspol

‘Very few Liberal supports have shown up’ says the reporter at the Liberal HQ lol lol lol #auspol

The powerful white guy Liberal just said on the ABC that conservatives are getting de-platformed 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 #auspol

May Peter Dutton join Howard and Abbott as leaders whose seat fell out of their pants #auspol

Chalmers is twirling in his seat with delight #auspol #electionnight

A vote for The Thug is also a vote for the most witless, vacuous, incompetent front bench in living memory: Angus Taylor, Sussssan Ley, Barnaby Joyce, Jane Hume, Michaelia Cash, James Paterson…what an appalling thought.

I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with Harry Fong and his Trumpet of Idiots text messages #auspol

I’m in Vancouver and HBO is on the hotel TV, so last night I watched The Last of Us and hoooooweeee so intense so intense so intense. #TheLastOfUs

Just finished #AllFours by #MirandaJuly and feeling as though a layer has been peeled away from the surface of the world.

Great to participate in a panel with law and humanities/urban studies scholars at the ICUA in Vancouver today #AcademicSky

sharing a bathroom with trans people is a complete non-issue to me but I object strongly to sharing bathrooms with TERFs

Beautiful Dawn this morning , on this Transgender Day of Visibility 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️

Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...

Our research project on night shift work is featured in this article: we need urban design that takes into account the needs of night workers #cities www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...

Hectic day at work, but new suit, so hey…

I did not have ‘the US President uses the presidency to do an ad for the car manufactured by his bud’ on my bingo card for 2025. #tesla #yetanothernewlow