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...

Private consultants are taking control of how public universities are evaluated and run. My submission to the Senate university governance inquiry raises concerns about the impact of Nous Group and their dodgy UniForum data on our universities. www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStor... A thread

I am one of the staff members impacted by this. I truly thought when I first read the email that it might mean my job is safe because I have not yet been made redundant, but, no, I am still facing the axe. It was a maliciously cruel email to send.

@drdemography.com Thank you for your words and for speaking up. We are with you.

Important open letter concerning the poor and rapidly worsening treatment of our casual sessional colleagues at @ouranu.bsky.social ANU staff please read and consider adding your signatures. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check in with your colleagues this week, and please submit feedback about these damaging and unnecessary cuts. Support from academics and students is critical.

This is based on an interview I did last week. For days, I’ve been anxious about repercussions for speaking to media. I was totally overwhelmed to discover today that my colleagues have all stuck their necks out with me. I have the best colleagues! www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...

Day after this puff piece went out, I was called into a meeting to tell me I'm in a spill and fill along with three amazing friends and colleagues. To the meeting, I wore Nanyang 205S Sneakers. For those who know, they are as much a style item as a Tesco Bag for Life. 👟

ANU VC made a serious allegation against NTEU ACT division secretary today on ABC radio, totally unchallenged. Asked why the VC hadn’t met with the union head, Bell claimed Clohesy screams out front the VC’s building for the VC to rot in hell. Gobsmacking allegation. It’s untrue.

NTEU supports the Australian Council of Trade Unions call for an end to the occupation of Palestine and a just and sustainable peace. Read the full statement here: nteu.info/actustatement @australianunions.bsky.social

Both ANU economics profs and Standard & Poors suggest that ANU is breaking even in the latest financials. So why is ANU Council authorising these deep and damaging cuts? If S&P are wrong, ANU should explain how. I'm running for ANU Council because I believe the current situation is untenable.

By deskilling household surveys, AR4D produces poor social science, devalues field officers and perpetuates colonial hierarchies of knowledge. Ben Eyre and I argue that to challenge this we need alternative repertoires of 'scientific rigor' like 'situated knowledges'. doi.org/10.1177/0030...

ANU Council vote is a damning indictment on the leadership & governing body. Staff have had enough. I believe Dr Francis Markham is best-suited. Francis is a fearless & formidable advocate who will stand up for the ANU community & hold Council to account www.anu.edu.au/about/govern...

Narratives of research misconduct in China reproduce Orientalist prejudices and romanticize science in the West. In my new article, I suggest some starting points for a more inclusive and less nostalgic conversation about audit cultures and the futures of global science. doi.org/10.1080/1875...

Excited to be hosting @anthroprofhage.bsky.social at ANU next Monday. Join his seminar in-person or online at 3pm AEST. archanth.cass.anu.edu.au/events/pierr....

Happy IWD to everyone except the Vice Chancellor of ANU whose corrupt and incompetent management of the institution has meant that the “remarkable female leaders” she celebrates, including myself, wake up every day not knowing if we will even have a job in the coming weeks #VoteNoConfidence #ANU

@blatmannaama.bsky.social and @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social on the dangerous new antisemitism definition adopted by universities. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/media/jewish...

In a not so subtle attack on students protesting genocide in Palestine, ANU just enacted a policy that prevents our staff and students from posting posters without affixing their names to it.

Excited to be back at LSE for this double book launch event next month. Come say hi if you're in London!

In 'Science Interrupted', Timothy McLellan draws from his fieldwork within an agroforestry research institute in southwest China to investigate and break down audit cultures and the practice of dealing with bureaucracy within scientific research.

In light of the Max Planck Society’s appalling treatment of Professor Ghassan Hage, I am withdrawing from a speaking event at a Max Planck Institute. Here is my email to the event organizer explaining why.

SCIENCE INTERRUPTED by Timothy G. McLellan examines how scientists in China pursue environmental sustainability within the constraints of domestic and international bureaucracies. Available now: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...