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Had a sticky beak in the new Parkville Station, so of course thought of @drdrehistorian.bsky.social 😛 who I imagine is already planning a trip to Melbourne to see the new stations!

just incredibly thrilled to announce that after months and months of uncertainty over the future of the game, and several I have bought Zombies, Run!, the game I co-created and have been making for the past 12 years: zombiesrungame.com observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

Useful thing for Aussie people juggling jobs: the Fair Work Ombudsman has an app called Record My Hours which doesn't store your data (unlike all the other freelancer type apps/programs out there) and lets you track actual hours worked in a way that is lowkey and doesn't add too much cognitive load.

Christopher Pyne, the same person who sought (unsuccessfully) to deregulate university fees in Australia only a decade ago. What acts of social, cultural, and intellectual vandalism does he now have in mind for Australia's National Library? Dark days ahead.

Know anyone who would want to come work with me? 1 year position for someone with a HASS background (don’t need to be a programmer), working on a tool to search historical documents like colonial Hansard. unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only....

YO

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This is appalling! And the most narrow minded view of education, not to mention self contradictory - all we need are micro-certainly, but also do better on research that requires expertise! Also, if politicians want better results in research rankings, maybe they should properly fund research?

Happening on zoom today if anyone would like to come along!

This cause is close to my heart - please sign to stop needless cuts to our national university: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

It baffles me that @australianlabor.bsky.social wants to hang this failed, unfair policy around its neck, when they could condemn it as a folly of the unpopular Morrison government and ditch it. Sign our petition to urge them to abolish it now! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

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I finished reading SPOCK’S WORLD by @diane.dianeduane.com last night with my Star Trek book club and the line that knocked us all flat on our asses was when a smug Vulcan logic bro says “the data speaks for itself,” and Bones replies “NO data speaks for itself. data just lies there. PEOPLE speak.”

Questions to think about when writing a book review: - what does the book argue? - does it adhere to scholarly standards? - does it achieve what the author set out to do? - why did I agree to write a book review? - I mean sure, free book, but now I have to write a book review - ugh this is the worst

3. Historians make for very versatile researchers in non-academic employment but can annoy people by always asking to look at the original sources

‘If Labor won’t act to defend equity in education, what is the point of them – I mean, what do they really stand for?’ Tim Winton in @australia.theguardian.com today. Good question @australianlabor.bsky.social

If you would like to add your voice in support, you can sign here: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/w2nbCBNqgB...

An especially good one today on the humanities in Oz. Every word true. graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

This is very cool 👇 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Thank you, @roopikarisam.bsky.social, for your closing words for #DH2025: 'the future of DH requires access grounded in accountability; repair sustained by care; scholarship driven by solidarity' And also, 'hope and strategy are very important things to hold onto right now'

I saw Flavor Flav in the mirror

That sound you can hear is historians spluttering all over their monitors

Douthat also fundamentally misunderstands how college teaching generally works, even in the relatively narrow areas that he targets (but mistakenly assumes to be the whole of higher education). Take my field history, for example, where we often emphasize the analysis of primary sources./4

Just saw Hadestown with the last Melbourne (Australian?) show. Phenomenal!

world history in a single post

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity make them shut down the hotline use all your best Borg jokes

Australian universities. Where people going through bruising cost-cutting and change management processes decide to put themselves forward for Voluntary Separation Schemes (VSS), their vacant positions are then abolished, and the column headed 'Staff impact' reads: 'Nil.' Fuck you ANU leadership.

Good luck DECRA applicants!

We saw this in the UK too: All of the allegedly "reasonable" concerns about bone density, low-quality research, lack of long-term follow-up, profits for Big Pharma, etc — magically disappear when it comes to cisgender kids receiving the exact same treatments.

It's way down on the list of horrors, but National Parks having to post signs asking visitors to report anything there that provides "information that [is] negative about either past or living Americans" is utterly pathetic. The past isn't all positive, kids. I'm sorry if that hurts your feelings.

He was bored and knows no one there likes him. He’s still upset his birthday parade was a failure. So he went home.

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Many historians are quite bad at remembering historical dates

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders. Australian historians sometimes need to travel overseas to access Australian records. Pacific historians sometimes have to travel to Australia, NZ and the United Kingdom to access their records, etc.

the mainstream media has been steadily buying into the idea that science and academia are somehow "captured" by left and liberal ideologues, rather than the more obvious explanation that measured analysis leads people away from reactionary thought

A follow up on the original video noted that she was released and the arresting cop was told off by his boss, but seriously what the fuck.

I love this so much they wanted a big counterprotest sooooo bad so they would have an excuse to do some violent bullshit and instead they are just squeaking their way down empty silent streets looking like huge losers. NO ONE CAME TO HIS BIRTHDAY PARTY. he is going to lose his mind

Oh my gosh. Cutest thing ever. #CatsofBluesky

I think I’m in with a good chance of survival

Showin off them pantaloons. Photo from my collection, no written date/info.

this is one of the most batshit things I’ve ever seen and I live in a literal monarchy where the king’s birthday is a national holiday on Google calendar

Wow I mean nobody* saw this coming. *Everybody. Literally everybody. Recluses in remote hermitages. Antarctic penguins. Newborn seal pups. Babes in the womb. Anyone with two eyes and a working amygdala. Plant life.

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? June @wearehades.bsky.social seminar features Sébastien Plutniak presenting on #archeofrag - software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites. 10 June, 2pm - 3pm, Zoom rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Location in archaeology: How certain are we this thing was there? Next @wearehades.bsky.social seminar, Sébastien Plutniak presents his research and introduces archeofrag, software to analyse spatial relationships in archaeological sites. 10 June, register: rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/locati...

Being asked to call themselves the “Nationalss” was just a step too far.

Each Liberal MP will have to take 8 opposition spokes roles at this rate. You get a portfolio, you get a portfolio, you get another portfolio, and you all get more portfolios. #auspol