The failure to reform Scott Morrison’s JRG & fix the timing of indexation is saddling hundreds of thousands of students with tens of thousands $$ in debt. It’s totally unsustainable & past time the Albanese Govt treated this reform with the urgency it deserves. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

@josephc.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social and I are at poster #21 findings from large scale survey of 800 researchers on how they use LMs in their research #colm2025

As an expert on help-seeking, I'm not surprised that AI makes it harder for students to develop strong relationships with teachers. Because AI means they can get help without asking an actual human teacher, but it doesn't address the distrust that makes it hard for many students to ask. 1/

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

Cool parcel in the post of an "Ed-tech Agitprop Pack" unexpectedly sent by @neilselwyn.bsky.social "The ed-tech that we're currently dealing with is not a done deal!" as the accompanying note says.

Do you ever think about the fact that Wikipedia is the last good major website on the internet? You aren't bombarded with ads. It doesn't try to push video on you, and it doesn't redirect you to a scam site.

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

#FOI requests granted in full have plummeted under @albomp.bsky.social. His response? Introduce a Bill into Parliament that substantially expands the information officials can withhold from you. How’s that for transparency? #auspol

New from Human Organization: Artificial Intelligence and the End(s) of Qualitative Data Analysis by Michael R. Duke doi.org/10.1080/0018... #SfAA #SocialScience #Anthropology #AppliedAnthropology #HumanOrganization #QualitativeAnalysis

For their first project, my Kids and Society students have to create an infographic clarifying a common misconception about "kids these days." I'd prefer that they not use AI to create their projects, so I made my own infographic explaining why : )

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Hard to see how Aus govt intro of co-payment into aged care won't just lead to women particularly being pressured into more care for ageing parents www.myagedcare.gov.au/upcoming-cha... mirrors Jess Calarco's contention from the US in Holding It Together that women are the default social safety net

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

This is the truest statement I’ve seen about AI harms

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

This long read in The Verge does a remarkable job of describing how Wikipedia's editing community works, the project's strengths and weaknesses, and the threats it faces. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings

absolutely! brilliant sociologist Arlie Russel Hochschild will receive the Siegfried Landshut-Prize 2024, and I think that's just the bare minimum 🙂 congrats!

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say

Would like some clarity on how this applies to Australian privacy laws also

Now this is a journalist who deserves respect.

Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer theconversation.com/universities...

The federal government continues to exploit students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, women were most affected by the scheme and Indigenous students, who are more likrky to study arts snd socusl scurnce degrees. Why? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

While US activists protest Palantir, Australians should take note: Palantir operates here in Defence, Westpac and more, with similar AI surveillance systems potentially deployed for immigration enforcement or other targeting like protests. We need proactive privacy safeguards now

“Finocchiaro's dismissal of a damning coronial report into racism in the territory's police force perfectly illustrated one of its central themes of the coronial report: police and their masters close ranks to protect their own.” satpa.pe/gEmlVSn

Lectures aren’t everything in higher education but they are a fundamentally important connector between students and knowledge, students with each other and students with their educators. These matter. Good to see a fight back. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

this could fix me

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

jacobin.com/2025/08/gend... Great interview with Stephanie Coontz on the origins of the current "Gender Wars"

Canada has much lower levels of social segregation in its schools, and higher levels of equity and achievement. Chris Bonnor and Tom Greenwell argue our government must demonstrate much greater ambition if we are to enhance equity and achievement in our schools. https://loom.ly/qMmKeHQ

Finding a way to think through what AI and digital literacy is relevant for your students requires workibg backward from industry with a plan - i wrore one! www.education.unsw.edu.au/news-events/...

Incredibly useful site with resources for resisting the AI hype including assessments and lessons on deep learning

You might’ve noticed a familiar face showing up in profile pictures all over the internet lately… Clippy, the old Microsoft Office paperclip. Here’s how it became a symbol for anti-Big Tech sentiment: 🧵 1/7

A withering cautionary tale from the US of what happens when a university betray its core functions of creating lifelong learners widely across all disciplines - for who knows the future?- and instead embraces tech start-up functioning.

"While young people are being charged an astonishing $50,000 for an arts degree, it’s a little-noticed fact that the govt is providing much of our natural gas to multinational companies for free" Budgets are about choices. The Albanese govt is making the wrong ones. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

The targeted killing of Anas al-Sharif and five other journalists on Sunday means at least 242 Palestinian journalists have been killed by Israeli forces since the beginning of October 2023. No conflict in modern history has seen a higher number of journalists killed.

Another humanitarian group – this time, Doctors without Borders – concludes Israel is deliberately killing the very people it has been starving by shooting them as they queue for aid. Its report is titled: "This is not aid. This is orchestrated killing." www.msf.org/not-aid-orch...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

It is deeply unfair in the fourth year of the Albanese Govt for students to still be wracking up eye watering debt under a system we know - and they recognise - has failed. Reforming JRG is urgent - time to take it out of the too hard basket. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

Humanities & social science graduates are more employable than some other degrees though their wages are not elite. Saddling students with a lifetime debt is unjust, counterproductive for an economy needing creative & critical thinkers and distinctly not aligned with Labor values. What is the delay?

"There is no evidence criminalising a child’s behaviour deters an individual from offending; this in fact does the opposite and entrenches criminal behaviour for that young person and for their Northern Territory community. This will not make our communities safer." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/08...

Oh my god, this is very very good from @jemima.bsky.social: "It is a sunny Sunday in June and I am sitting in a Porsche with a man I recently matched with on Bumble, two Spanish sighthounds, an intersex DJ and Curtis Yarvin." on.ft.com/41ugaqV

Fierce criticism of Minister Amanda Rishworth from @pennyallmanpayne.com, ACOSS CEO Cassandra Goldie and firm remarks from Ombudsman Iain Anderson make very clear the $440,000 Deloitte Report into mutual obligations issues must be released to the public IMMEDIATELY. news.com.au/national/pol...

The economy feels stuck because it is. @annpettifor.bsky.social explains how wealth hoarding kills growth & why taxing the rich gets money flowing again. Each dollar does 70% less work today than it did 10 years ago. Why? Because it’s trapped at the top. A Back-to-Basics essential: buff.ly/tYrIaq7

NEW: Incredible scenes in Sydney, Australia today as tens of thousands march for Gaza, demanding an end to the genocide. #MarchForHumanity (🎥 Ema Franklin)

Here is a nicely curated syllabus on the political economy of AI, with rather recent papers, and a diversity of takes and angles. www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-politi...