14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "

Thank goodness for journalists like @davemilbo.bsky.social who will actually critically think and offer us ways of making sense of the world, rather than most Aussie journos this week regurgitating right wing, Zionist talking points that make hay out of tragedy and do not help anyone understand.

This is a chilling effort of silencing dissent and will have pernicious and damaging effects across schooling, higher ed, creative industries and more. To push this through by capitalising on a tragedy while families, friends, and broader society are grieving is ghoulish opportunism

Annual call for feedback for the Academic Workload Tracker if you've been using it before @brkeogh.bsky.social updates it for 2026! He's also added a link you can fill in your details to be notified when it is updated. If you've never used it before, then here is my STRONG ENCOURAGEMENT to do so!

Anyone trying to make political capital from this sickening attack on Sydney's Jewish community should be ashamed of themselves.

You don’t have to look hard in Australia to see how the politicisation of childhood as a time of life is wielded by power hungry politicians. Children—simultaneously too innocent to scroll instagram and always already potentially delinquent with ‘adult’ consequences required.

The Albanese govt's failure to overturn the Morrison government's $50,000 arts degrees can only mean one of two things: - they're happy with LNP higher ed policy, or - they are far more interested in just holding power than doing anything useful with it. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...

Are you going to #BISA2026? @drswhite.bsky.social, @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Katie Hodgkinson and I have two CPFs for your consideration: Roundtable: "Integrating a youth lens across Intl Studies". Panel: "Shaping the intl through a lens of accountability to children & young ppl"

Read @yaguerika.bsky.social & I for @thediplomat.com on youth peace leadership in Southeast Asia & ASEAN’s complex role. If you love this short piece, dive into the open-access article it draws from in The Pacific Review here: doi.org/10.1080/0951...

“Allowing the crisis in Gaza to deepen with apparent impunity undermines our messaging about the rule of law — our adversaries use this to accuse us of double standards.” A stark private warning in a DFAT document obtained under #FOI laws www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/06/d...

“In short it would be a hammer blow to independence of research and inquiry. We entirely reject that proposal.” Read the full statement: nteu.info/envoy

At my institution we all talk in circles around each other because the AI boosters and the AI critics aren't even speaking the same language and don't have the same worldviews. And none of the conversations matter because admin has already decided that the AI critics are cranks

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

Yesterday I joined Austin Pollock on 6 News' Newswire podcast to talk about the UK's decision to lower the voting age to 16 before the next general election, and what it might mean for Australia. 6 News is largely run by young people themselves, so great to speak w Austin! youtu.be/PuB8yIhUpck?...

Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...

University friends, please read, sign and share this open letter: overland.org.au/2025/07/open...

⬇️ this. A reminder that no parts of an F35 are non-lethal. The whole damn plane is lethal. All parts of it enable that lethality.

Young refuseniks burn their IOF draft papers in the middle of Tel Aviv They refuse to serve in the Israeli Occupation Forces, and are willing to go to military jail for their position. The new generation of refuseniks is supported by the older, many of them spent months in jail already

"The burden is falling disproportionately on the next generation. ... These are just highly talented & idealistic young people seeking knowledge ... & prepared to endure precarious employment conditions & increasingly uncertain career paths to pursue that mission." graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/w...

Cautiously pleased that the ARC seems to have listened to an overwhelming number of submissions and added a specific scheme for ECRs to their proposed changes. This was a significant concern I held with the initial announcement of changes. Will be important to see how they do this in practice …

Excellent from the routinely clear and courageous Louise Adler.

Yeah, it's quite the paradox that the people who understand AI aren't impressed by it. A real head scratcher.

If you believe your social rights are being threatened by this egregious overreach of public censorship, here is the contact link to let ASECA know what you think Keep it civil. Use your voice Your taxes are funding this - you have a right to be heard 👇🏽 #share www.aseca.gov.au/form/get-in-...

"This is nearly 800 people who have been killed while trying to access aid," she said, adding that "most of the injuries are gunshot injuries", UN rights office spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Hello to anyone else going to #OCIS2025 this week in Sydney! I’ll be there and keen for hellos, hugs, awkward waves, coffees, whatever other kind of interaction you’d prefer 🎉

“That the government’s case for proscribing Palestine Action is both threadbare and blatantly political was on full view in the House of Commons this week.” www.opendemocracy.net/en/palestine...

Students and citizens in #Serbia are being arrested, beaten, and declared enemies of the state for opposing Vučić's authoritarian regime. Academic colleagues anywhere in the world, please sign this petition in solidarity with them & spread the message.

The governance crisis at ANU is a national scandal. Julie Bishop must go. We need sector-wide reform. www.afr.com/politics/fed...

ANU executives spent $11M on travel, in the latest available reporting year. This year, ANU college of arts and social sciences is being forced to cut $6.1M. Make this make sense. vimeo.com/1098376260/f...

If only there were a government that cared about higher education

New article 🥳! Richard Fosu and I have a new piece in @jisb.bsky.social! Open access! We examine UN docs on #YPS to reveal how ideas of youth are constituted by institutional actors. We pay close attn to discursive contestation over the norm of youth inclusion within YPS. doi.org/10.1080/1750...

Here's a gift link to the piece about how the world's richest man decided to kill the world's poorest children. wapo.st/3GjK8qn

“But, to paraphrase David Graeber, at some point we have to wonder if the immiseration is the point.” insidestory.org.au/dropping-out...

I am absolutely delighted to announce that my first book, Girls, Power and International Development: Agency and Activism in the Global North and South, was published last week with @brisunipress.bsky.social bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/girls-power-...

Regarding this there just seems this growing sense that *something* is happening at Universities but no one is quite sure what. Because that would mean a serious investigation and no one quite has the energy. (The post is very worth reading btw)

So pleased this is now out! It has been wonderful to be along for the ride and support @yaguerika.bsky.social’s excellent thinking on this piece. I get to be a proud supervisor, and an enthusiastic encourager for you to read it! It is Open Access!

But it will take more than statements to prevent Israel from weaponising humanitarian aid. Any state that is “deeply concerned” about Gaza’s humanitarian situation should heed the call for a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy and take concrete action to break the siege. www.abc.net.au/religion/as-...

Watching Penny Wong glacially inch from "concern" to "condemning" Israel's actions in Palestine while the rest of us wake up to daily videos of people obliterated by US bombs with the tacit approval of our government is like having one of those nightmares where you scream and no sound comes out

Re last re-post, all of this. @bennosaurus.com on point

the only reasonable action at this point

No one ever asks why Israel needs to let in aid trucks in the first place… Because once you ask this question you have to acknowledge Israel’s occupation that controls every single aspect of Palestinian life and that that control is so violent it necessitates humanitarian aid.

This is just humanitarian theatre. Stop focusing on the number of trucks (that’s what the genocidal regime wants) and start focusing on the ongoing slaughter and the latest genocidal pronouncements of the Israel government.

Israel will allow only nine aid trucks into Gaza after nearly 80 days of total siege. The decision comes as more than 2.4 million Palestinians face worsening famine. Gaza requires over 500 trucks of humanitarian aid every day to meet basic needs. qudsnen.co/gaza-faces-w...

Required weekend reading is @davemilbo.bsky.social for @theshot.net.au on weasel words by our PM & our complicity in genocide. “Australian weapons components become weapons that turn Palestinian children into the components of Palestinian children. It really is quite simple”

listen guys stop virtue signalling, eurovision is for everyone

one last time before tonight: it is not too late to #boycotteurovision. please consider how eurovision & israel exploit your presence & spending to present israel as a normal state, & to hide the atrocities it commits as it performs. don’t let them. rasterverkosto.wordpress.com/2024/02/21/n...