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For a concise analysis of the cultural significance of Universities in the Pacific, it's worth consulting @nonwayne.bsky.social 's recent book review: dx.doi.org/10.31646/am.... He might be dealing with literary matters, but the role of regional universities shines through.

Oh, I almost forgot about this one! New review out from yours truly of Maebh Long and Matthew Hayward's The Rise of Pacific Literature: Decolonization, Radical Campuses, and Modernism for Affirmations: of the modern doi.org/10.31646/am....

A wonderful article from three wonderful friends and colleagues, led by Claire Brennan. At once bleak and hopeful, it details the practical cost of cuts to the humanities and the propects for arts education to live on in the digital commons doi.org/10.1080/0082...

Congratulations to my wonderful colleagues on the other side of the country at UTas for the publication of a special issue of the Australian Journal of Biography and History on writing Tasmanian stories! Particular kudos to @drmilthorpe.bsky.social for editing! doi.org/10.22459/AJB...

Crediting and citing Indigenous Knowledges within research academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Viewing Archie Moore's Biennale-winning exhibition Kith & Kin immediately gave me an idea for my next book. Wonderful, inspiring!! Look at those archive piles!

Thrilled to see that the latest edition of @auswhn.bsky.social’s Lilith: A Feminist History Journal features not one – but two – book reviews by my PhD students! 📚 Congratulations Kaitlin Mills and Michael Stockwell 🤓

Still plenty of work to be done to rehabilitate Stirner's thought, but this chapter by Jacob Blumenfeld does important work in the Marx contra Stirner discussion!

I'm a huge proponent of green open access, but diamond journals are fantastic, too! Nice to get a mention in this article about why we shouldn't sleep on free-to-publish open-access journals! Bibliodiversity for life!

Toronto's @thestar.com sent a cease and desist letter to the creator of the podcast network that @indicator.media wrote about on Wednesday. He has promised to reverse course. www.thestar.com/opinion/publ...

👍"When research is easier to access, its value increases. Policymakers can draw on stronger evidence, practitioners can apply research findings more directly, journalists and community organisations can engage with original sources ..." @nonwayne.bsky.social theconversation.com/thousands-of...

Useful info for those who write and read academic papers: theconversation.com/thousands-of...

New advance access book review published by @jich.bsky.social @drbenjaminjones.bsky.social reviews Henry Reynolds' "Looking from the North: Australian History from the Top Down" @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Oh same re. submitting things! Almost there on one, need to write up the other... But we soft launched this yesterday! oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic... Proper promo incoming once we get our ducks in a row

Another piece of writing from yours truly. Might be the weirdest thing I've written? This is what happens when you agree to write about a US work of criticism for a publication about Australian writing! openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...

"AI detection should not be used in education due to its methodological imperfections, violation of procedural fairness, and unverifiable outputs."

Truly truly truly terrible, like the worst in-between scenes from a video game.

Another piece of writing from yours truly. Might be the weirdest thing I've written? This is what happens when you agree to write about a US work of criticism for a publication about Australian writing! openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...

"Heads we win, tails you lose" is now live in its peer-reviewed form. This article represents a gamut of perspectives from pro-AI to staunchly opposed. What unites us all is shared condemnation of the use of AI-detection software in education contexts doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Curious about how AustLit is celebrating its 25th birthday? Our social media calendar will tell you all! Download a copy to follow along as we create new trails, celebrate research projects, and provide search tips--or maybe come to our trivia night?! #AustLit25 www.austlit.edu.au/25th-anniver...

It would be SO amazing if an Indigenous writer received this postdoc! Please share widely! You don't even have to be in NQ! careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

📣Postdoc in creative writing 📣 careers.jcu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...

The hardback edition of our new edited book, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, is published through @manchesterup.bsky.social today! You can get 30% discount by using the code ‘EVENT30’ right now, or tell your library! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/

Nice to be recognised for "Research Paper of the Year" by the AI in Education podcast. So strange to see this paper doing the rounds with my name on it. Such a diverse group of contributors from pro-AI educationalists to—me! All great friends and minds though! aipodcast.education/podcast-unwr...

Kind of throws the whole @natureportfolio.nature.com Scientific Reports review process in question

Nature Scientific Reports is the third most cited journal in the world smdh

Hello @springernature.com - you’ve just published another bit of nonsense in Scientific Reports 🙁

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

'Australia’s major research universities have warned that declining support for the humanities could threaten the country’s ability to operate in its region.' 1/3

what if my granny had wheels and was a bus and we could all go for a ride in her

Thanks for the mention in this wonderful summary of the year that was in Australian literature and criticism, @nathanhobby.bsky.social et al! doi.org/10.1177/3033...

every company in 2025

Amused to view an academic article and see that the journal it's in abbreviates its own name to "New Global Stud" (it's New Global Studies. The abbreviation barely saves any space at all! But it's funny so I'll allow it)

Nice to see my first repost of my paper!

Never mind where I grew up; nothing from there can beat Canberra's Bus Safe Rap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV9_...

This epistolary novel could have been an email

Somebody (@jonpiccini.bsky.social) *did* commission an expert on the history of invasive species in Australia (me) to write about this! Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was really fun discussing copyright and open access in the age of AI with such a clever bunch of people last Thursday! You can watch the discussion on YouTube using the link below youtu.be/T5sHjXADrJ8?...

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning. Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly. 🧵

Even real Nazis were getting these burned off by US doctors lol

can't believe we got to the stage of human history where we've just placidly and collectively decided to stop learning stuff

Why read Lacan, why learn all these super-subtle forms of ideological critique, when the big guy is out there posting diarrhoea jet fighter videos. What are we doing here.

Pretty chuffed to be involved with Mark's work on debunking AI detectors. Great to see him make the national news!

𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣, 𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙚: 𝘼𝙄 𝙙𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 has over 3,000 views and 544 downloads in less than a week! View the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ed... @ccguerilla.bsky.social @nonwayne.bsky.social #aiineducation #genai #ai #acadmeicintegrity #aidetectors

Wife reports that Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century is on the shelf at Greenlight Bookstore in Fort Greene @johannawinant.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social

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Great paper outlining the fundamental flaws of using AI detection tools in educational institutions. Any student accused by one of these tools should submit the paper as part of their case. Any university using the tool is asking to get sued, with this paper being submitted as evidence.