New publication on the Ruins of the Urakami Cathedral published in the Encyclopaedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/... @springernature.com @nobigdiehl.bsky.social

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

About 20 minutes until the start of the protest

"Australia’s national #climate risk assessment report, released last week, revealed a horrifying future if urgent action to address global heating was not taken" #Australia 🇦🇺 #ClimateEmergency

"Your journalistic antennae are raised immediately when people don't want to give you answers." Guardian Australia's Ben Doherty on the "troubling" reality that the US government is far more transparent about the AUKUS submarines deal than Australia's government is. 🎧 theaus.in/4rhMet1

A Sydney grandmother says she suffered four broken vertebrae after being "violently" pushed to the ground while trying to leave a protest on Monday night.

We've shut down the busiest pedestrian intersection in Naarm/Melbourne because our government invited a genocidal war criminal to our country

Huge numbers here in Melbourne protesting the state-sponsored visit of the war criminal Isaac Herzog, president of Israel. We have shut down the centre of the city 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🍉🍉🍉🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I just noticed this book that’s coming out in July. I’ll need to check it out, definitely! Black Radical Thought in Japan: An Afro-Asian Intellectual History by Yuichiro Onishi uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...

5'7" Yuki Kawamura, shortest player in Bulls history, wins a jumpball against 6'5'' Kasparas Jakučionis, and then strips Jaime Jaquez Jr. and draws the foul (with replays)

In a historic joint action, the Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), the Jewish Council of Australia, and the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), have lodged a formal legal complaint to have Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrested or barred from entering Australia.

Look what came in the mail!

'Aiming to replace all US videoconferencing services by 2027, the deployment is the EU's latest policy move in support of digital sovereignty. And there's more to come.' Soooo, #Auspol got any plans to protect our data? Huh? @theguardian.com

White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.

Reporting on a #heatwave? This is how you do it.

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...

Monday and the start of a second week of being prevented from working by my employer, the University of Sheffield. Management has decided that massive damage to staff morale, student experience and the university’s reputation is worth it in a futile attempt to break the union. Shame on them.

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

I can't manage a march today but the Invasion Day speeches were as inspiring as ever, and as I left the large crowd was still growing. The people who want truth, treaty and justice are far greater in number than the fascists.

The burning of fossil fuels has led to the cancellation of an Invasion Day event in Adelaide, South Australia www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.

“We are here to make sure that we can protect our freedoms and get ICE out of Minnesota.” That’s right. 📅 Friday, January 23 ✊🏽 #DayOfTruthAndFreedom ❌ No Work. ❌ No School. ❌ No Shopping. #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #BeGood

That's uh. That's a shift.

You may have missed the news this week while certain groups focus on themselves, but Australia’s grid has hit a new milestone.

A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!

Always was, always will be Aboriginal land

"Drawing on a 20.3-million-query audit of ChatGPT, we map systematic biases in the model's representations of countries, states, cities, and neighbourhoods. From these empirics, we argue that bias is not a correctable anomaly but an intrinsic feature of generative AI”. ht: Dagmar Monett

This is an obscenity #auspol

My latest article in @theshot.net.au on the dark days of McCarthyism coming to Australia to eclipse our cultural landscape under the guise of eradicating communism - whoops sorry - antisemitism The Adelaide Festival, the arts and the dark arts #allfeedbackwelcome 🙏🏽 theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

My article is finally in print! I detail the impact of Japanese colonial policy on Ainu health during the early-mid Meiji period, focusing on the village of Tsuishikari. The article's subtext is the broader question of Indigenous health in historical research.

I was on a bus, saw the Gang Gang through the window so got off the next stop and walked back. Luckily the pair waited for me 🍀

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

"This wasn't my plan for the bill, but it has been magical to watch" - Albanese chaser.com.au/national/con...

*me reading a book* “ok ok we get it, it’s complicated. NOW TELL ME YOUR CONCLUSIONS” *me writing a book* “tis beneath me to burden my reader with anything so crass as a ‘takeaway’ or ‘summary’, they shalt all read mine whole book and make theyn own conclusions”

This is a really important public facing work by Dr Tamika Worrell who works in my centre. Read the work that Tamika has been doing for people who are thinking about cultural appropriation. In our same centre, we have Dr Innez Haua and Distinguished Prof Bronwyn Carlson all writing across this!

Jisho has long been an incredibly valuable website for learning Japanese - huge range of definitions, well sourced, and no ads. It's an honor that my silly little slang dictionary is now part of it. Can't wait for the full launch of the new version (plz bring back the dark background Kimtaro 🙏🙏🙏🥺🥺🥺)

Among various ways you can help #VicFires if you have a few $$ to spare is by contributing to this GFM set up by Taradale CFA Brigade to help firefighters who lost their own homes at Harcourt while out helping others. gofund.me/2b637fddc

The Australia Institute pulling out of Adelaide Writers Fest following their cancellation of Dr Rabda Abdel-Fattah

No Adelaide Writers Week for me. I can’t in any good conscience now appear at a festival seeking to mute a very necessary public conversation … Randa Abdel-Fattah is an important voice. Here’s something I published from her on, guess what, Palestinian marginalisation. meanjin.com.au/latest/the-g...

This is a blatant act of discrimination against Somali immigrants, nothing else. You know that, right?

Spread the word! There is now a climate & heritage feed. Tag with #climateheritage for all things related to climate change impacts on tangible & intangible cultural heritage & what to do about it. 🏺🧪🗃️🌎 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Historians: how do you arrange your books on shelves? I have stacks on the floor from a book edit and still some piles from general exams. They all need a home. Thematically, then by author? Just by author, because the themes all bleed together? Is there a masochist out there who uses ISBN?

Putting water out for wildlife can help save lives.

For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne

the geography of temporary burial sites/mass graves dug in Tokyo in the aftermath of air raids Largest red dots: sites where 10,000 or more were buried Green dots: location of memorials/cenotaphs

As Book Reviews editor of Oral History Australia's journal, Studies in Oral History, I'm looking for reviewers for the following books. DM me. 1. Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History, by Darian-Smith, Turnbull, Khorana and Harvey, 2025. www.routledge.com/Migrants-Tel...