I try not to be too doom and gloom about the future of education but gd social media makes it hard sometimes

Wheeeen theee Bird in your room represents all your gloom Nevermoré When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave Nevermoré It will rap Tippy tippy tap Tippy tippy tap Waking you from naps aaand Your dream-a Then will fly Never tell you why Even if you cry Landing on your sideboard Athena

Two weeks left to submit an abstract to this online workshop and knowledge exchange about audiobook research

Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:

Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/

So much to infuriate me about this, where do I even begin ...

Yep this about sums it up chaser.com.au/sport/sam-ke...

Artworks by my four-year-old vs. characters from 90s cartoons

New terra nullius just dropped.

My sympathy and solidarity with colleagues at UoW. There is a shocking leadership crisis in Australian Higher Ed and academic and professional staff are bearing the brunt.

How good is it to see young Timmy Winton finally get a go in the awards

Be alert in 2025 for lots more discussions about the problems in universities. 🚨Note the angle! Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts. Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else

🎶 All I want for Christmas, is ... 🎶

Just saying that I would absolutely listen to the audiobook of this rewrite

Audiobooks 👏 are 👏 reading 👏 (That's it, that's the take)

Amazon offering a free audiobook with a music sub may look like what Spotify is doing but it's actually the reverse. (See: www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...)

Starter pack for academic mamas* (ask @sebenton.bsky.social if you would like to be added)

OK, way too tempting! So, Charlotte Wood went all the way to a Booker s/listing off a Miles Franklin l/listing. And also there with her on the latter? The sublime The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe. Just needs a UK pub & bingo! (will take a bet up to 50 quid on this!) www.uqp.com.au/books/the-si...

"still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void"

Me: new social media new you, don't let them see what you're really like Also me:

RIP to the best audiobook narrator in the game, thank you for brightening my life over the course of ~1200 dog walks

PhD scholarship on audiobooks and Australian literary culture! Amazing project, $36.5K per year, and you get to work with Millie Weber who is a world leader in audiobooks and an all-around good egg. Tell her I sent you 😇

Thrilled that my first post (terminology?) here is that we're hiring two people in English at ANU: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture... Both are completely open in terms of specialisation; one is the backfill for my DECRA. I'm not involved in the recruitment but please ask for info about ANU/Canberra!