On 1 May, we are hosting a triple book launch for the exciting new @queerjudgments.bsky.social book, and the two volumes on queer approaches to international law I co-edited with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! Come along! It’ll be both in person in Melbs & online: events.unimelb.edu.au/IILAH/event/...

Applications are now open for 2025-26 Fellowships at IASH, with 60 places available! Apply here: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/application-... Senior/mid-career programmes close 28 Feb. Postdoctoral/early-career programmes close 25 April. See our Fellowship pages for details: www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowship-p...

Research Librarian Job at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Due 2 March 2025 🦘🎓 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

The big takeaway here is that Reuters won this case against the AI company on grounds they violated fair use—the judge found the AI company was guilty because, in using copyrighted works to generate its output, it “meant to compete... by developing a market substitute.” Huge.

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

Texas Colleges Rolled Over for Anti-DEI Bill. Now They Face a Broader Attack. truthout.org/articles/tex...

I am looking for therapists and practitioners with 5+ years of experience working with Sexual Orientation and/or Gender Diverse children and adolescents who have experienced Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (CSEA) to take part in a Delphi study. griffithuw.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 🌈🎓 🦘🎓

We have been censored in the US for our research on LGBTQ+ sexual violence. My co-authors and I are extremely concerned about research and activism being censored and the speed with which organisations have acquiesced to transphobic, homophobic and misogynist demands.

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

In learning cultures that are mortally afraid of 'being wrong', a correction can feel like an intensely personal attack.

Flinders Uni 2 x 0.5 FTE Postdoctoral Research Fellows (Qualitative and Quantitative methods expertise) in the Trauma Aware School Village project Closes Feb 4th flinders.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/flinde...

The elevators in my apartment have screens that show the news, but rather than show major world news and finance, it's a sea of gangland murder, domestic violence, a billionaire said something stupid, terrorism, and teen crime stories, which just sets the mood for leaving your home that day.

"...some of the precocious authors had published what he calls “sometimes nonsensical papers” that included dozens or even 100 citations to their own paper". #academicchatter https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-04006-9

Need to look further into the operationalisation of the terms, but interesting stats that are often ignored/obfuscated,

If I had to capture the essence of “rightwing populism” I think I would cite the time in 1774 Virginia slaveowner Richard Henry Lee wanted to protest new taxes levied by the British so he forced his slaves to protest the tax hike on his behalf with banners denouncing the taxes as "chains of slavery"

“Practices around academic publishing are part of a wider system of precarious and exploitative labour relations which enable and conceal sexual violence and other forms of abuse...” Our FLS editorial on publishing, precarity and sexual violence. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Whowouldathunk that increasingly vitriolic rhetoric accusing LGBTIQ+ community of being 'groomers' would lead to violence against said community for being 'pedos'? So here we are again. The return of organised gay bashings in Sydney during 2024.

JOB: Lecturer in Indigenous Studies, University of Melbourne (FT, Continuing) Applications due 7 January 2025 🦘🎓

JOB: Lecturer in Sociology, Curtin University, Perth Australia (T&R, FT, 2yrs fixed-term) Applications due January 12th

🦘🎓 JOB: Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney (T&R role, FT, Continuing) * research interests in the history of science or medicine; * particularly welcome engagement with knowledge practices across traditions and regions. Applications Due 20 Feb 2025

🦘🎓 JOB: Senior Tutor in Creative Writing, University of Melbourne, (O.6FTE Continuing) Visa sponsorship not available. Must have current right to work in Australia. Applications due 7 Jan 2025

Squid Game is a dystopian survival thriller horror that criticises the excesses of class inequality and the callousness of late stage capitalist entertainment ... which is why the McDonald's partnership is both so icky and apt.

NYU Campus Security and Administration is totally out of control. On Wednesday - I filmed a peaceful protest in Bobst library for two hours. Yesterday at 2pm while at home, I received an email explaining that I’ve been designated “persona non grata” and banned from several buildings on campus.

it's SO great to see a documentary about this topic. these are much easier to share with people than academic articles about the topic—I wrote about this way back in 2020, talking about how sexuality material was the canary in the coal mine for libraries journals.ala.org/index.php/ji...

I especially enjoyed the opportunity in this conversation with David Higgins to speak to what Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right means for fan studies and science fiction studies.

Anderson's lack of critical thinking about AI tutors has me wondering whether this is an advert. In the USA, does the media have guidelines for advertisements parading as 'news'?

Born in Australia. Of course, that's the top comment.

Delighted to share our call for papers for the 2025 Women in the History of Political Thought conference. We welcome papers related to women's contributions to political thought. We look forward to receiving your submissions! womeninhpt.com

4 PhD fellowships in Philosophy at University of Oslo. Applications due January 31

I am fortunate to have recently published my first journal article entitled Rape, law and stories of trauma: representations of sexual violence in The Australian Women’s Weekly, 1970–82 with the wonderful team at History Australia. doi.org/10.1080/1449...

Well, that was not on my bingo card for 2024 but I guess in a Trumpian America, I should expect more of this...

🦘🎓 GenAI manifesto for teaching & learning. Something to consider... The manifesto recognises GenAI is not ideologically or culturally neutral, which is not something that is widely recognised in Australian academia (even among humanities and social science academics!)

Israel shifted from using the excuse of 'mistakenly' killing aid workers to now explicitly admitting to targeting aid workers, but justifying it by accusing them of being terrorists. But Australian media does not mention Israeli officials announcing their intention to weaponise starvation.

Wow

While oral examinations are valuable to ensure students graduate with some capacity to verbally express themselves, oral exams privilege students with a facility for speaking and the language of examination + they work better for memory recall than higher order thinking that takes time. 🦘🎓

I have admired Nan Goldin's work before. Glad to see her take this stand against genocide at the opening of her retrospective exhibition in Berlin.

Dr. Simone Browne extends "Steve Mann's concept of sousveillance, understood as 'the inverse of surveillance, the tactic of appropriating tools of social controllers.." Dark sousveillance describes "strategies used during the fight or flight to freedom from slavery... under-sight." 🔥🔥🔥

We invite submissions for the second Stuart Hall Essay Prize. The award aims to stimulate a new generation of thinkers who can offer original, lively and topical contributions to the lines of political, cultural and educational inquiry which Hall pursued. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/projects/the...

#CFP #NWSA2024: Check out the latest call for papers for the Signs Journal on "#Feminism, #Antifeminism, and The Mobilization of #Regret." signsjournal.org/for-authors/... #Callforpapers #gender

New deadline of Dec. 2, 2024 for this special issue of Hypatia on **Politics of Self-Care in an Unjust World** Interested in ethical, political & epistemic ideas on self-care as a mode of feminist knowledge production & disruption hypatiaphilosophy.org/uncategorize...

Come be a postdoc in moral/political philosophy at the University of Vienna. 3 year position (renewable for another 3 years, up to 6 years in total). We'd really like to have someone in post for the summer term, hence strong preference for PhD in hand or about to submit. philjobs.org/job/show/28102

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

My department is conducting a search for an Assistant Professor of Japanese American/Nikkei Studies. We could be colleagues!

JOB: Lecturer in History of Medicine and/or Health (T&R, Permanent), University of Manchester encourage expertise in histories of mental health since 1800; welcome work on colonial, postcolonial, and/or decolonised contexts, with connections to histories of science and technology due 13 Dec 2024

"Echo chamber" is being purposefully overused to conflate 1) spaces that cannot stand any dissent no matter how legitimate or reasonable, with 2) spaces that actively weed out bad faith actors, antagonistic forces and domineering uninformed speakers precisely to increase the quality of debate.

For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...

Abstracts due January 15th. britishwomenwriters.org/conference-b...

JOB: Lecturer in Philosophy, (FT, tenurable), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Applications due 11 December 2024