Insightful piece that resonates well with my experience of university governance in the UK. Paywall free link: archive.is/1yFiq

Toilet training is hit and miss but puppy will kiss on command 😄

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Or, and hear me out, we could just get rid of all anti-intellectual "education" "academics" 🤷‍♀️

2/ Journalists should challenge management claims of 'declining enrolments'. And budget crisis. Management and their consultants cherry pick data. I dont know the UTS situation but at Macquarie university they are cutting areas with growing enrolments.

The entire point of writing is discovery. You don’t know what you don’t know. And if you approach it from a point of view of efficiency and optimization (to no end) you never will.

Look man, waste your life anyway you want. But an LLM is literally a “next word predictor.” Only you can be you, only you have lived your life and have your feelings inside of you. If the best way for you to express that is to *literally regenerate sentences that have been written before?* Have fun.

New book by Philipp Strobl brill.com/display/titl...

Politicians like Shorten or tech bros like Bell should just stay out of the education sector. Just because you were successful in one domain doesn't mean you have a clue about another. Nothing suggested here has anything to do with knowledge creation, which is one of THE core missions of unis.

I reckon AI could do a better job than most VCs 😜

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

I guess Shorten didn't like being told his salary should be capped? lol

Only rich private school students have the ability/right to do BAs

Oh ffs

These are the opening quotes in Kamala Harris' book. I have no words.

Thinking about the practical outcomes of "when they go low, we go high"

One upside to the present moment is a revival in protest songs.

I'm like 41 and feel absolutely decrepit in academic terms somehow. It's less reality and more the sheer ambient awfulness of it all. I often unprompted start guessing about the number of good first PhD books going unwritten now. The (much bigger) number of second albums never even started.

Who wants to write my FF app for me? You have 12 days

I wrote a book once on the history of debates over free speech, protest and academic freedom at universities, looking at how fascists used the language of free speech to promote themselves on campus and those who argued that fascists should be denied this platform. www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

As an ECR in Australia, this feels about right.

Here's an Australian word for you: wanker www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

New article by Klaus Neumann insidestory.org.au/australias-f...

Why is Routledge currently unable to send printed books to Aus/NZ ?????

First puppy pre-school yesterday, Ziggy pooed on the floor, then had a big wee while the trainer was demonstrating with him, then proceeded to bark for more yummy treats while she was talking 🤦‍♀️ The other 5 pups were, of course, perfectly behaved. Mortified.

More than 400 people attended, apparently 😬

Not only is this a real book, but the two editors, and a third collaborator (Weixiao Wei), have published 9 Routledge handbooks since 2017. Very confused about what is going on here. 1/x

Why does Zoom Workplace hate me so much

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

If you can write your Conversation article after 5 mins of googling, how about you just. don't.

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today. "You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."

The history of the various battles over free speech on campus and opposition to the far right at British universities is covered in my book, 'No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech'. www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

Is this happening all over Australia or am I just lucky 🙃

Oh bless. Read some history mate

4 Corners exposè on Brethren Monday www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

cheering and celebrating after assassinations is by no means new. what has changed is that social media gives us greater access to a greater number of people a few accounts from immediately after the kennedy assassination

I have a cousin librarian who sends me titles from time to time. This physical book belongs in a museum exhibit. Or maybe an art one.

On the other hand, a Future Fellow made redundant twice 🤦‍♀️ universities are being run by absolute muppets

Is this a sovereign citizens thing?

How tf does a press photographer become a full prof at ANU in cybernetics with no industry background, no PhD (any degree?) where have I gone wrong where do I apply

You, dumb, narrow minded archaeologist: duh these are just poles Me, smart, sexy, far sighted complex thinker: they're connected with wires

Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7 'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia. A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S

Apropos of nothing, here's a thread of some Charlie Kirk highlights