Extraordinary footage. Police pulling off people engaged in peaceful prayer.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

A long time in the making, @booklearning.bsky.social and I have published this article in AJPH on exploring the question of who joins far right political groups, using membership application forms for the National Front of Australia in the 1970s-80s. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Vale, Jon Kudelka. And as always, Fuck Cancer.

Dripfeeding weekly episodes should be outlawed at this point

if only there were working class academics 🙃

An excellent episode, @ankahajkova.bsky.social is the real deal 🙌

brb, just removing CAPITALS and "don't you know who I am"s from my response to reviewers 🤣

This is from the Herald Sun but these allegations are horrific Holocaust simulations, mock graves and dog collars: Inside summer camp of horrors www.thechronicle.com.au/education/re...

Another contender for Australian of the Year & amazing 13yo of the year!! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

The border of Croatia and Serbia is absolutely where I would plonk my micro state www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

For further information on the history of the far right in Australia, as well as those who have opposed it, I have uploaded the intro to our book 'Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia' here. @drjpersian.bsky.social www.academia.edu/121035689/Hi... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Barrel jeans are a joke, right?

Applications due 15 March 🚨 for projects including immigration & multiculturalism Malcolm Fraser Research Grant @unimelb.bsky.social share.google/M9rlWtlbX2tg...

Reading an archivist's takedown of the 'bungling, misunderstandings and conflicts' in the post-war DP screening space lol

Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.

Anyone want to add - a thread of our FABULOUS papers that have not even once *gulp* been cited

👻 read me 👻 cite me 👻 Oral Histories of Displaced Persons: “What for? The Story Like Mine’s Plenty Now” Hit me up for a pdf 🙌 share.google/rzlMLuRYav3i...

LOL. One of the author's of one these AI-slop papers is associated with the Responsible AI Research Center at Adelaide University.

why did this not cause an international incident

Keith wuz robbed

The Coldest 100 returns to Bluesky this Saturday with 100 Australia-adjacent musical oddities, atrocities and curiosities. Listen at your own peril ☠️ #coldest100 #hottest100

See the open letter co-signed by over 300 scholars on the state-sponsored attacks against historian Grzegorz Rossoliński-Liebe. We stand against intimidation and for academic freedom. #AcademicFreedom #History #Holocaust #Poland

🚨 new article by Sean Brawley www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

me looking through the Canada Archives collection search and seeing "restricted by law" everywhere

Friends, I have discovered restorative yoga. It's basically an hour of savasana and let me tell you, I am here for it

Accidentally read something by Peta Credlin

My flights are booked for May 😬 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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Ok, so this seems to be a new (?) thing: Section 33 (1) (g) - anyone shed any light? complaints are being made ...

Overenthusiastic redacters @ the archives - I already know what you're redacting. It's in all the other files. As well as the official government report. It's already been published in my book and an article. Why are you redacting it? Numpties.

#ARCschedule Jan26 update ARC announced huge delays & 3-month announcement windows (used to be 2 weeks). Delay in months per scheme: 🔹LP25: 1–4 🔹IC/IH26: 1–4 🔹FT26: 1–3 🔹LP26: 2.5–5.5 🔹LE27: 2–5 🔹DE27: 1.5–4.5 🔹DP27: 3–6 Just … appalling. Unworkable. Data ▶️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

Discovery Projects are now a complete joke: EoIs were due 12 Dec last year. Full apps are due 22 April this year. Results won't be out until next year: 15 Jan – 15 Apr 2027. That’s up to 16 MONTHS!

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My book 'Ikarians in South Australia' arrived in print on New Years Eve - Many thanks to @anthempress.bsky.social for their support in publishing! anthempress.com/books/ikaria...

🚨 new article by Ruth Balint academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Have 3 wild stories, all from France. 1) an appalling one, told to me by an archivist from a dept'l archive. She had dinner at the apartment of the archive director ca 1970s. In the WC, she saw that he & wife had placed local Community party papers there for TP.

I’ll tell my NYU advisor Tom Truxes because he’s not on social media. After a productive day in the early modern attic archive of a still active trading company. He discovered the IRA had robbed the payroll at gunpoint on the first floor in the 1970s.

So, there I was in the Belarusian National Archive in Minsk. The finding aids were shitty so I ordered a folder of "German Documents, 1941-1944." Friends, it was literally stuff taken off the bodies of dead soldiers (library cards, driver's licenses, etc) Some of them were literally bloodstained.

5. "Don't worry, we made a microfilm copy way back in the day." 6. There's no microfilm reader, everything's digital here, nerd 7. No you can't check it out, this is Special Collections material, are you insane? 8. [an absurd hunt ensues] 9. We accept your donation of a flea-market microfilm reader

This gets at something important that is in danger of being lost not only in the AI conversation but in any efficiency-focused, assembly-line model of academia. A lot of the best scholarship needs wayward paths. It's time-intensive, unpredictable, odd. The process is what produces the knowledge.

Happy Gravy Day #gravyday

Jewish communities self-policing in Australia since at least 1959 www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...