UniMelb is hiring for a new Senior Advisor for LGBTIQA+ Inclusion.  This is a key high-level role within the D&I team in Chancellory, with a lot of responsibility and ability to actually influence and drive the university's actions in this space.

this isn't a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. -Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times Are These #everynightapoem it's necessary to talk about trees.

Don’t ask for an edit button, understand your *correction reply …. is an errata slip.

NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Corrected something in this post (ta, eagle-eyed librarian!) and counted all the zeroes properly this time. Elsevier's profit is not in the millions, it's billions. 😵‍💫 New at @therealrw.bsky.social this week: "Librarians versus the world"! researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l... #academicsky #acwri

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Oh you’d like me to undertake a gendered analysis of excavation tasks in the 10 excavation shots I have from four 1930s excavations? I hear you.

DECRA success rate is the lowest in 14 years, since 2012 (1st year the scheme ran). What a pathetic system we have for supporting new ideas, new people… DE26: 13.1% 25: 17.9 24: 19.6 23: 15.0 22: 19.7 21: 17.1 20: 16.0 19: 17.2 18: 16.3 17: 16.7 16: 16.4 15: 14.3 14: 13.6 13: 15.6 12: 12.8

25 years ago, @melbournedean.bsky.social and I (and others!) ran a thing called Laser Vespers in The Selwyn College Cambridge chapel (it was my job to run the strobe lights from the organ loft!) Anyway, turns out we are still cool (ish!) @selwyn1882.bsky.social

Just did my first look at applications for a postdoc position I advertised. I am BEGGING you- if you're applying for a postdoc, please actually say what you're interested in that my group does! Sooooo many submit an app that never says how they want to connect to what we do! 🔭🧪

I think one of the more important, lasting lessons that I've learned from Audrey Watters is to know your (ed)tech history. In this recent talk, she asks, "[W]hat might it mean that our depictions of the future of education now are the same as depictions of the future from the 1950s?"

Mentioned this pic to our writing retreat folks, yesterday. A good option for trying to write in shared office spaces, too! 😅(alternatively, put a post-it on your own forehead if you are - like me - your own biggest distraction) #AcWriMo #highered #academicsky #academicchatter #PhDchat

The wizard reads a book about fermentation.

My favourite year for oppressed literary masculinity was 2023 when the number of women on the Booker shortlist was smaller than the number of men named Paul

Post about your book! And if you're feeling extra generous, you can even post about your friends' books! 👇

I love Kaylene Whiskey

> “Australian creatives are not only world class, but they are also the lifeblood of Australian culture, and we must ensure the right legal protections are in place,” Hon Rowland MP said. natlawreview.com/article/copy...

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Do you remember the good old Twitter days of a 🧵 100 tweets deep on something niche yet widely relevant from an expert who didn’t know it all (and gave credit where credit was due)? yeah. Buckle in for a long, deep, nuanced, historical, Wuthering Heights ride 👇👇👇

Behavior bio people, check out this guy's experience training an octopus!

Dammit, went into the theory mines knowing exactly what I wanted to say… came out blearily and empty handed. I’ve ordered a whole load of Averroes and Bourdieu to the library as if that will help. Anyway, happy #AcWriMo to all who celebrate!

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

Mid- #AcWriMo mood. The academia / writing / research meme stash always has the goods! 🙌 #highered #academicsky #resdev #academicchatter #PhDchat

The wonderful people at @uncpress.bsky.social sent me an advance copy of my book and I think I’ll have a little cry now. You can order it from here and it will arrive soon (use code 01UNCP30) for a discount uncpress.org/978146968920...

"Professors' inboxes are like kids' lunchboxes - they require constant viligance and lots of things fester when they inevitably go unattended. In other words, when professors don't respond, it's rarely personal. They probably forgot or got too busy. Email again"

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft." -- Anne Lamott #AcWri #GetYourManuscriptOut #AmWriting #WritingSky #AcademicSky

A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule

It was a blast to talk to Amra Pajalic on her podcast about all things #3MinuteThesis. Amra won the La Trobe University 3MT competition,—listen in to hear Amra’s journey and how 3MT made a difference. 🎧✨📚 Available on all the pod platforms: amrasarmchairanecdotes.buzzsprout.com/2448457/follow

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand blubber-hunters sweep over thee in vain.

It was a blast to talk to Amra Pajalic on her podcast about all things #3MinuteThesis. Amra won the La Trobe University 3MT competition,—listen in to hear Amra’s journey and how 3MT made a difference. 🎧✨📚 Available on all the pod platforms: amrasarmchairanecdotes.buzzsprout.com/2448457/follow

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

And while you’re stocking up on Lauren’s book, you can also get mine!

Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on. CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️ institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...

Arguably the leading woodturner of the last 50 years is now in his 80s and retired but still makes 2-3 YouTube videos a week from his modest shed in his backyard in Canberra. This man should be on a postage stamp.

Martha republished her first cookbook today, so it's a great time to reread my piece about cooking a menu from it and the specific version of wealth she sells in it www.eater.com/24283638/mar...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

This is the CORRECT view for GENERAL AUDIENCE books. But as someone who also writes (and reads) academic books, this would be the wrong answer. Some books are written to be read carefully only by 95 other experts—and we aren’t really reading them, we are WORKING THROUGH /THINKING WITH them. ✨📚

I prefer to save talking till I know what I’m talking about.

Giant satellite floor maps are helping people prepare for emergencies by showing them a bird's eye view of where threats come from, places of safety and how to navigate their neighbourhood.

arXiv is changing its submission rules because it's getting spammed with AI slop "research" www.404media.co/arxiv-change...

Haha I was so amused and forgiving when this thread first came around. O summer child. The more people seem to internalize it, the more I need to point out that it's based on a misconception 🦀 www.scientificamerican.com/article/crab...

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

“Debunking such pseudoscience takes massively more energy than it takes to thoughtlessly produce it. Moreover, the hard work typically will fall on the shoulders of people most affected by such discriminatory research, further amplifying the harm done.” irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2024/03/03/t...

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

Wanna hear a scary story? The first American vampire was Black. Seriously. 78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy. It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States

yes exactly!! a mere months later

Logged in to ScholarOne for the journal I co-edit and jfc we had as many submissions in 2 weeks as we used to receive in 6 months 😱 Just so you understand why journal desk rejects these days give no feedback - we just can't at this wild volume. Is it the same for other journals and editors?

I heard there was a statue tall That sneered at folk and commanded all But you don't really care for symbols do ya It goes like this the feet the fist The head that fell the aim that missed The long lost king whose name was Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymandias Ozymaaaaandias