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Prof Jo Barraket AM

@jobarraket.bsky.social

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Director, @msei-unimelb.bsky.social. Researching social economy & social innovation for fairer societies. Growing. Cooking. Eating. Living w/ MS, bloke, Zoe the beagle & Stormy the Lab x. Views mine. She/her

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Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 1d

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We are a bit slow on cucumber consumption and they often get a bit squidgy and need to go 😞

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, yes; the half citrus!

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Setting aside sauces etc, what remnant foods are (almost) always in your fridge? At ours, I can't remember a time in the last three years when there hasn't been half an onion in a snap lock container*

*Not the same one for 3 years; they are on high rotation and regularly consumed.

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It’s black beans and rice night!

A light blue plate piled with white rice, black beans, green avocado and yellow cheese

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I dropped the yoghurt so Stormy helpfully cleaned up. Then we cleaned him up #DogLife

Photo of a black Labrador whose head is covered in white yoghurt

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Oh no 🤯

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Sunday morning

Photo of a tan and white Beagle and a black Labrador stretched out asleep on a grey couch

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*at least

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It’s quite a weird sensation. At last it’s not painful 🤷🏽‍♀️

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 11d

I keep thinking my phone is buzzing but it’s actually just my leg 🤷🏽‍♀️#MSLife

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 11d

So, now any academic research involving the term Net Zero is partisan? #AusPol

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 12d

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possession is 9 tenths of the law, Nicky 😊

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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 12d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Malcom Turnbull accuses Liberals of ‘Trumpian campaign against renewables’ after party dumps net zero

Climate groups call backflip a ‘disaster’ while moderate Liberals worry about impact on winning back urban electorates

www.theguardian.com

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 12d

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Dog stack (existential crisis feed relief)

A small beagle asleep with a large labrador sleeping on top of her

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 12d

I wish killing the planet wasn't a political issue

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 12d

it's all pretty rubbish, isn't it?

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 13d

Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama creates sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper #womensart

Life size sculpture resembling the upper part of a hippo emerging from water with mouth open showing tusk like teeth, presented in a studio

Prof Jo Barraket AM @jobarraket.bsky.social · 13d

Higher ed shifted from an elite to a semi-mass system due to the policy reforms that made it affordable, as you say, and the gains for women of second-wave feminism. So, yes, this is a largely post-boomer dynamic, although not strictly new :)