Barrie Shannon
@barrieshannon.com
ARC DECRA Fellow at Adelaide University researching sexuality education for queer and trans youth. Otherwise posting about gaming, sport and vegan food. https://barrieshannon.com
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Barrie Shannon
@barrieshannon.com
· Oct 26
officially back at work but here's some of my last three weeks
we're back back back again 🥹🎾
January 17, 2026 at 4:24 AM
we're back back back again 🥹🎾
As far as I'm concerned the bare minimum academics should be doing right now is boycotting American events, conferences and journals, as well as limiting research collaborations as much as we possibly can 🤷🏻
January 16, 2026 at 11:31 PM
As far as I'm concerned the bare minimum academics should be doing right now is boycotting American events, conferences and journals, as well as limiting research collaborations as much as we possibly can 🤷🏻
Surely there has never been a better opportunity for the world to co-operate to ice the US out and erode the power they are constantly wielding to ruin the world for their benefit. And nobody's doing it 😩
January 16, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Surely there has never been a better opportunity for the world to co-operate to ice the US out and erode the power they are constantly wielding to ruin the world for their benefit. And nobody's doing it 😩
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I wanted to abandon all immigration enforcement.
January 14, 2026 at 11:28 PM
I wanted to abandon all immigration enforcement.
pleased to announce I've been selected as the Favourite Dad 🥹
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 PM
pleased to announce I've been selected as the Favourite Dad 🥹
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bluecheck post on twitter: I’ve been drinking my own urine for 32 weeks and I’ve been amazed at how its impacted my stock portfolio S̲h̲o̲w̲ ̲m̲o̲r̲e̲
blueckeck post on bluesky: say what you will but at least Hitler had a heckin doggo unlike taco donny drumpf who hates pupperinos
blueckeck post on bluesky: say what you will but at least Hitler had a heckin doggo unlike taco donny drumpf who hates pupperinos
January 14, 2026 at 8:59 PM
bluecheck post on twitter: I’ve been drinking my own urine for 32 weeks and I’ve been amazed at how its impacted my stock portfolio S̲h̲o̲w̲ ̲m̲o̲r̲e̲
blueckeck post on bluesky: say what you will but at least Hitler had a heckin doggo unlike taco donny drumpf who hates pupperinos
blueckeck post on bluesky: say what you will but at least Hitler had a heckin doggo unlike taco donny drumpf who hates pupperinos
proquest should not be offering an inline AI summary of journal articles (useless and barely accurate btw). to be completely frank if you're an academic who uses these tools because you cbf reading what you're citing you're a fraud and you should quit your job
January 14, 2026 at 5:28 AM
proquest should not be offering an inline AI summary of journal articles (useless and barely accurate btw). to be completely frank if you're an academic who uses these tools because you cbf reading what you're citing you're a fraud and you should quit your job
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Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah: "My lawyers have today issued a concerns notice under the Defamation Act on Premier Malinauskas. This is his opportunity to undo some of the harm he has inflicted, and stop punching down."
January 13, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah: "My lawyers have today issued a concerns notice under the Defamation Act on Premier Malinauskas. This is his opportunity to undo some of the harm he has inflicted, and stop punching down."
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That no criminal conviction nor procedural fairness is required for the minister to desginate a hate group as such will invariably lead to the criminialisation of peaceful activism and protest groups. If you don't think Labor would do this, then imagine the Coalition salivating at the prospect.
The Albo government's antisemitism bill is a rushed hatchet job. Nobody has proper time to consider it carefully enough, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences if passed. It is the worst kind of law-making: moral panic induced, pandering to powerful lobby groups' demands.
January 13, 2026 at 11:38 PM
That no criminal conviction nor procedural fairness is required for the minister to desginate a hate group as such will invariably lead to the criminialisation of peaceful activism and protest groups. If you don't think Labor would do this, then imagine the Coalition salivating at the prospect.
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And so this saga ends: a total Board wipe-out, an internationally beloved festival cancelled, and a predicable apology to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.
There are still serious questions to answer about the role of Peter Malinauskas in this catastrophe.
There are still serious questions to answer about the role of Peter Malinauskas in this catastrophe.
January 13, 2026 at 4:16 AM
And so this saga ends: a total Board wipe-out, an internationally beloved festival cancelled, and a predicable apology to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah.
There are still serious questions to answer about the role of Peter Malinauskas in this catastrophe.
There are still serious questions to answer about the role of Peter Malinauskas in this catastrophe.
How are you mean to address pressing, immediate sociocultural problems in research if you have to wait a year or more for your application to be assessed? How many opportunties to work with industry and community orgs will just evaporate in that period of time?
ARC’s new schedule is at www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese...
It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not.
For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!
It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not.
For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!
January 12, 2026 at 1:48 AM
How are you mean to address pressing, immediate sociocultural problems in research if you have to wait a year or more for your application to be assessed? How many opportunties to work with industry and community orgs will just evaporate in that period of time?
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The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
January 10, 2026 at 12:11 AM
The Adelaide Writers Festival now wrecked by the Adelaide Festival Board, half of which was appointed late last year: a marketing executive; a former politician; a local councillor/real estate agent; an airport manager; a lawyer; a media consultant; and a banker. Another public arts takeover fiasco.
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Top article from Richard Watts for Arts Hub on the racist decision from the Adelaide Festival for the Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
Adelaide Writers Week in disarray as more than 40 writers boycott over Board’s ‘censorship’ of Randa Abdel-Fattah
Helen Garner, Melissa Lucashenko and Zadie Smith are among the more than 40 writers to have withdrawn from Adelaide Writers Week in the last 24 hours.
www.artshub.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
Top article from Richard Watts for Arts Hub on the racist decision from the Adelaide Festival for the Adelaide Writers' Week:
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
www.artshub.com.au/news/news/ad...
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anyone that didn't delete twitter 2 years ago when i did is morally lesser to me by exponential degrees
January 9, 2026 at 4:03 AM
anyone that didn't delete twitter 2 years ago when i did is morally lesser to me by exponential degrees
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It is apparently ‘culturally insensitive’ to include a Palestinian-Australian who had nothing to do with Bondi in the lineup. This is insane.
www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
Adelaide Festival pulls Palestinian-Australian writer from Writers’ Week program
The festival board said, “it would not be culturally sensitive” for her to appear “so soon after Bondi”.
www.theage.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 8:09 AM
It is apparently ‘culturally insensitive’ to include a Palestinian-Australian who had nothing to do with Bondi in the lineup. This is insane.
www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
www.theage.com.au/culture/book...
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people are withdrawing from Adelaide writers week faster than can be reported. In addition to the names listed here are Ren Wyld, Emma Shortis, and Fiona Katsaukas. Important detail: the only creative, Stephen Page, has left the Adelaide Festival board.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Authors withdraw from festival after Palestinian Australian author dropped
After Randa Abdel-Fattah was dropped from Adelaide Writers' Week by the Adelaide Festival Board, a slew of authors, including Michelle de Kretser, have withdrawn from the event.
www.abc.net.au
January 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
people are withdrawing from Adelaide writers week faster than can be reported. In addition to the names listed here are Ren Wyld, Emma Shortis, and Fiona Katsaukas. Important detail: the only creative, Stephen Page, has left the Adelaide Festival board.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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Absolutely shameful.
The Adelaide Festival should be boycotted for caving to Zionist lobby groups.
The Adelaide Festival should be boycotted for caving to Zionist lobby groups.
Absolutely disgraceful.
The Adelaide Festival has cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from appearing.
The Adelaide Festival has cancelled Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from appearing.
January 8, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Absolutely shameful.
The Adelaide Festival should be boycotted for caving to Zionist lobby groups.
The Adelaide Festival should be boycotted for caving to Zionist lobby groups.
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I really appreciate this, not just because doing what they've done to trans people should be a stain, but because they cannot be trusted to report on the state murder of a queer woman and should not profit from it.
January 8, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I really appreciate this, not just because doing what they've done to trans people should be a stain, but because they cannot be trusted to report on the state murder of a queer woman and should not profit from it.
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I think we’re long past the point now that anyone can justify travelling to the US like it’s a normal functional country. Absolutely baffled by people still going there for holidays or conferences.
January 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
I think we’re long past the point now that anyone can justify travelling to the US like it’s a normal functional country. Absolutely baffled by people still going there for holidays or conferences.
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has anyone ever actually used a street library or are they all just dumping grounds for bibles and worn 90s paperbacks that nobody can be bothered donating to an actual store?
January 6, 2026 at 4:22 AM
has anyone ever actually used a street library or are they all just dumping grounds for bibles and worn 90s paperbacks that nobody can be bothered donating to an actual store?
omg what a loser 💀
January 6, 2026 at 3:50 AM
omg what a loser 💀
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Anyway, donate to charities if you can. I support quite a few. But really, every charity is just a govt failure, especially in a world where we give the richest 10% $18bn a year in tax breaks for capital gains
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
Treasury figures reveal $18 billion capital gains windfall for Australia’s richest 10 per cent
The latest tax expenditure figures released on Friday by the Treasury department show this financial year the richest 10 percent of Australians will receive $18bn worth of tax breaks from the capital ...
thepoint.com.au
January 5, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Anyway, donate to charities if you can. I support quite a few. But really, every charity is just a govt failure, especially in a world where we give the richest 10% $18bn a year in tax breaks for capital gains
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...