Jeannine Baker
@nenieb.bsky.social
Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
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Franz Josef Glacier - Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere
ca 1867 | 2022
Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥
The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield
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ca 1867 | 2022
Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥
The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield
1/
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Franz Josef Glacier - Kā Roimata o Hine Hukatere
ca 1867 | 2022
Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥
The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield
1/
ca 1867 | 2022
Impressive comparison between the first known photograph taken of one of the most iconic NZ glaciers and current situation! 🧊🔥
The rock on the right is Sentinel Rock, one of the roches moutonnées in the glacier forefield
1/
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Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
WAC wrong-headedness
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
(that's the BBC Written Archives Centre)
I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...
WAC wrong-headedness - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Some of you will know that I have been very involved over the past months with attempts to reverse the wrong-headed changes to access at the BBC Written Archives Centre (above, with...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Not enough attention is being paid to the effective closure of the bulk of one of the 2 or 3 most important public archives for modern British history. A terrible own goal for the BBC as a public-service agency.
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Cult '90s show Race Around the World is back, and we're on the hunt for fearless storytellers! Got a passport, an epic sense of adventure and an eye for a story? We want to hear from you.
Travel the globe for 100 days with the ABC's '90s TV reboot
Cult '90s show Race Around the World is back, and we're on the hunt for fearless storytellers! Got a passport, an epic sense of adventure and an eye for a story? We want to hear from you.
www.abc.net.au
November 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Cult '90s show Race Around the World is back, and we're on the hunt for fearless storytellers! Got a passport, an epic sense of adventure and an eye for a story? We want to hear from you.
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...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site
It's such a pleasure teaching talented students in documentary filmmaking and podcasting. Very proud of my students who produced outstanding, original docos. They are also just lovely people to work with.
November 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
It's such a pleasure teaching talented students in documentary filmmaking and podcasting. Very proud of my students who produced outstanding, original docos. They are also just lovely people to work with.
This SOUNDS like an excellent way to spend a day.
How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling?
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
Masterclass: Writing with an Ear to Sound with David Hendy - Gladstone's Library
Writing with an Ear to Sound – a writing Masterclass with David Hendy 10.30am-3pm, Saturday 17th January 2026 – save the date! Join the...
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
This SOUNDS like an excellent way to spend a day.
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How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling?
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
Masterclass: Writing with an Ear to Sound with David Hendy - Gladstone's Library
Writing with an Ear to Sound – a writing Masterclass with David Hendy 10.30am-3pm, Saturday 17th January 2026 – save the date! Join the...
www.gladstoneslibrary.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
How can we use SOUND to enhance story-telling?
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
A date for your diary if you're anywhere near the delightful @gladlib.bsky.social on Saturday 17th January and you're interested in writing for either books or radio.
To kick off my time as writer-in-residence, I'm doing a day-long 'masterclass':
Thrilled to announce I have been awarded the Dr AM Hertzberg AO fellowship for my project Sydney: Australia's First Media City. Congratulations to all the amazing incoming fellows and thank you SLNSW & donors for your incredible support for original research. 2/2 www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...
www.sl.nsw.gov.au
October 23, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Thrilled to announce I have been awarded the Dr AM Hertzberg AO fellowship for my project Sydney: Australia's First Media City. Congratulations to all the amazing incoming fellows and thank you SLNSW & donors for your incredible support for original research. 2/2 www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards...
Fabulous evening at the State Library of NSW to hear the outgoing Coral Thomas Fellow @ncushing12.bsky.social deliver a fascinating & entertaining talk about the bond between humans and more-than-humans in urban Sydney. Congratulations Nancy! 1/2
October 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Fabulous evening at the State Library of NSW to hear the outgoing Coral Thomas Fellow @ncushing12.bsky.social deliver a fascinating & entertaining talk about the bond between humans and more-than-humans in urban Sydney. Congratulations Nancy! 1/2
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Furthermore, women broadcast by BBC were heard internationally (like 1930s woman pastor) & intersected transnational womens orgs.
One Euro intl womens mvmt archive was looted by Nazis then Soviets: not open to researchers til 2000s.
So when *can* we expect removal of hurdles to womens history?
One Euro intl womens mvmt archive was looted by Nazis then Soviets: not open to researchers til 2000s.
So when *can* we expect removal of hurdles to womens history?
Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory
DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy
My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…
cstonline.net
October 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Furthermore, women broadcast by BBC were heard internationally (like 1930s woman pastor) & intersected transnational womens orgs.
One Euro intl womens mvmt archive was looted by Nazis then Soviets: not open to researchers til 2000s.
So when *can* we expect removal of hurdles to womens history?
One Euro intl womens mvmt archive was looted by Nazis then Soviets: not open to researchers til 2000s.
So when *can* we expect removal of hurdles to womens history?
"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
Defending the WAC: All the things I haven’t (yet) written by Helen Wheatley
People following the last few weeks of the Critical Studies in Television blog will have seen my brilliant colleagues discussing the essential work that they have been able to do thanks to the…
cstonline.net
October 19, 2025 at 6:06 AM
"The BBC has clanged their doors shut on those histories, those stories, those lives and ways of working that are revealed through the joint industry of the historian and the archivist." @helenwheatley.bsky.social on the devastating decision to limit access to BBC archives. tinyurl.com/y4tnyw9a
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I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmad. Ahmad was a barber before this. He has five children Hala, 16, Verimas, 15, Muhammad, 14, Mahmoud, 13 and Ali, 6. His wife is also 9 months pregnant. Muhammad was injured and is suffering from lack of pain medication and malnutrition.
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Ahmad. Ahmad was a barber before this. He has five children Hala, 16, Verimas, 15, Muhammad, 14, Mahmoud, 13 and Ali, 6. His wife is also 9 months pregnant. Muhammad was injured and is suffering from lack of pain medication and malnutrition.
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Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."
School of Humanities & Languages #unsw is hiring TWO postdoctoral fellows in history! 2 years fixed term, open to different specialisations. Deadline is Nov 2
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Postdoctoral Fellow in History
Undertake independent research and contribute to UNSW’s vibrant History program as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in any area of historical study.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
October 17, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Two History postdocs at UNSW (Sydney) and the net is wide: "open to candidates working on any time period from Ancient History to Contemporary History, any area or region, incl. global and international history, and any methodology, incl. oral history, gender history, history of race and more."
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The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵
Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory
DEFENDING THE WAC: RECOVERING THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF THE BBC by Kate Murphy
My first visit to the BBC’s Written Archives Centre was in 2002. I was working as a producer on Woman’s Hourand had applied for a three-month attachment to what was then the Diversity Centre…
cstonline.net
October 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Fantastic piece by Kate Murphy responding to the devastating change of policy at the @BBC Written Archives Centre, which will make it impossible to undertake new independent research using the collection. cstonline.net/defending-th... #mediahistory
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so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus
Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.
opus.ing
October 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Go through these steps to disable it:
opus.ing/posts/how-to...
#chrome #aibullshit
Terrific story - 17,000 photographs taken by tailor & amateur photographer Allan Doney have been returned to Bendigo.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Trove of historical photos taken by a tailor a 'brilliant time capsule'
A collection of photographs taken by an amateur photographer in a regional Victorian city in the 1950s, 60s and 70s has been returned.
www.abc.net.au
October 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Terrific story - 17,000 photographs taken by tailor & amateur photographer Allan Doney have been returned to Bendigo.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
I signed this petition to demand @albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social deliver on their promise for streaming regulation & local content requirements. International streaming platforms must invest in Australian storytelling & creators. #auspol #AusFilm c.org/TwF6yZZS46Sign
Sign the Petition
Save Australian Stories
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October 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I signed this petition to demand @albomp.bsky.social @tonyburkemp.bsky.social deliver on their promise for streaming regulation & local content requirements. International streaming platforms must invest in Australian storytelling & creators. #auspol #AusFilm c.org/TwF6yZZS46Sign
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COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 2 October 2025
🔹Active cases: 290 (+53.4%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 54 (+14.8%)
🔹Resident cases: 230 (+54.3%)
🔹Staff cases: 60 (+50.0%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 390 (+3)
@SamRaeMP
Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
🔹Active cases: 290 (+53.4%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 54 (+14.8%)
🔹Resident cases: 230 (+54.3%)
🔹Staff cases: 60 (+50.0%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 390 (+3)
@SamRaeMP
Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 AM
COVID-19 outbreaks in Australian residential aged care facilities: 2 October 2025
🔹Active cases: 290 (+53.4%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 54 (+14.8%)
🔹Resident cases: 230 (+54.3%)
🔹Staff cases: 60 (+50.0%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 390 (+3)
@SamRaeMP
Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
🔹Active cases: 290 (+53.4%)
🔹Active outbreaks: 54 (+14.8%)
🔹Resident cases: 230 (+54.3%)
🔹Staff cases: 60 (+50.0%)
🔹Reported deaths in 2025: 390 (+3)
@SamRaeMP
Source: www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...
The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour
theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...
theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...
The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour
The legacy of the Dixson family reveals a complicated history of interconnected global capital and racialised exploitation.
theconversation.com
October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The Dixson family were great Australian philanthropists, but their wealth was built on slave labour
theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...
theconversation.com/the-dixson-f...
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‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 6:23 AM
‘… social historian David Kynaston, told The Observer he suspects “a serious scandal is unfolding”
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
John Wyver, Ian Greaves, Erica Wagner and others on the growing battle to prevent damaging changes to the BBC’s priceless behind-the-scenes archives:
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We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.