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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 5d

Jane Goodall showed tremendous courage in charting her own course as a pioneering researcher – and working to spread hope wherever she went.

‘Only if we help shall all be saved’: Jane Goodall showed we can all be part of the solution

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 6d

Since it's Julie Andrews birthday (+24 hours) here she is yodelling with Maria von Trapp

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Maria von Trapp teaches Julie Andrews to Yodel

YouTube video by Rodgers & Hammerstein

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 10d

#PhD research callout!

I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.

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Seeking: NSW History Teachers. Have you taught History 7-10 in NSW? Are you interested in taking part in an online interview for a PhD study at WSU about the representation of women in the NSW history syllabuses? Please enter your details into the form below for further details. https://forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Contacts: Kate Littlejohn, Kay Carroll

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · Nov 17

I like to say that I'm a musicologist (cultural historian of music and books) by training and a research coordinator by profession.

Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!

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#EnvHum #EnvHist

Meet the Grants Office: Marianne | Medarbetarwebben

Marianne Gillion joined the SLU Grants Office as a Research Coordinator in April 2024. She comes to us from the world of social sciences, humanities, and musicology!

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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 10d

I'll also be joining Margaret Baguley, Damion Morris, and Rebecca Dickens in a panel discussion about Mary Poppins as a global phenomenon!

More details ⬇️
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Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social · 10d

I'm excited to be speaking at the Lines in the Sand festival in Maryborough in October!

This talk draws on my Camera Obscura journal article about Mary Poppins and The Suffrage Postcard Project, a digital archive of women's suffrage postcards.

Find out more ⬇️
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · Feb 1

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

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How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 15d

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.”

Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · 15d

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents"
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Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents

By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 20d

"Mothers of [autistic &] disabled children deserved to be viewed & treated as the warm, caring, attuned parents they were. […] Yet in being cast as ‘refrigerator mothers’, they were branded a fundamental causal factor of their child’s disability" -Dr Kate McAnelly:

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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network

Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.

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Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social · 18d

This week on Wonkhe: Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez

Gaza, higher education, and the ethics of institutional neutrality

Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez

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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 15d

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog.

Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.

Read more here ⬇️
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Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network

Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 15d

New research considers the true value of Meanjin, using publicly available data. The journal has trained generations of Australian writers and editors.

What is the value of Meanjin? We’ve done some calcuations – and it’s not about money

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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 15d

In the latest #VIDAblog Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon.

Read about Alison's impact and achievements here ⬇️
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Remembering Alison MacKinnon (1941–2025) | Australian Women's History Network

Margaret Allen remembers Emeritus Professor Alison MacKinnon, AO, FASSA (1941–2025)

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18d

"The ability to peddle the fiction that the Nazi Holocaust is unique, or that Jews are uniquely entitled, has ended."
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Death of the Holocaust Industry

The genocide in Gaza has exposed the weaponisation of the Holocaust as a vehicle not to prevent genocide, but to perpetuate it, not to examine the past, but to manipulate the present.

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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 20d

NEW at #VIDAblog!

Tanya Fitzgerald (@archive-dweller.bsky.social) explores women’s access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand at the end of the nineteenth century 🎓

This is part of our "Women's Education" series, edited by Kaitlin Mills.

Read it here ⬇️
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A matter of right rather than privilege? The opening up of higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand 1877–1920 | Australian Women's History Network

In this blog, Tanya Fitzgerald explores the history of women's access to higher education in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 20d

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22d

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

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Joel Wood 🇨🇦 @joelwwood.bsky.social · 23d

Whoa! Elsevier fired @richardtol.bsky.social, longstanding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Energy Economics. Richard's side of the story should be ringing alarm bells. #EconSky

Fraud and cover-up
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Fraud and cover-up

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 24d

PNG’s founding leaders didn’t just inherit Australian institutions – they reimagined how they could best suit the country’s traditional culture.

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Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social · 24d

NEW at #VIDAblog!

Kerrie Saunders and @mcookhistory.bsky.social explore Kamilaroi women’s knowledge of nature, country, and history.

The "Environment and Gender" series is guest edited by @rubyekkel.bsky.social.

Read it here ⬇️
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Listening to Kamilaroi Women | Australian Women's History Network

Kerrie Saunders and Margaret Cook explore Kamilaroi women's knowledge of nature, country and history.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 26d

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s'

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Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s by Evan Smith & Andrekos Varnava

Abstract: In the 1950s and 1960s, changes in the international situation, such as decolonization in Asia, led some Australians to question the usefulness of keeping the ‘White Australia Policy’, the basis for the country’s immigration system since Federation in 1901. Some argued that Australia’s international reputation, especially with newly independent countries in Asia and Africa, could be harmed by the maintenance of this policy. Events such as the Sharpeville Massacre in apartheid South Africa in 1960 caused further introspection into Australia’s racialized system. However, as pushes to reform the policy grew, others used international events to resist reforms. Using speeches by politicians and documents produced by policymakers, this article will show how events, such as the Notting Hill riots in Britain, the Little Rock controversy in the United States, and the Sharpeville massacre, were used as warnings about Australia potentially introducing similar ‘racial problems’ if it allowed more non-white migration. This article argues that these concerns tapped into a transnational whiteness that shared anxieties about decolonization, civil rights and non-white immigration in the post-war period, bringing a racialized solidarity forged at the turn of the twentieth century into the Cold War era.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · 29d

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Sep 7

The shrinking of academia is contributing to this. Peer review was an accepted part of academic labour for those employed in the system, but that pool is dwindling.

I haven’t been employed in academia properly for nearly 2 years but still doing peer reviews because there’s no one else to do it.

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Sep 6

Peer reviewers are exhausted. It's common to spend *months* inviting reviewers, getting refusals, inviting more, maybe 12 or more, then 2 agree but 1 doesn't complete, so you go again. That's why your paper is in limbo. I'm very sorry, it's awful, but it's also an untenable academic labour issue.

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