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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · Jan 21

‘University appears to prioritise commercial over community interests in its core functions’.
Tasmanian parliamentary report criticises corporatisation in operation and governance of the University of Tasmania.
graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/t...
#HigherEducation #universities

Tasmanian parliamentary review defends university's core functions against corporatisation: https://graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/tasmanian-parliamentary-review-defends-universitys-core-functions-against-corporatisation/

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Caroline Rowland @carorowland.bsky.social · Jan 21

So @matspike.bsky.social's answer to this question provides the best (short) explanation I have ever seen of what LLMs do and why it makes no sense to use them to explore human understanding of language

Janel Le Belle @janellebelle.bsky.social · Jan 19

What is the cognitive science evidence that LLMs have any genuine understanding rather than mimicking understanding through their core design as language prediction models?

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Elizabeth Peel (she/they) @lizpeel.bsky.social · Jan 20

Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.

PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients at Midlands Graduate School Doctoral Training Partnership

jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD Studentship: Identity Work in Palliative Care: A Conversation Analytic Study of Interactions with Newly Diagnosed Patients. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on ...

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · Jan 16

Using #data critically can reduce the risks posed by EdTech platforms. @lucipangrazio.bsky.social writes for ABC Education

www.abc.net.au/education/te...

Data about children is being collected at schools, but teachers can take control - ABC Education

Digital data has become integral to schools today. While this data can be used to enhance learning, it also raises concerns over privacy and data misuse in education.

www.abc.net.au

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Finn McLellan @saranadosfiction.com · Jan 16

Okay, a quick heads-up because I'm seeing people worrying/panicking about this: the UK press headline about a trans teenager being non-fatally stabbed is about something that originally happened in *February 2024* - it's in the news now because the court case is happening now.

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · Jan 14

Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...

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EssayWells @essaywells.bsky.social · Jan 16

To an LLM, the only difference between "did" and "did not" is the statistical frequency of the word "not".

*They don't have any knowledge*. Just strings of words.

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DOTE and DOTEbase @dote.bsky.social · Jan 16

and we are live with 360mash - find the download link at www.dote.aau.dk/downloads or visit our github repo: github.com/BigSoftVideo...

DOTE & DOTEbase - Software to support Transcription and Qualitative Analysis of Social Conduct and Multimodal Interaction

DOTE and DOTEbase are software tools to support transcription and qualitative analysis of audio-visual data. Our motto is make qualitative analysis fun again!😜

www.dote.aau.dk

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Rory D. Kent @feyerabender.bsky.social · Jan 15

I'm returning to Wittig for inspiration on the issue of scientism in the anti-trans movement and wishing that more people read "The Straight Mind" (1979). It's one of those short but remarkably powerful essays that offers insights far beyond its notional subject matter

Excerpt from Monique Wittig's "The Straight Mind," originally delivered as a keynote at a conference on feminist philosophy at Barnard College in April 1979.

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · Jan 12

Today's #ResearcherRenew task is for anyone who's feeling overwhelmed or overworked and knows their physical health is being neglected. It's a bit more sensitive than previous tasks, so go gently.

#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #gradschool #HigherEd

theresearchcompanion.com/wellbeing-in...

Prioritise your health - The Research Companion

A gentle invitation to check your physical and mental health and prioritise essential appointments, investigations and treatments this year.

theresearchcompanion.com

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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · Jan 11

I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis:

"Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · Jan 10

NDIS and ministers talk big game on fraud & rorting but biggest budget savings booked under new legislation come from kicking (mostly) kids off scheme, cutting plans under cover of 'integrity'. Half a BILLION a year just on eligibility revocations alone. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...

Exclusive: Children targeted in NDIS crackdown

Despite claims the government’s reform of the National Disability Insurance Scheme is focused on fraud, a third of the savings will come from pushing children off the scheme.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyeldritch.bsky.social · Jan 7

My first paper with my amazing collaborator Dr. Emma Tennent. Come with us and unravel (in frankly masochistic detail) the sequential and categorial reasoning that organises transmisogynistic talk. If you do not have access but would to read it, let me know and I can share a copy. #EMCA 🌈🎓

Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony

Hatred and fear of trans people, particularly trans women, are worldwide social phenomena. Transphobic rhetoric rests on essentialist understandings of sex and gender, but ethnomethodology shows how ...

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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · Jan 10

Woo-hoo back! There's still a heap of freely available stuff on the #DulwichCentre website, including courses. Modestly hoping to add to what's out there in due course 😊

Hope you're safe from the fires - we're seeing footage in Australia eerily similar to bushfires here 😔

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Digital Child @digitalchildau.bsky.social · Jan 10

What is the Children's Internet? Professor Michael Dezuanni explains for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/a-...

You can read about Principles for a Better Children's Internet here: digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...

#medialiteracy @abcnewsbot.bsky.social #childrensinternet

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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · Jan 10

A brilliant augmentation to an already awesome suite of data handling tech tools for #EMCA and related observational methods. Will be keen to see and play when it's released 🤩

DOTE and DOTEbase @dote.bsky.social · Jan 9

We are finalising our new software package 360mash to support basic video editing tasks needed for qualitative video research. 360mash is a free, cross-platform, lightweight tool for clipping, reframing and anonymising 2D, 180 and 360 videos and exporting the resulting video as fast as possible.

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Jo VanEvery, older than PostIt notes @jovanevery.bsky.social · Jan 9

You don’t need to approach everything in Hard Mode. There are often useful things you can contribute that are not the best, most complete version of the thing you are working on...#TeamNoBurnout

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Rhys Jones 🇵🇸 @rgjones.bsky.social · Nov 18

What’s black and white and red all over?

Te Whanganui-a-Tara today.

#ToitūTeTiriti ✊🏽

A black, white and red tino rangatiratanga flag.

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Tash 🍉 @tashmahal.bsky.social · Nov 14

Tusiata on Hana, in which one queen honours another
tusiata.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

And today, Hana-Rawhiti rose –

more than stood – she rose

like Nafanua, goddess of war

like Hine-nui-te-po, goddess of death

like the wahine toa who is exactly like herself

She rose from that place full of insects

and she tore that white bill –

white as the whites of her eyes

staring down the hulking enemy on the battlefield

She tore that white bill right through the backbone

tore it into two and she held it

one in each fist

like the two flags of war

like the twin battle-clubs only the war goddess holds

and she shook them in the faces of those

enemies with hearts as empty as their faces –

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Nov 18

Came down for a visit to say loudly what I think as tangata Tiriti.

Simply: Toi tū Te Tiriti

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Eileen Joy Swintersections @eileenjoy.bsky.social · Nov 19

Few more pictures from a truly historic day.

So glad I made the drive down to join the hīkoi. The mood was phenomenal, the movement cannot be stopped.

Toitū te Tiriti

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E-Tangata @etangata.bsky.social · Nov 18

“The rights we’re fighting to hold on to were fought for and guaranteed to us by our tīpuna who signed Te Tiriti on our behalf, almost 200 years ago. We know our job is to protect those rights for our mokopuna, for the next 200 years.” — Herewini Ammunson.

'They dishonour all our ancestors' | E-Tangata

“The rights we’re fighting to hold on to were fought for and guaranteed to us by our tīpuna who signed Te Tiriti on our behalf, almost 200 years ago. We know our job is to protect those rights for…

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xX💖🌹Xx_dolly_Angelic_xX🌹💖Xx @dollyeldritch.bsky.social · Nov 16

I know so many of my lovely #EMCA colleagues are great and supportive but I'd really love to see more of our bigger names and (though I gate to call them this) "CA spokespeople" do and say more actively and openly to oppose transphobia in our academic community.

Joshua קאַבאַק-געװירץ Raclaw @joshuaraclaw.com · Nov 16

A large part of why I've stopped actively working in conversation analysis / #EMCA is because we have senior colleagues like Ruth Parry, Celia Kitzinger, and Sue Wilkinson who openly and proudly embrace being TERFs on social media, and colleagues who see this seem to treat it like business as usual.

Screenshot of Ruth Parry saying, "Thanks to Elizabeth Stokoe's nudge, I’ve got an amount on there. I’m a lefty GC feminist, person who knows women only spaces are important in some but not all contexts, as well as a conversation analyst. I can and will support people with similar views connect in this emerging platform."

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Justin Canty @justbc.bsky.social · Nov 17

Much appreciate the added insights, and disappointment in fairly equal measures :/

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