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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 2d

#CommunityInWriting Day 2
Book Launch for the new #ShutUpandWrite book

Available for pre-order now

www.routledge.com/Wellbeing-an...

Haidee Hicks speaking on a panel with Andi Salamon, Abbe Winter and Narelle Lemon

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 3d

#CommunityInWriting Symposium Day 1 at Deakin Downtown #SUAW #Shutupandwrite

Sneak peek of new book cover ✨📚

Moleskin Cahier, Midori pencil, She speaks bookmarks, new book sneak peek

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 4d

Now I know what you’re thinking: Did they make a video abstract for this important study? Reader,

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 12d

Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being.

It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”

Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 6d

You are so welcome. Thank you for such a thoughtful and honest article!

Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 6d

I recognised a lot of threads! And I've thought about your running experiences a lot as I've started running myself! 👟💕

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 6d

I loved this article (by @jessamysesame.bsky.social, @emmawhatman.bsky.social et al.)
Embodied Emotion Work in Feminist Research: Crying, Running, Dancing, Loving
We need more crying, more bodies, more running, more dancing, more love
doi.org/10.1080/1448...

Embodied Emotion Work in Feminist Research: Crying, Running, Dancing, Loving

In this paper we ‘work over’ and ‘mull over’ research experiences that did not (immediately) make sense. As feminist researchers, we explore our emotional, embodied reactions to specific moments an...

doi.org

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 8d

I find the way ID cards have been used in the UK is also always so weird (so I guess emblematic of this point). In Europe it’s quite nice to have physical identity documentation seperate from ability to drive or travel, and allows you to travel if you like. But UK options are always so surveillancy

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 9d

We pumped up the jam with @luriethereal.bsky.social's punchy exploration of how sports and music became so inextricably intertwined. (You ready for this?)

We're All Jocks, Jamming

How did sports and music get so inexorably entangled?

heat-death.ghost.io

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 22d

In London, hate will never win.

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 11d

Early this morning, daylight saving began in New Zealand for another year. This is, I think, a good opportunity to highlight two Kiwi innovations: it was the first country in the world to establish a national mean time and a New Zealander invented DST. How did that happen? Well, read on... 1/20

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 14d

That’s not what I expected from their poetic reputations, and 100% what I expected from Charlotte

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 14d

Tomas Transtromer's 'Romanesque Arches' - profoundly moving in Robin Fulton's translation for Transtromer's New Collected Poems by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. Read it aloud - in Fulton's words each phrase becomes a vividly charged moment in an arc of evolving experience.

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 14d

Finished typing up the Brontë poems and made a word cloud for your viewing pleasure

A word cloud in red and turquoise with love, thy, thee, will, shall, heart, and now being particularly prominent

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Australian Association for Research in Education @australianare.bsky.social · 14d

Have you read first online #OA article by Amanda McKay, Erin Leif, Kelly Ann Allen & Russell Fox ‘Supporting wellbeing of Australian school leaders through peer supervision' in AER? https://loom.ly/NxIO8dU

Supporting wellbeing of Australian school leaders through peer supervision - The Australian Educational Researcher

Principals play an important role in creating positive school climates. However, principals are also at higher risk of having mental health problems and diminished wellbeing due to the complex nature of their work. Research has found that excessive workloads further undermine principal physical and mental health, with supportive networks and peer-supervision serving as examples of interventions found to improve principal wellbeing. Despite the limited research on supervision, its potential be...

link.springer.com

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · Sep 22

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox.
By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands.
Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid.
“My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 14d

"Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
#research #edchat #HigherEd #University #research

Journals infiltrated with ‘copycat’ papers that can be written by AI

Tools such as ChatGPT can be used to generate almost-identical research papers that pass standard plagiarism checks. Hundreds are thought to have been published.

www.nature.com

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 18d

Some pointers to writing a series of papers from the same project patthomson.net/2025/09/21/w...

Writing multiple articles from one set of data

So you’ve got this mountain of “stuff” that keeps revealing new secrets every time you look at it. Or maybe you’re doing a PhD by publication and panicking about how to sort out the art…

patthomson.net

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(Dr) Heather Moreno Sutherland @heathermsutherland.bsky.social · 19d

Basically lived at the WAC during my first PhD and gave the interviews I conducted to it. Quite horrified to learn this, given I was forming a research plan that would take me back - now seems not possible to do…. cstonline.net/is-the-bbc-a...

Defending the WAC: Is the BBC a fit and proper keeper of its own paper archive? Ian Greaves on Defending the Written Archives Centre (Part 1)

When the creation of the BBC Written Archives Centre in Caversham was agreed, at a meeting of the Board of Management on 17 November 1969, it was done so with a view to history. Kenneth Lamb…

cstonline.net

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 19d

I miss when Google worked

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 19d

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 19d

Very! Those critical information skills will be so important though

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 20d

“those tools don’t work well, you’ve not learned the skill and you’re still getting crap results, so you’re never going to get better results because you didn’t learn the skill.”

www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books

It’s a trippy time to have a library card.

www.404media.co

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 20d

'And that underlying rhythm probably sounds quite familiar: it’s like a heartbeat. Shakespeare loved iambic pentameter because it sounds very close to natural, heart-felt speech': argh, this kind of thing (from Shakespeare's Globe website) drives me mad: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/10-reasons...

10 Reasons Why the Iambic Pentameter is Not Like the Human Heartbeat

On an idea about poetry that needs to die

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Katherine Firth @katherinefirth.bsky.social · 21d

Inside you are two wolves

Black and tan dachshund looking shy, demure, unbothered, on her sofa

Black and tan dachshund showing her belly, side eye, ears flop

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