Can you help us boost this signal? UTS colleagues are doing a governance project to talk back to the consultant led 'reform' of their university.

Please repost!! UTS people please have your say!

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5yr old in the car on the freeway this morning: I just saw a truck I call big red. One I call big red, and one I call big greeny. And one I call fuckface.

That's a pretty great start. Other 1980s classics: Poltergeist; An American Werewolf In London; The Blob; Hellraiser. So many to choose from!

One of the real joys of writing online is when you see someone also find the value in something that you have shared, and runs with farther it in a way new to you.

Hugh Rundle’s insights on Google Search’s adoption of Ai snippets is a good read!

www.hughrundle.net/did-you-mean/

Important research here from Joel Barnes tracing the origins of philanthropic wealth in Australia. How should institutions reckon with these legacies?

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Great thread, thank you!!

Recently the 2025 Ethics Index Report (EIR) for Australia was released. A major finding, although not unexpected, is that ‘AI has surged to become the third most pressing ethical challenge and is now ranked as the second most difficult future development to ethically navigate’.

#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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As someone who is a) an archivist and historian, and b) generally works from home, I basically live in jeans and t-shirts, hoodies, cardigans, and caps. So today when I had to wear a suit and dress shirt to a meeting, I felt like a teenager who had borrowed his dad’s clothes for a job interview.

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

If anyone had doubts about the predatory nature of for-profit genealogy services, now you don’t. They’re insipid data machines that seek to capitalise our archival resources right into the ground at the expense of the institutions who curate and safeguard them.

Nah, he’s ambitious for her

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

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

My spelling is pretty good, but one word I can never get right first time is 'manoeuvres'.

Flinders University has abolished the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Another destructive restructure is about to happen.

Absolutely horrific concepts for the university sector from Bill Shorten, now VC of the University of Canberra. A vision for the utter decimation of higher education

North Melbourne

This is the Ad that #Newscorpse initially pulled despite that it was already paid for by the Jewish Council of Australia. #Newscorpse deny they pulled it, saying it was delayed due to internal processes. Sounds like BS, I’m pretty sure they don’t want ppl to see it. Plz share.

I assume Sussan’s war on dependency will extend to the $14.9 billion of annual subsidies to major producers & users of fossil fuels? And end the dependency of wealthy property investors on annual tax breaks of $12bn? Or is she just talking people with disabilities?

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

The Australian Creative Histories and Futures Project is running a survey to investigate data use across the arts and culture sectors. If you're a researcher, artist, or GLAM worker you might like to give your feedback: https://unsw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_78qwtk2SZhWOoku #glam

Genevieve Bell’s resignation as ANU vice-chancellor is a microcosm of the governance crisis at Australian universities www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/12/g...