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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · 6h

I try not to be too doom and gloom about the future of education but gd social media makes it hard sometimes

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · Aug 19

Wheeeen theee
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Apr 8

Two weeks left to submit an abstract to this online workshop and knowledge exchange about audiobook research

Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Mar 13

Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/

Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts

indico.uni-muenster.de

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English at the Australian National University @englishanu.bsky.social · Mar 14

Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:

Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Mar 13

Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/

Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts

indico.uni-muenster.de

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Mar 13

Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/

Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts

indico.uni-muenster.de

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Mar 4

Truly. Every time I look at it I get angrier

Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Mar 4

So much to infuriate me about this, where do I even begin ...

Letter reading "Dear Miss Weber, Maintain your Zoom-Zoom ..."

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Feb 12

Yep this about sums it up chaser.com.au/sport/sam-ke...

Sam Kerr found not guilty of abusing stupid white bastard – The Chaser

Once again Kerr didn't miss.

chaser.com.au

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Jan 30

Artworks by my four-year-old vs. characters from 90s cartoons

Monster made from cardboard tubes and cut up paper

The character oblina from 90s tv show Ahh Real Monsters

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · Jan 26

New terra nullius just dropped.

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Jan 15

My sympathy and solidarity with colleagues at UoW. There is a shocking leadership crisis in Australian Higher Ed and academic and professional staff are bearing the brunt.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · Jan 15

University of Wollongong academics say they have been forced to compete against each other for their jobs after the university confirmed it will shed more than 90 positions.

Academics forced into 'hunger games' as university pushes ahead with $21 million cuts

University of Wollongong academics say they have been forced to compete against each other for their jobs after the university confirmed it will shed more than 90 positions.

www.abc.net.au

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · Jan 15

How good is it to see young Timmy Winton finally get a go in the awards

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Petra Boynton @petraboynton.bsky.social · Jan 5

Be alert in 2025 for lots more discussions about the problems in universities.

🚨Note the angle!

Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts.

Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Dec 25

Exactly ;-)

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Dec 25

🎶 All I want for Christmas, is ... 🎶

Tube of glue hanging on a Christmas tree next to a round "Merry Christmas" ornament

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Dec 23

Just saying that I would absolutely listen to the audiobook of this rewrite

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Dec 14

Audiobooks 👏 are 👏 reading 👏

(That's it, that's the take)

Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · Dec 14

Audio books are reading! All scholars of reading agree on this and we don’t agree on anything! @millicentweber.bsky.social is the authority here

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Nov 21

Either way while Spotify is making radical (if still exploitative - but that's another conversation) moves into a new market, this is just Amazon playing their favourite game of Total Market Capture (TM)

Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Nov 21

This works both ways: folks who might have had both Spotify and Audible accounts could be considering coming across to Amazon music. Folks who had Amazon music accounts are encouraged to engage with the Audible catalogue as well.

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Nov 21

Amazon already have a strong established customer base for audiobooks - the largest in the Anglophone world. By offering music subscribers a free audiobook they're just keeping them in the Amazon system.

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Nov 21

Spotify are leveraging their existing successful platform and business model for music to introduce audiobooks - a (mostly) new to them format - and grow their customer base that way.

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Nov 21

Amazon offering a free audiobook with a music sub may look like what Spotify is doing but it's actually the reverse. (See: www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...)

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Millicent Weber @millicentweber.bsky.social · Nov 20