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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 11d

Nice one! Cheers to long weekend productivity. And a free evening. 🥂

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 13d

a cartoon of a green snake with potato-yi written on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon of a green snake with potato-yi written on the bottom

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 13d

Yes, pls.

Arbre @missarbre.bsky.social · 13d

Can I upload Co-pilot to OneDrive so I will never find it again please

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Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 13d

r/Monash post.
Q: "Caught in gen ai breach. Meeting is in person. What will they ask and what should I do ? What is the process is like ??"
A: "Chat GPT might know".

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 17d

Unfort true. 😩

Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 17d

I love how AI has made it that now when you do see a cool video of human achievement or nature instead of just enjoying it you also have to wonder if it’s real. It is sucking the life out of everything

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 17d

There have been *so many* Academia[dot]edu warning signs over the past decade; I’m glad these new terms of service — claiming world rights to your work, your voice, your likeness, your signature, etc — are driving even more people away. May it advance the Ed Tech Luddite Revolution ✊

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 26d

And one could argue that the US right now is not a democracy.

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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social · 26d

If you’re a doctoral researcher
You need to understand and practice criticality patthomson.net/2025/09/12/w...

what is criticality?

This is a post for all the people just starting their doctoral programmes. And for those supporting them. Criticality in scholarship is the practice of approaching all knowledge claims, including y…

patthomson.net

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 26d

I deleted my Facebook account a while back. I don't miss that much of it but I do miss @chubblenauts.bsky.social there.

Black seal seen from above, with what looks like a shaved head except for a tuft of hair on the top. Text above it says "Average haircut of the kid on the bus watching TikToks without headphones."

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Sep 9

When a Borg mind is a good thing. 😄

Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's v. frustrating. 😖

Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a shocker. Having to kill something else to feel in touch with life is pathetic.

Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Sep 8

"It overshadows all the fear, to see a marlin lit up [with colour], hunting. It's an incredible experience" - Nikki Watt

...In 2025 she fulfilled a dream, spearing a world-record 162.5-kilogram striped marlin...

The so-called 'sport' of murdering massive billfish
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

The Australian woman who spearfished a 162.5kg striped marlin

After a shock cancer diagnosis, Nikki Watt thought she'd never dive again. But now she's broken a spearfishing world record with a huge marlin.

www.abc.net.au

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Jordan Maison @jordanmaison.com · Sep 1

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

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Ethics in Bricks @ethicsinbricks.bsky.social · Aug 18

University rankings have little meaning, are highly subjective, promote a competition frame, and thwart our academic freedom, as commercial ranking organizations dictate what constitutes “a good university.”
- www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/08/stop...

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · Aug 22

#BREAKING 🚨 'A major report for government by Deloitte is littered with citation errors prompting concern it may have been generated by artificial intelligence'

✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social in the AFR on the consultancy's $440,000 Targeted Compliance Framework report:

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 21

RTYI, @wadekelly.com ? 😬

LSE Impact Blog @lseimpactblog.bsky.social · Aug 20

💥 New: How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control

✍️ Aikerim Bektemirova #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #ScholComm

How authoritarian states co-opt academic modernisation and bibliometrics for control - Impact of Social Sciences

Do bibliometric performance metrics, which underpin global higher education policies, also provide a means for authoritarian states to coerce academics?

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Aug 20

So much distress has been caused by the ANU’s PR mess that I understand there have been formal workplace hazards lodged. Again, ANU execs giving more details to the media than to actual staff. Heartbreaking.

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 20

Published in 2021 and unfortunately still relevant: “When change is awful” at @therealrw.bsky.social

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When change is awful

This anonymous post has communal authorship. To support the author, we made a call-out for examples and we’ve embedded them in this post with the permission of the authors. Photo by Robert Zun…

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 20

Many weasel words to parse here in ANU statement. Paper could be written about terms for restructuring and redundancies in the uni sector (‘renew’ ‘refresh’ ‘reimagine’), and ‘natural attrition’ when the institution is demoralised to such a degree that ppl leaving is actually unnatural attrition.

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Aug 20

Tough time for many at ANU. At around midday yesterday staff received a university-wide email. The language was ambiguous and could be read to say all forced redundancies would stop. I received many messages from people being forced out. Were they now safe?

I am writing to you today with three key updates for our community regarding the Renew ANU Program:
1. The University leaders have confirmed that all future changes under Renew ANU will be achieved without involuntary redundancies. This means that all future changes under Renew ANU will be achieved through our other mechanisms, including lift and shift/ realignments, continuation of the Recruitment Advisory Committee (RAC), natural attrition, and voluntary separations. We will continue to create greater accountability for senior leaders to ensure compliance with budget and resource allocation.
2. The University's timeline for future change has been brought forward from 31 October to today, Wednesday 20 August 2025. This means that under Renew ANU, no further change proposals will be released in 2025, and as expressed above, no further job losses will occur through involuntary redundancy.
3. Finally, the University will open a second Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) for the entire community next week, with details released via On Campus next Tuesday.

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 20

Hot-desking as a standard workplace environment requires this new work tool.

Wooden chair carved so that it looks like there’s a jacket slung over the back.

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 18

The number of major news outlets that declined to publish this when it is timely and significant AF. 🤔

Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · Aug 18

On Sunday, The Age commissioned an opinion piece from Palestinian author and academic Randa Abdel-Fattah - only to decline publishing it after it was submitted.

Thanks to Randa for letting us publish it here.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/pro-israel...

Pro-Israel groups have attacked me for years. The Bendigo Writers Festival is a turning point.

Randa Abdel-Fattah writes of her experience as a target of the pro-Israel lobby

www.deepcutnews.com

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · Aug 15

What a great way to raise awareness of Australia's wonderful wildlife, congrats, rakali! Wonderful to see a native rodent getting the gong! #NationalScienceWeek www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 14

😆

The only problem is the scads of people who got on between my stop and the train station! 😭

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · Aug 13

Nowhere feels more Melbourne to me than Journal. ❤️

Interior of Jounal Cafe, dark wood, soft lighting.

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