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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 13h

Forty-five jobs are set to be cut at the Art Gallery of NSW (around 11% of the 385 full-time equivalent roles) including the curator of Australian art, the curator of Asian art, the music and community curator, the curator of film in international art, a new librarian, and a paper conservator.

Curators among 45 jobs to be axed at Art Gallery of NSW

Leaked documents show curators and conservator jobs will go as 45 full-time roles are cut from the Art Gallery of NSW.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d

NEW from Drop Site: Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza

Participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are being detained by the Israeli military and taken into custody. Our full report ⬇️

www.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-ill...

BREAKING: Israel Illegally Boards Humanitarian Flotilla Heading to Gaza

Participants on the Global Sumud Flotilla are being detained by the Israeli military and taken into custody.

www.dropsitenews.com

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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 19d

shirt by @allgrim.bsky.social

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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 19d

happy fortieth @andrew-brooks.bsky.social

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MEAA @withmeaa.bsky.social · 22d

"The ABC let down the Australian public badly when it abjectly surrendered the rights of its employee Ms Lattouf to appease a lobby group." Justice Rangiah said.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Judge says ABC 'let down the Australian public' over Lattouf sacking

The judge ordered ABC to pay a fine of $150,000 for unlawfully sacking journalist and presenter Antoinette Lattouf for reasons including her political opinions.

www.abc.net.au

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 26d

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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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27d

It should not be possible to be this wrong

WorldNorth AmericaTrump's America
Opinion
Kimmel missed the point: In America, the left and right have become one

Waleed Aly
Columnist, author and academic

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28d

A more apt headline for this would be: Collective pressure by staff forces ANU management to abandon its plans for forced redundancies.
Well done to ANU staff.

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 28d

Breaking: ANU walks back plans for forced redundancies: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-18/anu-walks-back-forced-redundancies-change-proposal/105787248

Breaking: ANU walks back plans for forced redundancies

The Australian National University abandons its plans for forced redundancies as part of its efforts to cut costs.

www.abc.net.au

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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 28d

hell of a week to be reading @alfatau.bsky.social on Late Fascism

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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · 29d

first day of teaching and I’m in my emotional support bespoke JClo last para of Roadrunner tshirt

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Sep 15

Melbourne’s hospital cancelled their seminar on “children and war” because they were worried it might offend the people who support war

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · Sep 11

Read this book!

Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · Sep 8

Now available! Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, STITCH, UNSTITCH is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry. buff.ly/DlnVJeY #CreativeLabor #FeministModernism #WagesForHousework #Modernism

Now available! Cover of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work.
Kristin Grogan. it includes a blurb by Brian Glavey and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

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Jess A. Goldberg 🇵🇸 @jessagoldberg.bsky.social · Sep 9

"There are not only two genders" is a legitimate expression of a fairly uncontroversial, centuries-old viewpoint held by cultural traditions found around the globe. It is in fact the statement "there are only two genders" that is the imposition of a partisan view. TA&M''s pres's decision is horrific

Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · Sep 9

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum

The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

www.kbtx.com

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · Sep 9

It’s in 😬😱

Seeing Like a Supply Chain:
Data in the Circuits of Global Trade
Miriam Posner

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Systems at War in a Hostile Universe: The Informatic Roots of Logistics
2. Exploding the BOM: Digitizing Production in the Cold War
3. Phantoms, Backflushes, and the Trumpet of Doom: The Dilemmas of Just-in-Time
4. Inventing SCM
5. The Sensate Company in the Animate Cloud
6. Transferring Risk in a Calamitous World

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.

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Nat Osborne she/her @drnatosborne.bsky.social · Sep 4

This is such a devastating decision by University of Melbourne. I am once again wondering what the fuck the point of universities is when they act like this.

Crikey @crikey.com.au · Sep 4

Exclusive: Australia’s second-oldest literary journal, Meanjin, is being shut down today for "financial" reasons, Crikey can reveal.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

www.crikey.com.au

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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · Aug 30

I have a book cover!

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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · Sep 3

loved this ep and found it very moving; also nothing could have prepared me for how Abby says “Australia”

Ordinary Unhappiness @unhappinesspod.bsky.social · Aug 30

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 From preparation to dose day to integration, Dr. Josh West shares the details of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy clinical trials in Australia. Plus: the history of psychedelic research, legacies of appropriation, and the ethics of care www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

112: Psilocybin-Assisted Psychotherapy feat. Josh West - Ordinary Unhappiness

Abby and Patrick are joined by Dr. Josh West to talk about some remarkable developments in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy in Australia. Josh explains to Abby and Patrick how the clinical trials he ...

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Aug 18

Institutions manipulate the language of diversity, cohesion, safety and respect to categorise pro-Palestinian speech as dangerous. Silence over the killing and starvation of Palestinians becomes necessary for the smooth running of a writers’ festival. 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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Astrid Lorange @alorange.bsky.social · Aug 19

“You subordinate the Marxist interpretation to the psychoanalytic and not the other way around; skip a turn.”

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · Aug 18

Preorder this book now! Rosa author, Rosa fave, Rosa icon, Madeline. Can't wait to read, hype, cite, and love this book.

madeline lane-mckinley @lalouverouge.bsky.social · Jun 3

My book now has a cover! Out from @haymarketbooks.org in November

Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy

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Rosa Press @rosa-collective.bsky.social · Aug 18

Rosa Press has collated a folio of tributes in memory of our friend Joshua Clover. Please read pieces by @lalouverouge.bsky.social @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social @charmainechua.bsky.social Oki Sogumi, Mark Steven, @andrew-brooks.bsky.social + @alorange.bsky.social here: rosapress.net/joshua-clove...

Joshua Clover, 1962–2025 – Rosa Press

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Aug 15

Blowing up your small-town writers festival because your local university needs to crack down on free speech because there’s a genocide we can’t talk about is so utterly on-brand for Australian culture. Cowards and fools 3-deep at the canapés tray

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · Aug 10

The blood of Anas al-Sharif and other slain journalists is on the hands of Western media figures who have justified Israel’s crimes while ignoring, or excusing, the killing and intimidation of Palestinian journalists.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · Aug 10

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Anas al-Sharif among five Al Jazeera journalists killed by Israel in Gaza

Al Jazeera staff killed in targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists near al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza City.

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