Bethany Keats
@bethanykeats.bsky.social
Writer ✍️ Reader 📚 Dancer 🩰 cyclist 🚲
PhD: creative writing, family history, 1950s Australia, gothic literature, women's history 🎓
Also: languages
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
PhD: creative writing, family history, 1950s Australia, gothic literature, women's history 🎓
Also: languages
Geelong ✈️ Townsville (sometimes 🇫🇷)
co-editor @sudojournal.bsky.social
co-host @editsannotations.bsky.social
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Books I read in 2025: a thread
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Very disappointed to discover this is a kind of bird rather than a potential gunzel project en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...
Inaccessible Island rail - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Very disappointed to discover this is a kind of bird rather than a potential gunzel project en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inacces...
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Study shows targeted cycling policies, like dedicated lanes & better bike parking, were major contributors to the rise in ridership. But equally important were measures to discourage car use. The two worked hand-in-hand: making biking easier & driving less convenient
momentummag.com/new-study-pa...
momentummag.com/new-study-pa...
New Study Shows How Paris Pedaled Its Way to a Cycling Revolution
Cycling through central Paris meant weaving between buses and scooters—a bold choice reserved for the fearless few.
momentummag.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Study shows targeted cycling policies, like dedicated lanes & better bike parking, were major contributors to the rise in ridership. But equally important were measures to discourage car use. The two worked hand-in-hand: making biking easier & driving less convenient
momentummag.com/new-study-pa...
momentummag.com/new-study-pa...
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Horror anthology idea
each writer gets assigned or chooses an unexplained weird photo from the deep web. You write a story about it
This is mine
each writer gets assigned or chooses an unexplained weird photo from the deep web. You write a story about it
This is mine
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Horror anthology idea
each writer gets assigned or chooses an unexplained weird photo from the deep web. You write a story about it
This is mine
each writer gets assigned or chooses an unexplained weird photo from the deep web. You write a story about it
This is mine
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Nice to be recognised for "Research Paper of the Year" by the AI in Education podcast. So strange to see this paper doing the rounds with my name on it. Such a diverse group of contributors from pro-AI educationalists to—me! All great friends and minds though!
aipodcast.education/podcast-unwr...
aipodcast.education/podcast-unwr...
AI in Education Podcast: Podcast Unwrapped: Our 2025 AI in Education Awards
In this special end-of-year episode, Ray and Dan unwrap the biggest moments, ideas, guests, and breakthroughs that shaped AI in education in 2025. From standout tools to unforgettable interviews, they...
aipodcast.education
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Nice to be recognised for "Research Paper of the Year" by the AI in Education podcast. So strange to see this paper doing the rounds with my name on it. Such a diverse group of contributors from pro-AI educationalists to—me! All great friends and minds though!
aipodcast.education/podcast-unwr...
aipodcast.education/podcast-unwr...
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men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 AM
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
Oh oh. The backyard plovers are nesting and they're in their militant phase.
December 12, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Oh oh. The backyard plovers are nesting and they're in their militant phase.
You know the report you're reading is long when the cat jumps on top of the print-out and it starts collapsing under her, sheet by sheet, like a cartoon.
December 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
You know the report you're reading is long when the cat jumps on top of the print-out and it starts collapsing under her, sheet by sheet, like a cartoon.
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It’s pollinator week! Here’s a commission I did for Old Parliament House - you can download the whole poster on their website! 1/8 #pollinatorweek #bees #pollination
November 13, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It’s pollinator week! Here’s a commission I did for Old Parliament House - you can download the whole poster on their website! 1/8 #pollinatorweek #bees #pollination
I’m here for this.
As we enter the Yuletide season, this is my annual reminder to all of you that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
December 11, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I’m here for this.
This prompted me to see if anyone had bootlegged Moondial on YouTube. They have.
So I watched it and it probably explains me.
So I watched it and it probably explains me.
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Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Spiral/Engrenages
Utopia
Doctor Who
I’ll change my mind in an hour.
Oh no, but what about fabulous kids shows?
Maid Marian and her Merry Men
Round the Twist
Moondial (obscure but I was obsessed)
The Ferals
You Can’t Do That On Television.
Life on Mars
Ashes to Ashes
Spiral/Engrenages
Utopia
Doctor Who
I’ll change my mind in an hour.
Oh no, but what about fabulous kids shows?
Maid Marian and her Merry Men
Round the Twist
Moondial (obscure but I was obsessed)
The Ferals
You Can’t Do That On Television.
What are your top 5 TV series of all time? For mine, it's hard to reduce it to five, and impossible to put them in order. But I reckon it's:
The Expanse
Justified
Sons of Anarchy
Supernatural
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
The Expanse
Justified
Sons of Anarchy
Supernatural
Yes Minister/Prime Minister
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 AM
This prompted me to see if anyone had bootlegged Moondial on YouTube. They have.
So I watched it and it probably explains me.
So I watched it and it probably explains me.
"The textual output of ChatGPT is not foreign intelligence; it’s ourselves, refracted."
www.griffithreview.com/articles/gho...
www.griffithreview.com/articles/gho...
Ghostwriting in the machine
Tenille McDermott explains how the history of Victorian Spiritualism and automatic writing relates to the use of Large Language Models.
www.griffithreview.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"The textual output of ChatGPT is not foreign intelligence; it’s ourselves, refracted."
www.griffithreview.com/articles/gho...
www.griffithreview.com/articles/gho...
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"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages.
We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
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We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
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An open letter to colleagues: we are not mops
After more than two decades working in legal translation across four languages and multiple jurisdictions, I’ve watched our profession reshaped by forces that claim efficiency as a path to our expenda...
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December 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
"Machine translation would handle the heavy lifting, and we’d add the expert polish. Except the machine made a mess. And we’re doing expert-level cognitive labour to clean it up for cleaning wages.
We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...
We’re not mops. We’re translators."
#translation #xl8
www.linkedin.com/pulse/open-l...
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BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
December 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
BLOODY AI,a thread:so, I saw a picture online of the Towers of Perugia by a Renaissance artist, Benedetto Bonfigli whose other work I know a little bit. Here is the image 1/n:
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Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.
December 10, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Because to me, fantasy isn’t wishful thinking, but a way of reflecting, and reflecting on reality.
Here’s four, all of which are PhD novels for me.
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Here’s four, all of which are PhD novels for me.
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest podcatcher for my @editsannotations.bsky.social interview with none other than Isobelle Carmody @firecatz.bsky.social 🙌
podfollow.com/editsannotat...
podfollow.com/editsannotat...
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Run, don’t walk, to your nearest podcatcher for my @editsannotations.bsky.social interview with none other than Isobelle Carmody @firecatz.bsky.social 🙌
podfollow.com/editsannotat...
podfollow.com/editsannotat...
You will be visited by three spirits without my pants
December 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
You will be visited by three spirits without my pants
Man got snarky at a young woman for standing up quickly on a place as soon as the seatbelt sign went off upon landing.
She had a tight connection and was trying to catch precious last days with a dying family member.
This is tonight’s reminder to be kind.
She had a tight connection and was trying to catch precious last days with a dying family member.
This is tonight’s reminder to be kind.
December 9, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Man got snarky at a young woman for standing up quickly on a place as soon as the seatbelt sign went off upon landing.
She had a tight connection and was trying to catch precious last days with a dying family member.
This is tonight’s reminder to be kind.
She had a tight connection and was trying to catch precious last days with a dying family member.
This is tonight’s reminder to be kind.
New age verification just dropped
Actual bluesky challenge: post your favourite work of art from fifty years before you were born
December 9, 2025 at 6:44 AM
New age verification just dropped
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Jane’s piece “Tracing Geraldine Halls” is now live on our Substack! exhume.substack.com/p/tracing-ge...
Why did no one know where Geraldine was when her publisher accepted a major literary award on her behalf in 1954?
What does Edgar Allan Poe have to do with it?
Who is X?
Read to find out!
Why did no one know where Geraldine was when her publisher accepted a major literary award on her behalf in 1954?
What does Edgar Allan Poe have to do with it?
Who is X?
Read to find out!
December 9, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Jane’s piece “Tracing Geraldine Halls” is now live on our Substack! exhume.substack.com/p/tracing-ge...
Why did no one know where Geraldine was when her publisher accepted a major literary award on her behalf in 1954?
What does Edgar Allan Poe have to do with it?
Who is X?
Read to find out!
Why did no one know where Geraldine was when her publisher accepted a major literary award on her behalf in 1954?
What does Edgar Allan Poe have to do with it?
Who is X?
Read to find out!
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Some thoughts on One Nation, middle-aged men, and Barnaby, that only had to be *slightly* reviewed by legal:
What’s going on with Gen X men and One Nation? I'm sick of being told to feel sorry for them
One Nation is not going to help rural Australians nor furious Gen X men, both unable to see an end to their housing, financial or energy strife. But hey, neither were the Nationals.
www.crikey.com.au
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Some thoughts on One Nation, middle-aged men, and Barnaby, that only had to be *slightly* reviewed by legal:
French Connections and omg was I stoked for that success on the first try!
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December 9, 2025 at 12:57 AM
French Connections and omg was I stoked for that success on the first try!
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Pre-meeting in Canberra
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Pre-meeting in Canberra
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66 years ago today, artist Yves Klein sold antiques dealer Jacques Kugel an artwork – which seems like an unremarkable anniversary, but for the fact that the art was invisible, and the buyer was supposed to burn the receipt
December 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
66 years ago today, artist Yves Klein sold antiques dealer Jacques Kugel an artwork – which seems like an unremarkable anniversary, but for the fact that the art was invisible, and the buyer was supposed to burn the receipt
Hello, Canberra! 👋
I have not brought my woollies. Please don’t make me regret this decision.
I have not brought my woollies. Please don’t make me regret this decision.
December 7, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Hello, Canberra! 👋
I have not brought my woollies. Please don’t make me regret this decision.
I have not brought my woollies. Please don’t make me regret this decision.