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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 1d

Webster is better than Shakespeare

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social · 1d

They consult HE research sometimes.

First the VC decides on a policy to supposedly cut costs or increase income based on anecdotal information and whether it weakens academic influence.

Then their cronies try to find 'HE research' supporting it.

Regardless, it is forced through and backfires.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'While researchers typically publish in academic journals and books, the authors found, higher education managers are more likely to consult practice-oriented journals, newsletters, conference inputs and social media platforms such as LinkedIn.'

Physician, heal thyself.

HE research ‘rarely informs administrators’ decisions’

Knowledge transfer should include the university itself, says thinktank after identifying disconnect between managers and those who study them

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 2d

Oooooh 👀

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 2d

know what's good? a great lecture by someone who really knows their shit

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 3d

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

John Downes-Angus @johndownesangus.bsky.social · 3d

The over-reliance on standardization as the mechanism for writing instruction really was a pretty unbeatable context to produce de-professionalized teachers okay with using AI to grade

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 2d

poor old Tony Abbott is on the public broadcaster dismissing the oldest and longest continuous oral histories in the history of humanity as “hearsay” how’s your morning going.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 2d

Sure. This also seems to be another failure of the MH system after her high-achieving mother was recently sectioned and then released with, I imagine, minimal follow-up.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Clementine was a 'future leader'. Her mother is suspected of taking her life

The suspected murder-suicide of a mother and her daughter has raised serious questions about whether there were missed opportunities to intervene.

www.abc.net.au

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 2d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University staff outraged as high-paid consultants work on redundancies

As Western Sydney University prepares to shed hundreds of staff due to its dire finances, leaked documents reveal it is paying consultants as much as $2,850 a day.

www.abc.net.au

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 3d

Only available on microfilm

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 3d

UK safety PSA ads from the 1970s-80s were infamously scary and bleak, but I just learnt today THAT THIS WAS A REAL AD IN NEW ZEALAND.

youtu.be/u51OxZF1ltI?...

New Zealand ACC Ad | Fruit - E - Bars

YouTube video by ET TV

youtu.be

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 3d

Abbo? 😬

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

Chris Hammer cannot write teenagers.

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · 9d

👀Don't miss this! Two of Australia's sharpest & most prescient thinkers, the legendary Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin, on how the F we got here

If anyone can tell us, they can. They've seen it all

Moderated by my Dad, Russia specialist Kyle Wilson

www.blackincbooks.com.au/events/stali...

Stalin, Mao…Putin, Xi, Trump? The march of authoritarian history with Sheila Fitzpatrick and Linda Jaivin

www.blackincbooks.com.au

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 4d

Broken university governance is holding higher education back in Australia. Where wrongdoing occurs, who or where do staff go? Who’s holding officials to account?

Uni governing bodies have proven incapable of doing the right thing.

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The fledgling UN tried to rein in mass-scale misinformation. The world turned its back and is now paying the price | Roland Burke

The ruinous result of the US approach to freedom of information and media has made anti-democratic contagion impossible to ignore

www.theguardian.com

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 4d

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

The Australian POWs who became double agents and uncovered genocidal plans

It started a researcher down a rabbit hole "beyond anything anyone could ever dream up", involving deception, double agents, secret names and plans for a genocide.

www.abc.net.au

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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 5d

Are you a university staff member? Tired? Stressed? Overworked? It will only take 5-6 mins to help independent researchers shine a light on the state of wellbeing in our universities. Results will be published and responses anonymous. Please help by adding your voice: nteu.info/census

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 6d

Hot off the press & #OpenAccess, check out 'Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect' by Nathan Gardner Molina: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Amendments to Non-European Naturalisation Policy, 1956–1957: Differentiating Between Intention and Effect

This article challenges benign depictions of the gradual and intentional liberalisation of the ‘White Australia policy’ during the Menzies government through an analysis of the quick series of amen...

doi.org

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Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 6d

Towradgi

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 6d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 6d

Thinking of setting up an institution to accredit learning in academic disciplines that move human knowledge forward in a variety of directions rather than serve as a funnel for jobs. Not sure what to call it, though. Something that attests to the broad character of its scholarly endeavours.

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Radio Reversal @radioreversal.bsky.social · 6d

This chat draws on Anastasia's chapter in this book, Histories of Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Australia, edited by @evansmithhist.bsky.social, @drjpersian.bsky.social & Vashti Jane Fox - great and useful read if you can find a copy!

www.routledge.com/Histories-of...