Hannah Forsyth 🍉
@hannahforsyth.bsky.social
Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Hard relate to seals stopping the world rn.
‘A seal has caused traffic chaos on the Midland Highway near Bridgewater, just days after another sighting on a nearby road.’
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/seal-st...
pulsetasmania.com.au/news/seal-st...
Seal stops traffic on Midland Highway near Bridgewater
The animal was spotted sitting in a lane of the busy highway…
pulsetasmania.com.au
December 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Hard relate to seals stopping the world rn.
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Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"
"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."
CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza
The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.
truthout.org
December 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Academic institutions: "while we understand there are concerns, the truth is that gambling as a pathway to knowledge is here to stay, and denying that means we will be left behind. That's why we're giving free Kalshi subscriptions to every student"
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Horrific. Wanton destruction of what was a thriving faculty.
More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Horrific. Wanton destruction of what was a thriving faculty.
This is fucked 👇
More on the destruction of MqUni Arts. Every PoC in Sociology has been sacked or pushed into teaching only. Only 1 woman left in Politics & Intl Relations, & 1 in Sociology. At least 3/9 sacked academics are neurodiverse. Several successful researchers have been sacked or made teaching only. 2/2
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is fucked 👇
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From experience I can say that Academia is as cultish and exploitative as evangelical Christianity. However the conferences are more fun.
December 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
From experience I can say that Academia is as cultish and exploitative as evangelical Christianity. However the conferences are more fun.
That’s because it’s a cult. I mean it’s a great cult and I love everything about it. Well, except for the cultish bits.
Academia has this way of making you feel utterly unsuccessful even when by any reasonable standard you are doing just fine.
December 4, 2025 at 7:56 AM
That’s because it’s a cult. I mean it’s a great cult and I love everything about it. Well, except for the cultish bits.
Thank you Liam, I’m going to hunt through the arbitration records for property titles too now 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
December 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Thank you Liam, I’m going to hunt through the arbitration records for property titles too now 🙏 open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...
WTF Flinders. 🤬
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
It’s one of Australia’s worst underwater environmental catastrophes. What’s going to happen to South Australia’s vast algal bloom as summer heat warms the ocean?
theconversation.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 AM
WTF Flinders. 🤬
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I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research
The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.
thepoint.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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100%
"If it sounds like it's Nazi shit, it's supposed to. The bourgeois state and its political servants have for some time now been trying to get a bit of the glamour of fascism." [email protected] on Labour's asylum policy announcement:
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 AM
100%
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1/5 The attack on the BBC is an alignment of four interest groups that has been years in the making:
November 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
1/5 The attack on the BBC is an alignment of four interest groups that has been years in the making:
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...
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This is so well done. It's true that when I feel especially pressed by everything, it helps to remember that the work and the job are profoundly different things. But what comes after the job when it all comes down?
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 AM
This is so well done. It's true that when I feel especially pressed by everything, it helps to remember that the work and the job are profoundly different things. But what comes after the job when it all comes down?
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If you are interested higher education, read this. If you are not, read this. Excellent from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 AM
If you are interested higher education, read this. If you are not, read this. Excellent from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social
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godamnnnn i feel seen
November 13, 2025 at 8:29 AM
godamnnnn i feel seen
The Pub at the End of the University
As universities implode, the world still needs us.
open.substack.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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Won't say which r/Australian_university this comes from, but someone gets it.
November 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Won't say which r/Australian_university this comes from, but someone gets it.
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If I need to read one more piece of Auspol/USpol crossover fan fiction I am going to scream
Greg Jericho posted earlier this week that Zohran Mamdani would have been expelled from Albanese’s Labor Party. And he’s right
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If I need to read one more piece of Auspol/USpol crossover fan fiction I am going to scream
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We have two upcoming guest lectures with Professor Ghassan Hage (@manchester.ac.uk).
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
Friday, 14 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
#envhum #envhist #environmentaljustice @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
Friday, 14 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
#envhum #envhist #environmentaljustice @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
We have two upcoming guest lectures with Professor Ghassan Hage (@manchester.ac.uk).
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
Friday, 14 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
#envhum #envhist #environmentaljustice @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
Friday, 14 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html
#envhum #envhist #environmentaljustice @anthroprofhage.bsky.social
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What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.
November 5, 2025 at 2:24 PM
What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.
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Abbott's new book really should be sold with a free raw onion
My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Abbott's new book really should be sold with a free raw onion
This is properly brilliant 👇
My review of former Australian PM Tony Abbott's new book out today: Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him theconversation.com/tony-abbotts...
Tony Abbott’s history of Australia wants us to be proud of men like him
Tony Abbott begins his book Australia: A History, by telling off professional historians – and laments the “cultural confusion” of our present moment.
theconversation.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is properly brilliant 👇
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"People with a disability and Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in the data. About 33% of all suspensions affected those with a disability, and at least 26% of all suspensions affected First Nations people."
Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests
Centrelink threatening payment suspensions at rate of five a minute, new analysis suggests
Exclusive: As jobseekers continue to have payments suspended, advocates call for the regime to be stopped until it’s proven to be lawful
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Centrelink has been issuing payment suspension notices to jobseekers and those on disability support pensions at a rate of more than five a minute, new analysis suggests, amid concerns over the legality of the troubled system.
In total, government data collated by the Antipoverty Centre shows there were 2,683,605 suspension actions between June 2024 and July 2025. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:23 AM
"People with a disability and Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in the data. About 33% of all suspensions affected those with a disability, and at least 26% of all suspensions affected First Nations people."
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Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind
“And for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays. Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.”
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind