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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 14h

This just happened again and it really drives home the extent to which scholarly orgs could build great bridges with museums/historical sites by figuring out how to help them get access to scholarly materials. Those places might, in turn, help support those orgs with people and money.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 7d

Working at a museum without access to a university library means spending 6 years thinking about/reading Mark Twain & his reception and then every time I think I had an original thought it turns out @mattseybold.bsky.social tweeted it out in the form of a peer-reviewed article a decade ago.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 8h

This is at 5am Saturday for me in Australia but I’ll be trying to attend the LABOR Big Book Forum, This Friday, 10/17, 2-4 pm ET) via Zoom.

The forum features Rudi Batzell's new book, Organizing Workers in the Shadow of Slavery

go.umd.edu/LaborBigBook2025 to register for the event.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: LABOR’s 2025 Big Book Talk. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Francis Markham @francismarkham.bsky.social · 1d

"it is time HASS academics care about their students’ prospective jobs approximately as much as they care about their own. And, therefore, it is time to know something about it"

The inimitable @hannahforsyth.bsky.social is required reading as ever for those interested in Australian universities.

The Economics of Arts and Social Sciences

Yeah sure, we want knowledge for its own sake . But creativity, analytical thinking and communicating narrative is also economic stuff.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 2d

Laugh. Cry. Another cracker from @thejuicemedia.com.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-yj...

Honest Government Ad | Visit New Zealand!

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah.

Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 3d

It Is spring In Australia ai the garden is full of woke, useless flowers hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/the-econom...

The Economics of Arts and Social Sciences

Yeah sure, we want knowledge for its own sake . But creativity, analytical thinking and communicating narrative is also economic stuff.

hannahforsyth.substack.com

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Tom Cutterham @tomcutterham.bsky.social · 4d

(By the way, nobody knows more about this than @hannahforsyth.bsky.social and you should subscribe to her blog right now! hannahforsyth.substack.com)

F*cking Capitalism | Hannah Forsyth | Substack

Historian Hannah Forsyth writes about capitalism, work, and higher education...and her personal project to overcome her work ethic addiction and f*ck capitalism one home grown vegetable at a time. Cli...

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 4d

🤣

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 4d

I love how cops are trying really hard not to look at the donuts.

Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF @alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social · 5d

#WarRavagedPortland they are ICE fishing @carlquintanilla.bsky.social

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 4d

We are millimetres from the AirBNB university.

jack 🌹 @kyriakos.bsky.social · 6d

Considering the possibility of offering subscription based online courses independently in the near future. Would anyone be interested in this? And if so, what kind of course would you be interested in taking?

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 7d

fortune.com/2025/10/03/a...

What bubble? By this measure, the AI boom still isn’t at dotcom bust levels | Fortune

Another key difference between now and the earlier boom-bust era is that the Federal Reserve is lowering rates instead of raising them.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 7d

I said “yet” 🤷‍♀️

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 7d

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

Screenshot of the book Mean Streak by Rick Morton. The text reads:

for the past decade and half, when conclusive certificates were
discontinued, is counterproductive to the Parliament’s intent.
‘When it comes to deliberative material, FoI does not ensure
transparency (because advice is not being written) and it
undermines integrity (because advice is not being written).’
So officials don’t put things in writing because they might get
released under Freedom of Information laws, therefore the FoI
laws aren’t working?
Grow up.
De Brouwer is not alone in his views. Former secretaries have
been doing the rounds making exactly these kinds of noises, as if
the outcome of poor professional behaviour is the result of some
law and not … poor professional behaviour.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 7d

Omg it’s the bird vote again. 😳

Dr Nick 🦉🇦🇺 @doktrnick.bsky.social · 8d

It's time to vote for Australia's best bird! Vote 1 Powerful Owl!
[ @australia.theguardian.com seems to have chosen a particularly unflattering POwl picture, so here's a better one]

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 7d

Yeah I mean maybe. And I wish doom too. But it isn’t yet as big as the dot com bubble by a long way. And tbf that bubble did in fact reflect a material change, if overblown and not quite what was anticipated.

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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 8d

It was hell, reveals former egg.

Cockerel talks into an interviewer's microphone.

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John Pring, DNS @johnpring.bsky.social · 8d

The campaigning organisation that represents disabled people within Labour had to cancel plans to attend this week’s conference in Liverpool after the party asked it to pay thousands of pounds in fees.
#Labour #LabConf25
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disability-l...

Disability Labour priced out of conference after cash-strapped party withdraws financial support

The campaigning organisation that represents disabled people within Labour had to cancel plans to attend this week’s conference in Liverpool after the party asked it to pay thousands of pounds in f…

www.disabilitynewsservice.com

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 8d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️

Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians?

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 10d

Union for life. So honoured.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 12d

open.substack.com/pub/hannahfo...

Building universities that will protect democracy

The far-right is on the rise everywhere. In the face of this it is important that universities are well equipped to defend democracy.

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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 12d

Oof

Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 12d

Can we all just now admit that over 20 years on from the September 11 attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden definitively won the the ‘war on terror’. The US is now demonstrably weaker, more divided, animated by more strident extremism, and governed by their own version of the Taliban.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

“The oath says enemies foreign and domestic… well, we also have domestic.”

Trump tells the generals he plans to use the military against Americans

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 15d

#PhD research callout!

I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form.

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Ethics approval: H16788

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Seeking: NSW History Teachers. Have you taught History 7-10 in NSW? Are you interested in taking part in an online interview for a PhD study at WSU about the representation of women in the NSW history syllabuses? Please enter your details into the form below for further details. https://forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Contacts: Kate Littlejohn, Kay Carroll

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Emma Spookdel @mayorseidel.bsky.social · 17d

This helped me improve my understanding both of rail ballast and how oral poetry traditions convey information

Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 17d

Now this is Content

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spookillumi @illumi.meme · 17d

Just to clarify:
Respect the dead or you’ll be fired(charlie kirk)
But don’t respect the dead or you’ll be fired (george floyd)

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 17d

BREAKING: The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during a 2020 racial justice protest that followed the death of George Floyd, AP sources say.

FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say

The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

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