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. 🍉🍉🍉
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
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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
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"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
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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
Bit more Aussie outback ❤️
November 2, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Bit more Aussie outback ❤️
Australian outback ❤️
November 2, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Australian outback ❤️
Two years ago, burned out to the point of random vomiting, I put my hand up for a voluntary redundancy from the academic job I loved. On my first day unemployed I took a train to the outback.
November 2, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Two years ago, burned out to the point of random vomiting, I put my hand up for a voluntary redundancy from the academic job I loved. On my first day unemployed I took a train to the outback.
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Time for a ruin photo ...
This one was at Wongyarra, South Australia.
This one was at Wongyarra, South Australia.
November 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Time for a ruin photo ...
This one was at Wongyarra, South Australia.
This one was at Wongyarra, South Australia.
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I've been a member of @aaup.org for years, and I couldn't be more pleased, now that we've affiliated with @texasaft.org, to say I'm a union member too.
I'm glad to see our organizing with @AAUP.org is giving more colleges the courage to stand up to the Trump administration. Trump's offer to give preferential treatment to colleges in exchange for allegiance to his ideological agenda is entirely corrupt. www.wesa.fm/identity-com...
University of Pittsburgh professors push back against Trump 'compact' for higher education
University of Pittsburgh professors have asked their school to reject a Trump "compact" that promises more access to federal resources to schools that sign on to his agenda
www.wesa.fm
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
I've been a member of @aaup.org for years, and I couldn't be more pleased, now that we've affiliated with @texasaft.org, to say I'm a union member too.
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OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
October 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.