Ika Willis
@ikax.bsky.social
I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
The kerning here is off and it took me longer than I should have not to read this as “une edit” (? First aid as an edit of the wounded body?)
November 24, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The kerning here is off and it took me longer than I should have not to read this as “une edit” (? First aid as an edit of the wounded body?)
Hello #Naarm #Melbourne! Any fans of Jenny Pausacker (jennypausacker.com) might like to hear to the Brunswick Brotherhood next week or so, she’s just culled seven boxes of her obscure children’s lit collection
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Hello #Naarm #Melbourne! Any fans of Jenny Pausacker (jennypausacker.com) might like to hear to the Brunswick Brotherhood next week or so, she’s just culled seven boxes of her obscure children’s lit collection
ahem Peter Capaldi is best known for his role as Angus Flint the archaeologist who charms the White Worm with bagpipe music in The Lair of the White Worm
September 4, 2025 at 3:09 AM
ahem Peter Capaldi is best known for his role as Angus Flint the archaeologist who charms the White Worm with bagpipe music in The Lair of the White Worm
Sitting out on campus drinking coffee & looking at one of my favourite trees when someone goes past saying indignantly to their companion: “I used to TEACH anthropology of nature! I used to teach the anthropology of the more-than-human world! That’s my area!”
Theory & practice at Unimelb 😍
Theory & practice at Unimelb 😍
September 3, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Sitting out on campus drinking coffee & looking at one of my favourite trees when someone goes past saying indignantly to their companion: “I used to TEACH anthropology of nature! I used to teach the anthropology of the more-than-human world! That’s my area!”
Theory & practice at Unimelb 😍
Theory & practice at Unimelb 😍
It’s not quite been a year yet but LOOK AT MY GARDEN
August 22, 2025 at 6:29 AM
It’s not quite been a year yet but LOOK AT MY GARDEN
And that is what I will tell the University of Melbourne's IT department when they ask why I need access to William McGonagall's "The Tay Whale"
August 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
And that is what I will tell the University of Melbourne's IT department when they ask why I need access to William McGonagall's "The Tay Whale"
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
(Depends whether Eden Menta is a celebrity; either way I am in good hands)
(Depends whether Eden Menta is a celebrity; either way I am in good hands)
August 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
(Depends whether Eden Menta is a celebrity; either way I am in good hands)
(Depends whether Eden Menta is a celebrity; either way I am in good hands)
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
June 6, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Some of y'all can't handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows
Dangerous Liaisons? John Malkovitch, Michelle Pfeiffer, opulent decaying aristocracy, lots of lace. 1988. Didn't see it rec'd so far, apologies if this is a duplicate.
May 25, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Dangerous Liaisons? John Malkovitch, Michelle Pfeiffer, opulent decaying aristocracy, lots of lace. 1988. Didn't see it rec'd so far, apologies if this is a duplicate.
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life? 🎥
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life? 🎥
Cross-stitch progress: day 0 (or day 7 if you count “since I started doing the grid” or day 250-ish if you count “since I started the abortive too-pale version” or day 500-ish if you count “since I started working on the design” but those are all too depressing so let’s say Day 0
May 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Cross-stitch progress: day 0 (or day 7 if you count “since I started doing the grid” or day 250-ish if you count “since I started the abortive too-pale version” or day 500-ish if you count “since I started working on the design” but those are all too depressing so let’s say Day 0
okay ebooks accessed via ProQuest Ebooks Central via my uni library now have a prominent side window offering me an AI summary of each chapter? this also makes me sad
May 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
okay ebooks accessed via ProQuest Ebooks Central via my uni library now have a prominent side window offering me an AI summary of each chapter? this also makes me sad
Cross-stitch friends! I have to give up on this piece & start it again. It’s 297x210 stitches and I want to use a grid. This was my first attempt at a grid - it was super useful for counting, but also super awk with the grid thread getting tangled in the pattern etc. Any tips? What am
I doing wrong?
I doing wrong?
April 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Cross-stitch friends! I have to give up on this piece & start it again. It’s 297x210 stitches and I want to use a grid. This was my first attempt at a grid - it was super useful for counting, but also super awk with the grid thread getting tangled in the pattern etc. Any tips? What am
I doing wrong?
I doing wrong?
People are talking about reading on here as if you could do it wrong: let me reassure you that you cannot and don’t make me tap the sign
April 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
People are talking about reading on here as if you could do it wrong: let me reassure you that you cannot and don’t make me tap the sign
Yes! Sadly my shed has nothing to offer and the only other thing we are chucking is a frankly terrifying 30+yo electric heater which melted our power board
March 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Yes! Sadly my shed has nothing to offer and the only other thing we are chucking is a frankly terrifying 30+yo electric heater which melted our power board
“Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from” tell me about it, Jane, I have had to pull off at a truck stop of minimal charm to pull myself together
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from” tell me about it, Jane, I have had to pull off at a truck stop of minimal charm to pull myself together
Friend, I know we can’t all be John Goodman, but old and fat is not inherently bad
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Friend, I know we can’t all be John Goodman, but old and fat is not inherently bad
She was white but two of her children are mixed-race or Black* & many of the protagonists in her children's books were too. In 1990, she threatened to pull her book Night Maze unless the Black protagonist was on the cover, and took what was doubtless a hit to sales.
*not sure what term they use
*not sure what term they use
January 11, 2025 at 11:39 PM
She was white but two of her children are mixed-race or Black* & many of the protagonists in her children's books were too. In 1990, she threatened to pull her book Night Maze unless the Black protagonist was on the cover, and took what was doubtless a hit to sales.
*not sure what term they use
*not sure what term they use
Ha, sorry, I couldn't find a good example and I wandered off! I've seen a version of this with "Action point" or "Call to action" rather than "Manage expectations" at the end, but I can't find it now...
January 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Ha, sorry, I couldn't find a good example and I wandered off! I've seen a version of this with "Action point" or "Call to action" rather than "Manage expectations" at the end, but I can't find it now...
Magpie nest with barbed wire as a metaphor for life in the colony on the cover of Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby!
January 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Magpie nest with barbed wire as a metaphor for life in the colony on the cover of Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby!