man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes?
89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.
Major parties vote down LGBTIQ amendments Attempts from David Pocock, Jacqui Lambie, Tammy Tyrrell and Fatima Payman to have the laws at least extend protections to marginalised groups, including the LGTBIQ communities have been voted down by Labor and the Liberals. This was their amendment: (1) Schedule 1, item 10, page 8 (line 12), omit “distinguished by race, or national or ethnic origin”, substitute “distinguished by race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, disability, nationality, or national or ethnic origin, or because of the target person or target group’s personal association (whether as a relative or otherwise) with a person who is distinguished by any of those attributes”.
Good to have a final reminder that these laws are only about preventing people criticism Israel for committing genocide and have nothing really to do with hate (other than ensuring Zionists can continue to practice it)
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Aurora Australis display, bright green and purple lights in the night sky above a suburban location with buildings and street lights.
Please enjoy a view from one of my back windows this evening #AuroraAustralis #RiverOfLight
List of those who reviewed submissions for ROLSI in the period 1 August 2024 to 31st of July 2025
ROLSI would not prosper as it does without the unselfish collegiality of those who give up their time to review submissions.
We would like to record our thanks to all in the list below, who provided reviews in the period 1st August 2024 – 31st July 2025
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Volume 58 Issue 4 of Research on Language and Social Interaction now out online
Hospital hand-overs
Troubles talk
Newborn announcements
Hebrew "yes?"
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I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
Hard this. The amount of time wasting shit that has been produced vastly outweighs the benefits they promised to rationalise intensifying burning down the planet.
This is a really important public facing work by Dr Tamika Worrell who works in my centre. Read the work that Tamika has been doing for people who are thinking about cultural appropriation. In our same centre, we have Dr Innez Haua and Distinguished Prof Bronwyn Carlson all writing across this!
Might there be something in the sports coaching or similar realm? I want to say I've read something about dancing (can't remember if partner/ballroom or ballet), possibly some of @edward-reynolds.bsky.social's on weight lifting?
Tasmanian parliamentary review defends university's core functions against corporatisation: https://graemeturner.org/2025/01/20/tasmanian-parliamentary-review-defends-universitys-core-functions-against-corporatisation/
‘University appears to prioritise commercial over community interests in its core functions’.
Tasmanian parliamentary report criticises corporatisation in operation and governance of the University of Tasmania.
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#HigherEducation #universities
So @matspike.bsky.social's answer to this question provides the best (short) explanation I have ever seen of what LLMs do and why it makes no sense to use them to explore human understanding of language
Fully funded #PhD see www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN059/p... Deadline 28 Feb. Please share.
Using #data critically can reduce the risks posed by EdTech platforms. @lucipangrazio.bsky.social writes for ABC Education
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Okay, a quick heads-up because I'm seeing people worrying/panicking about this: the UK press headline about a trans teenager being non-fatally stabbed is about something that originally happened in *February 2024* - it's in the news now because the court case is happening now.
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵
In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.
We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.
with @julianachueri.bsky.social
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To an LLM, the only difference between "did" and "did not" is the statistical frequency of the word "not".
*They don't have any knowledge*. Just strings of words.
and we are live with 360mash - find the download link at www.dote.aau.dk/downloads or visit our github repo: github.com/BigSoftVideo...
Excerpt from Monique Wittig's "The Straight Mind," originally delivered as a keynote at a conference on feminist philosophy at Barnard College in April 1979.
I'm returning to Wittig for inspiration on the issue of scientism in the anti-trans movement and wishing that more people read "The Straight Mind" (1979). It's one of those short but remarkably powerful essays that offers insights far beyond its notional subject matter
Today's #ResearcherRenew task is for anyone who's feeling overwhelmed or overworked and knows their physical health is being neglected. It's a bit more sensitive than previous tasks, so go gently.
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #AcademicChatter #gradschool #HigherEd
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I love one of the reasons Braun & Clarke provided (written as a footnote) as to why they use the term "phase" rather than "step" in their six phase approach to doing reflexive thematic analysis:
"Steps and stairs are also one of the ways our physical environments are made inaccessible for many"
NDIS and ministers talk big game on fraud & rorting but biggest budget savings booked under new legislation come from kicking (mostly) kids off scheme, cutting plans under cover of 'integrity'. Half a BILLION a year just on eligibility revocations alone. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/health/...
My first paper with my amazing collaborator Dr. Emma Tennent. Come with us and unravel (in frankly masochistic detail) the sequential and categorial reasoning that organises transmisogynistic talk. If you do not have access but would to read it, let me know and I can share a copy. #EMCA 🌈🎓
Woo-hoo back! There's still a heap of freely available stuff on the #DulwichCentre website, including courses. Modestly hoping to add to what's out there in due course 😊
Hope you're safe from the fires - we're seeing footage in Australia eerily similar to bushfires here 😔
What is the Children's Internet? Professor Michael Dezuanni explains for ABC Education www.abc.net.au/education/a-...
You can read about Principles for a Better Children's Internet here: digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...
#medialiteracy @abcnewsbot.bsky.social #childrensinternet
A brilliant augmentation to an already awesome suite of data handling tech tools for #EMCA and related observational methods. Will be keen to see and play when it's released 🤩
You don’t need to approach everything in Hard Mode. There are often useful things you can contribute that are not the best, most complete version of the thing you are working on...#TeamNoBurnout
A black, white and red tino rangatiratanga flag.
What’s black and white and red all over?
Te Whanganui-a-Tara today.
#ToitūTeTiriti ✊🏽
And today, Hana-Rawhiti rose – more than stood – she rose like Nafanua, goddess of war like Hine-nui-te-po, goddess of death like the wahine toa who is exactly like herself She rose from that place full of insects and she tore that white bill – white as the whites of her eyes staring down the hulking enemy on the battlefield She tore that white bill right through the backbone tore it into two and she held it one in each fist like the two flags of war like the twin battle-clubs only the war goddess holds and she shook them in the faces of those enemies with hearts as empty as their faces –
Tusiata on Hana, in which one queen honours another
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