Against a green-tinged background pic of NYC at night, the cover of Ellie Marney's new book NO ONE IS SAFE - in which a darkened figure walks toward the viewer down a teal-washed cobbled alley at night. The title/author name are above/below the image, in a popping pink gradient heavy text

Stoked to announce that I have a new book coming 10 Feb 2026!

💀 NO ONE IS SAFE 💀 is the first in a new series, pitched as Dexter meets The Bourne Identity in 1987 NYC. It's my adult crime debut, releasing through Thomas & Mercer, and it's up for pre-order right freaking now.
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In academic writing, positioning your work isn’t just about citing—it’s about mapping the debate. 📚

But how do you position your work within existing debates? 🤔

4 steps for mapping a debate in the literature, via @raulpachecovega.bsky.social #AcademicSky

How to map out debates in the scholarly literature I remember a few years ago when I wrote a paper on debates around water

🔍 Identify the core disagreement/discussion points
📝 Describe the debate type you find in the literature
👥 Trace the different arguments and authors
📊 Develop a table or visual to present the debates
www.raulpacheco.org/2025/09/how-...

Not Here to Make Friends: A Novel A Novel

US pals: the ebook of Not Here To Make Friends* is only $1.99 for the month of September! I adore these two Machiavellian masterminds determined not to admit how obsessed they are with each other, and I hope you will too.

*the one about a reality TV villain and her producer

Illustrated cover of “Summer of Shipwrecks” shows a teen girl sitting on a beach next to a small hole and two teens girls with their backs to her, arms around each other’s shoulders.

Delighted that “Summer of Shipwrecks” by the fabulous
@shivaun.bsky.social is shortlisted for the Queensland Children’s Book Award! Judges’ comment: “A quintessentially Australian coming-of-age novel with a huge heart.”

#bookSky #UQP #childrensbookaward #MG #middlegrade

Applications are now open for the 2025 College Research Impact Grants, offering up to $2,000 to support paramedicine researchers in sharing their work through conferences, publications and more.

Apply by Friday 10 October at bit.ly/Impact-Grants-Open

ASA opposes Productivity Commission proposal for copyright exception - Australian Society of Authors The ASA is dismayed by a Productivity Commission report raising the prospect of a text and data mining exception to Australia’s Copyright Act.

We are dismayed by the Productivity Commission report raising the prospect of a text and data mining exception to Australia’s Copyright Act that would enable Australian authors' work to be used for AI training, without permission or payment.

www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-opp...

ASA dismayed over Meanjin closure - Australian Society of Authors The ASA is dismayed by the news that Australia's second-oldest literary journal Meanjin will cease publishing in December 2025.

The ASA is dismayed by the news that literary journal Meanjin will cease publishing this year, with the final issue due to be released in December.

Read more: www.asauthors.org.au/news/asa-dismayed-over-meanjin-closure/

Is Your Journal Paper Ready to Share? The SPARK Framework for Self-Assessment Is Your Journal Paper Ready to Share? The SPARK Framework for Self-Assessment How many times have you stared at your draft paper, wondering whether it’s ready to send to your supervisor, shar…

I've been working on some #AcademicWriting frameworks based on my work at GCU. SPARK is a self-assessment
Paper SPARK: stephaniezihms.blog/2025/08/28/i...
Thesis SPARK: stephaniezihms.blog/2025/09/04/i...
@thesiswhisperer.bsky.social @academicaunties.com @academic-chatter.bsky.social

I’m so pleased to share that the launch issue of the Journal of Creative Research Methods (JCRM) is now live! 🎉

👉 bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

Huge thanks to my wonderful Co-Editors in Chief Su-Ming Khoo, Harriet Shortt & Sophie Woodward.

#CreativeMethods #JCRM

Real consequences for inappropriately using GenAI in a real job.

The Hidden Curriculum of ethical review for creative practice in the doctorate: learning across disciplines Dr Sian Vaughan, Associate Professor in Research Practice, Birmingham City University In this post I consider how using the concept of a hidden curriculum in the doctorate (Elliot et al 2020) might…

Does getting through ethical review in a creative practice discipline present a hidden curriculum? @sianvaughan.bsky.social shows us how it represents at least two...

drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/t...

Assistant Professor, Disability Studies The College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, invites applications for two tenure-track Assistant Professor positions in the humanities and qualitati...

TWO tenure track jobs in #DisabilityStudies at the University of Buffalo! Teaching and research interests in gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, or Indigenous cultures or methodologies preferred. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57847

This split image meme is of a fully armoured knight carrying a large sword (top) with an arrow piercing the most vulnerable part of the visor (bottom) conveys the rapid shift from appearing as if we’re prepared for critique to being injured immediately by a piercing comment from Reviewer 2.

New writing! "I can has research culture? Using memes in researcher development" - @drmeagantyler.bsky.social's and my post on the Hidden Curriculum blog, published the other day.

drhiddencurriculum.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/i...

Do you use memes in your teaching? If so, why?

#AcademicSky

Metformin changes blood metal levels in humans The widely used diabetes drug metformin changes blood metal levels in humans. The Kobe University study is an important step in understanding the drug’s many actions and designing better ones in...

The widely used diabetes drug metformin changes blood metal levels in humans.

www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

What good is science if it never leaves the lab? 🌿

Prof @euanritchie.bsky.social is turning research into action—advocating for stronger laws, better funding & evidence-based policy. His research also earned him the 2024 Eureka Prize!

Learn about Euan's story: 50years.deakin.edu.au/story/profes...

Thanks @japanesetalk.bsky.social for curating resources and approaches for improving Japanese. I’m keen to try Satori Reader with its organic, natural language approach.

#SatoriReader #読み書き　#日本語　#使えば使うほど

Thanks Pat, I need reminding of how to use little windows of time to write. Very useful breakdown, including segmenting tasks.

“The key to segmenting is to maintain a running task list that categorises the work to be done by time requirement and intellectual demand.”

#AcWri #AcademicSky

Happy to see this step forward by South Australian —>

#singleuseplastic #ban

Translator Jesse Kirkwood on the the challenge of working with words like sensei and senpai: “translating can often involve coming to terms with, and working around, a brutal loss of meaning.”

#lostintranslation #先生　#先輩
#translation

The book “Worst Perfect Moment” with neon green motel signs shows two teens from the back holding hands — one with the hint of angle wings. Book facing out on bookshop shelves.

Spotted in the wild! This gorgeous title “Worst Perfect Moment” by the fabulous @shivaun.bsky.social was spotted at Melbourne Southland’s Cook & Young bookshop. Love the neon green signage.

#worstperfectmoment #booksky #YA #ozYA

Nice coverage of our work on how to maximise benefits and minimise harms related to meditation 🧘 @contemplateuom.bsky.social

—> Free webinar exploring inclusive assessment and security, 9 Sept, 2pm (Melbourne time)

Just finished reading this wonderful book by @damonyoung.com.au in preparation for our conversation at Avid Reader (14th September! Come join us!) I have SO many thoughts and questions, I'm really looking forward to it.

Victoria warned to prepare for ‘destruction’ with severe weather and snow forecast Gusts reaching up to 130km/h expected to push further into south-eastern states on Saturday, bringing showers, hail and thunderstorms * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Blizzards have been forecast for parts of Victoria and residents have been warned to prepare for power outages and “destruction” as damaging winds are expected to lash the south-eastern states into the weekend. An intense cold front began moving across Victoria from South Australia on Friday, after rain, thunderstorms and destructive winds battered the Adelaide metro area and surrounds on Thursday night and Friday morning, and a tornado warning was briefly issued. Continue reading...

Victoria warned to prepare for ‘destruction’ with severe weather and snow forecast

Jo VanEvery is reminding us of ways to stay in touch with your project. It’s a reminder I need to hear!

#AcWri #AcademicSky

This is an incredibly useful thread for those of us who are authors outside the US and thus did not think we were eligible to be part of the class action against Anthropic.

My PhD drew heavily on obscure documents from the BBC Written Archive. Memos, minutes, scripts, budgets, contracts, musical scores. They illuminated a remarkable, strange, complex set of attitudes to propaganda in WWII.

A photo of Antonia Pont's new book "Plain life: On thinking, feeling and deciding". The book has a white cover with black text and an illustration of bold smudges of black, grey and mustard coloured ink.

Excited by the launch of #AntoniaPont's book: "Plain Life".

"We may not need to do more and be more..."
#booksky #plainlife

newsouthbooks.com.au/books/plain-...

Ping: @kmoruzi.bsky.social @gilbertcaluya.bsky.social @rebeccacroser.bsky.social @jodimca.bsky.social @deakinuniversity.bsky.social

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Behold the majesty of the Sun, as photographed on my phone through a solar visor dished out by a chap from a local astronomy society.