@patthomson.bsky.social on academic writing and epistemic placemaking. Great stuff. Thank you Pat.

@lucilacarvalho.bsky.social
@markauskaite.bsky.social

Sue Beckingham presenting at the ANTF Symposium

Looking forward to presenting at the Association of National Teaching Fellows Symposium in May in Newcastle! @ntfellows.bsky.social
This event is open to all so do take a look at the website for more details. #ANTF2026
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Professor Andy Inch delivering the 2026 Nathaniel Lichfield Lecture last night under the auspices of the @rtpiplanners.bsky.social. Andy asked where the radicalism has gone in urban planning today, and revealed the history of radical alternative thought and practice in planning over the last century

I'm facilitating a session April 15, 8pm Cairo time, 2pm ET, 6pm GMT) on Co-creating Guidelines for Ethical AI Use by Faculty and Students (some of my students will be there, and I encourage you to join and invite your students as well) @equityunbound.bsky.social

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Re-thinking the work-ready agenda: teaching for effective communication on the job “Work-ready graduates” has become a defining expectation of higher education. Governments emphasise it, policy frameworks measure it, and universities are expected to deliver it. But what if employ…

New blog post! 🚨

'Re-thinking the work-ready agenda: teaching for effective communication on the job' by Pat Strauss and Judy Hunter

#HigherEducation #WorkReadiness #Communication

teachinginhighereducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/14/r...

Single frame. Left: Trump at his desk in the Oval Office, MAGA hat on, Macca’s drink cup beside, posting obscenities on his phone. Centre stage Vance with hands in pockets and shoes too big. Blonde functionary bringing huge bunch of flowers to Vance says, “Vice President Vance, the people of Hungary would like to thank you for your invaluable interference…”

Thanks JD.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence What is power? It is at its most essential the ability to influence an outcome on any or all scales, to protect one's own at a minimum and to influence, even control others at a maximum. Violence is c...

I think my 90th essay at my newsletter is one of my best there. A meditation on cooperative power versus violence, with detours on Iran/Vance/Orban/Swalwell, and a zen ending, literally.

BODIES OF LEARNING

My friend Guy Claxton has this book coming out on 26 May.

It's a book that challenges "the assumption that mind and body are separate, revealing the interconnectedness of the ‘bodymind’ and drawing on research in embodied cognition to rethink intelligence, learning and teaching."

Snow Medical invests $24 million in new research fellows across three institutions Associate Professor Sudarshini Ramanathan from the University of Sydney, who researches autoimmune neurology, has won an $8 million Snow Fellowhip, funded by the Snow Medical Research Foundation (Snow...

🚨 Snow Medical Research Foundation invests $24 million in new research fellows across three institutions

Congrats to A/Prof Sudarshini Ramanathan from Neuroimmunology research team at BMC - secured a Fellowship, which provides $8 million over eight years.

-> www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion...

Making work flow: The constitutive role of knowledge domains in co-design processes Professional practices periodically have to be adjusted. Professionals are therefore increasingly involved in co-design activities where they need to …

New open access paper on epistemic spaces & workplace innovation

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

As universities cut courses, spending on consultants and contractors nears $2b Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities and wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs.

"Consultancies have been accused of infiltrating universities, wasting scarce public funds on questionable advice about cutting courses and jobs, and undermining the sector's principles of public good." - www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... thx @onslies.bsky.social for the link!

New Post: WEEKEND READING: ‘Things must change so everything can stay the same’: the paradox of university transformation www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/03/29/w...

My paper on learning nanoscale phenomena just passed 1,000+ accesses 🎉(2.5 months since publication)

Agent-based models + embodied reasoning — and yes, not an AI paper 🙂

#LearningSciences #ScienceEducation

THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers THE LONG READ Infrastructure Landlords: The Rentier Capitalism of Commercial Academic Publishers This piece has been written by a friend of the OLH who wishes to remain anonymous. Figure. Pyramid …

“Universities are not just buying access to content, but are slowly becoming tenants in commercially governed scholarly infrastructures”
@openlibhums.org
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“The Moses Williams’s are nice, even though he is a Professor of Education”

Time, temporal burden and the futures of teachers: Why education must act now How to find time between teaching, mentoring, research, care responsibilities and the relational labour that sustains academic communities.

The urgency of women’s justice in education cannot be overstated. Sakinah Alhadad challenges our institutions to be courageous enough to give women the time, recognition and structural support to shape the future. https://loom.ly/cSVhQME

Early- and mid-career researchers’ agency in pursuing interdisciplinary careers: institutional support and hindrances Interdisciplinarity has been identified as central to improving research impact and addressing complex problems, locally and globally. An interdisciplinary career is not, however, a simple proposit...

New publication. Open access. Early & mid career researchers navigating participation in #interdisciplinary research.

doi.org/10.1080/0307...

@nteunion.bsky.social

New life goal of just wanting to outsell Tony Abbott's history of Australia. Seems doable.

New SEI-led research on strategies for realising environmental justice

The final article from our global study of environmental and climate justice activists and academics is out. Read about this work on strategies and tactics for realising EJ, as well as the other articles from the project, here: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...

Australia's universities have found themselves in crisis. But it has been decades in the making | Hannah Forsyth Rather than a set of teaching and learning relationships, universities have become a bunch of metrics to be gamed. Unwinding these systems will take effort

The Guardian has partnered with the Australian Historical Association to use history to explain stuff. Today I do the University crisis.

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📣New Article Alert📣
Who claims engaged scholarship? Computational text analysis of 138k faculty applications shows women of color stand out, reflecting traditions of public-oriented scholarship despite risks for early-career scholars, and offering new insight into academic gatekeeping in higher ed.

A Cultural History of Higher Learning How has higher learning been shaped by people, ideas and knowledge? In a work that spans 2,500 years, 67 experts chart across the social and cultural dynamics o…

More about this volume, and the other five volumes in this series here: www.bloomsbury.com/au/cultural-...

Photo showing the cover of the final volume of the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Higher Learning

Lovely to see a copy of this book at last. It was great to be able to work with @lucilacarvalho.bsky.social and @dewawardak.bsky.social in writing the Teaching chapter. Big thanks to editor @hannahforsyth.bsky.social for the opportunity and all the advice.

Venn diagram describing practices shared by learning designers, educational technologists and academic developers

TELedvisors Network webinar: Third Space identity: Learning Designers and beyond Thurs March 26, 12pm AEDT. Join us as Ingrid D'Souza (LD - Monash) and Colin Simpson (AD - Deakin) share findings from their research projects into what makes us who we are. Register now at events.humanitix.com...

SEI's 2025 Annual Report reflects on the exceptional work of our members. Through enduring partnerships with communities, governments, and industry, SEI's work demonstrates how multidisciplinary research can advance the common good. 🔗 2025 Annual Report: www.sydney.edu.au/sydney-envir...

Great stuff! Thank you for inviting us to be part of this enormous and valuable project Hannah. @dewawardak.bsky.social @lucilacarvalho.bsky.social

Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

It shall be done with all chat bots, but let's start with ChatGPT

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Educational development as both scholarship and impact on practice: useful contribution by Claire Gordon & Sam Smidt

Research in postdigital pedagogies of space is these days getting a lot of attention! Link in first comment