"Across 2022 and 2023, the ANU spent more than $71.6 million on travel, over $11 million on advertising and over $107 million on consultants. That $190 million, if saved, would have negated entirely the $100 million cuts to jobs" @joshuablackjb.bsky.social
My hand holding up a copy of the book Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson. The cover depicts a person looking at a screen showing people and applications and is suffused by a sort of rose-lavender hue
Look what came in the mail!
"How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology"
Link to book, Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
#AcademicSky #BookSky
10 people died after welfare payments wrongly cut off due to IT bugs in employment services system, discovered then ignored for 3 years. Ombo investigating. Govt won't turn off 'penalty zone' because private job agencies would lose profit briefings reveal. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Very excited to finally share the first of several articles, and shortly a report, to be published this year which share the findings of an ARC Discovery project I had the privilege to work on with colleagues Anita Harris, Gilbert Caluya & Jessica Walton: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ym_HCr81YN...
Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?
First post & new publication out in the world.
I had a fun time thinking through & writing about “embodied excess” with my long time mentor & collaborator Ingrid Richardson.
Big thanks to @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson for this great collection.
www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
A book cover. A cloudy sky is overrun with computer icons of files and folders.
New chapter w/ wonderful collaborators Claire & Jose about navigating abundant data, ethical quandaries & doing the best we can to represent participants.
@projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️
doi.org/10.1108/978-...
A good example of what @meredithmeredith.bsky.social describes as the "steep cost of capture," demonstrating how "tech firms are startlingly well positioned to shape what we do—and do not—know about AI and the business behind it..." More at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
The Wayback machine is such a precious, unique resource - increasingly so as web search collapses.
None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it.
But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!
One of the bleakest uses for gen AI I've seen yet: a bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker is on the brink of "losing it"—and play them AI-made family photo montages to calm them down.
Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...
After listening to my frustrations with too-simple AI convos at work, @cjhart.bsky.social sent me this - yup, this is what it is like "The AI is going to AI!" www.tiktok.com/@mattheperso...
Delightful! I am with you. 💤
I just started cher tan's peripathetic and really liking it. could be good re: this thread from ages ago
welcome! are you still a zotero guy now?
It's probably been done, but...
I would really like this too, it feels like reading memoir at the moment is on a loop
Marking season in 2024: I swear if I see another conjunctive adverb in this next sentence...
*sigh*
its a great read (especially as a wikipedia fan!). also interesting seeing how people haven't liked the book. i asked my IG stories but no one had read it, and one just mentioned her low ratings on goodreads just as I was reading that chapter. so the search for good writing on critique continues...
I just started reading Oyler's No Judgement last week, hadn't read her work before but love reading about critique and its toughhhh going. I feel like skipping through bits all the time, maybe this continues to be an editing issue. Thanks for resharing this post, keen to read it.
Market operator announcement indicating that load shedding is currently occurring in Victoria due to lack of supply.
🚨 If you are in Victoria and have the ability to lower you power use at the moment, do it. 🚨
Due to failures at two of Victoria's three coal power stations and high temps, we currently don't have enough power to meet demand.
You could be saving lives.
Please boost.
plus these hexagons look fun to move around and play with while they're thinking and writing
thanks Kelli! it is interesting how these things at Masters level are so tough but then I also teach students from different specialisations/disciplines so it makes sense
Is this just for folks working at the partner unis?
Gah! sounds like me and colleagues that started last year at unimelb. 2 coffees with one, and maybe 2 zooms with another. 🤦♀️
I wrote about Bluesky opening up, what it means, and why I think it remains the most interesting social media experiment going today. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/b...
nice one! this looks fab
Just finished latest ep of #OnTheReg - S5! Hearing @drjd.bsky.social and @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social talk about being here made me nostalgic for birdsite days where we were in our chosen virtual staff rooms and swam around in the coolness of what our buddies were doing. 🥲
onthereg.buzzsprout.com
I feel this and I haven't even listened yet!
I started teaching for 2024 on Saturday. It seems that this semester's first subject's challenge will be nudging students towards understanding they're learning concepts not concrete definitions of words. Feels a bit like going back to high school strategies to help move that along. Tips welcome!