I also am in a deeply conservative electorate... it's a fun place to be, isn't it.

“Fossil fuel subsidies harm the budget and make climate change worse,” said Rod Campbell, Research Director at The Australia Institute.

Read more: https://theaus.in/4lpmqJq

I'll be voting for the #Greens, who have consistently stood against genocide, environmental vandalism, and suppression of speech. Consider what your vote will be supporting.

Yep! Nothing like week one insomnia...

Come back and visit us, the wine/food/coffee situation is always phenomenal

This is untrue and nobody's buying it. Scott Morrison-level gaslighting.

It's nearly 2am here and I also have eaten all my snacks. It's a terrible state to be in, isn't it.

albo (verb): to become one of the tories you used to claim you liked fighting

A screenshot of text from the linked article, which reads as follows: “Like all the muscles in the body, if we do not use them, if we do not move them, they die,” the Pope reportedly said. “The brain needs to be used, so our intelligence must also be exercised a little so as not to lose this capacity.”

Maybe I can use this to persuade my students not to use GenAI for their assignments..?

futurism.com/artificial-i...

#AcademicSky

Dear god. It also promises that it "authentically represents your capabilities", which is an interesting way of saying "creates a hollow simulacrum of academic output". #AcademicSky

What fresh hell is this... #AcademicSky

Is Email Making Professors Stupid? It used to simplify crucial tasks. Now it’s strangling scholars’ ability to think.

Here is the article featuring this easy question: www.chronicle.com/article/is-e...

The answer is easi: yes.

It's the closing week for submissions to Victoria's university governance inquiry (ends 1 March).
Tell the inquiry how your uni runs and how it could be better - this is our chance to make genuine, lasting change.
Read more: nteu.info/telltheinquiry
#highereducation #AcademicSky #higheredpolicy

Hmm maybe this is why I have been off sick for over two weeks already this year. My body may be trying to tell me something...

Census - Stress Cafe Despite multiple government reviews – including the Australian Universities Accord and a Senate Inquiry – staff wellbeing in the workplace has received little direct attention. In response, the Austra...

As an Australian academic who responded to that survey... yeah, I'm almost certainly one of that 44%. Check out the overview and technical reports here - stresscafe.net/census/

#AcademicSky

a figure displaying survey respondents and their placement in low, medium, high, or very high risk environments. Benchmark figures are between 54 and 62% low, and 11-12% very high. The census in question has a low risk placement of 18%, and a very high risk placement of 44%.

Well to the surprise of absolutely NOBODY, the Australian University Census on Staff Wellbeing found that the sector is (to put it mildly) a bit fucked when it comes to psychosocial safety climate, with 44% of respondents in a very high risk environment. #AcademicSky

Support your favourite museums, chums. Buy all their merch, visit all their exhibitions and tell all your friends, because when you support good museums, they bless you with the most vital information and critical historical context.

We have been blessed this day.

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”

hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it. - Michael West NSW Police have assaulted dozens of peace protestors who gathered to protest the visit by Israeli president Isaac Herzog to Australia.

"This was planned. And Chris Minns owns it ... I was there".

Andrew Brown with the extraordinary story of NSW Police brutality at the Herzog protest.

While the premier - to great applause - said "Thank you friends" to the Israel Lobby.
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/this-was-pla...

Questions I wish the media would ask NSW Premier @chrisminnsmp.bsky.social #auspol

Shit like this is why I, as a lifetime Labor voter, straight up joined the Australian Greens last year.

Yeah they're not perfect, but I'd rather be working with the people who want to make things better than the ones who want to pander to genocidal war criminals. #AusPol

The man has his hands up. He's easily in his 60s. And multiple cops are wailing on him, one with wide rights to the ribs.

What the fuck country am I in right now? This is the sort of shit I expect from The US. #AusPol

Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.

It's worth clicking through for the comments... #AcademicSky

Me, reading the Murderbot Diaries for the first time: Wow these are amazing, I wonder what it is that makes me love them so much?

Me, reading the Murderbot Diaries last night: Emma you are a grumpy autistic with interoceptive issues and alexithymia. Take a wild guess.

I got so sick of having to wait weeks for my library holds every time I wanted to re-read them that I bought the three-volume set of the novellas. Best decision I've made so far this year.

I think half of my fatigue each day comes from the number of times I have to log in with a password and 2-factor authentification.

#Academicsky

If you're interested in hearing the story of how someone could get into and then out of the alt right, it's absolutely worth the listen!

It's rare to see humility and accountability from people who've been public about their problematic views in the past, and St Clair is even harder on herself than Matt and June (and they do NOT hold back).