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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We are delighted to welcome Professor Amanda Wise from the University of Technology Sydney as keynote speaker for Theorising Migration, Settlement, and Diversity in Unsettled Times. Register: tasa.org.au/content.aspx... #AmandaWise #MigrationStudies #SocialTheory

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Consider a migration system that explicitly said we're only allowing people to come to the country to do jobs at lower wages and with less investment needed for local training – while sacrificing the pro-social migration rules that promote Australia as an open, welcoming place – might fuel tensions?

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

💡 Join Assoc. Prof. @drgokcegunel.bsky.social on Monday, 17 August for “Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations” - a compelling seminar on the intersections of infrastructure, climate change, technology, and global political economy. RSVP here: tinyurl.com/3muhywa2

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Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations

Join the Institute for Culture and Society for a special seminar with Associate Professor Gökçe Günel on Floating Power

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today’s seminar, “Social Factors & High Performance Sport. Conducting Research with Olympic and Paralympic Athletes and Staff” will be presented by Helene Joncheray with Michelle O'Shea as Discussant and Chaired by @emryto.bsky.social

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David Rowe @davidroweics.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Regional legacy news media is in rapid decline. A few words from me and others on why this is a significant loss for local culture and politics. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

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Fears of job losses as WIN confirms overhaul of 50-year-old news bulletins

Media academics fear for the future of regional journalism after the drastic downsizing of one of Australia's oldest nightly news bulletins.

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

What are the hidden harms faced by child domestic workers? In a co-authored article by @benhanckel.bsky.social, he examines the experiences of child domestic workers in Myanmar, revealing how economic pressure and abuse shape the lives of girls in hidden domestic labour. tinyurl.com/yc5896hh

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Invisible girls, visible harms: health, well-being, and safety among child domestic workers in Myanmar

Globally, an estimated 17.2 million children work as child domestic workers (CDWs), with nearly 3.7 million exposed to hazardous working conditions. Despite their prevalence, CDWs remain a hidden a...

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

New Book Alert! 📚🚨Huge congratulations to Prof. Brett Neilson on the release of his new co-edited book, “Decolonisation in the 21st Century: Rethinking Coloniality, Resistance and Solidarity”. Order your copies here: tinyurl.com/5fedy343

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Congrats to @malinisur.bsky.social on her Volvo Research and Educational Foundations–funded project “Entangled Pathways”. With Dr Premjeet Das Gupta and partners across five universities, it explores how walking and street vending can shape more inclusive, liveable cities.

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Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) @westsyduics.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Should AI data centres prove public benefit to gain fast approval? 👩‍💻 In @aunz.theconversation.com, @ehsan-noroozinejad.bsky.social explains Australia now expects AI data centres to support clean energy, save water, create jobs, and serve national interests to be fast-tracked. tinyurl.com/bdeyp6nh

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Australia has set new expectations for AI data centres – they should serve the public

Essential infrastructure should serve local communities, not just the market.

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Everything is just fine folks. Nothing to worry about

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Timothy Graham @timothyjgraham.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning. I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix. theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...

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A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

This looks like a cracker of a session.

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN : TASA 2026 - Resistance & Revolution How do we understand social change beyond protest, rupture, and spectacle? What does resistance look like in everyday life, institutions, technologies, and places? Click here for more: tasa.org.au/content.aspx... #TASA2026 #ResistanceAndRe

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

This is utterly terrifying. We have a far right party rapidly gaining votes in Australia, polling above the LNP opposition and chasing Labor.

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Danielle Binks @daniellebinks.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

In the 21st century, one of the wealthiest societies in human history, yet diminished and lost: a nation of rich cowards without even the courage to acknowledge our origins and far less the possibility of a better future than the nightmare daily growing around us. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised

We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being

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Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

My new book, The Division of Rationalized Labor, is now shipping! A brief summary of the argument to follow…

Front cover of The Division of Rationalized Labor. The cover includes four pictures: pen and paper, microscope, factory tower, police badge. Modern-looking yellow lines and graphs are superimposed.

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

While Twitter might still drive policy in the US, it doesn't in Australia. But neither's Bluesky or LinkedIn. We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

New #book by TASA member Benjamin Hanckel et al. Researching with Young People: An Introduction to Youth-Centred Research Methods www.bloomsbury.com/uk/researchi...

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The Australian Sociological Association (TASA) @sociologyaustralia.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

**2 PhD Opps.** Led by TASA members Anita Harris and Loretta Baldassar Transnationally mobile youth and their transitions to adulthood Apps close October 24th For details, visit www.deakin.edu.au/study/fees-a...

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Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Finally, if you work, study or care about the university sector, write to the Minister Jason Clare, write to chair of the Inquiry Senator Marielle Smith and urge them to act. www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...

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Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

open.spotify.com/episode/1OPE... In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector. It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution A thread🧵

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Universities in crisis

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Chris Wallace @chriswallace.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

‘The philosopher Judith Butler and the Middle East historian Ussama Makdisi are perhaps the only two notified people who have spoken publicly about the email they received. Butler sees the silence of the others as a sign of fear.’ @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

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Opinion | I Look at This Country and I See a Stranger

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Prof Ray Wills @profraywills.futuresmart.com.au · 21/09/2025

Schubert's Productivity - remastered from an old joke bsky.app/profile/prof...

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

'Opaque, conflicted, overpaid' uni governance' is way too polite.

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Global Sociologists for Palestine (GS4P) @gs4p.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Here's our latest statement on the German Sociological Association's (@dgsoziologie.bsky.social) objection to the suspension of Israeli Sociological Society’s (ISS) membership in the International Sociological Association (ISA) drive.proton.me/urls/WCCB71P...

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Proton Drive

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AusPSA @auspsa.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

APSA is deeply concerned about the proposed cuts to Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University. Our letter to university leadership outlines the discipline’s outstanding research, strong teaching record, and impact. 📄 Read the full letter here: auspsa.org.au/job-alert/ap....

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APSA's letter to Macquarie University - Australian Political Studies Association

APSA Statement on Proposed Cuts at Macquarie UniversityAPSA has expressed deep concern over proposed cuts to Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, including the resting of the ...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/02/2025

"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...

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Scientific institutions have a long history of anticipatory obedience

Societies should learn from this and speak up to support inclusion

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Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A British Jewish writer with a book out on how antisemitism became such a battleground issue, I was not invited to speak at Jewish Book Week. A wider point here (fortunately, I'm invited to speak at many other book events) about the political gatekeeping of this festival

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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Letter from our Executive and Advisory Committee members to QUT Vice Chancellor urging her to defend Sarah Schwartz against malicious and defamatory attacks

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Allison Hitt, she/her @ahhitt.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

One of my favorite poems by Nikki Giovanni is “Allowables.” I keep a copy of this print designed by Alma Sheppard-Matsuo on my office door 💔

Two illustrated hands reach up toward the poem “Allowables” by Nikki Giovanni:

I killed a spider
Not a murderous brown recluse
Nor even a black widow
And if the truth were told this
Was only a small
Sort of papery spider
Who should have run
When I picked up the book
But she didn't
And she scared me
And I smashed her

I don't think
I'm allowed

To kill something
Because I am

Frightened

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Prof. Amanda Wise @amandawise.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A must watch this week: Ussama Makdisi on his book Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World,” www.youtube.com/live/k12elf4...

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014. "One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem" I hope they will return to their poem

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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

We’re live!!! Join us through the link below #SpinProof #auspol

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