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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 11/03/2026

“Fossil fuel subsidies harm the budget and make climate change worse,” said Rod Campbell, Research Director at The Australia Institute. Read more: theaus.in/4lpmqJq

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 26/02/2026

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

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 25/02/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Maybe I can use this to persuade my students not to use GenAI for their assignments..? futurism.com/artificial-i... #AcademicSky

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.”

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The answer is easi: yes.

The headline of an article asking: is email making professors stupid? From: https://www.chronicle.com/article/is-email-making-professors-stupid/

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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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

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%.

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Jo | RazorwireRose @razorwirerose.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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...

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

"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...

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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.

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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

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.

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Dr. Kellie D. Brown @kelliedbrown1.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

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

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I started listening to the latest episode of A Bit Fruity on my commute this morning: Matt and guest June interview Ashley St Clair on her pivot away from the right and MAGA and I can't recommend it enough.

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

I'm teaching today on working with the media in advocacy and BOY is it fun to make students read some unhinged recent news stories. We've had everything from natural disaster response to Manosphere T-peddlers! #AcademicSky

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I've finally started this and the authors do NOT hold back. It opens thus: "If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence." ...and goes OFF from there. #AcademicSky

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/01/2026

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It was a better time

Grandpa Simpson saying “8i saved my files on the computer which was the style at the time” and a picture of him yelling at a cloud labelled “onedrive”

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This is how you can tell it's time to send the students to lunch: "If you overdose on insulin, you may meet God, and then you might be reincarnated as a border patrol officer!" #AcademicSky

A photograph of a whiteboard showing a diagram where insulin has an arrow pointing to God which then points to Australian border patrol, then connects to a larger diagram about drug related harms.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 13/01/2026

Sailing Rigs xkcd.com/3193/

Comic: Common Sailing Rigs. [18 boats with different sail types, labeled.] Lateen; Bermuda rigged sloop; Ketch, Gaff rigged sloop; yawl; schooner; Ketch-rigged Gaff; Kloop-rigged sketch; bunkbed rig; Flettner rig; Oops, all Spinnakers; keel rig; kite rig; longsail rig; deckhand obliterator; offset rig; mastless rig; unclassifiable chaos rig.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social " urges pause on rushed and dangerous hate speech Bill"

Media Release: Jewish Council urges pause on rushed and dangerous hate speech Bill
The Jewish Council is concerned by a number of the proposed measures in the Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that will be tabled this Monday, and urges the Government to undertake extensive consultation before moving forward. Lack of real
consultation risks a bill that is both harmful to human rights and ineffective against the racism it claims to target.

Approaches which centre on criminalisation and migration powers cannot meaningfully address racism and antisemitism as they treat racism as an individual pathology to be punished rather than a systemic problem that must be prevented through education, leadership, accountability and sustained community investment.

The Council warns that the Bill is a mess of legal inconsistencies. While some sections target religious instruction, the new vilification offences exclude religion, sexuality, and gender. This may mean that Islamophobia and other forms of vilification may not be covered by some of the proposed measures, including some forms of antisemitism.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 13/01/2026

In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 12/01/2026

"This is further evidence that the share of Australia’s wealth held by the very rich is increasing.” Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/2601…

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Simone @phoenixme.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I stand with @cathywilcox.bsky.social who, once again, has hit the nail on the head. Astonishing, but not surprising, that SMH has apologised for this cartoon. #AusPol

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I'm listening to Tchaikovsky's Symphony #2 on vinyl to close out my day and quite frankly, this is magnificent.

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

So about a month back I got into #NHL and decided to go for the @pittsburghpenguins.bsky.social because their coach looks like an accountant and their penguin logo has an evil glint in its eye. I've just bought a jersey, there's no going back now. What was I thinking.

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It's my last day of work before I go on leave for three weeks (!) and I'm really struggling to be productive today. I'm spending a lot of time lying back in my chair looking at my festive decor. And yes, I *did* take over the airspace of four of my coworkers for this tinsel extravaganza.

A slightly wonky photograph of an open-plan office space with gold, red, silver, and tropical multi-colour tinsel hanging from the ceiling. Most of the tinsel have baubles in the same colours hanging from the end. There are also some 3D printed Australian Flora decorations and bead strings among the mix.

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Meagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

To my fellow academia / writing / research meme people and general meme lovers. I don't want to alarm you but this has come to my attention and I wish it hadn't. So now you have to see it, too 😳😱 #academicchatter #academicsky

The famous "I can has cheezeburger" meme (with cute cat). Additional text reads: 'The difference in time between now and I can has cheezeburger is the same between I can has cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling.'

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We are all drunk raccoons passed out on God’s public bathroom floor

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

By what right do my friends make such jokes about my pain, and have them be funny? #AcademicSky

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Zen Faulkes @doctorzen.net · 01/12/2025

If you run across a gen A.I. slop 🤖💩 diagram in an academic journal, I’d love to know about it! Please fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Slop in journals is illuminating about journals’ quality control. And journals would like you to forget their mistakes. #AcademicChatter

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Slop graphics in academic journals

Use this form to share graphics (e.g., figures, covers, graphical abstracts) made using generative A.I. that have appeared in academic journals. The plan is to compile these slop graphics in an ope...

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Maybe it's my gender queer arse, but... Was this not blindingly obvious??

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Bad: on hold with our learning platform support team. Good: they've changed the hold music! The audio doesn't clip any more, and it's electronica without sounding like gym music or a corporate flythrough video. I even heard flange on the lead into the break!

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

why not opt-in? just ask permission first if this is truly a positive feature then surely copyright holders will be happy to participate and have their work included if asked just ask permission first

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 04/09/2025

“Writing is a technology that helps us understand our own ideas better. Where people are involved in thinking and invention — including at universities — it needs to be taught in that spirit.” #AcademicSky

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What are the key purposes of human writing? How we name AI-generated text confuses things

As another school year returns, large language models (LLMs) present difficult questions around learning, thinking, plagiarism and authorship for educators.

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

From the article: "As the statistician and political scientist Andrew Gelman wrote, “It is by writing that I... state my assumptions, work out their implications, and confront the places where these implications do not comport with reality or with my current understanding of the world.” "

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Dr Emma Muhlack @dremmamuhlack.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

So the consultation draft for Australia's National Health and Medical Research strategy has been released. Apparently I am at terrible person because I saw this and thought "what, are they commissioning Gorman to make labcoats?" #health #australia

A screenshot with the following text:

Clinical trials: Enable a vibrant clinical trials sector that improves patient outcomes and supports equitable access to clinical trials, regardless of demography or geography.

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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Are you neurodivergent & have done, or considered, a PhD? We’re researching how doctoral study works (or doesn’t) for neurodivergent people. Take our 30min survey & help make academia more inclusive forms.office.com/e/ft9jyWsPUW Questions? Email lindsay.odell@open.ac.uk #PhD #Neurodivergent

Three shelves of brightly coloured books

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