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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congratulations to the John Barrett Prize winners - catch up on this award-winning scholarship here! Open winners: Emily Yu Zong & Daisy Bisenieks explore how Australian dark humour uses parody, absurdity and laughter to respond to the eco-social phenomenon of invasive species. tinyurl.com/mc4bwyn

Screenshot of journal article. Title: Dark Humour and Invasive Species Storytelling in the Age of Extinction. Authors: Emily Yu Zong and Daisy Bisenieks (Hong Kong Baptist University). Abstract: This essay explores how humour, specifically dark humour, performs an affective politics of opacity in Australian comedies that invokes parody, absurdity and laughter to address the eco-social challenges of invasive species, including rabbits, brumbies, cane toads and red fire ants. The incongruity between jocular feelings and the gravity of extinction highlights humour’s ambivalent potential for violence and subversion. Through an analysis of cartoons and documentaries that bridge conservation science and the Australian cultural imagination, we identify three dimensions of environmental dark humour: (1) it questions human exceptionalism by foregrounding ambiguity, nonhuman agency and assemblage thinking beyond rational control; (2) it performs a cultural diagnosis of colonial legacies, including eco-nationalism and anti-immigration rhetoric, hegemonic White masculinity, and regional and cultural stereotypes; (3) it allows a cathartic release of affective dissent and taboo feelings by subverting culturally normative emotional attachments to invasive animals and mainstream environmentalism. By considering humour as a crucial technique for survival and ambiguity, we argue for its potential to inspire self-reflective, multispecies and decolonial modes of storytelling that can ethically account for human and nonhuman otherness in the age of extinction.

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International Australian Studies Association @intlausstudies.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*CFP deadline extended* Abstracts for InASA's 2027 conference "The Cringing Continent" now due 14 September....

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Next in 50.3: How do historical crime fiction and television shape our understanding of Australia’s migrant past? This article explores multilingualism, memory and cultural diversity in Kerry Greenwood’s #PhryneFisher novels and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries. #OzStudies 🕵‍♀️ tinyurl.com/3yxbm66r

Screenshot of journal article. Title: Multilingual Narratives and Cultural Diversity in the Phryne Fisher Series and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Representing 1920s Melbourne’s Chinese and Jewish Communities. Author: Rebecca Margolis. Abstract: Kerry Greenwood’s bestselling Phryne Fisher historical crime novels (1989–2022) and their acclaimed ABC television adaptation, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (2012–2015), draw on historical research to portray 1920s Melbourne. Centring on the affluent private detective Phryne Fisher, the novels and television series address post–World War I social issues within the city’s culturally diverse neighbourhoods. This article examines multilingualism as a narrative strategy within Greenwood’s fiction and its television adaptation. It offers close readings of Ruddy Gore and Raisins and Almonds, novels that foreground Melbourne’s Chinese and Jewish communities. It analyses portrayals of multiculturalism across the novels and their screen adaptations and examines how popular period fiction shapes collective memory and an imagined Australian past.

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

🚨New issue of JAS out now🚨 50.3 features our cutest cover yet - Horrie the Wog Dog (actually a sad tale but let's not spoil the moment). We begin our 50.3 thread with the co-editors taking on AI. Stay tuned for your daily doses of 50.3! #OzStudies tinyurl.com/zsdjmzft

Blue cover of the Journal of Australian Studies Volume 50, Number 1, September 2026. Features a black and white photograph of a small terrier-like dog wearing a little vest and standing on an ammo crate in front of three tents in the north African desert.

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is really important. Support the Jewish Council of Australia by signing the petition. The IHRA definition of anti-semintism is being “weaponised to go after Pro-Palestinian speech… and blind us to how antisemitism actually works.” #AusSky #AusPol

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Don’t let Israel define antisemitism

Israel’s defenders are pressuring Australian institutions and governments to adopt and enforce the IHRA working definition of antisemitism. Kenneth Stern, […]

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I've been trying to figure out what could be worse than Ice Ice Baby as the school's morning bell song and it turns out it's Eagle Rock.

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We interrupt your (ir)regularly scheduled programming of JAS 50.2 notices to announce that the #CFP for @intlausstudies.bsky.social conference is out now! Join us at Flinders on 9-12 Feb 2027 to discuss "The Cringing Continent"! Abstracts due: 17 August 2026 For more details: tinyurl.com/4hnn6k8v

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Call for Papers: ‘The Cringing Continent’, InASA Conference for 2027

The Cringing Continent 2027 InASA Conference Tuesday 9—Friday 12 February Flinders University, Adelaide In February 2027, we invite you to join us on Kaurna Country to reconsider one of the foundat…

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

K/Gamilaroi scholar Bindi Bennett interrogates how AI generates troubling images of Indigenous Australians. What would ethical AI look like if it centred #Indigenous authority, relational accountability and self-determination in digital spaces? #OzStudies #AIethics tinyurl.com/y8kwhjas

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

50.2 of JAS is out but the cover is too saucy for Bluesky. The cover image is taken from Max Dupain’s Cronulla nudes series. You can see it on our website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c... #OzStudies #OzPhotography #Dupain

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

The World Cup is less than a month away, and it is worth revisiting Zoë Jay's recent article about liberal enjoyment and global mega events. It's #OpenAccess and has a great video abstract! ⤵️ buff.ly/izRmTCW

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I would 100% go to dinner at Dr Space Junk's house.

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A productive use of my caffeine-fuelled fever dream that is the Sunday of the #Eurovision grand final. Tldr: Bulgaria is a great win, Delta diplomacy was a thing, and the EBU have to actually take action theconversation.com/eurovision-2...

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Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters

The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 was marked by great music, and by continuing controversy over Israel’s participation.

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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Hands up if you are a university lecturer being told by your leadership that you must teach your students how to use genAI - but you really don’t want to, as you know they useless and harmful

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

You lived it. You have the physical and emotional memories of what it took to create it, including and especially the sacrifices. You didn't just generate text. You, a person, thought and wrote. When someone steals your writing, they're claiming all of that for themselves.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 17/05/2026

I mean: Delta. Fourth. It was inevitable, and this is why we need to teach Classics.

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

New article in Review of International Studies ‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture. Zoë Jay #FanStudies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Using archaeology as just a word erases actual archaeologists, as if we don’t exist, ignoring the history and scholarship of the discipline. Space archaeology has been around for 25 years. We study the human adaptations, technologies and ideologies that interact with outer space. 🧪 🏺

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it."

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Look, we all know that this is something people do, but, Tony, my man, you saying this as an MP kinda has an air of campaigning by a state. You might want to hold back in this particular political climate and just leave at wishing Delta all the best. 🤦‍♀️ #Eurovision

Text: Eurovision uses geo-blocking to prevent anyone voting in their own country for their own artist, but that doesn't mean we can't help. Any Australian who's travelling or has the phone number of anyone else in any other country, you know what to do."

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

This is great! Also, how to support an academic: - read their papers - cite their articles and books - tell your friends and students about their work - include their work in your reading lists and syllabi - ask your library to buy their books - tell them you liked their work or that it was helpful

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

At first glance, I read this as Emma Thompson being an oil painting of a unicorn and the human goodness of Paradise, but am I wrong, though?

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A little something I wrote. Taking a deep dive into the song and Dolce's made me rethink its significance.

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Ben Kuchera @benkuchera.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

There are phone tasks and laptop tasks and I'm dying on this hill. I'm dying on this hell because I'm old and stressed my heart climbing said hill, but still.

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This CFP is open for one more week! Get your proposals in by Monday 30 March. #CFP #OzStudies

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Like I'm going to advertise that publicly so it goes on my file - ha! Besides, I live next to a school that uses music as its bell - I am trained for this.

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a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Today in the life of a feminist killjoy: suggesting to a colleague that maybe putting colleagues' photos into ChatGPT isn't actually cool, hey

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a woman in a white wig says " every party has a pooper "

Alt: A woman in a white wig (Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek) says "every party has a pooper"

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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50. Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide! @intlausstudies.bsky.social #CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies

50In 2026, the Journal of Australian Studies
publishes its 50th volume. To mark this occasion we propose a special issue for release in late 2026. For this volume, we would like to invite scholars to revisit its back issues - perhaps with nostalgia, perhaps with criticism, but always with the purpose of evaluating what Australian Studies has been, what it currently is, and what it can be.
We seek articles of that can do one or more of the following:
Select a particular article or special issue from the past to speak to from a contemporary perspective
Revisit one of your own articles published in
JAS
to critically revise, update - or perhaps redact past scholarship
Scholarly reflections of editorial experiences with the journal focused on characterising “Australian Studies” at the time
Critical personal reflections
Debates and disputes in Australian studies (on the pages and off of
JAS
)
A critical history of/commentary on
JAS
and its relationship to the field of Australian Studies more broadly
Critical reviews of key themes the journal has covered (or not covered) over its history
Critical reviews of the role of disciplines and disciplinarity within the interdisciplinary formation of Australian Studies
We also welcome other proposals and suggestions. Please note that we are open to a wide range of lengths and formats in this context, as appropriate to the form of your contribution, and we invite contributors to specify a nominal word count in their proposal, noting that this cannot exceed 8000 words (inclusive of footnotes).
We invite all contributors to provide a 300-500 word
abstract proposal for their article by 30 March 2026
. This is to allow us to identify and remedy any potential overlaps, and to identify peer reviewers in advance.
Outcomes and feedback on abstracts will be provided by 3 April
at the latest. Please submit your abstracts to:
journalofaustralianstudies@gmail.com
with the subject line:
Attn: JAS at 50 Special Issue.

Initial manuscripts are due in ScholarOne by 17 July 2026
; however, we welcome early submissions.
All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. In the spirit of collaboration, we ask that contributors to the special issue also assist with peer reviewing other contributions. After revisions based on the peer review are made, manuscripts will undergo an editorial review, after which they may be returned for further revisions. After this round of editorial revisions, the manuscripts will then be forwarded to our copyeditor by no later than 28 August. Final manuscripts (including peer review, revision, copyediting, and revisions after copyediting) are due by 9 October 2026.
If you have any questions, please email the Editors:
jess.carniel@unisq.edu.au
and
chris.hay@flinders.edu.au
Production timeline at a glance
Abstracts:
30 March 2026
Notification of acceptance:
3 April 2026
Initial manuscript submission:
17 July 2026
Peer review and revision process completed by:
28 August 2026
Final manuscripts (including peer review and copyediting)
: 9 October 2026
Publication:
December 2026

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

My accountant just broke up with me. I am devastated.

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Brett Holman @airminded.org · 23/02/2026

People, go to Knowledge Commons instead! It's free too, but importantly it's open and non-commercial. As a basic example of what you can do with it, here's my page there hcommons.org/members/airm...

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Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Personally, my highlight was that HASS disciplines were all Very High Risk. (Mind you, STEM disciplines were still High Risk.) There's just something about axing arts majors left, right, and centre that makes us feel just a tad precarious.

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Third, this #BadBunny #superbowl #halftime #superbowl2026 was socially GENEROUS. There is give and take, there is gifting, there is joy. There is age inclusion. There is LIGHT. He got it all in there and people came along for the ride. It was so inclusive. So social. Wow.

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Question for the people who know more about American football than I do: I think the 64 on Bad Bunny's jersey is for the Civil Rights Act - but is there a famous footballer with that number? #BadBunny #SuperBowlLX

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A/Prof Jess Carniel @drjessc.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

This is clickbait, right? Because American Idiot and Holiday are evergreen in their political commentary without changing the lyrics any further (although it's great when t hey do).

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 29/01/2026

Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny

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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Lyric Video)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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