Reposted by Jayne PersianJayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Make it Level D, permanrnt, proficiency in Russian & Ukrainian diaspora politics 😁 011
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12h"the Ukraine" 😬 www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...smh.com.auNew Greens leader: No weapons for Ukraine, curtail the US allianceDavid Shoebridge believes the Greens can win votes by campaigning to scrap the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarine pact and legalise recreational cannabis. 040
Reposted by Jayne PersianBriony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Fixed-term teaching/research job attached to ARC-funded project ‘Rebuilding Ukraine: From its War-torn Past to its War-torn Present’ at the Australian National University. Requires PhD in History and proficiency in English, Russian & Ukrainian. Submissions due 1 Nov. jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...jobs.anu.edu.auLecturer - Canberra / ACT, ACT, AustraliaClassification: Academic Level BSalary package: $124,638 - $141,317 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms: Full-time, Fixed term (up to 3.5 years) In 1946, ANU was founded to help rebuild a changing... 133
Reposted by Jayne PersianTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I promise you that if we were staffed and resourced enough to teach by leisurely Platonic dialogues the university would not depend on writing as heavily as it does. 1303
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This is one of the reasons I work on perpetrators. I was raised as a fundie, I know this intimately. 050
Reposted by Jayne PersianKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Contrary to billing change over time as our beat, as a historian I'm here to tell you that violence against women is an absolute constant. Not generations but centuries of activism & policies have made that violence only somewhat more public. Our daily news reminds us how and why. 05922
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Instead of Chris Hammer, check out Joanna Jenkins 000
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Where is the European Holocaust fellowship for an Australian MCR 🧐 020
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chris Hammond's latest book is terrible, whole chapters of unreliable narration 🫤 000
Reposted by Jayne PersianSophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026As part of the Women and Their Books study day on Saturday the 3rd of October, we're displaying a book written by Richard Hooke owned by Magdalene Wake, who inscribed the title page: "Magdalene Wake her Booke Given her by Maister Hooke 1655". 2245
Reposted by Jayne PersianAdrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Hope you’ll do a review. As well as the 1000s of pearling workers and other indentured labourers, to ignore the many many thousands here during and after WWII is a pretty serious omission. Part of the ‘anyone can do history, you don’t need training’ mentality. 121
Reposted by Jayne PersianAdrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Economists who don’t know history, @news.abc.net.au needed to do fact checking on the statement that there was no temporary migration to Australia between 1901 and the 1970s! youtu.be/uKxBtPWywCw?... (at 17.45)youtu.beAustralia's migration economics | That's Business with Alan KohlerYouTube video by ABC News (Australia) 186
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Alan Kohler was a godsend when I happened to have postnatal anxiety during the GFC, calming and wise. Enjoy retirement @alankohler.bsky.social 😍 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auFinance presenter Alan Kohler retiring after three decades at ABCAlan Kohler, one of the most influential journalists Australia has ever produced, will retire at the end of the year. 141
Reposted by Jayne PersianMelissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Do we teach skills that are useful in the workplace? Fuck yes we do. Did I become a history professor because I'm passionate about vocational training? Fuck no i did not 360957
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Is there a support group for burnt out MCRs who have given up hope 392
Reposted by Jayne PersianDr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Reading @evansmithhist.bsky.social @drjpersian.bsky.social et al this week for teaching 20th c. fascism to the first years. This little medievalist is learning a lot. 2111
Reposted by Jayne PersianDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project? 15145891298
Reposted by Jayne PersianEnough Trope @enoughtrope.com · 19/09/2026We're open for submissions! Have thoughts on genre fiction and want to share them? We accept submissions of 1000 words with a relevance to Australian genre fiction. Commentary, reviews, articles, or thoughtpieces? Share them with us: enoughtrope.com/submissionsenoughtrope.comSubmissions — Enough Trope 045
Reposted by Jayne PersianRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Newcastle University is facing a backlash from conservationists over the appointment of the heir to an Indian oil and gas fortune who runs a controversial mega-zoo as a professor of sustainability."theguardian.comIndian oil and gas heir made professor of sustainability at Newcastle UniversityIncredulity over role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo 3269
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auAnger over lives lost as Jehovah's Witnesses shift on blood transfusionThe daughter of a Jehovah's Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds in 2019 has expressed anger after the church altered its longstanding opposition last week. 011
Reposted by Jayne PersianTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 23/09/2026telling my disbelieving students what it was like for my generation to live without AI, 18 months ago 28611
Reposted by Jayne PersianCharles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world! 1416451
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Timely, in bed all afternoon with a migraine 🙃 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auNumber of people with migraine doubles after years of undercountingRevised figures show the number of Australians living with migraine is about 4 million, with experts saying it highlights how authorities have been grossly under-reporting the chronic disease. 010
Reposted by Jayne PersianTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that 425657
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Is this the Hanson-inspired move to the even further right? 220
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 19/09/2026All those child martys .. www.jw.org/en/global-co...jw.orgJehovah’s Witnesses: Each Witness Now Decides Whether to Accept or Donate Main Blood Components 210
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Have to agree with Trump here. But also, every day in north Qld 🐊 010
Reposted by Jayne PersianDan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My 👏 culture 👏 is 👏 not 👏 your 👏 costume 👏 38621
Reposted by Jayne PersianSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 12/09/2026It’s excellent getting to say to a group of students, We’re gonna read X & we’re gonna spend 75 minutes talking about it, & ideally the way you think about the world & yourself is gonna be a bit more nuanced, complex, & satisfying, & that’s today’s “product.” Or, as @cnygren.bsky.social & I said: 323253
Reposted by Jayne PersianNicki @nickinde.bsky.social · 12/09/2026“an important challenge for university leaders”static.klipy.comI Think You Should Leave Hot Dog SuspectAlt: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect 0266
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Arthur Calwell did NOT coin "populate or perish" come to me for Calwell facts next time ABC www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auWe put 165 years of migration data into four charts. Here's what we learnedThe story of Australia is a story of migration, and the country's immigration system is once more at the centre of heated political debate. 192
Reposted by Jayne PersianHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I'd vote for the future where there's the option of a box that pops up when lazy nonsense appears and says "this looks like AI slop. Would you like me to find a piece written by a thoughtful human on this topic - something that's valued by other humans and is actually worth reading?" 18882132
Reposted by Jayne PersianColin Dickey @colindickey.com · 07/09/2026Very funny to me when these bookclub scammers just plug my responses into ChatGPT and come up with the most obsequious responses 471808230
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...culture-centered.blogspot.comThe Suit Walks the CorridorMohan Dutta, Culture-centered approach, CARE, Massey University, Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Prof Mohan Dutta, Mohan J. Dutta, Communication for social change 100
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026www.instagram.com/reel/Dcd6izU...instagram.comNathan Dufour Oglesby on Instagram: "Okay this is a little late to the game but I finally wrapped up teaching a summer mythology class which culminated in seeing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and here a...nathanology_ on August 25, 2026: "Okay this is a little late to the game but I finally wrapped up teaching a summer mythology class which culminated in seeing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey and here are ... 010
Reposted by Jayne PersianHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026me and the girls entering the academic job market 612429
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Massive congratulations to one of the most brilliant and lovely academics I know @evansmithhist.bsky.social on his successful Future Fellowship 🥳🥳 0232
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Today I have finalised the grades for two courses, written a lecture and submitted a workload survey. WHAT HAS THE ARC DONE 180
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 08/09/2026look, whatever happens, all of our projects are amazing and deserve to be funded *group hug* 090
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This wasn't super successful even when it was legal lol @evansmithhist.bsky.social 010
Reposted by Jayne PersianZoe @zmcadler.bsky.social · 07/09/2026>botlicker Absolutely amazing word 1242
Reposted by Jayne PersianDr. M.A. Davis @mikedavis.bsky.social · 05/09/2026This is one of the two great questions of the historical profession 0104