Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 57mwww.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auUniversities justified job cuts with numbers no-one could checkUniversities said staff cuts were necessary to secure their financial futures. But disputed models, alternative plans and changing forecasts suggest other choices may have been available. 087
Reposted by Jayne Persianaggressive deaccessioner is aggressive @kayloulee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Also, ultra niche, in the Australian crime drama East West 101, there's a plot set at the University of Sydney, in March. The jacarandas are in bloom. Any fool with any acquaintance with the uni and Sydney seasons knows the fucking jacarandas bloom in spring, i.e. October/November, not fucking March 1163
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 13/10/2026This needs more detail to rule out accidental corruption of evidence 000
Reposted by Jayne PersianJacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I am way too online for my own good, and I had an unreasonably large twitter following, and I really *enjoyed* twitter for a lot of years, and yet leaving there and never looking back was maybe the easiest what-felt-like-a-big-ethical decision I've ever made. 533453361
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Historians are indefatigable archival researchers. My note in an archive summary: 'More on all this. I got bored.' 😂 050
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auAlan Kohler on the stories he covered — and the ones he missedIn his final column before retiring from the ABC, Alan Kohler reflects on the stories that shaped him, plus those that shaped Australia in ways he could not predict. 011
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Yes. Howard was an astute politician. "Tampa, boats!" while letting in the most migrants lol 130
Reposted by Jayne PersianErin Cook @erincook.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Learning too much about Whitlamstatic.klipy.comRowley Waving - Diary of a Wimpy KidALT: Rowley Waving - Diary of a Wimpy Kid 031
Reposted by Jayne PersianDaniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I'm thinking my next book should be on the Byzantine Empire. I mean, I mean I have a PhD so I think i'm qualified to write it and I don't think i've heard of anyone else doing any work on it. #envhist #envhum #histsci 3234
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Stage 4 never invited into the club, particularly not in this piece 010
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Another 'history of Australia' with no references to migration historians, whole slabs of text unreferenced 🙃 #invisible 0123
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026A builder with a better moral code than all of Sydney's legal fraternity & every staff member of a children's charity www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auRetracing the steps of Mark Dennis, 'brilliant' barrister with a dark sideThe ABC travelled to Cambodia to reveal the inside story of how former top silk turned accused paedophile Mark Dennis accumulated power within a celebrated charity and gained access to vulnerable chil... 240
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Actually, some women are diagnosed straight away with Stage 4 but always forgotten in these fluff pieces www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auJudith Lucy's cancer journey will reveal resilience she didn't know she hadJudith Lucy's breast cancer diagnosis means she has joined a club nobody wants to be a part of. A survivor tells how humour and resilience can make the journey easier. 160
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026My chapter is titled 'The Australian War Crimes Trials' and the brilliant editors are Avril Alba & Jan Lanicek 020
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I have a new (umm, written in 2023) chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the Holocaust, an epic collection with 33 chapters! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comThe Palgrave Handbook of Australia and the HolocaustThis Palgrave Handbook offers the first comprehensive survey of the history and memory of the Holocaust in Australia. 1206
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Reading this new book to lock in my fear of never being able to write this well 😭 2110
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...abc.net.auThey built a business empire that cashes in on veterans. It's made millionsThe companies in the VBA network have made millions turning veterans into valuable sales leads on an industrial scale. 000
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 · 04/10/2026"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
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Make it Level D, permanrnt, proficiency in Russian & Ukrainian diaspora politics 😁 011
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... 144
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. 06022
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". 23910
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 · 30/09/2026Fiona, glad you are ok! Must remember to add "women" to every search 🙄😬 2101
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 361257
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? 15145841293
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