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Dr Lisa Rolston

@elisabethrolston.bsky.social
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early career historian (rulership, power, and historical narratives in the later middle ages). AI sceptic. 📍Kaurna country, SA

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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
feeling very grateful this fine Wednesday arvo to get to teach medieval history to a great bunch of regional students online
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
i think most people have me on other socials but for posterity: i live in Adelaide now! just picked up my Flinders staff card for some casual teaching this semester, alongside a fortuitously timed online tutorial for UOW's new Medieval Encounters subject
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
officially confirmed as a Visiting Fellow in the School of Creative Arts and Humanities at UOW for the next two years ✨️ glad to have found a home for my research and the chance to contribute to some teaching in medieval and early modern history
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
this has snuck up on me because of some difficult life circumstances but my affiliation with Monash ends overnight. I'm in the process of applying for an honorary academic appointment at UOW, so fingers crossed I have a new research home sorted soon 🤞
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
come join us! we're hiring a full-time, permanent Learning Skills Advisor at UOW, applications close Sunday: ejgl.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Learning Skills Advisor
Play a crucial role in transforming our provision of academic and learning skills support, enabling all students to progress academically in their studies.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
time to hurt my own feelings by logging into bluesky and thinking about not being at ANZAMEMS
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
got coffee with a friend who worked as a learning advisor in the second year of my PhD to ask her about the job bc I thought it might be a good fit. Two years later they were hiring a casual and she messaged to see if I wanted it
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
genuinely horrified by a meeting this morning with a tech platform the university partners with that fed confidential student data into AI for the sake of [checks notes] generating fake student profiles
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
your legacy lives on at UOW @drdrehistorian.bsky.social
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
caught up with a PhD friend last night to chat about what we're working on and we talked for two hours. It's so nice to feel like a historian again
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
if anyone has some 🔥🔥🔥 memes about thesis writing please drop them here, I'm on a mission to make some honours students chuckle
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Disappointed to have resigned my NTEU membership this morning. I don't know if it's just at UOW or statewide that the NTEU only represents academic staff in practice, but the complete silence and apathy from the union in the face of this devastating professional staff restructure is very telling.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
filed under a seemingly endless list of "stuff i never saved from UC IT accounts because I figured if I ever needed it again I could email Chris and it would be a good excuse for a yarn": course outlines for every course I tutored on
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
first discussion post topic for my grad cert is a "memorable learning experience" either positive or negative. fondly remembering the time a classmate told our lecturer very late in the semester that he wasn't leaving the room until he'd given us a question for the final essay
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
previous post deleted because some rando reposted it and i would like to know: who raised you
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
as one of the cited learning advisors, can confirm these tips are wonderful and really appreciate Lucy's generosity in sharing!
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
After months of chipping away at student guidelines for Gen AI use I've worked out what I think is an effective framing: risks of GenAI which relate to the user (academic misconduct, hallucinations, cognitive offloading) and the costs, which relate to the social and environmental impacts
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ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
EXTENDED CFP! We've had a great deal of interest in our conference at University of Melbourne in December, and seen lots of panel and paper proposals come through, but we want more! Ignore the deadline on website, we'll accept submissions up to 28 Feb. conference.anzamems....
This guy gets it - a picture of a medieval scribe working on a manuscript with a slightly concerned look on his face. Clear worried he had missed our first CFP deadline.

Detail of a miniature of Guillaume de Lorris or Jean de Meun at work writing the text, from the Roman de la Rose, Netherlands (Bruges), c. 1490 – c. 1500, British Library Harley MS 4425, f. 133r
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
absolutely delightful scene to stumble across on my lunch break
A rainbow lorikeet eating a pink berry in a bush
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
just had a lovely meeting with a team from the library about an upcoming shared workshop on research skills for Honours students and its just really nice to work with other people who are passionate about this cohort
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
switched to Duck Duck Go for my mobile browser to avoid AI slop and look what they've done 🫠🫠🫠
A screenshot from the Duck Duck Go mobile browser promoting a "new AI chat" in the dropdown menu
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
media.tenor.com
a cartoon of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words join us above them .
Alt: a gif of homer simpson and bart simpson sitting on a couch with the words "join us"
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Dr Matt Firth @mattfirth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Want to do a fully funded PhD on medieval English historiography? Well do I have an opportunity for you! See the attached ad and get in touch ASAP if you're interested (and please share widely).
flinders.edu.au
Contesting Conquests – HDR Scholarship Opportunity - Flinders University
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 03/02/2025
There is something nefarious about how hard and fast people are pushing AI in education. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it doesn’t bode well when corporations, not student need, set the pace with which we adopt new technologies.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
went to our local community pool this arvo. it is open 6am-7pm daily from September to April and it is completely free
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
sometimes I see student-facing guidance on using AI that make me question if the higher education sector has given up on research integrity entirely
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Dominik Waßenhoven @domwass.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Historian: Obviously, this has to be attributed to the loss of sources.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
yeah sorry Curtin but travelling interstate for a toga party is not high on my list of priorities
A screenshot of an email listing student orientation events with the description "we know you aren't on campus BUT the next few weeks are jam packed of events - that are definitely worth the travel!"
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
was reminded today that in undergrad, I was the only student to enrol in second semester Greek at 300-level and so I had an hour a week of one-on-one classes
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Mike Riverso @mikeriverso.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The millennial experience is growing up with the internet, and watching it go from a free, open, democratic, and eclectic ecosystem to a wasteland of five websites controlled by billionaires, and now seeing it quickly fill up with AI-generated slop. I want our World Wide Web back.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
communication technology peaked with MSN messenger and it was all downhill from there
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
feels like a rite of passage of living in Australia to experience the biggest thunderstorm of my life, in the dark bc the lightning took out the power, next to a shaky and drooly dog
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“But I am wholly convinced that if a technology undermines my students’ humanity, that technology isn’t ethical to use, for any reason. And I believe generative AI undermines my students’ humanity.“ #EduSky
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The ethical case for resisting AI
I had my moment of reality regarding generative AI in my chemistry and physics classes this past term. I’ve always had the student frustration “I can’t Google your homework problems!” as a point of…
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
i would not wish the pain of losing a beloved supervisor on anyone but it's such a specific and isolating form of grief that the way it manifests makes me feel straight up insane
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I've been reading Webworm for a few years but wasn't in a financial position to support it until last year. David's journalism is insightful, always interesting, and speaks truth to power - would recommend
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
went for a swim in the ocean pool at north Wollongong and its the closest I've come in six months to believing there's a pathway out of depression
An ocean pool on an overcast day
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
been in touch with the owners of one of Artemis's littermates and this afternoon they came down for a visit ❤️❤️
Two golden retrievers in a small plastic paddling pool, both looking very goofy
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
made trifle this morning which meant breakfast was leftover sponge, jam and custard. the feasting Begins
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
ohhh this is a GOOD framing of academic integrity
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
picked a really lovely task to do for the final full work day of the year: reading Honours theses in different disciplines to prep for our pilot Academic Skills for Honours Students programme next year
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
a long read but an absolutely worthwhile one
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A lot of good points in this article, concluding with what to me is at the heart of every crisis in the sector: the refusal to recognise that teaching and learning is communal, relational, and necessarily human www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘I received a first but it felt tainted and undeserved’: inside the university AI cheating crisis
More than half of students are now using generative AI, casting a shadow over campuses as tutors and students turn on each other and hardworking learners are caught in the flak. Will Coldwell reports ...
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
"I no longer want to reduce the study of “the mystery of the mind and heart” to a list of utilitarian co-benefits, because to do so is to help construct the university as a place inimical to love." Beautiful essay in The Spinoff about the value of humanities: thespinoff.co.nz/books/14-12-...
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Wasteland: A response to a university restructure
'For its purposes we were not people, just dollar amounts representing the salary that might be returned to the university’s coffers once we no longer worked there.'
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Artemis was very happy to receive the post this afternoon 💕 especially since the postie always gives her treats
A young golden retriever proudly holding an Australia Post parcel in her mouth
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
very telling response from our interim VC about the two no confidence votes received by the newly appointed VC in his current role and whether this was taken into account: "All VCs receive no confidence votes. I've had no confidence votes!"
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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
EXACTLY...because writing is thinking. If you outsource the former you're outsourcing the latter.
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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
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Dr Lisa Rolston @elisabethrolston.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
i have an 'aspirational' version of my academic CV where I put, in red font, all the things I've started but haven't finished, and I can't decide if it's an effective motivational tool or a form of masochism
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