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Maggie McAlinden

@maggiemcalinden.bsky.social
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Critical applied linguist on Whadjuk Boodja/working class feminist academic/teacher education/ critical empathy/affective pedagogies/affect theory/cats/dogs/books/Irish Republican

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Game day prep - @meganjherbert.bsky.social 💥
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The AFL Grand Final is the 2nd most dangerous day of the year for women in Australia. That’s a fact. Victoria Police & police everywhere preparing for up to a 20% rise in male violence against women on Saturday
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Maggie McAlinden @maggiemcalinden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh. I love this. How refreshing.
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Maggie McAlinden @maggiemcalinden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thanks @tonywindsor@bsky.social. Who made Pauline Hanson so cruel and mean? And how can we stop rewarding her? "The question is not what Hanson’s words cost her. It is what they cost the rest of us watching this sad form of politics, and why we needed a grieving son to say so." #strategicempathy
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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Maggie McAlinden @maggiemcalinden.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Hell yes!
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Amen. #BookSky
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 23/08/2026
Editorial: The government pays to ensure the exclusivity of private schools, to determine lifelong advantage for a group of people whose only distinguishment is their parents’ earnings. Public schools are underfunded so this can continue. trib.al/lvZbRxU
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Baronial mindset
Ian Lambert sees no link between privilege and abuse. ‘We do not accept that charges against individual students establish a failure of education, or that a difference between our methods and others’ preferences constitutes a deficiency,’ the Scots College principal says.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Shapiro: When he sits behind the desk in the Oval Office, making $2.2 billion off his corruption for him and his kids, it costs you money. When he sits behind that desk, he’s not thinking about how to put money in your pocket. He’s thinking about how to put money in his own pocket.
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Jon Adcock @jonadcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#booksky
Can't believe we're at the stage of dystopia where we're destroying old books because Tim from corporate can't write his own emails.
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This very personal speech from Jacqui Lambie won't get anywhere near as much attention as it should - but again goes to choices about who we care about. No one should have to go through this live.thepoint.com.au/2026/08/the-...
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/08/2026
I know you're not allowed to say this during the current debate, but the reason the left dominates academics, art, comedy, and music is that the right has stupid, discredited ideas, they're not funny, and dull resentment does not make for good art. No grand conspiracy required.
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God @thegodshow.com · 14/08/2026
Their assets are frozen, construction is suspended, and their deal is under investigation for fraud. SMITE!
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Bless The Albanians Who Stopped Jared And Ivanka
Dear Humans,
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 13/07/2026
Vote for Count Binface. 🐻
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Poster promoting Count Binface, in the famous Obama style
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God @thegodshow.com · 12/08/2026
Well said, Doctor! 🙇‍♂️
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Steve Threadgold @stevethreadgold.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
New article out with Bev Skeggs and @rogerjburrows.bsky.social in @culsoc.bsky.social on how cultural consumption data's enrolment into insurance, health, housing and other areas that extends symbolic violence and means we nee to think about culture differently
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
This is lovely…. #BookSky
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Burning. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Foreground left: large, windowless buildings. Background: fiery forest horizon and red to black sky. Foreground right: man on his phone saying, “Quick! We need more water to cool down the data centres that are overheating from processing all the news about unprecedented wildfires…”
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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I feel attacked #booksky
You’re doing a lot of scrolling for someone who has a book to read
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Freethinkers United For Change @freethinkersunite.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 17/07/2026
#AcademicSky #EduSky #ResearchAssessment #ResearchMetrics How Research Metrics Began to Measure Everything Except Thought
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The Arithmetic of Prestige: How Research Metrics Began to Measure Everything Except Thought
The emperor is naked, holding a dashboard
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Maggie McAlinden @maggiemcalinden.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
We need a national news retrospective starting with detailed reporting and reenactments of every violent act of colonisation since the first fleet. Played on every news outlet every night until people become approriately outraged. #criticalempathy #educate #voteyes
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 17/07/2026
Probably more helpful to think of them not so much as “Canadian wildfires” but rather “climate change wildfires currently consuming Canada”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social
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Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns over fraud, questionable research practices, and low reproducibility in psychological research that emerged in the 2010s, Open Science has been framed by some dominant advocates as a new approach to research in psychology and across the social sciences. However, women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives. This erasure is troubling, especially as feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly exclusionary culture of mainstream science reform. This article traces the overlooked contributions of five pioneering women: Mary Whiton Calkins and her replication efforts in the 1890s; Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, who advocated for analytical precision in the 1910s; Alice Bryan’s 1940s adversarial collaboration; Carolyn Wood Sherif’s metascientific work in the 1960s; and Leonore Tiefer’s promotion of conflict-of-interest declarations of sex research in the 2000s. I document how their contributions laid the intellectual foundations of what is now contemporary Open Science in the social sciences. In doing so, I celebrate a lineage of feminist scientific labor that has always emphasized openness, ethics, and equity.
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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Matt Wallace @mattfnwallace.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Actually flawless.
A four panel comic strip by Twonks featuring a round headed figure demanding a pizza at a restaurant then proclaiming “wow look what I made” when the waiter brings him the pizza
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Gotta Like That Mamdani Dude.....
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
These kids are all of us. (📸 by evan vucci of @reuters.com ) (H/T @acyn.bsky.social )
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Alex A. Pagliuca @alexpagliuca.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
"We are deploying responsibly
developed Al to liberate humanity from menial labor and usher in an era of unparalleled creativity and abundance."
SAM ALTMAN

"You ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit, to build a system whose primary commercial application is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work you consumed.
You are not liberating human creativity - you are strip-mining it and selling it back at a markup while calling the theft training data."
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@think_and_exist
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Maggie McAlinden @maggiemcalinden.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
If there is anything floofier than the winter coat of a domestic longhair, I don't want to know about it. Behold the floof. #Caturday #wintercoats
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Maggie McAlinden @maggiemcalinden.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
No more capital gains tax benefits for greedy cat landlord in the dog's house. #Auspol #inthedoghouse
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Jams ODonnell trying to hide behind a potato so he can steal his brothers dinner. #Caturday #Potatoes4all #winterfloof
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mean things I say to myself @meantomyself.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Old enough to recognize this as a data center
Lockable floppy disk holder from the late 20th century
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Bob Geiger @bobgeiger.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I can't believe President Fucknugget still even invites this comparison.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And yes, Italy's doing just fine, despite nature's comeback. share.google/a9A0ShIc1vku...
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Italy's Forest Cover is Larger Than Agriculture Land for the First Time Since the Middle Ages
For locally endangered species like bears and wolves, more woods in mountain areas will go a long way toward supporting their populations.
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Hazel E. Baumgartner - HELIRUNA OUT NOW! @hazelebaumgartner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Dear Santa, This year for Prime Day I want the breakup of Amazon as a corporate conglomerate monopoly, with Kindle and Audible being nationalized into a sort of publicly owned internet library funded by a progressive tax on the hyper-rich and an annual stipend for authors.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
As temperatures in London soar we'd like to invite you all to the visit the library which is lovely and air conditioned. Feel free to drop in to use our computers, have a quiet sit down, study or even look at some of the wonderful items in our collections. Free and open to all!
Image of three suns setting fire to books from the German edition of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Representing what would happen today if we didn't keep our books in the temperature controlled stores.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I thought this was on Point….
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Bertha Chin (she/her) @berthac.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
If you’re shopping around for a PhD studentship and approaching potential supervisors, DO NOT, I repeat, for the love of God, DO NOT write that email using AI. We can tell!
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Byron @johnnyboyapril.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I think we would be better off with clean water and affordable electricity than a Google that scans information and summarizes for us.
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 19/06/2026
In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.
A victorious Andy Burnham MP (24,937 votes), as the result of the Makerfield by-election is announced, flanked by defeated candidates Count Binface (a bloke in a vaguely sci-fi costume with a large bin for a helmet; 95 votes) and Robert Pownall (who is in a full body fox costume, holding a sign reading "Protect British Wildlife"; 18 votes). There are some other candidates there just out of shot but that's not important right now.

Photo: Jon Super/AP
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