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Mark Smithers

@marksmithers.bsky.social
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Trying hard to improve the experience of learners and teachers in higher education for quite a while now. Currently Director of Digital Learning at Victoria University.

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Listen, cretin. 40,000 soldiers from my country of Australia were deployed in Afghanistan. 47 died and 263 were wounded. This racist dungbeetle probably wants a bravery medal every time he stays awake while his makeup gets applied
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Henrik Singmann @singmann.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Insightful piece that resonates well with my experience of university governance in the UK. Paywall free link: archive.is/1yFiq
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
I’m worried about how the penguins are going to read their tariff letter.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
America is… cooked.
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Aaron Dodd @aarondodd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Bloke Who Got Free Uni and Paid $75,000 for $4M House Wonders What’s in Budget for Him #auspol theshovel.com.au/2024/05/14/b...
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Bloke Who Got Free Uni and Paid $75,000 for $4M House Wonders What’s in Budget for Him — The Shovel
"Try getting a builder to renovate a holiday house in Portsea – they’re booked up until 2026! That’s two years minimum without a second entertaining area over the summer months'
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I don't know who made this but it made me laugh.
Data governance, the business and AI
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Always a delight to listen to Dr. Lisa Marie Blaschke. Here she is keynoting at #ascilite2024 Looking forward to catching up in person.
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/education/20... So has Oxford University just caught up with how academia works or is it The Observer?
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Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Lovely to see this place thriving. If you follow me and I haven't followed you back yet it may be because you don't have a bio or a picture (it doesn't have to be a photo of you). Have a lovely day.
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,002,962!
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,002,962, Mark Smithers ‪@marksmithers.bsky.social‬, joined on Sep 14, 2023"
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Playing with ChatGPT vision. Princess Buttercup approves of this use case.
Bouquet of flowersResponse from Chat GPT telling me which flowers are dangerous for cats
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Putting Blue Sky down for a little bit as I head to dentist for some lovely root canal work. Looking forward to playing more later.
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Hello Blue Sky! It feels like spring is in the air.
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