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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
archive.is
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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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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
media.tenor.com
a man is riding a horse in a field with mountains in the background
ALT: a man is riding a horse in a field with mountains in the background
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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...
theshovel.com.au
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 Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The morons have taken over
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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
I hear you.
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Really?! Seems a bit of a cheap shot to me
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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 · 21/11/2024
It took me a while 😀
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Settings > Account > Handle You obviously need your own domain to verify.
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I just renewed by UK passport and my Australian passport. My UK passport came back in no time at all. The online system was very good. My Australian experience was quite good but I still needed to go to the post office and use snail mail for parts. Oh and it was a lot more expensive.
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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?
theguardian.com
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 · 12/11/2024
Yep. Certainly life changing 😂
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
who could forget Edutech in Perth in 2009? I have a vague feeling I met some people there.
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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
I had to have my root cannalled or was it my canal rooted?
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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
Oh cool. Tx
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Mark Smithers @marksmithers.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
Thank you!
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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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