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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Oral history friends/anyone using AI-assisted transcription: has anyone ever had a repeated error of a model transcribing into the wrong language? Is this just a byproduct of AI shitting the bed at the moment? After years of working beautifully, MacWhisper has apparently decided that I am...Welsh?

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Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

the only people in the world more obsessed with shiny tokens of achievement than the people turning this into a moral panic *are my students*, and to teach them *any of the stuff I want them to learn or you want them to learn*, I have to get them to *stop thinking about fucking GPA for two seconds*

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Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

early Nick Cave song: ah took a SPIKE aht a muh VEIN en stabbed the RACIAL SLUR raht in his BRANE late Nick Cave song: ohhhhh oh ohh ohhh mah lord on high horses are so beautiful and nobody will tell me why oh why

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21/07/2026

13. Hence our dismal conclusion: rather than finding that LLMs free us to do a better job of what we were doing before they came along, they shift scientific incentives (and the playing field of academic competition) in ways that compel us to do more and more, faster and faster, less and less well.

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pistachiOoOoOo 👻👻👻 @streetlightlily.horntforgood.com · 31/01/2026

You don’t want hands free driving, you want trains. You want trains you want trains you want TRAINS

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

there is literally no amount of caveats or careful wording that will protect you from stupidity or bad faith, so you might as well say things straightforwardly and strongly to begin with.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Calling Aus historians - has anyone encountered death threats toward politicians in the archive? If so, how were they catalogued? Stumbled across something recently and it keeps niggling at me #natsec #aus

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Gingerspiced @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Lying to your editor

Sign over a box of avocados that reads "Nearly Ripe Please Don't Squeeze"

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I use ‘crux of the biscuit’ so frequently I think I’ve confused at least one student into thinking it’s a common idiom and not one half of a Zappa lyric

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

He talks big but noting in today's announcement actually builds sovereign capability AND the PM is leaving Palantir embedded in the agencies holding Australians' most sensitive information, including Defence.

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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Believe Women is an epistemological stance. It doesn't mean you assume that every single woman is telling the truth and women never lie. It means you understand that in the system that we exist in, there's much more risk and pain for women coming forward about abuse than there is anything to gain.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sydney friends, on Sat 27th I’ll be speaking about ‘Challenging Anzac: Stories that don’t fit the legend’ at the Maritime Museum, along with one of our authors @atomicmax.bsky.social! All are welcome, and it’s free! Info below Author Talk: Challenging ANZAC www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-tal...

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Author Talk: Challenging ANZAC

The ANZAC legend has shaped Australia’s national identity for more than a century. Yet many experiences of war do not fit within it.

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Curtis @soccurt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Gladwell wanted to become a historian but he couldn't spare 10,000 hours.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

After NINE MONTHS finally secured ethics approval for a new digital tool that will enable some incredible #digitalhumanities research on security! 🥳🥳🥳 Ethics app was so long and onerous that the digital tool no longer requires ethics approval for use 😒😒😒

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Screaming Marmot - Angry Reaction

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Stephanie Kollmann @slkollmann.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Yes. Using a computer now feels like this at all times.

Man yelling into bored woman's ear in nightclub meme captioned

I can summarize that for you

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Australian Policy and History @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Australian Policy and History has new leadership! Dr @miamh.bsky.social is now our Director, and we welcome Dr Geraldine Fela as our new Deputy Director! We are excited for this new chapter, including new initiatives connecting past and present in #auspol coming soon! aph.org.au/2026/05/new-...

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

🙋‍♀️ with Carolyn Holbrook on ABC Nightlife last night discussing our new edited collection “Challenging Anzac: Stories that don’t fit the legend”, which is published today! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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Nightlife History - Challenging Anzac - ABC listen

In their book, Challenging Anzac, leading historians explore real-life stories: Aboriginal activists, deserters on the Western Front, soldiers who became radicalised by service.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

It's beginning to sink in! Yesterday I was awarded a #DECRA for my research on race, gender, and violence in the War on Terror at Deakin University. This has been years in the making and I am so grateful that I can pursue my dream project! #oralhistory #security #waronterror

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Effie Karageorgos @eleaud.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Happy to share my new book 'Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War', which will be published by UNSW Press on 1 April 2026.

This text is taken from the Jan-June 2026 UNSW Press catalogue (too much to fit in this box) - https://unsw.press/catalogues/

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I know this is the least of problems with this, but it REALLY bothers me that AI trump isn’t hitting the cowbell in time

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Kristen Alexander @kristenauthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Latest issue of AJPH is online: special issue Australia & Vietnam: 50-Year Legacy @miamh.bsky.social & Tom Richardson eds). Includes Alexander & Ariotti “Laid to Rest in Australian Soil”: Legacies of Repatriation Policy Change during Vietnam War. Check it out. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14678497...

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

i am going to say something very mean if you cannot handle footnotes, it is not that there are too many footnotes, it is actually a you problem

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Good!!! A farm is NOT MEANT TO BE IN YOUR SUPER!!! The ONLY reason anyone would put a farm in their super IS TO AVOID PAYING TAX!!

Story in The Australian

Super tax ‘the last straw’ for this cattle farmer
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Craig Huf, a farmer from Burringbar in far north NSW, will pull one of his farms out of super because of the tax on unrealised capital gains

Cattle farmer Craig Huf says the federal government’s proposed superannuation tax will likely be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” forcing him to pull his $3m farm out of his self-managed super fund.

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

"I asked ChatGPT” “I asked grok” ok well I consulted the archive

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Max Billington @atomicmax.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

41 years later... Huge thanks to APH and @miamh.bsky.social for letting me share some thoughts on the state of nuclear records in Aus and the UK💥

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Australian Policy and History @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This week marks 41 years since the Royal Commission into British Nuclear Tests began; a process that was marred by govt obstruction. Four decades on, Max Billington reveals the ongoing difficulties that researchers face when trying to uncover this history in the archives aph.org.au/2025/07/ghos...

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

🙋‍♀️ in @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social - this is a comprehensive new proposal for reworking the ADF to forge an independent defence strategy and tackle the climate threat, from one of Australia’s leading military historians

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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–1971. New from our DP about US troops on R&R during the Vietnam War (and acronyms), part of a special issue on neglected legacies of the war edited by @miamh.bsky.social

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“The Pause That Refreshes”: American Servicemen on R&R in Australia, 1967–1971

Nearly 10% of the 3 million Americans who served in Vietnam spent one week of “R&R” leave in Australia—principally in Sydney. This “friendly invasion” constitutes a substantial neglected legacy of th...

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

#CFP Inaugural SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop, to be held 3-4 March 2026 on the campus of the Singapore Management University. Participants will present and workshop dissertation/book chapters or article drafts—apply by October 1! cis.smu.edu.sg/events/call-...

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Call for Applications: SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop 2026 | College of Integrative Studies

Call for Applications SHAFR-in-Asia Pacific Workshop March 3-4, 2026, Singapore Management University.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Back to WFH in Melbourne winter = neighbours at the bus stop directly in front of my window staring at me wiggling to the Gap Band at my standing desk in my hot pink sleeping bag onesie

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a cartoon of maggie simpson standing next to a green machine

ALT: a cartoon of maggie simpson standing next to a green machine

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

ABC’s new political editor really hitting with the ahistorical headlines here 🤨

Headline of ABC article ‘Australia’s status as an aloof observer of faraway events could soon be tested’

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Only in the Middle East are relatively comprehensible modern conflicts rooted in the balance of power of nation-states reduced to quasi-mystical "ancient hatreds."

"The endgame of a 2,611-year-old Jewish-Persian enmity
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Israel’s operations against Iran were limited to eliminating Tehran’s strategic capabilities, but may have unforeseen consequences in the region and beyond"

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Moderately threatening, IWM, but ok

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Not a bad spot to begin a book review! Taking in Albert Palazzo’s proposal for a new national security outlook with a dram on the River Clyde #natsec #glasgow

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jesse jarnow @bourgwick.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

best reaction i've yet seen to someone blasting unwanted music from their phone on the subway: a bunch of teens shouting endless requests.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My latest in Australian Outlook for the @aiianational.bsky.social, on the role of imperial nostalgia in the #AUKUS pact and the dangers it poses to Australian #security www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

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Imperial Nostalgia is Blinding Australia to the Realities of a Sinking AUKUS - Australian Institute of International Affairs

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Geared up for an endless battle against the yucca tree from the one patch of soil in my garden. Ready with axe and spade to destroy the spiky bastard over many lunch breaks. I ripped it out in ten minutes with my BARE HANDS. Evidently it was already dead but still WITH MY BARE HANDS 💪💪💪

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"But let’s be clear: this 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be . . . You are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

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A Profession, If You Can Keep It

Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A talk I gave at an ACU seminar on PTSD and legacies of Vietnam is featured in tonight’s ABC Big Ideas ep, ‘The Spectre of War’ I am very disappointed that Big Ideas did not feature my co-presenters, Dr Anh Nguyen and Dr Indigo Willing, who expertly weaved personal stories with scholarly insights.

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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

I literally gave a lecture about this in 2018. It's so weird watching "experts" and boosters drag their feet to this entirely predictable conclusion. It's almost like the history of automation can, like, tell us stuff.

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pig-endian @porkkalo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

I don't think Chain Gang All-Stars was supposed to be something to aspire to

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Mia Martin Hobbs @miamh.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

At this point we maybe need to rename the Streisand effect. Ben Roberts-Smith did a Ben Roberts-Smith and now he’s gone and Ben Roberts-Smith’d himself AGAIN

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

To do that you need to implement big policies and plant the roots fucking deep. Instead these fools want to keep fighting over who will deliver the smallest budget deficits. Stop fighting on Howard’s and news.corps terms. Seize the moment (or at least first recognise this is a moment!)

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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Easy to miss amidst the avalanche of bullshit, but scientists have shown conclusively that a handful of fossil fuel companies are responsible for trillions in damages for their contribution to heat waves alone. The great @roycerk2.bsky.social explains: drilled.media/news/heat-at...

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“Numbers in the Trillions”: Fossil Fuel Producers on Hook for Climate Harms

New research suggests a way to link oil, gas and coal companies to specific climate harms.

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