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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

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Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia @acadsocsci.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

⭐️ FEATURED FELLOW ⭐️ Professor Michelle Arrow Affiliation: Macquarie University Discipline: History Read the article: socialsciences.org.au/news/feature... #populistmovements #australianhistory #socialscience @michellearrow.bsky.social

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

The one-off cut to student debt before last election cost $16b. Repealing JRG would cost around $1b annually. So the unconscionable delay on reform is a Labor choice.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

You can fix this, today, @albomp.bsky.social @jimchalmers.bsky.social & @jasonclaremp.bsky.social The fact that you haven't speaks volumes! "Education Minister Jason Clare has agreed it "failed" and is "unfinished business", but it is not clear when he plans to act." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

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'Failed' university scheme hurting home ownership prospects

There are calls for the government to dump a scheme that has more than doubled the cost of some degrees.

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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Instead of waiting until 2027 for "advice", maybe Labor could follow advice from its own 2020 Senate report that rejected the anti-intellectual & inequitable scheme as creating an "Americanised education system characterised by high levels of private debt". And get rid of it. As promised. In 2022.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Of interest to UK university #Skystorians: Royal Historical Society open online meeting on 'The crisis in UK higher education: The future for History'. 4 August 2-4 pm.

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The Crisis in UK HE: the Future for History

An open meeting for historians in UK higher education on what is needed to best support and protect the profession and discipline.

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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

It's not that a Humanities education turns all its graduates into good people, it's that it arms good people with the skills and knowledge they need to understand and advocate for themselves, others, and society.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

I’m actually at Macquarie University!

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Yes, my partner told me the same thing. At uni I don’t think anyone is using AI for marking - yet.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I know teachers are under intense workload pressure and in NSW the dept encourages them to use AI. But workloads will keep ratcheting up regardless - and you lose the human connection that’s core to assessment and feedback.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Teachers are using AI to write feedback?! Do they still want to have jobs in 5 years? Apart from all the ethical issues, do they not think about the consequences of showing they can be ‘replaced’ by AI?

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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Working in religious history and want to present at a conference? The Religious History Association wants to support you! therha.com.au/bursary-sche...

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Bursary Scheme – Religious History Association

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

There are plenty of ways to express anger at a failing political system without scapegoating particular communities, says Sisonke Msimang. But our very white mainstream media is treating racism as a reasonable response.

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Zora Simic @zorasimic.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Check it out! Wonderful special issue on Legacies of IWY, ed by @michellearrow.bsky.social @scrozierderosa.bsky.social - v. honoured to be a part of this fab line up. Congrats eds 👏👏 Australian Historical Studies: Vol 57, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/toc/rahs20/5...

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Australian Historical Studies

Special issue: Fifty Years On: Rethinking the Legacies of Australia’s International Women’s Year 1975. Guest Editors: Michelle Arrow and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa. Volume 57, Issue 2 of Australian Histor...

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

The government says it has ambitions to expand access to higher education. But by keeping job-ready graduates in place, they have demonstrated they don’t really mean it:

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 21/03/2026

One Nation is a scourge on our country, we can all agree. But this is not a problem for Labor to solve, or the Greens, far less the poor teals. This is the political Right’s house to clear.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Thriller movie about a guy who builds a time machine and then all he does is go back 30 years to buy a house

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

how's this for an unintended consequence: some research suggests that teens perceive peers who comply with Australia's teen social media ban as less popular. i.e. banning social media for teens made it cool again

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The skills the market had dismissed turned out to be the ones the machines could not do. Judgement. Interpretation. The ability to read between the lines of something that presents itself as neutral. The capacity to hold two contradictory ideas[.] theslowai.substack.com/p/why-humani...

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The Humanities Are the Moat

Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"A robot can answer every question. It cannot notice the student who has stopped asking them." theslowai.substack.com/p/why-humani...

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The Humanities Are the Moat

Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today at 2:30, @kfullagar.bsky.social and I will be giving evidence in the Senate inquiry into Job-Ready Graduates on behalf of the AHA. This failed policy is bad for history and history students and it must go. The hearings are live-streamed if you’d like to watch: www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Eve...

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Watch, Read, Listen

Subscribe to our channel at @AUSParliamentLive to view the streams or listen to our podcast summaries of Question Time! LIVE STREAMING PARLVIEW VOD PODCASTING

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Thanks so much for your excellent research assistance, Isabel!

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 24/04/2026

Second year in a row Aboriginal elders have been booed and abused while giving the Welcome to Country at the Dawn Service. Organisers should make it clear they will abandon the service if that happens. They won’t, but they should.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is an incredibly alarming investigation of the leadership of the NAAC.

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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It breaks my heart that in 2026 a Welcome To Country elicits such disrespect. Three generations of my family served this country and the haters can't spare them a minute of respect. 😢💔

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Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Unis: we’ll keep you in poverty and debt til you get your first job in your mid 30s. Uni colleagues: but also retire by 60 or we’ll think you’re hoarding resources. Oh you want to pay a mortgage down and save for retirement?? lol.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I think it’s a concept of a plan

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Or as I’ve seen it presented by executive members, ‘our biggest expense’

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

This is outstanding, Hannah - thank you.

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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

The AI rollout is an incredible test case for the power of capital to overrule everything in its way. An overwhelmingly stupid, obscenely polluting, and wildly dangerous set of technologies are being brute-forced into every part of our lives because money says so.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 16/04/2026

We're in Sheffield today to co-host our annual day conference, 'History and Archives in Practice', with @ihr.bsky.social, The National Archives, and University of Sheffield Library #HAP26 40+ speakers explore the contributions of history to social and civic identity: bit.ly/4tj8DqW #Skystorians

Images of the University of Sheffield and 'History and Archives in Practice' conference, 16 April 2026

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

"Some people say, “I just use it to brainstorm ideas.” If you don’t know what to paint, or compose, or write, you’re in the wrong job. Art is the business of making up stuff — go make up some stuff."

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Thank you, Libby - they are indeed busy times!

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

I’ll bet they never underpay the consultants either

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Andre! You gave me a small heart attack!

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ANU Press @anupress.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This issue of ‘Lilith' explores gender in 20th-century Australia and Britain, from maternal feminism and 'Citrus Queen' pageants to motherhood and mental health, and the arguments that won abortion law reform in 1960s Britain. Get your copy today: doi.org/10.22459/LFH... #feminist #feminism #gender

ANU Press New Release. Cover image of 'Lilith: A Feminist History Journal'.

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mariecolemanao.bsky.social @mariecolemanao.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Vale. A most remarkable woman.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I don’t remember the hecklers who booed Albanese at the memorial service after the Bondi massacre (or who booed him at Bondi) being ejected or removed

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Writing tip #7: When, during the course of research, you come across a story that is central to the theme of your book, go ahead and write 2-3 pages about it. If you do this consistently, you’ll accumulate building blocks for the book. You’ll eventually find a place for each one.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

So far he’s continued to kick reform of JRG into the long grass. First his response to the universities accord promised ATEC would consider it. Now it looks like ATEC won’t examine it. Endless excuses and no action.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Because he doesn’t seem to care much about universities?

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