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The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.

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Falling international student numbers create ‘massive problems’ for Australian universities, expert warns

Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Updating a course reading list for an archives and information management subject. The week with the most broken links so far? Digital preservation 🙃

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Legalising the use of pepper spray at the One Nation launch sounds good to me.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

As someone who (vaguely) remembers when Malcolm Fraser was PM, the fact it is nearly twenty years since Kevin '07 is all a bit much. I remember exactly where I was when someone told me Howard had lost his seat.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I feel like the transition from Don’t be Evil to ‘do whatever it takes’ is getting shorter all the time.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

That feeling when you’re trying to get kids ready for school and childcare and your six year old decides it’s a good time to run a hot chestnut stand out of the door of their bedroom.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What GIF pops up when you type in your name? [I haven’t typed it yet but I’m going to guess rapper.]

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Mike Jones: Who Is Mike Jones?

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Guardian gave Armie Hammer's new film Citizen Vigilante 1* due to deeply problematic depictions of migrants, immigration and European politics; then Variety says it "found an unlikely high-profile supporter in Elon Musk." Unlikely? Have you been paying attention? Musk would be my first guess.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm reading early steampunk novel The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson #AmReading #MondayReads

Cover of the SF Masterworks version of The Difference Engine by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson. The cover features a green tinted illustration of a clockwork machine with a human eye peering through the middle.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Reading about early 20thC film star George Arliss who played historical figures incl. Voltaire, Disraeli, and the Duke of Wellington. His contract with Gaumont-British gave him "story approval, cast approval, director approval, [and] a limited working day with an inflexible 3.45pm interval for tea."

Black and white portrait photograph of a thin man with a serious expression, wearing a monocle in his right eye. The photograph is signed and dated (1919) in the top right corner.

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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm finishing up in my current role and freelancing once again. Please get in touch if you need: *submission and grant writing (inc. disability, social policy) *academic editing and fact-checking *qualitative research and literature reviews No job too small or too left field!

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Love results like this. So great to see!

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I'm ignoring that and still using em-dashes! If people want proof I write my own stuff I'm happy to provide it to them.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Students, I like semi-colons. I like em-dashes. I like all sorts of punctuation. But if you're going to use 'fancy' punctuation in assignments, learn how to use it properly. Otherwise, just stick to commas* and full-stops. *Make sure you learn a few things about using commas too.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Hi Sarah, happy to send you a copy! I've just sent you a DM

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...

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Trump and Musk both want to control America's history

The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

One of the things I research is the cooperation of cultural institutions like museums in pitching tech products--specifically AI--to the public. This is advertising for the capacity of AI to educate and thus to reshape education itself as a project better left to private tech companies. 1/n

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I think mine is The Temple of History, about the sometimes problematic ways in which historians talk about archives. It prompts discussion about methods and how we write (and think) about what we do doi.org/10.1080/1449...

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The temple of history: historians and the sacralisation of archival work

Archives have long been considered central to the work of historians, from nineteenth-century Europe to contemporary Australian practice. Rarely remarked upon is the recurring tendency for some his...

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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1996: can't use the internet without your phone 2010: the internet stretches before you like the vast expanse of a new frontier. You dance through it, unhindered. Unburdened. You have never heard of 2-factor authentication. 2026: can't use the internet without your phone

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Historians of borders and migration - looking for work that discusses border externalisation in historical perspective, such as case studies from pre-1990s

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Simon Farley @sighmonger.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Frankly, I'm gutted by this announcement. This is laying down a red carpet for Western chauvinists and white supremacists. I will be desperately searching for a new academic job next year, but I would never be able to bring myself to apply for one of these. www.unimelb.edu.au/newsroom/new...

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University of Melbourne launches transformative Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation Scholarship in the Humanities

Faculty of Arts students at the University of Melbourne will benefit from one of the most generous undergraduate scholarships in Australia through the establishment of the Ramsay Centre for Western Ci...

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Robin Ryder @robinryder.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I have just resigned from the board of "Statistics and Computing", along with 17 other Associate Editors. This was a difficult decision: this great journal has published many tremendous articles under the leadership of EiC Ajay Jasra, and before him David Hand, Gilles Celeux, and Mark Girolami.

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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 04/07/2026

new metaphor just dropped

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

As long as I can get 12 hours of work done between now and the end of the day I should be able to get close to achieving everything I wanted to do this week.

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Frantic Multitasking Workaholic - THIS ME

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

a chart showing google's rising energy consumption - huge, and rising faster than ever before

Google's total energy consumption more than new zealand

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Processing an archival collection in a storage facility while listening to The Orbweavers. Hope everyone else's week is off to a good start.

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Excerpts from Verhoeven et al., Ch 12 (“Reproducibility & Contestation in Humanities Digital Infrastructure”) in _Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities_ dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/read/critica... @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social @mikejonesphd.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social

Three excerpts from Deb Verhoeven, Mike Jones, Toby Burrows, and Ann Borda’s Chap. 12 (“Reproducibility and Contestation in Humanities Digital Infrastructure”) in _Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities_ (pp. 243, 244-45, 245 in print ed.):

Contestability and contestation are among the underlying precepts of humanities research that help distinguish it from other disciplines that find evidence in processes of consensus….

In the first part of this chapter, we address the way in which contestability has been minimized in favor of infrastructure focused on reproducibility and consensus…. We argue that rather than focusing on efficiency and replication, humanities digital infrastructure should include support for additive and annotative contestation as a foundational concept….

The remainder of this chapter looks at two examples of humanities driven digital infrastructure that foster this approach to contestation in different ways. The Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) platform emphasizes the potential of digital infrastructure to encapsulate collaborative, relational meaning-making; and the digital heritage access platform Mukurtu provides a framework supporting different, sometimes contradictory knowledge systems (especially Indigenous community knowledge).

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Alan Liu @alanyliu.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

@bestqualitycrab.bsky.social @mikejonesphd.bsky.social Toby Burrows & Ann Borda: see this article cited in ‪@timelfen.bsky.social's reply, whose argument of "generativity" vs "reliability or reproducibility" is tangent to yours in "Reproducibility &Contestation in Humanities Digital Infrastructure"

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Just saw someone use the term 'screenshotted.' Surely that should be 'screenshat.'

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Breaking in a new pair of Docs. Thankfully the parts of my feet that are in pain are nicely balanced by the parts that have gone slightly numb.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

I know online security is important, but some days the amount of time I spend wrangling with various multi-factor authentication system makes me wish for a return to simpler times.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I’ve read about a third of these and some would be in my top 100 too.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Finally made it to the National Communications Museum this afternoon. One of the displays challenges you to pick AI generated news stories from human. I got 4/4 but would struggle to tell you why other than ‘vibes’.

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Peter Vamplew @amp1874.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

The Guardian's tool for searching the budget doesn't even list Education (or Science or Research) as an option.

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Elly @ellybaxter.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

For context, $4 billion cut from climate and energy, $46 billion on fossil fuel subsidies and $36 billion cut from the NDIS.

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Cool, Cool, Cool - Detective Jake Peralta (B99)

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Friday and I have an evening out of the house. Currently enjoying a pint of hand pumped brown ale at the Charles Dickens and reading about natural history heists. Later I’m off to see the new Iron Maiden doco in the cinema. #Friday

A pint of beer on a wooden table, with a copy of a book titled The Feather Thief.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 08/05/2026

They may take Julie Bishop's job, but they'll never take her $800,000 office located 3,092km from where her job was. We'll never see her like again.

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Mike Jones @mikejonesphd.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

“In 1813 John James Audubon once travelled for three straight days under a single eclipsing horde of Passenger Pigeons .. In 1914, Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon on earth, died in the Cincinnati Zoo” (Johnson, The Feather Thief, 2018). Oof.

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