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Matthew R. Keynes

@mkeynes.bsky.social
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History, justice, education | postdoc UniMelb | queer sports fan | he/they 🏳️‍⚧️ findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile…

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Nicholas Ng-A-Fook @fooknconversation.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
#FooknConversationEP72 with @jmiles.bsky.social & @mkeynes.bsky.social. Addressing settler colonial harms, collective responsibilities, & tensions enacting transitional justice education in liberal democratic nation-states. @uottawaedu.bsky.social @ualbertaed.bsky.social 🤜 www.fooknconversation.com
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
How can #education reckon with and work to repair historical injustices and imagine reparative futures? Join @jmiles.bsky.social and me online, in convo about our new book w/ experts in #historyeducation June 26! aare.eventsair.com/panel-discus... #edusky #academicsky #histed #skyhistorians
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Here’s a report by John Ross in @timeshighered.bsky.social on ARC Board’s proposal to change grant schemes ▶️ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arc-gra... [Free login required] Both @scienceau.bsky.social's & I am worried about opportunities & unintended consequences for early-career researchers👇
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“Under the ARC board’s proposals, most stand-alone fellowships would be replaced by “embedded fellowships” funded through other grant schemes and capped at two years. “Traditional four-year fellowships concentrate a significant amount of funds on a small number of individual researchers,” a discussion paper explains.
Observers fear this could inadvertently deny many ECRs a toehold in academia because current fellowship schemes such as the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (Decra) and the mid-career Future Fellowships are available to researchers without positions at universities.
This could change under the proposals. The discussion paper implies that recipients of embedded fellowships must already be in “the university workforce” – suggesting that ECRs must obtain employment in the sector before gaining eligibility for ARC grants.
That is an “unrealistic” expectation, according to Sharath Sriram, president of Science and Technology Australia. “The assumption is all those who apply are already…in academic roles. That might have been true in the 1990s. It’s not the case anymore.
“There’s no stability of employment for people until they are six, seven years out of their PhDs. Universities often use success in grants and fellowships to determine who to employ.”
A researcher who monitors grant schemes, using the social media handle “ARC Tracker”, was unconvinced that the proposals would improve opportunities for ECRs.
They said changes to fellowship schemes needed to avoid closing “pathways” for young researchers and leaving them “overshadowed by the established group leaders”.
ARC Board chair Peter Shergold acknowledged the fellowship changes as one of the “stings in the tail” of his proposals, but said a primary goal of his reforms was “contributing to the development of the next generation of researchers”.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/03/2025
In Sydney, the past 10 years of saving for a deposit would have got you 3.7yrs closer. In Brisbane 10yrs ago you thought you'd be done by now, instead have another 4 1/2 yrs to go. @grogsgamut.bsky.social with the housing affordability numbers #OffTheCharts australiainstitute.org.au/post/housing...
ty	Years worth of savings required in Dec 2014	Years worth of savings still required in Dec 2024
Sydney	15.4yrs	11.7yrs
Perth	9.2yrs	1.4yrs
Melbourne	11.2yrs	3.3yrs
Hobart	8.2yrs	2.4yrs
Darwin	11.1yrs	Deposit saved
Canberra	10.4yrs	4.5yrs
Brisbane	9.1yrs	4.5yrs
Adelaide	9.2yrs	4.2yrs
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Are you liking Bluesky, but thinking “gee, I wish there was more shark science and conservation on my feed?” I have the solution to your problem right here! 🌎🧪🦑🐠🦈 go.bsky.app/Q1x1gJB
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Delighted to be hosting workshop series with leading experts on 'Truth Commissions and #Education in Global Perspective' this month. The workshops aims to bring specific challenges into sharper focus, identify shared experiences, and exchange latest knowledge. matthewrkeynes.com/2025/03/12/t...
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Truth Commissions and Education in Global Perspective
This month, I’m delighted to be hosting a series of workshops with leading experts on Truth Commissions and Education in Global Perspective. Comparative research is vital to bring specific ch…
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Will Morrison @wamorrison95.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other
The Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

SIGBI followed by a next arrowThe Stonewall Inn and The Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative are outraged and appalled by the recent removal of the word 'transgender' from the Stonewall National Monument page on the National Park Service website. This blatant act of erasure not only distorts the truth of our history, but it also dishonors the immense contributions of transgender individuals - especially transgender women of color - who were at the forefront of the Stonewall Riots and the broader fight for LGBTQ+ rights.

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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Today is Sámi National Day throughout Sápmi – the Sámi homelands. ⬇️ I discuss Sámi struggles for rights in the Nordic states, ongoing truth-telling, backlash and 'history wars', how the education sector can play a key role. pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/we-...
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‘We have always been here’
Truth commissions have been set up in many Nordic nations to address systemic racism and the historical mistreatment of Indigenous peoples. Like in Australia, the education sector must play an active ...
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Karin Priem @kpriem.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Special issue of Encounters in Theory and History of Education vol. 25, no. 1 (2024): Consequences of the Past and Responsible Histories of Education for the Future. Guest editors @kpriem.bsky.social and @mkeynes.bsky.social. Please go to ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/en... and find out more.
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@leorh.bsky.social fascinating work on higher education and national priorities in Taiwan #ANZHES24 #edusky #historysky #academicsky
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#ANZHES24 Roundtable on ‘Writing University histories in a time of truth-telling’ with Prof Marcia Langton AM @capandgown.bsky.social Zoë Laidlaw Warwick Anderson Ross Jones James Waghorne
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Packed house for Prof Warwick Anderson’s keynote at #ANZHES24 on #truthtelling and institutional histories since the 1990s #academicsky #historysky
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Interesting workshop today at the Koorie Heritage Trust on ‘Barriers to truth-telling and justice in settler-colonial Australia’ organised by @dantout.bsky.social Emma-Jaye Gavin & Julia Hurst. Here Commissioner Hunter from Yoorrook speaking about the Commission’s truth-telling work in Victoria.
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
#edhist #edusky #history #academicsky
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Next Wed morning AEDT (12 Dec), I'll be giving a plenary session on 'Education in Cultures of Redress’ exploring how education as a key mechanism to redress historical wrongs, shape citizens, and reconcile the nation. Link below or DM me for Zoom ✨ melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/events/2024-...
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2024 ANZHES Conference
2024 ANZHES Conference
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social · 07/12/2023
Forms must be stopped. hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/fcking-forms
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F*cking Forms
How I (sort-of) ended my career over a form, and why professional work has accumulated so f*cking many of them. You know who doesn't require forms though? Chickens! I have new chickens and am in love.
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
📢 So, some news that I can now share... @jmiles.bsky.social & I are writing a book on #historicaljustice #education! 📚 This is the only pic I have w James & fittingly we are drinking a beer! 🍻 5 years ago we met in Toronto & today we signed our 1st contract w Bloomsbury 🎉 stay tuned 4 updates
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 03/12/2023
Want to join History Education or Teacher Education list? Or encourage a colleague to join BlueSky? docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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BlueSky and History teacher education
A new social media app called BlueSky has already attracted many historians. Dan Lyndon-Cohen as Director of SHP, and Alex Ford leading on the PATHS project, are keen to find a better place for discus...
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
A bunch of us have been suggesting that a useful new feature of academic conferences would be "continuing ed" roundtables that were basically "here's the major new scholarship in this subfield in the last 20 years," b/c it's so easy to have one's non-expert state of knowledge stuck in grad school.
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Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
I'm delighted to see that my book 'Anarchy or Chaos: M. P. T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom' has made the Contingent Magazine 2023 book list. contingentmagazine.org/2023/11/27/2...
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2023 Contingent Book List
When you’re shopping for books this season, consider a contingent scholar.
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Annika Bärwald @annikabaerwald.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
10 postdoctoral fellowships at the Aarhus Institute of Adanced Studies (AIAS): 23 months, open to researchers of all disciplines. Deadline: 1 February 2024 @aiasdk.bsky.social
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10 individual fellowships open for application at AIAS
AIAS-AUFF Fellowships
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 24/11/2023
Hey #academicsky any #advice on whether or not to negotiate book royalty % with publishers? Do you bother? Or is it all so negligible anyway as to be not worth the hassle? Advice appreciated! #academia #publishing
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 22/11/2023
Super helpful thank you Michael! #histed
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 16/11/2023
My entry in the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality education has been published - in it I briefly discuss social media as a site of informal sexuality education for trans and nonbinary youth, and how we might understand it as legitimate pedagogy 🌈🎓
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Social Media, Trans and Nonbinary Youth
'Social Media, Trans and Nonbinary Youth' published in 'The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Sexuality Education'
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
Has #curriculum failed Indigenous political aspirations? Our analysis of 120 years of curriculum suggests Indigenous political movements were excluded or included in highly limited ways. New piece in The Conversation ⬇️ #histed #EduSky #AcademicSky
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3 key moments in Indigenous political history Victorian school students didn't learn about
For over 100 years, the Victorian school curriculum has failed to give generations of students the chance to learn about Indigenous political movements.
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Chelsea A. Rodriguez (she/her) @thisischelsea27.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Looking forward to exchanging and connecting with more HistEd researchers here! Hope to have quite a few exciting things to share with you in the coming weeks too 🤓✍️👩‍💻 #histed #phd
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
1. What historical justice education in Western settler states (Aus, US, Can, Swe) could entail & 2. Been thinking a lot about masculinities and generations 🌈🎓
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 08/10/2023
Flying visit to Gadigal land with my best pal ♥️🐾
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
What do folks do for neck and back pain other than yoga/pilates? I find the boredom of both a major barrier! 🙏
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Are you a Years 7-12 teacher of #history / #humanities? We want to know what you think about #truthtelling! Our @EduMelb research is asking how #teachers understand/practice truth-telling. Wr’d be so grateful if you could complete the survey & share in your networks! #histed tinyurl.com/ttresearch
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Incredible perseverance & strength from Kath to hold those responsible for withholding & destroying records to account. Are #truthtelling processes in Aus prioritising recovery & return of these records? The Can TRC created one of the largest digital archives in history! #truth
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A Melbourne office held vital records of Aboriginal children’s homes. How did they go missing?
When the United Aborigines Mission wound up in 2020, boxes of records disappeared – leaving stolen generations survivors with agonising questions
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 24/09/2023
Sunny Sunday with Scout in the garden 🌿☀️🐾
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 04/09/2023
Top-notch scones baked this morning by member of our inaugural i#postdoc writing group in #Naarm ✍️😋
Scone with jam and cream. There is a large bite taken out.
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Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
#academicsky who is going to #history at the pub this Friday in #Naarm? 🤓🍻
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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 29/08/2023
#PhDSky #sociology #socialpsych #PsychSciSky #polisky
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