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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 12/09/2026

New open access article: “F#@% Autism Speaks”: An ambient affiliation and legitimation analysis of the bonds that unite #ActuallyAutistics on Twitter This article makes a valuable contribution to how we can all better communicate the value of lived experience and counter ableism. #AcademicSky

An journal article with the heading: "“F#@% Autism Speaks”: An ambient affiliation and legitimation analysis of the bonds that unite #ActuallyAutistics on Twitter" and the abstract: "A growing body of research has investigated how autistics communicate and build community online, highlighting the neurodivergent affordances of social media and the convoking properties of hashtags. Building on these investigations, this study explores how autistics have formed community around the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag, reclaiming the autism narrative as they advocate against ableism and the organisation, Autism Speaks. Situated at the intersection of discourse-analytic work on online community formation and social semiotic approaches to evaluation, the study analyses a corpus of 100 tweets combining the #ActuallyAutistic hashtag with references to Autism Speaks. Drawing upon the linguistic frameworks of Affiliation and Legitimation, it examines how social bonds are negotiated within their social contexts and how these bonds are made credible via semiotic resources. Findings reveal how members of the #ActuallyAutistic community distinguish themselves as the authority on autism and actively advocate against Autism Speaks, its supporters, practices and ableist values."

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 20/06/2026

New open-access article: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Please read if you're interested in: how academic libraries are responding to generative AI and technological disruption, working as reflective practitioners, and third-space professionals in higher education. #AcademicSky #booksky 🦘🎓

Article: The Generative AI Conversation Hub of the University: Positioning Reflection and Skill-Building in the Daily Work of Library Practitioners

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 19/06/2026

Are academic libraries skill-building differently in the age of generative AI or applying similar principles to the past? Through critical reflection, we explore this question in our open-access paper: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #libraries #education #critical #reflection #generativeAI

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 18/10/2025

Rest in peace Baek Se-hee ❤️ I have this fragment from 'I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki' saved in my collection of book quotes on my phone. #booksky💙📚

A book quote with a picture of a flower.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 05/10/2025

Moments of happiness in research...when a book chapter you wrote about Russian propaganda is cited in a journal article on Lithuanian political discourse. As the daughter of a Lithuanian, I feel especially proud that my research might be contributing in some small way to important work 🇱🇹❤️

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 27/09/2025

Tolstoy, L. (1995). What is art? (R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky, Trans.). Penguin Classics, p.10. #booksky💙📚

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 27/09/2025

Wow, listening to this poem and reading the comments section is very insightful. Knowledge needs to be open and free, not behind paywalls and expensive degrees... www.instagram.com/reel/DNL6zVe...

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 12/09/2025

Researchers looking for Sydney-based participants for a focus group. Please read the poster below or click on the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #academicsky

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 16/08/2025

The new Penguin Archive Series is pretty nice. Feels slightly surreal though reading classics that now need to contain warning statements against AI training systems. #booksky💙📚

First paragraph from Unpacking My Library.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 16/07/2025

Super fascinating book, read it in one sitting. As someone who has only lived through the contemporary university, it was interesting to read about the history of universities in Australia and the effects of government policies. I hope universities always remain a public good. #booksky💙📚

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 28/06/2025

Join us for @westernsydneyu.bsky.social's annual student perspectives on generative AI webinar! Everyone is welcome. Is sustainable use of generative AI possible? Register for the live zoom link or recording: westernsydney.libcal.com/event/574555... #academicsky

Is Sustainable Use of Gen AI Possible? Poster

List of Upcoming Speakers for the Webinar.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 28/05/2025

"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation". Lots to unpack in this paragraph from Don Delillo's White Noise. #booksky💙📚

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 25/05/2025

Reading Don Delillo's White Noise. "Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included. I sense there is a connection between this powerful number and the way the students arrange themselves physically in the reading areas of the library." #booksky 💙📚

Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included. I sense there is a connection between this powerful number and the way the students arrange themselves physically in the reading areas of the library.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 16/03/2025

Looking forward to reading this book! Very fascinated about the concept of 'connective labour' with all the gen AI discourse currently around. #booksky 💙📚 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Last Human Job by Allison Pugh (orange and blue book)

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 15/03/2025

Reading different perspectives. I like Simon Squibb's TikToks - helping people achieve their dreams is very admirable. But in his media interviews he says "university is a scam" that I find disturbing as someone who has devoted all their adult years so far to universities. (thread) #booksky 💙📚

As humans we learn through experience and we grow through adversity. The hardest times of our lives are often the ones that really shape us.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 02/03/2025

I'm still reading this book on weekends. Love the word 'serendipity' in this context...it feels like the opposite to the 'statistical probability' that governs generative AI models. Back, L. (2016). Academic diary: Or why higher education still matters. #booksky 📚💙

All this misses the point of libraries because they provide not only a refuge but also places of serendipity, where we discover routinely things we are not looking for.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 26/01/2025

Back, L. (2016). Academic diary: Or why higher education still matters. "Higher education is valuable because it enables students to learn to live in a world saturated with information." #booksky 💙📚

A red book with the title "Academic Diary" by Les Back

Higher education is valuable because it enables students to learn to live in a world saturated with information.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 19/01/2025

Jay, M. (2012). The defining decade: why your twenties matter and how to make the most of them now. #booksky 💙📚

Without school, however, there are days and weeks and months and years, but no clear way to know when or why any one thing should happen. It can be a disorienting, cavelike existence.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 01/01/2025

Hopefully not too late for me to start reading this book 🫠

A green book titled "The Defining Decade" by Meg Jay.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 28/12/2024

The book recommended by bell hooks in 'All About Love'. Many words of wisdom. #booksky 💙📚 Rilke, R. M. (1929). Letters to a Young Poet.

But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather pass through you. Whether much within you has not changed, whether somewhere, in some part of your being, you were not transformed while you were unhappy?

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 15/12/2024

Tara Westover poignantly captures the sacrifices made to receive an education. I like coming back to this book. #booksky 💙📚 Westover, T. (2018). Educated. Random House.

I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere?

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 07/12/2024

bell hooks (1999). All About Love: New Visions. #booksky 💙📚

Brining love into the work environment can create the necessary transformation that can make any job we do, no matter how menial, a place where workers can express the best of themselves. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It's not what you do but how you do it.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 30/11/2024

State Library of Victoria looking good!

The State Library of Victoria with a banner between each column that spells out "treaty".

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 23/11/2024

So for example, if you search for oliviainwood.com (or @oliviainwood.com@bsky.brid.gy) on Mastodon you get linked to the content from my Bluesky account (image of what it looks like attached). It's fun experimenting with new ways to use social media!

example of a mastodon account that connects to a bluesky account

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 17/11/2024

Setiya, K. (2023). Life is hard: How philosophy can help us find our way. Penguin Books. (alt text for the image included). Do you remember all your failures?

$How does one live with conclusive failure? It's a question for everyone, even if it cuts sharper and deeper for some. Projects worthy but frustrated or forgotten are endemic in life. 'If we remembered even a fraction of our million tiny plans,' writes the poet-aphorist James Richardson, 'our whole lives would be regret at their failure'. There is comfort to be found in the sheer pervasiveness of projects gone awry. In a self-described 'book of solace', the British social critic Joe Morgan regales us with narratives of failure great and small, culminating with an artist 'who neither learnt from his failtures nor wished to learn', who completed few paintings, and whose most famous fresco began to flake before he died, the result of a failed experiment. The artist was Leonardo da Vinci.$

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 17/11/2024

A great book of aphorisms: Cioran, E. M. Howard, R (translator). (2020). The Trouble With Being Born. Penguin Classics. (alt text added to the image).

However disabused one may be, it is impossible to live without any hope at all. We always keep one, unwittingly, and this unconscious hope makes up for all the explicit others we have rejected, exhausted.

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