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

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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 · 20/06/2026

Thank you Alan, yes open access is so important 🙏

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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

Read the journal article here "The Language of Manipulation: Linguistic Manifestations of (Inter)Subjectivity and Affect in Distorted Communication in the Lithuanian Political Discourse" by Viktorija Mažeikienė: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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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 · 18/09/2025

What a powerful speech from Dr Vanessa Pirrotta, thank you! ❤️ “I was 30, qualified and lost. I felt like I’d given everything to the science world, and all I wanted to do was to stay [in Australia] and have kids, but I couldn’t find a job in academia." www.afr.com/politics/fed... #academicsky

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‘Disposable PhDs’ and brain drain: scientist calls for uni rethink

Wildlife scientist Dr Vanessa Pirotta has called for “people-first” investment in education following her own struggle to find a role.

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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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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 30/07/2025

How can we assess risk of bias in education research? ⚖️ Our free online course teaches all the basics of how to assess trustworthiness of experiments and quasi-experiments in education. Start the free training ➡️ bit.ly/RoBTraining #OxEdDeanery @theeef.bsky.social

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 19/07/2025

Great clip of an interview with Ocean Vuong, 'cringe culture' is holding us back... vt.tiktok.com/ZSBvx5sNf/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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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 · 29/06/2025

Thanks for your reply Margo! We'll also make a recording available. Have fun at your conference!

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Western Sydney University @westernsydneyu.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Showing the world the way! Congratulations to everyone who has ensured we are the #1 ranked university in the world for impact in the 2025 Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings – again 🌍 Read more - www.westernsydney.edu.au/future/why-w... #THEUniRankings #THEImpactRankings

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

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Neil Selwyn @neilselwyn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Critical studies of ed-tech are becoming increasingly popular ... but how can they be a useful force for change? New report outlines 8 main areas that the CSET community needs to get discussing! 🧵 bridges.monash.edu/articles/rep...

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 09/06/2025

This report was really interesting to read: melbourne-cshe.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset... and I'm keen to learn more.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 09/06/2025

Wondering if anyone can suggest research for me to read on predictions/recommendations on what the future university workforce will look like? e.g. academic vs professional staff, third space work. Particularly interested in the Australian context but I'll read anything. #academicsky

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 09/06/2025

And I notice slight differences with publisher policies when it comes to 'declaring' gen AI use. So again, context is everything :)

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 09/06/2025

I forgot to highlight context in my earlier response. I'm always reading the AI policies of the publishers I want to submit articles to: au.sagepub.com/en-gb/oce/ar... www.springer.com/gp/editorial... - these policies distinguish between AI-assisted copy editing and gen AI for content creation.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 09/06/2025

This is an example of our acknowledgement statements: answers.library.westernsydney.edu.au/loader?fid=1... Prompts can be included in an appendix. Placement of the statement depends on context (e.g. at the start if its a thesis).

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 08/06/2025

"...we need coordinated efforts to rehabilitate infrastructure, provide mobile learning units, create digital academic libraries, and strengthen international academic solidarity..." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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How Gaza has 'lost a generation' of students

Palestinian academics who fled Gaza after the war say a "generation of students" has been lost due to the conflict.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 08/06/2025

My university has moved towards acknowledgement statements of gen AI use. We shouldn't really be "copying and pasting" gen AI text anyway and as already mentioned, gen AI shouldn't be the original source. Output from gen AI tools can be non-recoverable so that is another issue.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 29/05/2025

Yes, that part of the paragraph is problematic.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 29/05/2025

Yes, a beautifully written paragraph. I like the juxtaposition of Murray and Jack.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 29/05/2025

Thanks! Murray is the other Professor (creating the Elvis Studies major). Yes, this paragraph just struck me when reading it...I like the prose.

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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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Scott Macintyre @bibiothecarius.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare - What’s your view on using AI for peer review and for writing research papers?: www.nature.com/immersive/d4... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #PeerReview #Authorship #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Ethics #Survey

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Take Nature’s AI research test: find out how your ethics compare

What’s your view on using AI for peer review and for writing research papers?

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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

1. Our paper examines what literacies people need to challenge big tech companies. We selected key digital rights practitioners to share from their experience what works and what doesn't work when trying to mobilize people to challenge Big Tech -> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Building data citizenship and learning to resist in the datafied society

This paper explores what literacies people need to challenge big tech companies. We selected key digital rights practitioners, who mediate between policy and public awareness and have diverse exper...

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Nick Dennis @nickdennis.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You may have read James Walsh's essay, 'Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College' in the New York Magazine. Using Stuart Hall and Martha Nussbaum, I think there is an opportunity for something different and real. nickdennisnrd.substack.com/p/education-...

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Education at a conjuncture

You may have read James Walsh's essay, 'Everyone is Cheating Their Way Through College' in the New York Magazine and been taken aback by the examples where students freely admit that they have used AI...

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 11/05/2025

"You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire." - D. Graham Burnett www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?

Maybe not as we’ve known them. But, in the ruins of the old curriculum, something vital is stirring.

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Jason Gulya @jasongulya.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Can you use gen-AI responsibly, if the tools themselves were built through irresponsible methods? Asking for a friend.

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Olivia Inwood @oliviainwood.com · 07/04/2025

If you're curious about the future of research in the age of AI, I highly recommend reading this article by @karakennedy.bsky.social! Do tools like Deep Research risk "flattening the information field and making all sources seem to be of equal weight"? ailiteracy.institute/the-future-o...

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The Future of Research in the Age of AI - AI Literacy Institute

What is the future of research in the age of Generative AI and Deep Research tools and features from Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, and others?

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Visual Communication journal @viscomjournal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Visual Communication, a leading journal published by SAGE, is now on BlueSky 🎉 To celebrate, here’s a look at some of our most-read articles from the past 6 months. Give us a follow and join our BlueSky community to connect with readers and visual communication scholars ✨

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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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Dr Sara Ratner @sararatner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

What is like to be 12 right now? Interesting insights from educational psychologist, Jessica Wren shared on AIEOU. aieou.web.ox.ac.uk/article/thin...

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