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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈

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Education and global development, Adelaide University | UNESCO Network on Education, Epistemic Justice and the Knowledge Commons Previous: UN, University of Oxford, University of Sussex, IRC researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile…

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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 42m
If you tried to apply and had technical difficulties yesterday and overnight, the deadline has been extended to 1 October 5 pm Adelaide time. #EduSky #AcademicSky
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminder: Deadline to apply to work with me on as a fully-funded PhD is 30 September 2026 (Australia time). Register your expression of interest and spread the word! #AcademicSky #EduSky
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
For the first time, a pope has visited UNESCO. Pope Leo XIV speaks of AI and the digital age as the defining feature of our times. He calls human mean-making and experience as the essence of humanity: irreplaceable and at the heart of the meaning of life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSzg...
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REPLAY: Pope Leo XIV's address at UNESCO • FRANCE 24 English
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23/09/2026
Philosophers have pondered whether we live in a simulation for centuries. Now, Astronomer Royal for Scotland Catherine Heymans suggests a compelling rationale for why our reality might actually be synthetic
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Do we live in a simulation? If so, it could be a giant consciousness experiment | New Scientist
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Daniel Ansari 🇨🇦 @numcog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mark Carney at UNGA: “The post war world is ending, but the underlying logic of that post war world that justified multilateral cooperation is more compelling than ever”
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is good news. Australia should follow.
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EconomicsInTen @economicsinten.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Quite incredible to read. They would see themselves as being entirely rational but the 'Homo Economicus' in our play has other ideas. And yes...the effective altruist gets mentioned it. #EconSky open.spotify.com/episode/6p5f...
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Rational - A Play About Economics
Economics In Ten · Episode
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UNICEF @unicef.org · 17/09/2026
More than 2.6M girls in Afghanistan have been denied a secondary education in the five years since the de facto authorities took power. UNICEF calls on the de facto authorities to lift the restrictions on education and allow all girls and women to return to schools and universities immediately.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Extremely sad. I was introduced to Bonnie Greer's work when I moved to the UK. Her unique feminist understanding of race, gender, and cultural change captured cultural transitions of British society in '90s-2000s informed by earlier struggles of Black Peoples. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Bonnie Greer, writer and cultural commentator, dies aged 77
The British-American novelist and playwright who regularly appeared on current affairs shows will be remembered for her ‘warmth, humour and generosity’, says her husband
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/09/2026
Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling
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Singapore pays people to pick up a book in battle against doomscrolling
Affluent city-state hopes plan will improve critical thinking and imagination ‘in a world of extraordinary abundance of stimulation’ Singapore is paying its citizens to pick up a book for at least 15 minutes a day in an effort to fight the rise of doomscrolling. The affluent city-state hopes its gamification strategy, which launched this month, will improve concentration, critical thinking and the imagination of Singaporeans. Continue reading...
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
None. Ditto Penrose, Hawking, Seth and generally anyone ahead of the curve and driving themselves bonkers working on bonkers things.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Revisions submitted and it feels so good... :)
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
File grant expenses.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026
Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828.
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Bristol University Press is looking for bold, ambitious scholarship across science, technology and society — and #EASST2026 is a great place to start a conversation. @easst.bsky.social Visit our editor, Paul Stevens, at our stand, or find out more about publishing with us: ow.ly/HPe650ZGrOu
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Author hub
This is a space where authors, both new and established, can learn about our publishing processes, how to submit your proposal, and more information about both us and academic publishing in a wider sense.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Wow they really are drawing this out. It's like the waiting for the guillotine to drop.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fully-funded PhD! Come work with me (Principal Supervisor) and Elisa Di Gregorio (Co-Supervisor) at Adelaide University! Targeted PhD student recruitment for: 'SRTSR0345 Securing Democratic Governance in the Indo-Pacific: Mapping Hidden Private Influence in Regional Education Governance.'
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/09/2026
The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
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The world is being driven to the brink by thugs and dictators, but there is a route to a brighter future | Simon Tisdall
It’s no surprise some analysts say we are already in the midst of the third world war, but ordinary people have more power than we think, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
'...either through malice or ignorance, the conclusion your authors chose to draw from this methodological atrocity was...that female and racialized scholars who receive CRCs ...were weaker scholars. [...] Some people would call it clearly racist and sexist. You can count me among them.'
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Good. NYC the US's largest public school system bans gen AI and tools for young students. There's a rising tide. #EduSky apnews.com/article/zohr...
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NYC, the nation's largest school system, bans AI for students through 8th grade
New York City’s public school system will ban artificial intelligence for students through the 8th grade during the upcoming school year.
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UNICEF Press Office @unicefmedia.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
More than 162 million children in Eastern and Southern Africa, over two-thirds of all children in the region, live in areas exposed to the impact of the strengthening 2026/2027 El Niño www.unicef.org/press-releas...
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El Niño threatens more than two-thirds of children in Eastern and Southern Africa
UNICEF calls for urgent action to protect children from a predictable crisis
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Benjamin Piper @benlpiper.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A new report from @mit.edu on how #AI is being used at the university is a must-read for anyone working in our sector. While it focuses on higher ed, below are a few of my takeaways for global #education. aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/
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Report – AI and Education
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Lar deSouza @lartist.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
3d: I haven't sculpted anything in awhile but I finally got around to reprinting my Casey and Finnegan with a base, that I retooled back in the spring. Fellow Canadians will recognize these friends of Mr DressUp.
3d print of Casey and Finnegan, puppet pals from Mr Dress Up, a CBC show and Canadian icon
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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Dozens of policy submissions to public inquiries contain AI hallucinated references to research and papers that don't even exist. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Scary’: how misinformation and AI hallucinations are infiltrating Australia’s parliament
Exclusive: Guardian analysis reveals that dozens of policy submissions from across the political spectrum incorrectly summarise real research and invent or wrongly cite sources
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Bring back '90s internet.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Factually incorrect. One has to fulfil numerous residency requirements which absolutely cannot be fulfilled in a day. Also, the same voting rights apply to Commonwealth Australian, Canadian, New Zealand citizens who are resident in the UK + Irish + Cyprus and Malta + others.
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Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This is going to end-up with both sides installing progressively larger billboards until one collapses in a storm and crushes Mississauga. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Lake Ontario sign installed in Canada in latest jab at US
Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled a billboard on Canada's shoreline with the message: "Lake Ontario. Now and Always."
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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Schools in England start returning from summer break next week, and this term many will become AI testing sites as the Department for Education plans to trial AI tutoring, scale it up sector-wide, and create new standards for classroom AI codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/p...
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Prototype testing, scaling, and standardizing AI tutors in schools
As students and teachers return to classrooms for the new academic year, the schools sector in England is set to become a testing ground for experimental AI applications this autumn. Following the …
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Or fine them a trillion dollars to bankruptcy and tax the rest. Aside from basic survival utilities and services, no corporation has an absolute divine right to exist.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
fines are not an effective deterrent when u are dealing with trillion dollar corporations
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Meanwhile... because... of course. newrepublic.com/post/214770/...
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The Republicans Mourning Dolly Parton Gutted Funds to Her Charity
Republican lawmakers limited public funding for Parton’s children’s book foundation.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Just saw the news about the avant-garde artist, Yayoi Kusama. Another great one gone. My feed is reading like the obit section. 🤍
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
is no brilliant muppet costar safe
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
www.vice.com/en/article/a...
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An Oral History of Tim Curry’s Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism
How an unforgettable performance in Red Alert 3 became legend.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I live my life in Hilbert hope.
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Young Lives @yloxford.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We’re delighted to see Young Lives highlighted by FCDO's Global Research & Technology Development team as an example of what sustained investment in longitudinal research can achieve. Read more 👉 www.grtd.fcdo.gov.uk/two-decades-... @odid-qeh.bsky.social @younglivesethiopia.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
👀 Have you caught up with the replay of last month's webinar on Ignorance, Agnotology and Epistemic Injustice for Social Researchers? Check out our CEO & Founder, Dr Zara Bain, talking about her research with signposts to explore: funnels.academicaudiotranscription.…
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Get the replay of our webinar on Ignorance, Agnotology and Epistemic Injustice: An Introduction for Social Researchers
Missed our live webinar on Ignorance, Agnotology & Epistemic Injustice for Social Researchers? Catch up on replay here today.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yes.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"...AI and Tumblr cannot give you what schooling and education gives you, which is a container for the possibility of a greatness we have not yet imagined but that we have nevertheless built the foundation to exist" I don't have the words, I just keep playing this one over and over
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yes, because the incentive for private firms is to increase profits by minimising investment. Public goods require public investment. We see this in all services globally.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
youtu.be/Ixrje2rXLMA?...
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Dolly Parton - Jolene (Official Audio)
YouTube video by DollyPartonVEVO
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Another cracker of a story. 'Honey, this trash sells records!' - Dolly Parton
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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 25/08/2026
And this performance of “In the Pines” with her family—she emphasized music as a communal experience, and an expression of your culture—the place you grew up and the people you grew up with, the people who are still with you; the songs you heard, the songs you still sing. youtu.be/cIf4QGwnfLg?...
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Dolly Parton with her seven sibling and parent INTHE PINES
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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The spirit of the 1990s.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
But I quite like the Disney universe.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
When I was 15, one of my closest friends and I came up with a title for a book yet to be written, 'The Final Marble'. Prescient, we were, it seems.
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Prof Prachi Srivastava 🌈 @prachisrivas.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I've been saying for a long time that official institutions, including universities, should stop using paid licensed software and adopt open-source products like Office Libre. Things have come a long way for interoperability. I don't know why we continue on this track.
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Jeremy Yoder says no war @jbyoder.org · 19/08/2026
It is a very specific sort of funny to see cancer cured* with mRNA therapy while we're all being told that LLMs are going to come up with a way to cure cancer any day now. *for a given value of cured www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/m...
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Moderna and Merck say mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in late-stage melanoma trial
A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in a late-stage melanoma study, results that could herald a new, powerful approach in oncology.
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