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Laura Rademaker @laurarad.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

"Across 2022 and 2023, the ANU spent more than $71.6 million on travel, over $11 million on advertising and over $107 million on consultants. That $190 million, if saved, would have negated entirely the $100 million cuts to jobs" @joshuablackjb.bsky.social

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professor tools for commensality (red scare edition) @inquiline.myatproto.social · 15/02/2025

Look what came in the mail! "How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology" Link to book, Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584... #AcademicSky #BookSky

My hand holding up a copy of the book Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson. The cover depicts a person looking at a screen showing people and applications and is suffused by a sort of rose-lavender hue

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

10 people died after welfare payments wrongly cut off due to IT bugs in employment services system, discovered then ignored for 3 years. Ombo investigating. Govt won't turn off 'penalty zone' because private job agencies would lose profit briefings reveal. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...

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Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government

The government was informed of a glitch that caused more than a thousand people to be cut off from welfare payments but ignored it for more than three years because halting it would harm private provi...

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Very excited to finally share the first of several articles, and shortly a report, to be published this year which share the findings of an ARC Discovery project I had the privilege to work on with colleagues Anita Harris, Gilbert Caluya & Jessica Walton: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ym_HCr81YN...

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Beyond risk: reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula

Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with socia...

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?

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Jess Hardley (she/they) @jesshardley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

First post & new publication out in the world. I had a fun time thinking through & writing about “embodied excess” with my long time mentor & collaborator Ingrid Richardson. Big thanks to @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson for this great collection. www.emerald.com/insight/publ...

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Data Excess in Digital Media Research | Emerald Insight

Data Excess in Digital Media Research | Editors: Natalie Ann Hendry, Ingrid Richardson

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Ben Lyall 💾 @benlyall.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

New chapter w/ wonderful collaborators Claire & Jose about navigating abundant data, ethical quandaries & doing the best we can to represent participants. @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️ doi.org/10.1108/978-...

A book cover. A cloudy sky is overrun with computer icons of files and folders.

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A good example of what @meredithmeredith.bsky.social describes as the "steep cost of capture," demonstrating how "tech firms are startlingly well positioned to shape what we do—and do not—know about AI and the business behind it..." More at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jean Burgess @jeanburgess.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Wayback machine is such a precious, unique resource - increasingly so as web search collapses. None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it. But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

One of the bleakest uses for gen AI I've seen yet: a bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker is on the brink of "losing it"—and play them AI-made family photo montages to calm them down. Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...

bloodinthemachine.com

AI can't fix everything automation already broke

Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

After listening to my frustrations with too-simple AI convos at work, @cjhart.bsky.social sent me this - yup, this is what it is like "The AI is going to AI!" www.tiktok.com/@mattheperso...

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

It's probably been done, but...

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 16/04/2024

Marking season in 2024: I swear if I see another conjunctive adverb in this next sentence... *sigh*

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 13/02/2024

🚨 If you are in Victoria and have the ability to lower you power use at the moment, do it. 🚨 Due to failures at two of Victoria's three coal power stations and high temps, we currently don't have enough power to meet demand. You could be saving lives. Please boost.

Market operator announcement indicating that load shedding is currently occurring in Victoria due to lack of supply.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 06/02/2024

I wrote about Bluesky opening up, what it means, and why I think it remains the most interesting social media experiment going today. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/b...

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Bluesky Opens Up

Bluesky is now open to anyone without an invite. And a bunch of other exciting things are coming soon. As many of you know, I’ve been pretty excited about where Bluesky is going as a social media o�...

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Tseen Khoo @tseenster.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Just finished latest ep of #OnTheReg - S5! Hearing @drjd.bsky.social and @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social talk about being here made me nostalgic for birdsite days where we were in our chosen virtual staff rooms and swam around in the coolness of what our buddies were doing. 🥲 onthereg.buzzsprout.com

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On the reg

Inger and Jason talk about work, but you know - not in a boring way. Practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life. Find us talking to each other between episodes o...

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

I started teaching for 2024 on Saturday. It seems that this semester's first subject's challenge will be nudging students towards understanding they're learning concepts not concrete definitions of words. Feels a bit like going back to high school strategies to help move that along. Tips welcome!

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Kate Mannell @katemannell.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

So pleased to share that our Digital Child Ethics Toolkit is live! It contains advice and resources on researching with young children across a wide range of methods, contents, and cohorts.. and brings together expertise from 39 (!!) researchers across the Digital Child Centre.

digitalchild.org.au

Digital Child Ethics Toolkit: Ethical Considerations for Digital Childhoods Research - Digital Child

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 29/01/2024

Returning to my inbox after 3 days away. I'm struck by, as always, how many invitations to collaborate on interventions seem to be missing research or insights on people's experiences related to whatever it is. Making things with assumptions that it will fix it, not making things as exploration.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Walking is keeping me feeling okay lately and helps me process the messiness of life. Yet all of this rain is making it harder to just get out of the house, even with my raincoat and sensible shoes and all of the things.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

Not sure I had much of a break but at least I'm working on something really fun. I'll be joining @mariamurmen.bsky.social's group of psychologists at Uni of Tartu, Estonia. They're doing a media studies class exploring social media, mental health research and navigating therapy work online.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

At the AARE conference all week. This morning is @neilselwyn.bsky.social talking about challenges w education, technology and excessive digitisation. It makes me think about how registering as a teacher in one of the Aust states requires ppl to do video interviews with a "robot". Why? How? Impacts?

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Love how Government (& universities) in Australia crow about the amount of funding & number of grants they provide for "world-class research". But these are tiiiiiny numbers! Basically 50 people working for 2–3 years. Peanuts🥜 More like "world-class underfunding, normalised".

Tweet from the Australian Research Council announcing the outcomes for the Linkage Projects 2023 (round 1) scheme. Just 50 projects were funded with $26 million in total.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Almost finished up a chunk of leave. Going to a Britney Spears dance class tonight and have almost finished reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (which is a delight for a holiday - long enough that you're not disappointed that it ends in a day or two)

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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 13/11/2023

I've set up a webpage for updates related to this research - I hope this is useful, and please feel free to get in touch with any questions! barrieshannon.com/enabling

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Student diversity and LGBTIQA+ pathways through tertiary enabling programs

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Hannah McCann @binarythis.bsky.social · 01/11/2023

We have two ongoing T&R Lecturer in Cultural Studies jobs open now for applications at The University of Melbourne. Applications close 30 November. Come work with us 🙏🏼📚🌈

jobs.unimelb.edu.au

Details : Lecturer in Cultural Studies (Multiple Positions) : The University of Melbourne

Careers at The University of Melbourne

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 28/10/2023

'Police officers broke into a man’s apartment in Jerusalem and arrested him for hanging a sign against the occupation from his living room. A venue owner in Haifa canceled an event for Jews and Arabs that called to stop the war and return the hostages after getting a warning from the police.'

404media.co

Netanyahu’s Government Is Trying to Suspend the Freedom of Information

A proposed law would prevent journalists and the Israeli public from seeing how the government is managing one of the worst crises in the country’s history.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 27/10/2023

"Tech elites like to cast themselves as radical revolutionaries. But we find ourselves in a relentless cycle of sameness. Tech “disruption” rarely meaningfully replaces much." @floreani.bsky.social from @drwaus.bsky.social nails it as always www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Hey tech billionaires, if you want to talk about radical change, let’s abolish venture capitalism|...

The future that technology elites like to imagine looks remarkably similar to the one we’re in

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

All the ups and downs aside, being told today that I'm unexpectedly and inexplicably super low in iron, B12 and vit D is boring/annoying/another thing on the list to manage. Self responsibilisation and all of that indeed.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Today it feels like I need to pull all the pieces of myself back together after jumping from thing to thing, appointment to appointment, meeting to meeting. Good to wrap up today talking with @mariamurmen.bsky.social about being part of her media & mental health psych class next year. Small joys!

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andrew @andrew-whelan.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

This is the statement from the Macquarie U Indigenous Studies Dept: 'Reconciliation is dead.' www.croakey.org/statement-fr...

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Kath Albury @katha.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

McGill’s Dept of Art History and Comms Studies, the IGSF and Concordia’s Digital Intimacy, Gender and Sexuality Lab very generously hosted my first big public talk about the Digital & Data capabilities for Sexual Health project in Montreal last week - you can find it here if you want to know more:

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Kath Albury: Digital sexual health—from literacies to capabilities

This is a recording from our event on Monday, October 16, 2023. Dr. Kath Albury speaks about digital sexual health—from literacies to capabilities, followed ...

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

I've been trying to write on emotion apps and wellbeing in schools for a while now, and I keep returning to this feeling that everything that could be said was said years, decades, even a century ago. Assumptions about what emotions are, that feeling good all the time is better for learning etc.

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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

I worked on a forthcoming scholarly book called ‘The Paradox of Connection’ that investigates the bind journalists are in because they’re pushed to become digital characters but are offered very little workplace support when audiences turn toxic, other than to withdraw

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The Paradox of Connection

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 09/10/2023

Solidarity with colleagues striking at Monash Uni today. Here's to better and safer conditions across all unis.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

Melbourne! Looking for something to do tonight? Fringe Festival is on. Hot Fat Crazy have their last shows on tonight. It's absurd with fabulous songs and SOCK PUPPETS! melbournefringe.com.au/event/hot-fa...

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Hot Fat Crazy | Melbourne Fringe

The true story of one woman’s HOT journey through a very FAT psych ward admission, also she is CRAZY.Written by and Starring Eadie Testro-Girasole & Thomas Bradford, 'HOT FAT CRAZY' is the inaugural...

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

On the picket line today at my Faculty. Great to talk w students who didn't know about the strike or how to show solidarity. Also great to talk w staff to make sure that what we're fighting for - secure contracts, reasonable workloads, fair pay for all - would support their roles and teams.

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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 05/10/2023

Sociology and #EduSky academics - Deakin is holding a full-day symposium on boys, masculinity and education on December 11. It's free and there is an online participation option. Details linked below.

deakin.edu.au

Boys and Education

This symposium brings together researchers, teachers and school leaders to discuss current challenges associated with boys and schooling and identify possible directions for future educational researc...

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Re-reading Fisher on 'The privatisation of stress' today and trying to work out what has and hasn't changed since 2011. "Instead of the elimination of bureaucratic red tape promised by neoliberal ideologues, the combination of new technology and managerialism has massively increased...

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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · 03/10/2023

it's october third

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 03/10/2023

On strike! So good to join in with everyone yesterday at the rally. Here to support ALL workers across the uni, across all areas, from now into the future.

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Getting ready for more industrial action and striking next week with NTEU colleagues at the Uni of Melb! www.instagram.com/p/CxuMGpTPM97/

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

What makes a social media site vibrant? It's not about the technology. It's about how the networks are nurtured into being. Here's some lessons from 20 years ago that Alt-Twitter designers need to consider: zephoria.medium.com/dear-alt-twitte…

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Natalie Ann Hendry @projectnat.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

That point in the school holidays where working from home is accompanied by the sounds of a sad, slow bouncing basketball, the kid across the road wailing about justice, long queues of rapid gossip outside Yo-Chi, and loud fighting over the (very average) swing at the (very average) park.

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