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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do I submit my thesis later this week? Yes. Am I tried of writing the words "locally situated and user-centred histories"? Also yes

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Resisting the temptation to shoehorn song lyrics into my thesis while I'm editing is very responsible of me i think

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This year's AHA paper attracted the largest amount of "your thesis makes me feel old" comments I think ive ever recieved

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I'm presenting on the last day of the conference, so cant wait to spend the AHA convincing people to come to a paper ive titled 'Hot Singles in Your Area!'

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Went all in on the aesthetic for presenting my final PhD milestone

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The laptop in Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines is one of The computers of all time

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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Exciting news!!! The CFP for the 2026 AHA Conference has been extended! Missed out on submitting an abstract? You've now got until 20 February -- two whole extra weeks! We can't wait to see you at Macquarie University in July -- head to the website for all the details! theaha.org.au/aha-conferen...

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AHA Conference 2026 - The Australian Historical Association

Monday 29 June–Friday 3 July 2026, Macquarie University The 45th Australian Historical Association (AHA) Conference will be hosted by Macquarie University. The organising committee are excited to…

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

The Australian Web Archive is trying its best 😭

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Had friends coming to me for info on how telecommunications works so they can argue better against their ISP/phone company - does this count as 'research impact'?

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Interesting to see an uptake in reports like this. Obvs there are significant differences, but I've been pointing out similarities for ages. Tech sold on FOMO, focus by companies having the tech as opposed to the usefulness of having it, extremely grand statements about world changing potential

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Are we in another dot-com bubble with AI?

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

They've all been asking me to talk about hackers for ages, so it was fun to throw something together for a somewhat impromptu (and very silly) Monash Semi-nah

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Once again forgot to get photos of myself presenting, but it was such a delight to talk about Australia's own cyberfeminist zine Geekgirl at #aoir2025 yesterday!

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Writing a One Nation lecture this week like "oops revise the end another thing happened. Revise it again there's another thing. Revise it..."

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Secret challenge of this year's grand final: explaining to non-footy fans what the whole deal with the Lions is

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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This protest isn’t scheduled to start for two hours yet and there are already TWO sets of TV reporters and camera crews here setting up their shots. Melbourne has protests every single weekend and few if any get this level of media attention. No media setting up at the Gaza rally location.

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Huge win: got my students talking in depth about railway gauges today

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Peak productivity achieved by putting Blade on in the background while I mark

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Okay original series Star Trek is lit, wildly entertaining, incredibly silly

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Me in the archives opening TV footage files: I will be prepared for the ear-splitting beep this time, I will be prepared for the....

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Recently was made aware (by a student) that Whitlam brat edits exist?? Made my week

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Uuuuuh Word, you doing okay there buddy?

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Running our annual writing retreat really was a fantastic way to close out my year as Monash's History HDR rep ✌️

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Katie C @spiffykt.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

In “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” the author describes “inevitablism” as a tactic companies use to stop conversation about the amount of our private lives they are commodifying and selling.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 25/07/2025

It was incredible to watch this disaster unfold over several years: site owners increasingly competed for Google search traffic and placement in SERPs, abandoning every other avenue of reader engagement and retention, making their sites and the web worse. Then Google did this

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Everyone involved in the process of publishing this article so was immensely supportive and encouraging (and the article itself resulted in my first citation on Wikipedia)

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Bought a new USB for the first time in years only to find out USB 3 interferes with my bluetooth keyboard 😑

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Finally, finally made it to the National Communication Museum and had the best time

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

You too can see CSIRAC (Aus first supercomputer) for free with a student card. Subjecting your friends to an unskippable explanatory cutscene optional

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Honestly best parts of AHA every year are meeting new people, hearing about fascinating research, and leaving reinvigorated to launch back into my own research

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Can't believe I once again forgot to get someone to take a photo of me giving my paper 😔

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Okay why don't all Unis have a cool fish tank

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Yeah Townsville is pretty nice so far

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

So excited to talk about some of the amazing oral history interviews I've been doing as part of my research at the AHA conference this year

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The Forum was an extremely on theme location for Kisschasy to play Hymns for the Nonbeliever

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Trying to find the correct shade of orange to match my PowerPoint to the 80s Telecom logo, it's thematically important

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Brb sending this to every historian I know

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Visited the door to the room which once housed Australia's first digital computer (CSIRAC) today - apparently IT at UniMelb take it with them whenever they change buildings

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Can't believe our election night jokes about the end of the coalition are actually manifesting this quickly

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I have once again fallen behind on Dracula Daily, rapidly catch up or try again next year? 🤔

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Waking up to Melbourne of all places still being in doubt feels wild

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

I fear I have written the words network and internetworking so often they have lost all meaning

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Recently been playing everyone's favourite game: who currently has these records

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Jillbles @jillbles.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Started putting together a senate cheat sheet for the election, self-imposed chaos

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Rebi Houlihan @rebihoulihan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Maybe a trip to see CSIRAC will fix all my problems

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