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Alison Young

@scotinoz.bsky.social
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Art, architecture, cities, Japan, street art, cats, literature, film. And food. Academic. Views are my own.

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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Three chapters revised; 1 to go; 1 to write.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Tonight: Massive Attack.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Hey, it’s all true, The Odyssey is a damn fine movie #theodyssey
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I love #MIFF. Saw Yellow Letters yesterday, it was brilliant.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
So pleased to get tix for Massive Attack in Naarm this August #music #massiveattack
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Last week I gave a talk on 'Justice in the Streets?' on the framing of protest as obstruction and 'inconvenience' for InfUr at the University of Melbourne.... here's a link to the recording: infur.msd.unimelb.edu.au/2026/05/25/j...
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Justice in the Streets?—InfUr seminar with Alison Young – InfUr-
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
I’m late to the party here but I’m reading the 4th book in Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet and omg I’m being harrowed by it…. #ferrante
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Gave a talk yesterday in the Informal Urbanism research group at Unimelb, on framing protest as ‘obstruction’ and ‘inconvenience’.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
I've read 59 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? www.theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5
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The 100 best novels of all time
The top 100 novels of all time published in English, as voted for by authors, critics and academics worldwide. How many have you read?
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Very pleased this is now out! Co-written with my wonderful Night Shift colleagues. ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work - Mentha - International Journal of Urban and Regional Research - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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ON THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF THE NIGHT: Discovering Community and Care in Night Shift Work
Within the burgeoning attention being paid to the night-time economy (NTE) in and by cities, the demands and impacts of night work have gathered increasingly scholarly attention. Research has centred...
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Paul Gregoire @paulrgregoire.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
NSW police has a list of further Herzog protesters it's hunting down to arrest over a rally that saw law enforcement brutalise demonstrators en masse, and this is likely all about undermining the police watchdog inquiry 👇 www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/nsw-pol...
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NSW Police to Continue Raiding Herzog Protesters to Sully Police Watchdog Inquiry
NSW police have vowed to continue raiding the homes of those who protested the genocidal Israeli PM’s visit, despite it being clear police were the aggressors and brutalisers.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Finally going to see One Battle After Another today: wheeeee!
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It’s nearly a year since my Night Shift colleagues and I submitted a paper to a journal (April 2025), then revised along the lines suggested and re-submitted (in Oct), then today received an acceptance (with a few more revisions optional)… academic publishing sometimes moves slowly hey… #AcademicSky
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 01/02/2026
I am really angry about all of the scientists who cozied up to Epstein even after it was known who he was. I am nearly as angry at how many people are justifying this as "they had to, it's how academia works" NO IT FUCKING WELL ISN'T
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ugh. This is climate change:
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Graffiti, Firenze #vivagaza
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My current office, in one of the spaces for visiting fellows at the Scuola Normale Superiore in the Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
So terrifying that this not made up.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The cafe/bar of my one of my favourite public libraries in the world, the Biblioteca Delle Oblate in Firenze.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Waiting for the storm, Firenze (on a day of a national general strike).
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Not only dreaming spires, but tagging ‘SPIRE’ #oxford
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Library life:
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I love me a nice library
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
In Oxford, far right nationalists on one side of the road, and anti-racism protesters on the other…Cops in the middle of the road.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Huge news. This is a win for the artistic community who collectively rejected this racist censorship from the start and never let up - particularly Khaled’s peers who refused to take up the poisoned pavilion. Solidarity in action.
BREAKING
Khaled Sabsabi reinstated as Australia's representative at 2026
Venice Biennale
By Hannah Story
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
All too recognisable.
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Depressingly accurate account of modern Australian #universities. Reform is long overdue #auspol
SMH article on the decline of Australian universities2nd half of article on the decline of Australian universities
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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
"In an announcement (...) San Francisco bookstore The Booksmith said that it would no longer carry books by J.K. Rowling because of her ongoing support of anti-trans policies. Accompanying the post was a list of fantasy books that 'might fit the Harry Potter brief for you and yours.'"
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This San Francisco Bookstore Has Stopped Selling the ‘Harry Potter’ Series
The announcement came with a curated list of alternatives to J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Whenever people ask me what I mean when I talk about the “neoliberal university”, I tell them about the giant Woodside Building on campus www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Monash staff say Woodside-backed climate conference highlights concerns about energy giant partnership
Senior lecturer says staff and students have struggled to get answers from university leadership about arrangement
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Read this. #freepalestine #ceasefire #sanctionsnow
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Mae Nick Phra Khanong @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
I'm just a simple country conflict tracker but someone once told me attacking a neutral flagged civilian vessel in international waters was a grave crime against the international community that only Iran-backed Houthi terrorists would stoop to
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
No state has the right to block, attack, or harm passengers aboard an aid ship carrying vital humanitarian supplies—baby formula, rice, diapers, water kits, medical equipment, prosthetics. Doing so would constitute a war crime, one of many already committed by the state in question.
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New ink
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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
🚨 Important database of cases where lawyers were found to have used AI-hallucinated materials. Covers multiple jurisdictions, mostly anglophone systems.🚨
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 28/05/2025
I'm going to try to write a thread to entice people to read this piece I published last night. A series of disasters have hit Australian waters in the first half of this year, and I am terrified and offended by the fact that the losses being suffered are barely being spoken about. You should be. 🧵
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Kaliane Bradley, sparkling and funny as she chats about The Ministry of Time, Melbourne Writers’ Festival #BookSky
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Samantha Harvey, reading from Orbital, at the Melbourne Writers Festival #BookSky
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Sensory Penalities @sensorypenalities.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Here it is!! The first in a series from new voices. Chloe Young of Edinburgh Uni discussing her #research on #women in the #Nighttime economy for #sensory #criminology: sensorycriminology.com/2025/05/12/t...
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The Night-Self
Nightlife spaces are, to borrow Durkheim’s term, socially and sexually effervescent places. The environment, often loud and electric, offers ‘possibilities of pleasure, excess and gratification” (M…
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Just throwing this out there but is Tixel a scam? I sold two concert tix through the site and they’re now claiming there’s an error in my account and payment can’t be made, and there’s no way of emailing them and only a bot to answer queries… #tixel
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 03/05/2025
FUND UNIVERSITIES. PROPERLY. #ausvotes
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Worried about the electorate of Melbourne now…#auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Can’t believe Dutton has the nerve to invoke this year’s ANZAC Day after neo-Nazis hijacked the Welcome to Country, creating an opportunity for Dutton to criticise Welcomes as ‘divisive’. It’s not really a gracious speech, he was always a cruel and opportunistic politician #BinNight
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Loving all the potato masher and baked potato imagery on this site #auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’m enjoying the ‘Peter Dutton has lost his seat’ narrative but would also like it if we could have a bit of ‘Ali France has won, what a triumph’ #auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Exhaling with relief, and just starting to acknowledge how scared I was that the result would go the other way #auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
‘Very few Liberal supports have shown up’ says the reporter at the Liberal HQ lol lol lol #auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The powerful white guy Liberal just said on the ABC that conservatives are getting de-platformed 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 #auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
May Peter Dutton join Howard and Abbott as leaders whose seat fell out of their pants #auspol
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Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Chalmers is twirling in his seat with delight #auspol #electionnight
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