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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Right, okay everybody, I’ve had a lot of meetings and talks this week and I have to share some top line thoughts. Things are quite a bit worse than i am usually willing to share with people because panic does no good. It’s kinda bad. The baddies have the wind at their back. No denying that.

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026

there’s a certain kind of person who says this as though it’s an easy thing to do

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m so sorry this happened Martin. I wish it could be told in medical education around the world. (I’m working in a healthcare storying team for this exact reason: it’s the words, the words, the words.)

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Baudrillard spinning in his grave so fast he torpedoes out of the hillside and remains airborne, lasers shooting out of his eyes with such force earth is cleanly cut in two

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

As in Australia the political reasoning leans hard on nostalgia for a pre-internet childhood. In Australia it was all about going outside and being more sporty; in the UK it seems to be about going to bed early.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Hard same. It popped up out of nowhere in HE management and was never a good sign

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I sat through town hall meetings at which we were encouraged to imagine and prepare for our glorious future that was the reason for shrinking the workforce—with the to-be-shrunk sitting right there open-mouthed.

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

From journal editing experience this tracks. In 2022 our journal got ~300 submissions. In 2025? 1300. So far this year? 500 and we're not even out of April yet. The AI trickle is now a stream, yet T&F are *still* seeking new big tech partners to flog papers for AI training rather than *helping us*

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Can’t DM you unless I’m willing to prove I’m a sprightly 97 to this platform, so I’m breaking my silence to send you all solidarity PV. Very grim.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

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Luke Pearson @lukelpearson.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"Why aren't media as outraged about the Perth bomb attack as there were over the Bondi shootings?" Dude, they aren't even as outraged as they were when Adam Goodes threw an imaginary boomerang.

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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I got it in the UK, not in Europe and now not in Australia.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I’m so glad to read this Charlie.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I’ve been away training a health service in the use of active hope principles as a way of recovering tactical agency when systems are either stuck or on the kind of strategy roller coaster that can make staff shrink from change itself. Learning a lot about the power of very small actions.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

This is so well put Charlie, it’s challenging to advocate for tentative ways of approaching a problem when resources are so scarce.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Albanese? Wong? Anything to say about anything? I know we just learned that AUKUS is beyond him, and I know we’re very keen to say we have no doubt they would defend us under ANZUS, but is this the moral quality of the ally we are choosing, or just the one we’re afraid of losing?

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Oh best of luck for your move. Have a happy home!

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Brigid Russell @brigidrussell51.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

People who condemn well-intentioned approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion out of hand are presuming their so-called "meritocracy" operates on a level playing-field. Such an argument entirely misses the point that prevailing sources of money, power, and privilege dominate.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

But the killer move: not unsubscribing you. Not now, not ever. Looking at you, Times Higher Ed, the Hotel California of email.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

And asking you to choose from a menu of options about why you unsubscribed, starting with “I no longer want to receive these emails.”

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I feel the same Charlie, that hope is found in these quiet continuities even if there’s different noise all around, that’s often confusing.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

You too friend. I’m really overjoyed to find you both. You were in our conversation yesterday.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

So glad this morning to find @brigidrussell51.bsky.social and @charliepsych.bsky.social here. I’m still never quite sure what to say in this space so I’m really taken with the consistency of their reflections.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Australian universities need to be thinking seriously about this question of social license. It’s not new, it’s just got a new hat. And it’s going to pop up everywhere in the election year. A smart defense will need to go beyond stock images of sciencing. futurecampus.com.au/2025/01/23/h...

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HE’s hottest topic emerges - Future Campus

As US higher education institutions brace for the Trump administration’s promised reforms, designed to radically reshape the sector to better align with the values of their supporter base, the importa...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Okay friends, you know what to do. Welcome the formidable @louiseadler1.bsky.social to Bluesky. An *awkward gesture* has brought has brought her from X to greener pastures. Louise is brave, big-hearted, funny and smart. Publisher of my first book on Pell, Cardinal, now runs Adelaide Writers’ Week.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Revealing thread on the return of the barely repressed, edtech inevitabilism. Inevitabilistic projections are sparkly because they’re shallow. No one writing (or prompting) this kind of prose needs to trouble themselves with risk.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

One of the early panel discussions I did on Generative AI turned to the question of labour saving for faculty. A big topic was taking on the writing that no one wants to do or read anyway. The specific example was reporting out on sabbaticals and grants. Why not automate that hoop with ChatGPT?

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Congratulations! I just found out you’re going through lovely Mary Freer who will be there. So nice to reconnect.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

“The goal of this change, in Meta's words, was to "limit … the content [teenagers] see, and help ensure their time is well spent.” Something something footy netball swimming Aussie Aussie Aussie.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Introduce the clumsy obvious AI accounts first, then while people are distracted slip the far harder-to-spot version into the ecosystem

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Overheard yesterday in small independent local bookstore. “My son told me the name of the book and I’ve forgotten it.” Long pause. All of us browsing held our breath. “Percy something?” “Oh yes, we have those, which one?” I’m surprised we didn’t all cheer, as we were thinking it.

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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The UK's HSE in its reply to the University of Birmingham SMT's response to Birmingham UCU's complaint: 'I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University'. 'we will be inspecting the University [..] in the new year'

Date: 13 December 2024
Dear Professor Tickell,
RE: Concerns about the Management of Work-related Stress
Thank you for your reply sent on 16 September 2024, I have considered the contents and discussed it
with colleagues.
The outcome being that I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related
stress is being suitably managed by the University. This is because almost all your stated control
measures are tertiary, or lagging measures, that deal with stress once it has become a problem. For
instance, tracking the reasons why your employees access the employee assist programme, and your
staff survey being a lagging measure of the University’s performance.
I have considered your offer to get in touch if I have further queries, but I do not think further
correspondence will be sufficient and as a result we will be inspecting the University’s management of
work-related stress in the new year.
Can you please provide a point of contact by Friday 10 January 2025, so that we can obtain a better
understanding of the organisational structure, your management arrangements, and processes before
undertaking the inspection.
Section 28(8) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires me to inform your employees
about matters affecting their health and safety. As such, I have sent a copy of this letter to the
University and College Union as a representative of your employees.
Yours sincerely
Harvey Wild
Head of Operations
Inspection Division
cc Cheryl Rogers, Head of Health and Safety Services
University and College Union

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I remember that vigil night so well, and their families have been on my mind all day. Terrible thoughtless tv commentary today brought back the language of “kingpins” as if this justified what was done. Thank you for your witness.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

And whatever the direct labour market outcome from this being a product coming into a situation, (let alone who pays for it), already visible in the product name is a whole way of thinking about disposable, replaceable, interchangeable human labour in higher education.

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

The name of this product is the red flag for the conversations higher education is failing to have about its own labour market. The business problem being solved here isn’t the workload of the privileged, that’s just bait. www.alldayta.com

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All Day TA

All Day TA is an AI EdTech company focused on higher education that enables professors to build customized AI teaching assistants for their courses. Available 24/7, it provides students with instant, ...

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Australian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) @alhr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

As the remaining Bali 9 members return home, ALHR’s thoughts are with the loved ones of Andrew Chan & Myuran Sukumaran - young men who had been demonstrably rehabilitated after 10 years imprisonment but who were executed. We must continue to work towards the worldwide abolition of the death penalty

irreversible.is

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Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

From Raymond Carver's book, All of Us: bookshop.org/a/862/978037... #poem #poetry #raymondcarver #writers #books

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Kate Bowles @sokate.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

This is it exactly, the reading test. If you’re reasonably sure no one wants to read a thing, don’t outsource writing it to planet-boiling tech. Redesign the purpose and achieve it as simply as possible.

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Brenna Clarke Gray @brennacgray.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I dream of a world where instead of saying “hey, AI can write this grant exit report no one wants to read” we ask “what is a more meaningful way to report out about grants?” We automate busy work instead of abolishing it and boil the oceans in the process.

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