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Travis Holland @travish.co · 21/03/2026

Wild how inflation charts are presented. You'd think prices by July 2025 are up 2.8% from 2021 instead of compounding annually.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 30/07/2025

I very nearly bought a VW Buzz because *look at it* but ultimately I have no need for a vehicle that size and the price is equally huge.

A promotional image of the VW Buzz, a modern electric vehicle version of the classic Kombi featuring a two tone red/white paint scheme.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 27/06/2025

I'm presenting our research with birdwatchers to understand how information seeking and communication behaviour is changing in this 'serious leisure' hobby #COCE2025

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 27/06/2025

For the final day of the Conference on Communication and the Environment, I'm chairing a session featuring Sohail Dahdal's work on VR for climate action #COCE2025

A male presenter in front of a large PowerPoint headed 'research question': 'How does immersive media, specifically VR, engage youth in climate action?'

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 10/05/2025

Some of the gorgeous Australian birds I spotted today

Two yellow tailed black cockatoos interacting on a tree branch

A pink headed gang gang cockatoo eating berries

A vertical photo of a grey gang gang cockatoo above a pink headed gang gang cockatoo

A white browed scrubwren perched and ready leap

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 29/04/2025

teaching one of my favourite class topics today: cyberpunk

A swirling blue and pink slide with the words 'Puns, Pixels and Cyberpunk' overlaid as well as other graphics like 'glitched' play button, time/date, and liquid metal swirls.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 21/04/2025

Two white faced herons jostle for position on a light pole

Photo: At centre, a square street light with one heron perched on top, wings raised, as another swoops in from the left. Set against a blue sky with some clouds and trees at right.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 10/04/2025

Emus are around where I live but not an everyday sighting

Two emus - one adult and one juvenile - standing in a field of green grass behind some taller wild grass

A family of emus with four juveniles and one adult standing in knee height brown grass

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 26/03/2025

Just found an ABC webpage that seems to have not been updated since 2008 www.abc.net.au/science/prog...

A screenshot of an ABC Australia website called 'Science Podcasts' that bears a distinct 2000s aesthetic.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 17/03/2025

How Nyan Cat became Nyan Cat - it's name was formerly Ryan. A comic by some of my 2nd years looking at memes and participatory media.

14 panel comic drawn on a whiteboard showing a cat named Ryan being left at home with no food before a cosmic kibble meteor lands in its bowl, allowing Ryan to become a rainbow propelled, spacefaring Nyan Cat.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 08/03/2025

Couldn't pass up a chance to produce a LEGO cover for the 2025 Persona Studies rolling issue as we published the first paper yesterday ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps...

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 08/03/2025

Election date speculation fever pitch

Three political journalists confront Prime Minister Albanese. A caption reads: We have been most vocal on the subject of the election.

Three political journalists confront Prime Minister Albanese. A caption reads: When's the election? Why aren't you calling the election?

Three political journalists confront Prime Minister Albanese. A caption reads: Are you not calling the election because of the cyclone?

Three political journalists confront Prime Minister Albanese. A caption reads: and so on.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 15/02/2025

It's wild that we consider these two animals to be the same species. If you found these in the fossil record you'd be lucky to call them the same genera let alone species.

A rottweiler under a cafe table in foreground and a dachshund under a cafe table in background.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 29/01/2025

It was just trying to do a good job.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 26/01/2025

Probably not aliens, doesn't seem like starlink. So what are these three parallel, different coloured lights?

An evening sky with shadowed trees and three faint splotchy coloured lines in the sky.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 15/01/2025

The Simpsons mixes real things with fake things like no one else.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 10/01/2025

The 'brutal critique of capitalism and inequality' to dumpling packet pipeline

An $8.50 packet of frozen dumplings on a supermarket shelf with the Red Light Green Light robot from Squid Game on the packaging

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 02/01/2025

It is very interesting to me that the answer to this question is false, as if it isn't a question for ethical decision-making at all. Answering 2/10 questions incorrectly gets this notified to my supervisors as non-compliant.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 07/12/2024

A slightly wider shot - driveway in the foreground, next street over in the background.

Three kangaroos arranged in size order on a grass patch between a driveway and road

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 07/12/2024

Yes, kangaroos do regularly pass by your house in Australia

Three kangaroos - a male, female and joey - in size order surrounded by grass.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 27/11/2024

Science Gallery Melbourne to wrap #aanzca24

A curved white wall featuring two science fiction artworks, one washed with blue and one with purple, of astronauts

A scrappy outfit of Japanese origin featuring blue coats, hay, and technology. It matches the high-tech, low culture attitude of cyberpunk with Japanese aesthetic. It's a modern Namahage.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 27/11/2024

Joint #AANZCA24 and #JERAA session to wrap up the week

Photo taken from the back side of a mostly full modern semi-circular lecture theatre with several presenters at floor level in front of a decorative slide.

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 26/11/2024

@ysabel.bsky.social about to keynote on youth and social media. Excellent timing for the current Australian political moment #AANZCA24

A woman stands on stage in front of a colourful slide with text: 'The Platform Paradox: Rethinking Youth + Social Media Debates'

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 25/11/2024

Preview for my #AANZCA24 talk tomorrow: I'm figuring out what podcasts are today with all the shifts we're seeing. It's an empirical study of top 50 Australian pods with a theoretical contribution "the podcast assemblage"

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 25/11/2024

Museums as media from Seb Chan of ACMI #aanzca24

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 12/10/2024

Are you a birdwatcher? My colleagues and I want to know how you gather and share information about birds. Complete our survey now at bit.ly/DigitalBirds

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 23/06/2024

Presentation gimmick by Robby Ratan #ica24

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 22/06/2024

I'm in a talk about bird memes: I've found my people. It's by Sining Kong from Texas A&M #ICA24

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 21/06/2024

Who's in the #ICA24 community on BlueSky?

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Travis Holland @travish.co · 13/05/2024

I did not see the aurora. Bad weather Saturday night, then we drove half an hour south of town and up mountains to avoid light pollution Sunday but none showed.

A mostly dark sky with a few small stars.

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