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Lauren Pikó

@booklearning.bsky.social

Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com

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Lauren Pikó@booklearning.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is very sad. Any time I've lived in Melbourne and needed escape from grief, trauma, life crises, I would go to Marios, where Massimo was a genuinely comforting presence. One stressful day, as he served my meal he suggested I close my book and really relax over my dinner. He was right of course.

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Lauren Pikó@booklearning.bsky.social · 4w ago

My former academic library has just been collected for New International Bookshop ahead of their Big Red Book Fair on 18 July at Trades Hall, 54 Victoria St Carlton. Go give my old books good homes 💜

Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Always, always pause when reading something that doesn't make any sense and think ... my own version was a sentence about reading dialectical materialism as a guide to gaining confidence talking to women. It might be madness but, you know, it's nearly always interesting if you follow it.

Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the most important influences of The Cheese and the Worms was to notice the odd turn of phrase or the thing that doesn't make sense in a document and poke at it. I always loved that bit at the beginning about the sentence in the Inquisition about putrefaction that he went back to years later.

Radical Online Archives@radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A whole bunch of new collections of radical online archives listed. Check out this 🧵 #historians #archives 🗃️

Radical Online Archives@radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New collections added, part 1 • Land Rights News (Aboriginal land rights newsletter, 1970s-2010s) • Caribbean News (British anti-colonial newspaper, 1950s) • Black and Feminist Collections at the Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth (Brazilian social movements) hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

his comrades address him with a look of amazement. "extraordinary! You don't even seem to mind this awful uncertainty!" My friend could have answered that, despite the popular prejudice, the mental climate of research is not so unsympathetic to ready acceptance of the lottery of fate.Even in action, we are far too prone to judge. It is so easy to denounce. WE are never sufficiently understanding. Whoever differs form us -- a foreigner or a political adversary -- is almost inevitably considered evil. A little more understanding of people would be necessary merely for guidance, in the conflicts which are unavoidable; all the more to prevent them while there is yet time. If history would only renounce its false angelic airs, it would help us to cure this weakness. It includes a vast experience of human diversities, a continuous contact with men. Life, like science, has everything to gain from it, if only these contacts be friendly.This is in all honesty to acknowledge the subordination of the perspectiv to the peculiar angle of the inquiry. Moreover, lt us take care: in history, the fetish of single cause is all too often only the insidious form of search for the responsible person -- hence a value judgment. The judge expresses it as: 'who is right, and who is wrong?' The scholar is content to ask: 'why?' and he accepts the fact that the answer may not be simple. Whether as a prejudice of common sense, a postulate of logicians, or a habit of prosecuting attorneys, the monism of cause can be, for history, only an impediment. History seeks for causal wavetrains and is not afraid, since life shows them to be so, to find them multiple.
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

a machine that can fill in the gaps in the archives! this is distilled essence of so much of the techno-utopianism around LLMs and research. it fundamentally misunderstands: the *gaps* are the meaning. history is not the past, it is the processes of recording, then interpreting those records

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Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

Lauren Pikó@booklearning.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just disability things: I have a lovely new mechanical keyboard which feels very satisfying, sounds quiet, and is pleasingly colourful. However I can't use it right now because I'm too sick to move my hands enough to press down keys without the effort making me too tired to type at all. 🙃

Antipoverty Centre@antipovertycentre.org · 2mo ago

And let’s not forget the crucial role of Redbridge in message testing how accusations of “fraud” in the NDIS would land with the community on behalf of Bill Shorten. This myth didn’t grow from a single seed, it was a concerted campaign by the people who claim the loudest to support disabled people.

Amy Remeikis@amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Disabled Australians and their families are being screwed over by bullshit numbers thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

Lauren Pikó@booklearning.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Elizabeth Malcolm was my honours supervisor, immensely generous and kind during a horrific time of my life. I still have copies of Patrick O'Farrell's books she recommended to me, after she described how his work had influenced her own. Good teaching is a gift that keeps giving over time and space.

The passing of Elizabeth Malcolm

19 May 2026. Elizabeth Malcolm died peacefully in Melbourne following a long illness aged 77. Elizabeth was the inaugural Gerry Higgins professor of Irish Studies at the University of Melbourne. Sh…

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Yung En Chee@yungenchee.bsky.social · 2mo ago

"The Healing Foundation, an advocacy group that represents survivors, commissioned a report in 2025 titled Are you waiting for us to die?The unfinished business of Bringing Them Home, which found that only 5 out of 83 recommendations had been implemented." 5 out of 83 recommendations in ~3 decades

El Gibbs@bluntshovels.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'Speaking on Sorry Day, Professor Dodson said the government's lack of action indicated two things: "I don't think they care, and secondly, maybe they're just waiting for all the survivors to die out so the problem goes away," the Yawuru elder said.' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...