Sharing my first ever criminology article, written in the very best of company: The dangerisation of drill music in Western Sydney: cultural signifiers, pre-crime policing and the decline of the presumption of innocence doi.org/10.1080/1034...

The dangerisation of drill music in Western Sydney: cultural signifiers, pre-crime policing and the decline of the presumption of innocence

Despite Australian legal systems being underpinned by a presumption of innocence that reserves punishment for individuals found guilty of committing crimes, laws such as the Crimes (Criminal Organi...

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I was just told my classes are a little bit punk and I think this is the best teaching evaluation of my career.

Alexis Kallio@aakallio.bsky.social · 3y ago

Improvising about dogs and Halloween and the sea and all kinds of other things with great people to round out the academic year

Improvising about dogs and Halloween and the sea and all kinds of other things with great people to round out the academic year

Next month, the 8th SIMM-posium will be hosted by the Creative Arts Research Institute and the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, in a close collaboration with the international research platform SIMM (Social Impact of Music Making). Details on our forum: amps.org.au/2023/10/24/8...

Walk between campuses in 31 degree glorious sunshine!

A large proportion of college courses are taught by people who are hired for 1 or 2 terms at a time (but can teach in the same role for years), who do not receive benefits, and, in many cases, do not earn a living wage for their work

Read the referendum news mid-air. I am so sorry, my Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander friends and colleagues. I hope at least that this means we can no longer gloss over our problems with such ease, and can begin working towards treaty in earnest.

Goodbye Cape Town! Goodness how beautiful you are…

Post-conferencing and still laughing! With @kennyailbhe.bsky.social

What a conference! CDIME brought together the perfect blend of criticality and community, lament and laughter! … also took such very good musicocultural care of us all!

In a rather gentrified and beautified prison for the cultural diversity in music education conference - setting the stage for politics and tensions and change

No more NIT-picking! #DiscoveryIndigenous #IN24 was last scheme where ARC asked (some) to-be-funded applicants to edit National Interest Test statements. With IN24 outcomes out, NIT-picking is dead. NIT itself lives on, but within peer review, not ARC CEO or Minister's whim.

And my first survey in 9 years is live! There may be hope for my 3 years of statistics training yet…

I was on a podcast, raving about my job and nerding out about methodology open.spotify.com/show/5lG2K3H...

Trying to put together a survey for the first time in a decade or so and am just fighting endlessly with technology. Give me an interview any day!

Urgent housing request: 2 bedrooms or unit/house for an Afghan refugee family to rent <$500pw for their first 6-12+ weeks in Australia, from early-mid September. Ideally Brisbane Inner Southside down to Logan.

I have 3 tertiary degrees including a PhD. This, however, is terrifyingly mind boggling…

Without a better way to start this account, here’s Rusty ready for the weekend!