A joy to have @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social visiting Brisbane and be able to speak together about our work with @bleiker.bsky.social for the @visualpolitics.bsky.social series last week! Recording is now available

Roland Bleiker@bleiker.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here a video of our recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith) discussing their collaboration about images of childhood as technologies in the governance of political violence. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

Please join us in person or online to hear @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social and @hmberents.bsky.social discuss their research collaboration about images of childhood as technologies of governance. Wed 22 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 5mo ago

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’

Gee, ya think.

Reuters@reuters.com · 5mo ago

Exclusive: Prior to Iran attacks, CIA assessed Khamenei would be replaced by hardline IRGC elements if killed, sources say reut.rs/4l9SCAs

Postdoc alert! I'm looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (2 years) to work on my historically focused ARC project, “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees." Please share widely. jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/56...

Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia

Classification: Academic Level ASalary package: $89,313 – $112,103 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: Part time, Fixed Term, up to 28hrs per week. (2 years) Outstanding opportunity to work on a p...

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Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...

Look I am not a fan of this arrangement but isn't their head of state King Charles www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

It’s been two years since Hind Rajab was murdered. The car she was in hit over 300 times with bullets. This week the IOF recognised the Gazan Health Ministry’s official death toll. 70,000+. 70,000 Hinds. All of whom lived lives. All of whom should still be alive.

I am recruiting! Two 4-year postdoc fellow positions for 'Technology and the (future) Human in War: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2... #jobs #academicjob

Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Technology and the (future) Human in War x2 Ref: 43027 & 43028 (Fixed Term) - Job page - University of Sussex Job Search

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When I wanted my interests in global politics and baking to intersect, I didn’t mean it to happen like this! Unfortunately can now imagine an article called something like: Add a pinch of capitalist imperialism and stir: performative baking and the re-emergence of global fascism

Abdohassan@abdohassan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On the left, Republicans in Congress celebrate the impending invasion of Greenland by making a cake shaped like the territory, in 2026. On the right, Nazis present a cake to Hitler to celebrate the impending invasion of the Caucasus, Baku and its oil refineries, in 1942.

For the past 25 years there has never been a national security law that has done anything other than to give more power to cops and spooks and to ministers to stifle anyone who disagrees with the status quo.

What's Ahead for YPS in 2026: No Quick Fix Marking two years of writing the YPS Observer (and my 3rd annual year-ahead post) here is what I'll be watching on #youth4peace. open.substack.com/pub/theypsob...

What's Ahead for YPS in 2026: No Quick Fix

I often describe myself as a pragmatic optimist; my capacity for persistence is grounded in hope oriented towards the kinder, safer world I want to build. However, such sentiments have been sorely tes...

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All of this and not a single cent of funding towards community based deradicalisation programs, support groups for families of radicalised people, harm reduction, anti-racist and respectful relationships programs in schools etc. State oppression is apparently the only answer.

Absolutely wild. Australia already hugely uncompetitive globally for research funding environment. This just seems destined to dig the hole deeper

ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

⁉️The ARC has delayed outcomes of ALL grants 1–4 months & increased scheduled outcome windows from 2 weeks to 3 months! This reverses 4 years of progress in providing greater certainty & ability to plan for researchers, their families & unis. Their excuse? Security checks under new ARC legislation👇

TMC again with the words. So well put.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.” David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.

Universities and the arts after Bondi: from definitions to “ambient antisemitism” - Overland literary journal

The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah from its upcoming Writers’ Week gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.

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You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.

Jay@jdbatts79.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Remember how appalled we all were in 2022 when Russia completely unprovoked attacked Ukraine? That is what we’re doing tonight with Venezuela. We are the bad guys here. Everyone who supports this is supporting unprovoked murder. Fuck every last one of them

Caracas is a densely populated capital city of millions of Caraqueños just trying to live their life. This is a horrific attack on a civilian centre with no warning and violating law. Remember when the geopolitics-crowd get going w their hot takes that once again it’s innocent ppl who bear the brunt

14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.

Duncan Bell@duncanbell.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "

David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

Thank goodness for journalists like @davemilbo.bsky.social who will actually critically think and offer us ways of making sense of the world, rather than most Aussie journos this week regurgitating right wing, Zionist talking points that make hay out of tragedy and do not help anyone understand.

David Milner@davemilbo.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"

This is a chilling effort of silencing dissent and will have pernicious and damaging effects across schooling, higher ed, creative industries and more. To push this through by capitalising on a tragedy while families, friends, and broader society are grieving is ghoulish opportunism

marque lawyers@marquelawyers.com.au · 8mo ago

The Coalition's new policy on compulsory social cohesion has been released.

Annual call for feedback for the Academic Workload Tracker if you've been using it before @brkeogh.bsky.social updates it for 2026! He's also added a link you can fill in your details to be notified when it is updated. If you've never used it before, then here is my STRONG ENCOURAGEMENT to do so!

Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's reaching that time of year again where I update the Academic Workload Tracker so people can use it in 2026. If you used it in 2025, please let me know any bugs you encountered, things you wanted that weren't there, or just nice things about how valuable it was. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Anyone trying to make political capital from this sickening attack on Sydney's Jewish community should be ashamed of themselves.

RanTLaw@rantlaw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm

You don’t have to look hard in Australia to see how the politicisation of childhood as a time of life is wielded by power hungry politicians. Children—simultaneously too innocent to scroll instagram and always already potentially delinquent with ‘adult’ consequences required.

The Albanese govt's failure to overturn the Morrison government's $50,000 arts degrees can only mean one of two things: - they're happy with LNP higher ed policy, or - they are far more interested in just holding power than doing anything useful with it. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

David Pocock condemns delay in establishing job ready graduates body to end $50,000 arts degrees

Senator accuses the government of not treating reform with ‘urgency it deserves’ – with no modelling done on the cost of reversing or replacing the JRG scheme

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