New article by @drjessc.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Desert Wogs and Dirty Dagoes: The Role of World War II Australian Soldiers in Shaping Racial Language in Australia

In post–World War II Australia, wog came to be a slur used against predominantly Southern European migrants, such as Italians and Greeks. However, prior to the war, it was used more benignly to ref...

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I've been trying to figure out what could be worse than Ice Ice Baby as the school's morning bell song and it turns out it's Eagle Rock.

We interrupt your (ir)regularly scheduled programming of JAS 50.2 notices to announce that the #CFP for @intlausstudies.bsky.social conference is out now! Join us at Flinders on 9-12 Feb 2027 to discuss "The Cringing Continent"! Abstracts due: 17 August 2026 For more details: tinyurl.com/4hnn6k8v

Call for Papers: ‘The Cringing Continent’, InASA Conference for 2027

The Cringing Continent 2027 InASA Conference Tuesday 9—Friday 12 February Flinders University, Adelaide In February 2027, we invite you to join us on Kaurna Country to reconsider one of the foundat…

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K/Gamilaroi scholar Bindi Bennett interrogates how AI generates troubling images of Indigenous Australians. What would ethical AI look like if it centred #Indigenous authority, relational accountability and self-determination in digital spaces? #OzStudies #AIethics tinyurl.com/y8kwhjas

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“Does It Really Matter?” Foreskins and Circumcision in Australian Nudism

In reply to several letters from readers, the editor of Australian Sun & Health, a nudist magazine, asked, “Does it really matter?” This question arose regarding circumcision and the foreskin after...

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50.2 of JAS is out but the cover is too saucy for Bluesky. The cover image is taken from Max Dupain’s Cronulla nudes series. You can see it on our website: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjau20/c... #OzStudies #OzPhotography #Dupain

i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

blair@blairaf.com · 2mo ago

One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

The World Cup is less than a month away, and it is worth revisiting Zoë Jay's recent article about liberal enjoyment and global mega events. It's #OpenAccess and has a great video abstract! ⤵️ buff.ly/izRmTCW

I would 100% go to dinner at Dr Space Junk's house.

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman)@drspacejunk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Dinner: blue cheese and Iced VoVo Tim Tams (separately)

A productive use of my caffeine-fuelled fever dream that is the Sunday of the #Eurovision grand final. Tldr: Bulgaria is a great win, Delta diplomacy was a thing, and the EBU have to actually take action theconversation.com/eurovision-2...

Eurovision 2026: a win for Bulgaria, fourth for Australia, and continued controversy for broadcasters

The Eurovision Song Contest 2026 was marked by great music, and by continuing controversy over Israel’s participation.

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Hands up if you are a university lecturer being told by your leadership that you must teach your students how to use genAI - but you really don’t want to, as you know they useless and harmful

You lived it. You have the physical and emotional memories of what it took to create it, including and especially the sacrifices. You didn't just generate text. You, a person, thought and wrote. When someone steals your writing, they're claiming all of that for themselves.

I mean: Delta. Fourth. It was inevitable, and this is why we need to teach Classics.

New article in Review of International Studies ‘If it makes you happy, it can’t be that bad’: Liberal enjoyment and complicity in popular culture. Zoë Jay #FanStudies www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Using archaeology as just a word erases actual archaeologists, as if we don’t exist, ignoring the history and scholarship of the discipline. Space archaeology has been around for 25 years. We study the human adaptations, technologies and ideologies that interact with outer space. 🧪 🏺

At @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social today: #Eurovision ‘s world-leading production design has launched creative careers - but in what political context? blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2...

Will Eurovision 2026 be overshadowed by politics?

Questions of ethics and politics are likely to weigh more heavily on the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest than technology, music and design.

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"Writing isn’t just the production of sentences – it’s the training of endurance by way of sustained attention. It’s a way of learning what one thinks by attempting to say it."

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3mo ago

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment | Micah Nathan

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

Look, we all know that this is something people do, but, Tony, my man, you saying this as an MP kinda has an air of campaigning by a state. You might want to hold back in this particular political climate and just leave at wishing Delta all the best. 🤦‍♀️ #Eurovision

Eurovoix@eurovoix.com · 3mo ago

🇦🇺 #Australia: Australian Government Partly Funding Delta’s Eurovision Performance eurovoix.com/2026/05/07/a...

This is great! Also, how to support an academic: - read their papers - cite their articles and books - tell your friends and students about their work - include their work in your reading lists and syllabi - ask your library to buy their books - tell them you liked their work or that it was helpful

Avonna Loves Genres@agkersh123.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At first glance, I read this as Emma Thompson being an oil painting of a unicorn and the human goodness of Paradise, but am I wrong, though?

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 3mo ago

Emma Thompson, an oil painting of a unicorn, the human goodness of “Paradise,” and more culture favorites from senior editor Dan Zak:

Look, if JD wants to get into a theological debate with an Augustinian about just war theory...

a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch

Alt: a man in a striped sweater is sitting on a couch. He reaches for popcorn and relaxes back to watch the show

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Shoe@shoe.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"The Pope is incorrect on matters of theology" is excommunication time. H/t @jumulojimbus.bsky.social

A little something I wrote. Taking a deep dive into the song and Dolce's made me rethink its significance.

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 4mo ago

Joe Dolce’s Shaddap You Face has been inducted into the National Film and Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia. How can we best understand this song in 2026? 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/is-shad...

There are phone tasks and laptop tasks and I'm dying on this hill. I'm dying on this hell because I'm old and stressed my heart climbing said hill, but still.

JP@johnathanperk.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Somebody said millennials usually use their laptops (instead of smartphones) for major purchases, including booking flights. I can’t stop thinking about this.

This CFP is open for one more week! Get your proposals in by Monday 30 March. #CFP #OzStudies

Journal of Australian Studies@jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 5mo ago

To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50. Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide! @intlausstudies.bsky.social #CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies

Harriet Taylor Mill officially recognised as co-author of 'On Liberty'! dailynous.com/2026/03/19/o...

“On Liberty” Now Officially Has Two Authors - Daily Nous

An edition of On Liberty published this month is the first to officially name Harriet Taylor Mill as a co-author alongside John Stuart Mill. The new volume is edited by Piers Norris Turner (Ohio State...

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Like I'm going to advertise that publicly so it goes on my file - ha! Besides, I live next to a school that uses music as its bell - I am trained for this.

a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

ALT: a close up of a man 's face in a car with a woman behind him .

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america’s local band cheekface@cheekface.bsky.social · 5mo ago

fuck your desert island disc, I want to know your Guantanamo bay song. what song would the government use to torture you at a Black Site

Today in the life of a feminist killjoy: suggesting to a colleague that maybe putting colleagues' photos into ChatGPT isn't actually cool, hey

a woman in a white wig says " every party has a pooper "

Alt: A woman in a white wig (Moira Rose from Schitt's Creek) says "every party has a pooper"

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