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Alex Beattie

@drlxbt.bsky.social

Media academic 📱 📚 | Dad👨‍👧| Gardener 🍀🌸🌴 | Victoria University of Wellington - Te Herenga Waka

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Alex Beattie@drlxbt.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🚨 New article out in @theconversation.com: As age restrictions on social media spread globally, we may be witnessing the rise of a Victorian internet — one shaped by moral panic, not just child protection. 🔗 theconversation.com/as-social-me...

As social media age restrictions spread, is the internet entering its Victorian era?

Social media bans suggest a resurgence of conservative values in our digital lives. But at what cost to young people’s autonomy, creativity and expression?

theconversation.com

Alex Beattie@drlxbt.bsky.social · last yr.

Done! Co-governance fear-mongering from the organized right is misguided. As a recipient of @internetnz.bsky.social funding, I can say firsthand: there's nothing to fear. In fact, #TeTiriti strengthened my research and made it better.

Byron C Clark@byroncclark.bsky.social · last yr.

Reminder you have until midnight tonight (Monday the 31st) to join Internet New Zealand to be able to vote at the AGM in July, and help stop the Free Speech Union and Hobson's Pledge taking over the organisation www.feijoadispatch.nz/p/free-speec...

Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles@siouxsiew.bsky.social · 2y ago

Seems like the current New Zealand government doesn’t even want overseas funders to fund the country’s humanities and social sciences researchers instead of them.

Dr Lucy Stewart@lcsnz.bsky.social · 2y ago

To be clear - Horizon Europe is a programme which gives our researchers opportunities to be funded *by the EU* to collaborate with European researchers, but because of the differences in funding between NZ and Europe our people need top-ups to meet all their costs (1/2)

Bronwyn Hayward@bmhayward.bsky.social · 2y ago

At a time when the NZ government making concerted attempts to defund social sciences and humanities in favour of a few physical sciences alone, I particularly appreciate this ‘airline safety video’ pitch from Bryony James of VUW

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Dr Gwyn Easterbrook-Smith@drgesmith.bsky.social · 2y ago

Downstream effect of the Marsden cuts: a lot of the fixed term teaching contracts I've been able to pick up have been buy-outs funded via humanities or socsci Marsdens - as well as being devastating for ECR and mid-career academics, this also means a path for the most junior evaporates too

Dr Tara McAllister@taramcallister.bsky.social · 2y ago

As a scientist who has a Marsden through the social sciences panel this is so so so fucked up. It will have massive implications for Māori research being funded.

Bart Janssen@bjjanssen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Government decided they don't want any of the that fancy social science stuff using money that could go into rockets and engineering Politicians pretending to pick winners again - something that has never worked www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...