We partnered with 8 other @arc-gov-au.bsky.social CoEs to participate in a friendly competition about creatively communicating research! People's Choice award voting is open now: scienceart.com.au/voting/ Winners will be announced during National Science Week!

Some great new reaction images to use when people are obtuse on BlueSky.

Remember, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were originally audiobooks.

THE ODYSSEY's instantly, predictably enormous success is Exhibit #32176 that the right wing's grievance-farming operation is not some great American cultural shift. Most people don't give a shit about their petty crusades.

DOGE slashed 3/4 of the personnel from the CDC lab that’s supposed to prevent turbodiarrhea outbreaks www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

The CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

wired.com

God I hate it when bad things are funny

Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 3w ago

BREAKING: U.K. reveals Bluesky will be included in the under-16 social media ban, affecting dozens of teens.

Reminder! There are alternatives to Substack! Which do not have its ethical problems! (My newsletter is on Ghost, which is fabulous, and Buttondown is among the others I've heard praised.) Thread--

Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

In interviews people sometimes ask me to sum up what was different for LGBT people in the early nineties when we first set up Pride Scotland. Thanks to @workingclasshistory.com for the reminder that the answer is "The press used to treat all LGBT people as badly as they now treat trans people."

My Bluesky feed is wall to wall Sam Neill and I've never felt happier to be here.

You write your eulogy in life. If you want people to mourn, make your life something to celebrate. If you want people to celebrate, make your life something to mourn.

Morning! Socceroos in extra time, you can see all the way to the ocean, and another glorious hinterland sunrise is on the way

Gonna be some messy watch parties tomorrow morning www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Qld pubs to open early for Socceroos match with special licence

The trial changes to licence laws will allow venues to apply to open from 3am to 7am to broadcast the game.

abc.net.au

Do people not know that there are at least ten musicologists on here who want to explain the answer to your music question to you so badly that they will drop everything to do it?

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

A wonderful example of how touching American humorist prose can be. Reminds me a bit of E.B. White on dogs. 😭

McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last mo.

"You did not paddle through the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to participate in a national metaphor. To you, this was not a site of national remembrance, civic pilgrimage, or the weigh-in for a nationally televised cage match bloodsport. It was simply water."

I am helping @ashwinnag.bsky.social with an important project trying to understand what makes decentralised platforms like Bluesky prosocial. Anyone who sees this message and cares about the state of online platforms is eligible to participate - we'd really appreciate your help.

Ashwin Nagappa@ashwinnag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interim update on the Group concept-mapping study for the Decentered Social project. decenteredsocial.info/1dyd We are now sorting and rating statements from the brainstorming phase. If you have the capacity and are keen to participate, please use this link to join: forms.office.com/r/mMbjjvXgXB

I really wanted this to mean "it is solved by going for a little walk to think about it" because that's so often true for me Solvitur ambulando - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvitu...

I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...

How I Learned to Read Way, Way More

I had to rethink my relationship to attention

johnpaulbrammer.substack.com

Braised white beans with spinach, parmesan, and rocket from the garden on a rainy Saturday

It’s a wrap. Thanks @icahdq.bsky.social staff and all volunteers for a wonderful edition. Thanks for bringing #ica26 to Africa 🌍 See you #ica27 Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Following my usual practice of attending panels outside my usual orbit whether in terms of geography or topic is paying dividends as always. Here to learn new things #ica26

"I was born for the second time when the Iron Curtain was lifted in 1989" @thanitzsch.bsky.social says in personal and profoundly important Presidential Address on academic freedom at #ICA26, noting attacks in his native Germany as well as the US, Hong Kong, destruction in Gaza, and many other cases

Hi. Librarian here. Let me settle this once and for all: audiobooks are reading. Graphic novels are reading. It's all fucking reading. Stop gatekeeping and stfu. Thank you an have a good night.

Tyler, from the Internet@tylerfromtheinternet.com · 2mo ago

I don't care how long we've been mutuals if you pull this shit I will block you

Leading researchers in digital governance & AI ethics from ADM+S & the Centre of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics have released a new policy brief in response to the Australian Government's Issues Paper on a proposed Digital Duty of Care for online services admscentre.org/3ShnlAV

Most. Un. Helpful.

Tim Stephens@proftimstephens.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Patricia Karvelas said on the ABC Politics Now podcast yesterday that she believed Pauline Hanson could be PM. #auspol

Have you ever received a phone call & wondered whether you were speaking to a human or an AI agent? Jean Burgess speaks to ABC Radio host about her recent experience with an AI cold-calling “real estate assistant” admscentre.org/3QaL9pC @jeanburgess.bsky.social #VoiceAI #GenerativeAuthenticity

AI cold-calling “real estate assistant” raises issues of consent, trust and transparency - ADM+S Centre

An ABC Brisbane Radio host has described receiving a cold call from an AI “real estate assistant,” prompting discussion with ADM+S Associate Director Jean Burgess about the implications for transparen...

admscentre.org

It's not quite as simple as an Encyclical "against AI" www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Why the Vatican Invited Anthropic to the Pope’s AI Encyclical Presentation

Pope Leo’s first encyclical marks an unprecedented alliance between the Church and Silicon Valley.

wired.com

This is so good

Brandy Zadrozny@brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i love this kinda thing www.wired.com/story/ai-or-...