Mathieu O'Neil
@mathieuon.bsky.social
Professor of communication, News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra, Ngunnawal country • Director, Digital Commons Policy Council • Civic information literacy for schools • Political economy of digital commons • https://dcpc.info/actions/
Aaaannd... he got the nom! Good job Bob!
Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last mo.Abdul El-Sayed is Blues Clues posting his way to the senate
Bravo #ABC and #FourCorners! For stunning forensic research showing 'ltalian tomatoes' come from Xinjiang, and/or use slave labour. Public interest journalism at its finest! Exposing food mafias and how trusted Aus food brands misrepresent their content is one thing - now the #ALP must act! #auspol
Miriam Cosic@miriamcosic.bsky.social · last wk.Scary stuff, and such basic food: A Four Corners investigation has uncovered products whose labels did not match independent scientific testing, raising serious questions about the integrity of Australia's food supply. #FourCorners #food #integrity www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
(By way of comparison) the 2026 fires in France have consumed 42,000 hectares; 77,000 in Spain. The 2019-2020 Australian bush fires burned 24 MILLION hectares or 240,000 square km. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2...
2019–20 Australian bushfire season - Wikipedia
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This was me in 2023, quoted in Nature. Now see how things are going. When will the academic community wake up collectively & notice what is done to our scientific eco system. Resits. Organize. Refuse to play along. Fight slop. Take principled stands. 🖋️ openletter.earth/open-letter-...
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 3y ago"LLMs are too ethically murky to include in scientific publishing. A main concern lies in the way LLMs work: by trawling Internet content without concern for bias, consent or copyright, says Iris van Rooij, a cognitive scientist at Radboud University …” www.nature.com/articles/d41... 1/2
Jewish Australian Yasmin Johnson, organiser of pro-Palestinian Uni encampments, rejects claim that calling out Israel for ‘genocide’ is antisemitic & calls out Jillian Segal for engaging in “genocide denial and racism” after she spread false facts on the Gaza death toll.💥🔥 #auspol
#Oyer 'urged senators to not “degrade our justice system further” by promoting Blanche [who uses] 'law enforcement... to pursue petty grudges harbored by the president. These pointless vendettas are wasting our scarce resources and destroying DoJ’s credibility.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Ex-DoJ lawyer fired by Todd Blanche urges senators to reject nomination
Liz Oyer tells of how she refused to ‘rubber-stamp a political favor’ in gun rights case involving Trump ally Mel Gibson
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Probably not the only person who feels that way
Annette Gordon-Reed@agordonreed.bsky.social · 3w agoDon’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.
No pundit mention infrastructure: the French staff made sure to play all games until now in the North-East. The team returned to base camp after every game. By contrast the Morocco team had travelled 6 (six) times as much. Much less time for recovery and training. They were exhausted. #worldcup
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Rachel Pope@prehistorian.bsky.social · 4w ago“In a letter to the Office for Students, which distributes the funding, Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, said funding should no longer be given to support nursing, computing, history, creative arts, performing arts, archaeology, and geography courses.” removepaywalls.com/https://www....
The photo “confirms what thousands of testimonies from Palestinian detainees have exposed, and what we and other organisations have been reporting for nearly three years now: Israeli detention facilities are torture camps for Palestinians.”
Photo of bound Palestinian detainee corroborates Israeli torture reports, say rights groups
Image of man in underwear, blindfold and bound to iron rod has been widely shared on social media
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PREDICTION TIME! The team that wins the France vs Morocco (vs Argentine refs?) game will win the #WorldCup #mundial PS. I did not watch the Egypt vs Argentina game so agnostic about whether it was a robbery or not but NYC Mayor #Mamdani seems confident it was. thecomeback.com/soccer/zohra...
Zohran Mamdani breaks silence on Lionel Messi's win: 'Egypt were robbed'
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani jokes that "Egypt were robbed" in its loss to Argentina in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Can that same someone also inform #worldcup commentator #ellenellard that "p" and "t" are NOT pronounced at the end of French words like #Deschamps and "croissant"? Thanks!
Garrett Wollman@gwollman.bsky.social · 7mo agoSomeone please tell Ellen Ellard and Chad Salmela that it's *Simon*. Not Simone. Not Simonne. *Simon*. And for Chad specifically: Julia, not Yulia. French, not German.
The IPA has been spreading "climate skeptic" propaganda for a LONG time... #auspol www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
TALKING POINTS AMMO
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) is an Australian neoliberal think tank and high-profile news source that rejects the evidence of anthropogenic climate change and opposes mitigation strategies...
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Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · last mo.How the bloomin’ heck did I miss that @punterspolitics.bsky.social did a video on the IPA?! This is excellent. You can see how…wild Daniel Wild is. The current exec director comes across as rabid. See my piece below for how much more unhinged he performs cf peers. #Auspol youtu.be/0yFKNtpBkv8?...
Merchants of doubt astroturfin' for their billionaire bosses, Australian edition: the infamous Institute of Public Affairs (IPA)
Lucy Hamilton@lucyham.bsky.social · last mo.How the bloomin’ heck did I miss that @punterspolitics.bsky.social did a video on the IPA?! This is excellent. You can see how…wild Daniel Wild is. The current exec director comes across as rabid. See my piece below for how much more unhinged he performs cf peers. #Auspol youtu.be/0yFKNtpBkv8?...
Still unclear to me why Scotland and Wales get to compete in the World Cup. Catalunya also has a parliament, Corsica also has a strong identity. Like the above-mentioned they are part of a larger state which issues passports... so why can't they have teams?
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Canberra pub, when Hokit said 'Michelle O is a man' two guys burst out laughing, it was the funniest thing they heard. One wearing a Trump t-shirt. Partly sexism-racism, partly knowing the [US] libs will be pissed but mostly dumb because... it's not funny? #auspol www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
Trump’s White House UFC fights marred by ugly Michelle Obama smear
Justin Gaethje stunned Ilia Topuria in the main event as a night of military pageantry, political theater and cage fighting veered into conspiracy-laden culture-war rhetoric
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Playing the Guardian bracketology game l ended up with these semi-finals: France vs Spain and Portugal vs England (IF England beat Morocco and Portugal beat Argentina: those could go either way). #worldcup #mundial #mondial www.theguardian.com/football/ng-...
Bracketology: predict a path to World Cup victory
Click your way through the group stage and the knockouts to crown champion
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Call for Proposals! Information resilience in/and/for the Australian Curriculum
Pathways to Democratic Information Resilience - University of Canberra
Pathways to Democratic Information Resilience Symposium 18-19 November 2026, University of Canberra. Bringing together educators, researchers and policymakers to advance civic media and information l...
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Sickening footage of NSW police kicking and pepper spraying a naked schizophrenic woman having a psychotic episode only one example of misconduct... #4corners #auspol
Barbara Flowers@babsflowers.bsky.social · 2mo agoHas there ever been a time when NSW police weren't known for their violence and/ or corruption? #4corners