Maureen Gallagher
@maureenogallagher.bsky.social
Academic. Immigrant. Feminist Killjoy. Cat Fancier. Lecturer in German Studies at Australian National University. Not in Kansas anymore.
Just in case you needed more evidence that attacks on “wokeness” and “gender ideology“ were never going to stop with just trans people. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Mentions of ‘gender’ scrubbed from Queensland Office for Women website amid alleged effort to ‘dewokify’
Comparisons of live and archived pages show more than 20 mentions have been removed, including in reference to the gender pay gap
theguardian.com
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Come join us @ourANU for a symposium in November on the topic of grandparents. Hurry, abstracts are due the end of July! Please share.
If Odysseus had spent less time on forever wars in Troy and more time on issues affecting white working-class citizens of Ithaca, then maybe Penelope's suitors wouldn't have tried to kill him.
As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water
Deakin University has called off its disastrous restructure, after their vice-chancellor unexpectedly resigned in the middle of it. It’s a huge win for staff, obviously, but how bad is governance in Australian higher education? Absolute clown show
Massive governance failure at the ANU where the executive made up a financial crisis to justify redundancies. We were put through hell for nothing
NTEU ACT@nteuact.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe ANAO report on #ANU is out. Careers were destroyed, livelihoods lost, lives wrecked and people damaged - for what? @nteunion.bsky.social members stood up for the ANU and won. Join at www.nteu.au/join. ✊️
The Auditor General’s office has released a damning report about ANU finances. There was no financial rationale for the scope and scale of the proposed cuts and Council did not adequately understand the underlying financials or explore alternatives. So they put all of us through hell for no reason.
The ANAO report on #ANU is out. Careers were destroyed, livelihoods lost, lives wrecked and people damaged - for what? @nteunion.bsky.social members stood up for the ANU and won. Join at www.nteu.au/join. ✊️
Today, union members at #ANU unanimously endorsed claims on healthy workloads, better job security, fair pay and more that the @nteunion.bsky.social will take to the bargaining table later this year. To win the working conditions you deserve, join NTEU today at www.nteu.au/join! ✊
Hundreds of #ANU staff met today to endorse an ambitious vision for a better ANU. Staff working conditions are student learning conditions. More than that - staff and students *are* the ANU. ✊
NTEU ACT@nteuact.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday, union members at #ANU unanimously endorsed claims on healthy workloads, better job security, fair pay and more that the @nteunion.bsky.social will take to the bargaining table later this year. To win the working conditions you deserve, join NTEU today at www.nteu.au/join! ✊
A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”
a swarm of spring bugs@facefullabugs.bsky.social · 5mo agoLove the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got
The @modernlanguage.bsky.social sometimes gets a bad rap (probably because of our collective job searching/hotel room interview trauma), but they, along with the ACLS and the AHA, went beyond statements and actually sued the Trump administration over the revocation of NEH grants and won.
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...
DOGE’s Termination of Humanities Grants Is Ruled Unconstitutional
nytimes.com
On Tuesday morning @nteunion.bsky.social's @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social came together with Alicia Payne MP, @davidpocock.bsky.social, ANUSA's Aurora Neumann, former ANU VC Ian Chubb, ANU academic Liz Allen, & Thomas Emerson MLA. United in calling for good governance, and protecting staff, at #ANU. ✊
Want to know what's going on at #ANU? We've got you covered. TLDR: the problem is ANU Council, not the IVC. #sackANUcouncil Join @nteunion.bsky.social today to stand up for better university governance at www.nteu.au/join. ✊️ youtu.be/Jn9DtvnjYNc
The problem is ANU Council, not the Interim Vice-Chancellor: here's what's going on at the ANU
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This is unprecedented. The regulator clearly does not trust ANU Council to pick Julie Bishop's successor, but the question remains - if ANU Council can't be trusted, why are the appointed members still there? @nteunion.bsky.social wants stronger #ANU governance.
Rules for how the next ANU chancellor will be appointed have been decided
Leaders want a robust and transparent process.
canberratimes.com.au
“I am left wondering if we will ever see ANU Council and university leaders take responsibility and face accountability for what has happened.” @nteunion.bsky.social says time for #ANU Council to go. region.com.au/anus-125m-bu...
ANU's $125 million budget improvement shows financial crisis overstated, job cuts unnecessary, says union | Region Canberra
The ANU's staff union has seized on the university's much-improved budget position, calling the controversial redundancy program designed to save…
region.com.au
We're told that the reason to have a council full of bankers and businesspeople is to ensure responsible fiscal management of a complex university, but it turns out they got the numbers wrong by more than $100 million over two years. If I were this bad at my job I would have been sacked long ago.
NTEU ACT@nteuact.bsky.social · 4mo agoOver two years, #ANU overestimated their deficits by $125m - and sacked hundreds. In 2024, they overestimated the deficit by $60m. Now, @nteunion.bsky.social has found they overestimated it by $65m in 2025 too. ANU Council must be accountable. #spillandfill
Over two years, #ANU overestimated their deficits by $125m - and sacked hundreds. In 2024, they overestimated the deficit by $60m. Now, @nteunion.bsky.social has found they overestimated it by $65m in 2025 too. ANU Council must be accountable. #spillandfill
Staff concerned over damaging Renew program as deficit decreases by millions
'There would need to be "major investment" in research...
canberratimes.com.au
FDA Loosens Restrictions On Dousing Children With Synthetic Peptides Until Something Happens https://theonion.com/fda-loosens-restrictions-on-dousing-children-with-synthetic-peptides-until-something-happens/
How about I offer my university some strategic consultation for free right now? It's cheaper to just NOT DO STUPID SHIT than it is to pay for crisis PR.
ANU crisis costs continue to mount
ANU's multifaceted crisis has cost a previously unreported $250,000 between crisis PR and TEQSA's governance review.
themandarin.com.au
It's not exactly fun when your university becomes the poster child for dysfunctional university governance, but this is absolutely critical reporting by the ABC.
Campus Chaos
Four Corners is the home of Australian investigative journalism.
abc.net.au
Looks like the @nteuact.bsky.social was right all along
No clear evidence ANU's course and job cuts were needed, draft report finds
ANU's council approved a massive $250 million cost-cutting program without clear evidence it was needed or achievable, according to an assessment in a draft audit office report.
abc.net.au
the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.
Effie Seiberg@effies.bsky.social · 5mo ago"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
