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lizhumphrys.bsky.social
UTS Political Economist of work and labour, especially climate change impacts on WHS. Associate at Centre Future Work & Editor Social Movement Studies. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈
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@theelrr.bsky.social oh hai friends 👋

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Deep thanks to @desibility.bsky.social for working with me on this essay. I'm so happy to be given a space to talk about what the past 6 months have looked like me, from a long time in the hospital, losing my ability to walk, and now - although mostly trapped - home.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

An overview of my latest research published by the Centre for Future Work, setting our what the Commonwealth is doing to ensure workers safety due to climate change — especially extreme heat and heatwaves.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

New pod ep alert! I joined @withsobersenses.bsky.social and @jonpiccini.bsky.social for a discussion about the Albanese Government, the ACTU and their placing of the CFMEU under administration. thewordfromstrugglestreet.wordpress.com/2025/02/03/l...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I just found out that the awesome @bluntshovels.bsky.social was named today as co-chair (with Dougie Herd) of the newly formed NDIS Reform Advisory Committee, by Minister Bill Shorten. I’m thrilled for her, and that such a strong advocate for (us) disabled people was appointed

submitted 43 days ago • 8 comments

Today I went to a pub and socialised with @nondescriptive.bsky.social @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social @markriboldi.bsky.social and another friend for SIX hours and it is like someone has turned us all into extroverts. Who even are we anymore?!

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

What if I also regret making grand plans about updating my two subjects this semester?!?

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

But what if I don’t want to be back at work?

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

TV recommendation: Somebody Somewhere was so wonderful, well worth watching if you’ve not started it yet.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Tim’s reading my mind again…

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Not long before Xmas a very dear friend Andrea Maksimovic availed herself of the assisted dying provisions in Victoria. Here is the obit some of our friends wrote for her, which highlights her activism and work in labour rights www.smh.com.au/national/unu...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Just made my Dad belly laugh by telling him my and other unis have changed the name of HR departments to the ‘People Unit’. God I’m my father’s daughter 😆

submitted 53 days ago • 9 comments

Research published by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START, at the University of Maryland, finds that the strongest predictor of carrying out extremist violence inside the country is serving in the US military. theintercept.com/2025/01/02/m...

submitted 54 days ago • 2 comments

My little kitty is really sick and has been back and forth to the emergency vet. Just so you know, injecting a cat with a fever with 50ml of fluid and keeping the equipment sterile and the poor kitty immobile is SO MUCH HARDER THAN IT LOOKED when the vet did it on the toy cat to show me.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments