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The terrific audio documentaries made by students at the University of Newcastle have been added to the Great Australian Pods Podcast! Listen to Hunter Stories via your favourite podcast app.

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While Vice-Chancellors rake in millions, young researchers & teachers struggle! Australia’s university VCs are among the highest paid in the world. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this should result in better outcomes, but it turns out paying Vice-chancellors more than 7 times as much as ... 1/

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Mary Adams invents rostrum camerawork 87 years ago today. Arguably.

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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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The Great Sydney Skeetup 2025 Saturday 22 February 2025, 12:30pm Great Southern Bar 717 George Street Sydney (In the Great Southern Hotel, opposite the end of Eddy Avenue at Haymarket) #Skeetopia #SydneySkeetup2025 #NoDickheads #GenXClub Tell a friend! Bring a friend!

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A Louisiana mum has been charged with helping her child safely terminate a pregnancy. They will take that good mum & put her in jail. Trans, gay & non-binary kids are being told they won’t be allowed to exist. Qld is following. Sharpen your wits, nails & teeth. Earrings out. It’s on.

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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.

submitted 24 days ago • 126 comments

I suppose Northern Territorians might consider 317kms ‘near’?

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Please enjoy this gang-gang cockatoo just chilling out at the mouth of his nest hollow - ridiculous crest just billowing in the breeze with gay abandon and not a care in the world 🥰🦜🪶🌿🌏🧪

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Opportunity for radio and audio media scholars: sign up to mentor (established scholars) or be mentored (grad students/ECRs)!

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At the end of a terrible day for UK Higher Education, Research Professional News has a damning scorecard of failure, with 750 jobs under threat just at Cardiff, Kent, Durham and the University of East Anglia.

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Nominations are open for 2025 UNHCR SBS Les Murray Award for Refugee Recognition! This award honours a refugee who has fostered understanding and awareness of refugee experiences. The winner receives $10k donated by SBS. Nominate someone by 28/2 bit.ly/4bgNaGw

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Read to the end. The last par is vital.

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Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice. www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...

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Question for #AcademicSky #Skystorians using #Tropy and #Zotero. Does anybody have a clever way of integrating Tropy transcriptions to Zotero? I can copy-paste them as notes but perhaps there is a cleverer way to do this. 🙏

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Today would have been my late brother Steve Connolly's 66th birthday. He left quite a legacy as a musician & lead guitarist with Paul Kelly & The Messengers. A documentary about Steve is in the works. But support is needed to get there. Read about it here.

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So the account Madre Swift Justice @madreswiftjustice copied this photo of mine and posted it without attribution. They have now blocked me. Very rude. It takes me a lot of time, effort and money to get these shots and I don't think it's too much to ask to merely be acknowledged.

submitted 53 days ago • 64 comments

Wow. Just wow.

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Please, queer trivia enthusiasts, the first lesbian kiss ever broadcast on television was in the Australian drama The Box, in it's pilot episode aired on 11 February 1974. The claimed 'first' lesbian kiss in the BBC drama Girl was aired two weeks later on 25 February 1974, a first for the UK.

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Great to see the wonderful independent Australian film Shayda on this excellent list of films directed by women.

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For my final Directed By Women Viewing Guide of the year I've highlighted 73(!) films from 2024 worth seeking out that are available to rent or stream. Read: oldfilmsflicker.substack.com/p/you-dont-r...

submitted 58 days ago • 5 comments

Great story on ABC 7.30 tonight about The Revival House cinema in Perth (Australia) which only screens films on film. I wish I lived nearby! Have you been there @drdrehistorian.bsky.social ?

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Every year on 1 January items come out of copyright & into the public domain. [US & Australia have different (c) laws.] Items that will enter the public domain in Australia include: - unpublished works by authors who died in 1954 - orphan works created in 1954 - govt publications created in 1954

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

Shadow. My @smh @theage cartoon.

submitted 69 days ago • 73 comments

Say his name: Mohamed Baalusha.This one really hurts. He discovered the massacred babies as Al Nasar hospital. Many months ago Mohamed was shot. Then, he was unable to move w an infection. He bravely returned to reporting , only to be killed today. He is abt the 200th journalist killed by US-Israel

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Statement from the Australian Council of Learned Acadamies about the Marsden decision. There's concern across the global research sector about the NZ government's decision to defund key research areas

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I contacted Koala mattresses & furniture to advise I am boycotting them until they stop advertising on the Kyle & Jackie O show. C'mon Koala, if you are truly "committed to creating a brand that is inclusive, respectful, and supportive of all our customers", do the right thing & ditch #vilekyle now.

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On the train…. Made me laugh.

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