My paper on consultant-vampires Nous sucking the lifeblood of universities goes into more detail about how these guys operate (co-written with @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.
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So fun! Thanks for having me, Spin Cycle folks!
Some very timely media analysis from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on our latest ep of Spin Cycle with @theshufflediary.bsky.social and @rachelwithers.bsky.social - Listen back to the full show at www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
Whether history repeats, or rhymes, I don't have a good feeling about Munich security conferences....(apologies to Twain)
Listened on pod this morning. Appreciated the discussion of his relevance or not to both cont and analytical phil.
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
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The ol' "it takes one to know one" truism.
The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.
It’s fucking brilliant.
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
A friend to all is a friend to none. 🤔
Santos was fined $10,000 for spilling ~25,000L of oil off WA - it cost them less than a nursing degree.
"In Norway, they tax their oil industry & give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry & charge kids a fortune to go to uni."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Trying to imagine the meeting discussion that eventuated these decisions... 🤨
Chin up, ol' timer.
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
A portrait of President Jimmy Carter, with overlaid color areas in pink, red, & yellow
Portrait of Jimmy Carter by Andy Warhol, 1976. RIP
"Terminal politics brain"; love it! Applied to coverage by most, not all, journos, it unscores an approach to reportage more akin to that of competitive sport team strategies & respective fandom aliances, not something that has daily & material impact on the well being of both citizens & society.
Paying the piper: the governance of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in Australian and UK universities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Best of 2024: Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years
Bravo Jess and Team. Great shows this year. Very well deserved...just as Top 50 next year will be. 👏 👏 👏
Why we fund basic research
"Hey Homeless people, we're going to take away the non-judgemental and unconditional love of your pet so as to be sure you're not distracted from reminders of the judgemental and conditional attention of your fellow human"
"Bad governance in Australia and how to mitigate it"
Just found this article and key lessons are very relevant to countries beyond Australia. Well worth a read.
via @ausjpa.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
