Just came across the term 'tradigital' and I immediately hate it with a fiery passion.
01.03.2026 12:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@mikejonesphd.bsky.social
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Just came across the term 'tradigital' and I immediately hate it with a fiery passion.
01.03.2026 12:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This! Stop batch labeling everything βAIβ and start using the name of the actual tool. The AI hype cycle does nothing to help disambiguate the ramifying harmful effects of extractive technologies from everything else.
20.02.2026 23:37 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0This isn't a sales pitch. Just a reminder to people who get chronic migraines that there are new treatments available. If in Aus there are criteria you need to meet to get them on the PBS, but for me it's been totally worth it. After 30 years of migraines, it's been absolutely life changing. (3/3)
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Eletriptan helped relieve the pain during an attack, but I was taking a lot every month, they made me super drowsy, and I often got rebound migraines or other rebound headaches.
Then I tried a CGRP treatment (Ajovy) and I now haven't had a single significant migraine for more than 12 months. (2/3)
Hey fellow chronic migraine sufferers. If you haven't tried them yet, I recommend talking to your doctor about CGRP medications: www.migraine.org.au/cgrp.
From 18-48, I got a severe migraine that lasted about 48 hours every 2-6 weeks. I tried multiple preventers and none of them worked. (1/3)
Cartoon. Person says to other person βWe invented a robot that answers questions.β, adding, βwe just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a dayβ. The other person asks βBut it answers the questions correctly?β Person responds βOh my goodness, no. No no no no no.β By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text
12.02.2026 13:44 β π 12661 π 4123 π¬ 3 π 61Highlighted statistics: 69% disagreed that 'Senior management considers employee psychological health to be as important as productivity.' 73% disagreed that risks to their psychological health are actively monitored. 82% of participants ranked high or very high in emotional exhaustion.
Australian University Census of Staff Wellbeing is now out - some shocking stats!
Census WEBSITE for more info and full report: stresscafe.net/census/
#AcademicSky #AustralianUnis
Rather than build yet another database, Jen says, as we were asked to do, we rejected hoarding knowledge. Instead the Centre for Reworlding has created Bilya, with thanks to our collaborator @clairegcoleman.bsky.social for this name. Bilya maps the relationships so you find who you need #FACT2026
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A deadline, says Ryuta, is a powerful technology. #FACT2026
BOOM
A toolkit! Yay!
1. Gathering qualitative insights - observations, informal feedback, playful approaches
2. Analysing- practical tools to look deeply into qual data
3. Translating - insights to action, sharing understandings
Here 'tis: www.museumdigitalsocialfutures.net/toolkit/
#FACT2026
Ruby Justice Thelot: βOf course you think culture is stuck, youβre 40 with two kids. You have a mortgage. You need to mow the lawn.β True, but ouchβ¦ #FACT2026
11.02.2026 03:59 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Hey Melbourne #GLAM folks, the SLV LAB & @wm_au are running a free workshop this Friday afternoon on all things Wiki/pedia/data/commons: https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/participate/wikipedia-workshop-2026
11.02.2026 01:43 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Another day, another letter from a university informing me that they underpaid me when I worked for them as a casual. This will be the third or fourth remediation payment I've received in the last few years. #universities #academia
09.02.2026 05:50 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
The ABC on the JCA - "the left-wing Jewish Council of Australia"
Never heard them describe the AJA or ECAJ as "the right-wing", which they 100% are. The AJA was literally created by LNP and further right politicians.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
A social media message from Jon McNaughton. Text: "My new painting 'MAGA Symphony.'" The image is a painting showing Donald Trump as conductor, with an orchestra of politicians and lots of American flags.
Jon McNaughton: making AI art look good. #MAGASymphony
05.02.2026 05:54 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Interesting that in ASIC's list of criteria for undesirable business names, the only two people mentioned by name are Sir Donald Bradman and Saint Mary MacKillop.
05.02.2026 04:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Happy to help! Good luck with your research.
03.02.2026 10:15 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I saw this in my timeline and was curious so did some digging. Is it possible the date is incorrect? William Hewson Anderson was chief accountant for Shell Co of Australia 1935-50, and Federal President of the Liberal Party from 1951-56. Source: openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/c...
03.02.2026 10:01 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Awesome β€οΈ
03.02.2026 09:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Every so often I stop in at ChatGPT to ask a question, just to keep an eye on how it's tracking. Today it started its response with 'Ooo exciting', and by reflex I said 'Oh fuck off' out loud. Is this really how we want our computers to respond to us? I certainly don't. #AI
03.02.2026 02:41 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Reports that OpenAI is planning a social network with biometric verification to try and eliminate bots. Users could then use OpenAI products to make content for their feed. So the value proposition is that you will know all the AI slop in your feed was produced at the request of real humans? #AI
29.01.2026 07:00 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The exercise in the one I did, after the sustainability poem, was to request an infographic from ChatGPT explaining climate change! It's like they are trolling us.
29.01.2026 01:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not going to write up a critique of this one, but there's one on using AI ethically and responsibly I might take a look at in some more detail when I have a bit more time.
29.01.2026 00:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I've just finished it. It's delivered by an AI avatar, the content is generic and uninspired, and I'm pretty sure the script was written using gen-AI too. Like a lot of things produced by gen-AI, it's just bland, lacking in depth, nuance and insight, and completely blind to its own limitations.
29.01.2026 00:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0I've taken the plunge and am doing a 20 min 'Introduction to gen-AI' course. One of the lessons: log in to Chat-GPT and ask it to generate "a short and catchy poem about sustainability."
29.01.2026 00:43 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Nope. Not a historianβ¦ thatβs all Iβll say π€
28.01.2026 11:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt think so. Itβs not the first time Iβve seen this type of thing.
28.01.2026 11:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Even worse, they don't even cite humanities scholars or other theorists on the concept of the archive, as though the very idea is a self-evident thing that doesn't need to be theorised, discussed, explored or explained. Sigh. #archives
28.01.2026 04:28 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Currently peer reviewing an article that uses the term 'archive(s)' in the title, the key words, several times in the abstract, and c.50 times in the main text, yet fails to cite a single recognised archivist, archival theorist, or archives journal. This keeps happening. #archives
28.01.2026 04:27 β π 14 π 6 π¬ 3 π 1All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
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