Kate Bowles

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it

"Why aren't media as outraged about the Perth bomb attack as there were over the Bondi shootings?"

Dude, they aren't even as outraged as they were when Adam Goodes threw an imaginary boomerang.

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Emeritus Professor Graeme Turner AO FAHA FQA — one of Australia’s most influential humanities scholars and a towering figure in the Academy’s history. humanities.org.au/our-communit...

I got it in the UK, not in Europe and now not in Australia.

I’m so glad to read this Charlie.

I’ve been away training a health service in the use of active hope principles as a way of recovering tactical agency when systems are either stuck or on the kind of strategy roller coaster that can make staff shrink from change itself. Learning a lot about the power of very small actions.

On resisting AI intrusions For several years I’ve been following Paul Salopek, a National Geographic explorer, on his Out of Eden Walk around the world. Paul has been on Techtonic a...

My thoughts on AI's intrusions in education, quoting @audreywatters.bsky.social & @biblioracle.bsky.social

On resisting AI intrusions:
buttondown.com/creativegood...

This is so well put Charlie, it’s challenging to advocate for tentative ways of approaching a problem when resources are so scarce.

Albanese? Wong? Anything to say about anything? I know we just learned that AUKUS is beyond him, and I know we’re very keen to say we have no doubt they would defend us under ANZUS, but is this the moral quality of the ally we are choosing, or just the one we’re afraid of losing?

Oh best of luck for your move. Have a happy home!

People who condemn well-intentioned approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion out of hand are presuming their so-called "meritocracy" operates on a level playing-field. Such an argument entirely misses the point that prevailing sources of money, power, and privilege dominate.

But the killer move: not unsubscribing you. Not now, not ever. Looking at you, Times Higher Ed, the Hotel California of email.

And asking you to choose from a menu of options about why you unsubscribed, starting with “I no longer want to receive these emails.”

I feel the same Charlie, that hope is found in these quiet continuities even if there’s different noise all around, that’s often confusing.

You too friend. I’m really overjoyed to find you both. You were in our conversation yesterday.

So glad this morning to find @brigidrussell51.bsky.social and @charliepsych.bsky.social here. I’m still never quite sure what to say in this space so I’m really taken with the consistency of their reflections.

HE’s hottest topic emerges - Future Campus As US higher education institutions brace for the Trump administration’s promised reforms, designed to radically reshape the sector to better align with the values of their supporter base, the importa...

Australian universities need to be thinking seriously about this question of social license. It’s not new, it’s just got a new hat. And it’s going to pop up everywhere in the election year. A smart defense will need to go beyond stock images of sciencing.

futurecampus.com.au/2025/01/23/h...

Okay friends, you know what to do. Welcome the formidable @louiseadler1.bsky.social to Bluesky. An *awkward gesture* has brought has brought her from X to greener pastures. Louise is brave, big-hearted, funny and smart. Publisher of my first book on Pell, Cardinal, now runs Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Revealing thread on the return of the barely repressed, edtech inevitabilism. Inevitabilistic projections are sparkly because they’re shallow. No one writing (or prompting) this kind of prose needs to trouble themselves with risk.

One of the early panel discussions I did on Generative AI turned to the question of labour saving for faculty. A big topic was taking on the writing that no one wants to do or read anyway. The specific example was reporting out on sabbaticals and grants. Why not automate that hoop with ChatGPT?

Congratulations! I just found out you’re going through lovely Mary Freer who will be there. So nice to reconnect.

“The goal of this change, in Meta's words, was to "limit … the content [teenagers] see, and help ensure their time is well spent.”

Something something footy netball swimming Aussie Aussie Aussie.

Introduce the clumsy obvious AI accounts first, then while people are distracted slip the far harder-to-spot version into the ecosystem

Overheard yesterday in small independent local bookstore. “My son told me the name of the book and I’ve forgotten it.” Long pause. All of us browsing held our breath. “Percy something?” “Oh yes, we have those, which one?” I’m surprised we didn’t all cheer, as we were thinking it.

Thinking hard about what Lorna is saying about the radical praxis of decelerating in the context of this beautiful writing from @agnesbosanquet.bsky.social: theslowacademic.com/2024/11/30/s...

Date: 13 December 2024 Dear Professor Tickell, RE: Concerns about the Management of Work-related Stress Thank you for your reply sent on 16 September 2024, I have considered the contents and discussed it with colleagues. The outcome being that I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University. This is because almost all your stated control measures are tertiary, or lagging measures, that deal with stress once it has become a problem. For instance, tracking the reasons why your employees access the employee assist programme, and your staff survey being a lagging measure of the University’s performance. I have considered your offer to get in touch if I have further queries, but I do not think further correspondence will be sufficient and as a result we will be inspecting the University’s management of work-related stress in the new year. Can you please provide a point of contact by Friday 10 January 2025, so that we can obtain a better understanding of the organisational structure, your management arrangements, and processes before undertaking the inspection. Section 28(8) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 requires me to inform your employees about matters affecting their health and safety. As such, I have sent a copy of this letter to the University and College Union as a representative of your employees. Yours sincerely Harvey Wild Head of Operations Inspection Division cc Cheryl Rogers, Head of Health and Safety Services University and College Union

The UK's HSE in its reply to the University of Birmingham SMT's response to Birmingham UCU's complaint: 'I do not consider that your reply provides sufficient assurance that work-related stress is being suitably managed by the University'.

'we will be inspecting the University [..] in the new year'