Jennifer Clement

"we now have a rush to either strip-mine university resources or capitalize on university prestige. Education technology (or Ed Tech) has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze" 💯 this is excellent

Public Works and Utilities, by Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan 6 track album

Quite the treat to see @warringtonruncorn.com at the Boat Club tonight. If you like electronica and town planning nostalgia this is the night out for you. New album sounded great
warrington-runcorn-cis.bandcamp.com/album/public...

I’m doing a thing. Join me, won’t you?

NOIRVEMBER ’55, PART TEN We’re only a month away from our draft of the Top 13 Films Noirs of 1955. I’m busy compiling my list, and I’m sure my co-drafters Sergio Angelini and Nick Cardillo are doing the same…

October brings the final batch of films before Sergio, Nick and I draft the Top 13 Films Noirs of 1955. Here are the first three. ahsweetmystery.com/2025/10/09/n...

Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Big Game Hunting With 'One Battle After Another' | Defector To call One Battle After Another the most ambitious film of director Paul Thomas Anderson’s career would be a disservice to his filmography. All of his work is marked by ambition, both in the…

Paul Thomas Anderson goes big game hunting with ‘One Battle After Another’ defector.com/paul-thomas-...

The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Academia.edu wants permanent rights to your likeness, signature, voice, name, etc. to be used in any setting. My answer was "absolutely not." Log in, click on "privacy policy" when prompted to accept the new terms (don't accept!" then find "account settings" @ dropdown, scroll down to delete.

This poster (Lou Benesch) is so fun — there must have been a temptation to go (literally) dark, but this looks like painted sugar dough. Also the static pose, the vertical hangings, and yet the slight movemnet of star, ribbons, flame-fur...
#artthoughts

Again, the *roundness* of everything, and the resultant carousel-dimensionality, and the way the angles (so many here) all bend and support and direct the eye to the encircling...

#artthoughts

Please

Out now! My chapter on "Authorship and Cognitive Studies" appears in The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, with my thanks to editors Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe for shepherding this through to completion. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

So then what do you do next, if your work is in the database?

17 September: Brisbane Book launch Avid Reader! 21-22 September: Adelaide Writers Assemble SA State Library 3-6 October: Canberra Conflux 19 - Crowne Plaza Hotel 7 October: Canberra Launch Book Cow, Kingston 9-13 October: Brisbane Brisbane Writers Festival Powerhouse

Upcoming events!

I think my favourite subtle detail about John Putnam Thatcher, senior vice president of the Sloan Guaranty Trust — observant, interested, efficient, self-preserving, wryly amused, more witness than sleuth — is that he can find things in a refrigerator and helps collect dishes.

I LOVE older murder mysteries, and my mother gets very frustrated by the lack of mobile phones, which we think is because mostly she was alive at the time and so it all feels contemporary and therefore there should be phones, whereas for me it's a foreign country etc etc

And while you wait for *your* copy of HONEYEATER, here’s a new story!

Here’s my bottom line on the firehose of AI higher ed discourse: for the vast majority for us it’s over. “It” here is not “college” or “teaching”’per se; rather, “it” is the transactional underpinning of those endeavors. Let me explain: 🧵

Strewn illustrations in pen-and-ink and watercolour. The top, of rats building a gazebo in front of a cottage, is fully coloured, as is a heron watching the sunset. The others are partially completed, with only blues and greens washed in.

PATRONS (patreon.com/tanaudel) and MAILING LIST subscribers, I have just posted and sent out details on a limited original art sale coming up on Monday morning (Brisbane) / Sunday evening (USA).

(This is a process picture showing various stages)

A dusky painting of a woman combing a cat dressed in little boy's clothes

A woman returning to her family’s home town for a wedding discovers why people in Connorville—including her family—might be more than they seem.

Next week. "In Connorville" by @tanaudel.bsky.social!
Art by @armandoveve.bsky.social
Edited by @datlow.bsky.social

All the links relating to the current campaign to repeal Job-Ready Graduates are housed here. Please feel free to share widely! We'd especially love people to sign the petition. Thank you for your support! linktr.ee/aushistorica...

An excerpt!

"The strangest descent into the dark earth of a family's secrets you'Il ever read, glittering and exact and uncanny, rich with rot and perfume, full of bird-calls and waterlogged suburban heat " FRANCIS SPUFFORD author of Cahokia Jazz

The excellent Francis Spufford on HONEYEATER!

Labor MPs urge government to prioritise reform of ‘failed’ job-ready university graduates scheme Morrison-era graduate scheme increased costs for subjects such as arts and law, while lowering course fees for degrees in Stem

'Labor MPs are increasing pressure on the government to speed up reform of the controversial Morrison-era job-ready graduates (JRG) scheme that has “failed” students.'

Send a message to Labor by signing the petition: www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

#auspol #highered #humanities

Life-sized Edward Gorey self-portrait behind window of grey shingled barn

Folks - consider becoming a member/supporter of @edwardgoreyhouse.bsky.social

Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025…

We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...

Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741

Yes, I think you sent me some stuff along these lines. Feels like a long time ago, yes...😀

Brisbane launch at Avid Reader on Wed 17 September:
avidreader.com.au/pages/12111-...

Preorder now!