Clare Southerton

What teachers need to know before using AI for Indigenous education If you ask ChatGPT to write a Welcome to Country, it might caution that only an elder can deliver a Welcome and instead offer you a template of an Acknowledgement of Country. There’s just one problem:...

Great to have the chance to talk about our research in this article for The Point! In it we emphasise the risks GenAI raises for Indigenous Education and what came from our recent study testing LLMs on Indigenous topics. 🦘🎓 #edusky #academicsky

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This is devastating and will have significant long term consequences. Solidarity with those impacted.

Horrifying to see Victoria seeking adult jail sentences for children. 14 year old could be deemed too young for social media in Aus but old enough for a life sentence in prison. So little care for actual children, but politicians happy to invoke "protect the children" to win political points #auspol

Where's the bit in the ROPE thingo on grant applications for: I'm a renter so I have to move house every 1-1.5 years at the whim of my landlord and it consumes a month of my life 🫠🫠🫠 #🦘🎓

This looks great! Looking forward to reading!

The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness Explore how contemporary discourses of wellness are aligned with the enactments and dynamics of everyday politics, and their consequences.

Hope to see you at today’s seminar on The Political Dynamics of the Weird World of Wellness at 3pm, please see details and register at the below

‘I feel like I get something else to think about’: How do Australian young people see their relationship with TikTok? TikTok has become a significant site for youth culture and simultaneously the focus of a moral panic surrounding its impact on young people. The social media platform's content recommendation algor...

Great to see this article is finally published! Written with the brilliant Jess McLean, we explore how young Australians think about their agency on TikTok. With the incoming ban, there's a lot of talk about young people on social media, but we need to listen: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Terrible policy aside, it's very funny to ban Pinterest. Omg the kids are making vision boards!! They must be stopped!

Not just 'big fish': eSafety reveals new platforms may be forced to ban teens WhatsApp, Roblox, Reddit and Discord are among an expanded list of platforms which may be covered by the teen social media ban, the ABC can reveal.

So much for the (terrible) social media ban not including games. We’re already seeing proof that the ban’s definition of social media is broad enough to be applied to any internet service or website the minister of the day wishes to ban.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

Julie Bishop accused of bullying by ANU staff member, senate inquiry hears Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened ...

In awe of the bravery of @drdemography.com to expose this culture of bullying and threats from leadership at ANU. Julie Bishop should resign www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Decolonisation is not a vibe: On anti-capitalist praxis, citation politics and epistemic refusal - Tanja Bosch, 2025 This paper argues that decolonisation in media and communication studies must be rooted in anti-capitalist praxis, not just symbolic critique. While the field i...

Absolutely loved this paper from Tanja Bosch - "As a method, decolonisation demands more than critique. It requires a commitment to building alternative ways of knowing, citing, collaborating and theorising that do not extract from the margins to enrich the centre"

The killing code: strange symbols in a WA settler’s diaries lay bare frontier atrocities Exclusive: Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a cipher hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent pastoralist Major Logue. Now descendants on both sides want to break the...

So proud to work with Lorena, Sarah and Ella on this series.

Here is part one: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, say Israel-based human rights groups Reports detailing intentional targeting of Palestinians as a group, and systemic destruction of Palestinian society, add to pressure for action

"Two leading human rights organisations based in Israel, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, say Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the country’s western allies have a legal and moral duty to stop it."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Awful to see ANU making these cuts to Gender Studies

Shoes of ANU

ANU cuts are impacting an innumerable amount of people. Here are just some of their stories. www.shoesofanu.com

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My latest with @claresoutherton.bsky.social - on AI and Aesthetic Alienation - aka the thorny issue of ai slop.

Completely open access.

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NZ can't afford to be careless with its AI strategy

Opinion from Victoria University: It’s not appropriate to use generative AI to produce national-level policy, especially the document that will define our approach to AI itself, writes Chris McGavin.

McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ Basic security flaws left the personal info of tens of millions of McDonald’s job-seekers vulnerable on the “McHire” site built by AI software firm Paradox.ai.

McDonald's uses an AI bot called "Olivia" for hiring. A pair of hackers found they could access every conversation job applicants had with it—including all the personal info they shared—by exploiting security vulnerabilities as basic as using the password "123456". www.wired.com/story/mcdona...

Absolutely died that not only was Marita making a profoundly bland vision board (perfection) but it included in big font “GUT HEALTH” *chefs kiss*. #QueerUltimatum

Aarhus University buildings, pale brick covered in greenery

Aarhus University buildings, pale brick covered in greenery, in the distance, in the foreground a large green hill

Back at Aarhus Uni, where I used to be a postdoc, to give a talk about Australia's social media ban. Wonderful to catch up with colleagues and take the opportunity to walk around one of my favourite university campuses.

A bunch of 90s kids gathered around a desktop computer, stoked by what's happening on screen

Bluesky right now:

a screenshot from King Kong vs Godzilla (1962) where a Japanese official says "if we're lucky, both will die"

I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

What I can’t understand is how people think that something they couldn’t be bothered to write (and instead got AI to generate) would be worth reading. There’s already so much to read, why would I waste time on something you didn’t deem worthy of your time??

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

Researchers, teachers aren’t reading your stuff now. Here’s what they think would help We work on disseminating research through various avenues with the hopes that it reaches teachers - and contributes to change. But does it?

How can education researchers speak directly to teachers? This is such a great article with incredible ideas from teachers themselves!!

Here is my latest article for @aunz.theconversation.com where I analyse Google’s announcement that its Gemini AI chatbot will be rolled out to kids under 13. This is a risky move. The system can generate fake information and mimic social behaviour, which will be confusing for young users #AIethics

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

New Pope Declares All Style Manuals Other Than Chicago As Schismatic