Millicent Weber

I try not to be too doom and gloom about the future of education but gd social media makes it hard sometimes

Wheeeen theee
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena

Two weeks left to submit an abstract to this online workshop and knowledge exchange about audiobook research

Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:

Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts

Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/

Truly. Every time I look at it I get angrier

Letter reading "Dear Miss Weber, Maintain your Zoom-Zoom ..."

So much to infuriate me about this, where do I even begin ...

Sam Kerr found not guilty of abusing stupid white bastard – The Chaser Once again Kerr didn't miss.

Yep this about sums it up chaser.com.au/sport/sam-ke...

Monster made from cardboard tubes and cut up paper

The character oblina from 90s tv show Ahh Real Monsters

Artworks by my four-year-old vs. characters from 90s cartoons

New terra nullius just dropped.

My sympathy and solidarity with colleagues at UoW. There is a shocking leadership crisis in Australian Higher Ed and academic and professional staff are bearing the brunt.

How good is it to see young Timmy Winton finally get a go in the awards

Be alert in 2025 for lots more discussions about the problems in universities.

🚨Note the angle!

Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts.

Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else

Exactly ;-)

Tube of glue hanging on a Christmas tree next to a round "Merry Christmas" ornament

🎶 All I want for Christmas, is ... 🎶

Just saying that I would absolutely listen to the audiobook of this rewrite

Audiobooks 👏 are 👏 reading 👏

(That's it, that's the take)

Either way while Spotify is making radical (if still exploitative - but that's another conversation) moves into a new market, this is just Amazon playing their favourite game of Total Market Capture (TM)

This works both ways: folks who might have had both Spotify and Audible accounts could be considering coming across to Amazon music. Folks who had Amazon music accounts are encouraged to engage with the Audible catalogue as well.

Amazon already have a strong established customer base for audiobooks - the largest in the Anglophone world. By offering music subscribers a free audiobook they're just keeping them in the Amazon system.

Spotify are leveraging their existing successful platform and business model for music to introduce audiobooks - a (mostly) new to them format - and grow their customer base that way.

Amazon offering a free audiobook with a music sub may look like what Spotify is doing but it's actually the reverse. (See: www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...)

See also:

Starter pack for academic mamas* (ask @sebenton.bsky.social if you would like to be added)

Does @alexdane.bsky.social eating melon rind count?

OK, way too tempting! So, Charlotte Wood went all the way to a Booker s/listing off a Miles Franklin l/listing. And also there with her on the latter? The sublime The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe. Just needs a UK pub & bingo! (will take a bet up to 50 quid on this!) www.uqp.com.au/books/the-si...

(from Neuromancer, of course)

"still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void"

Me: new social media new you, don't let them see what you're really like
Also me:

Timothy West: Acclaimed stage and screen actor dies aged 90 One of Britain's most distinguished actors, West was married to Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales.

RIP to the best audiobook narrator in the game, thank you for brightening my life over the course of ~1200 dog walks