Hannah Forsyth 🍉

WTF Flinders. 🤬

CSIRO 350 job cuts a damning indictment on Government priorities, misses 'golden opportunity' on research The announcement this week that CSIRO are to cut 350 research jobs is another damning indictment on Australia’s ongoing failure to prioritise research and development.

I seriously cannot get over how stupid it is to be cutting back on research right now #ThePoint
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Awful. Solidarity with you and your daughter.

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1/5 The attack on the BBC is an alignment of four interest groups that has been years in the making:

Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

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This is so well done. It's true that when I feel especially pressed by everything, it helps to remember that the work and the job are profoundly different things. But what comes after the job when it all comes down?

If you are interested higher education, read this. If you are not, read this. Excellent from @hannahforsyth.bsky.social

Oooh yes, my favourite.

godamnnnn i feel seen

The Pub at the End of the University As universities implode, the world still needs us.

The world needs is even as the universities collapse.

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Response to a Reddit post about a course outline saying the lecturer used ChatGPT for course content: "People thought we would have flying cars by now. Instead we have fully automated university classes where everything on both the student and faculty sides is done completely by AI with no human input."

Won't say which r/Australian_university this comes from, but someone gets it.

If I need to read one more piece of Auspol/USpol crossover fan fiction I am going to scream

We have two upcoming guest lectures with Professor Ghassan Hage (@manchester.ac.uk).

Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html

Friday, 14 Nov 2025: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/.../index.html

#envhum #envhist #environmentaljustice @anthroprofhage.bsky.social

What historians see when people claim AI is solving mysteries that have baffled historians for years.

Abbott's new book really should be sold with a free raw onion

This is properly brilliant 👇

Hey! Don’t think I noticed it when I took the pic

Tbf it’s a while since I bought it but while proper vanilla bean is expensive extract usually isn’t?

"People with a disability and Indigenous Australians are overrepresented in the data. About 33% of all suspensions affected those with a disability, and at least 26% of all suspensions affected First Nations people."

Beautiful! I was born in Mt Isa!

Great line: a single-use plastic of the mind

Bit more Aussie outback ❤️

Australian outback ❤️

Australian outback ❤️

Two years ago, burned out to the point of random vomiting, I put my hand up for a voluntary redundancy from the academic job I loved. On my first day unemployed I took a train to the outback.

Time for a ruin photo ...
This one was at Wongyarra, South Australia.

I've been a member of @aaup.org for years, and I couldn't be more pleased, now that we've affiliated with @texasaft.org, to say I'm a union member too.