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Kate Stevens

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Pacific legal/gender/smell/ocean historian @waikato Lindy & blues, artist/jewellery maker, mainly a lurker here. she/her, Pākehā, views my own

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17.03.2025 08:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

“We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design and perform new research, to innovate, to teach and communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement”
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17.03.2025 07:52 — 👍 77    🔁 34    💬 2    📌 2

Ghost ships and sandwiches while the world burns.

04.03.2025 03:49 — 👍 30    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Had an OIA on the Marsden decisions land. This appears to be the ground zero and the level of thinking Collins put into gutting humanities funding. I have found no actual *advice* or analysis on the removal of humanities panels and literally zero engagement with Royal Society or Universities.

14.02.2025 02:21 — 👍 156    🔁 81    💬 13    📌 11
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Together with the Pacific History Association, the Journal of Pacific History is pleased to announce that submissions are now welcomed for the Gunson Essay Prize.

See the attached document for details or email editorial@jphinc.com.au.

#AcademicSky #Award #Pacific #Oceania #Research

20.02.2025 04:19 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

This is, btw, the clearest example of direct political interference in the research system I've ever seen in NZ - a Minister ordering that entire areas of research be de-funded because she doesn't think they're worthy.

19.02.2025 23:41 — 👍 79    🔁 31    💬 4    📌 0

This is absolutely devastating news for humanities and social sciences in NZ; this isn’t a budgetary decision, it’s a political and ideological one

20.12.2024 06:59 — 👍 18    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0

Horizon Europe's overall budget is 95.5 BILLION euros. The gov't has decided that NZ's access to the portion of those $ that relates to humanities & social sciences isn't worth pursuing.

Horizon investment in our researchers would cost the NZ taxpayer next to nothing for huge investment & reward

19.12.2024 22:21 — 👍 12    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2

Waiting for this energy from the Academy of @royalsocietynz.bsky.social

11.12.2024 07:00 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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