Andy Muir
@andymuirwords.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, curator. Wrote a bit of TV, written a few crime novels, done a lot of public speaking, now work in a museum.
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Calling all Melbourne & Victoria #bookgroups & #readinggroups! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State #Library of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.) #StateLibraryofVictoria #ReadingMakesFriends
December 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Calling all Melbourne & Victoria #bookgroups & #readinggroups! Rally together this Saturday to help save the State #Library of Victoria, on its steps, at 12.30. (Here's a pic of the poet Edith Sitwell & big reader Marilyn Monroe: reading makes friends.) #StateLibraryofVictoria #ReadingMakesFriends
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This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Trump Has a Recipe for War and Corruption, Not Peace
Who would benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?
www.theatlantic.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Careers at CDU | Charles Darwin University
Discover career opportunities and find useful information about working at CDU.
www.cdu.edu.au
November 23, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Charles Darwin University is looking for a Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges and Heritage, which will suit an anthropologist or archaeologist with a focus on Australia.
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
Continuing Full Time, Teaching Focused, Level A/B
A$76,604 – A$137,659 pa
Details here:
www.cdu.edu.au/careers-cdu
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We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
November 17, 2025 at 4:27 AM
We’re back!
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal, has returned with issue 80.1 ‘First, The Future’.
Purchase a copy of Southerly today: southerlylitmag.com.au/shop-subscri...
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Was looking forward to getting a copy of this. Might be this morning’s chore
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
Salvage by Jennifer Mills review – urgent post-apocalyptic novel proposes a better way of living
In her mesmerising fifth novel set in the near-future, the Australian author offers a timely model of resistance to despair and passivity
www.theguardian.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Was looking forward to getting a copy of this. Might be this morning’s chore
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
No aurora for the Gong. Very disappointed and too tired to wait any longer
June 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
No aurora for the Gong. Very disappointed and too tired to wait any longer
This is almost too accurate to be funny
May 31, 2025 at 9:51 AM
This is almost too accurate to be funny
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On the new collection, Reframing Indigenous Biography humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
Reframing Indigenous Biography: an introduction – Australian Academy of the Humanities
The existential predicament of modern Indigeneity, forged in the violent and traumatic history of colonialism, makes the sympathetic retrieval and respectful portrait of a whole life especially fraugh...
humanities.org.au
May 28, 2025 at 2:12 AM
On the new collection, Reframing Indigenous Biography humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
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👇🚨📷 #CDP #PhDscholarship
Collaborative Doctoral Partnership - University of Westminster and the Imperial War Museums - Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War #PhD www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...
PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War at University of Westminster
Explore the PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for higher education. Apply now...
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM
👇🚨📷 #CDP #PhDscholarship
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"Beware Blue Skies" - I was privileged to contribute to this project, an immersive video installation at the Imperial War Museum, exploring the psychological impacts of drone warfare. Project lead, Beryl Pong, has now written a piece on it + a video! www.centrefordronesandculture.com/beware-blue-...
March 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
"Beware Blue Skies" - I was privileged to contribute to this project, an immersive video installation at the Imperial War Museum, exploring the psychological impacts of drone warfare. Project lead, Beryl Pong, has now written a piece on it + a video! www.centrefordronesandculture.com/beware-blue-...
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It’s New Yorker official:
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
This was a very lonely beat last year. But it’s heating up. Better late than never.
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
This was a very lonely beat last year. But it’s heating up. Better late than never.
February 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
It’s New Yorker official:
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
This was a very lonely beat last year. But it’s heating up. Better late than never.
Techno-Fascism Comes to America
This was a very lonely beat last year. But it’s heating up. Better late than never.
A surprise review never fails to bring a smile.
Reread: the second Lachie Munro misadventure in Newcastle by @andymuirwords.bsky.social. It’s fun on the surface and tough underneath – Lachie goes through hell and learns a lot about himself. Check ‘em out if you’d like some Oz crime that’s not set in the dusty outback or inner Sydney/Melbourne.
February 12, 2025 at 11:12 AM
A surprise review never fails to bring a smile.
Hate it when I finish a book and stare at the TBR’s and none scream out at me to pick them up
February 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hate it when I finish a book and stare at the TBR’s and none scream out at me to pick them up
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“ESSA B-57 N1005 in flight”
a great shot of the aircraft used by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), which then became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
(from the NOAA Digital Collections - grab it while you can, www.noaa.gov/digital-coll...)
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a great shot of the aircraft used by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), which then became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
(from the NOAA Digital Collections - grab it while you can, www.noaa.gov/digital-coll...)
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February 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“ESSA B-57 N1005 in flight”
a great shot of the aircraft used by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), which then became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
(from the NOAA Digital Collections - grab it while you can, www.noaa.gov/digital-coll...)
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a great shot of the aircraft used by the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), which then became the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration..
(from the NOAA Digital Collections - grab it while you can, www.noaa.gov/digital-coll...)
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Accounts that are clearly marketing/bots - see you later alligator’s
January 24, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Accounts that are clearly marketing/bots - see you later alligator’s
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Are any of these authors here on BlueSky?
Candice Fox
Tim Sullivan
Michael Woods
Ann Cleeves
Louise Penny
Elly Griffiths
Angela Marsons
Val McDermid
Hayley Scrivenor
Petronella McGovern
Nick Louth
Dervla McTiernan
Robert Bryndza
Chris Hammer
MW Craven
Candice Fox
Tim Sullivan
Michael Woods
Ann Cleeves
Louise Penny
Elly Griffiths
Angela Marsons
Val McDermid
Hayley Scrivenor
Petronella McGovern
Nick Louth
Dervla McTiernan
Robert Bryndza
Chris Hammer
MW Craven
I love crime books. I've books by Candice Fox, Tim Sullivan, Michael Woods, Ann Cleeves, Louise Penny, Elly Griffiths, Angela Marsons, Val McDermid, Hayley Scrivenor, Petronella McGovern, Nick Louth, Dervla McTiernan, Robert Bryndza, Chris Hammer etc etc.
I've just discovered M.W. Craven. 📑
I've just discovered M.W. Craven. 📑
January 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Are any of these authors here on BlueSky?
Candice Fox
Tim Sullivan
Michael Woods
Ann Cleeves
Louise Penny
Elly Griffiths
Angela Marsons
Val McDermid
Hayley Scrivenor
Petronella McGovern
Nick Louth
Dervla McTiernan
Robert Bryndza
Chris Hammer
MW Craven
Candice Fox
Tim Sullivan
Michael Woods
Ann Cleeves
Louise Penny
Elly Griffiths
Angela Marsons
Val McDermid
Hayley Scrivenor
Petronella McGovern
Nick Louth
Dervla McTiernan
Robert Bryndza
Chris Hammer
MW Craven
Seem to have picked up a number of bots/AI accounts today
January 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Seem to have picked up a number of bots/AI accounts today
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Perhaps it's now time for organisations whose core missions include promoting evidence-based inquiry (e.g., universities and their academic units, learned societies, research centres, some think-tanks) to stop using X altogether to platform their work? Asking for (quite) a (lot of) friends.
How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page
Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Perhaps it's now time for organisations whose core missions include promoting evidence-based inquiry (e.g., universities and their academic units, learned societies, research centres, some think-tanks) to stop using X altogether to platform their work? Asking for (quite) a (lot of) friends.
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Citizen Vince by @jesswalter.bsky.social. It’s tough crime, featuring a not-so-tough criminal; time and place (Spokane, 1980) are vivid; there are dashes of tragedy and comedy, and a thematic question – whether a criminal can ever be a citizen – pokes through the drama. Loved it, highly recommended.
January 4, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Citizen Vince by @jesswalter.bsky.social. It’s tough crime, featuring a not-so-tough criminal; time and place (Spokane, 1980) are vivid; there are dashes of tragedy and comedy, and a thematic question – whether a criminal can ever be a citizen – pokes through the drama. Loved it, highly recommended.
Have to say bit disappointed with my reading tally of 53 books for the year but next year will start strong
December 31, 2024 at 6:09 AM
Have to say bit disappointed with my reading tally of 53 books for the year but next year will start strong
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Promoting your books on social media is almost unavoidable for authors, & it probably helps sales a bit. But it's also true that an author is the least effective person to directly promote their book. Literally anyone else is better. Obviously I want you to buy it, I'm making a commission.
December 30, 2024 at 10:07 AM
Promoting your books on social media is almost unavoidable for authors, & it probably helps sales a bit. But it's also true that an author is the least effective person to directly promote their book. Literally anyone else is better. Obviously I want you to buy it, I'm making a commission.
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Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.
December 30, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.