A/Prof Jess Carniel
@drjessc.bsky.social
academia | the #humanities | popular culture | other whims. Literally wrote the book on #Eurovision & Australia. I teach politics, IR, and pop culture but still identify as cultural studies. Proud cat lady. Views are her own.
https://linktr.ee/jesscarniel
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"Although your paper does not exceed our length requirements, please cut exactly 796 words. At the same time, add significant discussion of Morales’s (2017) argument that Princess Zelda is the superior feminist character when compared to Princess Peach."
Two Reviewers Provide Contradictory Feedback on Your Nietzschean Study of Early Mario Bros. Games
First Submission Reviewer #1 I enjoyed reading your article “Man, Superman, Super Mario,” a Nietzschean study of the early Mario Brothers games. I ...
buff.ly
January 17, 2026 at 9:29 PM
"Although your paper does not exceed our length requirements, please cut exactly 796 words. At the same time, add significant discussion of Morales’s (2017) argument that Princess Zelda is the superior feminist character when compared to Princess Peach."
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If you‘re a media / television / fan studies scholar and know any of these series well (or know anyone who does) please dm me:
WWE Raw
Breaking Bad
Money Heist / La Casa de Papel
Law & Order: SVU
Supernatural
WWE Raw
Breaking Bad
Money Heist / La Casa de Papel
Law & Order: SVU
Supernatural
January 9, 2026 at 9:43 AM
If you‘re a media / television / fan studies scholar and know any of these series well (or know anyone who does) please dm me:
WWE Raw
Breaking Bad
Money Heist / La Casa de Papel
Law & Order: SVU
Supernatural
WWE Raw
Breaking Bad
Money Heist / La Casa de Papel
Law & Order: SVU
Supernatural
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Today is the release day for mine and @dramyburge.bsky.social 's new book! The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s is now out with Bloomsbury, focusing on the glitzy, glamorous novels of authors like Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Shirley Conran and Judith Krantz.
The Bonkbuster
What were women reading in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s? This book presents a major study of the “bonkbuster,” an incredibly popular genre of women's fiction in t…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Today is the release day for mine and @dramyburge.bsky.social 's new book! The Bonkbuster: Women's Popular Reading in the Long 1980s is now out with Bloomsbury, focusing on the glitzy, glamorous novels of authors like Jackie Collins, Jilly Cooper, Shirley Conran and Judith Krantz.
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As Book Reviews editor of Oral History Australia's journal, Studies in Oral History, I'm looking for reviewers for the following books. DM me.
1. Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History, by Darian-Smith, Turnbull, Khorana and Harvey, 2025.
www.routledge.com/Migrants-Tel...
1. Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History, by Darian-Smith, Turnbull, Khorana and Harvey, 2025.
www.routledge.com/Migrants-Tel...
Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History
This book examines the intertwined histories of television and migration in Australia, told from the perspectives of migrants who worked in the screen industry and the many more who watched television...
www.routledge.com
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 AM
As Book Reviews editor of Oral History Australia's journal, Studies in Oral History, I'm looking for reviewers for the following books. DM me.
1. Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History, by Darian-Smith, Turnbull, Khorana and Harvey, 2025.
www.routledge.com/Migrants-Tel...
1. Migrants, Television and Australian Stories: A New History, by Darian-Smith, Turnbull, Khorana and Harvey, 2025.
www.routledge.com/Migrants-Tel...
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The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Academic Work Tracker Template v2.3 (2026)
docs.google.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ahem if you are Australian and looking for summer reading...
Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/stores/autho...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/au/en/search...
Booktopia: www.booktopia.com.au/search?autho...
Apple: books.apple.com/au/author/jo...
Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/stores/autho...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/au/en/search...
Booktopia: www.booktopia.com.au/search?autho...
Apple: books.apple.com/au/author/jo...
December 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM
ahem if you are Australian and looking for summer reading...
Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/stores/autho...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/au/en/search...
Booktopia: www.booktopia.com.au/search?autho...
Apple: books.apple.com/au/author/jo...
Amazon: www.amazon.com.au/stores/autho...
Kobo: www.kobo.com/au/en/search...
Booktopia: www.booktopia.com.au/search?autho...
Apple: books.apple.com/au/author/jo...
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 28, 2025 at 4:29 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
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can’t overstate how badly young people have been fucked over by the “digital natives” label. they just don’t get any basic computer skills classes at all, it’s assumed knowledge. the situation is akin to if we abolished English as a subject for the new gen of “native English speakers”
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
can’t overstate how badly young people have been fucked over by the “digital natives” label. they just don’t get any basic computer skills classes at all, it’s assumed knowledge. the situation is akin to if we abolished English as a subject for the new gen of “native English speakers”
N.B. As CarrieLynn notes later in the thread, this is not a drag on students - it's a list of gaps in learning and skills that need to be addressed - and reliance on AI widens these gaps even further.
If I hear one more person refer to Gen Z or Gen Alpha as digital natives when the students do not know:
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
1. How to use built-in Word functions like outlining and spellchecker
2. The different types of basic files
3. Interoperability
4. The issues related to uploading
#EduSky #AcademicSky
the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .
ALT: the angry bird from inside out is sitting on a chair with his mouth open .
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:20 AM
N.B. As CarrieLynn notes later in the thread, this is not a drag on students - it's a list of gaps in learning and skills that need to be addressed - and reliance on AI widens these gaps even further.
🚨 Job opportunity!! 🚨
UniSQ is hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media Analytics! If you have mad digital media skillz and a cool research profile, please apply!
(Okay, the "cool" part is me editorialising - but still!)
#MediaStudies #AcaJob #AcademicChatter
www.seek.com.au/job/89133650...
UniSQ is hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media Analytics! If you have mad digital media skillz and a cool research profile, please apply!
(Okay, the "cool" part is me editorialising - but still!)
#MediaStudies #AcaJob #AcademicChatter
www.seek.com.au/job/89133650...
Lecturer (Digital Media Analyst) Job in Toowoomba, Toowoomba & Darling Downs QLD - SEEK
Join us to inspire students and unlock the power of data-driven insights in digital media!
www.seek.com.au
December 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
🚨 Job opportunity!! 🚨
UniSQ is hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media Analytics! If you have mad digital media skillz and a cool research profile, please apply!
(Okay, the "cool" part is me editorialising - but still!)
#MediaStudies #AcaJob #AcademicChatter
www.seek.com.au/job/89133650...
UniSQ is hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media Analytics! If you have mad digital media skillz and a cool research profile, please apply!
(Okay, the "cool" part is me editorialising - but still!)
#MediaStudies #AcaJob #AcademicChatter
www.seek.com.au/job/89133650...
Very sad news. I remember meeting Chris at a morning tea at the OG Australian Centre on Barry Street when I first started my PhD there. He gave me 2 books of his poems, which I still have. Always such a kind figure at the Centre - so humble and unassuming, even with a library named after him! Vale.
Sad to learn that Chris Wallace-Crabbe has joined the majority; here he is with kindergarten friend Ian Donaldson (he still had a bday card from Ian from then; they shared a bday, Chris older by a year). A great loss.
Vale notice from @humanitiesau.bsky.social:
humanities.org.au/our-communit...
Vale notice from @humanitiesau.bsky.social:
humanities.org.au/our-communit...
December 18, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Very sad news. I remember meeting Chris at a morning tea at the OG Australian Centre on Barry Street when I first started my PhD there. He gave me 2 books of his poems, which I still have. Always such a kind figure at the Centre - so humble and unassuming, even with a library named after him! Vale.
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@philjdore.bsky.social considers the options for those appalled by the recent EBU decisions regarding the Eurovision Song Contest: whether to boycott, not boycott, partially boycott, or explore alternatives.
So, What Do Eurovision Fans Do Now?
Vienna's Weiner Stadthalle (cc: Wikimedia / Manfred Werner)
escinsight.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
@philjdore.bsky.social considers the options for those appalled by the recent EBU decisions regarding the Eurovision Song Contest: whether to boycott, not boycott, partially boycott, or explore alternatives.
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Actually means “don’t email me or invite me to a meeting until February”.
We're now well into the 'have a good Christmas' territory. Crucial turning point of the year.
December 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Actually means “don’t email me or invite me to a meeting until February”.
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Following last week's EBU vote, @frossrussell.bsky.social is bringing his journey with the Eurovision Song Contest to an end. Today, he writes about his emotions around the vote, the disappointment at the route the Song Contest is taking, and why he has to walk away from the Contest.
Something Died Last Thursday… And It’s Never Coming Back
Promotional card for Fin Ross Russell's opinion piece on leaving Eurovision behind (photo: EBU / eurovision.com)
escinsight.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Following last week's EBU vote, @frossrussell.bsky.social is bringing his journey with the Eurovision Song Contest to an end. Today, he writes about his emotions around the vote, the disappointment at the route the Song Contest is taking, and why he has to walk away from the Contest.
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Chris Hay & @drjessc.bsky.social writing in @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Chris Hay & @drjessc.bsky.social writing in @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social
I don't agree with his reasoning, but Calibri does suck and should be removed from society.
Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move
Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri
The secretary of state called it a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.
www.huffpost.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I don't agree with his reasoning, but Calibri does suck and should be removed from society.
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🚨JAS 49.4 now available 🚨
JAS editors: "the intellectual mission of #Meanjin lives on beyond its pages, and we commit JAS to similarly challenging and extending the nation’s mental life."
Thank you to @beneltham.bsky.social for permission to use the cover image.
tinyurl.com/yphjfn38
#OzStudies
JAS editors: "the intellectual mission of #Meanjin lives on beyond its pages, and we commit JAS to similarly challenging and extending the nation’s mental life."
Thank you to @beneltham.bsky.social for permission to use the cover image.
tinyurl.com/yphjfn38
#OzStudies
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
🚨JAS 49.4 now available 🚨
JAS editors: "the intellectual mission of #Meanjin lives on beyond its pages, and we commit JAS to similarly challenging and extending the nation’s mental life."
Thank you to @beneltham.bsky.social for permission to use the cover image.
tinyurl.com/yphjfn38
#OzStudies
JAS editors: "the intellectual mission of #Meanjin lives on beyond its pages, and we commit JAS to similarly challenging and extending the nation’s mental life."
Thank you to @beneltham.bsky.social for permission to use the cover image.
tinyurl.com/yphjfn38
#OzStudies
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now
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It's destroying any joy there was in marking assignments.
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
Can I quietly ask we stop talking about what "AI" *could* do in education and identify instead what's actually happening with AI in education? I'll start...
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It's destroying any joy there was in marking assignments.
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
It creates distrust between educator and student (both directions) because some are using it to write assignments or mark essays, so you need to be vigilant with ALL.
Most importantly, it's reducing critical thinking and writing skills!
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thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
November 13, 2025 at 1:38 AM
thinking about how i get anxious writing emails because i don't want to sound like a moron while larry summers is apparently typing emails like this:
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
u kno she dint want to talk tomorrow. make me bad pheel.
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I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
Developing guidelines for supervising Neurodivergent HDR students
redcap.unisq.edu.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
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if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
talkingpointsmemo.com
November 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.
And there it is. EIC Versha Sharma is "leaving the company" - sounds like a polite euphemism. She has been a driving force in making Teen Vogue the excellent outlet for political commentary that it has been in recent years. I hope she and those excellent journos continue this work elsewhere.
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
And there it is. EIC Versha Sharma is "leaving the company" - sounds like a polite euphemism. She has been a driving force in making Teen Vogue the excellent outlet for political commentary that it has been in recent years. I hope she and those excellent journos continue this work elsewhere.
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Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.