Ika Willis
@ikax.bsky.social
I'm an education-focussed academic & Head of School, Culture & Communication, at the Uni of Melbourne. Talk to me about decolonising education, inclusive pedagogy, workload models, process mapping, and management as praxis. Views mine not my employer's.
… and then invited them onto Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B? 🙏
Trying to think if there is a less appealing way to describe a group of people I wouldn't want to ever be in the same room with.
January 7, 2026 at 6:04 AM
… and then invited them onto Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B? 🙏
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nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired
January 6, 2026 at 11:34 PM
nobody trusts anybody now, and we're all very tired
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This is the inspiration for my Fractured Lit piece - this VERY creepy group (it's a rich person thing, they all dress in white and eat dinner in public and are richer than you) was outside our highrise window. My son @daeganl.bsky.social is the photographer.
fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...
fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...
January 5, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This is the inspiration for my Fractured Lit piece - this VERY creepy group (it's a rich person thing, they all dress in white and eat dinner in public and are richer than you) was outside our highrise window. My son @daeganl.bsky.social is the photographer.
fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...
fracturedlit.com/the-billiona...
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where do you think it goes
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all the stuff you type when
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January 6, 2026 at 7:05 AM
where do you think it goes
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And you can read @jodimca.bsky.social’s book while you’re there! bsky.app/profile/ikax...
Inner North Melbourne people: two of Yarra Library's branches have extended opening hours on Thursday and Friday so that you can hide away from the heatwave.
January 6, 2026 at 7:31 AM
And you can read @jodimca.bsky.social’s book while you’re there! bsky.app/profile/ikax...
Will also be diving back in to the notes I made on @drbibliomane.bsky.social and Alexandra Gillespie’s THE UNFINISHED BOOK at my glorious reading retreat in 2024. I promise the below is not the only page of notes I took…
January 6, 2026 at 6:05 AM
Will also be diving back in to the notes I made on @drbibliomane.bsky.social and Alexandra Gillespie’s THE UNFINISHED BOOK at my glorious reading retreat in 2024. I promise the below is not the only page of notes I took…
Library haul! (For my book chapter on student refusals to read)
January 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
Library haul! (For my book chapter on student refusals to read)
Spotted in the wild (at Bargoonga Ngangin library Fitzroy North) - new and shiny! @jodimca.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 7:15 AM
Spotted in the wild (at Bargoonga Ngangin library Fitzroy North) - new and shiny! @jodimca.bsky.social
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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...
I am writing my paper on student refusals to read and I need to refer to the difference between aesthetic & erotic pleasure that some ancient writer or other talked about via a story about finding semen on a statue of Aphrodite (aesthetic contemplation ur doin it rong). #ClassicsSky can you help?!
January 4, 2026 at 10:45 PM
I am writing my paper on student refusals to read and I need to refer to the difference between aesthetic & erotic pleasure that some ancient writer or other talked about via a story about finding semen on a statue of Aphrodite (aesthetic contemplation ur doin it rong). #ClassicsSky can you help?!
She was SO GREAT and we were SO LUCKY to have her
Emma Johnston, who died at 52, bridged marine science and university leadership, arguing evidence matters only if it can be understood and acted on beyond the lab.
A leading voice on coastal impacts and public science, her brief term as Melbourne vice-chancellor leaves a major gap.
A leading voice on coastal impacts and public science, her brief term as Melbourne vice-chancellor leaves a major gap.
Emma Johnston, a marine ecologist with institutional reach, has died at 52
Universities like to present themselves as durable institutions. They outlast governments, ride out recessions, and take pride in the slow accumulation of knowledge. In Australia, that confidence has…
news.mongabay.com
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 AM
She was SO GREAT and we were SO LUCKY to have her
Just in case my LJ buddies haven’t already done this
Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:
January 1, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Just in case my LJ buddies haven’t already done this
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I heard someone on a podcast say “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” about AI, and this is a large part of why that made me angry. The baby is some dumb shit like “it helps me brainstorm!” And the bath water is like 30 ways in which it’s destroying lives. I’d nuke that tub from orbit.
December 31, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I heard someone on a podcast say “don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater” about AI, and this is a large part of why that made me angry. The baby is some dumb shit like “it helps me brainstorm!” And the bath water is like 30 ways in which it’s destroying lives. I’d nuke that tub from orbit.
Some best books /telly /podcasts lists because I like both making them and reading other people’s! This was the year I caught up with a couple of books other people already knew were great, and read a few things that took my breath away with their insight into the world we all (have to) live in now:
December 31, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Some best books /telly /podcasts lists because I like both making them and reading other people’s! This was the year I caught up with a couple of books other people already knew were great, and read a few things that took my breath away with their insight into the world we all (have to) live in now:
I liked seeing who I mostly talk to (hello!) and learning that my most-used words were “think”, “read”, and “not”
ikax.bsky.social's Bluesky Wrapped 2025
Check out ikax.bsky.social's year on Bluesky!
www.madebyolof.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I liked seeing who I mostly talk to (hello!) and learning that my most-used words were “think”, “read”, and “not”
THEY WENT FINE I’M DOING A THIRD ONE BY CHOICE
Okay I’ve done the reading and the planning and the scrolling and now I can’t put it off any more: I have to do some writing intended for academic publication for the first time in [embarrassing number of] years*. Two Pomodoros and then I can knock off and do some cross-stitch!
December 31, 2025 at 5:10 AM
THEY WENT FINE I’M DOING A THIRD ONE BY CHOICE
I saw Natalie Imbruglia near the river in Canterbury in the 1990s. She looked familiar and I must’ve been peering at her puzzledly, trying to place her, because she gave me such an exhausted, terrified, introvert look. (Then I got to the theatre, saw her name on a poster, & the mystery was solved!)
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 31, 2025 at 5:09 AM
I saw Natalie Imbruglia near the river in Canterbury in the 1990s. She looked familiar and I must’ve been peering at her puzzledly, trying to place her, because she gave me such an exhausted, terrified, introvert look. (Then I got to the theatre, saw her name on a poster, & the mystery was solved!)
Okay I’ve done the reading and the planning and the scrolling and now I can’t put it off any more: I have to do some writing intended for academic publication for the first time in [embarrassing number of] years*. Two Pomodoros and then I can knock off and do some cross-stitch!
December 31, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Okay I’ve done the reading and the planning and the scrolling and now I can’t put it off any more: I have to do some writing intended for academic publication for the first time in [embarrassing number of] years*. Two Pomodoros and then I can knock off and do some cross-stitch!
I’ve just heard about this and it’s a huge loss to Melbourne and the world. Selfishly I’m devastated because she was the first truly awesome VC I’ve ever had, and I was, like, genuinely inspired to see it was possible to be a humane and brilliant leader at that level.
A sad and lovely piece co-authored by my UNSW colleague Rob Brooks on the recent passing of marine scientist and research leader Prof Emma Johnston AO.
theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...
theconversation.com/emma-johnsto...
Emma Johnston was a visionary scientist, environmentalist and leader, with an abiding hope for humanity
The University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, who has died aged 52, was driven by a deep love of science and a desire to safeguard the planet’s future.
theconversation.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:16 AM
I’ve just heard about this and it’s a huge loss to Melbourne and the world. Selfishly I’m devastated because she was the first truly awesome VC I’ve ever had, and I was, like, genuinely inspired to see it was possible to be a humane and brilliant leader at that level.
We Will Rise Again and Death of the Author are already on my list but this article added a few more hurrah!
I wrote about WE WILL RISE AGAIN, edited by @older.bsky.social @drkarenlord.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social , for @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org 's 2025 Notable Books!
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/2025/12/22/a...
ARB’s 2025 Notable Books
At the end of the year, we ask ARB’s contributors to pick just one book that they found really interesting this year: maybe already a best-seller or award-frontrunner, maybe something obscure…
ancillaryreviewofbooks.org
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
We Will Rise Again and Death of the Author are already on my list but this article added a few more hurrah!
It’s four in the morning, the end of December
December 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It’s four in the morning, the end of December
Q: Shall we watch All Her Fault?
I: Is that the one that had someone good in it, like Keira Knightly or someone?
Q: Yes, she was the little girl who danced and then she grew up.
I: Abigail Thing from Little Miss Sunshine?
Q: No, she has a name like a town.
I: Dakota Fanning?
Q: Yes!
I: Is that the one that had someone good in it, like Keira Knightly or someone?
Q: Yes, she was the little girl who danced and then she grew up.
I: Abigail Thing from Little Miss Sunshine?
Q: No, she has a name like a town.
I: Dakota Fanning?
Q: Yes!
December 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Q: Shall we watch All Her Fault?
I: Is that the one that had someone good in it, like Keira Knightly or someone?
Q: Yes, she was the little girl who danced and then she grew up.
I: Abigail Thing from Little Miss Sunshine?
Q: No, she has a name like a town.
I: Dakota Fanning?
Q: Yes!
I: Is that the one that had someone good in it, like Keira Knightly or someone?
Q: Yes, she was the little girl who danced and then she grew up.
I: Abigail Thing from Little Miss Sunshine?
Q: No, she has a name like a town.
I: Dakota Fanning?
Q: Yes!
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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
I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about this, starting from trying to visualise the moment at the fantasy lit con where people ask each other if they are Black, through the brain-bending arithmetical and conceptual work that “unique” is doing here—
Back to the lazy work of the original piece. Having referenced two opinion pieces to undergird her opinion piece, she now claims to be shifting to anecdotal evidence, and wow we're really doing "my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard Ferris was snubbed at a convention" huh.
December 28, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I have SO MANY THOUGHTS about this, starting from trying to visualise the moment at the fantasy lit con where people ask each other if they are Black, through the brain-bending arithmetical and conceptual work that “unique” is doing here—
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains*
*um lol I had a very different 90s from yours apparently
*um lol I had a very different 90s from yours apparently
December 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, sound garden, pearl jam, or alice in chains*
*um lol I had a very different 90s from yours apparently
*um lol I had a very different 90s from yours apparently