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.
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Tesla Shareholders: Let it be resolved that ELON MUSK, should the market cap of TSLA$ reach the figure of $10 Trillion on or before June 15th, 2032, will be certified to have a RICH, INNER LIFE replete with STRONG AND KNOWLEDGEABLE OPINIONS regarding the CINEMATIC AND LITERARY ARTS and MANY FRIENDS.
November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Tesla Shareholders: Let it be resolved that ELON MUSK, should the market cap of TSLA$ reach the figure of $10 Trillion on or before June 15th, 2032, will be certified to have a RICH, INNER LIFE replete with STRONG AND KNOWLEDGEABLE OPINIONS regarding the CINEMATIC AND LITERARY ARTS and MANY FRIENDS.
omg this looks amazing, read the thread
New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen.
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The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance
Şerife Wong The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 2025 Original score by Jeromey Cooks (rikuwru) This video is part of Icarus Salon. It is intended to be viewed in…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
omg this looks amazing, read the thread
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Nearly 25 years ago I wrote a long Tolkien fanfiction about Faramir and Éowyn and what happened after the fairy-tale. I posted chapters as I was writing them: it became my first full-length novel…
November 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Hello #Naarm #Melbourne! Any fans of Jenny Pausacker (jennypausacker.com) might like to hear to the Brunswick Brotherhood next week or so, she’s just culled seven boxes of her obscure children’s lit collection
November 1, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Hello #Naarm #Melbourne! Any fans of Jenny Pausacker (jennypausacker.com) might like to hear to the Brunswick Brotherhood next week or so, she’s just culled seven boxes of her obscure children’s lit collection
TREATY
October 31, 2025 at 12:25 PM
TREATY
This is FASCINATING
If you want a perfect example of the aging up of YA fiction to appeal to adult readers at the exclusion of teen readers, it's getting rid of any references to the specific ages of the teen characters in the Six of Crows duology. www.tumblr.com/vilecemetery...
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💬 70 🔁 987 ❤️ 1691 · leigh bardugo has massively edited and rewritten the six of crows books and no one has noticed · or has for some reason decided not to mention it at all or let anyone else kn…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This is FASCINATING
Wait, is Uncle Owen not Luke's real uncle? TIL I guess
These people? Not actually related to Luke at all. Yet he calls them Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru.
What else are the Jedi lying about?
What else are the Jedi lying about?
October 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Wait, is Uncle Owen not Luke's real uncle? TIL I guess
Is this the best title ever y/n (y)
Ever run researcher development sessions and noted a gender disparity? Our paper on this topic, simmering away since 2024, is out! Our fearless leader + heaviest lifter on this work is undeniably @drmeagantyler.bsky.social.
* insert 'We're not worthy' meme *
Thanks, @herdjournal.bsky.social! 🫰
* insert 'We're not worthy' meme *
Thanks, @herdjournal.bsky.social! 🫰
In researcher development, are we missing men, fixing women, or creating gender trouble?
@drmeagantyler.bsky.social, @tseenster.bsky.social & @danbendrups.bsky.social
→ doi.org/10.1080/0729...
#ResearcherDevelopment #HigherEd #AcademicDevelopment #Gender #GenderInequality #DoctoralEducation
@drmeagantyler.bsky.social, @tseenster.bsky.social & @danbendrups.bsky.social
→ doi.org/10.1080/0729...
#ResearcherDevelopment #HigherEd #AcademicDevelopment #Gender #GenderInequality #DoctoralEducation
October 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Is this the best title ever y/n (y)
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Send him here and he can say that to my face.
October 25, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Send him here and he can say that to my face.
Also am reading Mona Awad’s I Love You Bunny and honestly I was a bit meh about it till we got to the section in the Creature’s voice and now I love it and will follow it around forever, does anyone want to talk about Aerius with me? Though I should wait till
I’ve finished I guess bc spoilers
I’ve finished I guess bc spoilers
October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Also am reading Mona Awad’s I Love You Bunny and honestly I was a bit meh about it till we got to the section in the Creature’s voice and now I love it and will follow it around forever, does anyone want to talk about Aerius with me? Though I should wait till
I’ve finished I guess bc spoilers
I’ve finished I guess bc spoilers
Bloody love this. Also I saw the 1999 Mansfield Park recently and it was BRILLIANT on Fanny and I think had a v sinister take on Mary? But now I might need to rewatch (oh no! 😂)
Another AUSTEN TAKE, babies! This time: why 'Mary Crawford is more fun than Fanny Price' isn't a good take.
Because Mary isn't a rebel. She's a status-quo enforcer.
How do we balance disagreeing with Austen's sexual morals without missing her point? 1/
Because Mary isn't a rebel. She's a status-quo enforcer.
How do we balance disagreeing with Austen's sexual morals without missing her point? 1/
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Bloody love this. Also I saw the 1999 Mansfield Park recently and it was BRILLIANT on Fanny and I think had a v sinister take on Mary? But now I might need to rewatch (oh no! 😂)
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Karella: come and join us to talk about Charlie Jane Anders' new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
Karella: i'm reasonably sure that the conversation will be the above dialogue verbatim
Karella: yup yup yup i'm just THAT good 😏
Karella: i'm reasonably sure that the conversation will be the above dialogue verbatim
Karella: yup yup yup i'm just THAT good 😏
October 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Karella: come and join us to talk about Charlie Jane Anders' new book Lessons in Magic and Disaster!
Karella: i'm reasonably sure that the conversation will be the above dialogue verbatim
Karella: yup yup yup i'm just THAT good 😏
Karella: i'm reasonably sure that the conversation will be the above dialogue verbatim
Karella: yup yup yup i'm just THAT good 😏
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Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
October 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read
This came into my brain yesterday: memory lapse? Or — the most genius book idea ever?
WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK ALICE, half Golden Age style murder mystery, half hard-hitting expose of the 1970s drug scene
WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK ALICE, half Golden Age style murder mystery, half hard-hitting expose of the 1970s drug scene
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This came into my brain yesterday: memory lapse? Or — the most genius book idea ever?
WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK ALICE, half Golden Age style murder mystery, half hard-hitting expose of the 1970s drug scene
WHY DIDN’T THEY ASK ALICE, half Golden Age style murder mystery, half hard-hitting expose of the 1970s drug scene
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Okay when I volunteered to do A/V for Nance’s memorial no-one told me they were using Talkin’ About A Revolution 😭😭😭😭😭
October 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Okay when I volunteered to do A/V for Nance’s memorial no-one told me they were using Talkin’ About A Revolution 😭😭😭😭😭
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You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
Yes, it does look like the government accounts joining Bluesky are real, including Homeland Security and the White House. They're tweeting about it on X.
October 17, 2025 at 10:40 PM
You gotta just block these accounts without interacting. They're doing this the night before No Kings so they can selectively grab quote posts and replies about how nasty people are being. It's extremely transparent. Just block and move on.
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A. A. Milne is one of the great English poets.
October 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
A. A. Milne is one of the great English poets.
A bureaucrat for the revolution? IN SPACE?
October 13, 2025 at 10:18 AM
A bureaucrat for the revolution? IN SPACE?
Monday morning Melbourne?
Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Monday morning Melbourne?
… the haunting tale is now dismissed as a “modern thriller” (like wtf, who thinks thrillers are higher-class than Gothic romances?!)
First dismissed as "Gothic romance" when it was published by Daphne du Maurier in 1938, the haunting tale has evolved into a modern thriller about the expectations placed on women.
Rebecca was a novel, a Hitchcock classic, and now a thriller on stage
First dismissed as "Gothic romance" when it was published by Daphne du Maurier in 1938, the haunting tale has evolved into a modern thriller about the expectations placed on women.
www.abc.net.au
October 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
… the haunting tale is now dismissed as a “modern thriller” (like wtf, who thinks thrillers are higher-class than Gothic romances?!)
Nance is the third or forth person to appear in in this clip saying she doesn’t want to be a shrivelled old prune and that “it was all on”, waving her arms around. The memorial will be significantly less fabulous but a lot of her friends scattered and I’d like them to be able to see it
October 12, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Nance is the third or forth person to appear in in this clip saying she doesn’t want to be a shrivelled old prune and that “it was all on”, waving her arms around. The memorial will be significantly less fabulous but a lot of her friends scattered and I’d like them to be able to see it
Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?
October 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Just putting this out to the universe - Nance’s memorial service is next weekend and I belatedly offered to sort a recording/livestreaming for the main organisers who don’t have capacity. Anyone know a queer videographer in Melbourne who does memorials/funerals?
Aarrrgghhh just finished Mhairi Macfarlane’s COVER STORY and I think it’s her best yet. She is SO GOOD at eroticising/ romanticising good communication, trust, integrity & respect. Like the best Heyers but with more jokes 😍😍😍😍😍
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Aarrrgghhh just finished Mhairi Macfarlane’s COVER STORY and I think it’s her best yet. She is SO GOOD at eroticising/ romanticising good communication, trust, integrity & respect. Like the best Heyers but with more jokes 😍😍😍😍😍
ONE OF THEM IS WEARING A SEVENTH DOCTOR JUMPER THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW
Are they hoping to start a Young Tory cosplay trend on TikTok
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...
www.thetimes.com/article/8c9a...
Meet the young Tories dreaming of a bright blue future
The Conservatives know they have a problem with Gen Z voters. At the party conference, The Times met a new breed of activists who are embracing the challenge
www.thetimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
ONE OF THEM IS WEARING A SEVENTH DOCTOR JUMPER THIS IS AGAINST THE LAW