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@kentgoldsworthy.bsky.social
"Ivory Towers" Lecturer: Public Policy (Higher Education, Health, Criminal Justice). Books, Music, & Film. Host Radiotherapy on 📻. https://bsky.app/profile/3rrrfm.bsky.social
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My paper on consultant-vampires Nous sucking the lifeblood of universities goes into more detail about how these guys operate (co-written with @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Nousferatu”: Are corporate consultants extracting the lifeblood from universities?
Universities and management consultants are locked in a danse macabre. We turn to the vampire genre to elaborate on the relationship of consulting companies to the university sector, focusing on th...
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June 14, 2025 at 12:16 AM
My paper on consultant-vampires Nous sucking the lifeblood of universities goes into more detail about how these guys operate (co-written with @bestqualitycrab.bsky.social) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.
March 30, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is a reminder that you can oppose 1) antisemitism, 2) the Gaza genocide, 3) the October 7 attacks, and 4) the current assault on universities, at the same time, and with no contradiction.
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If you missed this brilliant show, catch the podcast when it goes up (and hit subscribe - you won't regret it).
So fun! Thanks for having me, Spin Cycle folks!
So fun! Thanks for having me, Spin Cycle folks!
Tonight on Spin Cycle, as we warm up for electioneering (god help us all) Alex Fein AKA @auspoldaily.bsky.social joins us to explain wtf the focus groups are all about and why they get blamed for all the bad policy decisions.
March 6, 2025 at 9:18 AM
If you missed this brilliant show, catch the podcast when it goes up (and hit subscribe - you won't regret it).
So fun! Thanks for having me, Spin Cycle folks!
So fun! Thanks for having me, Spin Cycle folks!
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Some very timely media analysis from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on our latest ep of Spin Cycle with @theshufflediary.bsky.social and @rachelwithers.bsky.social - Listen back to the full show at www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
March 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Some very timely media analysis from @amyremeikis.bsky.social on our latest ep of Spin Cycle with @theshufflediary.bsky.social and @rachelwithers.bsky.social - Listen back to the full show at www.rrr.org.au/explore/prog...
Whether history repeats, or rhymes, I don't have a good feeling about Munich security conferences....(apologies to Twain)
Tomorrow, the annual Munich Security Conference will start. Munich will briefly become the global capital of diplomacy, but I think it’s worthwhile to remember - especially right now - that Munich was also the site of one of the biggest diplomatic failures of 20th century.
February 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Whether history repeats, or rhymes, I don't have a good feeling about Munich security conferences....(apologies to Twain)
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Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
January 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Just re-upping this again because the Temu Trumps in the LNP insist on bringing every culture war here: the Morrison govt spent $20.8bn on consultants in its final year - the equivalent of 54,000 FT public servants. The private sector benefits with govt cuts. No one else.
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The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.
It’s fucking brilliant.
It’s fucking brilliant.
January 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration.
It’s fucking brilliant.
It’s fucking brilliant.
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Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
January 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's *adolescent* energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...
A friend to all is a friend to none. 🤔
The Washington Post began trying out a new mission statement this week: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” It comes amid turmoil in the newsroom.
The Washington Post’s New Mission: Reach ‘All of America’
This week, The Post began trying out a new mission statement: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.”
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 11:47 PM
A friend to all is a friend to none. 🤔
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Santos was fined $10,000 for spilling ~25,000L of oil off WA - it cost them less than a nursing degree.
"In Norway, they tax their oil industry & give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry & charge kids a fortune to go to uni."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"In Norway, they tax their oil industry & give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry & charge kids a fortune to go to uni."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
January 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Santos was fined $10,000 for spilling ~25,000L of oil off WA - it cost them less than a nursing degree.
"In Norway, they tax their oil industry & give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry & charge kids a fortune to go to uni."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
"In Norway, they tax their oil industry & give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry & charge kids a fortune to go to uni."
- @richarddenniss.bsky.social #auspol
Trying to imagine the meeting discussion that eventuated these decisions... 🤨
In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is,
this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.
this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.
January 8, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Trying to imagine the meeting discussion that eventuated these decisions... 🤨
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Welcome to 2025 in the English and UK higher education sector....
Your 2025 higher education policy almanac
Michael Salmon leafs through all the policy developments the higher education sector is looking forward to, dreading, or otherwise expecting for the year ahead Michael Salmon leafs through all the pol...
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January 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Welcome to 2025 in the English and UK higher education sector....
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I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Academic Work Tracker Template v2.2 (2025)
docs.google.com
December 31, 2024 at 2:51 AM
I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
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Portrait of Jimmy Carter by Andy Warhol, 1976. RIP
December 29, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Portrait of Jimmy Carter by Andy Warhol, 1976. RIP
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Paying the piper: the governance of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in Australian and UK universities
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Paying the piper: the governance of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in Australian and UK universities
There is a long-running cyclical public debate in the UK and Australia about the level of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in publicly funded universities. Whilst governments may promise greater over...
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December 27, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Paying the piper: the governance of vice-chancellors’ remuneration in Australian and UK universities
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Best of 2024: Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years
Higher education in general election manifestos – the 1940s and 50s
Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years
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December 25, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Best of 2024: Debbie McVitty finds the seeds of an emerging consensus around the value of higher education expansion in party manifestos of the post-war years
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Why we fund basic research
People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random.
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea
Breaking News: The FDA approved use of the weight loss drug Zepbound for a common form of sleep apnea. It is the first drug authorized to treat the disorder.
December 21, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Why we fund basic research
"Hey Homeless people, we're going to take away the non-judgemental and unconditional love of your pet so as to be sure you're not distracted from reminders of the judgemental and conditional attention of your fellow human"
Queensland council bans pets for rough sleepers amid homeless crackdown
The City of Moreton Bay issues a blanket ban forbidding homeless people from keeping pets or publicly sleeping in vans.
www.abc.net.au
December 18, 2024 at 4:14 AM
"Hey Homeless people, we're going to take away the non-judgemental and unconditional love of your pet so as to be sure you're not distracted from reminders of the judgemental and conditional attention of your fellow human"
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"Bad governance in Australia and how to mitigate it"
Just found this article and key lessons are very relevant to countries beyond Australia. Well worth a read.
via @ausjpa.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Just found this article and key lessons are very relevant to countries beyond Australia. Well worth a read.
via @ausjpa.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
December 17, 2024 at 1:57 PM
"Bad governance in Australia and how to mitigate it"
Just found this article and key lessons are very relevant to countries beyond Australia. Well worth a read.
via @ausjpa.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/1467...
Just found this article and key lessons are very relevant to countries beyond Australia. Well worth a read.
via @ausjpa.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1111/1467...