Millicent Weber
@millicentweber.bsky.social
Senior lecturer and DECRA fellow in literature at the Australian National University. Audiobooks, writers festivals, digital technology. Books! Books? Books. https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/weber-m
I try not to be too doom and gloom about the future of education but gd social media makes it hard sometimes
October 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I try not to be too doom and gloom about the future of education but gd social media makes it hard sometimes
Reposted by Millicent Weber
Wheeeen theee
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
August 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wheeeen theee
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
Bird in your room represents all your gloom
Nevermoré
When you're trying to grieve but that corvid won't leave
Nevermoré
It will rap
Tippy tippy tap
Tippy tippy tap
Waking you from naps aaand
Your dream-a
Then will fly
Never tell you why
Even if you cry
Landing on your sideboard Athena
Two weeks left to submit an abstract to this online workshop and knowledge exchange about audiobook research
Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/
Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts
indico.uni-muenster.de
April 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Two weeks left to submit an abstract to this online workshop and knowledge exchange about audiobook research
Reposted by Millicent Weber
Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:
Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/
Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts
indico.uni-muenster.de
March 14, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Want to hear about the latest research in audiobooks? Maybe you're doing research into audiobooks? Join ANU English's own Millie Weber in this online workshop:
Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/
Doing audiobook research: Local voices, national markets, global contexts
indico.uni-muenster.de
March 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Talk all things audiobook research with me and @corinnanorue.bsky.social at an online workshop and knowledge-exchange happening later this year. Abstracts are due 25 April. More info: indico.uni-muenster.de/event/3286/
So much to infuriate me about this, where do I even begin ...
March 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
So much to infuriate me about this, where do I even begin ...
Yep this about sums it up chaser.com.au/sport/sam-ke...
Sam Kerr found not guilty of abusing stupid white bastard – The Chaser
Once again Kerr didn't miss.
chaser.com.au
February 12, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Yep this about sums it up chaser.com.au/sport/sam-ke...
Artworks by my four-year-old vs. characters from 90s cartoons
January 30, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Artworks by my four-year-old vs. characters from 90s cartoons
Reposted by Millicent Weber
New terra nullius just dropped.
January 26, 2025 at 3:06 AM
New terra nullius just dropped.
My sympathy and solidarity with colleagues at UoW. There is a shocking leadership crisis in Australian Higher Ed and academic and professional staff are bearing the brunt.
University of Wollongong academics say they have been forced to compete against each other for their jobs after the university confirmed it will shed more than 90 positions.
Academics forced into 'hunger games' as university pushes ahead with $21 million cuts
University of Wollongong academics say they have been forced to compete against each other for their jobs after the university confirmed it will shed more than 90 positions.
www.abc.net.au
January 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
My sympathy and solidarity with colleagues at UoW. There is a shocking leadership crisis in Australian Higher Ed and academic and professional staff are bearing the brunt.
Reposted by Millicent Weber
How good is it to see young Timmy Winton finally get a go in the awards
January 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
How good is it to see young Timmy Winton finally get a go in the awards
Reposted by Millicent Weber
Be alert in 2025 for lots more discussions about the problems in universities.
🚨Note the angle!
Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts.
Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else
🚨Note the angle!
Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts.
Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else
January 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Be alert in 2025 for lots more discussions about the problems in universities.
🚨Note the angle!
Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts.
Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else
🚨Note the angle!
Beware if pieces fail to document or appreciate historic and ongoing systemic harms and cuts.
Or if accountability's deflected and solutions avoided by blaming staff and students and ignoring all else
🎶 All I want for Christmas, is ... 🎶
December 25, 2024 at 7:31 AM
🎶 All I want for Christmas, is ... 🎶
Just saying that I would absolutely listen to the audiobook of this rewrite
December 23, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Just saying that I would absolutely listen to the audiobook of this rewrite
Audiobooks 👏 are 👏 reading 👏
(That's it, that's the take)
(That's it, that's the take)
Audio books are reading! All scholars of reading agree on this and we don’t agree on anything! @millicentweber.bsky.social is the authority here
December 14, 2024 at 4:15 AM
Audiobooks 👏 are 👏 reading 👏
(That's it, that's the take)
(That's it, that's the take)
Amazon offering a free audiobook with a music sub may look like what Spotify is doing but it's actually the reverse. (See: www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...)
November 21, 2024 at 9:21 AM
Amazon offering a free audiobook with a music sub may look like what Spotify is doing but it's actually the reverse. (See: www.thebookseller.com/news/amazon-...)
Starter pack for academic mamas* (ask @sebenton.bsky.social if you would like to be added)
November 20, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Starter pack for academic mamas* (ask @sebenton.bsky.social if you would like to be added)
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OK, way too tempting! So, Charlotte Wood went all the way to a Booker s/listing off a Miles Franklin l/listing. And also there with her on the latter? The sublime The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe. Just needs a UK pub & bingo! (will take a bet up to 50 quid on this!) www.uqp.com.au/books/the-si...
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
OK, way too tempting! So, Charlotte Wood went all the way to a Booker s/listing off a Miles Franklin l/listing. And also there with her on the latter? The sublime The Sitter by Angela O'Keeffe. Just needs a UK pub & bingo! (will take a bet up to 50 quid on this!) www.uqp.com.au/books/the-si...
"still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void"
November 19, 2024 at 5:20 AM
"still he'd see the matrix in his sleep, bright lattices of logic unfolding across that colorless void"
Me: new social media new you, don't let them see what you're really like
Also me:
Also me:
November 16, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Me: new social media new you, don't let them see what you're really like
Also me:
Also me:
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RIP to the best audiobook narrator in the game, thank you for brightening my life over the course of ~1200 dog walks
Timothy West: Acclaimed stage and screen actor dies aged 90
One of Britain's most distinguished actors, West was married to Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales.
www.bbc.com
November 13, 2024 at 2:20 PM
RIP to the best audiobook narrator in the game, thank you for brightening my life over the course of ~1200 dog walks
Reposted by Millicent Weber
PhD scholarship on audiobooks and Australian literary culture! Amazing project, $36.5K per year, and you get to work with Millie Weber who is a world leader in audiobooks and an all-around good egg. Tell her I sent you 😇
Audiobooks and Australian Literary Culture PhD Scholarship | The Australian National University
Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship in literary studies. The scholarship is supported by the Australian National University (ANU) and is part of an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discove...
study.anu.edu.au
August 22, 2024 at 1:41 AM
PhD scholarship on audiobooks and Australian literary culture! Amazing project, $36.5K per year, and you get to work with Millie Weber who is a world leader in audiobooks and an all-around good egg. Tell her I sent you 😇
Thrilled that my first post (terminology?) here is that we're hiring two people in English at ANU: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
Both are completely open in terms of specialisation; one is the backfill for my DECRA. I'm not involved in the recruitment but please ask for info about ANU/Canberra!
Both are completely open in terms of specialisation; one is the backfill for my DECRA. I'm not involved in the recruitment but please ask for info about ANU/Canberra!
October 24, 2023 at 12:57 AM
Thrilled that my first post (terminology?) here is that we're hiring two people in English at ANU: jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/lecture...
Both are completely open in terms of specialisation; one is the backfill for my DECRA. I'm not involved in the recruitment but please ask for info about ANU/Canberra!
Both are completely open in terms of specialisation; one is the backfill for my DECRA. I'm not involved in the recruitment but please ask for info about ANU/Canberra!