Jean Burgess
@jeanburgess.bsky.social
Prof at QUT School of Communication & Digital Media Research Centre; Assoc Director ADM+S Centre. Researching the internet, platforms & automation in society via cultural studies & digital methods. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐶🌄🍽🎤
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Jean Burgess
@jeanburgess.bsky.social
· Nov 15
I've started building an eclectic starter pack of accounts that make the internet a happy, fun, inspiring place - but I need your help!
Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy.
go.bsky.app/NkKNkeL
Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy.
go.bsky.app/NkKNkeL
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NOT FEELING VERY APPRECIATED HERE
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
NOT FEELING VERY APPRECIATED HERE
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Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announces transition committees
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani announced Monday the creation of 17 transition advisory committees made up of more than 400 people.
www.cbsnews.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Honored to serve on Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Transition Committee on Technology. For too long, too many New Yorkers have been left behind. NYC deserves governance that centers affordability, equity, and the public good-looking forward to the work ahead. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...
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"Nothing is riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution, freedom of the press, and quite possibly, the future of the country." -- Ben Bradlee as portrayed by Jason Robards, "All the President's Men."
53 years later...
53 years later...
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"Nothing is riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution, freedom of the press, and quite possibly, the future of the country." -- Ben Bradlee as portrayed by Jason Robards, "All the President's Men."
53 years later...
53 years later...
Talk about beating a red herring to death
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Talk about beating a red herring to death
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Huge congrats to all the very deserving early career academics who got DECRAs. And condolences to the much larger group of deserving people who didn't get DECRAs. Just remember that the vast majority of successful academics you know also didn't get DECRAs!
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Huge congrats to all the very deserving early career academics who got DECRAs. And condolences to the much larger group of deserving people who didn't get DECRAs. Just remember that the vast majority of successful academics you know also didn't get DECRAs!
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We are very proud of the incredible people and culture that we have at the Digital Media Research Centre. We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year, including a podcast episode from some of the people that made it happen.
open.spotify.com/epi...
We hope you enjoy listening!
open.spotify.com/epi...
We hope you enjoy listening!
The DMRC, 10 Years On (Or: How to Build a Research Centre)
Read Them Sideways · Episode
open.spotify.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
We are very proud of the incredible people and culture that we have at the Digital Media Research Centre. We are celebrating our 10 year anniversary this year, including a podcast episode from some of the people that made it happen.
open.spotify.com/epi...
We hope you enjoy listening!
open.spotify.com/epi...
We hope you enjoy listening!
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As an English speaking country (with nice beaches to boot) for the cost of a small tax on fossil fuel exports or high incomes Australia could invest in science, recruit researchers fleeing the US and become the knowledge powerhouse of the 21st Century. Instead we're doing this.
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
As an English speaking country (with nice beaches to boot) for the cost of a small tax on fossil fuel exports or high incomes Australia could invest in science, recruit researchers fleeing the US and become the knowledge powerhouse of the 21st Century. Instead we're doing this.
Dear colleagues, please join me in appreciating this, the most glorious visual pun in the history of the internet
November 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Dear colleagues, please join me in appreciating this, the most glorious visual pun in the history of the internet
Thread.
65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.
November 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Thread.
Today in the Fin Review I learned that data centres are propping up our economy* and if you thought a collapse in the AI economy won't affect us well
*allegedly
*allegedly
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Today in the Fin Review I learned that data centres are propping up our economy* and if you thought a collapse in the AI economy won't affect us well
*allegedly
*allegedly
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crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."
November 12, 2025 at 6:44 AM
crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."
Oh dear, if this is true, a whole lot of things make a whole lot more sense (and I despair)
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Oh dear, if this is true, a whole lot of things make a whole lot more sense (and I despair)
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absolutely deranged responses here
when you put something in the microwave for a minute and a half, do you punch in 1:30 or :90?
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
absolutely deranged responses here
I'm gonna read read the crap out of this, you should too (especially if you claim to study tech and/or the internet)
November 9, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I'm gonna read read the crap out of this, you should too (especially if you claim to study tech and/or the internet)
It took me too long to dump Spotify. Two reasons, one reasonable, the other dumb AF
1. My annual Christmas playlist of deep cuts and strange juxtapositions, which is mildly popular (with my friends)
2. The 12 hours-long brown noise track I sleep to
I've recently found solutions to both...
1. My annual Christmas playlist of deep cuts and strange juxtapositions, which is mildly popular (with my friends)
2. The 12 hours-long brown noise track I sleep to
I've recently found solutions to both...
November 8, 2025 at 11:38 PM
It took me too long to dump Spotify. Two reasons, one reasonable, the other dumb AF
1. My annual Christmas playlist of deep cuts and strange juxtapositions, which is mildly popular (with my friends)
2. The 12 hours-long brown noise track I sleep to
I've recently found solutions to both...
1. My annual Christmas playlist of deep cuts and strange juxtapositions, which is mildly popular (with my friends)
2. The 12 hours-long brown noise track I sleep to
I've recently found solutions to both...
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au
It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done
Check it out at Australian Policy Online here:
apo.org.au/node/331920
It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done
Check it out at Australian Policy Online here:
apo.org.au/node/331920
apo.org.au
September 1, 2025 at 12:02 AM
We just released a *big* working paper on Voice AI and Authenticity as part of the ARC CoE for Automated Decision-Making and Society @admscentre.org.au
It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done
Check it out at Australian Policy Online here:
apo.org.au/node/331920
It surveys the history of the tech, emerging issues, and what can be done
Check it out at Australian Policy Online here:
apo.org.au/node/331920
Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders
Angelfire homepage dedicated to the color purple (1997). Back when we all had personal homepages.
August 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Shout-out to fellow Angelfire homesteaders
It's great that there's a new season of Foundation, the best space opera/sci fi epic ever, and I admit I'm inattentive* but why has the current Cleon (Day edition) turned into The Dude? Guy's wandering around in a bathrobe, taking spliffs off shrooms, and generally DGAF
*post-viral brainfogged
*post-viral brainfogged
August 26, 2025 at 8:35 AM
It's great that there's a new season of Foundation, the best space opera/sci fi epic ever, and I admit I'm inattentive* but why has the current Cleon (Day edition) turned into The Dude? Guy's wandering around in a bathrobe, taking spliffs off shrooms, and generally DGAF
*post-viral brainfogged
*post-viral brainfogged
Job for a professional HASS research infrastructure person! Program Manager, Australian Internet Observatory
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...?
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...?
Program Manager, Australian Internet Observatory
Overview: Full-time, Fixed Term position until June 2028 Salary HEW 9 ($135,978 - $145,693) + 17% Superannuation and Flexible Working Arrangements Based at the Melbourne CBD campus, but may be require...
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Job for a professional HASS research infrastructure person! Program Manager, Australian Internet Observatory
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...?
rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...?
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I wish you joy at all times.
August 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
I wish you joy at all times.
I don't *care* if it's terrible it has Suranne Jones
August 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I don't *care* if it's terrible it has Suranne Jones
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It is really funny (sad, infuriating) to watch companies start to slowlyyyyy back away from the AGI.
www.wired.com/story/charac...
www.wired.com/story/charac...
Character.AI Gave Up on AGI. Now It’s Selling Stories
Startup Character.AI once promised superintelligence. Its new CEO says it's now an entertainment company with 20 million users.
www.wired.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It is really funny (sad, infuriating) to watch companies start to slowlyyyyy back away from the AGI.
www.wired.com/story/charac...
www.wired.com/story/charac...
I am getting 3 review requests a DAY. This whole academic publishing thing isn't going to end well.
August 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I am getting 3 review requests a DAY. This whole academic publishing thing isn't going to end well.