Katrina Grant
@katrinagrant.bsky.social
Researcher - art history, early modern Europe, Rome, landscape, environment, museums, collections, cycling, running, cats, etc etc
http://katrinagrant.net/
http://katrinagrant.net/
About time the papacy got involved in cultural leadership again
November 17, 2025 at 9:16 AM
About time the papacy got involved in cultural leadership again
Office for the week in Bangkok
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Office for the week in Bangkok
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I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
Developing guidelines for supervising Neurodivergent HDR students
redcap.unisq.edu.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I'd appreciate help circulating this survey, part of our overall work on neurodivergence.
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
This one is on behalf of the graduate deans, to develop better supervision guidelines.
You can help by boosting and circulating the link in your various networks 🙏 redcap.unisq.edu.au/surveys/?s=D...
A few snaps from the 'Dangerously Modern' exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW L-R Eva Benson 'Psyche', Stella Bowen, 'White Steps', Dorrit Black 'Sicilian Landscape', Josephine Muntz-Adams, 'A Gypsy Belle'
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
A few snaps from the 'Dangerously Modern' exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW L-R Eva Benson 'Psyche', Stella Bowen, 'White Steps', Dorrit Black 'Sicilian Landscape', Josephine Muntz-Adams, 'A Gypsy Belle'
Thanks Tim! Was a great contribution and a few people mentioned afterwards it was a good example of a reason to use IIIF. I am definitely digging into AllMaps over summer to see what I can make.
Today I gave a presentation to the @IIIF workshop at Sydney Uni. I talked about some of my experiments using IIIF, including my current work at the State Library of Victoria. Here are the slides: https://slides.com/wragge/iiif-workshop-2025 #glam #maps #digitalhumanities
Presentation to IIIF workshop, November 2025
A presentation created with Slides.
slides.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Thanks Tim! Was a great contribution and a few people mentioned afterwards it was a good example of a reason to use IIIF. I am definitely digging into AllMaps over summer to see what I can make.
Surrealist vibes with the eye in the landscape from Johann Zahn's 1685 'Oculus artificialis'
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Surrealist vibes with the eye in the landscape from Johann Zahn's 1685 'Oculus artificialis'
Isn't that also just the university of the present?
November 2, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Isn't that also just the university of the present?
We have a new (compulsory of course) career planning tool for our annual review in which we have to set milestones for our milestones, and milestone for those milestones and steps to meet those milestones and so on. The temptation to just put this Strange Planet image in every field is high
October 31, 2025 at 12:05 AM
We have a new (compulsory of course) career planning tool for our annual review in which we have to set milestones for our milestones, and milestone for those milestones and steps to meet those milestones and so on. The temptation to just put this Strange Planet image in every field is high
Reposted by Katrina Grant
October 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 & 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝟭𝟳𝟲𝟬-𝟭𝟳𝟵𝟮
𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦
More info: bit.ly/3X0DYjw
#Baroque #Rococo #Gardens #Landscaping #France #Architecture #History
𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 & 𝗣𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝟭𝟳𝟲𝟬-𝟭𝟳𝟵𝟮
𝘚𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘈𝘷𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦
More info: bit.ly/3X0DYjw
#Baroque #Rococo #Gardens #Landscaping #France #Architecture #History
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Crowdsourcing often lacks diversity. I remember when a US gallery crowdsourced for 'fresh' exhibition ideas and people demanded Impressionism.
Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.
The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Crowdsourcing often lacks diversity. I remember when a US gallery crowdsourced for 'fresh' exhibition ideas and people demanded Impressionism.
The new yearly academic review system at my uni comes with over 100 pages of 'helpful' docs to read about how to set and measure goals. 100 pages. WTAF. Give people a word limt.
October 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
The new yearly academic review system at my uni comes with over 100 pages of 'helpful' docs to read about how to set and measure goals. 100 pages. WTAF. Give people a word limt.
Looking forward to seeing this next week!
Dangerously Modern, on now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, marks an exciting new chapter in the project of reclaiming forgotten women artists.
These Australian women modernist painters were overlooked, and forgotten. A century later, they are in the spotlight
theconversation.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Looking forward to seeing this next week!
Reposted by Katrina Grant
Barak was an Aboriginal leader who witnessed the signing of the controversial 1835 Batman Treaty. He made many works during his life, but many are unaccounted for. 👉 theconversation.com/william...
October 14, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Barak was an Aboriginal leader who witnessed the signing of the controversial 1835 Batman Treaty. He made many works during his life, but many are unaccounted for. 👉 theconversation.com/william...
Anyone in Sydney next week our final Vision Culture seminar should be a cracker.
'Visualities of destruction: war and ecocide at Kakhovka Dam'
w Olga Boichak, Michael Richardson and Ann Elias
All Welcome!
powerinstitute.org.au/events/visua...
'Visualities of destruction: war and ecocide at Kakhovka Dam'
w Olga Boichak, Michael Richardson and Ann Elias
All Welcome!
powerinstitute.org.au/events/visua...
Visualities of destruction: war and ecocide at Kakhovka Dam | The Power Institute
powerinstitute.org.au
October 13, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Anyone in Sydney next week our final Vision Culture seminar should be a cracker.
'Visualities of destruction: war and ecocide at Kakhovka Dam'
w Olga Boichak, Michael Richardson and Ann Elias
All Welcome!
powerinstitute.org.au/events/visua...
'Visualities of destruction: war and ecocide at Kakhovka Dam'
w Olga Boichak, Michael Richardson and Ann Elias
All Welcome!
powerinstitute.org.au/events/visua...
Reposted by Katrina Grant
Where’s the evidence for why these changes to create more secrecy and less transparency are supposedly needed?
Public service can’t point to any.
This is a terrible bill that should die an early death in the parliament.
region.com.au/no-bots-abou...
Public service can’t point to any.
This is a terrible bill that should die an early death in the parliament.
region.com.au/no-bots-abou...
No bots about it, government can't even identify if an FoI request is AI-generated | Region Canberra
Federal Government officials have admitted they can’t identify Freedom of Information requests from artificial intelligence bots, or even if they…
region.com.au
October 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Where’s the evidence for why these changes to create more secrecy and less transparency are supposedly needed?
Public service can’t point to any.
This is a terrible bill that should die an early death in the parliament.
region.com.au/no-bots-abou...
Public service can’t point to any.
This is a terrible bill that should die an early death in the parliament.
region.com.au/no-bots-abou...
I read this too quickly and just assumed they were expanding the galleries so they could go and do some more looting 😂
October 6, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I read this too quickly and just assumed they were expanding the galleries so they could go and do some more looting 😂
Hard to ever get excited about upcoming NGV exhibitions, just announced Cartier, of which there was an exhibition about in Aus about 7 years ago anyway. All the exhibitions seem like prepackaged commercial entities, not much curatorial creativity. Yawn
September 30, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Hard to ever get excited about upcoming NGV exhibitions, just announced Cartier, of which there was an exhibition about in Aus about 7 years ago anyway. All the exhibitions seem like prepackaged commercial entities, not much curatorial creativity. Yawn
Does anyone know of anything written about why citation metrics are often not great for humanities? It's kind of accepted as a given, especially for some book-focused disciplines, but curious if anyone has done any explicit digging into it, checking data etc?
September 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Does anyone know of anything written about why citation metrics are often not great for humanities? It's kind of accepted as a given, especially for some book-focused disciplines, but curious if anyone has done any explicit digging into it, checking data etc?
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for academic authors wondering if they're part of this class I found this useful. FWIW not all academic publishers file US copyright, even big publishers. Of my books (all UK-based pubs including camb U press, Manch U Press, etc) only one (Bloomsbury Academic) registered US copyright
To break this down, you are a member of this class as an author if:
(A) you are the legal copyright owner, and
(B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and
(C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and
(D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.
(A) you are the legal copyright owner, and
(B) the work is in LibGen or PiLiMi and was downloaded by Anthropic, and
(C) the work possesses either an ISBN or an ASIN, and
(D) the work was registered with the US copyright office.
August 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
for academic authors wondering if they're part of this class I found this useful. FWIW not all academic publishers file US copyright, even big publishers. Of my books (all UK-based pubs including camb U press, Manch U Press, etc) only one (Bloomsbury Academic) registered US copyright
Reposted by Katrina Grant
Don't threaten us with a good time.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 28, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Don't threaten us with a good time.
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The cost of kicking real reform down the road.
For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.
If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.
If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises, vice-chancellor says
Government mustn’t lose sight of need for critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts
www.theguardian.com
August 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The cost of kicking real reform down the road.
For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.
If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
For more than three years I’ve been calling for reform of the failed JRG program alongside colleagues on the crossbench.
If govt wants to fix intergenerational inequity this is a great place to start.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Reposted by Katrina Grant
Job Ready Graduates has to go - it has totally failed and is loading students up with debt.
This Labor Govt needs to go for more than the headline grab and start to tackle the root causes of problems.
www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
This Labor Govt needs to go for more than the headline grab and start to tackle the root causes of problems.
www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
Australian unis have a two-track system. One type of student misses out
One university chief’s warning comes as $50,000 arts degrees are pricing domestic students out of study, while some institutions are too focused on league tables.
www.smh.com.au
August 19, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Job Ready Graduates has to go - it has totally failed and is loading students up with debt.
This Labor Govt needs to go for more than the headline grab and start to tackle the root causes of problems.
www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
This Labor Govt needs to go for more than the headline grab and start to tackle the root causes of problems.
www.smh.com.au/national/aus...
Question for the digital mapping community - if you want to share some open source map images and basic instruction of how you set them up as layers so that you could link to it from an article (and someone could have a go themselves), what platform would you use? #digitalmapping #digitalhumanities
August 11, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Question for the digital mapping community - if you want to share some open source map images and basic instruction of how you set them up as layers so that you could link to it from an article (and someone could have a go themselves), what platform would you use? #digitalmapping #digitalhumanities