Caitlin Mahar
@maharc.bsky.social
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Spend an evening with Prof Clare Wright as she explores the stories behind Victoria’s monuments and the inspiration for her acclaimed project, A Monument of One’s Own.
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In Conversation with Clare Wright, A Monument of One’s Own
PMI Victorian History Library, 39 Saint Edmonds Road, Prahran, VIC 3181 AU - Tuesday, 7 Oct 2025 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm AEDT
brushfire.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Spend an evening with Prof Clare Wright as she explores the stories behind Victoria’s monuments and the inspiration for her acclaimed project, A Monument of One’s Own.
brushfire.com/pmivictorian...
brushfire.com/pmivictorian...
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The Interim Report is out on the Senate's inquiry into the 'Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers'.
@nteunion.bsky.social members haven't just been fighting against job cuts, but have also been fighting to ensure they don't ever happen again. ✊
@nteunion.bsky.social members haven't just been fighting against job cuts, but have also been fighting to ensure they don't ever happen again. ✊
Hundreds of submissions, thousands of petition signatures & years of campaigning = a Senate committee backing the reforms we’ve fought for to fix uni governance.
This is a huge step forward, won by staff speaking out.
This is a huge step forward, won by staff speaking out.
September 19, 2025 at 6:19 AM
The Interim Report is out on the Senate's inquiry into the 'Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers'.
@nteunion.bsky.social members haven't just been fighting against job cuts, but have also been fighting to ensure they don't ever happen again. ✊
@nteunion.bsky.social members haven't just been fighting against job cuts, but have also been fighting to ensure they don't ever happen again. ✊
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Yes, in the same way your thermostat suffers from the pain of burning
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Yes, in the same way your thermostat suffers from the pain of burning
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www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-l...
23 September at 6 pm, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne.
23 September at 6 pm, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne.
Book launch: Old North Melbourne - Royal Historical Society of Victoria
Join us to celebrate the publication of Old North Melbourne, the first comprehensive book on the nineteenth-century history of Hotham/North Melbourne, by Dr Fiona Gatt. ‘Like Janet McCalman’s Struggle...
www.historyvictoria.org.au
September 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
www.historyvictoria.org.au/event/book-l...
23 September at 6 pm, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne.
23 September at 6 pm, Royal Historical Society of Victoria, A'Beckett Street, Melbourne.
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The amount of times I’ve had someone described to me as having ‘good academic pedigree’ is ridiculous. Success in academia shouldn’t be about your family, the schools you went to…
This hits hard.
‘Social inferiors might offer guidance…but that would be the extent of it. Their role would be to work, not to deliberate…Eugenics and an attitude of deservingness would set meritocrats apart from their social inferiors.’ www.abc.net.au/religion/anu...
‘Social inferiors might offer guidance…but that would be the extent of it. Their role would be to work, not to deliberate…Eugenics and an attitude of deservingness would set meritocrats apart from their social inferiors.’ www.abc.net.au/religion/anu...
Has meritocracy gotten the better of our universities? Why events at ANU are grounds for hope - ABC Religion & Ethics
It’s not every day that the students and staff of a university succeed in forcing a vice-chancellor from office — that’s what happened last week at ANU, but why did change take so long when it was cle...
www.abc.net.au
September 15, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The amount of times I’ve had someone described to me as having ‘good academic pedigree’ is ridiculous. Success in academia shouldn’t be about your family, the schools you went to…