Not every day you can get something worth reading at an airport bookshop...

New MRT stations in Singapore have interesting names... #Canberra

Exploring Singapore's wondrous (yet weirdly dystopian) Flower Dome during #IAMCR25 with members of the Oz Contingent. Photo by @dhutchman.bsky.social at left, then yrs truly, David, Mia, Chika, Renee.

@robackland.bsky.social presenting reply chains in conversation trees at opening of #botsbuildingbridges workshop in Bielefeld. Tony Veale and Ole Putz listening on right.

Ole Putz presenting analyses of online discussion chains with @robackland.bsky.social taking a picture on the right during opening if #botsbuildingbridges workshop at ZiF Bielefeld.

Florian Mulhe describing the aims of the #botsbuildingbridges project at start of closing workshop in ZiF Bielefeld. @snurb.info doing his academic blog on the left side. There are many other people such as Rob Ackland and Elena Esposito present, you just can't see them as they are on either side.

Thanks to @grazulis.bsky.social and team for hosting a #DCPC workshop with #CDC at Liverpool's #CivicHealthLab. Participants from Africa, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Oz agreed to design universal principles for the digital commons (dc), a dc taxonomy, stakeholder comms and a dc health framework.

The bookstore at Hamburg airport blew my mind

The Oz moral panicking about dastardly academics, 2025 edition. Familiar: report on some crazy sh*t (legal scholars forced to examine power!); deploy Albrechtzen "big gun" in the editorial pages: freedom of thought is under attack! Only problem? This is based on an interview with 1 (ONE) student.

A fascinating exact (e.g., non-Mercatored) representation of the actual size of countries...

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Very stressed about going to the vet!

Recently visited the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart, Tasmania which has cool art of course but l also liked the idiosyncratic signage :-)