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Olivia Inwood
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Academic Literacy, Western Sydney University Library | PhD UNSW | she/her | GenAI debates, linguistics (SFL, NLP) | using this account to keep a record of what I read 📚
Research: mis/dis info, social media
www.oliviainwood.com | ORCID: 0000-0001-6678-888X
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Rest in peace Baek Se-hee ❤️ I have this fragment from 'I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki' saved in my collection of book quotes on my phone. #booksky💙📚
A book quote with a picture of a flower.
October 18, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Moments of happiness in research...when a book chapter you wrote about Russian propaganda is cited in a journal article on Lithuanian political discourse. As the daughter of a Lithuanian, I feel especially proud that my research might be contributing in some small way to important work 🇱🇹❤️
Google scholar alert: 1 new citation
October 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Tolstoy, L. (1995). What is art? (R. Pevear & L. Volokhonsky, Trans.). Penguin Classics, p.10.

#booksky💙📚
What is Art? By Tolstoy
September 27, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Wow, listening to this poem and reading the comments section is very insightful. Knowledge needs to be open and free, not behind paywalls and expensive degrees...

www.instagram.com/reel/DNL6zVe...
A comments section
September 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Researchers looking for Sydney-based participants for a focus group. Please read the poster below or click on the following link:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#academicsky
Research Participants Needed
September 12, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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The new Penguin Archive Series is pretty nice. Feels slightly surreal though reading classics that now need to contain warning statements against AI training systems. #booksky💙📚
Unpacking My Library No AI training data statement First paragraph from Unpacking My Library.
August 16, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Super fascinating book, read it in one sitting. As someone who has only lived through the contemporary university, it was interesting to read about the history of universities in Australia and the effects of government policies. I hope universities always remain a public good. #booksky💙📚
Graeme Turner's book Education is a public good
July 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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Join us for @westernsydneyu.bsky.social's annual student perspectives on generative AI webinar! Everyone is welcome.

Is sustainable use of generative AI possible?

Register for the live zoom link or recording: westernsydney.libcal.com/event/574555...

#academicsky
Is Sustainable Use of Gen AI Possible? Poster List of Upcoming Speakers for the Webinar.
June 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation".

Lots to unpack in this paragraph from Don Delillo's White Noise.

#booksky💙📚
"The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation".
May 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Reading Don Delillo's White Noise.

"Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included. I sense there is a connection between this powerful number and the way the students arrange themselves physically in the reading areas of the library."

#booksky 💙📚
Tuition at the College-on-the-Hill is fourteen thousand dollars, Sunday brunch included. I sense there is a connection between this powerful number and the way the students arrange themselves physically in the reading areas of the library.
May 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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Looking forward to reading this book! Very fascinated about the concept of 'connective labour' with all the gen AI discourse currently around.

#booksky 💙📚

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The Last Human Job by Allison Pugh (orange and blue book)
March 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Reading different perspectives. I like Simon Squibb's TikToks - helping people achieve their dreams is very admirable. But in his media interviews he says "university is a scam" that I find disturbing as someone who has devoted all their adult years so far to universities. (thread) #booksky 💙📚
As humans we learn through experience and we grow through adversity. The hardest times of our lives are often the ones that really shape us.
March 15, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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I'm still reading this book on weekends.

Love the word 'serendipity' in this context...it feels like the opposite to the 'statistical probability' that governs generative AI models.

Back, L. (2016). Academic diary: Or why higher education still matters.

#booksky 📚💙
All this misses the point of libraries because they provide not only a refuge but also places of serendipity, where we discover routinely things we are not looking for.
March 2, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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Back, L. (2016). Academic diary: Or why higher education still matters.

"Higher education is valuable because it enables students to learn to live in a world saturated with information."

#booksky 💙📚
A red book with the title "Academic Diary" by Les Back Higher education is valuable because it enables students to learn to live in a world saturated with information.
January 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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Jay, M. (2012). The defining decade: why your twenties matter and how to make the most of them now.

#booksky 💙📚
Without school, however, there are days and weeks and months and years, but no clear way to know when or why any one thing should happen. It can be a disorienting, cavelike existence.
January 19, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Hopefully not too late for me to start reading this book 🫠
A green book titled "The Defining Decade" by Meg Jay.
January 1, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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The book recommended by bell hooks in 'All About Love'. Many words of wisdom.

#booksky 💙📚

Rilke, R. M. (1929). Letters to a Young Poet.
But I ask you to consider whether these great unhappinesses did not rather pass through you. Whether much within you has not changed, whether somewhere, in some part of your being, you were not transformed while you were unhappy?
December 28, 2024 at 8:47 AM
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Tara Westover poignantly captures the sacrifices made to receive an education. I like coming back to this book.

#booksky 💙📚

Westover, T. (2018). Educated. Random House.
I wondered if perhaps I had changed too much. All my studying, reading, thinking, traveling, had it transformed me into someone who no longer belonged anywhere?
December 15, 2024 at 8:42 AM
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bell hooks (1999). All About Love: New Visions.

#booksky 💙📚
Brining love into the work environment can create the necessary transformation that can make any job we do, no matter how menial, a place where workers can express the best of themselves. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth. It's not what you do but how you do it.
December 7, 2024 at 6:36 AM
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State Library of Victoria looking good!
The State Library of Victoria with a banner between each column that spells out "treaty".
November 30, 2024 at 8:08 AM
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So for example, if you search for oliviainwood.com (or @oliviainwood.com@bsky.brid.gy) on Mastodon you get linked to the content from my Bluesky account (image of what it looks like attached).

It's fun experimenting with new ways to use social media!
example of a mastodon account that connects to a bluesky account
November 23, 2024 at 5:26 AM
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Setiya, K. (2023). Life is hard: How philosophy can help us find our way. Penguin Books.
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Do you remember all your failures?
How does one live with conclusive failure? It's a question for everyone, even if it cuts sharper and deeper for some. Projects worthy but frustrated or forgotten are endemic in life. 'If we remembered even a fraction of our million tiny plans,' writes the poet-aphorist James Richardson, 'our whole lives would be regret at their failure'. There is comfort to be found in the sheer pervasiveness of projects gone awry. In a self-described 'book of solace', the British social critic Joe Morgan regales us with narratives of failure great and small, culminating with an artist 'who neither learnt from his failtures nor wished to learn', who completed few paintings, and whose most famous fresco began to flake before he died, the result of a failed experiment. The artist was Leonardo da Vinci.
November 17, 2024 at 6:23 AM
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A great book of aphorisms: Cioran, E. M. Howard, R (translator). (2020). The Trouble With Being Born. Penguin Classics.
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However disabused one may be, it is impossible to live without any hope at all. We always keep one, unwittingly, and this unconscious hope makes up for all the explicit others we have rejected, exhausted.
November 17, 2024 at 6:14 AM