Natalie Ann Hendry
@projectnat.bsky.social
(she/her) teacher/lecturer + media & cultural researcher in education, youth studies, digital cultures, social media, wellbeing, health education + mental health / working @ Faculty of Education, UniMelb, Naarm / knitting, sewing, making lists, dancing /
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"Across 2022 and 2023, the ANU spent more than $71.6 million on travel, over $11 million on advertising and over $107 million on consultants. That $190 million, if saved, would have negated entirely the $100 million cuts to jobs" @joshuablackjb.bsky.social
ESSENTIAL reading for anyone involved in Oz unis. *Especially voting parents* ACU, ANU and UOW case studies. Appalling stats but they are ‘typical not extraordinary’: go get em @joshuablackjb.bsky.social @australiainstitute.org.au australiainstitute.org.au/report/elect...
Elective spending at Australian universities - The Australia Institute
Universities spend vast sums on consultants, advertising, and travel. Reducing these expenses could have prevented the deep cuts that some of these same universities have made to their staff and cours...
australiainstitute.org.au
April 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
"Across 2022 and 2023, the ANU spent more than $71.6 million on travel, over $11 million on advertising and over $107 million on consultants. That $190 million, if saved, would have negated entirely the $100 million cuts to jobs" @joshuablackjb.bsky.social
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Look what came in the mail!
"How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology"
Link to book, Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
#AcademicSky #BookSky
"How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology"
Link to book, Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
#AcademicSky #BookSky
February 15, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Look what came in the mail!
"How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology"
Link to book, Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
#AcademicSky #BookSky
"How technology creates new possibilities for transgender people, and how trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology"
Link to book, Trans Technologies by Oliver L. Haimson:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/777584...
#AcademicSky #BookSky
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10 people died after welfare payments wrongly cut off due to IT bugs in employment services system, discovered then ignored for 3 years. Ombo investigating. Govt won't turn off 'penalty zone' because private job agencies would lose profit briefings reveal. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government
The government was informed of a glitch that caused more than a thousand people to be cut off from welfare payments but ignored it for more than three years because halting it would harm private provi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
10 people died after welfare payments wrongly cut off due to IT bugs in employment services system, discovered then ignored for 3 years. Ombo investigating. Govt won't turn off 'penalty zone' because private job agencies would lose profit briefings reveal. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
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We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab
Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...
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February 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.
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Very excited to finally share the first of several articles, and shortly a report, to be published this year which share the findings of an ARC Discovery project I had the privilege to work on with colleagues Anita Harris, Gilbert Caluya & Jessica Walton: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ym_HCr81YN...
Beyond risk: reducing the gap between diaspora youth digital citizenship needs and school curricula
Young people’s digital citizenship education has often been approached from a risk perspective with less attention given to how young people use digital technologies to positively engage with socia...
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February 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Very excited to finally share the first of several articles, and shortly a report, to be published this year which share the findings of an ARC Discovery project I had the privilege to work on with colleagues Anita Harris, Gilbert Caluya & Jessica Walton: url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/ym_HCr81YN...
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Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?
December 19, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Producing useless bullshit more quickly is not an improvement in educational outcomes. Why would doing things in "a fraction of the time" is usually takes be a good thing? Why do we so disrespect the labor of teaching and learning as to wish it away by outsourcing it to something that cannot think?
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First post & new publication out in the world.
I had a fun time thinking through & writing about “embodied excess” with my long time mentor & collaborator Ingrid Richardson.
Big thanks to @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson for this great collection.
www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
I had a fun time thinking through & writing about “embodied excess” with my long time mentor & collaborator Ingrid Richardson.
Big thanks to @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson for this great collection.
www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
Data Excess in Digital Media Research | Emerald Insight
Data Excess in Digital Media Research | Editors: Natalie Ann Hendry, Ingrid Richardson
www.emerald.com
November 21, 2024 at 11:09 AM
First post & new publication out in the world.
I had a fun time thinking through & writing about “embodied excess” with my long time mentor & collaborator Ingrid Richardson.
Big thanks to @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson for this great collection.
www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
I had a fun time thinking through & writing about “embodied excess” with my long time mentor & collaborator Ingrid Richardson.
Big thanks to @projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson for this great collection.
www.emerald.com/insight/publ...
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New chapter w/ wonderful collaborators Claire & Jose about navigating abundant data, ethical quandaries & doing the best we can to represent participants.
@projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️
doi.org/10.1108/978-...
@projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️
doi.org/10.1108/978-...
November 16, 2024 at 8:23 AM
New chapter w/ wonderful collaborators Claire & Jose about navigating abundant data, ethical quandaries & doing the best we can to represent participants.
@projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️
doi.org/10.1108/978-...
@projectnat.bsky.social & Ingrid Richardson did a stellar job bringing together thoughtful and insightful discussions ⤵️
doi.org/10.1108/978-...
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A good example of what @meredithmeredith.bsky.social describes as the "steep cost of capture," demonstrating how "tech firms are startlingly well positioned to shape what we do—and do not—know about AI and the business behind it..." More at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Common Sense Media watered down their Fall 2023 review of ChatGPT after entering the partnership with OpenAI. bsky.app/profile/tomm...
Sure enough, Common Sense Media has watered-down its ChatGPT review (www.commonsensemedia.org/ai-ratings/c...).
I have some somewhat scathing quotes from their October 2023 ChatGPT review (before their partnership with OpenAI) in this post (www.criticalinkling.com/i/143961697/...).
#EduSky
I have some somewhat scathing quotes from their October 2023 ChatGPT review (before their partnership with OpenAI) in this post (www.criticalinkling.com/i/143961697/...).
#EduSky
November 20, 2024 at 9:03 PM
A good example of what @meredithmeredith.bsky.social describes as the "steep cost of capture," demonstrating how "tech firms are startlingly well positioned to shape what we do—and do not—know about AI and the business behind it..." More at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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The Wayback machine is such a precious, unique resource - increasingly so as web search collapses.
None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it.
But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!
None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it.
But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!
Latest update, @brewster.kahle.org:
“The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner.
Sorry, no Save Page Now yet.
Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again.
Please be gentle web.archive.org
More as it happens.”
“The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine resumed in a provisional, read-only manner.
Sorry, no Save Page Now yet.
Safe to resume but might need further maintenance, in which case it will be suspended again.
Please be gentle web.archive.org
More as it happens.”
November 20, 2024 at 9:29 PM
The Wayback machine is such a precious, unique resource - increasingly so as web search collapses.
None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it.
But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!
None of my platform history work (including the Twtr book with @nancybaym.bsky.social) would've been possible without it.
But it's also increasingly precarious. Give them all the support you can!
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One of the bleakest uses for gen AI I've seen yet: a bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker is on the brink of "losing it"—and play them AI-made family photo montages to calm them down.
Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...
Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...
AI can't fix everything automation already broke
Generative AI is the latest in a long line of technologies that promise innovation and fixes but grind away at public life
www.bloodinthemachine.com
June 17, 2024 at 8:59 PM
One of the bleakest uses for gen AI I've seen yet: a bank is rolling out a system to detect when a call center worker is on the brink of "losing it"—and play them AI-made family photo montages to calm them down.
Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...
Behind the latest fresh hell AI promises:
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-cant-fi...
After listening to my frustrations with too-simple AI convos at work, @cjhart.bsky.social sent me this - yup, this is what it is like "The AI is going to AI!" www.tiktok.com/@mattheperso...
TikTok - Make Your Day
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June 18, 2024 at 11:00 PM
After listening to my frustrations with too-simple AI convos at work, @cjhart.bsky.social sent me this - yup, this is what it is like "The AI is going to AI!" www.tiktok.com/@mattheperso...
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It's probably been done, but...
December 14, 2023 at 4:19 AM
It's probably been done, but...
Marking season in 2024: I swear if I see another conjunctive adverb in this next sentence...
*sigh*
*sigh*
April 16, 2024 at 8:39 AM
Marking season in 2024: I swear if I see another conjunctive adverb in this next sentence...
*sigh*
*sigh*
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🚨 If you are in Victoria and have the ability to lower you power use at the moment, do it. 🚨
Due to failures at two of Victoria's three coal power stations and high temps, we currently don't have enough power to meet demand.
You could be saving lives.
Please boost.
Due to failures at two of Victoria's three coal power stations and high temps, we currently don't have enough power to meet demand.
You could be saving lives.
Please boost.
February 13, 2024 at 4:34 AM
🚨 If you are in Victoria and have the ability to lower you power use at the moment, do it. 🚨
Due to failures at two of Victoria's three coal power stations and high temps, we currently don't have enough power to meet demand.
You could be saving lives.
Please boost.
Due to failures at two of Victoria's three coal power stations and high temps, we currently don't have enough power to meet demand.
You could be saving lives.
Please boost.
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I wrote about Bluesky opening up, what it means, and why I think it remains the most interesting social media experiment going today. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/b...
Bluesky Opens Up
Bluesky is now open to anyone without an invite. And a bunch of other exciting things are coming soon. As many of you know, I’ve been pretty excited about where Bluesky is going as a social media o�...
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February 6, 2024 at 8:09 PM
I wrote about Bluesky opening up, what it means, and why I think it remains the most interesting social media experiment going today. www.techdirt.com/2024/02/06/b...
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Just finished latest ep of #OnTheReg - S5! Hearing @drjd.bsky.social and @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social talk about being here made me nostalgic for birdsite days where we were in our chosen virtual staff rooms and swam around in the coolness of what our buddies were doing. 🥲
onthereg.buzzsprout.com
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On the reg
Inger and Jason talk about work, but you know - not in a boring way. Practical, implementable productivity hacks to help you live a more balanced life. Find us talking to each other between episodes o...
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February 6, 2024 at 7:07 AM
Just finished latest ep of #OnTheReg - S5! Hearing @drjd.bsky.social and @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social talk about being here made me nostalgic for birdsite days where we were in our chosen virtual staff rooms and swam around in the coolness of what our buddies were doing. 🥲
onthereg.buzzsprout.com
onthereg.buzzsprout.com
I started teaching for 2024 on Saturday. It seems that this semester's first subject's challenge will be nudging students towards understanding they're learning concepts not concrete definitions of words. Feels a bit like going back to high school strategies to help move that along. Tips welcome!
February 6, 2024 at 7:43 AM
I started teaching for 2024 on Saturday. It seems that this semester's first subject's challenge will be nudging students towards understanding they're learning concepts not concrete definitions of words. Feels a bit like going back to high school strategies to help move that along. Tips welcome!
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So pleased to share that our Digital Child Ethics Toolkit is live! It contains advice and resources on researching with young children across a wide range of methods, contents, and cohorts.. and brings together expertise from 39 (!!) researchers across the Digital Child Centre.
Digital Child Ethics Toolkit: Ethical Considerations for Digital Childhoods Research - Digital Child
digitalchild.org.au
February 6, 2024 at 5:26 AM
So pleased to share that our Digital Child Ethics Toolkit is live! It contains advice and resources on researching with young children across a wide range of methods, contents, and cohorts.. and brings together expertise from 39 (!!) researchers across the Digital Child Centre.
Returning to my inbox after 3 days away. I'm struck by, as always, how many invitations to collaborate on interventions seem to be missing research or insights on people's experiences related to whatever it is. Making things with assumptions that it will fix it, not making things as exploration.
January 29, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Returning to my inbox after 3 days away. I'm struck by, as always, how many invitations to collaborate on interventions seem to be missing research or insights on people's experiences related to whatever it is. Making things with assumptions that it will fix it, not making things as exploration.
Walking is keeping me feeling okay lately and helps me process the messiness of life. Yet all of this rain is making it harder to just get out of the house, even with my raincoat and sensible shoes and all of the things.
January 8, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Walking is keeping me feeling okay lately and helps me process the messiness of life. Yet all of this rain is making it harder to just get out of the house, even with my raincoat and sensible shoes and all of the things.
Not sure I had much of a break but at least I'm working on something really fun. I'll be joining @mariamurmen.bsky.social's group of psychologists at Uni of Tartu, Estonia. They're doing a media studies class exploring social media, mental health research and navigating therapy work online.
January 3, 2024 at 12:22 AM
Not sure I had much of a break but at least I'm working on something really fun. I'll be joining @mariamurmen.bsky.social's group of psychologists at Uni of Tartu, Estonia. They're doing a media studies class exploring social media, mental health research and navigating therapy work online.
At the AARE conference all week. This morning is @neilselwyn.bsky.social talking about challenges w education, technology and excessive digitisation. It makes me think about how registering as a teacher in one of the Aust states requires ppl to do video interviews with a "robot". Why? How? Impacts?
November 28, 2023 at 10:09 PM
At the AARE conference all week. This morning is @neilselwyn.bsky.social talking about challenges w education, technology and excessive digitisation. It makes me think about how registering as a teacher in one of the Aust states requires ppl to do video interviews with a "robot". Why? How? Impacts?
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Love how Government (& universities) in Australia crow about the amount of funding & number of grants they provide for "world-class research".
But these are tiiiiiny numbers! Basically 50 people working for 2–3 years. Peanuts🥜
More like "world-class underfunding, normalised".
But these are tiiiiiny numbers! Basically 50 people working for 2–3 years. Peanuts🥜
More like "world-class underfunding, normalised".
November 14, 2023 at 12:37 AM
Love how Government (& universities) in Australia crow about the amount of funding & number of grants they provide for "world-class research".
But these are tiiiiiny numbers! Basically 50 people working for 2–3 years. Peanuts🥜
More like "world-class underfunding, normalised".
But these are tiiiiiny numbers! Basically 50 people working for 2–3 years. Peanuts🥜
More like "world-class underfunding, normalised".
Almost finished up a chunk of leave. Going to a Britney Spears dance class tonight and have almost finished reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (which is a delight for a holiday - long enough that you're not disappointed that it ends in a day or two)
November 13, 2023 at 5:29 AM
Almost finished up a chunk of leave. Going to a Britney Spears dance class tonight and have almost finished reading The Bee Sting by Paul Murray (which is a delight for a holiday - long enough that you're not disappointed that it ends in a day or two)