All power to the dedicated but precariously employed tutors in Maths and Stats who are pushing back after the University refused to convert them to ongoing positions! abc.net.au/news/2024-08-3…

All power to the tutors! ✊✊✊ Action is occuring next week! 1pm September 4th University of Melbourne U Melb for Palestine See you at Old Geology North!

i’ll be speaking!

Great work everyone ✊ University of Melbourne heard us loud and strong!

USYD's Dean of Arts argues against paying tutors for attending lectures as there is "no inherent link" between the two. Meanwhile, this first time teacher's guide on the University of Sydney website describes it as an "obvious requirement"! educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au/teaching@sydne…

Also, I’d wager that a unit of study without any ‘inherent links’ between the lectures and tutorials is very badly designed, pedagogically speaking

i have pink glasses again! very pleased with my face now 🤓

‘“The university appears to have panicked,” ⁦Ben Eltham⁩ says. “Closing loopholes was never meant to be an excuse to lay off thousands of casuals across the sector.” ⁦A good overview of the appalling state of labour practices in higher ed: theguardian.com/australia-news…

“We want permanency, we want to be able to plan our lives, but instead we’re in a situation of constant precarity. It’s exhausting." Lucy from USyd Casuals Network highlights the toll of precarity on the up to 75% of academic staff on insecure contracts theguardian.com/australia-news…

GALAH DR4 is now public! 10 years of observations, 995 nights (incl. rainy/snowy/cloudy ones), 32 elements (incl. nitrogen), 0.92 Mio. stars, 1.09 Mio. spectra, thanks to an amazing group of observers, engineers, and astronomers. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2409.19858 with links to data.

GLP-1 drugs reveal so much about our culture: they’re relentlessly marketed to us online, on tv, on billboards; cheap unregulated formulations abound; fat people are under increasing pressure to take them—but then if you actually USE them it’s a failure you have to “admit” to

I don’t think ppl grasp how much worse the world is when you are fat like me. You wouldn’t believe how often I am insulted by strangers, let alone the subtle, the demeanour changes, the x on hiring me, the men who see no value, people who care about everything except this

last week of semester for archaeoastronomy and we’re finally talking about stonehenge! did i buy this set just for two hours of class? of course i did

MQ'S FoA has fired all casual academics for 2025. We have been left unemployed, with little hope to remain in the academic sector.

“These disgraceful comments blaming staff when it’s clear there’s been managerial incompetence are simply staggering. This is emblematic of a broken governance system that needs an urgent federal parliamentary inquiry.” Alison Barnes Read more: nteu.info/sackbishop

Devastating, short-sighted and shamefully irresponsible announcement by UOW management today of 135 proposed sackings, including whole teaching departments such as history. All the while the VC is a partner in a consultancy firm reviewing the university’s operations. NTEU

To all conference attendees everywhere, please never decline a mic. The loudness of a voice is not the only thing that makes it intelligible and so some of us cannot hear you regardless of how well you project. This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea. #POD24