Hand in mouth stuff at the final game of the Rugby Championship! NZL v RSA 🖤🖤

Amazing Regional Arts Victoria. What a great initiative for both working creatives and children learning the significance and power of life writing. Need more of these types of programs.

Dan has a point, valid question.

Too many PhDs feel that academia is the only place where they will have the life of the mind, & be engaged in work that matters. That moving in to industry or for-profit work is selling-out. But it’s not selling-out, it’s getting out-esp.if you’re underpaid, overworked, & unhappy

Absolutely horrifying… If you needed proof that Australia does not value knowledge, this is it. We need to ask why there is this vendetta against humanities, what are they trying to abolish? University of Sydney Respect your staff. Stop the restructure.

This is my worst nightmare! Luckily I found a partner who says ‘look at all these books, I’d better build you a bigger bookshelf’ ❤️

2019 - self-funded trip to China for conference, planned to go to World Conference in 2020 and use my student travel grants. 2020 - Worlds postponed. 2021 - Worlds postponed and finish PhD. Get non-ac day job. 2022 - Worlds on, offer to DJ at club Dynamo. Can’t go. Hate this.

A solid article by a thoughtful young man. Little by little, we will foster better leaders for this country. The system is broken. #Mon4Kooyong

I love my parents ❤️❤️

I really enjoyed this article by David Burton and ⁦Dr Kate Cantrell, the popularity of Bluey has always seemed a little bit ‘off’ to me but this hits the nail on the head. The loveable larrikin, the subpar father. Reinforcing gender stereotypes.⁩ abc.net.au/news/2022-06-1…

"More than half the books you publish either lose money or don’t make money," Henry Rosenbloom of Scribe Publications told The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand for Katie Day's article on Australian publishing. She also spoke to Affirm Press, UQPBooks, Wakefield Press and others. theconversation.com/the-entire-ind…

On a Thursday? Good one 🙄. More difficult for businesses, lots of sickies likely on that Friday except for Vic who get a 4 day long weekend.

This vendetta against the Humanities and The Australian publishing/literary industry has to stop. What are the government really trying to bury under a neoliberal guise of ‘productivity’ and efficiency’? ARC Tracker

Australia's book industry 'has a market size of $1.7 billion and sustains around a thousand businesses. Book publishers employ 3,650 people.' Why more government support is necessary – by Paul Crosby, David Throsby & Jan Zwar The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand theconversation.com/the-economic-a…

Completely obsessed with this Reddit theory that Pennywise and Mary Poppins are members of the same monster species.

It’s here!! My first publication since completing my PhD in the new ‘Comic Lives’ Special Issue of a/b: Autobiography Studies. Thank you to my amazing editors @LaurieMcNeill2 and John Zuern, so proud of this work!😃 IABA SNS Network English Literature, Flinders University tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Frugal me would say I don’t want it, but I desperately do! Look at all the pretty 😍