Ika Willis
I'm an education-focussed academic at the University of Melbourne, based in English & Theatre Studies. Talk to me about pedagogy of kindness, decolonising curriculum, safe and inclusive classrooms, and critical edtech. Views mine not my employer’s
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OzHE 1: Australian HASS academics
Academics in so-called Australia working in humanities, arts, and social sciences.
@jsief.bsky.social
public library work. editor @ the empyrean series. ottawa, ontario. | jsief.com
@africasacountry.bsky.social
Website, Podcast, Radio Show. Left politics & culture, useable pasts. http://africasacountry.com Open Society Foundation and 11th Hour Project funded.
@simoneferracina.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Architectural Ecologies + MArch Programme Director, University of Edinburgh. BOOK: Ecologies of Inception: Design Potentials on a Warming Planet. https://linktr.ee/simoneferracina
@neutral.zone
feral academic dropped out, tuned in. usenet lineage. tuned to noise, fluent in ghosts, invisible geometry made legible, still posting. unsure why. xennial cadence in the vibe universe, a hundred reasons to go, I will never log off ⚠️ WELTZSCHMERZ
@englishscribe.bsky.social
Narrative Wrangler-Videogames, TV, theatre, and beyond. Techland - Horizon Forbidden West - HorizonCalloftheMountain - Prince of Persia - Fable. Views my own. He/him. www.andrewwalsh.com
@jon.inkle.co
Narrative @inkle.co he/him Writer: EXPELLED! / A Highland Song / Heaven's Vault / Overboard! / Over the Alps / Sorcery! / 80 Days. ink co-creator. “Life doesn't always work out like it's s'posed t' / Like bread doesn't pop when you watch the toaster"
@lydiakiesling.bsky.social
Author of The Golden State (2018) and Mobility (2023). Writing in NYTMag, The Nation, The Cut, and elsewhere. www.lydiakiesling.com
@tante.cc
De-Evangelist, writer and speaker. Communist. Feminist. Antifascist. Luddite. He/him. Email: tante@tante.cc | Masto: @tante@tldr.nettime.org (Don't always see DMs cause my client can't show them since they are proprietary extensions of the protocol)
@tom-clark.bsky.social
Contributing Editor at Prospect Magazine; Principal Editor at Resolution Foundation
@globalvoices.org
The first global community-based newsroom. We build bridges and global understanding. Read our stories here: https://globalvoices.org
@penfielding.bsky.social
Edinburgh Literature Prof. Scottish writing, spy novels, cocktails, music.
@aidantruhen.bsky.social
I’m the fucking zeitgeist now. Author: The Price You Pay & Seven Demons - TV’s Kill Jackie https://deadline.com/2025/02/catherine-zeta-jones-tv-series-aidan-truhen-the-price-you-pay-kill-jackie-1236289078/ @harkaway.bsky.social’s evil twin.
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Blog: http://mimicofmodes.com Author newsletter: http://buttondown.com/cassidypercoco
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
New here. Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire. UBC Professor of Climate Justice. 🔗 naomiklein.org 📬 news.naomiklein.org/newsletter
@jsanofranchini.bsky.social
assoc prof | cultural & digital rhet // asian am rhet // UX // beneficiary of affirmative action 👹
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
Just an old man trying to get by with art, language studies, manga and a burning hatred of conservatism. my old art is on https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/44253033
@readinmagazine.bsky.social
books, culture , community, and whatever else we think of. https://beacons.ai/readinmagazine
@loradeets.bsky.social
Lecturer in Publishing UCL Dept of Information Studies | Publishing Studies, Book History, DH | SHARP | E-books and ‘Real Books’: Digital Reading and the Experience of Bookness (CUP 2025). Is it digital and arguably a book? You had me at ‘arguably’.
@adewaard.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego "Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture" (UC Press, 2024) andrewdewaard.com | ucpress.edu/books/derivative-media | cultcap.org | macrolab.ucsd.edu
@ellenkushner.bsky.social
Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement. I would probably like you.
@kpriem.bsky.social
Visual and media history, history of education, public history, UNESCO, responsible history, Education & Pandemics Digital Archive https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/people/karin-priem https://www.ische.org/education-and-pandemics-archive/#/
@kfitz.info
Interim Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, College of Arts & Letters, Michigan State University. Director, Knowledge Commons. Author, LEADING GENEROUSLY. All opinions my own and not those of my employer, especially the sweary ones.
@nit-bot.bsky.social
Posting articles from the National Indigenous Times webpage every 15 minutes. 🤖 Bot account 🤖 Replies and DMs not monitored. Not an official account of the National Indigenous Times. Complaints and bug reports to @francismarkham.work
@oldukcatalogues.bsky.social
Random selections of pages from vintage UK catalogues. Also: * @OldInCatalogues.bsky.social - International (non-UK) catalogues * @OldUKCataloguesXm.bsky.social - UK Christmas catalogues, from Sept 16th * @OldUKPrintAds.bsky.social - UK Print Ads
@drnomyn.bsky.social
Political sociologist using the Digital Humanities. Identifying propaganda in Education. Theory of crisis. Associate Professor. Gardener. Reader. Artist. Magan-djin/Brisbane, Australia
@banaji.bsky.social
Media Professor LSE /disinformation/social change/young people; trade unionist/ socialist - everything’s ideological but some ideologies lead to affordable healthcare, forests and public parks; others lead to discrimination and genocide.
@christinenowik.bsky.social
Life in the Interregnum: Researcher, org change specialist, English faculty, supernerd, follow-back girl, zero patience for organizational dysfunction and poor leadership. Personal account, obv. https://christinenowik.substack.com/
@lucareadscards.bsky.social
Gianluca (or GL) here! Cartomancer, wildwood aspirant, gardnerian initiate, & witch in Chicago.
@scarletp1792.bsky.social
Flâneur. Working on my unconscious biases every day Woiworung (Melbourne) #DutyOfCare #CleanAirInSchools #Respirators (aren’t that hard*) *qualifiers😔 💜📚📖🧶 Enough about me… Ok, ok.. bit of pol too #auspol+ 😆
@scottjla.bsky.social
Don't believe everything you think. On the land of the Yugambeh people surrounded by sharks. I block anyone who lies about Oz's preferential and reactionary pseudo-leftist mobs and clout-chasing outrage wankers. Life is too short.
@dashmoore.bsky.social
DECRA Fellow at USYD, working on the 'carceral archipelago' in Oz and Oceania. Also a new dad. Live, work, raise family on Gadigal/Bidjigal Land
@nicolekearney.bsky.social
Manager of Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia (@bhl-au.bsky.social). Striving to link biodiversity knowledge online. Obsessed with #RetroPIDs, #OpenAccess & #StripedPossums. Participant of Homeward Bound's #TeamHB9. 📚 🦘👩💻🔗
@drkatharinejewitt.bsky.social
Smallholder SW Scotland, Travelholic, Education & Wellbeing Consultant, Researcher, HE Lecturer, Coach, Co-Chair UNESCO Edu & Digital Skills Policy Lab, #DigitalSchoolsAwards Validator, #ALDinHE Administrator #JLDHE TechEditor #LoveLD Editor #AcademicSky
@edreslancaster.bsky.social
Educational Research at Lancaster University has a world class reputation for excellence in both teaching and research and offers several part-time, online distance-learning PhDs:- https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/study/phd/
@gsvoss.bsky.social
Big machines. Politics/technology/art/writing. Author: SYSTEMS ULTRA: MAKING SENSE OF TECHNOLOGY IN A COMPLEX WORLD (Verso 2024). linktr.ee/gsvoss
@alek.bsky.social
Doing my share to help the digital commons grow. Director of Strategy at openfuture.eu, sociologist and digital activist. European perspective on global challenges. Board Chair at Centrum Cyfrowe, Creative Commons member. Also: bread, kombucha, apples.
@jnchn.bsky.social
she/her. PhD candidate in Sociology. thinking about intersectionality studies, Black & women-of-colour feminisms, public policy. on unceded Wurundjeri land. all views extremely my own, not of employers.
@centreforhere.bsky.social
Centre for Higher Education Research and Evaluation Department of Educational Research Lancaster University https://tinyurl.com/hte2knet Director: @ddubdrahcir.bsky.social
@ericcalderwood.bsky.social
Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Illinois. Interested in al-Andalus, Morocco, Spain, comparative literature, multilingualism, cats, hip hop, and movies.
@pixielauren.bsky.social
Queer & genderqueer. Associate Professor. Creative writer. Backpacker. I teach LGBTQ Studies! 🌈 I'm obsessed with mushrooms & cats. Tiny farm in rural Ohio, USA. 🍀 🍄 🌸
@nicolabyrom.bsky.social
Mum to 2 tiny super stars | Reader King’s College London (IoPPN) | Founder Student Minds| Leader SMaRTeN, UNISMaRT & UBelong | students and public mental health
@boothalison.bsky.social
ANU Prof of Economics. Published novelist. New novel with Ventura Press August 2025.
@drcollette.bsky.social
British/Australian - Communication and Media academic and writer interested in media effects on all aspects of human society. Everything interests me, especially communication, media, language, music, technology, complexity, and contradiction.
@lennimk.bsky.social
Uninvited guest living on unceded lands,Bpangerang country. 🖤💛❤️ practical reconciliation ally + 🐝 guardian + 👩🎨 I design,make +grow things - creativity & design +relational approaches + unlearning + co-creating 4 decolonised, sustainable, equitable futures.
@queergeog.bsky.social
queer geographer extraordinaire / phd geography, minor in gender studies / food culture, race, development / philosophy of space & subjectivity / phenomenology, assemblage / queer, feminist & trans studies / DEI in HE / grant writer / editor / artist