Prof. Amanda Wise

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A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.

Latest article from me in The Conversation this morning.

I discuss a new Nature study that finds X's algorithmic feed is politically biased (surprise, surprise!). I explore the idea of social media platforms as faulty infrastructure in need of a fix.

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My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy

Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This looks like a cracker of a session.

'Religious thing on'. Is that a technical term?

Communities of Care in Migration This book explores relationships and practices of care as collectively produced and enacted in the lives of migrants in diverse contexts.

New book chapter by TASA member Leah Williams Veazy et al.

Communities of Care in Migration

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This is utterly terrifying. We have a far right party rapidly gaining votes in Australia, polling above the LNP opposition and chasing Labor.

February 2026 Academy Newsletter | Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia In our first issue for 2026, congratulations to Fellows receiving Australian Day Honours, plus a wealth of opportunities for Fellows to become more involved ...

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A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

Really important work from the ABC’s Gareth Hutchens yesterday: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians Randa Abdel-Fattah responds to the gaslighting, censorship, and repression she faced when she was canceled from the Adelaide Writers’ Week festival over her support for Palestine.

Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians mondoweiss.net/2026/01/para...

Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians Randa Abdel-Fattah responds to the gaslighting, censorship, and repression she faced when she was canceled from the Adelaide Writers’ Week festival over her support for Palestine.

Paraglides, Cultural Safety and Decolonization: Randa Abdel-Fattah on her ban from Adelaide Writers’ Week and the silencing of Palestinians mondoweiss.net/2026/01/para...

This is absolutely heartbreaking news. She is a legend, but what a loss to the festival.

I’ve been trying to transition over here too. I’m closing my account over there in the next week or so. I only use it to keep tabs on things now but it is too toxic and more is happening on BSky now to make it viable

Absolutely. Misappropriating the term is a form of cultural violence in itself. Erasing the core of the concept which aims to address the ongoing impacts of settler colonialism reproduced by institutions, particularly health.
To weaponise that against a colonised people is next level gaslighting.

‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being

In the 21st century, one of the wealthiest societies in human history, yet diminished and lost: a nation of rich cowards without even the courage to acknowledge our origins and far less the possibility of a better future than the nightmare daily growing around us. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I survived 2021 but they got us in the end. I hope you have landed softly.

5/4 one day i will learn to proof read my posts.

Thanks. Yes I have friends in the UK who are worried about their academic jobs. I cant think of a time in my long career when humanities and social science were needed more than now.

4/4 It is disappointing that topics are not considered a priority by my institution at this point in history. I have an international reputation in this field ... but there you are. Make of it what you will. Onward as and upwards.

3/4 I spent my career teaching, researching and writing on questions of inequality, human rights, cities and communities, migration, multiculturalism, and 'social cohesion'.

2/4 I have been deemed "no longer in line with university strategy" and will cease my employment there after 21 dedicated and successful years on 6th March 2026.

1/4 An announcement, of sorts... I wasn't sure when or how to share this news publicly. As you know, Macquarie University went through a round of academic staff cuts at the end of 2025, particularly targeting my discipline of sociology.

Thank you

Thank you Ren for your principled stance.

Legends. Both of you.

Excellent.

Thank you for taking a principled stance on this.

Well done.Thank you for your principled stance.