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Australian Senior Lecturer, language, law & society. #LLIRN. lawandlanguage.org External CESSMIR UGent. @languageonthemove.bsky.social member. Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice ENG, FR, ES, IT, اردو, پښتو
📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.
If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:
robodebtsettlement.com.au
This is a hugely important story: everyone concerned with learning and truth should read it. Presented with prompts about a lesser-known turn-of-the-last-century composer, an LLM produces a nice, clear readable evaluation of her Symphony No. 1 - which DOESN'T EXIST. Everything is made up. 😵💫
True, but also this is only mapping people who weren't born in a country. Eg in France I'm sure there are many racialised people contributing to the other line
Indeed 😅
In my ongoing aim of making my research more accessible, I thought I'd compile a thread of where you can find my publications in open access form, and also some TLDR summaries. Will pin this somewhere for future reference! I'll do it chronologically as a way of mapping my research journey too... 🧵
Cool!
Lol clearly not!
A good reminder: one person's perception and experience of European countries may be very different from another's.
I'm with @fireantprincess.bsky.social - I'd expect France and Italy to be higher than they are too..
...in the case of message sticks, certain 'simple' objects with low information in terms of entropy can be involved in communications that have very high information content. This is because not all info is encoded in marks but in shape, timber species, orality, kinship identities and institutions
I'd always assumed they needed a Mediterranean climate to grow - it was a real surprise! They were still good, like the ones I've found in Australia. But yes, I'll never forget the Turkish ones 😍
Native title holders in the Northern Territory have been awarded more than $54 million in compensation for the impacts of large-scale mining on their country, in just the second case of its kind in Australian history.
Beautiful 😍
The dirt and water sustain us all! 🤗
Octopus bought fresh from the fishermen in our little town 🤗🐙
Metal pot on stove top filled with reddish water, onion, carrot and lots of octopuses
Food part two today: get yourself a 9 year old kid who's been wanting to make pickled octopus for ages. "This is the best day ever". (I did nothing other than take this photo)
Thank you - I felt quite inspired! 😊
I'll never forget the taste of the ones in Turkey though... wow. The fig memories are reminding me of how bountiful my life is and has been 💚
Salad in a big white dish, with slices of fig, cucumber, basil leaves, chevre and roosted walnuts
Today, the figs became this.
Two figs cut in half and lying on a wooden board
Got some figs today, which I rarely ever have and they sparked two very different travel memories. The first, 2014, in a small town in the Turkish-Syrian border, where we were fed a full delicious bowl of them. Second, in Belgium in 2023, from my colleague's tree -hadn't expected them to grow there!
Australian Labor take note
Reading this, I couldn't help but think of message sticks and wonder whether these notched carvings may have worked similarly, eg been used in combination or to assist spoken communication.
@languageonthemove.bsky.social has a great discussion with @pierskelly.bsky.social on this
'A small object called the Adorant figurine discovered in a cave in Germany in 1979 - crafted roughly 40,000 years ago by some of the earliest people to establish a distinct culture in Europe - bears intriguing sequences of notches and dots.'
And don't miss out on his friends either!
arthistoryanimalia.com/monotremes-p...
Sugar glider possum gliding
Meet my friend
wilderness.org.au/sugar-gliders
#HistIR postdoc opportunity at ANU in Canberra
Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations on the Australian Research Council project “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees”, reporting to Prof Luke Glanville
DL March 15th – details 👇
A thoughtful thread update from my @languageonthemove.bsky.social colleague
"Where crimes have been committed, where trust has been breached, the law must apply equally, regardless of the wealth, influence or connections of the perpetrators."
This is the absolute core principle of the rule of law, supposedly an Australian value.
Let's see what happens...
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Ha! Not sure about physical appearances, but unfortunately the description vaguely maps across so many places... *person vaguely represents minority, yay, all while crushing minorities more than ever*
"globally, he joins a very small club of openly gay leaders, and for many viewers in countries where coming out carries real risk, seeing an openly gay man become prime minister is a powerful glass‑ceiling moment"
The glass ceiling still very much in place via strict anti-asylum policy though 🤷♀️
#MondayNetwork - a regular appeal to any #skystorians with intersecting interests: food /nutrition, surviving climate change, environmental determinism, race science, exploration, acclimatisation & physiology, cit sci, Indigenous knowledge, & related topics to say hi or share link to your work! 🗃️