Dr. Bhuva Narayan

I hope you have as much fun reading this as I did writing it - an open access paper from the Univ. of Akron, OH, on hair as a document that is authored, read, and interpreted in social and symbolic contexts, or, how a natural object becomes a social object.
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Policy, regulation and pedagogy: a brief history of supervisor development and training in Australia and the United Kingdom High quality supervision is a key determinant of the quality of a research student’s experience, their likelihood of success, and their time to completion. Several decades of research and commentar...

Interested in PhD supervision? New article out: a brief history of supervisor development & training in Australia & the UK. Available here, but if anyone can’t access it, just drop me a line at alistair.mcculloch@unisa.edu.au
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#PhDSky #PhDChatter #AcademicSky

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Bluesky User FAQ - Bluesky Welcome to the Bluesky app! This is a user guide that answers some common questions.

However, be aware that your post, once posted, is most likely already on a third-party server owned by a three-letter agency, a foreign government, a private company, or an academic institution. bsky.social/about/blog/5...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

"If there's a Nazi at the table and ten other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with eleven Nazis.”

Who's going to stand up and make Nazis ashamed again? A "March for Australia" rally sounds benign, but people who plan to attend the "March for Australia" rallies around the country on Sunday will almost certainly be marching alongside white supremacists...

"People who attend the “March for Australia” rallies will almost certainly be marching alongside white supremacists and neo-Nazis,"

"Politicians from all sides should be at the counter-protests this weekend to demonstrate that neo-Nazis have no place in Australia." @ebonybennett.bsky.social #auspol

Shaping the Global Future of Library and Information Science Education: Lessons Learned from the Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) Consortium and Other International Collaborations The paper explores the past, present, and possible futures of international collaboration in the context of library and information science (LIS) education and highlights past and present examples ...

A great review of all the global collaborative efforts in LIS Education
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The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview Theory is a hallmark of any discipline’s identity. Theory development and theorisation facilitate a healthy cultivation of ideas, help enculturate the future generation of scholars in a discipline,...

The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Public Library Codesign Workshop Process This article presents an evaluation of a three-workshop codesign methodology implemented for two public libraries as part of an Australian Research Council Linkage project, examining the effectiven...

Another wonderful open access early online article from JALIA
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Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Watch the moment a group of Israeli activists stormed a live television broadcast to protest Israel’s war on Gaza.

Members of Standing Together, wearing 'Leave Gaza' T-shirts, jumped onto the stage during the airing of the Big Brother show on Channel 13.

Owl Core. Good Morning Blue Sky

Applying a Critical Lens to Parihaka Collection Materials from a Kaupapa Māori Perspective Using the history of the Parihaka community, a peaceful village in South Taranaki that was invaded by colonial forces in 1881, this article builds on the Decolonising Māori collections article publ...

A great paper by Professor Spencer Lilley on decolonising Māori collections.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Risks of Declining Theory Construction and Theorisation and Rising Empiricism in the Discipline of Information Science: An Overview Theory is a hallmark of any discipline’s identity. Theory development and theorisation facilitate a healthy cultivation of ideas, help enculturate the future generation of scholars in a discipline,...

An important reflection by Dr. Waseem Afzal at Charles Sturt University
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An Analysis of the Design Characteristics of New Public Library Buildings Recent years have seen the opening of many large and expensive new public library buildings, including in Australia. These new libraries reflect the increasing emphasis placed on the role of the li...

Have a look at the early online version of this JALIA article with its gorgeous photos of some amazing libraries!
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Very much looking forward to this event we’re putting on at UTS, with @uts-sps.bsky.social’s own @archiethomas.bsky.social 🏳️‍⚧️👏

"That is the real risk: not that machines become people, but that we forget—we were never what we think we are."

Griffith University’s Indigenous Research Unit (IRU) and Library collaborated to develop the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Research guide libraryguides.griffith.edu.au/researching-... #libraries

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon LLMs don’t read the danger in requests if you use enough big words.

Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon

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'Save Our Signs' Wants to Save the Real History of National Parks Before Trump Erases It Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks. A group of data preservationists asks visitors to help them document placards and monuments, before they disappear...

next time you're in a national park, take some photos of the signage and upload it to help these archivists www.404media.co/save-our-sig...

A PhD opportunity in my university.
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This is tomorrow! Wednesday. And we'd love you to join us as we talk First Nations storytelling and publishing and Tasma's breathtaking novel I AM NANNERTGARROOK.

It's online and free!

With thanks to the Australian Society of Authors.

'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI' - BBC News Businesses that rush to use AI to write content or computer code, often have to pay humans to fix it.

There’s a growing sector of jobs that should not need to exist: fixing errors made by AI, redoing shoddy work by AI, and correcting mistakes by people who used AI stupidly. In other words, it’s people doing the work but now with extra steps. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.

Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.

Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...