I'm delighted to be keynoting next Thursday at the Online Symposium "Videogame Preservation: Practices and Approaches" organised by the Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. I will present on "Play It Again" & the #AusEAASI network. @aarnet.edu.au
www.digitalscholarship.ox.ac.uk/event/videog...
Feb 25, 2026, Instagram post from transarchives: βNYC Trans Archives. We are looking for: Photography & Art; Posters & Signs; Zines & Poetry; News articles & magazines. Info@transarchives.org. TransArchives.org/acquisitions.β
#NYC Trans Archives is a βnew, independent, community-based archive dedicated to trans liberation and social justice.β Expanding their collections, theyβre seeking: photos, art, posters, signs, #zines, news articles, magazines, and more. π³οΈββ§οΈ transarchives.org/acquisitions/ #activism #archives #LGBTQIA
Still canβt book online. I am going to have to phone them and give an unnecessarily long explanation.
Yesterday I was in the vicinity of a very scary accident on a level crossing in Brunswick. So glad that the driver of the car, train driver and passengers are all ok. brunswickvoice.com.au/driver-survi...
Hav a wonderful day Kim. I have really enjoyed reading about your preparations and wish you both a super happy time
I just checked a flight booking, panicked because I thought it was on the wrong date, cancelled it feeling smug that I had bought refundable tickets then immediately realised I had booked the correct date all along. Now canβt rebook as they say it is a duplicate booking.
As promised! Here's my @acmimuseum.bsky.social #FACT2026 write-up over at @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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.
theconversation.com/a-few-weeks-...
I was a music geek kid at a sporty school. An ice rink in my home town had curling and school gave an option to try it out for a term instead of (probably) field hockey. Broke my wrist the second week and never went back but a girl in my class got really into it and ended up doing competitions.
On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...
Absolute pearler report from Gideon Haigh about the new, staggering situation at the #StateLibrary of Victoria: appointment of a person who was on the interview panel that rejected all applicants for the role?! FOI-redacted Board minutes of a PUBLIC institution?! www.cricketetal.com/p/what-happe...
What Jo said! I just got a paper published that has been in various stages of review for a year. Two sets of revisions and then accepted. We would rather it had happened quicker but itβs a much better paper and one reviewer was especially constructive and helpful. Congrats you are a step closer!
Why yes I am on a tight deadline and should be actually doing the thing instead of moaning about it here. Plus Γ§a change
Is anyone aware of research around neurodivergence and βtrack changesβ in Word. It makes my brain want to explode and I just canβt look at it. This might be one of those βyeah everyone hates it Lizzyβ things but I know another nd academic who finds it the same. See also Discord.
douglas adams was our most accurate futurist
Drop an album that was important to you when you were 19
A speaker (Jason Scott) on stage wearing a top hat and red jacket in front of a screen with βSo what about the Fascismβ
Feeling inspired after the #FACT2026 symposium in Melbourne. One of my favourite events of the year and so well run by the ACMI team. I especially enjoyed seeing Jason Scottβs presentation on the Internet Archive
The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...
Five classes I took in college:
1. Twelve tone composition
2. French
3. Environmental politics
4. Relational databases
5. Web design
Historians, have I got a choice grant application opportunity to share with you:
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @blairwilliams26.bsky.social can you please share on for the political nerds?
Yay congrats! Looking forward to reading it
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts youβve been too
Smashing Pumpkins (when Melissa Auf der Maur was on bass)
Suede
Terrorvision
Serj Tankien (SOAD)
Dananananaykroyd (my friend Duncan was in the band!)
Good job our performance metrics are so realistic and take this kind of thing into account. lol
Admittedly most people seem better at balancing things out for me but I have noticed this βbunchingβ thing with my writing that means I get these years where I have lots of papers and then years where I have hardly any.
I run out of data for stuff to write about periodically and then need to spend time applying for grant funding then actually doing the research and then youβve got data again for a few years. Repeat until forever
This isnβt a boast btw. Iβve been super stressed as had a few stingy rejections last year which has set me back and was worried about not hitting my βtargetsβ but had a couple of acceptance emails at the start of the year that means things are moving again
Due to a combination of factors including (but not limited to) my super human procrastination it is looking like I will multiple papers that have been languishing in review seemingly forever published this year. Woohoo!
First class in new uni taught last night. Great to meet the first cohort of Records and Archives students in Adelaide Uni. Biggest thing that went wrong was that I couldn't figure out how to turn off the waiting room in the AU version of zoom so definitely could have been worse.
The world is going totally to shit but at least we have sparkly makeup!
Makeup has improved so much in recent years. Admittedly I am no longer trying to buy the cheapest products but everything seems much easier to apply and so much choice.
