Higher ed workers in australia, the NTEU are looking for stories about how LLMs/"AI" have affected your work and working conditions. Are you spending more time marking, but receiving the same time allocation? Do you have the flexibility/autonomy you need to design appropriate assessment?
I wrote about the archaeology 🏺of porridge in Africa and what it means for food systems with Alison Crowther.
If you're interested in interactions between culture, food, and biogeography, and their evolution over time - give it a skim (open access).
www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
The big pander?
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
"rates of e-bike theft are rising fast... A recent survey by the Workers’ Observatory, a gig work monitoring group involving workers and researchers from St Andrews and Edinburgh Universities, found that 40 per cent of riders had bikes stolen..."
www.scotsman.com/news/opinion...
“Even though Mayor Zohran Mamdani declared a state of emergency that banned all but essential vehicles like ambulances, police cars and utility trucks from the roads, the 80,000 deliveristas were among those exempt.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/n...
Funny how examples like this don't come up in productivity roundtable discussions and media reporting focus on the need to "embrace AI" #auspol
Algorithmic Wage Discrimination is spreading beyond 'Gig' work:
Healthcare, Customer Service, & Logistics bosses are buying AI products that set compensation structures & wages using real time data. @wilneida.bsky.social & I did an audit & here are our findings
equitablegrowth.org/how-artifici...
Really useful piece by Richard J Buning, Dorina Pojani & @tylerriordan.bsky.social on the category confusion shaping the ebike discourse and inquiry in QLD, and the equity implications of licensing pedelec bicycles
theconversation.com/should-e-bik...
In the lead up to Extreme Heat Awareness Day, I spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about some of the risks #fooddelivery riders face
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Karen Gregory
Nat Osborne she/her
Tyler Riordan
Jeremy Farr
David Peetz
Veena Dubal
"An analysis of seven rent platforms ... revealed millions of leasing documents could be accessed by threat actors."
Thanks to negligent privacy practices, it is easy to access troves of highly sensitive information stored on rental management platforms www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Nat Osborne she/her
Veena Dubal
Tyler Riordan
Following Haaland's work on “porridge and pot” cuisine and Stahl's “cartographies of taste” as a means of exploring cultural and ecological dynamics, this pa...
Riders embroiled in a dispute over pay and conditions with food delivery company HungryPanda in Sydney say Chinese police have asserted pressure back home to stop them protesting.
