Reading @jodimca.bsky.social's An Academic Affair and it is SO Anne-and-Gil-ish and I'm SO down for that! Swooning!!
The Deakin community was the big winner today. Some individuals grossly underestimated this community. May this serve as an example and warning to other universities and their leaders. It's well past time for trust in university leadership across Australia to be restored!
(suffice to say that my lovely heartfelt romance novel about two academics might romanticise collegiality and curiosity and deep respect between intellectual equals - but it does *not* paint a particularly romantic picture of the modern neoliberal university)
At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/
One of the things I wrote about in An Academic Affair is the brutality of going through a Hunger Games job cull.
It was pretty directly inspired by living through the awful process we endured at Deakin five years ago. Very, very happy we've defeated this attempt at doing another one.