Librarian in Naarm / Melbourne. Mostly focused on scholarly communications and open access. Obsessive knitter and cat enthusiast. PhD in literary and cultural studies, looking at ethics and science fiction. Socialist, Greens supporter, and proud NTEU member. Striving to be a good ally.
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Banner image: an illustration by Henrique Alvim Corrêa from the 1906 limited French edition of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.
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The sign I made for this week's strike. Double sided and complete with details and sources in footnotes. (Painted on a recycled Greens coreflute we had out the front of our unit at the last state election.)
#UniMelb #UniMelbStrikes #NTEU #union #strike #WageTheft #universities
It was a pity that the beautiful sunny weather of day one of our week-long strike at the University of Melbourne didn't continue into day two... but as we chanted this morning: "we will hold the picket line - rain, hail, or shine!"
And that we did! Surrounded by a solid turnout of amazing union members, it was an awesome day regardless of the non-stop rain. 😄✊💜
#UniMelb #UniMelbStrikes #NTEU #strike #picket #Melbourne
(Images are selfies taken each day.)
Check out this amazing strike poster! 😻 Next week I'll be joining my union colleagues in a week-long strike, as we fight to make secure jobs the norm at the University of Melbourne, and seek more manageable workloads and a fair pay rise.
#NTEU #UniMelb #Union #Strike #Library #Melbourne #Solidarity
Art by the talented Emily Kaji (@emilykajiart on Instagram).
I just got back from a fantastic book launch! It was for my friend and collaborator Dr Alexandra Roginski's new book, "Science and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Tasman World" (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
It explores the practice of phrenology in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and contains many fascinating stories. It's an incredible work of scholarship many years in the making!
#Science #Australia #Aotearoa #NewZealand #Phrenology #BookLaunch
Happy birthday #DORA! That is, happy birthday to the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which turns 10 years old today. (Not to be confused with Dora the Explorer, who is 22, despite her childlike appearance.)
I'm excited to be joining a webinar, "DORA at 10: Looking back and looking forward," featuring @ginnybarbour and @StephenCurry
Find out more about DORA: https://sfdora.org/dora-10th-anniversary-events/
