All these Australian universities banning protests boldly citing ‘safety’ of staff and students like no one’s ever looked up their histories of wage theft, workplace bullying, dangerous overworking of staff and endemic inaction on sexual assault.

Are there any oncologists around who can do a remote consult for someone in Gaza? Please DM me ASAP if so + signal boost this please. 🙏🏽

Proud of Deakin students standing up to some pretty transparent intimidation techniques

Re. student encampments, Dr Maria O'Sullivan offers a balanced discussion of the right to protest on university campuses: “Most universities in Australia are public institutions […] So students and non-students are permitted on university land to protest.” theconversation.com/can-university…

Deakin colleagues, please consider signing and sharing this open letter to the VC in support of the student encampment (updated link):

docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/…

On campus this chilly autumn morning. Proud of Deakin University Deakin UniversityArtsEd students for speaking out and joining the protests sweeping across university campuses globally🍉

Peer-based harm reduction and our meaningful involvement & leadership are key! Do you know how much money the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care currently invests in peer-based drug harm reduction at a national level as part of their current Aus national drug strategy, knowing it saves lives? $0 😱 💔

They cordoned off the protest encampment since yesterday afternoon. And last night, one of the staff from campus security said it’s for security reasons. Where/what is the threat? Deakin University

'Drugs saturate everyday life, and shape human and planetary health in myriad ways'. CFPs for our interdisciplinary workshop 'Thinking with drugs' at Sociology, Goldsmiths close today. Please consider submitting an abstract if drugs or drugged concepts matter in your work!

La Trobe University university students launch its encampant in solidarity with #FeeePalestine

Proud of our students rallying on campus today to call for @deakin’s divestment from the weapons companies arming genocide in Gaza. Deakin UniversityNTEU

it is the morning of 'Yom Hashoah' over there. to be ordering this evacuation from Rafah at this time is to deliberately tie these two things together. i have no words for this kind of abomination and obliteration of memory.

New one from Anwen Crawford on writing, not writing, and watching the cricket instead. I admire Anwen's work totally — the deftness with material (sub)culture and ephemera, the risky constructions, the taking-back — I always come away wanting to write.
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On Zionist attempts to pressure the government to revoke my Future Fellowship and for Macquarie Univeristy to dismiss me. This is not just about me. A 🧵

1. Zionists are not just about trying to remove me from academia and destroy my academic career. The funding I received was

'An Australian nurse's account of six weeks treating bombing victims in a Gaza hospital as missiles came closer' abc.net.au/news/2024-04-0…

Very disappointing to see the government step away from its commitment to open a second injecting room in the CBD after the report from Ken Lay confirmed “broad support for an injecting room in the city.”

health.vic.gov.au/proposed-medic…

🚨🚨 Send your abstracts to our 'Thinking with drugs' workshop!. Can interdisciplinary research on drugs generate new insights in a time of global change? CFP closes 10 May: tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id=1…
org Fay Dennis, Kari Lancaster, Kiran Pienaar & Renae Fomiatti

CFP 'Thinking with drugs' workshop Sociology, Goldsmiths 22-23 July. Can interdisciplinary research on drugs generate new insights in a time of global change? May interest scholars working in #STS , #sociology , #Anthro & history of science. CFP closes 10 May: tasa.org.au/docs.ashx?id=1…

Hi friends, I'm throwing my hat in the ring for #4SCouncil this year! It's been almost 10 years since my first 4S meeting in Denver as a baby PhD student. I've gained so much from this extraordinary network of scholars/friends/peers... 🧵

Wonderful to see this collection out in the world! Thanks Jaime Garcia-Iglesias, Maurice Nagington 🏳️‍🌈💃☮️ & Peter Aggleton for inviting us to contribute. Our chapter (with dxmurphy) is titled “Thinking with HIV in pandemic times: A diffractive reading of COVID & mpox”: taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-ed…