Gavin Smith
@gavin_jd_smith
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Interdisciplinary thinker & doer | Research urban governance & snakes | Learning from & making a better future for snakes/wildlife | Views mine
Canberra, Ngunnawal Country
Joined January 2016
So good, so much fluidity! 😍
Local at Culgoa @HerbieWarne filmed a carpet snake and its tree climbing ability 🐍- what great creatures, and so rare to see. Long live the carpet, see one about every 20-30 years in the creek. @gavin_jd_smith @Matt_HerringOz @CropDoctor54
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Did you miss our visiting scholar Philip Roscoe talking about his book "How to Build a Stock Exchange" in March? Fear no more! This was another #Greatidea, thanks to @natashamitchell #bigideas #ABCradio
https://t.co/3Yj9VZ6UTb
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Now kicking off the double book launch event for 1000 PLATFORMS by Prof Adrian Mackenzie and DEEPAESTHETICS by Prof Anna Munster! ✨ A conversation event on the politics and aesthetics of computational culture @ANUcass
https://t.co/T6tFVxLct4
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🎉🍾Three hurrahs for our very own Prof Helen Keane! Congratulations on your appointment as a Fellow of The Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA). https://t.co/pqjQuMw6vf
#Proudofyou |@ANUcass | @ourANU
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We're talking NatureCulture and socio-ecological relations at ANU for @SocSciWeek 🐍🏞️💉🌏 With a ✨stellar✨ lineup of speakers Mary Lou Rasmussen Celia Roberts Bradley Moggridge Jason Cummings Roger Burrows Sarah Bekessy Beck Pearse @ANUcass
https://t.co/HjADrIdcWj
eventbrite.com.au
Join us to reflect on how social relations are deeply intertwined with biological, ecological, and economic processes.
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And now killer cities, re-enchantment with urban nature, and nature markets for conservation @sbekessy @rebeccapearse
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Talking about experimenting with estrogen, hand raising bettongs, co-authoring with rivers and more! @Jason__Cummings @bradmoggo @CeliaMRoberts @gavin_jd_smith
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As the only university covered by fed law, why can’t we see a similar intervention at ANU? I hear constantly from staff about the huge toll from the almost year long shambolic process of cuts at the ANU. We need an immediate pause to forced redundancies. https://t.co/SPNNLQ7bkx
afr.com
The workplace regulator has intervened in a redundancy process at the University of Technology Sydney in what experts say is rare but could become more common.
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Gender studies cut in ANU slash and burn
canberratimes.com.au
ANU leadership likened to Donald Trump's chainsaw cutting of public service.
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Julie Bishop celebrates her 69th birthday in Dubai https://t.co/UOlOecEel1 via @DailyMailCeleb
dailymail.co.uk
Former Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop rang in her 69th birthday in style on Thursday, soaking up the sun and glamour of Dubai.
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Two ABC interviews and a public talk in collaboration with Ngunnawal knowledge holder, Tyronne Bell: pretty happy with how the day of the serpent unfolded this year. 🐍🥳 #WorldSnakeDay #Yearofthesnake
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Our universities require a major overhaul. Reform is possible, but only if a government is prepared to take up the challenge. @FordeSusan @Griffith_Uni
theconversation.com
Our universities require a major overhaul. Reform is possible, but only if a government is prepared to take up the challenge.
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University policy has been broken for 40 years. ‘Our policymakers must be brave enough to argue that education is unequivocally and intrinsically a public good, vital to the interests of the nation, and therefore worth funding properly.’
afr.com
Policymakers must set aside the fiction that universities are just another industry that can generate its own funding and that academics can be turned into entrepreneurs.
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Tyronne Bell and our favourite #snakecatcher, @gavin_jd_smith, will present a special lecture on #WorldSnakeDay: "Demystifying and re-storying the serpent: why snakes deserve our attention and respect", a @VisitWildbark initiative. 🐍 📅16 Jul -18.30pm ℹ️ https://t.co/MavkV7yv9B
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Absolutely shameful. This is such a devastating attack on our future.
Macquarie University is preparing to dismantle two foundational disciplines: Sociology and Politics. Under the current proposal, Sociology will no longer be offered as a major in the Bachelor of Arts, and 11 of the department’s 14 academics — including long-time colleagues I’ve
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Did you catch the newest publication from @ANU_SOCY Honorary Professor Nikolas Rose? "5E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought" Open access now in the journal Transcultural Psychiatry https://t.co/F2xpn0IMq6
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A new style of thought is emerging in debates around psychiatry and mental health, which I term ‘5E Mental Health.’ This goes beyond the well-known and much-cri...
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FREE EVENT on university governance, higher education, environment and other important issues with @DavidPocock - ANU 17/6, 5:30-7pm. Sign up and come along. Online and recording available.
davidpocock.com.au
TRUST. INTEGRITY. LEADERSHIP.
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FINALLY! My article “5E Mental Health? Notes on an emerging style of thought” is now published and is available at https://t.co/AM35fb4oqB
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Sociology at its best. Revealing the uneven power structures and socio-material inequalities that impact on us so differentially. And refusing to accept these as inevitable. 🌄 https://t.co/h2ypvmxn5T
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Our staff out and about talking to Canberra year 10 students about futures in sociology! Thank you to the staff and students at Canberra Grammar School for hosting us ✨
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