

Boiling frogs
Evening all, I'm currently enjoying the tender mercies of the Sydney rail network as I type, so bear with me. Also, apologies to...

Office Space
Evening all, I'm going to start today by asking you all a question- what is the point of in-person working? I've been reading recently...

Brave New World
Evening all, In April I presented at UC San Diego's virtual symposium on “The Threat & Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence and...

Breaking bad
Evening all, Apologies for the break in service, but it's still better the train system in England, right? *Recent unfortunate events*...

Defeating the imposters
Evening all, This is going to be a slightly different post, touching on a few things but not particularly exploring any "new" thoughts...

On "administration"
Evening all, I have been known, on rare occasions, to let out what Eddie Murphy in his 1987 movie "Raw" referred to as "Filth, flarn...

Risks and Rewards
Evening all (it's evening somewhere I'm sure), So there's a thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately, and that's the risks and...

On wastage
Evening all, We're back for another week in the endless quest to make universities a fulfilling and rewarding place to work. If I have to...

Institutionalised
Evening all, Interestingly enough, following my recent post that discussed stupid and expensive things that we absolutely should stop...

TEQSA and the A-Team
Evening all, Firstly apologies that there's been a lull in posting this week. My family had my mum's 70th last weekend (I only look and...

I have a cunning plan
Evening all, This plan is as cunning as a fox that's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University. We all know that,...

Linus, Ziggy and the third pill
Evening all, First, thankyou to those who provided feedback on the previous blog. I get that there's differing points of view on the way...

Winners and losers
Evening all, and welcome back to another week in the dream factory. As you may recall, where I left off before Easter was with a...

Satanic delivery rabbits
Hi all, Because this is the first day of a 4 day long weekend here in Australia, I'm going to spend as little of that time thinking about...

Bad suntans and lengthy journeys
Morning all, (11.48 AM Sydney time), This will actually be a short one because I'm going out with Mrs Guerilla for my birthday. Amidst...

There may be a boogey man, or boogey men in the house
Evening all, On this momentous day, April 5 2023, I thought I would have a chat about Turnitin turning it on. By which I mean their...

Alfred Hitchcock and Lance Armstrong form Voltron
Evening all, I'll pick up on the central unit/faculty academic Maginot Line tomorrow, but today will be a bit shorter. For reasons. Or...

Toothless tigers eating forbidden breakfast cereal.
Evening all, Following on from Alix's problem statement from last week, tonight I'm going to consider why schools, faculty, academics,...

Don't look at me, I'm hideous.
Evening all, The internet takes you strange places with your mind. When Twitter pal @alix_thoeming suggested talking about central...

























