The ‘h’ in ‘ghost‘ is a historical hiccup. William Caxton, having first practised his trade in Flanders, brought Flemish typesetters back to England to help set up his printing press - they lobbed an ‘h’ into English ‘gost’ because their own native word was ‘gheest’.

Just one politics project funded today. Ten years ago, we used to get 14-16 a year. Ten years from now, I doubt we’ll have any humanities and social sciences left in Australia. Well, maybe the dismal science will survive.

It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia.

The ARC Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%.

Only 1 in 6 grants are funded.

Why? The funding available has plummeted.

Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️

A historic first as 6 former Australian Prime Ministers release a joint statement, 5 of whom managed to spell their own names correctly.

Outlook just spontaneously increased the font by x100. I am not displeased 🧐👵

“Why did the College kill my grant?”

Yesterday was the first time most of us have received assessor scores with our #DiscoveryProjects rejections.

Many are puzzled:
All As/Bs from Detailed (peer, expert) Assessors but Cs/Ds/Es from General Assessors (College members).

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Special Issue: 'Arbiters of Justice: Historical Studies of Southern Queensland Lawmakers' (2023) 25(7) 𝘘𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 edited by the Law, Religion, and Heritage Research Program Team University of Southern Queensland search.informit.org/toc/quehis/25/7

Fellow Holocaust scholars - we are running a very exciting (funded) two day workshop on transnational mobility and memory of perpetrators/collaborators at KCL in June 2024 that you should submit a proposal for!
Send me a DM or reply here for email submission info.

I just want proper verified accounts back 🤷‍♀️

Yes. I correctly guessed my brother's second daughter's name based on this lol, where is my medal

The thing to understand about the work-from-home debate is, there's a set of workers for whom meetings are an annoying distraction from work, and there's a set of middle managers for whom meetings literally *are* the work. You'll never guess which set wants to return to offices.

where has Adam Liaw's lemon fettucine with haloumi been all my life 🤩

They don’t make public office ties like that any more

Hi Jason Clare MP,

This is what chronic underfunding of research looks like.

In the last decade, we're getting:
❌Lowest total $$ granted ($275M v $387M in 2020)
❌Lowest number of projects funded (421 v 660), &
❌Lowest success rate (16.3% v 23.0)

This needs radical change.

There must surely be some mistake: only 6 projects funded under the category History, Heritage and Archaeology, while last year there were 13.... We are going backwards...

Congratulations to all the successful ARC Discovery applicants - some great projects in history, especially Catharine Coleborne and Dr Effie Karageorgos, Jane Lydon and her colleagues, sceptical @[email protected] and my MQ colleague Bronwen Neil!

Australia's right wing migrant past. Interesting listening to Jayne Persian Dr Jayne Persian speaking on the Ustaše and right wing Croatian groups in Australia | 3CR Community Radio 3cr.org.au/yeahnahpasaran…

Here's the official announcement of the 2-stage process for #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 .

(On Thursday night, at #SenateEstimates , the ARC said they weren't in a position to say whether this would run for DP25. But now we have a video announcing it on Monday. Riiighhht.)