The #Qantas #cyberattack has puts 6 million customers' data at risk, and Aussie experts from #UniversitySA #latrobe #RMIT #EdithCowanUni #Swinburne #UniMelb #CurtinUni and #UniofAdelaide respond

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-qantas-cyberattack

Backlash grows over Swinburne’s move to evict kindergarten from land donated by state

Families and politicians from all sides unite in push to protect Windsor community children’s centre as university seeks to sell site

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jan/15/backlash-grows-over-swinburnes-move-to-evict-kindergarten-from-land-donated-by-state

What a pack of fuckers

For this #NASA related news, #ABC (#Australia) turned to Firstname Lastname from #Swinburne university.

*Cringe cringe cringe*.

For the record, the unfortunate #scientist is Dr Sarah Webb.

In today's #Introduction #Introductions #Connections #TwitterMigration post, where I curate interesting accounts for you to follow on the #Fediverse , I'd like you to meet:

Professor @KathAlbury is a #researcher #academic at #Swinburne, part of @adms (full disclosure: I @admin the server that the ADMS account is on). Her ADMS projects focus on the development of data capability and capacity in #NFP organisations, and data #ethics and speculative #DesignJustice in the field of #SexTech. If you're into #DesignJustice,
you may also like the work of @schock.

@blasbenito is a #DataScience and #AgTch #GIS #researcher and #PhD in computational #ecology

@KristinaRiemer is also a #DataScience educator and communit builder @cct_datascience at #UArizona

@simonoid is a #melbourne / #Naarm #nerd and #gamer

Dr @amykmcl is a #facilitator, #researcher and #ethnographer in #medical #anthropology

That's all for today, please do share your own lists so we can more closely connect the #Fediverse

Congrats to Dr. Agne Semenaite for successfully defending her thesis "Cosmological Implications of Galaxy Clustering in BOSS and eBOSS"! Next, she and her fantastic frenchpress-PhD-hat will move to #Swinburne University in Melbourne. All the best for your next chapter, Agne!

If you're living in #Melbourne (#Naarm) and you're hunkering for a really good biryani, there's a place (Village Biryani) two shops east from my younger brother's coffee shop (Johnny's Golf Shop - Golf & Coffee) opposite of #Swinburne University. I honestly suggest getting takeaway in the day - the portion is big enough for two meals, so you could have a light lunch and a light dinner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9atyU3H20JQ&t=370s

Professor Neville Owen:

"[I]n some areas of public health research (...) the ideas that have come out of research and theorizing from the USA, which is a highly individualistic culture with a whole lot of baggage that influences the thinking of people. We have ended up with ideas about individual responsibility, self-determination, self-efficacy - you know, what can people do to help themselves? - ...

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