Brook

PhD candidate. Interested in child and adolescent family violence. Angry political rants, cat selfies and wombat appreciation. She/Her

[Brook @BookWombat]

Research participants needed - please retweet!

I am looking for Australian parents or carers who have experienced challenging, violent or abusive behaviour from a school-aged child to participate in an online interview about their child's experiences within the education system

[Brook @BookWombat]

@snag_sanga The lightning is incredible!

[Brook @BookWombat]

@caro I’m hoping someone will bring back the Moa. Partly because the speed in which humans wiped them out suggests they were delicious and I want to try a Moa burger before I die. Partly as part of a longer term project to resurrect the Haast’s Eagle.

[Brook @BookWombat]

@_colourmeamused I am also grateful for cheese and the wonderful cheesemakers of bruny island. Also the sil who baked the fresh baguette that I am about to eat with this

[Brook @BookWombat]

@_colourmeamused The cat though

[Brook @BookWombat]

@_colourmeamused Yes! Let me knowwhen you’re going to be in Sydney next

[Joshua McManaway @jrmcmanaway]

The English PhD discourse is basically a Rorschach test. You see how few people understand what goes into a doctorate. You see how few people think about the humanities as a key to being human. It's really sad to see people reduce all education to its market value. I don't want

[Brook @BookWombat]

@_colourmeamused I’m pretty sure all my profile pics are pre-covid and that’s not because I want to look younger. I just haven’t taken a half-way acceptable photo since.

[Batshit Australia @batshit_auspol]

Old post but just been informed that the Lazer Kiwi now features in NZ's election coverage, incinerating politicians that fail to be re-elected, and suddenly all other election coverage pales by comparison

[Debbie Kilroy - Lawyer #FreeHer @DebKilroy]

Everyone’s humanity is diminished when we allow human rights to be discarded.

And today the #lnp discarded children’s human rights.

#qldpol

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Go easy on yourself - some days you’ll write only 300 words and delete them, other days you’ll write 3000 words and delete them

[Nina Funnell, Journalist & Survivor advocate🎗️ @ninafunnell]

EXCLUSIVE: In 1995, the bad-ass CEO of Canberra Rape Crisis Centre (Dianne Lucas) went to JAIL to protect a survivor's counselling notes, from her rapist who subpoened them.

Today, 1800RESPECT share those notes without so much as a phonecall.#TakeTheStand
https://t.co/OZWcGXdb33

[Damien Cahill @DamienCahill8]

New McCarthyism at Usyd: Not only are Sydney Uni’s new speech restrictions ridiculously unworkable, much more disturbingly they give broad managerial discretion to classify teaching and speech as misconduct, eroding academic freedom and the uni’s very foundations. @NTEUnion

[Randa Abdel-Fattah @RandaAFattah]

Israel still bombing universities.

Students' cupcake stalls, talks and fundraisers for Palestine on Australian University campuses still being disciplined, cancelled and intimidated.

[Brook @BookWombat]

Looks like a lot of my mutuals are making the jump. I’m wombattitude @ the other place.

[Jane Gilmore @JaneTribune]

Rape is a theoretical crime: Part 1 - The Data https://t.co/d9lgEPesrx
This is something I have wanted to do for years but haven't had the time or the right forum until now. This is part one of a series on rape and sexual assault.

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

Incredible: AI can predict the winner of the 2024 election. Looks like there will be a few surprises; for example, there's a good chance that Iowa will win Texas.

[Brook @BookWombat]

Pelicans are so great

[Mark Smith Photography @marktakesphoto]

The pelicans have been extra bold lately, trying their hardest to snatch a free meal from the ospreys. They are rarely successful, but this time the pelican managed a very clever sneak attack from behind. The osprey, thinking it was free and clear, tried to shake off the water weight from the dive, and that little pause was all it took for the hungry pelican to close the gap and its gaping maw around the osprey’s catch. It’s crazy out there sometimes.

[Soul James @Any_Elm_Idly]

I know this is just one of many of daily instances of right-wing brainrot warring against the cognitive functions of average Americans but can you imagine sawing a tree this massive to build a cabin on it & then putting wooden decking on the stump ahahaha
https://t.co/7desAYQSXV