#rmit — Public Fediverse posts

https://overland.org.au/2026/04/open-letter-rmit-staff-and-students-oppose-disciplinary-action-against-gemma-seymour-over-video-opposing-links-to-weapons-ties/

#educationworkers #Gaza #militaryIndustrialComplex #Palestine #RMIT #Solidarity #studentprotests

Quantum batteries flip the script on energy storage: instead of slowing down as they grow, they charge faster at scale and CSIRO has built the first working prototype chip. ⚡🔋
https://techglimmer.io/quantum-battery-explain-2026/

#QuantumBattery #QuantumTech #CSIRO #RMIT #UniMelb #CleanEnergy #EV #TechGlimmer

At #RMIT's Capitol Theatre to watch #TheLibrarians documentary and an incisive panel discussion about it's emotional content - the erasure of queer and LGBTQI voices, of authors of Colour and books that challenge - and the persecution of Librarians.

Librarians as villains.
Librarians as victims.
But Librarians also as the Vanguard for truth and inclusion and knowledge.

At #RMIT Storey Hall to listen to @karenhao in conversation with @Kobotic

Brilliant!

📱 The Federal Government has published the final report of the independent Age Assurance Technology Trial, and experts from #RMIT #Uni_Newcastle #UNSW #Sydney_Uni #CurtinUni #Griffith_Uni #latrobe #UniMelb #Swinburne #ANUmedia respond

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/expert-reaction-age-verification-trial-results-to-enable-kids-social-media-ban

#science #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #learning #socialmedia #socialmediaban

Have you read @karenhao book #EmpireOfAI, chronicling the rise of Sam Altman and #OpenAI?

Want to?

It's fantastic - meticulously researched, detailed and an incredible character analysis of one of the most influential people and companies of our time.

My favourite chapter is the last one - what would it take for the Empire of AI to fall?

In #Melbourne #Naarm?

Come see Karen in conversation with @Kobotic presented by #ReadingsBooks, this Friday night at #RMIT.

Entry is free, tix going fast though.

https://www.readings.com.au/events/karen-hao-talks-ai

#STS #AusSTS #AI #CriticalAI

🌊 Reviving floodplain wetlands slashes carbon emissions by 39% and restores critical ecosystem functions in one year – without the methane spike typically seen in restored peatlands, says #RMIT

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/restored-wetlands-reap-benefits-for-climate-drought-resilience-after-just-one-year-study

🚰 Research led by #RMIT has developed an experimental invention to turn wastewater’s high contaminant load into an advantage for making green hydrogen that could reduce reliance on fresh water

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/wastewater-contaminants-boost-green-hydrogen-production/_nocache

✈️ 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

What a brilliant session with @emilymbender in conversation with @Kobotic at #RMIT tonight.

Key takeaways:
- #BenderRule - name the language you're working in
- #AI is not one technology - it's many in a trenchcoat. Be specific.
- Who benefits from the changes wrought by AI and who bears the harms and externalities?
- AI is hype - learn enough to cut through it, ask difficult questions
- "Pile of racist linear algebra"
- Read everything by @karenhao
- Read #TheAICon by Emily and @alex
- Read @CriticalAI

Were you hoping to see @emilymbender in conversation with @Kobotic in Melbs at #RMIT courtesy of #Readings but they were sold out?

Good news, they've moved to Storey Hall which is 4 x the capacity.

Get your tix 💖

#StochasticParrots #LLMs #BenderRule

https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai

Ce simple cube en bois pourrait résoudre la #crise mondiale de l’ #eau

« 2,2 milliards de personnes n’ont toujours pas accès à des services d’eau potable gérés de manière sûre ». Un chiffre qui monte à 4 milliards, soit près de la moitié de la population mondiale, si on compte les personnes confrontées à un stress hydrique sévère au moins un mois chaque année, selon les données de l’ #ONU.

https://www.presse-citron.net/cube-bois-crise-mondiale-leau/

#RMIT #RoyalMelbourneInstituteofTechnology

OMG SQUEEEE

@emilymbender is going to be in Melbs in conversation with @Kobotic

Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT
Tuesday 1 July, 6pm AEST

Tix free:
https://www.readings.com.au/events/emily-m-bender-and-kobi-leins-discuss-ai

To discuss her new book #TheAICon written with @alex

If you hate the #AI hype as much as I do and generally think of AI as bullshit generation and epistemic violence then you will love this.

If you loved the #StochasticParrots paper, you will love this.

I try and use the #BenderRule (Bender, 2019) in every talk I give - "state the language in which you practice" - because English is only 1 of 7000 other languages spoken in the world.

RMIT to make Blockchain Hub a part-time gig, hints at resource crunch - The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s Blockchain Innovation Hub ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/rmit-blockchain-hub-goes-part-time-after-shutdown-rumor #blockchaininnovationhub #blockchainresearch #research #rmit #bih

Last week #RMIT and #ACCIONA have signed a partnership agreement to drive innovation and build skills for a sustainable future. I had the privilege to present to senior executives the outcomes of our collaboration for AI integration and optimisation. @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

Hello, Kami-sama! (2024) [3 min] by Kate Aimi Tan | #Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNxHou7mtpY

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Spirit #Kamisama #Shrine #RMIT #RoyalMelbourneInstituteOfTechnology

RMIT blockchain unit future in doubt after professor claims it has ‘shut down’ - The Blockchain Innovation Hub at RMIT is hanging in the balance as discu... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/rmit-blockchain-hub-future-doubt-amid-shutdown-claims #blockchaininnovationhub #blockchainhub #melbourne #shutdown #rmit #bih #uni

Sumpter (2024) [5 min] by Alice Jao | #Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEa6-mL0kWg

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Adventure #Travel #Creature #Desert #RMIT #RoyalMelbourneInstituteOfTechnology

@angryeducationworkers
Priya interviews vocational staff member, Tami Gadir about ongoing #NTEU members industrial action at #RMIT, and worker #solidarity with #Palestine

https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/rmit-strike-1000-days-without-agreement

Wherever you are, whatever you do
There is a #union for you.

#EducationWorkers
#communityRadio #3CR

A Day in the Woods (2022) [1 min] by Eugenia Liony Cynthiaputri | #Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBB4BadZtXs

#2D #2DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Woods #Forest #Nature #Skits #RMIT #RoyalMelbourneInstituteOfTechnology

After hundreds of verdicts and almost 200 editions of the CheckMate misinformation newsletter, RMIT ABC Fact Check — a partnership between the ABC and RMIT University — is drawing to a close.

#FactCheck #CheckMate #ABC #RMIT #AusPol #Australia #Media #MediaLiteracy

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-28/fact-check-final-wrap-11-years/104033004?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

While you consider submitting to the Call for Problems for the #ALTA2024 Shared Task (see link below), we'd like to share with you the winner of the #ALTA2023 Shared Task, which involved distinguishing #LLM-generated from human-generated text.

Here, Rinaldo Gagiano and Lin Tian from #RMIT use a fine-tuned #Falcon7B model with label smoothing, yielding an accuracy of 99.91%. Well done!

🔗 Call for Problems for Shared Task: https://alta2024.alta.asn.au/calls

🔗 Paper: https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.18/

https://events.humanitix.com/charting-bds-at-rmit-academic-boycott-and-military-divestment-whscalue

#BDS #Boycott #Divest #Sanctions #militaryIndustrialComplex #antimilitarism #Ceasefire
#EducationWorkers #union #NTEU
#encampments #studentprotests
#RMIT #BooksNotBombs #Palestine #solidarity

Hung out with these awe-inspiring librarians today to chat about our favourite thing for an hour at #National24 (ALIA National), celebrating the #OER movement in Australasia and strategising our way around the challenges still ahead.

Katy Henry (CAUL) did an exceptional job facilitating our discussion while Sarah McQuillen discussed UniSA’s textbook minimisation project and navigating the barriers to integrating OER into course materials, Angie Williamson shared Deakin’s approach to ensuring quality and reliability in OER publishing, and Jennifer Hurley (RMIT) gave guidance on the institutional supports required to build sustainable open educational practice.

I spoke about measuring impact beyond cost, referring to Sarah Lambert’s insightful work on the 3Rs of social justice.

What a wonderful start to the conference! I can’t wait to dive into the other Open Ed sessions throughout the week 🤩 And am particularly keen to check out Emilia (emi-lee-ah) Bell’s session tomorrow giving us a glimpse into their PhD research “Open to diplomacy? Libraries, knowledge, and global challenges”.

P.S. Excited speaker landyard pic included because aahhh! What a vibe today!

#OEP #OpenEducation #OpenPedagogy #TruthAndDare #OEPSIG #CAUL #UniSA #Deakin #RMIT #Equity #Libraries

In the lead up to #ALTA2024 in December at @ANUResearch, we're featuring interesting papers and talks from #ALTA2023

In this paper, Steven Nguyen at #UniMelb, Daniel Beck at #RMIT and Katja Hölttä-Otto also of #UniMelb work on the novel task of cognitive #empathy.

Using paired sentences from #design interviews and #NLP techniques, they show similarity of vectors from an #LLM is a promising approach in this space.

https://aclanthology.org/2023.alta-1.14/

Revolutionary Batteries: A Leap Towards Greener Energy
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/technology/revolutionary-batteries-a-leap-towards-greener-energy/ar-BB1iME6Y?cvid=a800e5027ea940e8d08079402e1f9383&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=8

#Batteries
#WaterBatteries
#AqueousMetalIonBatteries
#RMIT

Good evening #Mastodon and the #Fediverse :fediverse: ! It's been a big day of Mastodon upgrades and building observability infra for https://fediverse.au but that's done so now I'm bringing you my regular #Introduction #ConnectionList #TwitterMigration roundup of folks you should follow.

@profElanor is Exec Director at CSIRO (who I don't think are on Mastodon yet), and she has #research interests in #quantum #QuantumComputing. She is the previous Dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science - now Engineering, Computer Science and #cybernetics at ANU 👋

@kylieengineer is the face you know and love from @bsidescbr! She is awesome, into #infosec, and a #founder at @infosect 👋

@mikejones is into #archives, #history, #museums, #GLAM and #DigitalHumanities and he is Deputy Director of the Research Centre for Deep History at ANU 👋

@uberlibris is Dr Catherine Kerrigan and she is a #librarian #GLAM and #LIS #researcher in #Adelaide 👋

@evansmithhist is an #academic and #writer who works with #history #politics and #criminology 👋

@JanetRoitman works with @adms at #RMIT where they (not assuming pronouns) #research #DigitalPlatforms #PlatformEconomies #Data #Sociotechnical #STS 👋

Don't forget to make your own #ConnectionList #FollowFriday so we can more deeply connect the Fediverse ❤️