Don’t be fooled with any naivety - universities exploit you with their eyes wide open and governments have been knowingly aiding them with their failure to intervene on the problem they began for decades. Get out quickly and use all of your amazing self to redefine what it means to be an academic.

Until you can see how bad it is, you cannot know how much fight you must put up. However small, how do you subvert universities and in doing so hold yourself to account?

This Special Issue on sexism in academic promotions attracted submissions from unsilent women whose professional titles either do not reflect their true professional wisdom or were awarded far too late. Academia must stop hurtling at its toxic pace, and really ask itself what it is doing to its people and in the name of what.

I taught students under the jacaranda tree to harness the power of nature as we learned together. I took my shoes off to resist the corporate image of what an academic is supposed to look like.

I’m full of self-delusion as much as the next person, so I have to be careful when I make such an accusation. I hope I can be as open to someone helping me as I wish university executives were open to mine.

It’s not a fancy building universities need to put money away for. It’s the Royal Commission and class action that are coming. Being an institution seen to uphold knowledge, truth, and integrity, even falling for the rhetoric, increases delusion among management they’re not. They (think they) are good people. They make harmful decisions. Neoliberal universities perpetrate psychological and financial abuse. Some justice will be asked for back.

The very academic conceptual framework of “Bullshit”. Can’t argue that!