Sydney-based urban geographer + unionisthttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3mikhcrjxzs2hhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-03/fuel-crisis-highlights-public-transport-gaps-mount-druitt/10652805803 Apr 2026 00:22 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mikhcrjxzs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3m5xyvrj57k2xAnother egregious example of uni wage theft. As claimant says: "our university encourages students to pursue Master's programs in Psychology and Social Work, and then undervalues those same qualifications in their own staff." Go @nteuvictoria.bsky.social https://newshub.medianet.com.au/2025/11/union-takes-rmit-to-court-over-1-million-wage-theft-from-counsellors/128307/19 Nov 2025 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5xyvrj57k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3m465hblpps2t"clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms. It seems plausible, even likely, that faculty unions will have some success building power off of the growing resentment of ubiquitous AI and its slop products." [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Oct 2025 09:52 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m465hblpps2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3m44vcim5i22gIncredible personal reflections on organising from @alybatt.bsky.social Spadework https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-34/politics/spadework/26 Oct 2025 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m44vcim5i22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3m3736r5t4k26So much ill shit going on across the world ... but am also feeling devastated waking up to learn that D'Angelo has passed. Voodoo one of those records for me, if the not *the* record. RIP. https://youtu.be/_RLP0xAjdJU?si=yyrWf_6PXtkqRq8T15 Oct 2025 01:19 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3736r5t4k26https://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lveyj2vdi22nhttps://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/aug/02/nsw-supreme-court-ruling-pro-palestine-march-sydney-harbour-bridge02 Aug 2025 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lveyj2vdi22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lu2kcyorb22pRe-posting in the wake of this week's news that YIMBY Melbourne has secured a $760,000 grant from US-based Open Philanthropy to progress their housing agenda locally... https://arena.org.au/yimby-or-nimby-both-are-worse/16 Jul 2025 04:10 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu2kcyorb22phttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lsig5lneoc2tJob Alert! 3-year Post-Doc to work with me and Marilu Melo Zurita on our "Wiring Australian Cities" project. It's an ARC-funded infrastructure geographies project 'following the infrastructure' of urban telecommunications across time and space. Details👇 https://usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Camperdown-Campus/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate---Wiring-Australian-Cities_0136366-126 Jun 2025 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsig5lneoc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3ltj5gwm6n22kIf you haven't already, please sign this petition in support of awesome sociologists at Macquarie Uni whose discipline is about to be decimated: https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/save-sociology-at-macquarie-university?source=bluesky-share-email-button&utm_source=bluesky09 Jul 2025 06:04 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltj5gwm6n22khttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lsig5lneoc2tJob Alert! 3-year Post-Doc to work with me and Marilu Melo Zurita on our "Wiring Australian Cities" project. It's an ARC-funded infrastructure geographies project 'following the infrastructure' of urban telecommunications across time and space. Details👇 https://usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Camperdown-Campus/Postdoctoral-Research-Associate---Wiring-Australian-Cities_0136366-126 Jun 2025 05:42 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsig5lneoc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lov2e6s7ms2aEmpty for over four years during a housing crisis ... nice job Sydney Uni. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/why-this-grand-building-on-sydney-s-busiest-street-is-derelict-20250429-p5lv3d.html11 May 2025 08:35 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lov2e6s7ms2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lncbh2xeoc24Open letter signed by 60+ researchers on prioritising household clean energy over nuclear energy in current Australian election: https://www.ppesydney.net/open-letter-the-coalitions-nuclear-plan-doesnt-add-up-spend-the-money-on-household-clean-energy-instead/21 Apr 2025 03:56 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lncbh2xeoc24https://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3ljfahhz3os2tPerfect placement of 3 items on Sydney Uni's staff page today: one celebrating Mardi Gras (which started with a militant 1978 protest), one celebrating the Freedom Ride of 1965, one on new Campus Access Policy which curtails protest on campus. Protest is great as long as it's in the past, I guess?02 Mar 2025 10:35 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljfahhz3os2thttps://bsky.app/profile/kurtiveson.bsky.social/post/3lj7c4b6ktc2eNew paper from me and Marilu Melo Zurita about the urban geopolitics of telecommunications infrastructure in Sydney. As @shannonmattern.bsky.social says, there's "multiple ways to wire the wired city": we tell the story of how this went down (literally!) in Sydney. https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2025.246687928 Feb 2025 01:49 +0000at://did:plc:xayk7ef4em45ropz5bfvmrvc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj7c4b6ktc2e