Other stuff

Stop the genocide! Free Palestine.

I am appalled by Australia's treatment of refugees and people seeking asylum.

  • The United Nations Human Rights Commitee (UNHCR) found that Australia's offshore detention regime breaches human rights. As Amnesty International (Australia) stated in their this press release dated 10 January 2025: "As of January 2025, Australia’s offshore asylum processing centre in Nauru holds over 100 asylum seekers, the highest number of asylum seekers detained in over a decade." Close the Camps! Evacuate Now!
  • As this press release from the Refugee Council of Australia (18 July 2024) states, “Of the 3129 people sent to Manus Island and Nauru between July 2013 and mid 2014, 983 are in Australia with no permanent status and 46 remain in Papua New Guinea in desperate circumstances, relying on limited financial support from donors in Australia to meet their daily needs.” The programme to resettle refugees from Manus and Nauru in New Zealand is currently at capacity and unable to accept any new expressions of interest, according to UNHCR (update from 26 November 2024).
  • Ads-Up Canada is a network of people who support refugees from Manus and Nauru after they arrive in Canada.

A couple of other things:

  • I used to spend some of my spare time spent writing songs. (Or maybe I just have less spare time now than I did before?)
  • Catherine Sophie Greenhill is believed to have been the first person to be resuscitated using electric shock. She fell out of a window in London aged three on 16 July 1774 and was pronounced dead, then revived by a member of the Humane Society using a portable electrostatic generator. She even has the same middle initial as me.

Science at the Shine Dome 2015 old UNSW staff photo Melbourne staff photo
Taken at Science at the Shine Dome, 2015. Photo credit: Mark Graham. My old UNSW work photo, taken when I started in 2003. My Melbourne work photo, probably taken in 2000.
Really old photo old footie photo, Leeds
Leeds staff photo? 1996? Can't remember! Staff-student football team, School of Computing, University of Leeds, probably 1999.

This is me, introducing Malabar Pramanik, who was the first plenary speaker at the WIMSIG2017 conference.
Photo credit: Sia Duff.

Shine Dome 2022, new Fellow talk.