I will keep adding entries as they are revealed by detailed searches into the Epstein files. My thread focuses on researchers and academics who, well after Epstein's 2008 conviction, have sought contact with, received funding from, and let themselves be promoted by him.

Old mate 50 something in blue singlet, footy shorts and double pluggers at the gym at 9.30pm on a Friday, I salute you 🫡

It me 👇👇👇

I will keep adding, slowly, as I follow up on names that have been sent to me. As of now, there are 22 people. It's unpleasant work. I'm doing it so you won't have to. Every day I've worked on it, I've been thinking of how aggressively Larry Summers was protected from critique after that one speech.

One final point on this: my time and good faith is limited. If journal editors don't do some basic due diligence checks of the ref list before sending out, then their next request will be declined

Woah, a first for me: after hours of reading, reflection and drafting 2/3rds of a detailed reviewer's report I find the paper I'm reviewing has hallucinated references. Suddenly the odd / incorrect claims become all that much clearer 1/2

"Heads we win, tails you lose" is now live in its peer-reviewed form. This article represents a gamut of perspectives from pro-AI to staunchly opposed. What unites us all is shared condemnation of the use of AI-detection software in education contexts doi.org/10.1080/1360...

Another piece of writing from yours truly. Might be the weirdest thing I've written? This is what happens when you agree to write about a US work of criticism for a publication about Australian writing! openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...

I regret to inform you after not wanting to do the deadlifts but nonetheless doing the deads I now feel better for having done the deads

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

How cringe do you have to be that the nonces don’t even want to hang out with you

Dawg how yall gon be pedophiles and emailing each other about pedophile shit on regular email and signing it

Makes a lot more sense now

Vague posting for the time being: I have some modest but nonetheless pleasing and good job news to share soon 😊

Who could have guessed that increasingly virulent attacks from sections of the media and politicians that deem Aboriginal people unAustralian, divisive, fraudsters, whingers, criminals, bludgers, a drain on public resources and a threat to western civilisation would lead to its inevitable outcome?

You can hear the ACTU and myself talk about the impact of heatwaves and high temperatures on workers on ABC AM this morning. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Sunday morning in the merch line at the Bluey show

The breakdown of the post 1945 order based on relative state equality and limitations on the use of force must be seen as an outcome of the US-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq.

Watched some cricket today #Ashes #SCG

fwiw, I think the best way to think of this is not really as "trump is the worst ever" so much as "trump takes all the worst aspects of american history and speed runs them all at once"

Ribs 🍖

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

HNY! May your deads be clean and powerful

Only in America can white liberals have an earnest discussion about discrimination against whites in the labor market when black unemployment is fucking double that of whites. The cajones man.

Friends, if you or someone you know has published awesome work in disability studies (defined *broadly*), please let me know! I'm updating my "Disability: A Democratic Dilemma" course and would love to include some newer work (both academic and otherwise).

🆕Early view Bruno Q. Cunha, Felix G. Lopez & I study #militarisation of regulatory agencies in #Brazil The article highlights #MilitarizedPatronage in regulatory agencies & the military as a #CoalitionPartner & the enabling conditions 👇 doi.org/10.1111/gove...

Spreading Xmas cheer by recommending only (very) minor revisions on the first round review of a truly excellent paper 🎅

I wrote a new piece for @pghcitypaper.com about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol

You don’t have to look hard in Australia to see how the politicisation of childhood as a time of life is wielded by power hungry politicians. Children—simultaneously too innocent to scroll instagram and always already potentially delinquent with ‘adult’ consequences required.

As the book reviews editor for @jich.bsky.social, this is good advice! If you would like to review a recently published book in the field of imperial, colonial or Commonwealth history (broadly defined), do get in touch! We published 32 reviews in 2025 and already have more lined up.

The article I wrote with Gemma Carey has been placed in an issue, so one last promotion: dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol...

Christmas has begun at Chateau de Bromfield, which we traditionally mark with the adding of grog to mixed fruit etc

Thanks Daniel and Al for a great panel and presentations! I presented on work in progress with Neil Mortimer 👇 This builds upon our recent @ausjpa.bsky.social paper and new framework for understanding crisis policy learning: doi.org/10.1111/1467...

My DECRA application was successful!! I can't wait to start my research and look forward to exploring how central women’s voices, women’s issues, women's histories and women voters have been to not only Australian political history but also to our cultural history. Bring it on! 😁 #DECRA26 #AusPol

Sincere posting for a second: I really had a great time teaching SOSS3008 Globalisation and Policy Making this term at UNSW. Really reminded me of how much I enjoy and value being in a room with engaged undergrads - great energy ❤️

One for the planners and political scientists out there: I'm working interrogating local government through a representative democracy lens and I'm finding a real lack of Australian research. Most has either focused on amalgamations and NPM, deliberative democracy or "planning democracy". Any leads?

Two job rejections in as many business days - life’s looking up 🫠

Not me working for a good chunk of the morning on a superseded version of the draft 🫠

Can’t wait for yanks to discover the cultural delights of the Caxton Hotel

I just don't understand the US obsession* with debating. It's useful in school and fun at uni but in no context ever is it some sort of path to truth or source of knowledge because it's adversarial and zero sum. open.spotify.com/episode/3uwU...

I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season

The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...

FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...

It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election. It's also Open Access! #AusPol @eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social

Reposting for the afternoon crew 🌇

🚨 Publication alert 🚨 Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning. Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly. 🧵

Heard you were making sandwiches for the kid

Who would have thought writing up the findings of your 130 paper qual systematic review with 30+ subthemes would be slow and laborious 🫠

Thinking is an embodied process. Understanding is fleshy. Insight is visceral. GenAI's creators imagine consciousness as a kind of computational output instead of an emergent activity of situated bodies in relation - but ofc they do, capitalists hate bodies & the west loves a body/mind dualism

In today’s exercise in touching grass, I top dressed my back lawn