And paper accepted! 🥳

Eep! 😬

Sent my skinny Levi’s to goodwill today 😭 Probably the best for all of us tbh tho

Angry / sad white boys need to get off the internet and make angry / sad white boy music again

Not me chasing snafus in my systematic review notes and drawing a PRISMA diagram in PPT, then battling to copy it to Word all day 🙃

I just voted [1] James Blackwell, [2] Alexander (Sasha) Mikheyev. If you're an ANU academic, I'd encourage you to do the same

Are you an ANU faculty member? You can vote for me to be your representative on Council! Running as the NTEU endorsed candidate, I want to be a voice for transparency & good governance! See my statement and info, voting is open for 1 month here; apollo.anu.edu.au/default.asp?...

Any higher ed workers have a good clause in your EA you could share? One that gave you a bit of leverage where needed, that improved conditions, or gave staff more say over change management or workload? I am helping run some log of claims meetings this week and would love some examples to share

Australia's universities are blighted by a "culture of consequence-free, rotten failure", according to the former chair of a senate inquiry examining governance at public universities. ... "There's no other sector in the country where failure is rewarded so handsomely and with so little scrutiny."

Another day, another job rejection 🙃

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Australian universities are in a governance crisis. VC pay blowouts, scandals, mission drift — these aren’t random, they’re structural. This new working paper with @marijataflaga.bsky.social & Keith Dowding digs into why the system is broken, and how to fix it. doi.org/10.25911/MWW... A thread:

Not to be all ‘kids these days etc’ but it concerns me to see boys who can’t be older than about 13 in the gym and lifting on a Saturday morning 😳

Very sad to see another Australian journal go down the drain. I hope the upswell of sentiment this decision has brought about can lead to a rethink by MUP.

Meanjin has (had 😭) two - TWO - part time staff members. I'd be willing to bet my dinner that the cost of supporting Meanjin is less than what a single top 15 executive at Uni Melb makes in a year

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

R&R back with minor revisions requested. Onwards!

Checking in on What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? doi.org/10.1111/spol... And super pleased to see it crack 1000 views and receive its first cite. Not bad for a paper released late April 2025 😊 Appreciate the engagement from youse all.

ANU and the Search Foundation are offering a PhD with $100,000 top up to complete the final (1970-91) volume of the history of the Communist Party of Australia. 👇

I wrote a short summary of our latest article here for those interested in quickly understanding the main beats and implications of our research with LGBTQ+ enabling students 🎓🌈

with what's been going on at ANU, UTS, Macquarie, etc. seems like an appropriate time to again post this 2021 study. Gives some good hints as to where some alternative savings might be found link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A brief statement on my resignation from ANU Council.

Bishop and Churchill have shamelessly denied allegations made against them and the VC, but members of the ANU community all know who is speaking the truth and who cannot be trusted. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Come and join all of us and the Chair of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, @garethbryant.bsky.social as host of the 18th Annual E.L. 'Ted' Wheelwright Memorial Lecture that will be given by Raewyn Connell | 10 September 2025 | Sign up for the free lecture in the link below

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

I have now been asked 3 times by the same journal to review the same paper (I have declined each time). I even took the time to tell the editors I wouldn't review it as I've already reviewed & rejected it for another journal. How much is enough? 😥 #AcademicSky

Just a reminder for #historians that I am constantly updating this list of *online* and *open access* collections of radical historical documents. Nearly 1000 listed from around the world in many languages! hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

I don’t need all of you to burn through a few more lakes to show me ChatGPT 5 is, indeed, as shit as the versions before.

If you’re interested in the history of freedom of speech on university campuses and academic freedom in the UK, please see my book!

Hey ma! Get off the dang roof!

Had the pleasure of reviewing Civic Engagement in Australian Democracy for the AJPH. Excellent chapters on compulsory and early voting, the Voice referendum and the role of the public, judges and NGOs in democracy - check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It is 2025, and someone *now* is preparing to publish an 1850s pastoralist’s diary *editing out* all the coded bits where he describes murdering Yamatji people. In 2025. But sure, let’s hear more about how the Great Australian Silence is over.

Yes yes, ik, ik - working on the weekend is verboten but I wanted to get this done. With a v nice glass of Hunter Valley chardy in hand, last night I finished reading and coding 160 papers, completing the review. AI haters will be glad to know that this was all actual close reading and hand coding

Waiting, hoping, crossing all my fingers for my latest co-authored paper under R&R and awaiting a decision in manuscript central. Been working on it for 18 months and I think my best yet 🤞🤞🤞

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MQ sending me alumni emails really sticks in the throat considering management is planning to eliminate my undergrad double major of politics and sociology 😒

Words cannot express the horror and despair of this calamity. The genocide must stop

Our 2024 paper on the experiences of professionals who work with under 65s in residential aged care has just been assigned an issue in Disability and Society. #ndis

My newest paper in the Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law asks a simple question - how is administrative work shifting as we move towards technology-generated interactions, where there is no one around to help us through administrative processes? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This table is largely from Mike Davis *Ecology of Fear* from @versobooks.bsky.social But I’ve put together a thumbnail comparison on the last two lines with 1) the cost of the 2025 Palisades Fire and 2) the 2020 Black Summer in Australia. Look at the magnitude of territory and death.

I read this article and it makes some good points, esp. re. diversifying. But a large part of this issue surely is the erosion of stable academic positions, making precarious people difficult to tap for peer review and overwhelming the few with stable positions? blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Here it is!!! I wrote an explainer for The Ethics Centre on moral panics ethics.org.au/whos-afraid-...

I've enjoyed blogging as inquiry again. It's been too long. I read and play around with ideas that may inform some sociological theorising. I'm going to continue with Marxist approaches to technology by reading this next

🚨 A reminder regarding the APSA T&L Workshop on AI and Digital Literacy in Political Studies: submissions are due this Friday 25 July! 🚨 Support to attend is available for ECRs and education-focused academics too. Please do share here and amongst your networks.