Photos from this kids’ colouring book has been labelled “adult content”…. Is it because a cartoon person is in Y fronts? Or because it’s Reagan???

Kids are bored? Longing for the days of Ronald Reagan? Imagining Reagan in Y-fronts? Wonder no more with Ronald Reagan Paper Dolls in Full Color! @ronaldreagan.bsky.social @kevinbaron.bsky.social thought you’d like this!

Important #Chanukah announcement. You can freeze sufganiyot dough before you fry them. Then just let them defrost and they are ready to fry!

If you are looking for somewhere to donate to the victims of the antisemitic terror attack in Bondi, this is the official communal appeal donate.thedorfoundation.org.au/bondi-beach-...

Second night channukah, with 4 other families. Loudly and proudly Jewish.

Applied for #fifaworldcup tickets!

Great to see this out in the world! My entry, on letters to leaders, is available here dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

A year+ after the #Robodebt Royal Commission emphasised the importance of putting advice in writing, and @APS_Commission head Gordon de Brouwer seems to be defending putting advice on sticky notes... Is the APS learning? Seems not. doi.org/10.1080/1350... (w/ @mariamaley.bsky.social)

Great panel @auspsa.bsky.social yesterday discussing AI/ChatGPT in teaching, with Blair Williams, Diane Perche, Rob Manwaring @mussagulova.bsky.social and Narelle Miragliotta. I’ve written about my experience with this in @ausjpa.bsky.social

Great to present this paper using FOI to explore how/if Aus Gov agencies learnt anything from Robodebt at @auspsa.bsky.social yesterday on a panel with @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social and Al Stark discussing policy learning and anticipation

Teaching is hard. Particularly in the age of GenAI. But it matters. To improve trust and engagement in universities, we need to focus on the quality of our teaching. As part of my desire to improve my teaching, I've recently finished the @advancehe.bsky.social fellowship program.

What do Aus and UK MPs say to their constituents in their e-newsletters? On @dcinbox.bsky.social Substack we talk about CanberraInbox and UK MP Inbox dcinboxinsights.substack.com/p/dcinbox-go...

Conference season coming up! My 1st paper at @auspsa.bsky.social (with @pandanuspetter.bsky.social and @thiagonsilva.bsky.social) will look at who takes the spotlight in #auspol Question Time. Is QT becoming more personalised?

At the my kids’ school Senior Production. Came with a warning about “adult themes”…. Yep, two characters are competing for tenure! Couldn’t get more adult than that! Can you guess what the show is….

This is your periodic reminder that you can add coffee stains to your LaTeX documents.

Me, when my favourite articles haven’t been cited by anyone….

That’s me! Come and listen

Almost in tears, waiting...

I put this up at work 10 months ago. I’m looking forward to taking them down on Tuesday. #bringthemhome

Story today about unis relying on Turnitin to detect AI. My research last year (@ausjpa.bsky.social) where students were required to use ChatGPT to produce policy briefs showed that Turnitin produced a lot of false negatives: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

With all of this news of AI slop from Deloitte, it’s worth remembering that in this study, even my undergrads could see how poorly AI produced policy advice @ausjpa.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

This dual framing is really important, because it also reflects how Jews are both white and not-white; promoters of communism and evil bankers.

Hi hive-mind. I'm looking for info on who owns letters sent by public to Aus MPs in their *legislative* capacity (i.e. excluding ministerial capacity)? My understanding is that they own them in their personal capacity? @auspublawblog.bsky.social @jeremygans.bsky.social

As usually AI search results (from Bing) are really awful! I was hoping to attend the first @jawspolisci.bsky.social seminar, so needed to check the time in Australia. Unfortunately Bing was out by 8hrs?? It 1pm Eastern is 3am in Syd/Canberra.

The best bit of this article is that they need to describe an “own goal” to an American audience

With #Robodebt again back in the news with the release of the SBS series #ThePeoplevsRobodebt being released, here is my paper exploring how the broader Aus Public Service engaged in learning and meaning-making after this public admin crisis.

Given all of the attention around Albo and Trump, have a look at this piece of mine on how Aus MPs deal with Trump - and Zoom in and listen to me talk about it in a few weeks time ecpr.eu/Events/332?_...

A fire at a synagogue in southwest Florida days before Rosh Hashanah is being investigated as a hate crime, police say.

I’ll be presenting this work at an @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social online workshop, Tuesday 14 October, 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST Come along! ecpr.eu/Events/332?_...

Morning walk #cbr

Important finding! Australian MPs are better at photoshop than their UK counterparts! What else Aus & UK MPs say to their constituents? Adam Ozer and I investigate. This new dataset can be used in a broad range of polsci, polcomm & policy research. theloop.ecpr.eu/politicians-...

A great new dataset of Aus & UK MPs’ communications with their constituents. These are growing, real-time corpora of elite political communication. Explore them now! @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @psabcpe.bsky.social @psaexecpolitics.bsky.social @psaepop.bsky.social @psabcpe.bsky.social

📣 Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying? 💻 @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social + @ozerthinking.bsky.social  examine new datasets which allow researchers to access every e-newsletter sent by MPs in Australia and the UK. 👉 bit.ly/3Vc2Ns4

Do I (still) know anyone from PoliSci with expertise on contemporary Hungarian 🇭🇺 politics? And who wouldn't mind me bugging them with a couple of questions over email? If we ever meet in person, I will owe you a beverage of your choice :)

Just giving this package another plug. I think I'm using it (or stuff derived from it) for about 4 different papers at the moment. We don't give enough credit to the academics developing/maintaining this crucial research infrastructure.

One week until this event!!! Register now

Australia’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Balancing Responsiveness and Responsibility? https://www.europesays.com/2371272/ President Trump has fundamentally upended the international order, forcing states to reassess their foreign policy alignment. In Australia,…

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

My new piece @E_IR, exploring why ALP MPs are strategically ignoring Trump. Are they caught between being responsive to their electorate and knowing they need to maintain the US alliance? I draw on canberrainbox.com.au to test this. www.e-ir.info/2025/08/30/a...

My new piece @E_IR, exploring why ALP MPs are strategically ignoring Trump. Are they caught between being responsive to their electorate and knowing they need to maintain the US alliance? I draw on canberrainbox.com.au to test this. www.e-ir.info/2025/08/30/a...

So, I've discovered a book on translation has cited a publication of mine... My publication is on "punctuated equilibrium" and its cited in this book in the chapter on punctuation.... I suspect the whole thing is AI written??? @grahamkendall.bsky.social thoughts?

Are there other online/virtual ECR seminars like @jawspolisci.bsky.social for polcomm / political parties? @polcomm.bsky.social @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @psaepop.bsky.social

How was your evening? On the Murrays Bus coding Australian MP’s e-newsletters from CanberraInbox! CanberraInbox.com.au

My first podcast! Voices beyond the ballot: How letters shape Australian politics With @marijataflaga.bsky.social, drawing from my thesis and recent article in @govandopp.bsky.social (shorturl.at/XMHR7). act.ipaa.org.au/ipaa-podcast/voices-beyond-the-ballot-how-letters-shape-australian-politics/

David Stratton's infamous review of The Castle (1997). He later admitted: "I obviously completely misunderstood it ... I have watched it a few times since, and I now think it’s very funny."

New on #FirstView - "Responsiveness to the Public Opinion Expressed in Letters to Political Leaders: Insights from Australia" - shorturl.at/XMHR7 by @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social

Great that @squigglyrick.bsky.social's Mean Streak is shortlisted for PM's Book Awards. He mentions the APS's failure to learn, drawing on my research (doi.org/10.1080/1350...). I've got an upcoming webinar where we discuss 'where to from here', after Robodebt more info: tinyurl.com/yndcybhb

So pleased I spent hours reporting students for academic misconduct for using ChatGPT to write their entire essay, full of fake references..... Academic integrity unit confirmed that the student DID engage in academic misconduct, with..... "no academic penalty" WHAT!

Webinar: After Robodebt – How leaders can embed a robust culture of integrity & ethics. Hear from me, Sarah Ball, David Gruen. Supported by Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, IPAA & ACU. More info and register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/acf066...