Man pool nuggets are probably the most delicious food out there

NEW PAPER: What happens if you create a committee for the future? Its members bring future focused speech back with them to plenary. Now out in Legislative Studies Quarterly, written together w/ bluesky-less Vesa Koskimaa doi.org/10.1111/lsq.... (1/n)

NEW SUBMISSION CATEGORY ADDED! AJPS invites Reform Notes from practitioners and/or academics that set out proposed innovations about (or relevant to) aspects of Australian politics practice - e.g. proposals for or modifications to existing political institutions, procedures, laws and practices 1/4

I'm not ashamed to admit I'm a lawn appreciator. Look at the work from the ANU groundskeepers on this! It was a massive muddy puddle two or three years ago. Bravo

New edited volume just dropped! Quantitative History of China: State Capacity, Institutions, and Development edited by Chen Zhiwu, myself, and Ma Debin is now able as a free PDF/ePub download. 1/2 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Canberra libs wouldn't want more than 10 members anyway because they would run out of fingers to run the numbers

dear me

I’m honoured to be featured alongside some of Australia’s biggest names in wonkdom in the summer issue of Inflection Points. My paper is the culmination of 4 years work on declining civic participation — and why other researchers into the phenomenon have a blind spot for political parties.

Some very interesting #auspol results on contributors to the housing crisis & policy preferences from the MQ Housing and Urban Research Centre that show a strong partisan split Results are also filtered by age, housing tenure & property investment in the report www.mq.edu.au/__data/asset...

Recast this with 65 year Olds and I'm sold

Absolutely nothing to see here www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

It's a banger www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The institutional equivalent of a slow motion train crash www.afr.com/politics/fed...

see also a new pre-print on the same type of network from Eve Cheng and myself: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

very interesting work on bipartite graphs. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ellmer, an absolutely incredible piece of software. ellmer.tidyverse.org

Always thought provoking. Never thought about freedom of speech as the Socratic method of liberalism. Thank you @clothedvillainy.bsky.social substack.com/@clothedvill...

I’ll go first. I like to celebrate by announcing the return of the Electoral Regulation Research Network working paper series! With yours truly as its editor (with Dr Eden Blazejak, and Dr Peta Stephenson) If you’ve got an idea for a short paper, get in touch!! law.unimelb.edu.au/centres/errn...

Happy International Day of Democracy everybody! How do you celebrate it? www.un.org/en/observanc...

Parliamentary Library hosting a lecture on AI and civic participation [15 September] events.teams.microsoft.com/event/5ecd00...

An important and intuitive intervention. Some universities (not Australian ones I don’t think) allow key positions like chancellor to be elected by alumni, staff and students. The democratic design of Australian universities (imo) do have accountability loops, but they are too narrow…

Light rail, but evil

gantt charting my way to Final Victory

The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el... Here’s a summary thread: 1/

How do the Teals actually vote in parliament? Do they resemble a party in this way? @palesl.bsky.social has the answers in this new research note in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social @auspsa.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

sorry albo's trousers are ludicrous.

My old man was in PR and he always used to say to me: “son, if you ever embarrass yourself publicly, maybe some sort of embarrassing farting moment for example, what is most important is that you keep talking about the embarrassing thing. Own the narrative”

Per the UK Supreme Court: "The UKSC has a total of 12 Justices, there are 9 men and 2 women, they come from a variety of legal backgrounds but have all been practising barristers at one stage." www.supremecourt.uk/uploads/the_...

An interesting AND important research question you say?? Well I never

If anyone wants to write a food/class paper I can absolutely improve on the measurement job here. I’m completely certain “soft serve with gold leaf” is not aligning like this survey thinks it is.

that's right i got no class.

Please take the time to read and sign this open letter addressing CASS PhD & Masters students' concerns with the upcoming restructures of our college! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just been caught lifting leftover cake from a morning tea. The ignominy

I love media

Absolutely brilliant interview with Helen Thompson of Cambridge Uni by the @irishtimes.com on the complex geopolitical relations between the US and China, and how those impact Europe, and how they're changing US politics. @irishtimes.com

Really missing Helen Thompson’s political analysis at the moment. These Times finishing up was a real blow to the Helen Heads out there. Hope she finishes her new book/starts a new podcast soon!

Giving me baby a hair mask because he deserves it

Try aiming at the stumps

Wow ok what a repudiation of bazball already

Amazing work on mapping ideological positions across institutions (and with german, non-US data). How to Place Non-Majoritarian Institutions and Political Actors in a Common Policy Space: Spatial Modeling of Court–Executive Interactions | JOP www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

You heard it people. It’s a wonderful package. The possibilities are limited only by your imagination (in the context of comprehensive data on Australian parliamentarians since federation) github.com/palesl/ausph

Great to see the Lowy Institute establishing an India program. And they’re seeking someone to lead it. www.lowyinstitute.org/about/careers

Mary Fowler’s bf Nathan Cleary having a decent one tonight.

More excellent 49.2 content: @phoebehayman.bsky.social examines political participation in teal independents' campaigns - are they outsiders challenging established power, or are they replicating elite dynamics? #OzStudies #auspol #WomenInPolitics #teals tinyurl.com/4aacnp7a

I wish I’d been taught that publishing rigorously conducted null studies is actually essential for the health of science and the extra scrutiny we give to studies with null outcomes stems from unconscious bias. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18199864/ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21098355/

Just learned that econ departments will spend the equivalent of a senior faculty member every year on journal submission fees. Completely unhinged discipline.

This is Tilly, a lovely dog looking for a home. If you are interested in having a dog in your house, please get in touch and I'll put you in touch.

Hey gang, is anyone in Sydney or surrounds looking to adopt a dog? Long story made short, a friend is in a position where they have to rehome their lovely dog. I've met her, she's super sweet, well trained, but also young, with young dog energy. I have two dogs, and if I had space, I'd take her.

Can’t believe I’ve done this. Rainy public holiday weekend Saturday afternoon at Costco. Welcome to my own personal hell.