Reposted by Adam HannahLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 10/07/2026If I have to know about Graham Platner then every American should have to know about Mark Latham. I’m not joking. 1234587
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 08/05/2026So cool how universities globally are reliant on these expensive platforms that are generally a worse experience for all than running everything via a course email inbox would be. 000
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Well there’s my new example for next time I’m teaching about the horrors of first past the post 100
Reposted by Adam HannahLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 04/02/2026Instead of every writer starting their own newsletter for subscriptions, what if we bundled those bits of writing into regular collections released periodically, and they could share common editors and production. It could be a ‘magazine’ 1203
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2025This is a disastrous decision, to save what would be less than pocket change in the context of a state budget. VicHealth has been a world leader in preventative health, and should be seen if anything as even more important given the pressures on the health system. 102
Reposted by Adam HannahPolicy and Society @policysociety.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Why should we care about (a specific form of) #MalignPolicymaking - #IllegalAction by the state❓ @adamjhannah.bsky.social & Linda Botterill study the #Robodebt scandal in #Australia & discuss how the government avoided Parliamentary and media oversight👇 doi.org/10.1093/pols... 043
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Hypocrisy perhaps, given I used to teach US politics for a living but: you do not have to pay attention to this stuff and most people would better off ignoring 99% of what goes on there. Australian media‘s obsessive coverage, especially the ABC, does everyone a disservice. 150
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 11/09/2025📘New article on the Robodebt case focusing on legal advice. The short version: with pressure to automate and AI-ify everything, legal protections are critical. We cannot assume policymakers and administrators will act in good faith and legal advice should be a "brake" with real force. 141
Reposted by Adam Hannahwill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 20/08/2025call for no more papers 219545
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 19/08/2025We need to address the real drag on Australia’s productivity: too many people wasting time talking about productivity. 3527
Reposted by Adam HannahDeva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 14/06/2025I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power. 5248031766
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Highly recommend this new article from Daniel and Maria Maley – fascinating use of FOI requests to see if agencies have learned anything from Robodebt. 154
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 23/05/2025And here is the third article in our upcoming Robodebt SI, by my wonderful new colleague Sarah Ball. Sarah highlights a "culture of technical rationality" that has hollowed out expertise and ethical capacity in the APS and contributed to the "administrative evil" of Robodebt doi.org/10.1080/1036...doi.orgDoing the right thing, not just doing the thing right: the importance of explicitly ethical policy adviceThe Robodebt Royal Commission highlighted the Australian Public Service’s (APS) role in designing and delivering a programme that caused significant harm to vulnerable people. The APS’s actions wen... 131
Reposted by Adam HannahHelen Dickinson @hdicko.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Just out from me and @annekavanagh.bsky.social - The government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need support theconversation.com/the-governme...theconversation.comThe government wants to contain NDIS growth. But ineligible people with disability also need supportAs the government seeks to moderate growth of the scheme budget, some NDIS participants are finding they are no longer eligible for the scheme. 198
Reposted by Adam HannahLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 15/05/2025I bloğued: Accomplishments orangejuiceandryvita.com/234/accompli... #blogorangejuiceandryvita.comAccomplishments | Orange Juice & RyvitaThe teals have an accomplishment-based ideology 6126
Reposted by Adam HannahLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 10/05/2025It would absolutely be Australian media all over if the first we heard of a major regional war between nuclear powers in the subcontinent was a bunch of Australian cricketers getting killed in it 3458
Reposted by Adam HannahNicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 28/04/2025🚨 What can be learned at the intersection of crisis management & administrative burdens? is out now and open access! 🚨 Written with the v much missed @gemcarey.bsky.social. For folks researching crisis management, admin burden, disability & the NDIS. Short 🧵 with link 👇 1108
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 07/05/2025New article (open access): Linda Botterill and I try to make sense of the strategically ignorant behaviour of senior leaders during Robodebt fiasco. This is part of an upcoming special issue co-edited by Sarah Ball and myself on the administrative and social harms of the scheme.tandfonline.comIgnoring harm, saving face: non-knowledge, senior public servants and the Robodebt schemePolicy-making is well-known to be characterised by the boundedly rational and selective use of knowledge. However, the decision-making and knowledge manipulation which characterised the Robodebt sc... 262
Reposted by Adam HannahRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/05/2025vaccines are maybe the coolest thing we ever figured out. they are more impressive by a wide margin than the moon landing. We have never done anything better with our capacity for genius 181230169
Reposted by Adam HannahWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 28/04/2025Online radicalisation of elites is a significant and yet poorly understood aspect of contemporary politics. 392389391
Reposted by Adam HannahCambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/04/2025New Cambridge Element 'Bad Public Policy: Malignity, Volatility and the Inherent Vices of Policymaking' by @howlettm.bsky.social, Ching Leong & @timlegrand.bsky.social out now. Read #OpenAccess here - cup.org/44g9MFT #cambridgeelements #politics 0108
Reposted by Adam HannahSouthern Jacobin @thomas26july.bsky.social · 05/04/2025For those keeping track we now have 1 post presidency W for Obama 345413
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Time to start shifting international conferences away from the US. There’s plenty of other places with hotels and auditoriums. 010
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Reciprocal tariffs, do it Albo. A can of American soda should cost like $12. 010
Reposted by Adam Hannahryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 27/02/20251 more point on literacy: it's a disaster that the inner workings of the US government are incredibly complicated and illogical (filibuster, reconciliation, Electoral College, etc). parliaments work better bc dipshits can pick a party that sounds good and see that legibly translated into outcomes 15837104
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Losing track of my second gen iPod is one of my biggest (device) regrets. We had perfection and threw it all away for streaming. 010
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 13/02/2025The FT continues to be the anglosphere’s only good newspaper 000
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Been noticing this also. Coverage from traditional news is often "look isn't this interesting!" no matter the topic. The best coverage, coming from non-traditional news or independent blogs, gives clear description what is happening, who is doing it, what the implications are. E.g:techdirt.comA 25-Year-Old Is Writing Backdoors Into The Treasury’s $6 Trillion Payment System. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?Just months after we learned Chinese hackers had compromised US telecom systems through government-mandated backdoors, an inexperienced developer from Musk’s DOGE unit is pushing untested cod… 100
Reposted by Adam HannahWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The NYT and WaPo should be carrying 100 pieces like this. 2157
Reposted by Adam HannahAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 31/01/2025No, I do not think we should use gAI to build literature reviews, and we definitely shouldn't be teaching faculty how to do this, this is not just some fancy new search engine, what on earth is wrong with you and why are you doing this ffs 301237176
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 21/01/2025When the NTY house style gets embedded so deep you can’t see what is right in front of you. 060
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 12/12/2024They say the prices are turning people off smoking, but a cigarette and cup of instant coffee is maybe $2.50 and I'm out here paying 6 bucks for a flat white. 120
Reposted by Adam HannahLizzy Acker @lizzyacker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Writing is the good part. Can AI do the dishes? Then I will use AI for that. 0225
Reposted by Adam HannahAnne Oeldorf-Hirsch @anneo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Is anyone else just *not interested* in using AI for their writing? All accuracy and morality aside, I just don't want to. I want every last word I put on a page to have flowed out from my own body. Maybe I'm romanticizing it, but I just can't see it any other way. 1943560608
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024If I'm interpreting this correctly, NZ Govt has cut all social science and humanities out of their version of ARC Discovery. Backwards and destructive for so many reasons, but I'm sure we will soon see copycat proposals to do the same in Australia. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...rnz.co.nzGovernment's Marsden Fund cuts: All humanities, social sciences research funding slashedCutting all research funding for the fields is a massive step backwards, critics say. 000
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 04/12/2024They’ve spent a gajillion dollars on this and the only meaningful impacts have been a) Facebook AI slop and b) screwing up university assessment forever. Big shout out to all the credulous tech journalists for enabling it, thanks guys! 020
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 03/12/2024CDs were (and are) the peak way to listen to music. Even aside from the bad economics of streaming, having access to every song ever on your phone is a terrible idea. 210
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Grill’s was doing this when I worked there in *2008*. I suspect strategy of using the fake Cert III to underpay staff has been a not insignificant factor in the expansion of the business. 100
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Emma was one of the kindest and most generous scholars you'd ever meet. A huge loss. 010
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Kingsmillism is a guiding ideology of the Australian academy too - e.g. the fake meritocracy of competitive research funding endlessly rewards seniority. 140
Reposted by Adam HannahBen Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024My university has 16 executives paid more than our state premier :/ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comMore than 300 Australian university executives make more money than state premiers, report revealsUnion says average vice-chancellor gets paid almost double the prime minister, with salaries seemingly ‘plucked from thin air’ 2324795
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 18/11/2024media.tenor.coma tennis court with a net that says atptour on itALT: a tennis court with a net that says atptour on it 020
Reposted by Adam HannahAndré Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I feel like a lot of the discourse about echo chambers and bubbles misses the point of why most people are on social media: to talk to people they like and follow people who post interesting things It's not a bloody debating club 1924433
Reposted by Adam HannahWild Geerters @steinkobbe.bsky.social · 15/11/2024You can be a guy that claims WiFi causes brain cancer and vaccines cause autism and this is how you'll get covered by mainstream press 331355282
Adam Hannah @adamjhannah.bsky.social · 14/11/2024RFK as HHS Secretary may kill a lot of people, but it will also help public health academics publish more articles, so it's impossible to say whether it's bad or not. 110
Reposted by Adam HannahPeter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13/11/2024fundamentally this is what Trump administrations are all about: the guys. there will be new guys every week. they will startle you, you'll be astounded by them, and then as quickly as they appeared they will fade into an indistinguishable mass, leaves on the forest floor. 18584151192