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Erin McAuliffe

@erincmca.bsky.social
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Working in public policy + design // PhD student @ PoliMi // 🇦🇺 in 🇮🇹, prev 🇸🇬 // she/her

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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
From a quick look online, there's no sense of what 'Progress' is (I could guess at their politics), but interesting to see a clear link from simulator/game to a specific call to action. And important, as always, to remember that design can be used as a means towards many ends.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
An interesting thing to note about the Nick, 30 ans 'game' (nicksimulator.com) is that it tries to move the player into political action. My PhD research looked at the bridge from artistic/design activism to policy change - something that rarely went beyond general movement vibes.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
It's not badly designed if it's designed to be bad
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a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
ALT: a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Unsurprisingly, the same collective energy among senior Global North scholars to find safe harbours (officially or unofficially) for US colleagues and their work hasn't been there for colleagues from fragile and conflict-affected states, or authoritarian contexts... Decolonising the academy, eh? 🤔
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The answer was @j-rosen.bsky.social Basefront app by the way! Can’t recommend it enough.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I am heartened that M*A*S*H made the cut, and it's in exactly the right spot.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Meanwhile, despite the pleading of The Whitlams 25 years ago, we still haven't blown up the pokies: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Vulnerable Australians ‘force-fed’ gambling and alcohol ads on Facebook, report finds
Study highlights ‘predatory marketing practices’ of companies who target people at high risk of gambling or alcohol-related harm
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
What's the literature that covers 'making an issue out of something that wasn't one, then proposing as a policy response something that both is technically unfeasible and will be wildly unpopular in the year before an election'? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australia to ban under-16s from social media – but can’t say how TikTok, Instagram and others will enforce it
Meta says it will comply if required, but the technology is not ready to enforce proposed age limit across up to 40 apps
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
Melbourne really has it in for performers: www.rova.nz/articles/som...
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'Someone's getting fired': Haley Williams sings pass-agg improv song after tech issue on stage | Articles
"Beyonce did it, so we can too!
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Looking forward to a future where people use AI to complete surveys (the focus of the linked paper), researchers use AI to analyse the results and write the paper, and readers use AI to TL;DR summarise it...all while consuming huge amounts of resources. osf.io/preprints/so...
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OSF
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Much appreciated though only if it’s not a bother. (Sparkly GeoCities gifs might helpfully distract from my content…)
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Look, at this point I’m thinking to just go full GeoCities, which was coincidentally the last time I had to make website (but thank you, I’ll check it out!)
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
One of the tech types: I have collected a number of cases during my research, currently sitting in an Airtable, that I'd like to turn into a website with some ability to filter by different categories/tags. Any suggestions as to the best no/low-code tool to use?
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
(Not all hope is lost, of course. At least one should live in on another form, smuggling policy innovation under new funding mechanisms from a different level of government...and with a salary to finally recognise the immense amount of work that has been put in.)
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
Currently in the depths of writing my thesis, and rereading transcripts from my fieldwork in Denmark. The hidden truth of policy entrepreneurship is that most efforts don't succeed, but reflecting on the energy of these young people and potential of their ideas when I now know how things ended is 💔
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
But no doubt will want you to start within a week if successful
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
I think of your posts and this printer every time my POS inkjet fails to do its once-a-quarter job.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Does anyone I know have institutional access to the Picture Post magazine historical archive (via Gale)? Asking for me, as I fall down the rabbit hole of this one anecdote I want to include in my writing.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
Everyone who's joined with a code I've shared through it has been, but beyond that I can't help.
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Tomorrow I will present my paper 'Thinking Outside the Circle: Moving beyond the policy cycle in design for policy' at #RSD12, sharing some thoughts and WIP from my PhD on what inspiration design might take from theories of the policy process, esp re policy entrepreneurship. (Proceedings to follow!)
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Erin McAuliffe @erincmca.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
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