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Zack Furness @punkademic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hopping on for a quick second just to share news that my partner @daniellemaggio.bsky.social got a contract with @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social to do a UK version of her fabulous forthcoming book on @feministpress.bsky.social called Game is Her Middle Name: The Life & Music of Betty Davis

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ofc I left my book back in my hotel room 🙃

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

And now have a complete draft. *SO MUCH* work to do from here, but feels good to get over this initial hurdle.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I love New Order and this isn’t a new observation, but Bernard Sumner is not the lyricist that Ian Curtis was, is he

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

When I come to Melb, I like to go to this Korean fried chicken joint and their ‘schooner’ always make me smile at the chutzpah ($2 coin for scale)

Tiny beer, purportedly a 425ml schooner, on a table. $2 coin for scale

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Me every time a lecture takes a whole day (or more) to write

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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 19/08/2026

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

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Racism and labor at Bates: the other side of the story

Andrew Baker responds to Tyler Austin Harper

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Been sick for a week, better get cracking on the work I’m behind on! Computer: lol no, fuck you. Let me crash and refuse to boot.

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Monkey Working

ALT: Monkey Working

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Really don’t understand why a journal wouldn’t share reviews with all listed authors, both via email and in its submission portal. Anyways I guess I’ll hurry up and wait for my co-author to check their email when they get back from leave

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Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Something not been discussed much yet is the brand of diversity talk, esp around race, that Arday propagated, one entirely unthreatening & entirely palatable to neoliberal managers. It's pernicious in its own right, though he's hardly the only such. Perhaps that's a conversation for another day.

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Dr. Garrett Schumann @garrt.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Music in the twenty-first century is going to be so poorly documented for future scholars/curious people both because there are so few organized publication, digital and physical, and everything digital is so fragile and impermanent

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Nuked all my inboxes and achieved inbox 0

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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 16/07/2026

I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Not me once again singing the alphabet song in my head as I insert cites into my reference list...

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SML Jackie Chu Teaches ABCs

ALT: SML Jackie Chu Teaches ABCs

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Sometimes you read the comments left by other reviewers on the papers you peer-reviewed, and you're like: did we read the same paper?

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Doing some vagueposting again, but got some good news today that I am v pleased about. I hope to be able to share with youse all soon

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Rapid Punching Stephen Gilchrist Glover

ALT: Rapid Punching Stephen Gilchrist Glover

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

After emptying my recycling, Clive Palmer’s recent pamphlet remained stuck to the crud on the bottom and I’m sure there’s a tortured metaphor somehow here

Clive Palmer pamphlet, stuck to the bottom of a bin

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 02/06/2026

Completely serious about this: one reason I have gotten so obsessed with woodturning? **It gives me back control of my attention**. I don't look at my phone, I'm not having my focus deliberately coopted by corporate algorithms that want to make me angry - and suddenly four hours have passed.

A large piece of Huon Pine on a wood lathe being turned using a skew chisel.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Recently made a huge batch of mac n cheese for a get together (this is 1 of 2 trays), and was going to hand grate the kilos of cheese with a box grater until @shanavyre.bsky.social pointed out we had a food processor that could do that

One gronk and the most beautiful woman in the world standing over a big old tray of mac n cheese. We look slightly crazed because we’ve been cooking for 24hrs by this point in time.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Taking a wee social media break for a week, maybe two. Shoot me an email to my unimelb address if on the off chance you need me. Cheers

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Man Says Peace Out and Disappears

ALT: Man Says Peace Out and Disappears

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Annoying to pay good $$$ for an out of print academic book, only for it to arrive with the bargain bin price still on it 🙃

Book with $2.29 goodwill sticker on the cover: Policy Change and Learning: an Advocacy Coalition Approach

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Pat Leslie @palesl.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Just exactly the thing all the experts said would happen happened. You won’t turn poets into physicists with financial incentives.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I got 99 problems but for the purposes of demonstrating the academic and industry impact of my work to future employers, this paper ain't one

One of my papers with 99 cites on google scholar

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Got a whole thread of them here bsky.app/profile/nich...

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

In my own workflow, field notes are not a preliminary step but part of the writing process itself. My #Free2DownloadAndRead article explains how I design fieldnotes to encourage me to produce text: "Writing Field Notes and Using Them to Prompt Scholarly Writing" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Today at 2:30, @kfullagar.bsky.social and I will be giving evidence in the Senate inquiry into Job-Ready Graduates on behalf of the AHA. This failed policy is bad for history and history students and it must go. The hearings are live-streamed if you’d like to watch: www.aph.gov.au/News_and_Eve...

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Watch, Read, Listen

Subscribe to our channel at @AUSParliamentLive to view the streams or listen to our podcast summaries of Question Time! LIVE STREAMING PARLVIEW VOD PODCASTING

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Lit the smoker and did some beef ribs today. Enjoying them a lot more now I realised you can just serve them like sliced brisket rather than caveman-style whole on the rib and dying trying to eat about 500g of super rich beef

Plate: sliced smoked beef ribs, slaw and a wedge of corn bread

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Pat Leslie @palesl.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Two new papers out this week from our ARC Discovery project on agenda-setting in the High Court of Australia. A thread. @anucrawfordschool.bsky.social

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

This obsession that some researchers seem to have with academic productivity is slowly eroding my faith in the academic enterprise. “I want AI to do the grunt work so I have more time to think and write.” News flash: you won’t. The grunt work is part and parcel of the research process.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just posting this again for #historians 🗃️ I’ve really enjoyed hearing about people’s papers that have gone under the radar

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

A bit sad "From British Australasia to Federation: No Linear Progression" has no cites yet. It's one of my best: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi... And "Australia and the Secretive Exploitation of the Chatham Islands to 1842" is better than my more-cited Chathams work: doi.org/10.1080/1444...

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Want to know what really went on inside Aus Covid governance? We draw upon interview data with PM Morrison, Health Minister Hunt and CMOs Murphy and Kelly + a host of senior bureaucrats and experts and put forward a new framework for understanding policy learning doi.org/10.1111/1467...

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Crisis micro‐learning: A framework for understanding the micro‐flow of policy learning and Australia's COVID‐19 response

COVID-19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro-level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal-type fr...

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Today is the birthday of that great American, Merle Haggard--and also the day he died. If you don't know much about him--or think you do!--you should read this short and amazing book. It happens to have been written by my partner but it is truly profound, I promise.

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Classic should of been an email. The bloke made me set up the laptop to watch as I cooked dinner 😒

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Adam Wellstead @amwellstead.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Open access...new from me. www.emerald.com/pap/article/...

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Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I am a big fan of the guys (of all genders) who go to the used record store and then post photos of their haul here with a caption that always reads “uh oh guys I went to the used record store”

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I have a joke about a conference paper, but it doesn’t have a conclusion yet

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My research note on using ChatGPT/LLMs in teaching has somehow hit 10 citations in less than two years! A side project has become my most cited piece. An example of teaching lead research. @ausjpa.bsky.social #chatgpt onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Wrote my first Conversation article on truth in political advertising in South Australia! Based on my book chapter, it's the first time I've done something like this and ended up on WA radio. Not too bad for a day at work. theconversation.com/south-austra...

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South Australians have truth in political advertising laws. Why doesn’t everyone else?

The laws are time-consuming and labour-intensive to uphold. But their mere presence can elevate the tone of political campaigns.

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Raewyn Connell @raewynconnell.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Good beginning: Full house at the launch of my new book "Trans Lives" at Gleebooks in Sydney, with Eloise Brook and Sophie Cotton. Thanks to Eloise and Sophie, to @gleebooks.bsky.social, and to all who came!

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Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Totally understand the gen z reaction against millennial skinny jeans. But as an elder millennial who lived thru baggy then skinny jeans: both can look v silly. Consider the blend into shoes and your shoe choice. Big skate shoes were the choice in the late 90s for a reason!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Looking forward to the era of AI social science: the data is AI-generated, the paper is written by AI, the paper is reviewed by AI, and summarized for students and researchers by AI.

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