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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Ran a bit low on time but I think actually making a dimension accurate 1999 NSW Legislative Council tablecloth ballot paper really hammered it home to me just how ridiculous GVTs got.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

First in-person lecture at the University of Melbourne today on parliament. Ran a bit too over time but I think it went reasonably well. Surprisingly nervous but know how to do better. First time I've done a lecture in a lecture hall since 2019(!).

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Having a viral comment on an Instagram reel explaining to comics exploring academic journal article titles what the "sexy: utilitarian" convention of journal titles is. Can I put this in my PDR?

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Rough day at the office. It's hard not to feel like I'm not being given the pathways I need to get promoted and after having spent a week and a half marking 90 final research projects, feeling a bit fragile.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Since publishing that Conversation piece, I've done 2 radio spots, including RNZ. Still working things out, but being a performer (including open mic comedy) makes these a bit less nerve wracking than they might be.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Crazy how Labor's best ever result in seats is like the third biggest story #SAVotes

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Mali reading poetry in his victory speech is getting into very South Australian areas here at the moment.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Seeing the panel ugly laugh at the ABC response to the technical difficulties for the One Nation live cross #SAVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Jesus the ABC asking about the ankle bracelet to Nick McBride is full on #SAVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

One Nation is looking to clear the % of 1998 QLD which suggests the polls are on to something and this is real #SAVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Now they're asking the pollies their TikTok habits. We need some votes soon #SAVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I have consumed a pizza and not a vote is counted. Oops #SAVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

First time I get to see @caseybriggs.com on TV for Election analysis and I love his little platform #SAVotes

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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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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I've been telling people I've been studying/teaching politics for over a decade and I've never had any response other than "well it's an interesting time to be studying/teaching politics!"

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Gonna need to add a bit more to this work in progress, huh?

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Long weekend in Sydney was sorely needed. Ready to really get back into it.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I too am tired of GenAI, but one unintended effect is universities have to actually reckon with what they are teaching and it's revitalised education-focussed folk. I've been on the edges of APSA's Teaching and Learning Caucus when it was like, 4 people in a room. At the last APSA, it was 40.

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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Academic reviews paper citing a paper “by” reviewer that doesn’t exist. Discovers a version of the nonexistent paper in Google Scholar cited 42 times, including by a “metaanalysis”, that “gold standard” of research. The paper does not exist. Nobody citing it could have read it as it does not exist.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Education Focussed Academics: How do you deal with December? I am absolutely shattered and trying desperately to do anything of productivity and failing hard.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Although I've got that post-semester cold/flu, stumbled in to End of Year drinks masked-up and was thrilled to get an Honourable Mention for SSPS Teaching Excellence in Tutoring. This is student-nominated so I am so thankful for my students for putting me forward :)

Left hand holding a certificate that says SSPS Honourable Mention Teaching Excellence in Tutoring awarded to Dr Todd Farrell.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I enjoy conferencing. Especially because it feels like my people and nice to make good of my 20% research allocation :) #AusPSA

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I'm manning the desks at APSA this year before my talk. If I'm honest, the semester has taken its toll and I'm definitely feeling it, but really cool to welcome folks to University of Melbourne and introduce them to the joys of trying to find the George Loughlin Room in BioSciences 4 :)

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

When I am in the throes of marking, I hyperfocus on a specific song for each semester. This time around it's Wham's 'A Ray of Sunshine' BUT specifically the version they performed on The Tube in 1983. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQnI...

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Wham! - A Ray of Sunshine (Live from The Tube 1983)

YouTube video by WhamVEVO

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Academia is knowing who the guy in the box seat to be the Dutch PM is because you've been tracking him in your database of Queer MPs for 2 years and recognise his name.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

While my colleagues are doing great work as the semester winds down, I'm going to start writing up my qualitative analysis of my case study next week. Which coffee is the best at Melbourne Uni Parkville? Watch this space!

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Great two days as part of the @auspsa.bsky.social Teaching and Learning Workshop on Digital Transformation. I spoke about the incoming assured assessment policy at UniMelb and some early adoptions and challenges. All I got was this artistic photo at the lifts, but amazing talks all around :)

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I honestly think this is something we should remind our students about the power of curiosity. From STRANGE ÆONS on YouTube (www.youtube.com/@STRANGEONS)

Strange Aeons the YouTuber wearing a party hat (it's a long story) under a screen that has on it 'The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out'.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

First week back after three weeks in Europe and not gonna lie fam, the weather in Melbourne has really got to me.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Getting sick before I even started marking is just not fair.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I wonder if all the Governor's get together and pity Tasmania's Governor over like canapes because they seem to be the only one who has to semi-regularly work out who should be governing the state.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Tasmanian Government were very nice to me by losing a no-confidence vote just as I finished marking this assignment #Politas

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Update: I finally got the 4 of diamonds. It was a bit of an asterisk as they knew in the end I was missing a diamond, but I'll take it.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

So glad I always make sure to calculate ENPs/v with the Coalition separated

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I know I'm a little bit of a pop culture nerd but when demonstrating neoliberalism at its peak, little surprised not a single student had heard of Family Ties. Yes that's how my mind works.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

To see every surviving Prime Minister sing the praises of @antonygreenelec.bsky.social is truly a testimony. Especially as a queer man who has watched every ABC broadcast since 2010, I (and many more) am absolutely gutted to not have him for future elections.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

The Don's Party have decided Annabelle Crabb is wearing a hot water bottle and I cannot unsee.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

James McGrath clearly has looked at my research paper on political drinking games.#AusVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If I had to sum up why the LNP lost in an image, culture wars and nuclear.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

This is unprecedented in federal politics for a first term government to gain. Earliest I can find is 1943* when Curtin took over on the floor of parliament in 1941ish. Please correct me. #ausvotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

If I had to call why, I think voters are rational-ish and they did not like what they saw happening in the US and linked it in the equivalent party here #AusVotes #Auspol

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Libs really down on ABC in terms of political representation. Everyone at this party is asking what is up with James Patterson. Not even the right James. #ausvotes #abc

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

At an election party and everyone else is socialising and eating brisket. Meanwhile I'm watching ABC #AusVotes

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Doing a Don's Party for #AusVotes . I suspect we will renact the whole play honestly.

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Walked 20 minutes uphill to go to a polling booth with a #DemocracySausage Frankly the AEC should have to run these to make it an official polling booth if no local org nominates. #ausvotes

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