Coming soon(ish)

I was reaching over for something in my pencil case when I noticed this uninvited office guest.

They'd be saying 'let them eat cake' but they've already abolished the catering budget.

theguardian.com/australia-news…

This is long overdue.

I've never understood why top Australian university management are paid so much more than their counterparts in the UK and Europe.

Many VCs here are on over $1 million per year (around 30 times a PhD annual scholarship).

smh.com.au/education/insi…

I love to start the day with an unsolicited mass mail from someone I've never met telling us how we've got populism wrong and sending us their blog posts and book drafts.

(It's also amusing they fail to cite the most important book ever on the populist radical right).

An excellent hire for Melbourne and a very welcome return for Australian political science.

The convo all parents are having about which school to send their child to.

The largest election in the world starts today in India 🇮🇳

In this The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand piece, I write about the key role that the BJP grassroots organisation plays in continuing the party's dominance at the ballot box.

theconversation.com/we-have-thousa…

Academics: “Turning From the Critical Turn: A New Approach to Critically Unpacking the Critique - a Critical Appraisal”

Normal humans:

Interesting article, but I wonder - overall - how many hours were saved?

On the one hand, EOIs take less than a full application.

On the other, 4,147 EOIs submitted compared to 2,590 applications in 2023.

Do EOIs mean many more people 'hit & hope' (wasting everyone's time)?

I guess I’ll use the other door this morning… #Nathan #campuslife Griffith University

You find all sorts lurking in the corners of the corridor at SGIR.

How does perceived societal stigma affect participation in populist radical right parties? Sofia Ammassari examines this subject in Political Studies: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (OPEN ACCESS)

Political StudiesAssoc @SAGECQPolitics #freeaccess #polsci

I asked an AI to rap Karl Marx’s Capital gangsta style