Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️

Saw The Crucible tonight at my daughters’ school. Powerful play. Important message in it for today’s society. Particularly important for us academics. “I am sick of meetings; cannot the man turn his head without he have a meeting?”

Look! It’s me… In French!

Friday 9 Oct is #WorldPostDay! 100k+ Aussies write to the Prime Minister each year. I was told "millions of bloody letter-writers are wasting their bloody time." What role do letters from the public have in a democracy? doi.org/10.1017/gov....

Monday is #RightToKnowDay. FOI is a key tool in research. We asked 100+ gov agencies what leaders told staff after public admin crisis... Some leaders dismissed the idea anything had gone wrong. doi.org/10.1080/1350... (w Maria Maley) @opengovpartnership.org @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #AccessToInfo

Today is #RightToKnowDay! What happens to politicians' "private" papers when they leave? Do the Aus public have a #RighttoKnow? Our approach is roughshod, inconsistent, and too reliant on individual good will. @opengovpartnership.org @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social doi.org/10.22459/HR....

I'm exploring using LLMs for qual text coding. I'm using a text-based interface, not an API (what my uni will fund...). After giving my coding instructions, Opus very kindly says it will be a lot of work, but "I'm willing to do this"! Thanks, that's very kind of you!:

What is a reasonable time wait to get feedback/decision after an HREC meeting? (human research ethics committee, in the Australian system) What are other people's experiences? Does your uni have published standards?

Monday is #RightToKnowDay. FOI is a key tool in research. We asked 100+ gov agencies what leaders told staff after public admin crisis... Some leaders dismissed the idea anything had gone wrong. doi.org/10.1080/1350... (w Maria Maley) @opengovpartnership.org @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social #AccessToInfo

I'm sure there is a better way, but 9.5hrs ago I started scraping 5 years of UK Hansard. Almost at 50%....

List of all MP’s e-newsletters in Australia that mentioned Dolly Parton prior to her death: #canberrainbox

Hey @ncrenic.bsky.social thought you’d like this post

New research shows Question Time has increasingly focused on the prime minister, raising questions about the ‘presidentialisation’ of Australian politics.

My morning walk!

Hey UK followers - I'm looking for an R package or github repository to help me download/analyse UK Hansard? @psa-parliaments.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @psaecn.bsky.social @psaepop.bsky.social

Free David McBride!* (*With every faux-progressive media subscription) The man tried to stop war crimes investigations. He's not a whistleblower, he's a grifter, and if you fell for the cheap politics of it, you were the mark.

Australia has more polls than ever. Research shows poll-focused media coverage increases public cynicism and damages political debate.

New from me in @aunz.theconversation.com theconversation.com/are-there-to...

New paper: Does Gamson’s Law hold in opposition? I test whether shadow ministries & Question Time follow Gamsonian distribution. They do, even though the Libs are a “dictator” under Gamson’s rule. In ParlAffairs @hansardsociety.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/pa/g... w/ thanks @thiagonsilva.bsky.social

What on earth is going on with AI teaching at Uni Newcastle

Norway have their Viking "Ru!," but here in Australia we have our own roos! 🦘🦘 #FIFAWorldCup #vikings #kangaroos @jeffrueter.bsky.social @socceroos.bsky.social

Whoot! Acceptance day! My paper on coalition politics & how Gamson does/don't work in opposition. Forthcoming in Parliamentary Affairs. R2 compared my work to "a wild kangaroo".... I'll be adding that reference to the paper... Thanks @thiagonsilva.bsky.social for support & advice.

OMG trying Claude for the first time (just the free tier)..... SO much better than some other LLMs out there. Thanks to Alessandro Spina at UTS for introducing me to it.

The more I think about this, the more annoyed I am. It isn’t the peer reviewer’s job to check references. The journal / publisher should be doing this. It isn’t hard, and the failure to check really reflects poorly on the journal as much as the author.

Quickest peer review ever. Done in 15 min. Found a fake reference. Went hunting, found one more. Straight reject. Advised the editor they should write to the author's head of school.

How are MPs selling/defending/attacking the budget? In #canberrainbox we see the word "promises" has become quite partisan.... Number of e-newsletters that mention the word "promises" by party over the last few weeks. #auspol canberrainbox.com.au

I didn’t realise free will was time limited!

A young Jewish woman was pressured by her CEO to accept being assigned a non-Jewish name at work, in the directory, email & office interactions to avoid offending clients. x.com/FAAntisemiti...

Pride march in Brussels will only let Jewish people take part once they don't identify as Jewish. This is the reality in Europe in 2026.

Really tough evidence this morning. A gay catholic man who converted to Judaism talking about the high levels of support he got coming out as gay, then the hatred he got from the same group when he converted to Judaism.

Another important day of evidence at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism #auspol www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Listening to first hand accounts of antisemitism at the Royal Commission. Really difficult. Really important.

Some of my US political scientist colleagues have previously posted the astronaut meme ("always has been") in reference to institutions not being self-reenforcing. What article/book were you guys referring to there?

Nothing to see here. "A collaborative Jewish-Greek choral concert to raise money for Bondi Beach massacre victims’ families has been cancelled due to vehement political opposition by some choir members to Jewish participation in the event."

Ou paper is now the 3rd most read in @jeppjournal.bsky.social! How do leaders talk about a crisis 'over there'? Was it relevant to them? Or could it be ignored? Important lessons when thinking about cultural lessons. (Also great to see an Aus paper doing well in European journals) lnkd.in/gZxn95HE

Oh look it’s a Parliamentary Library brief on universalism v means testing in social services www.aph.gov.au/About_Parlia...

Who would have thought that Rav Kook would have been relevant to both @parlcharlie.bsky.social and @clothedvillainy.bsky.social - “just as there are laws of poetry, there is poetry in the Law.” Have you ever tried to include iambic pentameter in legislative drafting?

When I’m bored I come onto BlueSky to read who @clothedvillainy.bsky.social is dunking on today. Then I need to work out who on earth he is subtweeting about

www.facebook.com/share/p/1Jby... I went down to Bondi today, for the first time since the terror attack

“What were Michelle Obama and Jill Biden hiding?” @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

University of Canberra’s new advertising posters say “discover there are no deadlines in life”. As a lecturer, does that mean I can’t impose deadlines on any assessment?? (I mean, it often seems we can’t decline extension requests….)

Here's how focus on "Iran" has looked in the US for that time span.

Just updated CanberraInbox. Who is talking about "Iran"? First graph just this year. Second goes back to 2024. It is mainly the Libs/Nats. Labor largely ignoring it? ping @dcinbox.bsky.social enewsletters.shinyapps.io/canberrainbox/