Brendan Churchill
@brenchurchill.bsky.social
| ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in #Sociology
| Co-chair, Work Futures Hallmark Research Initiative
+ Tasmanian export at The University of Melbourne
| Researching #Youth #underemployment #gigeconomy #FutureofWork + #care #Gender| ❤️ 🎾 🏳️🌈
| Researching #Youth #underemployment #gigeconomy #FutureofWork + #care #Gender| ❤️ 🎾 🏳️🌈
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🚨New article in New Technology, Work + Employment about the gender pay gap in the Australian gig economy. The gap increased by 5 percentage points during COVID-19. Why? Gender platform segregation. Read more here - open access: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #sociology #gender #gigeconomy
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...
Policy interventions for the future of work: do Australians want government compensation, guidance, or investment to manage technological change?
This paper examines how Australian attitudes toward the future of work shape support for policy interventions, drawing on nationally representative survey data (n = 1,035). We focus on three dimens...
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October 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🚨New paper: Australians want governments to help them adapt to AI — through training, support, and fairness. New Policy Studies paper with @ariadnevromen.bsky.social & @leahruppanner.bsky.social. 📄 doi.org/10.1080/0144...
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"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
Charlie Kirk Did Not Practice Politics The Right Way
We don't have to lose our humanity to bear faithful witness, but we do have to keep our nerve.
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September 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
Have people / institutions lost their minds?!!?! European Parliament having a silent minute for Kirk?!?!?
September 12, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Have people / institutions lost their minds?!!?! European Parliament having a silent minute for Kirk?!?!?
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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So happy to have our paper with Jan Mueller published in Gender Work & Organisations. It theorises the multidimensionality of the ideal worker culture to ask the question, do we see a move away from it. The results in Switerland says yes - but only certain aspects. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/job-adv...
Job adverts reveal early signs of a shift away from the 'ideal worker' norm | King's College London
Machine learning analysis of job adverts in Switzerland found how employer expectations are evolving across occupations
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September 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
So happy to have our paper with Jan Mueller published in Gender Work & Organisations. It theorises the multidimensionality of the ideal worker culture to ask the question, do we see a move away from it. The results in Switerland says yes - but only certain aspects. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/job-adv...
🚨New paper out! In Social Science & Medicine, we show it’s not just hours of housework 🧹 or childcare 👶 that affect mental health. It's whether the split feels fair and satisfying. Unfair or unhappy = worse mental health 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Demography #PublicHealth
Unpaid labour and mental health–the role of perceived fairness and satisfaction in division amongst working-age adults; a longitudinal analysis using 18 waves of panel data
Across the globe, the division of unpaid labour remains highly gendered and unequally shared. This has consequences for women's economic security and …
www.sciencedirect.com
September 11, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🚨New paper out! In Social Science & Medicine, we show it’s not just hours of housework 🧹 or childcare 👶 that affect mental health. It's whether the split feels fair and satisfying. Unfair or unhappy = worse mental health 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #Sociology #Demography #PublicHealth
This afternoon at #WES @wesjnl.bsky.social conference, Kim Allen and I will be presenting work on our longitudinal mixed methods side hustles project, focussing on the gendered dimensions.
September 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This afternoon at #WES @wesjnl.bsky.social conference, Kim Allen and I will be presenting work on our longitudinal mixed methods side hustles project, focussing on the gendered dimensions.
This jetlag is something else.....
September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This jetlag is something else.....
Left without comment
September 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Left without comment
Heading to Manchester next week for the Work, Employment and Society conference, followed by some time at King's College in London and then onto Paris. Holler, if you're about :D
September 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Heading to Manchester next week for the Work, Employment and Society conference, followed by some time at King's College in London and then onto Paris. Holler, if you're about :D
This is abhorrent and governments and universities want us adopting technology like this?
ChatGPT essentially advised a sixteen year old on how to take his life—including by telling him how to make a noose and to avoid talking to his parents, even when he wanted to.
And then he did.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
And then he did.
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August 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is abhorrent and governments and universities want us adopting technology like this?
The endless discourse around Serena William’s use of a GLP-1 is just another form of policing Black women’s bodies. Same as Oprah. When the white reality tv housewives do it no one cares. She can do what she wants.
August 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
The endless discourse around Serena William’s use of a GLP-1 is just another form of policing Black women’s bodies. Same as Oprah. When the white reality tv housewives do it no one cares. She can do what she wants.
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Solidarity with UTS colleagues
I love this woman. 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
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Something is rotten in Australia’s tertiary education. And UTS’s suspension of teaching courses is one of its biggest disgraces | Isobel Crealy
If preparing teachers for NSW during an ongoing teacher shortage isn’t a public good, what is?
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August 21, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Solidarity with UTS colleagues
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PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne exploring reskilling for work futures in regional Australia with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @brenchurchill.bsky.social @lillicrovara.bsky.social and me! 🙌✨ We hope this will be of interest to honsand masters students in Aus 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/eo9p
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August 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne exploring reskilling for work futures in regional Australia with @leahruppanner.bsky.social, @brenchurchill.bsky.social @lillicrovara.bsky.social and me! 🙌✨ We hope this will be of interest to honsand masters students in Aus 👉 go.unimelb.edu.au/eo9p
This post comes from the frustration of higher ed profs on LinkedIn trying to lecture me/us about students falling behind if they’re not exposed to it and administrators encouraging AI embedded assessments because “everyone is using it”. What malarkey.
This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,104 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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August 19, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This post comes from the frustration of higher ed profs on LinkedIn trying to lecture me/us about students falling behind if they’re not exposed to it and administrators encouraging AI embedded assessments because “everyone is using it”. What malarkey.
This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
Tressie McMillan Cottom on Instagram: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems."
3,104 likes, 128 comments - tressiemcphd on October 15, 2024: "Some quick thoughts after class on AI solutions for the university’s political problems.".
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August 19, 2025 at 12:03 PM
This video by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social on AI, the PE of hope and the doctrine of access explains why we’re being pushed to use AI in the classroom. If like me you’re baffled why we went from trying to stop AI to now embedding it in our subjects this is for you! www.instagram.com/tressiemcphd...
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Some key takeaways:
🏠 Household mental load is a hidden factor in political inequality.
📊 It shapes who pays attention to in politics—and thus who participates.
We can’t talk about political equality without addressing it.
Full article here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
🏠 Household mental load is a hidden factor in political inequality.
📊 It shapes who pays attention to in politics—and thus who participates.
We can’t talk about political equality without addressing it.
Full article here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
The political consequences of the mental load
Abstract. How do levels of cognitive household labour—the ‘mental load’ involved in anticipating, fulfilling, and monitoring household needs—affect politic
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August 15, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Some key takeaways:
🏠 Household mental load is a hidden factor in political inequality.
📊 It shapes who pays attention to in politics—and thus who participates.
We can’t talk about political equality without addressing it.
Full article here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
🏠 Household mental load is a hidden factor in political inequality.
📊 It shapes who pays attention to in politics—and thus who participates.
We can’t talk about political equality without addressing it.
Full article here: doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaf019
The idiocy of this piece
In which a Yale prof calls for jettisoning humanities to make way for science-only universities.
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
“scientists… are being punished for the sins of [humanities scholars] because we all live under one roof. I cannot see a compelling reason for our continued cohabitation.”
Unyoke the Sciences From the Humanities
Arts and sciences typically cohabitate. Should they?
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August 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The idiocy of this piece
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I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?
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August 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
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Not this demographer. Just no. This just demonstrates how little leaders/politicians know and understand fertility decision-making. Why not focus on the WHY people are not having children or as many children.
August 2, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Not this demographer. Just no. This just demonstrates how little leaders/politicians know and understand fertility decision-making. Why not focus on the WHY people are not having children or as many children.
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Here’s a 2014 paper from @brenchurchill.bsky.social, Natalie Jackson and myself explaining declining fertility rates, the cause of the mini baby boom in the 2000s (hint, it wasn’t the baby bonus) and the importance of future generations for us all. search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
Thank God you're here: The coming generation and their role in future-proofing Australia from the challenges of population ageing
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August 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Here’s a 2014 paper from @brenchurchill.bsky.social, Natalie Jackson and myself explaining declining fertility rates, the cause of the mini baby boom in the 2000s (hint, it wasn’t the baby bonus) and the importance of future generations for us all. search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
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indefensible
July 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
indefensible