Nicholas Bromfield
@nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social
Academic. Political scientist researching public policy / admin & occasionally foreign policy via auspol + comparative analyses.
Settler living on unceded Dharug country.
Settler living on unceded Dharug country.
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Australian Politics and Policy
Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in university courses.
oercollective.caul.edu.au
🚨 Publication alert! Please share 🚨
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Me to 4 yr old: let’s listen to daddy music, I’ll put on Motörhead. Lemmy.
4 yr old: what’s Lemmy?
4 yr old: what’s Lemmy?
patrick star from spongebob squarepants has his arms crossed and is smiling
ALT: patrick star from spongebob squarepants has his arms crossed and is smiling
media.tenor.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Me to 4 yr old: let’s listen to daddy music, I’ll put on Motörhead. Lemmy.
4 yr old: what’s Lemmy?
4 yr old: what’s Lemmy?
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Here's where we are right now with this record of academics and researchers who simply didn't or never wanted to stop trying to gain benefit from their interactions with Jeffrey Epstein after he was already a convicted sex offender.
Let me know if you think I missed someone.
Let me know if you think I missed someone.
Here again. So while the Skeptics society (also hated "woke") was publicly at war with the alternate world and guru's like Deepak Chopra, both groups were friends with Jeffrey Epstein.
Rome Viharo, Gino Yu, Menas Kafatos... calling Sharon A. Hill "'cute' girl host".
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Rome Viharo, Gino Yu, Menas Kafatos... calling Sharon A. Hill "'cute' girl host".
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
Here's where we are right now with this record of academics and researchers who simply didn't or never wanted to stop trying to gain benefit from their interactions with Jeffrey Epstein after he was already a convicted sex offender.
Let me know if you think I missed someone.
Let me know if you think I missed someone.
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Get your latest textbook chapter on this Commonwealth's greatest state, South Australia, right here. Required reading for all politics units, surely.
🚨 Publication alert! Please share 🚨
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Australian Politics and Policy
Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in university courses.
oercollective.caul.edu.au
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Get your latest textbook chapter on this Commonwealth's greatest state, South Australia, right here. Required reading for all politics units, surely.
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It’s often assumed the far right recruits from ‘white working class’ and there’s surprise some have ‘normal’ middle class jobs. @booklearning.bsky.social and I looked at who applied to join an Australian far right group in 1970s-80s to test this assumption.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 10, 2026 at 12:04 AM
It’s often assumed the far right recruits from ‘white working class’ and there’s surprise some have ‘normal’ middle class jobs. @booklearning.bsky.social and I looked at who applied to join an Australian far right group in 1970s-80s to test this assumption.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I should promote my chapters too, I guess!
Crisis Management: Here I put forward an intro to the stages of crisis management, prevention, preparation, response and recovery / learning and evaluation through a case study of Australia's COVID governance: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Crisis Management: Here I put forward an intro to the stages of crisis management, prevention, preparation, response and recovery / learning and evaluation through a case study of Australia's COVID governance: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
February 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
I should promote my chapters too, I guess!
Crisis Management: Here I put forward an intro to the stages of crisis management, prevention, preparation, response and recovery / learning and evaluation through a case study of Australia's COVID governance: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Crisis Management: Here I put forward an intro to the stages of crisis management, prevention, preparation, response and recovery / learning and evaluation through a case study of Australia's COVID governance: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
🚨 Publication alert! Please share 🚨
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Australian Politics and Policy
Australian Politics and Policy provides a unique, holistic coverage of politics and public topics for use in university courses.
oercollective.caul.edu.au
February 9, 2026 at 10:50 PM
🚨 Publication alert! Please share 🚨
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
The new, updated and fully open access 2026 edition of the Australian Politics and Policy textbook has been published, in time for Semester 1 teaching!
You can explore the textbook here: oercollective.caul.edu.au/aust-politic...
Journals sending me reminders about reviews I apparently agreed to over the summer break
February 8, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Journals sending me reminders about reviews I apparently agreed to over the summer break
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I will keep adding entries as they are revealed by detailed searches into the Epstein files. My thread focuses on researchers and academics who, well after Epstein's 2008 conviction, have sought contact with, received funding from, and let themselves be promoted by him.
Are there moral limits to advancing a research career?
"Antonio Damasio..the director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute approached Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 and asked the convicted child sex offender to fund robotics neuroscience research"
#AcademicSky
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/02/u...
"Antonio Damasio..the director of USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute approached Jeffrey Epstein in 2013 and asked the convicted child sex offender to fund robotics neuroscience research"
#AcademicSky
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2026/02/02/u...
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 PM
I will keep adding entries as they are revealed by detailed searches into the Epstein files. My thread focuses on researchers and academics who, well after Epstein's 2008 conviction, have sought contact with, received funding from, and let themselves be promoted by him.
Old mate 50 something in blue singlet, footy shorts and double pluggers at the gym at 9.30pm on a Friday, I salute you 🫡
February 6, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Old mate 50 something in blue singlet, footy shorts and double pluggers at the gym at 9.30pm on a Friday, I salute you 🫡
It me 👇👇👇
What constitutes an #IdealType #MicroLevel #learning process during a #crisis ❓
What challenges might undermine this ideal ❓
Neil Mortimer & @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social study the micro-flow of crisis policy learning & policy processes during a protracted crisis 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
What challenges might undermine this ideal ❓
Neil Mortimer & @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social study the micro-flow of crisis policy learning & policy processes during a protracted crisis 👇
doi.org/10.1111/1467...
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 AM
It me 👇👇👇
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I will keep adding, slowly, as I follow up on names that have been sent to me. As of now, there are 22 people. It's unpleasant work. I'm doing it so you won't have to. Every day I've worked on it, I've been thinking of how aggressively Larry Summers was protected from critique after that one speech.
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
February 3, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I will keep adding, slowly, as I follow up on names that have been sent to me. As of now, there are 22 people. It's unpleasant work. I'm doing it so you won't have to. Every day I've worked on it, I've been thinking of how aggressively Larry Summers was protected from critique after that one speech.
One final point on this: my time and good faith is limited. If journal editors don't do some basic due diligence checks of the ref list before sending out, then their next request will be declined
Woah, a first for me: after hours of reading, reflection and drafting 2/3rds of a detailed reviewer's report I find the paper I'm reviewing has hallucinated references. Suddenly the odd / incorrect claims become all that much clearer 1/2
a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 7:27 AM
One final point on this: my time and good faith is limited. If journal editors don't do some basic due diligence checks of the ref list before sending out, then their next request will be declined
Woah, a first for me: after hours of reading, reflection and drafting 2/3rds of a detailed reviewer's report I find the paper I'm reviewing has hallucinated references. Suddenly the odd / incorrect claims become all that much clearer 1/2
a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .
ALT: a man with a mullet and a mustache is wearing a wig and making a funny face .
media.tenor.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Woah, a first for me: after hours of reading, reflection and drafting 2/3rds of a detailed reviewer's report I find the paper I'm reviewing has hallucinated references. Suddenly the odd / incorrect claims become all that much clearer 1/2
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"Heads we win, tails you lose" is now live in its peer-reviewed form. This article represents a gamut of perspectives from pro-AI to staunchly opposed. What unites us all is shared condemnation of the use of AI-detection software in education contexts
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
Heads we win, tails you lose: AI detectors in education
The increasing use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in student assessment has led to institutional reliance on detection tools. Unlike plagiarism detection, AI detection relies on unverif...
doi.org
January 29, 2026 at 10:37 PM
"Heads we win, tails you lose" is now live in its peer-reviewed form. This article represents a gamut of perspectives from pro-AI to staunchly opposed. What unites us all is shared condemnation of the use of AI-detection software in education contexts
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
doi.org/10.1080/1360...
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Another piece of writing from yours truly. Might be the weirdest thing I've written? This is what happens when you agree to write about a US work of criticism for a publication about Australian writing!
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...
January 30, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Another piece of writing from yours truly. Might be the weirdest thing I've written? This is what happens when you agree to write about a US work of criticism for a publication about Australian writing!
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...
openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/JASAL/articl...
I regret to inform you after not wanting to do the deadlifts but nonetheless doing the deads I now feel better for having done the deads
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 AM
I regret to inform you after not wanting to do the deadlifts but nonetheless doing the deads I now feel better for having done the deads
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Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
How cringe do you have to be that the nonces don’t even want to hang out with you
January 31, 2026 at 9:21 AM
How cringe do you have to be that the nonces don’t even want to hang out with you
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Dawg how yall gon be pedophiles and emailing each other about pedophile shit on regular email and signing it
January 31, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Dawg how yall gon be pedophiles and emailing each other about pedophile shit on regular email and signing it
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Makes a lot more sense now
January 31, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Makes a lot more sense now
Vague posting for the time being: I have some modest but nonetheless pleasing and good job news to share soon 😊
January 29, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Vague posting for the time being: I have some modest but nonetheless pleasing and good job news to share soon 😊
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Who could have guessed that increasingly virulent attacks from sections of the media and politicians that deem Aboriginal people unAustralian, divisive, fraudsters, whingers, criminals, bludgers, a drain on public resources and a threat to western civilisation would lead to its inevitable outcome?
January 28, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Who could have guessed that increasingly virulent attacks from sections of the media and politicians that deem Aboriginal people unAustralian, divisive, fraudsters, whingers, criminals, bludgers, a drain on public resources and a threat to western civilisation would lead to its inevitable outcome?
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You can hear the ACTU and myself talk about the impact of heatwaves and high temperatures on workers on ABC AM this morning. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Heatwave poses threat to workers - ABC listen
Australians have been finding different ways to cope with the extreme heat this week.
www.abc.net.au
January 27, 2026 at 10:02 PM
You can hear the ACTU and myself talk about the impact of heatwaves and high temperatures on workers on ABC AM this morning. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Sunday morning in the merch line at the Bluey show
January 10, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Sunday morning in the merch line at the Bluey show