Ash Splawinski
@splawinski.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Political science @ UofT | Visiting Scholar @ CU Denver. Researching policy design, administrative burdens, and political mobilization.
Overthinks for work, underthinks for fun.
Overthinks for work, underthinks for fun.
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People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
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Essay | How to Turn the Bureaucratic Grind of Life Into a Party
We all feel it: the growing stream of administrative tasks sapping our time, spirits and social lives. Admin Night represents a tiny, nerdy resistance.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:54 PM
People are holding administrative burden parties to collectively take on tasks
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Oh hey, it’s me! 🤓
A new interesting article by @splawinski.bsky.social is now available on our FirstView page. It is entitled "The impact of inter-actor competition on administrative burdens: theorizing “consequent populations” using the illustrative case of gamete donation governance": tinyurl.com/yhdyu9zx
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Oh hey, it’s me! 🤓
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
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This is such a great piece. It's not directly about the current SCOTUS's extreme unitary executive jurisprudence, but it shows how that body of cases -- though justified in the name of democracy -- is in fact anti-democratic. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
The Law of Constitutional Capture
Constitutional capture is commonplace in the world today. A government that was built to be for the common good, the public interest, is rebuilt from the inside to become a government for the interest...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This is such a great piece. It's not directly about the current SCOTUS's extreme unitary executive jurisprudence, but it shows how that body of cases -- though justified in the name of democracy -- is in fact anti-democratic. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Melatonin: 0
Baseball: 1
Baseball: 1
You up, Toronto? The second-longest World Series game in history is still going
Follow our Game 3 live blog for all the action
Follow our Game 3 live blog for all the action
Blue Jays vs. Dodgers Game 3 score and live updates: You up, Toronto? The second-longest World Series game in history is still going
Follow our live blog with reporting from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and the watch party at Rogers Centre.
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October 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Melatonin: 0
Baseball: 1
Baseball: 1
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I apologized to my neighbour in advance because, as soon as it began, I knew I’d be yelling at my tv. Go #BlueJays!
At the point in the Jays game where I’m just letting the kids swear when they’re excited with no consequences. Because that was an EXPLETIVE DELETED inning.
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 AM
I apologized to my neighbour in advance because, as soon as it began, I knew I’d be yelling at my tv. Go #BlueJays!
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50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned.
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October 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
50% of American adults are more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life. Just 10% are more excited than concerned.
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Oh my GOSH, I’m behind the times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Oh my GOSH, I’m behind the times. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
I know people do discourse analysis, content analysis, word embedding, etc but does anyone study the use of emojis in politics? …I gotta look this up.
#BREAKING: Pete Hegseth sends goodbye emoji to news outlets protesting press policy
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October 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I know people do discourse analysis, content analysis, word embedding, etc but does anyone study the use of emojis in politics? …I gotta look this up.
4. Diverge - deepen the political divide and intensify polarization
New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:44 AM
4. Diverge - deepen the political divide and intensify polarization
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My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings
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The American Exceptionalism of Health Insurance Barriers
My forthcoming book Coverage Denied just became available for pre-order, and proofing and now promoting this work has given me an opportunity to reflect on contemporary health policy developments thro...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings
open.substack.com/pub/miranday...
open.substack.com/pub/miranday...
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assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
October 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
assistant professor, associate professor, grad student
My first post probably should have been more generic. Hello world, etc.
October 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
My first post probably should have been more generic. Hello world, etc.
Somewhere in the distance the Advocacy Coalition Framework people are crying.
FBI now renamed ACF (Ass Clown Factory)
As soon as I read the words “ass clown factory” I had to double check it was the real FBI director’s account and not some parody.
It’s real.
It’s real.
October 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Somewhere in the distance the Advocacy Coalition Framework people are crying.