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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Crisis micro‐learning: A framework for understanding the micro‐flow of policy learning and Australia's COVID‐19 response
COVID-19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro-level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal-type fr...
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🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
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My DECRA application was successful!!
I can't wait to start my research and look forward to exploring how central women’s voices, women’s issues, women's histories and women voters have been to not only Australian political history but also to our cultural history.
Bring it on! 😁
#DECRA26 #AusPol
I can't wait to start my research and look forward to exploring how central women’s voices, women’s issues, women's histories and women voters have been to not only Australian political history but also to our cultural history.
Bring it on! 😁
#DECRA26 #AusPol
November 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Sincere posting for a second: I really had a great time teaching SOSS3008 Globalisation and Policy Making this term at UNSW. Really reminded me of how much I enjoy and value being in a room with engaged undergrads - great energy ❤️
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Sincere posting for a second: I really had a great time teaching SOSS3008 Globalisation and Policy Making this term at UNSW. Really reminded me of how much I enjoy and value being in a room with engaged undergrads - great energy ❤️
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One for the planners and political scientists out there: I'm working interrogating local government through a representative democracy lens and I'm finding a real lack of Australian research. Most has either focused on amalgamations and NPM, deliberative democracy or "planning democracy". Any leads?
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
One for the planners and political scientists out there: I'm working interrogating local government through a representative democracy lens and I'm finding a real lack of Australian research. Most has either focused on amalgamations and NPM, deliberative democracy or "planning democracy". Any leads?
Two job rejections in as many business days - life’s looking up 🫠
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Two job rejections in as many business days - life’s looking up 🫠
Not me working for a good chunk of the morning on a superseded version of the draft 🫠
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Not me working for a good chunk of the morning on a superseded version of the draft 🫠
Can’t wait for yanks to discover the cultural delights of the Caxton Hotel
with Bluey taking off in America there will be a whole future generation hungry for more a Brisbane-centric pop culture. They will listen to Regurgitator. They will read Praise by Andrew McGahan.
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Can’t wait for yanks to discover the cultural delights of the Caxton Hotel
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I just don't understand the US obsession* with debating. It's useful in school and fun at uni but in no context ever is it some sort of path to truth or source of knowledge because it's adversarial and zero sum.
open.spotify.com/episode/3uwU...
open.spotify.com/episode/3uwU...
Spotify – Web Player
open.spotify.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:44 AM
I just don't understand the US obsession* with debating. It's useful in school and fun at uni but in no context ever is it some sort of path to truth or source of knowledge because it's adversarial and zero sum.
open.spotify.com/episode/3uwU...
open.spotify.com/episode/3uwU...
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I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
October 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I know it's harder and more dangerous to carve a turnip but the effect is so much more disturbing, and thus in keeping with the season
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The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...
Cross-border health data sharing between Singapore and Switzerland: controlling for competing regulatory requirements
Abstract. Research in biomedical and health sciences using data-intensive methods increasingly involve multi-party cross-border institutional collaboration
academic.oup.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 AM
The paper I co-authored with Hui Yun Chan has just been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences. In this paper, we compare Singaporean and Swiss data privacy and human research regulations, and how these may act as a barrier to cross border data sharing: academic.oup.com/jlb/article/...
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FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...
Tutorial: How to cancel your Spotify subscription
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October 28, 2025 at 10:48 PM
FYI if you have a Spotify membership, Indivisible is asking people to cancel until they stop running ICE recruitment ads. Instructions on how to do it here: www.youtube.com/shorts/TKp7c...
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It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election.
It's also Open Access!
#AusPol
@eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social
It's also Open Access!
#AusPol
@eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social
Out online: an analysis of tweets posted to LGBTQIA + Australian politicians during the 2022 federal election
Social media has increasingly become crucial for political actors, especially during election campaigns. However, these platforms are not without risks, as they can expose politicians to various fo...
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October 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
It's great to see the publication of the second paper from our "queer pollies" project exploring the social media harassment of LGBTQIA+ politicians during the 2022 Australian federal election.
It's also Open Access!
#AusPol
@eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social
It's also Open Access!
#AusPol
@eliseinthewoods.bsky.social gosiami.bsky.social @jackhayes.bsky.social
Reposting for the afternoon crew 🌇
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Crisis micro‐learning: A framework for understanding the micro‐flow of policy learning and Australia's COVID‐19 response
COVID-19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro-level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal-type fr...
doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Reposting for the afternoon crew 🌇
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Crisis micro‐learning: A framework for understanding the micro‐flow of policy learning and Australia's COVID‐19 response
COVID-19 has intensified interest in crisis policy learning, yet the micro-level interactions among political, bureaucratic, and expert actors remain underexplored. We conceptualise an ideal-type fr...
doi.org
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Neil Mortimer and I explain Australia's COVID governance success and failure via a new framework for understanding crisis policy learning.
Ft. interviews w politicians, bureaucrats and experts: Scott Morrison, Greg Hunt, Brendan Murphy and Paul Kelly.
🧵
Heard you were making sandwiches for the kid
October 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Heard you were making sandwiches for the kid
Who would have thought writing up the findings of your 130 paper qual systematic review with 30+ subthemes would be slow and laborious 🫠
October 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Who would have thought writing up the findings of your 130 paper qual systematic review with 30+ subthemes would be slow and laborious 🫠
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Thinking is an embodied process. Understanding is fleshy. Insight is visceral. GenAI's creators imagine consciousness as a kind of computational output instead of an emergent activity of situated bodies in relation - but ofc they do, capitalists hate bodies & the west loves a body/mind dualism
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Thinking is an embodied process. Understanding is fleshy. Insight is visceral. GenAI's creators imagine consciousness as a kind of computational output instead of an emergent activity of situated bodies in relation - but ofc they do, capitalists hate bodies & the west loves a body/mind dualism
In today’s exercise in touching grass, I top dressed my back lawn
October 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In today’s exercise in touching grass, I top dressed my back lawn
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I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.
October 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.
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So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.
October 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
So I submitted the complete manuscript of my new book to the publisher. Hope it'll be out in the world late next year. It's about why Australia's role as an overseas coloniser was strikingly obvious to all and sundry till the 1970s, then was abruptly (and conveniently) forgotten.
Yet again listening to the shitty compressed mp3 version of Hum's You'd Prefer an Astronaut that I downloaded half a lifetime ago because it's not available via streaming in Australia 🫠
October 7, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Yet again listening to the shitty compressed mp3 version of Hum's You'd Prefer an Astronaut that I downloaded half a lifetime ago because it's not available via streaming in Australia 🫠
Gotta love correcting the grammatical and citation errors introduced into your proofs 😒
October 7, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Gotta love correcting the grammatical and citation errors introduced into your proofs 😒
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One month to go! Our new edited volume, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in November.
Tell you institutional library to pre-order a hardback edition now.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Tell you institutional library to pre-order a hardback edition now.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One month to go! Our new edited volume, ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, will be published by @manchesterup.bsky.social in November.
Tell you institutional library to pre-order a hardback edition now.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Tell you institutional library to pre-order a hardback edition now.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
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Aesthetically, spiritually, and practically I want whatever the exact opposite of these AI tradwife times is. Analogue queer goth? DIY polyamorous fisherman? I need to figure this out
October 5, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Aesthetically, spiritually, and practically I want whatever the exact opposite of these AI tradwife times is. Analogue queer goth? DIY polyamorous fisherman? I need to figure this out
