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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 5h

Story today about unis relying on Turnitin to detect AI. My research last year (@ausjpa.bsky.social) where students were required to use ChatGPT to produce policy briefs showed that Turnitin produced a lot of false negatives:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 6h

With all of this news of AI slop from Deloitte, it’s worth remembering that in this study, even my undergrads could see how poorly AI produced policy advice @ausjpa.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 4d

This dual framing is really important, because it also reflects how Jews are both white and not-white; promoters of communism and evil bankers.

Claire Burchett @cburchett.bsky.social · Jul 7

Happy to share my first published article based on my PhD in Party Politics with @journals.sagepub.com in open access!

doi.org/10.1177/1354...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 6d

Hi hive-mind. I'm looking for info on who owns letters sent by public to Aus MPs in their *legislative* capacity (i.e. excluding ministerial capacity)? My understanding is that they own them in their personal capacity? @auspublawblog.bsky.social @jeremygans.bsky.social

Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 13d

As usually AI search results (from Bing) are really awful! I was hoping to attend the first @jawspolisci.bsky.social seminar, so needed to check the time in Australia. Unfortunately Bing was out by 8hrs?? It 1pm Eastern is 3am in Syd/Canberra.

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 13d

The best bit of this article is that they need to describe an “own goal” to an American audience

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 13d

With #Robodebt again back in the news with the release of the SBS series #ThePeoplevsRobodebt being released, here is my paper exploring how the broader Aus Public Service engaged in learning and meaning-making after this public admin crisis.

Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Jun 7

Did we learn anything from Robodebt? New article using FOI to explore if/when/how public servants learn after crisis. How
did secretaries see/frame Robodebt?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13501763.2025.2513651?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Robodebt and the limits of learning: exploring meaning-making after a crisis

The flawed Robodebt programme, and its subsequent exposure through a Royal Commission, represented a serious crisis in Australian public administration. A vital task for leaders after a crisis is c...

www.tandfonline.com

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 13d

Given all of the attention around Albo and Trump, have a look at this piece of mine on how Aus MPs deal with Trump - and Zoom in and listen to me talk about it in a few weeks time

ecpr.eu/Events/332?_...

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CNN @cnn.com · 16d

A fire at a synagogue in southwest Florida days before Rosh Hashanah is being investigated as a hate crime, police say.

A fire at a Florida synagogue days before Rosh Hashanah is being investigated as a hate crime

www.cnn.com

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 19d

I’ll be presenting this work at an @ecpr-polcom.bsky.social online workshop, Tuesday 14 October, 11:00 BST / 12:00 CEST
Come along!

ecpr.eu/Events/332?_...

Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 21d

Morning walk #cbr

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 27d

Important finding! Australian MPs are better at photoshop than their UK counterparts!
What else Aus & UK MPs say to their constituents? Adam Ozer and I investigate.
This new dataset can be used in a broad range of polsci, polcomm & policy research.
theloop.ecpr.eu/politicians-...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 27d

A great new dataset of Aus & UK MPs’ communications with their constituents.

These are growing, real-time corpora of elite political communication. Explore them now!

@ecpr-polcom.bsky.social @psabcpe.bsky.social @psaexecpolitics.bsky.social @psaepop.bsky.social @psabcpe.bsky.social

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 27d

📣 Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying?
💻 @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social + @ozerthinking.bsky.social  examine new datasets which allow researchers to access every e-newsletter sent by MPs in Australia and the UK.
👉 bit.ly/3Vc2Ns4

Politicians’ e-newsletters to their constituents: what are they saying?

Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying? E-newsletters allow MPs to send direct, unfiltered messages to their desired audience. Daniel Casey and Adam Ozer e...

bit.ly

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 27d

📣 Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying?
💻 @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social + @ozerthinking.bsky.social  examine new datasets which allow researchers to access every e-newsletter sent by MPs in Australia and the UK.
👉 bit.ly/3Vc2Ns4

Politicians’ e-newsletters to their constituents: what are they saying?

Politicians communicate with their constituents every day, but what are they saying? E-newsletters allow MPs to send direct, unfiltered messages to their desired audience. Daniel Casey and Adam Ozer e...

bit.ly

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Aleksandra Urman @aurman21.bsky.social · Sep 8

Do I (still) know anyone from PoliSci with expertise on contemporary Hungarian 🇭🇺 politics? And who wouldn't mind me bugging them with a couple of questions over email?

If we ever meet in person, I will owe you a beverage of your choice :)

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Sep 7

Just giving this package another plug. I think I'm using it (or stuff derived from it) for about 4 different papers at the moment.
We don't give enough credit to the academics developing/maintaining this crucial research infrastructure.

Pat Leslie @palesl.bsky.social · Jun 20

You heard it people. It’s a wonderful package.

The possibilities are limited only by your imagination (in the context of comprehensive data on Australian parliamentarians since federation)

github.com/palesl/ausph

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Sep 4

One week until this event!!!
Register now

Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Aug 8

Webinar: After Robodebt – How leaders can embed a robust culture of integrity & ethics.

Hear from me, Sarah Ball, David Gruen. Supported by Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, IPAA & ACU.

More info and register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/acf066...

Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Sep 2

So many questions!
Cooked? raw? Butter? Salt?
Husked?
Still doesn’t beat our PM eating a raw onion (skin on)!

a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open

media.tenor.com

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EUROPE SAYS @europesays.bsky.social · Aug 30

Australia’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Balancing Responsiveness and Responsibility?

https://www.europesays.com/2371272/

President Trump has fundamentally upended the international order, forcing states to reassess their foreign policy alignment. In Australia,…

Australia’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Balancing Responsiveness and Responsibility? - EUROPE SAYS

President Trump has fundamentally upended the international order, forcing states to reassess their foreign policy alignment. In Australia, the US alliance is

www.europesays.com

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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · Sep 1

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma.

Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia.

Please apply, share, etc.

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1

Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why. Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...

jobs.smartrecruiters.com

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Aug 31

My new piece @E_IR, exploring why ALP MPs are strategically ignoring Trump. Are they caught between being responsive to their electorate and knowing they need to maintain the US alliance?
I draw on canberrainbox.com.au to test this.

www.e-ir.info/2025/08/30/a...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Sep 1

For some reason this link is broken:
www.e-ir.info/2025/08/30/a...

Australia’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era: Balancing Responsiveness and Responsibility?

While parties on the left and right can openly broadcast critique or support for Trump, the governing ALP faces domestic political pressures.

www.e-ir.info

Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Aug 31

My new piece @E_IR, exploring why ALP MPs are strategically ignoring Trump. Are they caught between being responsive to their electorate and knowing they need to maintain the US alliance?
I draw on canberrainbox.com.au to test this.

www.e-ir.info/2025/08/30/a...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Aug 27

So, I've discovered a book on translation has cited a publication of mine... My publication is on "punctuated equilibrium" and its cited in this book in the chapter on punctuation.... I suspect the whole thing is AI written???
@grahamkendall.bsky.social thoughts?

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thanks