Leona Vaughn @drleona.bsky.social Research Fellow: coloniality, race, risk and prevention in social policy. Interests: International Human Rights, Equity, Justice, Harm and Repair.
Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au
Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia.
Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense/
Claire Parfitt @clairerhiannon.bsky.social Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Political economist, chronic unionist, ocean swimmer, failing but tenacious gardener
Mike Beggs @mikejbeggs.bsky.social Political economy, history of Australian capitalism (esp. macroeconomic policy), history of monetary theory, unions, socialism, dad jokes, some other stuff
Benjamin Hanckel @benhanckel.bsky.social Sociologist at Western Sydney University. Researching: youth studies, health & wellbeing, digital media, gender & sexuality.
He/Him 🏳️🌈
Tom Barnes @drtombarnes.bsky.social Sociologist of work & economy, Australian Catholic University, researching warehouse logistics, auto manufacturing, precarity, labour regimes, India, Australia
Ben Spies-Butcher @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social Political economist and CEO @futurework.bsky.social. Work, finance, social policy, climate and inequality. Co-founder, Australian Basic Income Lab @ausbasicincome.bsky.social own views.
Sunil Badami @sunilbadami.bsky.social bon vivant raconteur flâneur. All views my ownsome. Glad to be here and out of Parler (the app formerly known as Twitter).
Archie Thomas @archiethomas.bsky.social Chancellor’s Research Fellow UTS. researching race & Indigenous self-determination, education, queerness, inclusion/exclusion. historically inclined. also into hiking, pop culture & large bodies of water
queer/gay trans man, he/him 🩵 non-Indigenous
Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English speaking world.
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Martijn Konings @mkonings.bsky.social Political economist at University of Sydney. Most recent book The Bailout State: Why Governments Rescue Banks, Not People (Polity, 2025). Now working on property and democracy.
Sara Meger @sarameger.bsky.social Senior lecturer in International Relations, University of Melbourne. Interested in critical political economy, security and feminist theory.
David Aviles @davidaviles.bsky.social PhD in Political Economy from USyd. Economic Geography Postdoc at SMI-UQ. Lecturer at UTFSM, Valparaíso.
Researching Critical Minerals, Energy Transition, Commodity Frontiers, State Theory, 🇨🇱+🇦🇺
Shahar Hameiri @shaharhameiri.bsky.social Professor @POLSIS University of Queensland. Political economist. Asia & Pacific security & development; the 'Second Cold War'; good hummus; bad puns. Unusual disclaimers apply. https://about.uq.edu.au/experts/13942
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Rebecca Clements @kinokofry.bsky.social Urban planning Research Fellow RMIT & USyd/cartoonist on Wurundjeri Country, Japan parking/transport governance/mobility justice, she/her 🏳️🌈
Gareth Bryant @garethbryant.bsky.social Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Dan Golding @dangolding.com Professor of Media at Monash University. Composer for games like Untitled Goose Game, Frog Detective, Mars First Logistics. Host of ABC Classic’s ‘Screen Sounds’ (Sat 6pm).
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
Nicholas Bromfield @nicholasbromfi1.bsky.social Academic. Political scientist researching public policy / admin & occasionally foreign policy via auspol + comparative analyses.
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FF_notes @ffnotes.bsky.social Bree (she/they). White settler on stolen land, Australia. Researcher/lecturer (Phd Anthropology), antifascist, queer 🏳️🌈.
Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social Co-editor of Progress in Political Economy (PPE) https://www.ppesydney.net/ | Professor of Political Economy | University of Sydney | Own Views | Reposts ≠ endorsements |
Natasha Heenan @natashaheenan.bsky.social Environmental political economy, climate repair, green industrial policy. Thinking about the past and future of legacy carbon @USyd
Professor Megan Davis AC @profmdavis.bsky.social Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies, Harvard University and Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School. Balnaves Chair in Constitutional Law, UNSW Sydney.
Dr Meg Foster @mfoster-history.bsky.social Historian of Banditry, Settler Colonial and Public History | Chancellor's Research Fellow @UTS | Former JRF @camhistory.bsky.social | She/ her | FRHistS
Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social Historian of modern empire & Indigenous resistance 🇦🇺 History advocate. VP of https://theaha.org.au/ FAHA FRHistS. Professor at ACU. Latest book Bennelong & Phillip https://rb.gy/vebj23 My website is katefullagar.com
Noah Riseman @noahriseman.bsky.social Australian-American historian who specialises in LGBTIQ+ and Indigenous histories. Author. Amateur ice hockey player. Hablo español. Views expressed are my own.
https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/nriseman/publications
jordy silverstein @jordanas.bsky.social jewishness, diasporism, history, memory, solidarity, justice. she/her. Author of 'Cruel Care' (2023) and 'Anxious Histories' (2015).
Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social Historian. Author, The Seventies (2019), co-author Personal Politics (2024). Writing a biography of Anne Deveson. President, Australian Historical Association. Whitlam Institute Fellow. FASSA. She/her. Views my own. http://newsouthbooks.com.au/books.
Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social Political Scientist @ Monash University | Author of 3 books | Writing about populism, reactionary politics & visual politics | he/him
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Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social Melbourne, Australia
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Thesiswhisperer @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social Professor Inger Mewburn, Director of researcher development at ANU. I do research on research and think about stuff. Here to support researchers. Find my writing and podcasts on www.thesiswhisperer.com #realtwin
Matt Cowgill @mattcowgill.bsky.social economics-talking guy, R enthusiast
Andrew Bartlett @andrewbartlett.bsky.social working for positive social change & community development for 40+ years, incl ~12 years as Senator for Qld & 20+ years volunteering at 4ZZZ community radio. Anti-war. Views stated here are my own. RTs ≠ agreement.
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Alison Reeve @reevealison.bsky.social Program Director, Energy + Climate Change, Grattan Institute.
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social Economist & blogger @ http://johnquiggin.com, http://crookedtimber.org. http://johnquiggin.substack.com/?utm http://mstdn.social/@johnquiggin
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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social Chancellor's Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney | political economy, environmental history, energy | PhD, University of Sydney
Naama Blatman 🍉 @blatmannaama.bsky.social Scientia fellow #UNSW Sydney. From Israel/Palestine, living on Wangal land. Cities, settler colonialism, prisons.
Editor, EPD: Society and Space
Jim Stanford @jimbostanford.bsky.social Economist and Director of the Centre for Future Work in Vancouver, Canada (https://centreforfuturework.ca/). He/him. Harold Innis Industry Professor, Economics Dept., McMaster University, and Honorary Prof. of Political-Economy, University of Sydney
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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social Co-CEO at The Australia Institute
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social Professor at ICREA, ICTA, and the Department of Political Science & Public Law at UAB • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au I research games + sustainability, currently working for the Sustainable Games Alliance to produce a methodological standard for measuring games emissions.
https://afterclimate.com.au/
https://sustainablegamesalliance.org/
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Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Jess Gifkins @jessgifkins.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations at UTS, research on the United Nations and the prevention of atrocity crimes.
Monograph 'Inside the UN Security Council' with OUP 2023.
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Erica McIntyre PhD @ericamcintyre.bsky.social She/her | ADHD career and leadership coach | Mental health, wellbeing, neurodivergence, planetary health researcher and trainer
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Amelia Johns @ameliajohns.bsky.social I am an Associate Professor at UTS (she/her). I research youth, social media and messaging| digital activism| digital citizenship| misinformation and platform regulation. I live on the unceded lands of the Gadigal people.
Kurt Iveson @kurtiveson.bsky.social Sydney-based urban geographer + unionist
Kath Kenny @kathkenny.bsky.social Words reviews research. Author Staging a Revolution (2022) History Publication Award VCHA2023
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Pat Thomson @patthomson.bsky.social Academic, educator, silversmith. Researching arts ed, school change, leaders work. Patter academic writing blog - Patthomson.net. Semi-retired. Working part-time @ U Nottingham & U South Australia. #FAcSS
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Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
Michael Slezak @mikeyslezak.bsky.social Environment reporter for ABC in Australia, doing a mix of news and investigations.
+ Co-chair ABC MEAA House Committee
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Cristina Flesher Fominaya @cffominaya.bsky.social Dog lover, writer, human rights supporter, yoga fan, political sociology, Ed in Chief Social Movement Studies, co-founder Interface, Democracy Reloaded (Oxford University Press), Prof. Global Studies, Aarhus U, PhD@UCBerkeley Book cover O. Calvo (crop)
@dikelly.bsky.social @dikelly.bsky.social Long-time industrial relations and history academic with research interests in industrial relations (and IR / management history), OHS, and academic governance . Editor-in-Chief of the wonderful Economic and Labour Relations Review.
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jacob broom @jacobbroom.bsky.social lecturer in politics and policy at Murdoch University // tweets, rarely made, are written in a personal capacity
Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social UTS Political Economist & labour historian. Editor Social Movement Studies & Associate at The Centre Future Work. Cats. Electroclash. Carlton AFL tragic 🌈
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