Milo Kei

@milokei.bsky.social

Associate Lecturer #Sociology at the University of Newcastle. I study political participation, #Protest & #Resistance. ORCID: 0000-0001-6945-5570 Cannot receive DMs due to Bsky policies re age verification in #Auspol

The National Centre for Education Against Antisemitism...(hyphen free) is a private sector entity registered on 2 June 2026, directors with links to ECAJ and 5A. It appears to have been dreamt up circa April this year.

Disturbing. Head of Immigration Clare Sharp reveals Home Affairs is enforcing Antisemitism envoy Segal’s “IHRA definition” training on visa officers handling character approvals. Instead of broad anti-racism training, they‘re building a regime of ideological IHRA gatekeepers?

Doing Open Social Science | LSE Press https://press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.31389/lsepress.dos

Doing Open Social Science

Read online or download for free Open science is a set of principles and practices that aims to make research from all fields accessible to everyone for the benefit of researchers and society as a whole. Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers is the first comprehensive book setting out the principles and practices of open research, tailored specifically for those in the social science disciplines, at every career stage, offering practical advice on how to make research more transparent, trustworthy and reusable.Divided into four parts, the book explores the core principles and philosophy of open social science. Part II addresses how to improve the reproducibility of research through open approaches, including chapters on the principles and tools of documenting research as you go and on open data practices. Part III focuses on open practices within the qualitative social sciences. Chapters examine interview-based research, case studies and fieldwork, systematic documentation analysis, archival data and the role of openness in citizen (social) science. Part IV addresses shifting research cultures, with chapters on strategies for presenting research clearly and accessibly to maximise reach and impact and on open access publishing. The book ends with a discussion of the future of open social science. Ultimately, it argues, openness as a wider cultural change can renew the social sciences and the core foundations for academic progress in more dynamic and sustainable ways.This is an essential guide for anyone working in the social sciences, from doctoral candidates and early career researchers to experienced academics and practitioners, who wants to engage more effectively with open research.Note: A new version of the book was uploaded on 04 June 2026. The new files correct an error on the imprint page in which the CC BY-NC-ND license was not written out in full; other mentions of the license were correct and have not been changed. Click here to read early praise for Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers "This handbook will undoubtedly be transformative amidst a looming move towards open research across disciplines. It will be of great value to postgraduate students, early career researchers, and researchers outside academia grappling with open research practices. Also, for theorists looking to better comprehend its underpinnings too. It is a significant and original contribution to the field, written in a highly accessible style, and will almost certainly feature highly on reading lists for research methods courses across the social sciences. Alongside the useful annexes and glossary, the authors’ use of anecdotal examples and humour bring the text to life, making it broadly accessible without superfluous pomp. From traditional social science to computational approaches, the handbook looks not only at how open science has been done, but also what its many futures may become as they unfold. It is landmark text for open science." — Matthew Hanchard, University of Sheffield "Dunleavy and Monteath have delivered a much-needed invaluable guide to help academics and students better understand open research through the lens of social sciences. Whether you are already practising open social science or starting from scratch, the authors showcase a wealth of knowledge and practical tips to help turn quantitative and qualitative outputs into something truly open and reusable." — Andy Tattersall, Consultant, Open Research Communications Expert "This book’s focus on open social science does much more than it seems. By using the openness philosophy as a lens, it offers a range of state-of-the-art discussions of social science methods and practicalities. As such, it will be a terrific guide to a wide range of social science researchers who are broadly open to the argument but wondering what to do next." — Paul Cairney, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, University of Stirling "Doing Open Social Science: A Guide for Researchers provides conceptual clarity and practical guidance for improving rigor and transparency of research. Dunleavy and Monteath translate concepts like preregistration, reproducibility, replication and open data for both quantitative and qualitative researchers. After providing the reader with a conceptual framework for thinking about open science, the authors offer grounded advice and insight on translating those ideas into practice. The book powerfully blends theory and practice, helping social scientists improve their research." — Brian Nosek, Professor, University of Virginia, and Executive Director, Center for Open Science "This is the methods book that researchers really need. Covering subjects from how to write a data management plan to doing open science with qualitative data, the book is a practical guide to how to deliver rigorous and transparent research. It sets the agenda for how research should be done and shows the reader, step by step, how to get there. I only wish it were in print when I started my research career, it would have saved me a lot of head-scratching." — Rosie Campbell, Professor of Politics, Department of Political Economy, King's College London

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AI tools state things with total confidence, right or not. Went looking for a case I could fix, and landed on citations — some are just invented. Built a free tool that checks them against CrossRef and DataCite, flags retracted papers too: citeguard-pearl.vercel.app #AcademicSky

CiteGuard — Check if AI citations are real

Paste AI-generated text or a reference list and instantly check every citation against CrossRef, DataCite, Semantic Scholar, and OpenAlex to catch hallucinated and retracted sources.

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“About 300 people, including many who travelled in from interstate, have protested against joint Australian-US defence facility Pine Gap in Alice Springs. The rally was the biggest protest to be held at the secretive facility since 1987” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...

Hundreds march on Pine Gap in secretive site's biggest protest in decades

About 300 people have marched on Pine Gap in Alice Springs, protesting against its role in US military operations, in the largest protest at the top-secret defence site since 1987.

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233 years ago, on the 13th of July 1793, French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat was killed by political rival Charlotte Corday. Marat died after being stabbed in the chest while in his bath. Corday had managed to enter Marat’s house by pretending to hold important information. #otd #history 🗃️

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David (1793)

Private actors are increasing their control over the essentials of life in energy, fuel, housing, food, healthcare & education. They drive inflation & drag down living standards. We need price controls & more public delivery to protect Australia from inflation & profiteering. My op-ed with SMH.

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This is a Federal Government envoy. She’s being paid to prepare evidence, making the case against our public broadcasters integrity. Again and again when questioned, she just concede “oh, no, I don’t actually have evidence of that”.

Why is the taxpayer-funded Antisemitism Envoy worried about Australians forming a negative impression of Israel's conduct in Gaza? Why is she floating censorship boards to screen stories about Israel?

To accuse the ABC of anti-Israel bias you would have to be untethered from material reality, drowning in your own victim complex, and compulsively gaslighting. The ABC's pro-genocide bias has been overt and disgusting.

"Segal tells royal commission Gaza is 'over-represented' in ABC coverage"

The fish-and-chip girl… I’ll call Gina in the morning and I’ll call Gina at night, She’ll tell me what the policy is and whether it is right, She’ll pass along the talking points and I’ll recite them well, And Australia will be governed like a mining-rights cartel. blakandblack.com/2026/06/12/w...

When I Was a Lass

After Gilbert & Sullivan’s “When I Was a Lad” from H.M.S. PinaforeA Satirical Ballad in Seventeen Stanzas — 1 —When I was a lass I served a termAs a fish-and-chip girl with nothing to learn,I fried up...

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