RemoNotRomolo
banner
remoostini.bsky.social
RemoNotRomolo
@remoostini.bsky.social
140 followers 160 following 230 posts
Recovering academic. Convinced that it’s worth caring about each other. Curious about democracy. 🤨 Queenslander living in the ACT. Country boy at heart.
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Self-efficacy is a powerful foundation for doing hard things.

But this morning I’d like to give a shout out to all those people every day who don’t have the self-efficacy but still go out and do the hard thing anyway.
Wait, I just discovered that 1985 was 40 years ago! How did this happen? I remember 1985. It wasn’t that long ago. Can human beings even remember things for 40 years?
Annabel Crabb makes may good points, including:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
Richard Haass in Foreign Affairs. Almost encouraging…

“The good news is that it is far from inevitable that the world will eventually arrive at a catastrophe; the bad news is that it is far from certain that it will not.”

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/how-wo...
How a World Order Ends
Just because an order is in irreversible decline does not mean that chaos or calamity is inevitable. But if the deterioration is managed poorly, catastrophe could well follow.
www.foreignaffairs.com
I bought W.E.B. Du Bois’ third autobiography today. Imagine having such a long and interesting life that it required you to write about it three times!

Keen to see what he has to say about his life.
Reposted by RemoNotRomolo
There's a new Common Endeavour journal post.

journal.commonendeavour.org/the-act-of-existence/

On a couple of things that political parties ought to consider: that truth is felt and not derived from knowledge or the news, and on the act of existence.
The act of existence
Two ideas that speak to how we understand our lives lived together: we feel truth, we don't get it from knowledge or news; and the sheer act of existence.
journal.commonendeavour.org
I go to one #BallParkMusic concert and now I’m thinking I need to move back to Queensland. What’s happening to me?!
Reposted by RemoNotRomolo
Apropos of nothing, the journal I co-edit, RECEPTION, is looking for guest editors rn and we would love something on reception/reading and pedagogy (we did “academics not having time to read” for our last themed issue… scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/recepti...)
Australia is flatter than the moon though…

Random fact courtesy of The Daily Aus: www.newsletter.thedailyaus.com.au
Pair Amanda Gorman’s beautiful words with remembering to breathe and you’re halfway there.

With thanks to @anabaptistsaunz.bsky.social
The absolute joy of ripe custard apple!
(Those gigantic avocados are also delicious)
Looks like the problem isn’t screen time, it’s addictive behaviour on social media.
This requires a whole different regulatory response - with implications for the platforms themselves. Brings a useful focus onto where platforms need to fix their algorithms.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...
Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds
www.nytimes.com
In Common Endeavour news!
It’s an exciting week for Common Endeavour with our first two small group convos in Canberra and southern Queensland.

The topic: ‘Creating trusted space(s) for common sense in political discourse.’
Feels like a big week for me. Updating my LinkedIn to put my Common Endeavour work front and centre.
Small beans in the context of all that’s going on but may yet amount to something.
Always happy to talk about the work with anyone who’s interested.

www.linkedin.com/in/remo-osti...
Not everyone thinks indexation is important but the question probably deserves a better answer than who is affected right now…
Julia Nakamura and colleagues show how volunteering helps you live longer by improving physical health and social connection, with physical health itself appearing to be improved by contact with friends and helping others.

psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
NORK - too real
So let’s be good to each other

#BPM
Reposted by RemoNotRomolo
“Poetry, for me, is the answer to how does one stay sane when private lives are being ransacked by public events?” ~Lisel Mueller
#poetry
Some gorgeous thoughts about faith. Not restricted to religious faith.

With thanks to @anabaptistsaunz.bsky.social
Wonderful piece. Makes me wonder, is Sarah Krasnostein the best non-fiction writer in the country at present?

I’m still haunted by her Train Family Murders piece…
Sarah Krasnostein: “When Preston’s principal rises and blows great golden circles in the air, the sound has a core – superb and straight and true – that I believe must be a property of the player before it can ever be a property of their playing.”
The clarion call
Inside a community band’s benevolent quest for perfection
buff.ly