I will likely be available for new opportunities after Thursday, 16th January 2025 (including Work From Home options if required).

I continue to be affiliated with my MA & PhD alma mater @MonashUni / @Monash_Arts, and to work with the very supportive and professional @MonashPolsIR team.

I am instead facing the unlawful prohibited action of employment termination as part of a very well documented DARVO (Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim Order) orchestrated, institutional cover-up / "mobbing" (group-based bullying) as noted in @jjfreydcourage's pioneering work for @uoregon:I have also experienced unlawful discrimination (Direct and Indirect, Disability, Protected Attributes), over a considerable, long-term time period (2020 to present that began), and have been subject to covert bullying, inappropriate managerial action, being treated unfavourably, being subject to unlawful treatment, occupational violence, HR negligence and inaction, work sabotage, three consecutive years of mishandled Performance Development Reviews (which I am fully trained myself and experienced to do), and career "occupational blocking and closure" based sabotage, as discussed in the extensive "social stratification" literature (all of this has never been done by @MonashUni, where I have excellent support and also training opportunities for university teaching and research).

As is usual when you are DARVO scapegoated and silenced (the film Michael Clayton and other "halogencore" genre films depict this very well), basically no-one listened to me; supported me in any way; or did anything; and evidence that I provided was unlawfully ignored, suppressed, and mischaracterised by people who were not medically qualified or appropriate to make the estimative assessment judgments that they have done - thus deeply compromising the institutional Strategic Intelligence function, via "analytic failure" and multi-level, multi-person failure, including in the compartmentalised, siloed HR function involved - which has blocked access by experienced, independent "responsible decision-makers", including my own Faculty "chain of command".

This is despite all relevant lawful and required employer disclosures and compliance, including for autism spectrum disorder (level one severity) first diagnosed at age 49 in October 2022; Type 2 Diabetes; on-going recovery from the "lived experience" of blended family-of-origin based violence, and mental health / trauma sequelae; and lawful religious affiliation with the San Francisco-based Temple of Set (which as a non-proselytisation policy; which itself has faced unlawful criminal harassment; and for which I focus on university level mentor-mentee work in my MA and PhD qualified fields, research, and university teaching experience of political science and political theory / ethics, as well as related social science sub-fields).

I am thankful to have had @NTEUnion's full support throughout this unlawful criminal harassment, where I have been subject to an unlawful "reverse onus of proof" (like the Australian Government's unlawful Robodebt program - see @SquigglyRick's excellent investigative reportage Mean Streak) and the repeated denial of my civil / human rights, including to a fair, impartial, objective and evidence-based process. What I have instead faced is a very personally invasive and significant "administrative burden" (equivalent to writing two full PhD dissertations in almost 14 months) in a never-ending Kafkaesque (The Trial) process, that I have no control as Respondent over; that is clearly retaliatory in a DARVO sense (I had a prior, informal level complaint made that was repeatedly blocked); and where there is no failsafe, safeguard or "crisis bargaining" like "red phone line" that can halt, pause or stop this process. What is instead used is a hardball "escalate to control" adversarial, escalatory process and DARVO / SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) playbook - which I in fact wrote about in my 2006 MA mini-thesis (on Herman Kahn's nuclear escalation ladder and North Korea's covert nuclear weapons development program) and also in my 2020 PhD dissertation (on terrorist organisations). My MA and PhD qualifications are Australian Qualifications Framework levels 9 and 10 respectively - and thus establish me as a qualified expert who explicitly has addressed the "meso" or midrange level of what can go wrong in organisations, including the pathway of their potential "ethical collapse" in macroeconomic and geopolitical risk environments of speculative bubbles, contagion-based phenomena, financial crashes and volatility, and socio-political conflict and dynamic change  - which has been totally ignored and has been extensively ridiculed, including via unlawful covert bullying and on-going criminal harassment. People have been informed - and have been served (evidence-based and being very clear on policy/legislative non-compliance) written notice to "cease and desist" this unlawful criminal harassment - and yet they continue to do so - because they evidently believe that they can act with total impunity; with no accountability whatsoever; that basic Risk Management, Conflict of Interest and even Whistleblower policies and procedures do not apply to them (along with Appropriate Workplace Behaviour and Health & Safety policies and procedures, which they are also in clear, repeated breach of); and they do not care about the serious harm that has resulted from their criminal negligence and inaction.

The "escalate to control" strategy noted factually and empirically above as part of a DARVO playbook is known as the Chicken / Ultimate game in game theory (notably in the 2005 Nobel laureate in Economics work of Thomas Schelling on coercion and compellance based instruments and negotiation strategies - which I teach about in political science, international relations and geopolitics classes - so I am a fully qualified academic expert on this). "Escalate to control" is now known more broadly via Russia's unlawful invasion of Ukraine on 24th February 2022, and the Hamas designated terrorist organisation's unlawful invasion of Israel on 7th October 2023 in what they called Operation Al-Aqsa Flood - which has led to unfortunate, adverse circumstances. 

This is what terrorist strategies are psychologically designed to do and to cause policy change in turning us all against each-other and in leading to overreaction that also undermines liberal, democratic societal norms and institutions (including via potential "insider threat" based Red Team / Black Hat social engineering, deception, both offshore/onshore radicalisation, weaponised disinformation, sociological propaganda, and ideological indoctrinability) - beyond the immediate "mass casualty" attacks and violence that is televised or propagated on digital platforms and on social media, including by internet influencers. 

I experienced this on 20th-25th September 2021 as a @latrobe "at risk" extended homelessness student visiting New York City, where I directly saw and experienced the psychological aftermath of Al Qaeda's coordinated terrorist attacks on the United States, on 11th September 2021). What I wrote at the time for @disinfo can be found on @internetarchive's @waybackmachine, and is also briefly summarised in my 2020 Monash University PhD dissertation's Introduction.

This can all also be understood in terms of George Akerlof's 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics work on asymmetric information in markets (which often occurs in the context of deception, fraud, elite deviance, and white-collar crime using the convenience/opportunity based approach of anomie, strain, and social learning based criminological theories), which was awarded for his 1970 landmark paper The Market For Lemons on adverse selection and moral hazard, and that is expanded in his 2015 @PrincetonUPress book (with 2013 Nobel Prize in Economics co-recipient Robert Shiller) called Phishing For Phools: The Economics of Manipulation & Deception. (YouTube videos exist for Schelling, Akerlof, and Shiller's respective Nobel Prize in Economics awarded "original contribution" based research if you would prefer a short, accessible summary of their important, valuable, evidence-based insights.) Some of their relevant books:I am an experienced university research administrator / manager. I can also teach, conduct research, do policy analysis, and do administrative work. I have also worked in Australian and United States commercial publishing (including for the former REVelation and 21C Magazines, and for Desktop andin Australia, and @disinfo and Artbyte in the United States), which has included developmental editing work on book projects, offshore team oversight and editorial management, developmental editing of successful book projects, and digital platform / newsletter marketing for website, book, DVD, and special event projects (including the legendary Disinfo.con 2000 event, which you can find YouTube clips of some of the featured speakers).

Here is my current "academic format" Curriculum Vitae which is regularly updated:Thesite archive has my student teaching feedback; qualifications based work; and published research and some of my journalism, as well as some examples of research administration related training (I have held HEW 10, HEW 8 and HEW 7 level roles at 6 Australian universities - including 3 Group of 8 and 1 private) over my extensive career.

My 2020 Monash University PhD dissertation can be accessed below and thesite archive has my full 2011-20 PhD candidature documentation. @netflix / @NetflixANZ producers for the series How To Become A Cult Leader used it as background research for Episode 5 on Japan's Aum Shinrikyo (my PhD dissertation's major analytic case study):My public Google Scholar profile and international peer reviewed citations:Here is my public LinkedIn profile with a very kind personal endorsement from mentee @HowardxBloom, who has also kindly acknowledge me in his bookMy professional academic site (is being relaunched / reactivated as a Substack newsletter. You can view its earlier incarnation, and my 1998-2008 site editing / writing for the former @disinfo website (on @internetarchive's @waybackmachine:I can be contacted to discuss potential consulting, contract / fixed term, or long-term engagement opportunities here:

Email: dralexgburns@gmail.com

Mobile/Cell: (+61 country code) 0467 387 241 (local number)

I will set up a Buy Me A Coffee option soon. If you are able to provide mutual aid or make a small donation to support my on-going self-funded research and medical costs. I am in non-EAP long-term therapy with a very experienced clinical psychologist who is aware of the criminal harassment and the negligence/inaction and directly consequential and considerable serious harm that I have had to endure, despite full employer disclosure and detailed, fact-based, evidential responses provided, including to delegated third parties, who were used for DARVO triangulation and "plausible deniability" based "risk transfer" under New Public Management business outsourcing practices of key operational functions, responsibilities, and oversight structures, and the attempted legal discovery and hostile, flak-based "backgrounding" which I am well familiar with as a former journalist and website editor/writer who has been a public figure in the United States and Australia since 1st November 1999, when I assumed the site editorship of the former Disinformation website. 

My international bank account details are:

1. Full Name: Dr Alexander George Burns

2. Bank Name: Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Ltd (Bendigo Bank) -3. IBAN: IBANs are not used in Australia. What is used is a combination of BSB number (bank, state and branch) and individual account number.

These are:

633000 (Bendigo Bank BSB)

124 597 600 (Bendigo Bank main Account Number)

This combined is:

633000124597600

4. SWIFT  (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) / BIC (Bank Identification Code): BENDAU3B

Bendigo Bank's guidance to its domestic Australian customers for inbound international telegraphic transfers:Thank you for reading - and for any assistance that you may be able to provide. Thank you to @elonmusk, @pmarca, @timberners_lee, and @peterthiel  for creating the World Wide Web, the NCSA Mosaic / Netscape Navigator browser, running X as a digital platform, and for illustrating disruptive innovation informed strategies - that all facilitates being able to go beyond a stratified, dominance hierarchy" and what the late political scientist James C. Scott warned about the danger of "authoritarian high modernism" in bureaucracies that have very well known corporate governance problems, and that also via self-created "unforced errors" destroy their own public support based "social license" for existing in their current, criminogenic, and highly corruptible form (which, as per the compartmentalised, siloed note above - often does not involve the full organisation, but as Aum Shinrikyo demonstrated in my 2020 PhD dissertation - actually involves a coercive, compellance-based, deception-oriented "meso" / midrange level "strategic subculture" that regularly conducts the unlawful criminal harassment of targeted scapegoats and victims whose confidentiality and obedience is demanded, and who are then isolated, silenced, "process out" (the Presidio case during the "Satanic Panic moral panic), or "terminated with extreme prejudice" (Apocalypse Now), with no intervention or protection by others (@TimothyDSnyder, @davidgraeber / @Graeber_social, @nntaleb, @BillAckman, and @RayDalio have done important work on this, including Taleb's specific work on the Intellectual Yet Idiot style bureaucrat who lives in the safe, nice, everyday world of Mediocristan and who does not understand Extremistan tail risk, extreme events, contagion, crises, or volatility exposures):This collective body of work - from diverse ideological, philosophical and political viewpoints - will help you to understand why DARVO occurs; how the DARVO playbook is weaponised; and how its criminal harassment can be thwarted, exposed, and ended.

The attitude that you need to adopt here is of the Special Operations Forces Green Beret who is alone and outgunned, and who is adaptable, and who puts people above greed, job titles or shiny new buildings; and people like Quentin Tarantino, Noam Chomsky and the late Edward S. Herman on how engineered / manufactured consent based compliance occurs; the late Anthony Bourdain, Rage Against The Machine, Megadeth / Dave Mustaine, Michael Douglas, Michael Mann, Michael Moore, George Clooney, and punk rock / hardcore artists like Henry Rollins, The Clash / Joe Strummer (notably "Know Your Rights") and The Sex Pistols / John Lydon (notably his final line at the end of "No Fun" in the now legendary 1978 Winterland performance: "Ha ha! Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? Good night!"):It's also well summarised in the Special Order 937 sequence of Alien (1979) and its variation in Alien: Romulus (2024), and in Capricorn One (1978) in which people are treated by unlawful, predatory corporatist interests as being expendable, disposable, and surplus. I'll leave you with this - thanks very much for reading - at least, I hope you have maybe learned something and have some resources to explore and to do further research in your own time on, and to reach your own, introspective, considered, non-coercive, and Self-informed conclusions about:Have a great day.