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@iaspm_official #paris2025 you were brilliant. An awful lot of behind the scenes and on the ground work went into making this conference accessible, diverse, welcoming, and intellectually stimulating, and it did not disappoint. Academic rockstars round every corner. 💪

Are you an early career researcher looking to get published? Don’t miss out on financial support and mentorship with the Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship, in partnership with Writers & Artists. Find out how you can apply here: bit.ly/4mHlgcn

Had a great week at Rockfield studios in Monmouth with the Pro7ect team, writing and recording songs. My wordsmith abilities were put to the test with allegedly (day 1), paradoxical intention (day 2), and purgatory (day 3) 😂.

What a beautiful week in the Scottish highlands writing songs with amazing people. Thank you all for sharing your time and space, and for the wonderful music making I’ve been privileged to witness and be part of.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

ALCS day always a happy surprise. Keep reading, folks 😊

So very sad to hear this news. MP3: the Meaning of a Format, and The Audible Past have been hugely important texts to my lecturing over the years. Diminished Faculties has been a touchstone to me as a scholar and personally over the last few years. 1/2 dukeupress.wordpress.com/2025/03/21/f...

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

We had an absolutely brilliant @royalmusical.bsky.social Pathways to Publication event yesterday, held at UoBristol’s Victoria Rooms. Thanks so much to the speakers who gave freely of their time and insights, and all IRL and virtual participants who were so attentive and had some great questions.

✨Registration is now open for the RMA Study Day - Everyday Music Scenes: Pubs, Clubs and 'Stutes.✨ And we’re excited to announce that @petebrownbeer.bsky.social, author of Clubland: How the Working Men’s Club Shaped Britain, will be giving our keynote… with a twist! @royalmusical.bsky.social

🔈 Calling musicians in Cardiff! Musicians, students and alumni will be gathering tomorrow in a mass protest against the proposed plan to close Cardiff University School of Music ✊ Every young person in Wales should have the chance to benefit from arts education

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

From the male voice choirs of the Valleys to the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, music is woven into the fabric of Welsh identity - a ‘Land of Song’ whose voice is being ripped out ✍🏻 Nathan James Dearden wp.me/p8Mk4U-V3y

Don't hesitate to feed yourself the good stuff, artistically and intellectually. It's the best antidote to... all this.

Join me in staring into the middle distance in quiet horror www.forbes.com/sites/danfit...

Please consider signing in support of our friends and colleagues in the School of Music at Cardiff University. Music and the arts make everything better. This is so shortsighted.

Scottish musicologist bat signal

Donned a square hat again today, this time for my MA in Creative Writing from the UoBristol #bristolgrad. Yesterday heard Jacob Collier and Chris Thile at Bristol Beacon. Flying visit to Edinburgh earlier this week to examine a PhD. What a week!

Caught a typo on yesterday’s post, so please see again: @royalmusical.bsky.social students and ECRs!! Please see the below for information about an event about getting published in academia. Aimed at musicologists, broadly speaking: Tuesday 4th March, 1-4pm, University of Bristol Victoria Rooms.

University of Aberdeen, you are very beautiful. Here for the @royalmusical.bsky.social/BFE RSC. I am holding networking and ‘how to navigate a conference’ drop in session 9-10 tomorrow, and an ‘Academic Resilience’ workshop 1400-1530. All in MacRobert 028. Everyone welcome!

🚨Update from RSC organisers 🚨: 'We are looking forward to welcoming delegates to Aberdeen. While there is still snow on the ground and the weather is chilly, we no NOT expect significant travel disruption later in the week and there are NO changes planned to the running of the conference.'

For my musician friends who don’t want their music stolen for genAI www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

Galley Beggar Press is hiring! We need a reliable, book-loving, Norwich-based administrative assistant for six months - starting January, 10 hours a week, and with the possibility of extending: Closing date: 13 December 2024 Full details: www.galleybeggar.co.uk/new-page-34 (Please do share!)

A date for your diary: we're pleased to announce that the 2026 BFE & RMA Research Students' Conference will be hosted by the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire on 6-8 January 2026.

Poem by Joseph Fasano. It’s that time of year. H/T to Alice Adams for the picture.

I like my wine not so much mulled as thoroughly historicised.

I know a better way to create natural, human-sounding writing, it's called writing

Happy to see this out in the world! It has been a delightful coauthoring experience with Jan, Simon and Ingrid (none of whose can be tagged as not yet on Bluesky 😊). https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2024.2428035

Reminder - the @foundationswift.bsky.social needs 3 Creative Associates, who will strengthen connections with women poets in Wolverhampton, London, & Newcastle. The aim is to build networks by delivering impactful in-person work in these 3 cities. Info 👇 tinyurl.com/2uvzhhpu #Poets #WomenPoets

Call for Proposals: Royal Musical Association 61st Annual Conference, Department of Music, University of Southampton (10–12 September 2025) www.rma.ac.uk/2024/11/20/c...

Worth celebrating and promoting to any young people considering studying for a music degree: the value of the UK music industry has hit a record high of £7.6bn www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Grateful to be in the room for a generous, thoughtful and thought provoking @royalmusical.bsky.social round table on Equality, Diversion and Inclusion. Call to action to music HEA to do better, and do more.

Good morning London! Stepping out to join colleagues and friends at @royalmusical.bsky.social #rma150. My workshop on Academic Resilience is at 2, straight after lunch. Everyone welcome.

We had a great few days in Berlin with the SC21 Songwriting Camp. Some phenomenal songs were written.

Had a great day presenting the key note (and chairing the fascinating research student papers at the @royalmusical.bsky.social Qualitative Interview Techniques study day yesterday.

Having a leisurely transfer in Schiphol en route to the DWB camp in Belgium. What is this madness?! I even have time for lunch and a coffee and to finish a review 😊

News: nominations now open for Royal Musical Association Council. We have openings for three Ordinary Members and one Vice-President. Further details here: www.rma.ac.uk/2024/05/16/n...

What a week at the Knoydart Retreat. Did some ethnographical observation, wrote some songs, and made some friends. This picture captures the experience I think: taken from the house where we stayed, ate, wrote and played, that’s me conducting a qualitative interview with one of the participants.

Reading and loving The List of Suspicious Things @jenniegauthor.bsky.social. I am late to the party here but a million congratulations! What an achievement 😊

Thursday night dinner in Graz. Cafe culture: Wiener schnitzel and excellent conversation! @mborshuk.bsky.social

A post I wrote for the Cambridge University Press academic blog to promote Jazz and American Culture: www.cambridgeblog.org/2024/03/jazz... JazzSky

So long, Graz, you’ve been great. Beautiful city and a great conference. Wonderful to catch up with old friends and colleagues, and to hear some fabulous music and scholarship. Sorry to leave a day early (and to miss the chocolate factory!).

Rhythm Changes Runners (group B!) in Graz

Happy to be here at Rhythm Changes, listening to the Reflecting on Jazz (Studies) panel. Fascinating talk by Michael Duch on how we address the gender imbalance in jazz education

Bristol airport in the dawn light this morning. Raced through Amsterdam to make my connecting flight. Next stop, Graz, for Rhythm Changes conference 😊 I’ll be speaking about jazz and the American songbook on Mike Borshuk’s jazz and American culture panel tomorrow.

ALCS day is always a pleasant surprise 😊

Day trip to London to deliver a workshop on interview technique and ethnographic methods to RCM doctoral students. What a great bunch! We had a fab afternoon.

Planning a qualitative methods workshop for the RCM (can’t find on Bluesky!). Delightfully analogue reading and note taking at one of my favourite Bristol coffee shops.

Pleased to see this author copy on my desk when I arrived back from a busy few days in Huddersfield. What a great bunch of contributors!