(free) registration for @ctjournal.bsky.social's Global Dialogues conference is now open! en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe. i realise not many people who follow me on here are in or near Lima; please share if anyone you know is! (keynotes - ~13:00 and 20:00 UK time each day - will be livestreamed)

London comms job! work with me! £31kish. feel free to DM with any Qs

They argue for a data-first culture where ‘bad news’ is not seen as a threat, and for investing in an infrastructure that allows for independent collection and analysis of data. Read the guest blog: pec.ac.uk/blog_entries...

The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? 'Culture is Bad for You' exposes systems of precarity, and the exclusion of women, people of colour, and working-class people: www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... #EdBookFest #booksky

Anyone making their way to Edinburgh (or already nearby!), I *think* that there are still tickets available - come here me, @markrt.bsky.social and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social chat about whether Culture is still bad for you www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

British Academy's just announced its new Fellows. 19 Oxbridge, 29 other Russell Group, 9 elsewhere (2xSt Andrews, Aberdeen, Courtauld, Institute for Historical Research, Leicester, Surrey, UEA, Reading), 0 post-92. cool well-functioning higher education section we've got

Edinburgh! 19 August! 15:30! Spiegeltent! Book! www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival... (per the advertising, i promise @orianbrook.bsky.social and I will be slightly higher up than @drdaveobrien.bsky.social throughout)

Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint" 🙄 www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

CfP! We Want More: Music / Sociology! Call for papers | International Popular Music Studies Conference at @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social 8th April 2026, deadline for abstracts 1st Oct 2025 www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...

what a team. this’ll be great!

Peru! enormously excited for this. get those abstracts in!

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and Cultural Trends invite you: Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development: A Global Dialogue Lima, Peru | 5–7 November 2025 Full announcement and CFP: www.linkedin.com/posts/cultur...

Just a reminder that if you are in Edinburgh you can hear me, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social, antonio cuyler, Beata Kowalczyk and Ines Ruiz Alvarado chaired by @klloyd.bsky.social talking about all things inequality in creative work on Tuesday evening at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social

today!

Some weekend reading! @petersoc.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social & I blogging for @creativepec.bsky.social about our recent paper on who gets film funding from the BFI pec.ac.uk/blog_entries... (spoilers- there are lots of inequalities)

Ruoxi's the best

god i love quants

Manc! culture's still bad for you!

Today, we launch our latest State of the Nations report, 'Skills Mismatches in the UK's Creative Industries'. Download Here: https://buff.ly/3WVDpI4 1/8

more than *twenty* parties? what supercomputer could possibly attempt such a feat

Hi, we are the Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre! We bring together independent research and policy recommendations for the UK's Creative Industries. Learn more about what we do by following us or visiting our website: tinyurl.com/2fhwbdjz

it's MA reference season again. one university has asked me to rate one of my students on 22 different scales, including "commitment to public/community service" and "energy and drive". (i'm doing it, obviously, but who designed this?)

i've got Glastonbury tickets and i'm very excited about it

ICYMI: I wrote a report with @suttontrust.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social @markrt.bsky.social about social inequalities in creative education and creative work. Lots of good stuff in here, confirming/putting numbers on things that we might guess. Some key findings:

This drops tomorrow, including new research from @markrt.bsky.social @orianbrook.bsky.social & me on the challenge of (& lack of!) social mobility into creative higher eduction

i'm in Australia. that means it's 10:30 in the morning, and i can leave the telly onwhile i'm doing work. a strange and delightful experience to be watching election coverage at this time of day

time to try a bit harder at this website

i'm talking at this!

i like how this is as janky as twitter (i promise i’ll do things like “add a profile picture” and “add a biography” at some stage)