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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 13h

Nice to see two excellent academic collections on audiences, data and policy [including my only (!) academic article] in new (more affordable) editions:

www.routledge.com/A-Reader-on-...

www.routledge.com/Audience-Dat...

Credit to @sdjhadley.bsky.social for editing/making them happen…

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 16h

this is a perfect short story, please congratulate your friend (on the narration, not the content)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 16h

i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this

meme template where Worf's sceptical of one thing but enthusiastic about a second. the first is a poster for the movie the Green Book; the second is the HM Treasury Green Book on appraisal and evaluation

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 18h

don’t like this description of my hairline

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 18h

in four years' time, the question will have been answered!

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 19h

funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!

Christiaan Monden @cmonden.bsky.social · 20h

Great (paid) PhD opportunity. Excellent environment, conditions, and supervisors. And a topic close to my heart. (Selfish reason for promoting this: I fear there won't be enough concerts for retired me to go to. Geen dag zonder Bach.) vacatures.knaw.nl/job/The-Hagu...

PhD position "Is the audience for classical music concerts fading out?"

vacatures.knaw.nl

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Cultural Trends Journal @ctjournal.bsky.social · 3d

Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation.
🔗 en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe

#CulturalPolicy #GlobalSouth

International Conference

PUCP and the scientific journal Cultural Trends organize the 2025 edition of the International Conference

en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 11d

it's absolutely massive in Australia for some reason but it's never really caught on here (other than that pieces sometimes get syndicated in eg the Guardian)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · 22d

(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)

International Conference

This conference is part of the Global Dialogues series of Cultural Trends magazine. In this 2025 edition, the event will be held at the PUCP, Lima - Peru.

en.dialogo-global2025.pucp.edu.pe

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Sep 10

thought Macauley’s The Cook was vg

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Sep 8

ah man this sucks. hope your break's restful and fun

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Aug 13

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

Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · Aug 5

If you'd like to help us support the UK's creative industries, we're currently hiring a London-based Comms and Events Officer. Please do apply if it matches your interests and experience. Closing date is 7 September.

Full details here: pec.ac.uk/job_entries/...

We're hiring a Comms and Events Officer - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

Creative PEC, working in partnership with Newcastle University and the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) is recruiting for a Communications and Events Officer Contract Type: Fixed Term Working Pattern: Fu...

pec.ac.uk

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · Aug 12

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...

When Data Hurts: What the Arts Can Learn from the BLS Firing - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

Read the blog from Douglas Noonan and Joanna Woronkowicz about the dangers of dismissing or discarding data that doesn't fit the narrative.

pec.ac.uk

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Aug 11

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

Orian Brook, Dave O’Brien & Mark Taylor: Is Culture Bad For You?

From Tue 19 Aug - The benefits of culture to health, education and community are championed, but can culture ever do wrong? First published in 2020, academics and creative industry experts Orian…

www.edbookfest.co.uk

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Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social · Aug 4

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...

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 25

it's all the same people! it's so weird

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 25

the background to how this is made is incredible

www.economist.com/1843/2022/07...

Hocus focus: how magicians made a fortune on Facebook

A group of illusionists got rich making addictive videos for social media. Did it cost them their souls?

www.economist.com

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 25

Doha?

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 18

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 16

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)

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jon w @jnthnxiv.bsky.social · Jul 9

Being an artists is about "suffering and madness" while "completely covered in paint"

🙄

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

Ed Sheeran’s Pollock homage has energy but no feeling or truth

Abstract art like this gives all abstract art a bad name, just meaningless concoctions that avoid proper scrutiny

www.theguardian.com

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Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

We Want More: Music / Sociology!

Join us to explore the sociology of (popular) music – from AI to activism, labour to care. Call for papers open until 1 October 2025.

www.eur.nl

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 3

here it is (i have some questions about the minutiae of the survey but not about the general headlines) corporate.harpercollins.co.uk/press-releas...

New research reveals that parents are losing the love of reading aloud - HarperCollins Publishers - HCUK Corporate

corporate.harpercollins.co.uk

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 3

oh wow this’ll be great

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Mark Taylor @markrt.bsky.social · Jul 3

what a team. this’ll be great!

Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · Jul 3

📢 Exciting news! The University of Leeds and the University of Warwick have together secured one of just ten AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards for Creative Bridges – a major new interdisciplinary PhD programme focused on sustainability and diversity in the screen industries. 🧵

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