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Patrick Allies
@patrickallies.bsky.social
Musician. Visiting Artist and Researcher at KCL.
Artistic Director @SiglodeOroVocal.bsky.social
Musical Director @ICChamberChoir.bsky.social

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mail[at]patrickallies.co.uk
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This week I am mostly very pleased that I got to read an advanced copy of @soumayakeynes.ft.com & @chadpbown.com’s excellent book last week.
January 19, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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British education in a nutshell
January 17, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Why does it look like they've all put on each other's clothes for the photo 😭😭
January 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Going to refer to New York as Neo-Eboracensis from now on
January 16, 2026 at 1:40 PM
I think I'm ready to close my Spotify account... Any suggestions for where to go instead?
January 16, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Unbelievable!
In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.
January 16, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Extraordinary honesty (in a profession that likes to keep things buttoned up). I'm sure it will help others, too.
This interview with conductor Ben Glassberg by my colleague Elisabeth Schwarz is well worth your time and a salutary reminder of the pressures performers face under the social media microscope: bachtrack.com/interview-be...
January 16, 2026 at 11:03 AM
I wonder if they do indulgences
January 16, 2026 at 10:37 AM
As a fan of both West Ham and Aston Villa, I wonder if David Cameron spotted this error?
WM Police chief Craig Guildford has apologised for identifying a fictitious West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match in a police report. He’s written to the home affairs committee and blames Microsoft CoPilot for the error
January 14, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Really sad indictment of our politics that there has been any hesitation about condemning this stuff
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
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My local church in Islington is advertising for a Director of Music (I've helped them a bit with the job spec).

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January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Minister of State Alex Norris tells the BBC he won't personally come off X because it's important for communicating with voters.

None of his tweets for the last month has more than 1000 views.
January 13, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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January 13, 2026 at 9:41 AM
My local church in Islington is advertising for a Director of Music (I've helped them a bit with the job spec).

stjamesislington.org/wp-content/u...
stjamesislington.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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An interesting PhD opportunity (i.e. job!) at Oslo on the project POLYCHROME: "Candidates should propose a research project that examines, in one form or another, historical sources that shed light on changing attitudes to medieval objects after the Reformations in the Scandinavian countries."
Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral Research Fellowship (SKO 1017) at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History (293057), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 22, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Coptic spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice, 6th–7th century CE, Egypt, ink on papyrus, 37.3 x 25.4 cm (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven)
archives.yale.edu/repositories...
January 10, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Semi serious question: why do books have blurbs by fellow authors but music CDs don’t?
January 9, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Surely the headline is: England Captain Struck by Bouncer
January 8, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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I see several people suggesting that the Christmas tree & decorations should be gone by Epiphany, which is tomorrow.

This year, as per usual, I intend to adhere strictly to the Norwegian idiom "twentieth-day Knud (or Canute) chases Christmas out", meaning that everything stays up until January 14.
January 5, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Thank you Musescore. Not the pagination I wanted but I appreciate the irony.
January 5, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Right on cue
January 5, 2026 at 1:04 PM
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JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Stressing over one mistake is ridiculous . . . you will probably make many more, wait and stress over all of them together.
December 31, 2025 at 12:39 PM