Andrew Leyshon

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Again, not new: the Jamaican music economy was like this years ago as it was virtually impossible to protect IPR. Performance became prioritised as source of income. Big cheaper than a night at Wembley though, admittedly.

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

There’s a chapter on live performance in the book on The Platform Music Industries by me and @allanwatson1.bsky.social which came out earlier this year. As copyright has been devalorised (for most artists) as streaming platforms makes all music easily available, the event becomes more important.

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Agreed, but the success of the tour is also the length of the band’s absence, and the accumulated desire of fans to see them together live again in an age when the financial returns from performance far outstrips those of recordings. This is not new. The Stones have long been their own tribute band.

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - States of Ignorance

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Mike Slaven

@mcslaven.bsky.social

If you want to know what a new UK digital ID for immigration would mean, read "States of Ignorance" a book that came out of an ESRC project comparing the development of UK control with two countries with ID. From this research, I think it's a dangerous idea 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

States of Ignorance

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

The parallels to housing subprime are clear, but with a twist. The value of many of the assets is based on repayments from a predominantly immigrant worker market, but ICE action has disrupted such communities, as an earlier FT report (15.9.25 below) pointed out, so undermining the payment base.

Kyle 'out of touch' for claiming British students 'lack drive'

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Kyle perhaps should be more interested in rigour than vigour: then he might not have conflated Stanford with the entire US university system. There are historical and geographical reasons why students who want to be founders might chose to go to Stanford.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 18d

UK’s business secretary facing backlash after claiming British students lack “drive” compared to their American counterparts

#highered #EduSky

Former science secretary called ‘out of touch’ after accusing British students of lacking 'vigour'

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Kyle 'out of touch' for claiming British students 'lack drive'

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Times Higher Education (THE)

@timeshighered.bsky.social

UK’s business secretary facing backlash after claiming British students lack “drive” compared to their American counterparts

#highered #EduSky

Former science secretary called ‘out of touch’ after accusing British students of lacking 'vigour'

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Daniela Gabor

@danielagabor.bsky.social

today, Rachel Reeves meets BlackRock & Blackstone bosses to ask what British derisking state can do for them.

New Rip-off Britain project by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows what institutional ownership has done for us: 200bn from our pockets to Big Finance!

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Farewell Evernote, it's been ... expensive
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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 21d

I've finally deleted my Evernote subscription, which I started using in 2012, intially for taking notes in the meetings I was having as HoS, but stuck with it for ease of online clipping. I've ended up with a large collection of notes & notebooks. But it's got ridiculously expensive over time . 1/4

Releases · stefankueng/EvImSync

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

For any remaining Evernote users wishing to make a simpler jump, here's the transfer software I found on GitHub. 4/4 github.com/stefankueng/...

Contribute to stefankueng/EvImSync development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

The subscription fee was virtually doubled year on year when Evernote was bought by Bending Spoons in 2023, . who seem to be the Mike Ashley of the app world: that is, find a distressed asset with a customer base and rinse asset hard before any the value the brand once had evaporates. 3/4

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Inertia, but mainly an inability to find a way to easily port the files across to OneNote meant I perservered. I finally found a programme that works. Still need to move the files notebook by notebook, which is taking ages, and it's not entirely bug-free, but will be done before account reverts. 2/4

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

I've finally deleted my Evernote subscription, which I started using in 2012, intially for taking notes in the meetings I was having as HoS, but stuck with it for ease of online clipping. I've ended up with a large collection of notes & notebooks. But it's got ridiculously expensive over time . 1/4

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by Andrew Leyshon — Reposted by: Andrew Leyshon

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Music platforms pushing back against AI music with the use of detection software. Deezer calculate 33% of tracks uploaded are AI (!), but account for only 0.5% of streams. But if one gets through, & makes a playlist, it can generate a lot of income.
www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nearly-a-thi...

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by Andrew Leyshon — Reposted by: Anand Menon

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Interesting that @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social argues that financial market concerns that a populist party might win the next UK election helps explain the interest rate premium attached to UK debt. Might this see PR being mobilised as a necessary step to remove a punishing burden on growth?

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Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

I’m sympathetic but impossible to enforce globally, and even if it was might just pull the ladder away for a younger generation of academics. It’s always been impossible to read everything: in the pre-digital age a lot of time was wasted just tracking stuff down!

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Data & Society

@datasociety.bsky.social

More reporting on how electricity rates for individuals & small businesses could rise as tech companies build data centers: “Despite tech companies’ professed desire not to burden others, they often push regulators to impose some of the upgrade costs on everybody.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

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by Benjamin Braun — Reposted by: Andrew Leyshon, John Hogan, Henry Farrell , and 1 more Andrew Leyshon, John Hogan, Henry Farrell, Benjamin Braun

Benjamin Braun

@benbraun.bsky.social

From the piece, a pair of paragraphs about money and banking as close to perfection as you’ll ever see. Shot:

JPMorgan in recent months has assigned a team of internal researchers to unearth legal documents related to the era of so-called wildcat banking from two centuries ago. In that era, hundreds of state-chartered banks issued their own currencies. JPMorgan’s researchers were looking into whether some of those dormant laws applied to the bank’s plan to create its own stablecoin today.

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Parasitic mercantilism?

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

I don't disagree, being a geographer, with parts of geography long being effectively post-disciplinary. But I'm mainly replying to say that the sight of all those ink annotations of your book makes me feel slightly quesy! I feel like staging an intervention and gifting you some HB pencils.

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome)

@hannahshelley.bsky.social

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

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Economy & Society

@econsocjournal.bsky.social

We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu

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“By doing maybe one Doors show a month we can fill a hole in our dire finances”: Mercury-nominated UK band Field Music are working as a tribute act

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Late to this: a good example of the difficulties most artists have in making a living in the contemporary music economy. Long-standing indie band @fieldmusicmusic.bsky.social moonlight as a Doors cover band to make ends meet. I'd happily pay to watch them in either form! tinyurl.com/49b37t54

“Any embarrassment I might have felt about doing this has dissolved," the band explain, while thoroughly detailing their predicament

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Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

I think she was joking.

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

A cultural industries colleague, who studied science fiction, argued it was 10/9/2008. This was the day the Large Hadron Collider was switched on which, she argued, led to the proliferation of infinite multiple universes. This version of ourselves just happen to be living in a wrong track universe.

Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · Jul 30

When did Britain start to go wrong? In @NewStatesman @georgeeaton looks at our polling of when the public think our turn for the worst was. Brexit tops the list, but different voters disagree. Reform voters most likely to pick Blair’s election as putting Britain on wrong track

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Luke Tryl

@luketryl.bsky.social

When did Britain start to go wrong? In @NewStatesman @georgeeaton looks at our polling of when the public think our turn for the worst was. Brexit tops the list, but different voters disagree. Reform voters most likely to pick Blair’s election as putting Britain on wrong track

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by Andrew Leyshon — Reposted by: Paul Langley

Andrew Leyshon

@andrewleyshon.bsky.social

Balancing a desire for innovative growth through fintech expansion with the pervasive fear of another systemic financial crisis, personified here by UK CEx Rachel Reeves and BoE Governor Andrew Bailey, has shaped the evolution of fintech economies since the GFC. #FinTechCapital on.ft.com/44ShfuP

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