Mark Taylor

say what you want about Qualtrics, it’ll consistently remember your progress 🤷

HBD NG

just to echo Robin: *23*?

(i’m on my way home from a performance at an NPO hosted by another NPO, let’s see what i get asked to do)

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…

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

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

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

don’t like this description of my hairline

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

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

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

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

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)

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.

(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)

thought Macauley’s The Cook was vg

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

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

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.

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...

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…

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...

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

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?

the background to how this is made is incredible

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

Doha?

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)

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

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

🙄

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

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.

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...

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...

oh wow this’ll be great

what a team. this’ll be great!

👏 this’ll be great

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