Orian Brook

The launch of 'Criminal Justice in Scotland' textbook This event offers an opportunity to bring a range of voices together to reflect on where Scottish criminal justice is and where it's going.

If you're interested in critical research on criminal justice then I cannot recommend this free event on Oct 7 - launch of a new critical textbook on criminal justice system in Scotland by three amazing academics - highly enough. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-launch...

Matthew 25:35-40 (revised version): “For I was hungry, and you cut off funding to feed me, and then decided not to even study how many people are hungry you greedy, miserable bastards.”

Advice for the age

Similar thing from the music world: Dmitri Shostakovich attended a performance of Jesus Christ Superstar.

Oh I am going to have read this, as someone who constantly wonders A: How anyone else doing the job that I do makes a living, and B: Also, actually, how do I make a living?

This was a COVID lockdown project - Giuliana and I both juggled childcare with working on this, and the first time we met in person was after her contract had ended!

We also use Understanding Society to see if multiple jobholders move to one job over time (no) or leave creative work (also no) - combining creative and other work is a relatively stable way of maintaining a creative career, it seems. It's particularly likely for people working outside London.

Precarity and second job-holding in the creative economy There is extensive research on creative occupations, problematising precariousness, pay gaps, unpaid work and other issues. Less research, and little quantitative work, has looked at multiple job-h...

Absolutely thrilled that my paper with Giuliana Giuliani, @drdaveobrien.bsky.social & @markrt.bsky.social is now out in @culturaltrends.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10..... Using the Labour Force Survey we show that people creatives are at least twice as likely to have two jobs

Teachers are so often a glue that holds society together.

Her face! Before she had worked out what to do/say, he'd said his bit and was back to work mode. Legend.

Congratulations to Prof Nasar Meer, whose research into how devolution has shaped - and been shaped by - our response to racial inequality shines a light on both the gaps and the possibilities in current policy.

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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We have a shiny new poster designed by our own @lrjdmnr.bsky.social for our one day symposium in September, registration link coming soon too!

They want to go back to a time when college was only for wealthy White men. Because that will make the rest of the population easier to manipulate with misinformation and easier to force into unpaid care roles (women) or underpaid manual labor jobs that remain as more jobs get AI-ed (men).

Love this. Also, not wishing to start a Ding-Dong Discourse but we called this Knock-Down Ginger

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)

The moment your rules for Lifelong Learning exclude *Birkbeck*, you know your rules are silly.

Checked out the @edbookfest.bsky.social?

Don't miss Vince Cable (Eclipsing the West), @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social (Culture is bad for you) and @aldersonday.bsky.social (Presence).

9-24th August at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social: www.edbookfest.co.uk

An incredible line for an article opener:

‘tech visionaries’ imaginations go limp when it comes to transforming our social reality’

lol word choice calculated for maximum psychic damage

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s?

The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly)

Why?

Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great opportunity to work at the intersection of policymaking, arts and higher education - closing 4 June

www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/project-...

A 9-panel line chart with each panel representing trends in all-cause mortality rates since 1980 in the US and a range of high income countries including the UK, France, Canada and Japan. Each panel is an age group from 0-9, 10-19 etc. up to 80+. In each panel, the US line is both higher (i.e. higher mortality rates) and has a worse trend (rising or stagnant while others are falling).

I know that the US has seen worse life expectancy trends than other high income countries in recent years, but I hadn't realised things were so bad across all ages - particularly people of working age.

US 20-59 year olds are dying at several times the rate of their peers, and it's getting worse.

The workers united will never be defeated!

Our strike action finishes at Sheffield after membership of our UCU branch @sheffielducu.bsky.social accept offer from management for no compulsory redundancies as a result of organisational restructures this year (and no pay deductions to be taken!)

The debate on healthcare, like pensions, runs into an incredible brick wall over the statement: "I've paid taxes all my life".

To which the honest response is: yes, you have. But those taxes were at a rate far too low to provide the level of service British pensioners now expect.

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SGSAH Collaborative Doctoral Award Studentship PhD Title: “Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism Funding body: AHRC  Deadline for applications: 5pm, Friday 30th May…

Seeking PhD student to work on '“Mainlining AI into the Veins”? Library collections as data in the age of Extractive AI Capitalism'. AHRC-funded @sgsah.bsky.social &
supervised by Paul Gooding, @melissaterras.bsky.social , @semames.bsky.social and me. Please share! melissaterras.org/2025/05/06/s...

Manchester University Press - Culture is bad for you Culture is bad for you - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Culture is bad for you by Orian Brook

There is much work still to do: @orianbrook.bsky.social, @markrt.bsky.social & @drdaveobrien.bsky.social's new version of ‘Culture Is Bad For You’ lays bare persistent inequalities in the arts, particularly through social class but also at its intersection with gender and ethnicity

Fantastic opportunity for anyone interested in doing a PhD related to art festivals with the wonderful Sotiria Grek and @profellenstu.bsky.social