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RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
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I’ve been asked to do a phone interview tomorrow on ‘how the funding crisis is affecting early career academics’
Apart from ‘there are no jobs’, what else should we be saying? #academia
Apart from ‘there are no jobs’, what else should we be saying? #academia
October 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’ve been asked to do a phone interview tomorrow on ‘how the funding crisis is affecting early career academics’
Apart from ‘there are no jobs’, what else should we be saying? #academia
Apart from ‘there are no jobs’, what else should we be saying? #academia
Bringing flashbacks of when I was just about to submit
Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Bringing flashbacks of when I was just about to submit
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Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social
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Treat yourself - listen on Bandcamp, and then buy it to keep! Bandcamp waive their commission on Bandcamp Fridays, so Musica Secreta will benefit even more from your purchase.
Hey hey it's #BandcampFriday everyone and our new album is just right here, right now, celebrating women and music, and you just KNOW you want to order it today!!
musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...
musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...
Ricordanze: a record of love, by Musica Secreta
31 track album
musicasecreta.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Treat yourself - listen on Bandcamp, and then buy it to keep! Bandcamp waive their commission on Bandcamp Fridays, so Musica Secreta will benefit even more from your purchase.
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Congratulations to the 28 ensembles who are celebrating their successful grant applications this week!
Here's a new commute playlist featuring an hour of beautiful recordings by some of this round's new grantees.
Listen now on Spotify 🎧 go.continuoconnect.com/grant-round-...
Here's a new commute playlist featuring an hour of beautiful recordings by some of this round's new grantees.
Listen now on Spotify 🎧 go.continuoconnect.com/grant-round-...
September 29, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Congratulations to the 28 ensembles who are celebrating their successful grant applications this week!
Here's a new commute playlist featuring an hour of beautiful recordings by some of this round's new grantees.
Listen now on Spotify 🎧 go.continuoconnect.com/grant-round-...
Here's a new commute playlist featuring an hour of beautiful recordings by some of this round's new grantees.
Listen now on Spotify 🎧 go.continuoconnect.com/grant-round-...
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We have our first review for Ricordanze! Thank you Interlude interlude.hk/nuns-celebra...
Musica Secreta Uncovers Lost Convent Manuscripts
Discover rare 16th-century sacred music from Galileo's daughters' convent near Florence. Musica Secreta's new album reveals hidden Renaissance treasures.
interlude.hk
September 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
We have our first review for Ricordanze! Thank you Interlude interlude.hk/nuns-celebra...
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Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
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@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social this was a film idea I had yesterday and someone has got there first
the history will continue until morale improves
September 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social this was a film idea I had yesterday and someone has got there first
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Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
September 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan
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🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!
Songs and Fancies: Aberdonian music-making in the 17th Century
Image: Title page from the 3rd edition of Songs and Fancies, 1682, from an ABE Books sales page (other versions also exist from e.g. the NLS). This post welcomes guest-author Roslyn Potter, who is …
soundyngs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
🎶 I wrote a piece on 'Songs and Fancies', Scotland's earliest printed music book. Many thanks to Jane Petteree over at Soundyngs blog for hosting!
Yesterday I completed the skipping challenge (though I was perhaps not as consistent as I was at the beginning!) and we managed to raise £245 for Crohn's & Colitis UK! Thanks so much to everyone who donated, your generosity will make a big difference to someone suffering with this illness.
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Yesterday I completed the skipping challenge (though I was perhaps not as consistent as I was at the beginning!) and we managed to raise £245 for Crohn's & Colitis UK! Thanks so much to everyone who donated, your generosity will make a big difference to someone suffering with this illness.
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If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used.
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how
Part 1: is your work in Libgen?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
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Just a few more hours to grab rewards from our crowdfunder!
Don't worry, though, if you are more inclined to support us by a simple donation or by pre-ordering the album on Bandcamp, you can do that, too.
We'll remind you about Bandcamp Friday *next week*!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...
Don't worry, though, if you are more inclined to support us by a simple donation or by pre-ordering the album on Bandcamp, you can do that, too.
We'll remind you about Bandcamp Friday *next week*!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...
Musica Secreta's new album for 2025: Ricordanze
Help us fund our eleventh recording and our second self-release - Ricordanze: a record of love - of music from a sixteenth-century convent.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
August 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Just a few more hours to grab rewards from our crowdfunder!
Don't worry, though, if you are more inclined to support us by a simple donation or by pre-ordering the album on Bandcamp, you can do that, too.
We'll remind you about Bandcamp Friday *next week*!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...
Don't worry, though, if you are more inclined to support us by a simple donation or by pre-ordering the album on Bandcamp, you can do that, too.
We'll remind you about Bandcamp Friday *next week*!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/musica-sec...
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fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
August 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
It's not too late to donate to this wonderful project!
It's Week 7 of our crowdfunder and we have a final history lesson for you! This week with added #MedRenMascot Curtis. If you haven't found time to support us yet, do consider pledging for signed books or CDs, pre-order the album on Bandcamp or donate direct to us on our website. youtu.be/NlAhZu-JKIQ
Crowdfunder 7: Visits ft. Curtis
YouTube video by MusicaSecreta
youtu.be
August 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
It's not too late to donate to this wonderful project!
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It's Week 7 of our crowdfunder and we have a final history lesson for you! This week with added #MedRenMascot Curtis. If you haven't found time to support us yet, do consider pledging for signed books or CDs, pre-order the album on Bandcamp or donate direct to us on our website. youtu.be/NlAhZu-JKIQ
Crowdfunder 7: Visits ft. Curtis
YouTube video by MusicaSecreta
youtu.be
August 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
It's Week 7 of our crowdfunder and we have a final history lesson for you! This week with added #MedRenMascot Curtis. If you haven't found time to support us yet, do consider pledging for signed books or CDs, pre-order the album on Bandcamp or donate direct to us on our website. youtu.be/NlAhZu-JKIQ
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Tune in to BBC Radio 3 tonight at 21:15 to hear a special interview with our Patron Roger Norrington, first broadcast in 2020 – he spoke with presenter Tom Service about his distinguished career in music, and in particular his relationship with Beethoven 🎙️
August 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Tune in to BBC Radio 3 tonight at 21:15 to hear a special interview with our Patron Roger Norrington, first broadcast in 2020 – he spoke with presenter Tom Service about his distinguished career in music, and in particular his relationship with Beethoven 🎙️
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Music historians WATCH THIS SPACE:
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
July 30, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Music historians WATCH THIS SPACE:
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social will shortly advertise a permanent opera/music theatre AND/OR 19th century position.
Immediate start preferred (no later than Jan 26), interviews likely Sept/early Oct.
Will update with details as soon as the ad is published.
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YOU: How did your date go
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
November 3, 2024 at 8:06 PM
YOU: How did your date go
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
ME: Eh, I think it's going to stay Platonic
YOU: Why?
ME: Well I said the chicken sounded good, and she said 'when you say "good", do you mean "good" as we say a child is good or a horse is good, or that it contains goodness, or that it promotes goodness through its acti
This month I am going to be taking part in @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social #bigsummerskip.
Backstory: after needing surgery last year I was diagnosed with Crohn's and the charity was such a massive help.
Skipping history: nil.
Fav exercise: lying down, perhaps holding a book for conditioning.
Backstory: after needing surgery last year I was diagnosed with Crohn's and the charity was such a massive help.
Skipping history: nil.
Fav exercise: lying down, perhaps holding a book for conditioning.
August 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
This month I am going to be taking part in @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social #bigsummerskip.
Backstory: after needing surgery last year I was diagnosed with Crohn's and the charity was such a massive help.
Skipping history: nil.
Fav exercise: lying down, perhaps holding a book for conditioning.
Backstory: after needing surgery last year I was diagnosed with Crohn's and the charity was such a massive help.
Skipping history: nil.
Fav exercise: lying down, perhaps holding a book for conditioning.
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Me (pulling sheet off an oil painting): Voilà! I must say I'm very pleased with the colours - I thought the waterlilies came out beautifully
Boss: ...
Me: what
Boss: errr I'm sorry, when I said 'can we monetise this concept' there might have been a small misunderstanding
Boss: ...
Me: what
Boss: errr I'm sorry, when I said 'can we monetise this concept' there might have been a small misunderstanding
November 22, 2024 at 9:42 PM
Me (pulling sheet off an oil painting): Voilà! I must say I'm very pleased with the colours - I thought the waterlilies came out beautifully
Boss: ...
Me: what
Boss: errr I'm sorry, when I said 'can we monetise this concept' there might have been a small misunderstanding
Boss: ...
Me: what
Boss: errr I'm sorry, when I said 'can we monetise this concept' there might have been a small misunderstanding
Quite possibly the slowest Morales I have ever heard on radio three, sigh.
July 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Quite possibly the slowest Morales I have ever heard on radio three, sigh.
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obviously c) is that they should only be allowed to enter university challenge as “Oxford” and “Cambridge” unless each college wants to be individually assessed for the REF
July 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
obviously c) is that they should only be allowed to enter university challenge as “Oxford” and “Cambridge” unless each college wants to be individually assessed for the REF
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I know this seems like a tiny thing but I am so, so committed to the idea that Oxbridge should a) not have an earlier UCAS deadline b) not have the stupid “can’t apply to both” rule in place. They aren’t special! Stop pretending that they’re special!
A strange by-product of widening participation at Oxbridge is that it reinforces the idea that not getting into Oxbridge is a big deal; it really isn’t. It’s not a disadvantage to go elsewhere. There are (for now at least) great unis in the UK & it’s not a good thing to act like Oxbridge is special
we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already
July 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I know this seems like a tiny thing but I am so, so committed to the idea that Oxbridge should a) not have an earlier UCAS deadline b) not have the stupid “can’t apply to both” rule in place. They aren’t special! Stop pretending that they’re special!