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it's the kind of line that reassures you they haven't wasted any money on marketing, that's for sure

the wines from this place are very nice (the red's a lot better than it has any right to be given the climate) www.leventhorpevineyard.co.uk

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Welcome to Leventhorpe Vineyard

Leventhorpe Vineyard - Award Winning Yorkshire Wines

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UCD Research @ucdresearch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🎬🎭 Dr Victoria Durrer, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, will work with colleagues in Ireland and the UK on a new Research Ireland / AHRC project that addresses a significant gap in our understanding of migration and mobility in the screen industries. www.ucd.ie/research/new...

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Six networking awards to boost UK-Ireland collaboration in the creative economy

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 09/09/2026

this effectively captures why i've always hated "PhD researcher", "doctoral researcher", etc and haven't been able to put my finger on it - being a PhD student is a valid thing and people needn't try to sidestep the term

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 11/08/2026

35 vivas as external by 2025 is if anything even wilder (start the clock in 2018 and that's 5 a year, which would be loads for anyone, particularly someone relatively junior)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 24/07/2026

try it again now? (sorry, was a "&" vs "and" issue)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 21/07/2026

argh sorry, will get fixed!

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 27/06/2026

down a rabbit hole now. i’m really sad that this is coming from Leeds Media and Comms, not a school with a reputation for publishing total bollocks

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 27/06/2026

hmm, i wonder if they had any expectations going into the work

text: The review, conducted by researchers from four UK universities known as the Action on Digital Device Immersive Conditions Team, did not establish causal links between screen use and specific developmental conditions. However, it was emphatic that “no under-twos should receive regular intentional screen time. Passive exposure is societally unavoidable, so adding deliberate use compounds risk without any meaningful benefit.”

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 22/06/2026

hey, he doesn't follow *me*

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 22/06/2026

is France gonna make it????

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 28/04/2026

furious at how good this is

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 21/04/2026

i want to say this is verse 5?

text:

Gaston: When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs
Ev'ry morning to help me get large
And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 25/03/2026

what a lineup in this thread

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 20/03/2026

more oil, more garlic… more houmous?

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 21/02/2026

100ml of dried chickpeas, loads of water, 35 minutes under high pressure gives you roughly a can of chickpeas that can be happily dropped into a sauce

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

📈 New research published today by Creative PEC shows that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’, higher than both the Life Sciences (5.1%) and Advanced Manufacturing (2.4%). 🔗 shorturl.at/cWxlF

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High-Growth Potential Firms in the UK's Creative Industries - Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre

This new report demonstrates that the Creative Industries account for almost a tenth of UK firms classified as having ‘high-growth potential’.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 04/02/2026

this closes in two weeks. the offer to email me with any Qs remains open!

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The deadline to submit papers for the Creative PEC Research Symposium 2026 is fast approaching. Send your extended abstract of ~500 words to research@pec.ac.uk by Monday 2nd February. For more information and to register for the Symposium, email research@pec.ac.uk.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 27/01/2026

another quick boost for this - closes 18 Feb. please send to quantitatively-oriented culture people in your life! they can email me!

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 23/01/2026

work with me and @drdaveobrien.bsky.social as part of @creativepec.bsky.social! we're recruiting a postdoc to work on the arts, culture and heritage sectors using quantitative methods. please share, please feel free to email me directly with any Qs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Sheffiel...

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Research Associate in Creative Industries (Quantitative)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 16/01/2026

(no spoilers) you’re going to love Traitors Ireland

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 17/12/2025

big component of your etc is this (where regions are suggested as MCAs) which seems to determine a huge fraction of the portfolio being chunked up significantly in advance?

National ACE should determine the funding of all the organisations across the country that are nationally significant. The National Board would be advised by sectoral panels of experts. There should also be a stronger role given to ACE’s artform directors.

All other monies should be devolved to new local and regional decision-making boards. These will comprise local artists, representatives of local community organisations, local education representatives and representatives from local government.

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Alice Borchi @aliceborchi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Funded PhD opportunities thread! 1) Creative Bridges: Are you passionate about shaping the future of the screen industries? Applications are now open for Creative Bridges CDT, an AHRC-funded doctoral training programme from the University of Leeds and University of Warwick. creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk

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Creative Bridges – Connecting Diversity and Sustainability for UK Screen Industries

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 27/10/2025

i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 11/10/2025

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 11/10/2025

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)

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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

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…

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

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

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

don’t like this description of my hairline

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/10/2025

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

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Cultural Trends Journal @ctjournal.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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

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International Conference

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 29/09/2025

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)

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 18/09/2025

(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)

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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.

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 10/09/2025

thought Macauley’s The Cook was vg

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 08/09/2025

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

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Mark Taylor @markrt.co.uk · 13/08/2025

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

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Creative PEC @creativepec.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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...

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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.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

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

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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…

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