the anthropocene is over, we now live in the slopocene

IASPM Canada @iaspmca 2025 conference CFP. Early submissions, for SSHRC funding consideration, due tomorrow - March 15th. Regular submissions due April 1st. Conference to be held at Toronto Metropolitan University, 16 - 18 October 2025. iaspm.ca/2025-iaspm-ca-confe…

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Come work with me! Lecturer in Digital Media. Expertise in social media and data analytics preferred. stir.ac.uk/about/work-at-sti…

CFP: IASPM Canada @iaspmca conference. October 16-19, 2025 in Toronto. iaspm.ca/2025-iaspm-ca-confe…

Applications now open for funded PhD opportunities at @StirUni in Creative Industries. People working on relevant music research are welcome to apply. stir.ac.uk/research/research…

Academic Lolly Stirling University boss, Sir Gerry McCormac, [pictured] has rocketed 40% - from £295,000 in 2022, to a whopping £414,000 last year. His total package, including pension contributions, has been raised from £320,000 two years ago to £438,000 today. Gerry has now overtaken Edinburgh University head Sir Peter Mathieson, becoming the highest paid further education boss in Scotland - and receives more than double the £166,786 earned annually by Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The increase was branded "simply obscene" last night by Mary Senior, Scotland official at the UCU union, who warned pay hikes for bosses were compounding the financial challenges faced by universities. There are fears they also undermine repeated calls from the sector for the Scottish Government to implement a more sustainable funding model. Senior said: "University staff can only dream about getting 14 per cent salary hikes. Over the past two years this principal has managed to add almost a staggering £120,000 to his annual earnings. With the extra £24,000 in added benefits he receives, he earns over nine times more than the average worker at the university. "This level of salary and salary inflation at the top of our universities is simply obscene. However, the university said Sir Gerry had turned down pay rises in eight of the past ten years, and had donated £120,000 to the Vice-Chancellor's Fund in the last decade.

Ridiculous 😡

Lmao at thousands of people downloading Rednote (the version of tiktok that is actually owned by China) to spite the U.S. government, finding themselves having lovely interactions with the millions of Chinese citizens on the app & inadvertently undoing decades of U.S. propaganda.

This statue just appeared at a park in Philadelphia

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump (Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

Donald Trump has won the 2024 election. Four years after launching an unprecedented attack on democracy and leaving the White House in disgrace, the convicted felon will return to Washington, DC, as the 47th president of the United States. 🔗: vanityfair.visitlink.me/xOOx…

Headline writers not messing about

Donald Trump — the twice impeached former president, Jan. 6 coup leader, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual abuser, and man who mismanaged the 2020 economic implosion and coronavirus disaster that killed more than 1 million people in this country — has convinced American voters to give him another term in the White House. 🔗 rollingstone.com/politics/po…

Honoured to be giving the Dave Sanjek popular music keynote at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference this year. If you're signed up to attend, please join me this Sunday, October 20th, 20:15 (UK time). What's better than listening to some AI music on a Sunday night? 😆🤖