Incredible work here
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CFP: Sounding Things: Props, Material Culture, and Accessories in Popular Music
Abstract Deadline: May 1, 2026
Abstract Length: 350–500 words
Editors: Kate Galloway, Paxton Haven, and Mike Levine
Full call here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mfyd...
If you haven't alread, pull your stuff from Academia edu IMMEDIATELY, especially if you have unpublished and draft ideas on there.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
Bad Bunny “together we are America”
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio 👑
Maybe Charlie Puth really SHOULD be a bigger artist
the other required reading is of course p fkn r!!
wealthy influencers who promote sports betting to their young fans will not see the gates of heaven
This!
We're not defending the current iteration of the BBC News department.
We're defending the principle.
While the current reality has rarely been more flawed, the principle has never been more critically important.
This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.
it doesn’t matter to them it doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or if you were born here or if you have your certificate of naturalization in your back pocket or if you never committed a crime they are shooting whoever they want to
I think it would be really helpful if everyone posting their very cool takes on the state of music journalism this week would also encourage people to subscribe to worker-owned outlets & support independent writers trying to make new things happen
BTS! Here at Stanford! Very close to the proverbial crying screaming throwing up
Kelly Hayes(@mskellymhayes.bsky.social), speaking tonight, recalls a Minneapolan today telling at federal agents, "you can't kill us all."
"I am grateful to the people of Minneapolis tonight," she says. "Their courage in the wake of this violence is a bright light for us to rally around."
Renee Nicole Good, 37, was murdered four fifths of a mile from where George Perry Floyd, Jr., 46, was murdered in May of 2020.
@graceroso.bsky.social @chrisdeville.bsky.social Apologies for being camera-off but just wanted to say how much I enjoyed listening in to your PMBiP conversation just now. Such brilliant questions and discussion. Can't wait to finish the book (halfway through and thoroughly enjoying!)
EMO CON 2026 will be held at Washington University in St. Louis in April. And you still have time to submit an abstract! Listen to my chat with @vcmusictheory.bsky.social about why you should.
dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...
A lovely rumination on ranking and lists - enjoyed reading and participating!
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
I'm so sad 😢
Fun #CfP for a spicy issue of Celebrity Studies (Forum section)!! Let's close this year strong!!
📢 Short accessible readings of 1500 words
📆 Submit before 16 January
Good luck! 🩷✨️
#celebritystudies #mediastudies
Article alert part 2 ❗Our co-authored piece w/ @jenessawilliams.bsky.social and Iván Navarros on Lofi Girl and its various vibes & social dynamics is also out now in an awesome special issue about researching popular music and online cultures: online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3... (DM me for a copy)
My goal for the holidays is to spend a bunch of time catching up on all the new music I liked but didn't give my fullest attention to across 2025. Can't believe I spent so time pining for a new 1975 record when I could have just been sadblissing out to this www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQKC...
I like to think of myself as Schroedinger’s WoC in academia: I’m simultaneously so powerful that I keep white men from getting their rightful jobs in academia and simultaneously so powerless/disenfranchised I spent over a decade in precarious jobs across the world sans networks and sans godparents
JOB FAIRY: Reminder that I am hiring a Senior Researcher (2 years postdoctoral experience - 5 year post) for the ERC funded LivePlatforms research project exploring how people make livelihoods in platform work in Ireland. Please apply or share widely! Closing date Jan 5. www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
