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
i want to say this is verse 5?
was it Gaston?
what a lineup in this thread
more oil, more garlic… more houmous?
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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📈 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%).
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(I think you mean @dsquareddigest.bsky.social)
this closes in two weeks. the offer to email me with any Qs remains open!
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.
another quick boost for this - closes 18 Feb. please send to quantitatively-oriented culture people in your life! they can email me!
thank you!!!
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...
(no spoilers) you’re going to love Traitors Ireland
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.
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?
culture is bad for you is £6:59! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526177810/
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
i once sat next to someone on a flight who watched Diary of a CEO for 14 hours
Do a funded PhD with me! We are looking for projects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary enquiry into AI and inequalities!
www.linkedin.com/posts/susan-...
say what you want about Qualtrics, it’ll consistently remember your progress 🤷
HBD NG
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)
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…
this is a perfect short story, please congratulate your friend (on the narration, not the content)
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
i'm looking through some old teaching materials, and i'd forgotten i'd made this
don’t like this description of my hairline
in four years' time, the question will have been answered!
funded quants x cultural policy x sociology PhDs don’t come up very often. this looks great! please circulate!
Free registration is still open for A Global Dialogue on Cultural Policy and Sustainable Development. Join the conversation.
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