Liz McFall
@allartmarkets.bsky.social
Professor in the Sociology of Markets, University of Edinburgh @uoe-sps.bsky.social | sentimental pragmatist following insurance, markets, architecture, cities | EiC @jcultecon.bsky.social
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
https://efi.ed.ac.uk/ecosystem/data-civics/
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Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
On a purely factual point, Trevor Phillips’s column in the Times misrepresents our reporting in casting doubts on claims that there were more boys called Patel than Smith at Dulwich in 1980 (we did not report 1976 as the year it occurred). 1980 roll shows 13 Patels and 12 Smiths.
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Because of course Henry had got the full roll call from Dulwich College and of course Trevor Phillips couldn’t even be bothered to read the stories he’s writing about
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It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
December 1, 2025 at 10:39 AM
It's #sketchpadvent – celebrating amazing modernist concept drawings and models. December 1: Milton Keynes from 1981
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🎺 Oh the deadline for submissions to what might be the first ever insurance mini conference at SASE sase.org/events/2026-... has crept up
on me. 10 days to go
on me. 10 days to go
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🎺 Oh the deadline for submissions to what might be the first ever insurance mini conference at SASE sase.org/events/2026-... has crept up
on me. 10 days to go
on me. 10 days to go
🎺 Oh the deadline for submissions to what might be the first ever insurance mini conference at SASE sase.org/events/2026-... has crept up
on me. 10 days to go
on me. 10 days to go
December 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
🎺 Oh the deadline for submissions to what might be the first ever insurance mini conference at SASE sase.org/events/2026-... has crept up
on me. 10 days to go
on me. 10 days to go
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We are now LIVE with From Walkman to Polycrisis @ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... and www.youtube.com/@CulturalEco... and that other place with all the Wrapping @allartmarkets.bsky.social @tgpb.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
We are now LIVE with From Walkman to Polycrisis @ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... and www.youtube.com/@CulturalEco... and that other place with all the Wrapping @allartmarkets.bsky.social @tgpb.bsky.social @philiproscoe.bsky.social @addiemcgowan.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo
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"It’s almost hilarious to think about now, a bunch of spindly suburban adolescents in Z. Cavaricci pants yelling, 'Fight the power!' in somebody’s parents’ basement."
Listen I'm biased, but I think the big thing that made—that makes?—us different was a practiced, world-worn tolerance for ambiguity.
Listen I'm biased, but I think the big thing that made—that makes?—us different was a practiced, world-worn tolerance for ambiguity.
Is Gen X Actually the Greatest Generation?
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"It’s almost hilarious to think about now, a bunch of spindly suburban adolescents in Z. Cavaricci pants yelling, 'Fight the power!' in somebody’s parents’ basement."
Listen I'm biased, but I think the big thing that made—that makes?—us different was a practiced, world-worn tolerance for ambiguity.
Listen I'm biased, but I think the big thing that made—that makes?—us different was a practiced, world-worn tolerance for ambiguity.
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The first episode, impeccably hosted by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social featuring @tgpb.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo, goes live tomorrow. We expect you'll all be featuring in your 2026 Wrapped. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The first episode, impeccably hosted by @philiproscoe.bsky.social & @addiemcgowan.bsky.social featuring @tgpb.bsky.social @allartmarkets.bsky.social & Simone Pollilo, goes live tomorrow. We expect you'll all be featuring in your 2026 Wrapped. www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
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All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
December 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI.
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".
That was fine actually MKC-EDB in winter sun
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
That was fine actually MKC-EDB in winter sun
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view over the crags, Edinburgh this pm
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
view over the crags, Edinburgh this pm
I do not think this reflects well on me
December 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I do not think this reflects well on me
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The Open University already exists and it has an excellent distance learning model that does not rely on parasitic profit driven ed-tech companies pushing their products
'The Russell Group institution, one of the UK’s largest, has announced plans to expand beyond its traditional fully campus-based model of higher education and increase its digital and global presence, as well as its flexible learning opportunities.' 1/2
Half of Manchester students to be learning online in 10 years
Russell Group institution announces major pivot into digital teaching as universities evolve further beyond traditional models
www.timeshighereducation.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:33 AM
The Open University already exists and it has an excellent distance learning model that does not rely on parasitic profit driven ed-tech companies pushing their products
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CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
researchwhisperer.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
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"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
researchwhisperer.org
November 28, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
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Time to post this banger again
January 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Time to post this banger again
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‘Google’s crawlers kept failing, making it hard or even impossible to update its most crucial data structure, the web index. The solution the company came up with changed computing for ever.’
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie · The Future of Search: Will we still google it?
I’m starting to feel some pre-emptive nostalgia when I do a Google search. Yes, it’s true, search can sometimes take...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
‘Google’s crawlers kept failing, making it hard or even impossible to update its most crucial data structure, the web index. The solution the company came up with changed computing for ever.’
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Donald MacKenzie on how Google changed the web, and the web changed Google.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.
we weren't joking www.linkedin.com/posts/philip...
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Now available to pre-subscribe in fervent anticipation.
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Or, if you prefer, 26 large employers in a range of places - some of them without other large employers - could not be here this time next year leaving their employees and students (numbering 10s of thousands, btw), out of work or with course half complete.
“exiting the market”
November 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Or, if you prefer, 26 large employers in a range of places - some of them without other large employers - could not be here this time next year leaving their employees and students (numbering 10s of thousands, btw), out of work or with course half complete.
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NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia
Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Tbilisi, Georgia, this article explores moral code-switching in the Georgian surrogacy industry, showing how surrogate mothers and intended parents switch betwe...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
NEW: Moral frameworks of commercial surrogacy in Georgia - Ketevan Gurchiani www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry
This article examines how influencer marketing companies and their algorithmic tools define and measure ‘influence' in Latin America. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ‘orders of wort...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New! (Re)Inventing influence: valuation and justification in the influencer marketing industry @arturoarriagada.bsky.social & @mvaldeb.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing
This article brings together cultural studies and legal history to address a particular mode of historical enchantment, namely, the economic magic of something-for-nothing. Considered within the ea...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
NEW: The legal dematerialization of enchantment: prizes, brands and the magical economics of something-for-nothing - Anat Rosenberg www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments
This article examines economic moralities at play in financial capitalism by investigating the interplay of ‘value’ – in the form of capital earmarked as ‘impact’ investment – and ‘values’, that is...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 PM
NEW: Articulating value(s): problematizing financial moralities in impact investments - Claudia Campisano www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium
This article takes enchantment as a category of analysis to histories of national economies. Taking the economic history of twentieth-century Belgium as a case study, it argues that attention for e...
www.tandfonline.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
NEW: Economic myth-making in twentieth-century Belgium - @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
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I've complained. As Bluesky won't show the post Huw is himself quote-posting (unless you click through), it is the editing of @rutgerbregman.com's Reith Lectures to remove his analysis of Donald Trump's corruption.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
The BBC is accountable to its viewers & listeners not foreign electoral autocracies. Everyone should a complaint, otherwise nothing will happen. www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...
November 25, 2025 at 12:30 PM
I've complained. As Bluesky won't show the post Huw is himself quote-posting (unless you click through), it is the editing of @rutgerbregman.com's Reith Lectures to remove his analysis of Donald Trump's corruption.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.
Please complain. I get the context, but it is so important that we resist this.