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Economic Geographer. Emeritus Professor@University of Nottingham, Senior Fellow@Nottingham Business School, NTU. Money and music, mainly. Co-author, with @allanwatson1.bsky.social, of The Rise of the Platform Music Industries (Agenda). .. more

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Rise of the Platform Music Industries, written by me and @allanwatson1.bsky.social, was formally published yesterday. The physical version is available from all good bookshops (as well as a few bad ones). It’s also available as an an Open Access pdf): www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

The Rise of the Platform Music Industries

A critical appraisal of the latest round of platform intermediation, centred on MusicTech, social media platforms and user-generated content, live streaming, crowdfunding and gamification, that is res...

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 1d

Monday’s pod debate on what to call next year’s World Cup, given that it’s spread between the US, Canada and Mexico, missed the most geographically correct answer: North America ‘26. While most of the continent’s many countries are not hosting, the 3 that are include about 85% of total population.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 2d

Full disclosure: I ran an urban geography field class to New York from 2017-19, so guilty as charged. In mitigation, it wasn't even the most exotic of our offers & by the time it launched was considered quite a passé destination by many of the places with whom we competed for students. But still ...

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 2d

I know that the @rgsibg.bsky.social was encouraging a critical engagement with the 'field class as recruitment device' arms-race pre-pandemic. But it would be interesting to see whether the field course competition simply started up again following the pandemic as restrictions eased.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 2d

This thread should be of interest to all those working in Departments of Geography at UK Universities who sometimes ponder why their UG student intake often skews to the privileged. This skew is then exacerbated through the use of exotic field classes as marketing and recruitment bait on Open Days.

Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 2d

Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2d

I know they just do this to wind people up, but Christ on a bike.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 2d

I know they just do this to wind people up, but Christ on a bike.

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FINTECH CAPITAL @fintechcapital.bsky.social · 7d

It's alive!

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12d

David Harvey at 90: A Verso Series www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/... @versobooks.bsky.social First essay by Eric Sheppard now posted.

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series

Last year, we celebrated Fredric Jameson's ninetieth birthday with a month long series commemorating his impact on literary criticism, critical theory and philosophy. This month, in honour of David H...

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 15d

Again, not new: the Jamaican music economy was like this years ago as it was virtually impossible to protect IPR. Performance became prioritised as source of income. Big cheaper than a night at Wembley though, admittedly.

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 15d

There’s a chapter on live performance in the book on The Platform Music Industries by me and @allanwatson1.bsky.social which came out earlier this year. As copyright has been devalorised (for most artists) as streaming platforms makes all music easily available, the event becomes more important.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 15d

Agreed, but the success of the tour is also the length of the band’s absence, and the accumulated desire of fans to see them together live again in an age when the financial returns from performance far outstrips those of recordings. This is not new. The Stones have long been their own tribute band.

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Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social · 19d

If you want to know what a new UK digital ID for immigration would mean, read "States of Ignorance" a book that came out of an ESRC project comparing the development of UK control with two countries with ID. From this research, I think it's a dangerous idea 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

States of Ignorance

Cambridge Core - Twentieth Century European History - States of Ignorance

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 21d

The parallels to housing subprime are clear, but with a twist. The value of many of the assets is based on repayments from a predominantly immigrant worker market, but ICE action has disrupted such communities, as an earlier FT report (15.9.25 below) pointed out, so undermining the payment base.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 26d

Kyle perhaps should be more interested in rigour than vigour: then he might not have conflated Stanford with the entire US university system. There are historical and geographical reasons why students who want to be founders might chose to go to Stanford.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 26d

UK’s business secretary facing backlash after claiming British students lack “drive” compared to their American counterparts

#highered #EduSky

Kyle 'out of touch' for claiming British students 'lack drive'

Former science secretary called ‘out of touch’ after accusing British students of lacking 'vigour'

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 26d

UK’s business secretary facing backlash after claiming British students lack “drive” compared to their American counterparts

#highered #EduSky

Kyle 'out of touch' for claiming British students 'lack drive'

Former science secretary called ‘out of touch’ after accusing British students of lacking 'vigour'

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 29d

today, Rachel Reeves meets BlackRock & Blackstone bosses to ask what British derisking state can do for them.

New Rip-off Britain project by @cmmonwealth.bsky.social shows what institutional ownership has done for us: 200bn from our pockets to Big Finance!

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 29d

Farewell Evernote, it's been ... expensive
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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 29d

I've finally deleted my Evernote subscription, which I started using in 2012, intially for taking notes in the meetings I was having as HoS, but stuck with it for ease of online clipping. I've ended up with a large collection of notes & notebooks. But it's got ridiculously expensive over time . 1/4

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 29d

For any remaining Evernote users wishing to make a simpler jump, here's the transfer software I found on GitHub. 4/4 github.com/stefankueng/...

Releases · stefankueng/EvImSync

Contribute to stefankueng/EvImSync development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 29d

The subscription fee was virtually doubled year on year when Evernote was bought by Bending Spoons in 2023, . who seem to be the Mike Ashley of the app world: that is, find a distressed asset with a customer base and rinse asset hard before any the value the brand once had evaporates. 3/4

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · 29d

Inertia, but mainly an inability to find a way to easily port the files across to OneNote meant I perservered. I finally found a programme that works. Still need to move the files notebook by notebook, which is taking ages, and it's not entirely bug-free, but will be done before account reverts. 2/4

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 12

Music platforms pushing back against AI music with the use of detection software. Deezer calculate 33% of tracks uploaded are AI (!), but account for only 0.5% of streams. But if one gets through, & makes a playlist, it can generate a lot of income.
www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nearly-a-thi...

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Interesting that @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social argues that financial market concerns that a populist party might win the next UK election helps explain the interest rate premium attached to UK debt. Might this see PR being mobilised as a necessary step to remove a punishing burden on growth?

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’m sympathetic but impossible to enforce globally, and even if it was might just pull the ladder away for a younger generation of academics. It’s always been impossible to read everything: in the pre-digital age a lot of time was wasted just tracking stuff down!

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Aug 15

More reporting on how electricity rates for individuals & small businesses could rise as tech companies build data centers: “Despite tech companies’ professed desire not to burden others, they often push regulators to impose some of the upgrade costs on everybody.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/b...

Big Tech’s A.I. Data Centers Are Driving Up Electricity Bills for Everyone

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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.bsky.social · Aug 14

From the piece, a pair of paragraphs about money and banking as close to perfection as you’ll ever see. Shot:

JPMorgan in recent months has assigned a team of internal researchers to unearth legal documents related to the era of so-called wildcat banking from two centuries ago. In that era, hundreds of state-chartered banks issued their own currencies. JPMorgan’s researchers were looking into whether some of those dormant laws applied to the bank’s plan to create its own stablecoin today.

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Aug 13

Parasitic mercantilism?

Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Aug 13

I don't disagree, being a geographer, with parts of geography long being effectively post-disciplinary. But I'm mainly replying to say that the sight of all those ink annotations of your book makes me feel slightly quesy! I feel like staging an intervention and gifting you some HB pencils.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

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Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social · Aug 8

We are greatly saddened by the passing of Michel Callon, a key contributor to debates in our journal about economization, marketization, and ecologization. RIP
www.csi.minesparis.psl.eu/articles-ved...

Michel Callon (1945-2025)

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Andrew Leyshon @andrewleyshon.bsky.social · Aug 6

Late to this: a good example of the difficulties most artists have in making a living in the contemporary music economy. Long-standing indie band @fieldmusicmusic.bsky.social moonlight as a Doors cover band to make ends meet. I'd happily pay to watch them in either form! tinyurl.com/49b37t54

“By doing maybe one Doors show a month we can fill a hole in our dire finances”: Mercury-nominated UK band Field Music are working as a tribute act

“Any embarrassment I might have felt about doing this has dissolved," the band explain, while thoroughly detailing their predicament

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