Mark Porter

Apply for a job that is over before the application deadline

If you don’t remove the name of the author from the document properties dialogue in word then peer review is not blind

Call for papers - Christian congregational music: local and global perspectives 2027 congregationalmusic.org/call-papers-...

Such a desert fathers coded thing to say observer.co.uk/style/food/a...

KCL repeatedly advertising "theology and the arts" positions when what they always mean is "theology and painting" is really getting annoying now

Germans have really just never learnt the art of saying "yes, and..." have they?

Lessons learnt travelling by train/ferry to Helsinki. 1. Absolutely trust the punctuality of the ferries to the nearest 10 minutes 2. Don’t trust any train to cross the German border within 4 hours of the advertised time

when did google stop doing timezone conversions. This is a pain.

it's so weird that google groups send the new member approval emails in the language of the member wanting to be admitted and not in the language of the person who is reading the email and has to approve it

One of the oddest things I do for my work is to walk 40 minutes into town to download a PDF because the licensing agreement only allows me to take it home if I do it that way

He's not just resigning, he IS resign.

having studied at three of the top ten uk universities for employability it seems to have made very little positive impact

academic questions that are asked too rarely – what are our obligations to the captive demon in the museum?

New review of "For the Warming of the Earth" in Homiletic homiletic.net/index.php/ho...

Call for expressions of interest – Global perspectives on Christianity, music, ecology, and climate (edited collection)

University job portals have some really odd distinctions. What's the different between an academic job and a research job at a university? Or between a "job opening" a "job opening around our campus" and a "professorship" which logically would seem neither to be a job or on campus?

These door locking/opening instructions take much longer to figure out than they really should

This feels horribly tone deaf careers newsletter advice from Oxford. "Stop looking at the way universities are slashing positions, my son in law just got a permanent job, so probably that's how things are"

a little overenthusiastic

A little blog post I wrote on AI in the classroom www.uni-erfurt.de/en/katholisc...

Call for papers for a special journal issue I'm guest editing together with @tanyariches.bsky.social on faith and spirituality in the wake of ecclesial harm

UK academic job advertisements are currently at the rate of roughly 2 per year in any field anywhere close to mine worth applying for.

In this very interesting article for "Youth and Policy" Naomi Thompson reflects on some of the outcomes of an international Symposium about ‘Faith and Spirituality in the Wake of Scandal’ that's been held at our faculty in June. www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/fai...

Better blacklist their future film appearances

This event really makes the connection between the worship music industry and Christian nationalism pretty unavoidable

So the schools on my island have gone from cutting back on extracurricular music as I grew up to now using music in a way that can be compared to "the TV drama Squid Game, where contestants play lethal rounds of musical statues" leaving an autistic student petrified www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"we noticed how depressing your writing seems to be at the moment"

Such a tempting way to buy an ebook

Theoretically I'm behind projects like Libreoffice. In practice, I need it to stop doing things like this before it feels usable.

"we're your bank, please talk to our AI about your personal data" just seems an incredibly bad idea.

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

#Podcast: Wie kann man eigentlich noch hoffen trotz der vielen Krisen in der Welt? Für "Hörenswertes im Bistum Erfurt haben wir Elisabeth Höftberger, Dominique-Marcel Kosack und @markporter.co.uk interviewt, die zu Hoffnung angesichts der Klimakrise forschen. bistum-erfurt.podigee.io/206-hoffnung...

There's an England/Spain extra time/bishop of Fulham mashup meme to be done somewhere.

Disappointed in whoever reverted this wikipedia image edit

New book chapter…

Is Ocado some kind of undercover vampire conspiracy?

The draft programme for this year's Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference: congregationalmusic.org/programme

🗓️ We cordially invite you to @tanyariches.bsky.social Monday Lecture on "Scandal or Crime? Media Narratives and Survivor Complaint Testimonies in Australian Megachurches" on the 23rd of June at 4:15 pm. Everyone is welcome and there is no registration required. www.uni-erfurt.de/katholisch-t...

Frustrating how no-one ever cites the publications that would boost my h-index. I just want one or two more citations of a couple of the less-popular articles... it can't be that hard.

Book Review of: For The Warming Of The Earth: Music, faith and ecological crisis, by Mark Porter, June 2024. SCM Press, ISBN 978-0-334-06568-5, 214 pages. RRP £40 (paperback)

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

Such an interesting claim (from a doctoral thesis by Melanie L. Williams).

Excellent stuff, @markporter.co.uk!

'Carefully and clearly written debate' - order your copy here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...