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Quite a deep cut from Mary Oliver’s The Summer Day but these are a fantastic set of guidelines for working AI: https://stopsloppypasta.ai/en/#rules I have most certainly broken all of these rules.

I see there’s a documentary about Mary Oliver just released called Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World.

As part of the Dance Research Matters final conference from 10-11 July 2025 I was part of a small panel discussing the future of practice research.

the weather will have its way with me despite my best efforts – Helen Poynor

In the rain on the sand, a simple practice begins.

In January 2022 I started asking people to write short statements that began with the words “This body”.

Various people (in very different contexts) have been asking me about critical thinking and I’ve been sharing this collection of Socratic questions that was first given to me by my colleague Marie-Louise Crawley.

I’m taking a hiatus from blogging here for a while (until further notice).

In 1989, Bill McKibben wrote, “I believe that we are at the end of nature.”

Merely mentioning market roles can crowd out our intrinsic motivation.

Rich kids should go to public schools.

I’ve been using video as part of my artistic practice since 1997.

An autistic politics: in losing our way, straying away from the marked tarmacs of the conventional, we might find ourselves in different, surprising places. https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/post/astray-awkwardly-an-autistic-politics This was posted by Finn E…

A link to a conversation between The Place’s Eddie Nixon and Christina Elliot and me from back in 2015.

Ask nature: a portal to the wisdom nature holds which seeks to collaborate globally to design a world for the future of all species. https://asknature.org/about/ This post was written by Finn Ellis-Whitty but based on an initial prompt from Simon Ellis.

I finally got round to posting a piece of writing for Dance Research called Ecosystemic Practice Research (for the benefit of others): skellis.net/ecosystemic-practice-research-for-the-benefit-of-others

Linking here to Marcus Coates’ digital video Self Portrait as Time (2016). https://www.marcuscoates.co.uk/projects/154-self-portrait-as-time This is a 24 hour long video in which Coates has recorded himself manually moving the second hand of a watch secon…

A model for thinking about learning, which consists of three concentric circles: the comfort zone, the learning zone, the chaos zone.

The secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a research and policy organisation that works on behalf of the world’s richest countries, has compared the prevailing elite posture to that of the fictional 19th-c…

A model developed by Chris Argyris and Peter Senge (1970) which helps you to no longer jump to premature conclusions and to reason on the basis of facts.

This co-regulation has measurable effects.

The essential cultural discrimination is not between having and not having or haves and have-nots, but between the superfluous and the indispensable.

Stimming is the rhythmic and repetitive movements that we do to self-regulate and process sensory input.

The body isn’t a thing, it’s an event.

A Frank Warren project which involves giving people postcards on which they write undisclosed secrets.

No country has ever ended human deprivation without a growing economy.

A space where you can learn about your own morality while also contributing to scientific research. https://yourmorals.org/ This was posted by Finn Ellis-Whitty based on an initial prompt from Simon Ellis

Eating is an agricultural act. – Wendell Berry, The Pleasures of Eating (1990)

A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others. – Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier (2023)

The purpose of the work is to awaken something in you first, and then allow something to be awakened in others.

An ever-evolving digital figure that experiences different forms such as fire and shrubbery.