Rob (@robarcand.bsky.social)

@thewiremagazine.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 2:04 PMReposted by @robarcand.bsky.social

Are you an unpublished* writer with ideas about why music, and music criticism, matter?

New Voices is a competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire...

www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...

thewire.co.ukIntroducing The Wire New Voices - The WireNew Voices is a new competition for aspiring music critics being launched by The Wire

@jameshodges.net Oct 6, 2026, 5:55 PMReposted by @robarcand.bsky.social

🌎Just arrived in Toronto for #4S2026!

🌊Come by tomorrow (Weds) for my talk (w/ @robarcand.bsky.social) on the history of surf prediction

🌎Part of a three-session panel “Environment as Information, Information as Environment”

Two graphs of wave energy spectra above two images of ocean waves (one peaky beach break and one lined up point)

112. Environment as Information, Information as Environment 3
1:30 to 3:20 PM
2nd Floor Dufferin

“Archaeologies of Wave Forecasting: Contextual Frictions and the Cultural Techniques of Environmental Data Monitoring”

by Rob Arcand, McGill University; and James Hodges, San José State University

@robarcand.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 9:20 PM

happy to make introductions as needed + feel free to share

@robarcand.bsky.social Sep 22, 2026, 9:20 PM

the mcgill university department of art history and communication studies is looking to hire an early career tenure-track scholar who is currently based outside of canada and interested in relocating mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/McGill_Caree...

@defector.com Sep 17, 2026, 7:47 PMReposted by @robarcand.bsky.social

Annie Dillard gave it all: defector.com/annie-dillar...