Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246) nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...

Very excited to see our article on a fabulous central European music fragment now out in Plainsong & Medieval Music. Thanks to co-authors Jared Hartt & Karen Desmond! Fully open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point. There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.

Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.

Welp.

#TinyJoys on a blustery Saturday morning: hot chocolate, cake, knitting, good conversation.

Treat yourself - listen on Bandcamp, and then buy it to keep! Bandcamp waive their commission on Bandcamp Fridays, so Musica Secreta will benefit even more from your purchase.

Soundcheck with nano-nun, a relic from yarnbombing Latitude Festival in 2011. #nuntastic #BBC #InTune

First op-ed for @LiveScience.com on my @absw.bsky.social media fellowship. "Whether good science is swamped by a quagmire of poor quality studies depends on the integrity of researchers and the awareness of the organizations which facilitate and fund it."

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

And yet, every scientific conference and meeting has at least one track with: AI and knowledge production, or how to integrate ethically AI in research. [Redacted] 😒

To celebrate the launch of our 11th album, *for this week only* if you buy a copy from our shop, you'll get an extra 25% off any of our other CDs on top of our normal 15% discount. That's 15% of your copy of Ricordanze and 40% off up to 5 other CDs. It's #nuntastic! musicasecreta.org/product/rico...

I purchased a #nuntastic print from @emilyscartoons.bsky.social and I absolutely adore it! #TinyJoys

Three more days to wait, and our new album Ricordanze will grace the airwaves and the internet! In the meantime, here's a comprehensive interview with Robert Hugill to pique your curiosity about our #nuntastic project. www.planethugill.com/2025/09/one-...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨

Six days to go until the album release, and we have a new blog post... musicasecreta.org/ricordanze-l...

Today I saw a single magpie on the way to work and panicked slightly. But then I remembered that in Sweden, magpies aren’t associated with luck at all! They’re just … birds. Anyone know how magpies became associated with luck? Is it an anglophone thing or more widely spread?

FINAL CALL! ⏰ One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship! ☟ ☟ ☟

The third rehearsal of our new #EarlyMusic ensemble included quasi-rhythmic chant from a printed antiphoner, truly excellent gluten-free chocolate chip walnut banana bread, and this lovely Salve Regina by Ockeghem. youtu.be/Is2tV9rwCaQ?... #ScholaUpsaliensis #MusicalBookHistory

I've never really used LinkedIn, as it was always a very privacy-averse place, but they'll now also be hoovering up your personal data to train GenAI models (as per their new T&Cs). The fact that this is opt-out rather than opt-in speaks volumes.

As we keep saying: when the humanities are in trouble, the sciences are, too; generally, at UK universities, the sciences are cross-subsidised by the arts and humanities. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

The Swedish translation of Blue Machine, published this week. It’s a beautiful hardback. Do share the news with any Swedish speaking friends who need the ocean in their life! And thank you to the Voice of the Ocean foundation for hosting me in Stockholm today.

🧵 I live-skeeted the second day of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action 2025 Presidency Conference. Lots of important discussions on matter concerning #EarlyCareerResearchers! #MSCA #MSCA2025DK #PostDoc #ECR

Been thinking about the way gAI is being sold to us is as the universal tool, a kind of Swiss Army Knife—especially in higher ed. What might have a use in Compsci doesn’t have a use/is harmful in the humanities and arts, and there is something coercive about how it’s being forced on us regardless.

📌 Save the Date - #EUResearchersNight returns on Friday 26/09! Join us across Europe for a night full of science, discovery & fun - connecting curious minds with brilliant researchers, including ERC grantees and their teams💡! 📍Find events near you: link.europa.eu/TbHmPP 🧪

Highlight of the conference right here. #MSCA #MSCA2025DK

Day two of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Presidency Conference! Today the focus is diversity, equity, inclusion and well-being. I am very excited for these conversations! #MSCA #MSCA2025DK

This is another key takeaway of the day. I’m glad someone said this out loud! #MSCA #MSCA2025DK

Still thinking about this at the end of the day. #MSCA #MSCA2025DK

Highlights from the first day of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action 2025 Presidency Conference! #MSCA #MSCA2025DK

Are you planning to apply for an ERC grant? Do you need some guidance? This hands-on session is for you! On 24 September, ERC representatives will guide you through the changes in the 2026 calls for the Starting, Consolidator & Advanced Grant. 👉 europa.eu/!hMhKRn

Here we go: the Marie Skłodowska-Curie 2025 Presidency Conference! (I don’t know whether research support and policy people hang out on here. But I’ll live-skeet some highlights anyway. Because I think it’s crucial that researchers also understand policy developments.) #MSCA #MSCA2025DK

Forgot to mention: 3. The job is permanent after probation. 4. We are a very lovely team 😇 5. Don’t let the “life sciences” deter you from applying! I have a PhD in Music with a specialism in early modern musical book history. #EnvHist #EnvHum

Come work with me! The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences is looking for a new Research Coordinator with a specialism in collaborative grants. 1. Knowledge of Swedish meritorious but not required. 2. We also have humanities and social sciences researchers www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

EVENT: Join us at our next free webinar, 'Publishing Open Access Books: Insights from ERC-Funded Authors' 📆 Tuesday 30 September ⏰ 11am BST / 12pm CEST Find out more & register: openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons.org/2025/09/03/p... #OAbooks @operaseu.bsky.social

I've been writing blog posts about some of the interesting prayers from the 16thc Thalbach prayerbook. Today's contribution: a prayer on Mary's sorrows as redemptive silencesandsounds.blogspot.com #blog #AmWriting #AcWri #16thc #prayer #FranciscanTertiaries #nuntastic

So much fun ending a Monday with a rehearsal of our new #EarlyMusic ensemble! And for a little while forgetting all my cares except “Why can’t I count to 2?” & “Why is it so hard to sing a falling 4th?” Hosted by Uppsala Uni’s Musicology Dept. tonight! #ScholaUpsaliensis #NeverTooLateForEarlyMusix

Based on feedback from applicants, reviewers and broader research community, the ERC Scientific Council decided to make changes in the 2026–27 calls for proposal for research funding. More details from the ERC President 👉 europa.eu/!hP3WWF What’s your take on this? Tell us! 👇

arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 A 200+ page research paper from the University of Warwick, led by Nataliya Kosmyna (et al) This was published a couple months ago but I've only just had the chance to read it. I highly encourage others to do the same but I wanted to condense some observations in a short 🧵

Figures from the European Research Executive Agency: - 17,058 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action applications submitted in 2025 - Highest number for any funding action ever in the EU R&I framework programme. - A 64.6% increase on 2024. marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

Very pleased to see our Bee-ing Human film on the @leverhulme.ac.uk website. I will be sharing more from our science-humanities project on bee sentience soon as we finalise our bee book this autumn media.leverhulme.ac.uk/video/charle...

Today it’s a decade (how?!) since I submitted my PhD. And what a decade it’s been! Three European postdocs, national and EU funding, much time in libraries, beautiful books, beautiful music, wonderful colleagues, and now a fulfilling new career helping other researchers achieve success! #BookHistory

Today was the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action application deadline! I always tell researchers that submitting a proposal is a huge accomplishment that should be celebrated. So I’m celebrating for all our applicants (and for myself) tonight! Pizza, root beer, and a mix of secondhand CDs.

Singer seeking vocal ensemble in southern Sweden!

First rehearsal of Uppsala’s newest (and coolest and most musicological) early music ensemble! This is the first time I’ve sung in an ensemble in … a while, and it was so fun! I’m excited to see (hear) how we develop over the coming months. #EarlyMusic #Sweden #NeverTooLateForEarlyMusic

First rehearsal of Uppsala’s newest (and coolest and most musicological) early music ensemble! This is the first time I’ve sung in an ensemble in … a while, and it was so fun! I’m excited to see (hear) how we develop over the coming months. #EarlyMusic #Sweden #NeverTooLateForEarlyMusic

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it: