Belated announcement - it was a pleasure to have my discoveries in Worcestershire and Norfolk county archives of new Purcell sources covered by the Guardian! When I harp on at my colleagues about how they should make sure to comb archives, carefully this is why… www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

I’m sorry but no fucking way No fucking way is this how my parents find out about furries

Sometimes I think about how I played viola at junior conservatoire at University of Michigan, & how they helped local state schools send kids to Interlochen every summer. Anyways the Umich head of strings got convicted for child sex trafficking & Jeffrey Epstein had a holiday home at Interlochen

Third article in a year, smashed 💪 if you are interested in convents, English catholic history, French baroque music, and/or material for my forthcoming steamy HBO show in which Francois Couperin fights his friend for the love of his friend’s wife*, check it out ➡️ academic.oup.com/em/article/d...

Second in-person MedRen smashed 💪 Phenomenal work by @medren2025.bsky.social continuing an unusually anarchic conference tradition. This conference stands out among other musicology conferences for its unique combo of high levels of calibre, craic, and camp, and it was a delight to be a part of 🥰

In hindsight signing up to do two papers at @medren2025.bsky.social might have been overly ambitious

Finally writing my long awaited hater paper for a conference and it is exhilarating

Happy pride, don’t forget to get a nice card for your wife’s bisexual twunk boyfriend and leave out cookies and milk for Cher xxx

It took nearly 11 years of the state trying to bankrupt us, wear us down, & destroy any sense that I belonged to a community or family. But they couldn’t, and now, the home office has conceded that I do in fact belong here: I have been granted Indefinite Leave to Remain. And I ain’t going nowhere.

Today @musicheritageplace.bsky.social premieres on the radio! Tune every day this week to @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social at 9.45 pm into hear about music history, enclosure, social history, and more 🎵

I am back at it with EarlyMuse this week in Bern and it has occurred to me I may be 1 of 20-30 people ever to have visited both Bern, Switzerland and Berne, Indiana

Well that’s the end of frociaggine Fridays I guess

Solidarity with boomer men everywhere who at some point underwent some form of HRT for cancer treatment and have now found themselves forced-femmed by the UK Supreme Court, u deserve better hunnies xxx

Becoming reobssessed with the musical Le Roi du Soleil (2005) and realising that the gender binary consisted of two wolves inside me, both of whom are ready to tank the French economy through hyperinflation, political centralisation of economic decisions, and shiny trinkets

The thing about trying to get everyone to hate trans people is trans people are extremely funny and therefore it is very hard to get people angry at them, and facists HATE being laughed at. Oxford will always be queer, no matter how many busloads of boomer freaks the uni invites onto our streets ✊

632 job cuts have been proposed by the executive team at the University of Dundee. Today we launch our first full-length video that highlights the devastating impact this news is having on staff, and how this will affect Dundee. Please share to amplify our voice. #WeAreThe632 youtu.be/oXkCu-bruiI

Very much enjoyed repping @musicheritageplace.bsky.social in Bratislava last week! Great to get down to the nitty gritty philosophical, technical, and technological challenges for a new musicological ecosystem last week with the EarlyMuse project 💪🇸🇰

Last bits of study for the Basilinda Consort’s first festival performance this Thursday! Come along to the Keble Early Music Festival at @kebleoxford.bsky.social Thursday night to hear some fabulous baroque music for upper voices, feat. new research into early modern exiled English convents 💒🎶👰

The temptation to use this for the AHRC project website

Musicology is when you have an extra spicy cigarette and listen to this on repeat for two hours

Another article out! This time new research from *beyond the thesis* 😱 if you like book history, early music, and history of music education, with a particular focus on english women, check it out 🙃https://tinyurl.com/aca74a27

Thrilled to say my article on a musical miscellany from Douai Municipal Library has been published (open access) by the Royal Musicological Association Research Chronicle ☺️💪 tinyurl.com/32m5v4xv if you’re interested in early modern English Catholicism, musical networks, & book history, check it out!

Gender is a spectrum between ski hats and shimmery eye shadow, kill the gender cop inside your head

All I’m saying is IREMUS have started working on an early modern music handwriting database, and if it’s one thing that will get a grant application for an English counterpart over the line it’s that we cannot let the French best us

Ich bin on the radio ! If you’re looking for chat on carols, convents, and music book history, look no further than this BBC Radio 3 ‘Free Thinking’ podcast episode, hosted by @leahbroad.bsky.social ⬇️ t.co/DiOLWXtCzN

MERRY GRADUATION TO ME AND ALSO THE RHUL SQUADRON, YOU CAN NOW ASK ME ABOUT NUNS AND THEIR MUSIC AND ALSO URBAN SPACE AND ALSO MUSIC IN LITURGY AND ALSO MUSIC MANUSCRIPTS AS LIFE WRITING AND ALSO BOOK HISTORY AND ALSO TRANSLATION PRACTICE FOR EARLY MODERN LITURGY IN EXILE AND ALSO drinking culture

Tf when the music director goes off on a twenty minute tangent about beans in cakes to select the Christmas queen on epiphany at an exiled English convent and you’re trying to work out how this is an answer to a question about ficta

A very cunty Christmas season to you all

That’s right baby, the family heirlooms with candle wax from New Jersey, 1977 are coming out 🎄🎄

I am not kidding the first thing I heard this morning when the cat jumped on my head at 7 am was ‘babe, babe it finally happened, Henry Kissinger died’ and only now do I believe I was not in fact dreaming

You’ll regret it