I have received a very encouraging email from an editor.

SO thankful to @hwfmorris.bsky.social for including me in this wonderful discussion about one of my favorite composers who just so happens to be having a rather big birthday 😉 (gift link!) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/a...

What do you mean, you can stir deep emotions of someone else's soul with only words??? what the FUCK

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Today, @clevelandorch.bsky.social announced their 2026-27 season, and if I asked their MD the classic Billy on the Street question “For a dollar, name a woman,” based on what works he’s has chosen to program in his final, legacy-sealing season in the position, I would keep all my dollars.

If anyone is free at 3pm EDT on April 24 and wants to hear some works-in-progress talks about Salieri reception history, the Encounters with Eighteenth-Century Music series has you covered! encounters.secm.org/events/salie...

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

I'm starting to yell on my Senators' voice mails again. Anybody else tired of the madness? Remember when nothing used to happen?

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥 Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Dr. Zane Larson after his successful dissertation defense yesterday with University of Iowa musicology faculty.

Only 5 days left to submit an abstract for the first Neurodivergent Music Studies Conference! #AutRes #MusicResearch #PhD #AcademicSky

This is stunning. "Chained to you forever," from Jake Heggie's opera, Intelligence. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDL2...

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

I was just talking to a friend today about Dolly Parton's Imagination Library - new books every month, totally for free, for kids ages 1-5. My son was part of the program - this is a copy of the letter that came with his last book, right after his 5th birthday.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Seriously it’s like there is a giant chunk of tech people who don’t understand that when you’ve learned how to write, you feel proud, you look forward to doing more of it, you cheerfully neglect your other work just so you can write more

protesting in this outfit is a real “heads I win, tails you lose” moment when it comes to the optics

“Their land brought forth frogs, yea, even in their kings’ chambers”

As a historian, you might appreciate this one somebody sent me from LA.

Junior protestor staying warm at No Kings Iowa City.

"In other words, the perceived worth of higher education has waned just as women have begun to outnumber men within it. Is it really a coincidence?"

No Kings No Kings youtube.com/watch?v=pTYc...

There is also Julia Wolfe's powerful Fire in My Mouth, which I'm moderately obsessed with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg_F...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 115 years ago tomorrow, galvanized a century's worth of workplace safety laws that are now getting shredded.

If you'd like 50% off my book *Unlikely Angel: The Songs of Dolly Parton* check out this offer -- use promotion code APPASA through March 28 at www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... #DollyParton @illinoispress.bsky.social

hi all! i am conducting a dissertation survey on workplace leave use following a miscarriage in full-time workers in the USA. if you are eligible to take it, you can go to (go.uic.edu/leavestudy) and it would be much appreciated if you shared with your networks!

I gave a keynote at the AMS South Central chapter in Atlanta and felt guilty for not staying for the second day. But I apparently got out just in time.

For _only_ eighteen thousand dollars, you can own Verdi's blue-tinted glasses. www.schubertiademusic.com/products/417...

Purposeful lack and editing of education on Black history makes a particular susceptibility to fake history/misinformation because so much has been actively hidden and manipulated. Drops in the bucket, but this has long fueled my interest in enhancing access + interpretation in digital collections

PSA: it took an hour and forty minutes to get through Atlanta TSA.

This is 'Monuments', an art installation in Charlotte NC. Artist Craig Walsh put a face in the trees to honor the souls of all the enslaved people buried in cemeteries with no name.

Show someone who absolutely rocks a hat (that isn't Indiana Jones).

This morning in the archive I encountered Ralph Ellison’s commencement address to Curtis, which just leapt off the page to me. All I could think of was, how can anyone think that AI can actually write?

I have been home only 24 hours in the past week. Wondering how touring musicians survive.

Iowa. Where even keychains have corn on them.

Make your Monday morning better. Lovely writing about the GOAT

Be a tourist in your own town. Share a photo.

*NEW POST* This week on rising misogyny & classical music "Not taking active steps to redress historical imbalance sends a message ... that classical music is a space where varying degrees of sexism and misogyny are tolerated." open.substack.com/pub/leahbroa...

Lots of public libraries were founded by women (Brooklyn, Iowa is one).

Great to see a chapter by @cnlester.bsky.social in this important new book on Strozzi www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Off to SAM. My paper on women’s clubs’ promotion of women composers—an amazing amount—is tomorrow at 8:30 am. If you’re there please come!

"You are wrecking the environment so that terrible people who make bad decisions can be enriched. You are destroying entire fields of creativity so that unsuspecting people can get bad information and “advice” from inaccurate, dumbly predictive slop machines. "

wearing my women in stem t-shirt on international women’s day to celebrate the fact that i was given that and a reusable water bottle instead of equal pay

Hey, read this. Happy International Women's Day. And thank you, Henselpushers!

“Reading Is Fun!” The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

This is good. It's also an entertaining read, but more than that, it's good.

Hey, internet. Cute pet photos needed. Do your thing.