my 5yo: "when you die, you become part of God" Everyone: mmm *sagely nodding* 5yo: "because he eats you"

Oh COME ON

#beansky (Also, this article is a recession indicator, right?)

in the depths of final-project-grading, fantasizing about setting up an out-of-office automatic reply that simply says "no"

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

lmao I just had to pay a tariff to UPS for this cute cover I bought for my DX7

You have to remember that *everything* in the 1970s was creepy. It was an entire decades' worth of creepiness, so nothing really stood out

writing a rec letter for a student applying to UM while watching The Game and rooting for OSU lol

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

the sega genesis had a better sound chip than the snes in the right hands

A guy makes ONE tiny mistake (has a years-long friendship with the world's worst sex trafficker; brags about sexually harassing colleagues; is racist; says women are stupid) and his whole LIFE is blown up (does slightly fewer speaking engagements; keeps teaching at #1 university)??!?!?!?!?!

stop spelling Megyn Kelly's name wrong, we do not claim her

Catch me up, has the AMS leadership made any response to the ... kerfuffle?

Men will literally talk to ein Bächlein rather than get therapy

30 years old and still correct

Everybody‘s all “abolish music theory” because we get too excited about making a diagram but we aren’t the ones with big doodoo pants!!

Hey, I feel like they're not publicizing this much, but SMT is doing free livestreams of selected sessions. Info is gathered here: minneapolis2025.ams-smt.org/smt-hybrid-s... #amsmt25

lmao yeah right

what was that thing going around a while ago that was like "how to peacefully obstruct progress in meetings" that was also just a description of all faculty meetings all the time? I feel like it had to do with communism too but google is failing me

because I'm trying to get less afraid of JS, I made a silly tool for conference session chairs to pull up on their phones/ipads to keep speakers on time with a 20-minute countdown timer #amsmt25 presentations.meganlavengood.com/timer

look stop asking him the details, he doesn't know, he's busy, and it's not his lane, ok??

Every time I do a review for a manuscript, I wonder why I don't ever get to see the comments from other reviewers.

lmao I could not pass this test though tbh

Never hit "add to agenda" faster

lmao who is responsible for scheduling these three #AMSMT25 sessions concurrently

I am once again asking for AMS to consider doing AMS karaoke (with live band ideally) instead of the AMS dance

guys this is in Brown University's coat of arms

it's an interesting strategy to defend one's work by connecting your authorial goals to a class of writer ('thinkpiece' writers) famous for both failing to command basic facts and refusing to use sensible critical thinking skills

lol enjoy

bring back blogging

Writing tip: how to correctly use "comprise" every time 1. don't use "comprise"

lol @ men who think they are the first person ever to think of a very obvious problem that has 15 well-known solutions out there already

This article 100% accords with my experience with students, who broadly and openly love their humanities classes. Many who are STEM majors tell me they wish they could major in music or gender studies or history, but feel discouraged from doing so — by their parents, by the university itself.

first no "paloma", now this!?

this is just your periodic reminder that "Toxic" by Britney Spears is THEE greatest pop song of all time

*gnashes teeth*

btw, if y'all liked this letter to the editor, I'd encourage you to write an email to MA and ask the editors to put out a public response to my letter. I asked for a response and they declined, which I found unsatisfying (to say the least). Here's board info: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Yamaha DX7 : Sega Genesis :: Roland D-50 : SNES

it me

I wrote a letter to the editor of Music Analysis about a 39-page review of Phil Ewell's book that they published. I think it could have used some … editing. It's open access for now while it's pre-print so enjoy while you can. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

hit me with your favorite illustrations in music scholarship—I want to show my doctoral students how to make effective visuals to support their arguments.

lol did this writer for Guitar Center paraphrase my dissertation chapter, what do we think 2025: www.guitarcenter.com/riffs/gear-t... 2017/2022: meganlavengood.com/2022/05/12/t...

Hey @komaniecki.bsky.social a possible interdisciplianry research partner for you researchmusings.substack.com/p/a-whole-ne...

I definitely thought "Who Can It Be Now?" was by The Police and not Men at Work

🚨 AN 'S' IN THE NYT SPELLING BEE GAME 🚨

Do you ever think about the fact that the designers of General Midi were tasked with coming up with the 128 most important instruments in the world, and one of the answers they came up with was "Goblins"

Mariah Carey and Vulfpeck would be my dream collab. how can we make it happen

trojans: what a beautiful horse ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ —— [updated review] ok what the fuck ⭐️ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

my hobby: making Northern Virginians angry by saying that we live in the South

folks this is why it's important to pay attention in your musicology classes