Daniel Shanahan
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Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern
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Matthew Noe
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"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine." BINGO
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Amy King
4 days ago
Excited (and nervous!) to present about Disney music at SMT this weekend. In the Music Cognition Interest Group meeting!
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Doc Revan
6 days ago
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Micah
7 days ago
jays fans 🤝 people who want to go to bed: please end this now dodgers fans 🤝 baseball sickos: please keep going the teams will switch places every half inning or so until it’s actually over
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Grant Brisbee
7 days ago
A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
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Dag.
21 days ago
I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.
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Amanda Krause
22 days ago
it was awesome to join
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‘s grad seminar yesterday to discuss my research on everyday music listening. these emerging
#MusicScience
folks didn’t hold back - critically engaging with our knowledge and pushing it forward. a true pleasure and some ideas to reflect on!
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This ChatGPT ad at my university bookstore is trying to normalize using AI to replace educators. It’s family weekend, so I did my best to keep my swearing to a minimum.
22 days ago
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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠
about 1 month ago
Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments? I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.
#musicscience
@musicpsychshef.bsky.social
@musicpsychleeds.bsky.social
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
#aesthetics
#musicpsych
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Cat Hicks
27 days ago
Conversations about AI all last week and today on here have me thinking: How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?
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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost
29 days ago
After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.
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John Saward
29 days ago
Maybe nothing in sports as close to hard drugs as watching a bullpen rollicking in and out of jams, wet hair and strange jewelry, spitting and cursing, having entire conversations with themselves. A ship of filthy pirates drunk on the high seas.
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Megan Non Brevis
about 1 month ago
This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.
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The Bulwark
about 1 month ago
And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
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Matthew Kirschenbaum
about 1 month ago
On the left, reportedly a photo of Texas National Guard members arriving in Illinois. On the right . . . I have questions.
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julianne
about 2 months ago
JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions.
societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...
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Florida State University College of Music | SMT
https://societymusictheory.org/resources/jobs/2025/florida-state-university-college-music
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Nate Chinen
about 2 months ago
What is the sonic equivalent to “visionary” — aurallary? RIP to one of those, maybe the best of them
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The Sorcerer's Ascension
RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who found music in everything
https://open.substack.com/pub/thegig/p/the-sorcerers-ascension
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Al
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Ana Marie Cox
3 months ago
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”
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Woodrow Peel 🆗🆒
3 months ago
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
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Kevin M. Kruse
3 months ago
Today is August 1. Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
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Michael Robinson
4 months ago
Still not as bad as Microsoft Teams
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Ed Zitron
4 months ago
Motherfucker I can barely access Microsoft teams from my computer
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Kevin Zollman
4 months ago
In philosophy we have our share of... let's say "difficult"... personalities. Every few years a young graduate student will ask "why hasn't anyone told them to stop [being difficult]?" I think I'll just send them this
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Eric Stephen
4 months ago
May all your trains be crazy
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Codify Baseball
4 months ago
Ozzy Osbourne, Take Me Out To The Ball Game
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Rae Radford
4 months ago
#BookSky
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
4 months ago
Art can't just be a luxury for the few. That requires a city where artists can actually afford to live and create, and where musicians don't just receive recognition but fair pay. That's what
@local802.bsky.social
organizes for and I'm so proud to have their endorsement.
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Defector
4 months ago
'Taskmaster' is what comes of not being fixated on someone "winning" a thing, but rather the process that makes the winning worth the walk.
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Sure, We Gained Our Independence, But We Lost The Ability To Make Anything As Good As ‘Taskmaster’ | Defector
The Fourth of July is always there to remind us that we aren’t the country we fancy ourselves being, but this year’s national try-not-to-blow-your-hand-off munitions festival was even grimmer given…
https://defector.com/sure-we-gained-our-independence-but-we-lost-the-ability-to-make-anything-as-good-as-taskmaster
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Kaleb E. Goldschmitt
4 months ago
In addition to many other important programs, IU Bloomington is eliminating its Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, one of the most storied and successful in the country.
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Dusty Lucite
4 months ago
Deerhoof is hands-down one of the best live bands I’ve ever seen and they are also one of the kindest and most ethical bands you will ever find.
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McSweeney's
5 months ago
A man stirs the pot. “It’s a metaphor,” he says. The frog is sweating. The frog is informed that this is due to a natural variation in temperature. “He’s clearly boiling the frog,” say the other frogs. All books about frogs have vanished from the library.
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Signs the Frog Has Been Boiled
A large pot sits in plain sight. There’s a frog in it. Every day, Leader announces his plans to boil the frog. His campaign slogan was “BOIL THAT F...
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☁️ retornam ☁️
5 months ago
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Andi Zeisler
5 months ago
For my first
@salonnewsroom.bsky.social
piece, I wrote about how freaks for the em dash (me, and possibly you) will not stand by and cede our precious punctuation to AI
www.salon.com/2025/06/11/a...
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AI can’t have my em dash
Gen Z and AI have pulled a divisive punctuation mark into the spotlight.
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/11/ai-cant-have-my-em-dash/
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COCOCOlab
5 months ago
Interested in exploring similar research at
#Cornell
? Join our team! We’re currently looking for: a) a lab manager passionate about global music research, and b) a postdoc with a focus on music and big data.
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David Huron once spent a weekend in jail because he ran a stop sign on his bike and was given the choice between a $25 fine or spending a week alone studying before finals. When he arrived at the police station they took his books away. “Should’ve just paid the fine”, he would later say. (1/2)
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David John Baker
5 months ago
I never worked with David Huron, but he had a tremendous impact on my life in the world of
#musicscience
. Wrote this for others in the music cognition community who want to share in his memory.
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It takes a lot of work to stay up all night to paint the rock on campus, so I would not mess with this person.
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Christine Kooi
5 months ago
Hear, hear. In an era where technological innovation is effectively allowed to run rampant around the globe, humanity needs to understand itself now more than ever.
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Angus Johnston
5 months ago
Not just good, but specifically tailored to our horrific historical moment.
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SpecLion 🔜 PAWcon
5 months ago
Time to post it again.
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Max Kennerly
6 months ago
"Our product creates such little value that it is simply not viable in the marketplace, not even as a niche product. Therefore, we must be allowed to unilaterally extract value from the work of others and convert that value into our profits."
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Chris Plummer
6 months ago
If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸
6 months ago
i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally
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David_j_roth
6 months ago
"Chicago Pope" is like a 1994 SNL sketch. Airs at 12:20am, the only gag is that Chris Farley has a mustache and is doing a big accent. David Spade and the guest host (Joe Mantegna) keep breaking during it.
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It’s upcycle week in the neighborhood, and not only does nobody want my SMT 2018 tote bag, but someone actually took it out of the bottom of another bag to ensure they wouldn’t be saddled with it.
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Jen
7 months ago
Me on Independent Bookstore Day
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Laurie Stras
7 months ago
Just checked out the Effin’ Birds calendar page for yesterday, and I just can’t.
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