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Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern
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Anthony Moser
13 days ago
This gets at something important: what is a model for? Is it to tell you the future, and you believe it and act accordingly? Or is it to help you understand how things work so you understand what you're doing?
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āLooks like some artās about to happen.ā
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Seva
17 days ago
Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening
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Jacob Harris
19 days ago
Really appreciate my brain reminding me that ātoes are scarce among the veteran blubber menā as I chip away at the ice in front of my feet with a shovel š
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āØchipzel
20 days ago
you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?
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Benjamin Tausig
23 days ago
If you start MELANIA at the exact same time as Alice Coltraneās meditative 1971 modal jazz classic āJourney in Satchidanandaā they line up perfectly
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That Guy James
25 days ago
In the end, Moby Dick is a novel about the importance of asking the right questions regarding your direct manager, their management style, and the culture fostered by their leadership during your job interviews. š
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Jer Thorp
25 days ago
I WILL TEACH YOU DATA (And birding!) Spring cohorts of Binoculars to Binomials are open for registration. Come and learn with me. "It's not just about learning how to code; it's about changing the way that you pay attention."
jerthorp.me/learning
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26 days ago
Seriously though an entire crowd of people spontaneously creating a new synthesis of musical ideas on the spot as mass emotional catharsis??? This is what music is for. This is what humanity is for
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I love it when amazingly kind and brilliant people get the nice things!
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Daniel Bellingradt
about 1 month ago
Left: writing the damn paper in the shadows of an archive nearby. Right: presenting the said paper as a keynote at a fancy conference.
#academicchatter
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8yo is taking the Bears loss well.
about 1 month ago
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georgia-lux
about 1 month ago
"i saw a bad post on x" ok well i saw a turd in the toilet but i'm not making you look at a screenshot of it
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Stephen Roddy
about 1 month ago
This man has never lived in rural Offaly where weād go 3 towns over, braving even Kilcormac, albeit with the windows rolled all the way up, for a mere glimpse of the most recent Final Destination film. Fool.
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illumi
about 1 month ago
behold, i have created a robot that can throw the ball with your child so that you can stare at spreadsheets on the screen longer
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Lindsay Beyerstein
about 1 month ago
Become uncontainable
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Coach Finstock
about 1 month ago
Celebrating a Chicago win
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I Wupped Batman's Ass
YouTube video by Wesley Willis - Topic
https://youtu.be/k8gHubY94rA?si=nVEDFdaSzFqwLs2g
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L.D. Burnett
about 1 month ago
did someone call the Pope?!
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Sarah Langs
about 1 month ago
in baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeee!
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Tim Onion
about 1 month ago
I love how this Bears team refuses to play football until 55 minutes into the game. Disney-ass team.
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Jonna Vuoskoski
about 1 month ago
Come work with us in Oslo! We are hiring a PhD fellow in the psychology of music, AI, and creativity, affiliated with the newly established
@mishmashcentre.bsky.social
Details:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Doctoral research fellowship in the psychology of music, AI and creativity (290355) | University of Oslo
Job title: Doctoral research fellowship in the psychology of music, AI and creativity (290355), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026
https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/290355/doctoral-research-fellowship-in-the-psychology-of-music-ai-and-creativity
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Cavy Core
about 1 month ago
Dredging this one up. š
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Mark Reel
about 2 months ago
The first two hours this morning
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Moby Dick
about 2 months ago
all this is both foolish and unnecessary
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Honestly, the dog talking would be enough to leave me shaking, no matter how many words it was.
about 2 months ago
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Andy Diggle
about 2 months ago
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Thereās something very relatable about Ishmael being most concerned about fire hazards and insurance when sleeping in a strange place. š
about 2 months ago
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Sarah
about 2 months ago
Ishmael, and probably also a bunch of exurbanite conservatives after reading about Mamdani being elected mayor of NYC. š³
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2 months ago
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After Dinner ConversationĀ®
2 months ago
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Kit
2 months ago
Learned today that āGalĆ”pagosā comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that āGalĆ”pagos Tortoiseā is, in fact, a tortology
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Josh Sternberg
2 months ago
Today in āDudes Rockā: A dude playing Dire Straitsās āSultans of Swingā guitar solo onā¦a recorder.
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āThe hero of the Wizard of Oz is Totoā is such a brilliant analogy here.
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I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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David Huron (1954ā2025) - Daniel Shanahan, 2025
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20592043251394569
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Amy King
4 months 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
4 months ago
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs Iād read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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Micah
4 months ago
jays fans š¤ people who want to go to bed: please end this now dodgers fans š¤ baseball sickos: please keep going the teams will switch places every half inning or so until itās actually over
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Grant Brisbee
4 months 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.
4 months 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
4 months ago
it was awesome to join
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ās grad seminar yesterday to discuss my research on everyday music listening. these emerging
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folks didnāt hold back - critically engaging with our knowledge and pushing it forward. a true pleasure and some ideas to reflect on!
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Claire Howlin š¶š§
5 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
5 months 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
5 months ago
And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
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julianne
5 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
5 months ago
What is the sonic equivalent to āvisionaryā ā 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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