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?

“Looks like some art’s about to happen.”

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

Really appreciate my brain reminding me that “toes are scarce among the veteran blubber men” as I chip away at the ice in front of my feet with a shovel 🐋

you: [stressing for days to send the perfect single email] billionaires: hi, . w=en r we mee&ting to do iLlegiL stuff , . ?

If you start MELANIA at the exact same time as Alice Coltrane’s meditative 1971 modal jazz classic “Journey in Satchidananda” they line up perfectly

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. 🐋

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

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

I love it when amazingly kind and brilliant people get the nice things!

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

8yo is taking the Bears loss well.

"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

This man has never lived in rural Offaly where we’d 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.

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

Become uncontainable

Celebrating a Chicago win

did someone call the Pope?!

in baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeee!

I love how this Bears team refuses to play football until 55 minutes into the game. Disney-ass team.

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...

Dredging this one up. 🐋

The first two hours this morning

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

Honestly, the dog talking would be enough to leave me shaking, no matter how many words it was.

There’s something very relatable about Ishmael being most concerned about fire hazards and insurance when sleeping in a strange place. 🐋

Ishmael, and probably also a bunch of exurbanite conservatives after reading about Mamdani being elected mayor of NYC. 🐳

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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.

“The hero of the Wizard of Oz is Toto” is such a brilliant analogy here.

I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Excited (and nervous!) to present about Disney music at SMT this weekend. In the Music Cognition Interest Group meeting!

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...

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

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.

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.

it was awesome to join @danielshanahan.bsky.social ‘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!

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

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?

After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.

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.

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.

And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland

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...

What is the sonic equivalent to “visionary” — aurallary? RIP to one of those, maybe the best of them