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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

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

Today is August 1. Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

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

May all your trains be crazy

Ozzy Osbourne, Take Me Out To The Ball Game

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.

'Taskmaster' is what comes of not being fixated on someone "winning" a thing, but rather the process that makes the winning worth the walk. defector.com/sure-we-gain...

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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)

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. davidjohnbaker.rbind.io/post/2025-06...

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.

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.

Not just good, but specifically tailored to our horrific historical moment.

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”

i want someone to calculate how much these collective decisions cost, that it may radicalize us all, ferally

"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.

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.

Me on Independent Bookstore Day