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Alyssa Barna

@abarna.bsky.social
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Music theorist, ass prof @UMN music. Public music theory, popular music, telling it like it is. she/her

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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I also save time to walk them through the process of the article, from idea to publication, to give them and idea of how insane academic publishing can be but mostly to show them how to get their ideas ready for their final paper
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I just did this last week. A couple things, sometimes I have them write down a question, something they liked or disliked, whatever, on a notecard at the start of the discussion. I think the anonymity helps and it also gives them forced time to think.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Myriad!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This is why theorists always get sucked into admin
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People really can just say whatever they want on the internet, eh?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A real successful 1A day here on campus. Heavy hitters. Big student turnout. Engaged questions. My notes for the academic freedom panel is a sort of Cliff Notes of how I approach this thing. This is it. My whole talk.
Notes app reads: Neoliberalism weaponizes bias to justify austerity. Austerity creates corporate universities. Corporate universities are unhealthy organizations. Unhealthy organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom. Without academic freedom to check administrative power,  corporate universities will translate austerity into financialized predation. Predation undermines public trust in higher education. Death spiral accelerates.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s correct enough! Not in the same key as the recording
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Glad I’m not the only one…I couldn’t tell if it was genuinely hilarious or if I desperately needed a laugh-cry
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
More brown
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Can’t get on, can’t get off, yet you’re somehow crawling at 15 miles an hour forever
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Oh wow they must have collabbed with MNDOT over here on a similar idea
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I went to undergrad in Ithaca and my many years of screaming “NOT CORNELL” under my breath are validated this week
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Theeeeee Yankees win
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The catalog description for my popular music course
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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hear me out: sometimes it’s nice to learn about something just because … it’s fun and interesting! College is not supposed to be about optimizing yourself for A Career with no detours. It’s supposed to be an opportunity to learn and grow *as a human being* — much of which happens outside your major.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trying to teach my Minnesotan almost two-year-old to say “I’m walkin’ here!” in a flamboyant New York accent, but she doesn’t have the whole thing down yet so she’s just running around screaming “I’m walkin’, I’m walkin’!!” Like yes, queen, you are.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Troubling name
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Might look to Gaelynn Lea vis-a-vis adaptive playing styles
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Do not let this child learn about the persuasive power of a slideshow
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amazing, Abby!! Congrats!!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Can confirm we’ve got the goods for Theory and musicology MAs at Minnesota! Message me if you’d like to chat more, Minneapolis is cool.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
One of the hardest things about teaching grad students is reining in this tendency
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Little bit of service, little bit of teaching. It’s come up in both areas in my tenure fine. Of course no actual credit or compensation…
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Love to ask someone a personal question then immediately dismiss their response about their personal experience!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When you think you can’t love the Lynx any harder
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This schmuck again
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sweet summer child
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Raw with gremolata and pistachios
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Oh yeah that thing is terrible
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Super ideas, thanks!!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Cool! I wonder how my very nearly 2 year old would fare. I don’t want to disturb older kids, but want to get her used to the theater!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I just ghost shit sometimes now. I’ve always felt like I *must* respond to every little thing no matter how stupid (personally and professionally), but now I just…keep my mouth shut more often. Honestly kinda hard.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Sooo close
A US map showing I only have four ish states left to visit (AK, AL, MS, MT)
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
As a West Ham supporter, thank you for reminding me to not rewatch this season 😭
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Happy birthday!!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So refreshing I could cry
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why is writing a conclusion the hardest thing in the world?
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
It is the BEST
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We’re a divided household on this
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
If I’m thinking of the same play structure, I’ve taken to aggressively checking it more in the last 2 months
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Late-stage capitalism still loves chubby lil feets
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Oh yes, and if my beautiful child waves at you and you don’t wave back… idk what do you think, jail or prison?
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Much better than the weirdly angsty “ENJOY IT WHILE IT LASTS” or “JUST WAIT…!” comments. I am enjoying it, thank you, please stop talking to me
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Oh my GOD
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
That’s why they pay me the big bucks
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
World’s worst scavenger hunt
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Oh this is my 7 stop! Thanks!!
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Alyssa Barna @abarna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
“Call Me Maybe,” Carly Rae Jepsen (2011)
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