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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

One of the biggest mistakes students in music education programs make is confusing their experience of music for what music is. Music teachers need broad experience and expertise. Open minds and curious hearts. Unfortunately, conservatory models do the opposite and put new teachers in a bind.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

imagine trying "I know I've been gone four months but I'll explain when I'm back" if you were a shift worker at Arby's

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Chris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Spent some time Yesterday with Students from Taiwan in VR participating in their musical curation exhibitions about personal meaning making and cross cultural musical exchange. A great experience that opened up my eyes to the potential of this Tech for global collaboration. Thanks Dr. Han-Ning Chen

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

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Jesse @requiemarm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Successfully defended my dissertation today!

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Someone once said something very profound oh here about the difference between playing a video game as intended vs. using a game as a space to do something of your own devising. I wish I could find it for a paper.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I was once attacked by a monkey, while holding a banjo, walking to the park in a college town in Maine

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what a ghoul believes ☎️ @sayambular.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Anyone want 167 slides of resources for teaching songwriting in general music that cover everything from intro games to assessment and pedagogical strategies? I tossed all my slides into a big deck this morning and it's yours if you want it!

docs.google.com

Songwriting: All Slides

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

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Marcelius Braxton @marceliusb.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

A lot of the "training" police receive is about getting away with harming/killing. They use Graham v. Connor and the idea of "reasonableness". They're trained to claim to feel unsafe, threatened, and/or that they saw or believed there was a weapon. Yet Dems think "training" is the solution for ICE.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Matt Walsh tweeted last year: "We've spent the last 25 years bringing "freedom" and "democracy" to countries around the globe while our own country has been systematically invaded and now our largest cities are run by foreigners and communists. If you want to know why I'm so avowedly non-interventionist, this is why."

Then he tweeted today: ""This is a war for oil!!!!!"

First of all, the "war" lasted like 90 minutes. Second, going to war to secure vital resources for your own people is totally legitimate. Why should we allow some third world communist shithole to control trillions of dollars worth of oil?"

Laura Loomer tweeted last year: "I’m America First, I don’t support “Regime Change”. I went on @Bannons_WarRoom to talk about Chinese aggression in Venezuela and why we need to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization."

Then she tweeted yesterday: "Maduro has arrived at the DEA office in Manhattan. He was transported in an armored motorcade after being transported in a blindfold via helicopter & then by plane to New York after his compound in Caracas was raided by US Special Forces.

Proud to be an American today!

USA 🇺🇸"

Catturd tweeted last year: "Name one U.S. inspired regime change that hasn’t ended in absolute disaster."

Then he tweeted yesterday: "Venezuela is now more free than New York City."

Will Chamberlain tweeted last year: "The Republican Party is no longer the party of regime change and endless wars

If you want to be its standard-bearer that is a non-negotiable position"

Then he tweeted yesterday: "I can think of few better uses of my tax dollars than black-bagging the head of a foreign narco-trafficking organization that enriches itself by addicting and poisoning my fellow Americans"

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

it is incredible that the entire high level legal apparatus of the United States is "anything that helps people is impossible, anything that kills people is permitted"

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jab lung @mobute.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Desperate to get through to the president to persuade him to stop the war, protesters have started flinging photos of attractive Venezuelan children over the White House fence.

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Spencer M Ross @srossmktg.com · 03/01/2026

Not being glib: this wags the dog on all "5 year anniversary of January 6 Insurrection" coverage.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

What it knows is that you’ve asked it to write an apology. Whether that apology is *deserved* or even *rational* it has absolutely no interest in. When you say “Grok apologized” you are saying “That greeting card sure feels bad about your grandma dying.”

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Jenni @jennismovingcastle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I want a Google scholar wrapped. How many times did i look up the same article? How many times did I download the same paper? Wait what was that paper again. Let me check.

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tante @tante.cc · 05/12/2025

"Great technology does more than solve problems. It weaves itself into the world we inhabit." Sure. But the same is true for the most vile or broken technology.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I've been thinking about music education and AI over on substack. There are big questions and I'm not sure we're up to providing the answers.

substack.com

We still need to talk about Suno

Some more thoughts on AI music making, Musical Meaning, and Music education

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 03/11/2025

Your life is worse off because too many white people hate Black people.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The world might be stupid but there are still amazing things and people in it. I went to a dia de los muertos celebration last night and there was a tremendous amount of music, color, and joy. Traditions and culture are important.

A man on horseback with a sombrero is outlined in silhouette against an orange ofrenda

A large sculpture of a female skeleton playing a guitar

An intensely orange ofrenda adorned with skulls and marigolds

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

I’ve been working with a private school’s k-12 music program. It is really interesting to see the possibilities that open up for centering independent lifelong musicianship on students’ terms in that space.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

New: Reflecting on real world teaching problems through solving them together- a reflection from some recent music teacher education classroom experiences.

substack.com

Taking Stock

Sharing real world problems with students for real world learning

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Sometimes the best question to ask isn’t “how can we do better?” but “should we be doing this at all?”

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Ric Grenell, who runs the Kennedy Center, appears to have set aside tickets for hecklers to disrupt the K-Center performance of an artist who got in a heated exchange with him months ago:

washingtonian.com

Log Cabin Republicans Disrupted Yasmin Williams’s Kennedy Center Performance - Washingtonian

Staffers say center president Ric Grenell's office set aside passes for the group, which booed and heckled the musician.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

@hankgreen.bsky.social Which way did people turn things before clocks were invented? We use the terms clockwise and anti-clockwise now but clocks are not a natural thing? How did people refer to those kinds of rotational movement before clocks?

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Listening to "Ready or Not" by the Fugees today in class. I asked the undergraduates to identify some of the other musical works referenced in the lyrics. "What is "Porgy and Bess"?, When they say "Buffalo soldier, dreadlocked rasta" what and who are they referencing" None of them Knew.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Music education could stand to do more thinking and teaching about how music is used for political purposes. Music isn’t always a liberating force. Music is often used to signal membership of an in group. When Trump uses Greenwood they’re both making a musical cultural case about who Americans are.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

“People espousing antifascist ideology are enemies of the state but don’t you dare call us fascists or we’ll target you with the full force of the state!” Yeah, there’s a name for that.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We rely on each other broadly for protection of the truth. The concepts and knowledge we use to understand the world come to us mostly through others. We need to be able to generally trust their word to be able to know. We’re all in a big community and we depend on each other.

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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/09/2025

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I’ve just ordered an E-bike in a desperate attempt to reinvent myself moving from wacky shirt guy to E-bike guy. A truly lateral rebrand.

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Lindsay Ballant @lballant.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 13/09/2025

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

nbcnews.com

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

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Alex Adams @alexadamsmusiced.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I was talking to some young people recently and I mentioned that when I went to school you could just walk in and there were no cops there and no one worried about being shot to death. It was so far away from today’s reality that it seemed like I was recounting a dream even to me.

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