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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology should be ashamed.

David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Ah! I just opened up my Positron after updating and no longer have the `CMD + i` in-line Claude/LLM feature!! Made a comment on a GitHub issue, but also wonder if any other #rstats users were upset to see this removed! (Or is there a hidden switch I need to flip to see that) @posit.co

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Should have posted a few days ago, but if you're free RIGHT NOW (13:00 EST) and want to hear about how to deploy tidyverse and scikit-learn models in a SQL database, check out our #rstats event here www.meetup.com/maine-r-user...

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MaineR Online Talk July 2026, Thu, Jul 30, 2026, 1:00 PM | Meetup

Join us for a short, but sweet 30-40 minute talk given by [Emil Hvitfeldt](https://github.com/EmilHvitfeldt), software engineer at [Posit PBC](https://posit.co/)! The talk

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Where are all the #musicscience people posting on here these days? Was at SMPC last week and think enough time has passed that I can get back into it without it distracting from having to do a bit of a career pivot.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Just voted for the new @musicperception.bsky.social board. Though I think most of the candidates will do good things for the society, I was a bit disappointed that so few of the bios listed what they would specifically DO during their term. Yes, great to be more inclusive, but how? C'mon now.

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If someone you know buys into claims about "genetic optimization" of embryos using polygenic scores of cognition, just send them our 2024 paper on Beethoven & musicality. We wrote it to help communicate limits of individual-level genetic predictions & complexity of links between DNA & behaviour. 🧪👇

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Notes from Beethoven’s genome

Wesseldijk et al. compare the genomic information collected from Ludwig van Beethoven with population-based datasets used to quantify musical achievement.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Hit a major milestone today on a client project this morning and now finding it difficult to muster the energy to now start on the next thing.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I only restart my computer for spiritual reasons.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I think one of the the hardest things I've had to get used to with running freelance data consultancy the past year is to not just continually work throughout the day. I just can't context switch quickly and any attempt to do that always results in burnout.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I keep seeing posts saying we need a new word for people who use Chat-GPT for everything: why not Chatlatan?

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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Remembering David Huron | David John Baker

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Whenever I drive to Bangor, sometimes all I can think about is that I am rapidly getting closer and closer to @stephenking.bsky.social

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Lifetime Achievement Award :-) Laudatio by Justin London | See lnkd.in/eWjHt5d3

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I can tell it's the end of the year because my body is collapsing, I am getting the end of year cold, and I am finally sleeping for extended periods of time.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Setting up all the infrastructure to run your own business only makes it more apparent that business owners who complain about raising the minimum wage really just should not be in business. I would love to hire people to do work I don't want to do, but you know what, I can't afford that so I won't.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/11/2024

Dorothy Bishop explains why Elon Musk’s membership in the Royal Society devalues the entire organization.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Almost finding blue sky to be too much at the moment given the huge influx. Happy to see everyone here, but damn, could easily start losing a lot of time here if I'm not careful.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Great to see such an uptick in people finally joining bluesky. Wish I had more to say at the moment in the #musicscience space or anything else, especially with so many people now forming a critical mass.

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The Audio Alchemist @audioalchemist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Hello, Bluesky! I'm hoping to make the transition from X. It's a bit daunting to think of building a new community here, but it's time. In my next few posts I’ll share examples of content related to my interests: #SonicStrategy #MusicScience #SonicDiversity #SonicBranding #BehavioralScience

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Still looking for someone to help me with this dumb custom feed I set up a year or so ago. I patch worked it together, am not a web dev, and would be happy to pay someone to fix this issue at this point because it's such a headache. Any devs out there used to working with custom feeds, please dm me.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Just participated in my first ranked vote, early election since coming back to the USA. Crazy that it's not this easy to vote and pick candidates that align with your values in the other 49 states.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

Just spent more money than I care to admit on an ergonomic keyboard. Fingers crossed this is money well spent towards long term health.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Exactly what Big Meeting wants you to think

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Thank you to everyone reaching out today on account of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. It's difficult to balance my work in chemistry, past life as a jazz pedagogue, and responsibilities as the veterinarian for LSU's live tiger.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

What a week. Thought I'd be low key working on a few lingering projects but have spent the past two days recovering from Tuesday night food poisoning. So much for my first 4th of July in the USA in maybe 6 years.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 02/07/2024

Just FYI, @tuomaseerola.bsky.social set up a #musicpsych feed in the meantime to watch things like ESCOM go by. I think the issue with the #musicscience feed had to do with my Google Domain being migrated over to Squarespace and I missed some key infrastructure changes. Help wanted if you could!

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Tuomas Eerola (@tuomaseerola.bsky.social)

Music psychology Professor at Durham University, UK. Research on music and emotions, rhythm, movement and other essentials of music. #musicscience

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Apologies that the #musicscience feed is not running at the start of #ESCOM12, lost track of time and didn't realise it was this week. Will try to get it online ASAP, and def in place for #SMPC22. I think I sorted out most of this this morning, just waiting on one or two more things.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

The #musicscience feed is going to be under construction a bit this week, please excuse any disruptions. Will try to host it manually when I can, just having issues with deploying it. Any 🎵🧪 web-dev people that want to help out, please just message me! I'd really appreciate it.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

@luten.dev, if you have a moment- Did anything change on the way bsky feeds work? Just tried to update the #musicscience feed, works fine when I check it on my server, but when I try to publish, it fails (getting the error github.com/EddyLuten/tt... ) but not sure where to go from there?

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Kate Stevens @katestevartssci.bsky.social · 12/06/2024

Free Vol 41 Issue 5 thanks @ucpress.bsky.social Happy #musicscience Conference Season! 41-5 eg #memory & speech to song illusion – Kubit #EEG - González #lexical tone #perception – Choi #jazz piano training & #older adults - Bugos #AI & musicking – Berkowitz online.ucpress.edu/mp

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Music Perception | University of California Press

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Bold move to post a picture of the book "Surrounded by Idiots" on your LinkedIn

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 05/06/2024

Getting involved in a new area of work (b2b sales and forecasting) and honestly the hardest thing? Remembering all the acronyms.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

After many iterations, I think I've finally un-academic'd my resume. Half the battle was realising how little of what I was doing matters in what I was doing will matter to what I will be doing in the future.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I was also horrified at how people are using LLMs in business contexts. Essentially shaking up a few of the world's most complex Magic 8 balls (GPT3, Gemini) then using what they say to make decisions with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 24/05/2024

I went to a data + ai meet up earlier this week, thinking I'd fit in for the most part. Shouldn't be, but was really shocked at how much the emphasis of the convo was on LLMs and computer vision. Honestly made me reconsider changing my LinkedIn bio to be more Applied Scientist than Data Scientist

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

It's very strange stepping away from all these side-academic projects and collaborations I was a part of. Part of me feels like there would be some merit in holding on to some of them, but for each one, once I have ripped the band aid off, it's felt like I've gotten a fair amount of bandwidth back.

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David John Baker @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

New 🎵🧪 publication out this week from my time at Goldsmiths while working in collaboration with Soundout. www.journalofadvertisingresearch.com/content/earl... Very fun project where we were able to take some #musicscience ideas and have a clear industry use case in the context of audio branding

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Musical Manipulation of Visual Scenes In Video, Film, and TV Advertisements

Advertisements frequently pair music with visual imagery to convey information about brand identity. In the context of sonic branding, the authors believe the current study offers the first rigorous t...

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Mats Küssner @matskussner.bsky.social · 05/05/2024

Job alert: Permanent Lecturer position (65%) in Systematic Musicology. #musicscience Apply by 17 May 2024 to join us in the Department of Musicology and Media Studies @humboldtuni.bsky.social haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/...

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Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (m/w/d) mit 65 v. H. d. regelm. Arbeitszeit - E 13 TV-L HU (Diese Stelle ist unbefristet.)

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