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Erika Supria H

@drcanonic.bsky.social
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(Music) Historian, listening & thinking & listening some more. Indo-German-Canadian in America. Posting in a personal capacity.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6h
Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Free fallin' into this day like this fetus did in 1582.
a detail of a fetus in a womb from a 1582 German book titled: Hebãmenbuechlin (VD16 R 2846).
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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS, in @iaspm-us.bsky.social) seeks an associate editor for our "Field Notes" section. Field Notes is a front-of-book feature made up of essays about popular music. Come work with fun colleagues! Here's the call: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Calls-and-An...
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International Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Chapter - JPMS Call for Associate Editor
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is so heartening! The open and joyful support of artists and musicians in the city, and arts orgs big and small, is something to see—and that it's coupled with programs that actually make it possible for people to try things out, to be curious, to *go to the opera* to see if they like it...! 💕
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Big-time plug for what is imo the next important book on hip hop, written by my friend and colleague Dr. Kevin Holt, and officially out I believe today: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In an email announcing we will not be getting Adobe Acrobat Pro access, we are encouraged not to use PDFs in our courses 🙄and also informed accessibility is a campus priority.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The fact that this is imaginary is perfect. The whole premise is based on a fantasy that the optimal form of public education is the midpoint of a polarized society. Just split the difference between the science of climate change and the lobby of denialism.
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Thia2 @thia2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
huh...the financial statement for 2024 shows they made $40 million net income. You know, the year before Trump and cronies came in and destroyed it. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...
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John F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica
Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as...
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
someone needs to do a story on how much stuff the National Symphony currently has stored in the KC, whether they can access it (hearing reports about staff being barred and hardhat requirements) and where they are going to rehearse
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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh, the world. But the knots and loops for the closure on this parchment binding are so lovely. (It's a mss travelogue with maps @jcblibrary.bsky.social )
Close up of a book from the foredge, with a single loop and a tightly rolled strip of parchment making a knot that will close it.  (Actually it won't any more because the books has expanded over time but it's still lovely.)
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The contraction of used book stock & the inflation of used book prices is happening simultaneous with the reduction of library collections, the defunding of physical archives, & the enshittification of digital archives, & all are at least partially caused by pressures from frontier developers.”
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Guillotining Books Is Not Quite Guillotining Humanities Scholars. Not Quite.
Booksellers are benefitting from AI developers destructively scanning print books, but the activity is not victimless.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Today at SBU, Prof Nancy Tomes kicking off a project called Zones of Devastation: Writing Long Island into the History of 9/11. The project looks at 9/11 thru 3 lenses:workplace disaster & occupational health, impact on US higher ed, & climate of fear & anxiety (inc intensification of Islamophobia).
Nancy Tomes speaking at a lectern with a slide on a screen with data about health impacts of 9/11:
400K+ exposed
140K Enrolled in World Trade Center Health Program (as of December 2024)
49K First responders with WTC health-certified cancers
352 Chemical agents identified in dust
10 years: Time it took for breadth of patients to win federal support for 9/11-related illnesses

Courtesy Centers for Disease Control World Trad Center Program
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Forgive me, I am a child, but as far as error messages on our university website go, this rules.
text on a white background reads 503 No healthy backends
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm imagining a story Borges might write about a land named America, where every town and city, every body of water, every mountain, every road, in short any geographical feature or site or community that might be put on a map, was named "America." 1/
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States.
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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The images from Nepal are terrifying & upsetting. That we are witnessing this devastation & also learning that a geology prof at West Point has been fired "for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change" just adds to the horror show.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
An image for #InternationalDogDay 'Canis Irlandicus' by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596-1610 (Rijksmuseum)
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
This is what I’m talking about! Our institutions should be doing the work for us and not leaving us to jury rig together the collapsing infrastructure around us. More of this. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...
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Sosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This Fall
All social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students...
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The most beautiful animated film I have ever seen: Frédéric Back's 1987 The Man Who Planted Trees (L'Homme qui plantait des arbres), narrated in English by Christopher Plummer (French by Philippe Noiret), produced by Radio-Canada. 1/ youtu.be/gVFsbaHw-gA?...
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The Man Who Planted Trees - Frederic Back -HD
YouTube video by Nannamation
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Oh my GOD this essay is good.
The essay on Ed Tech by Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune.
In the mid-196os, mainstream macroeconomist William J. Baumol became interested in a surprising topic: the problem of "the starving artist." In a canonical essay, "On the Performing Arts: An Anatomy of Their Economic Problems," Baumol and his co-author William G. Bowen concluded that musicians were paid poverty wages because "the live performing arts" was unable to implement transformative "technological economies" (Baumol and Bowen 1965, 495). A follow-up essay in 1967 extended this analysis by dividing all economic activities into two types: "technologically progressive activities," in which technological innovations and economies of scale allowed "output per man hour" to increase progressively, and "nonprogres-sive" activities, “which by their very nature, permit only sporadic increases in productivity" (Baumol 1967, 415-16). In the later essay, Baumol's key example of a "nonprogressive" activity wasn't violin playing but teaching:
"Despite the invention of teaching machines," Baumol noted, "there still seem to be fairly firm limits" to productivity growth in education, which meant it would persistently lag "productivity in the remainder of the econ-omy" (416).
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the speaking events I'm most excited about this year is a roundtable discussion of the crypto-conservative Vanderbilt Report, taking place on October 7 at Stony Brook: calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/humanit... Still deciding how to frame my contribution, but not planning to hold much back.
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Reflections on the Vanderbilt Report, a Roundtable Discussion
Reflections on the Vanderbilt Report, a roundtable discussion of the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Science commissioned by Vanderbilt University and Wa...
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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026
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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
but I want to teach this NOW
a screenshot of the top of a syllabus reading MUS 547: Topics in Baroque Music (Spring 2027) How to Know an Unknown Piece. There is an image of a manuscript with music for five parts. At the top it reads 4. Viole. By the top staff we read the words Sonata and Praesto. Below that: Date/time: Tuesdays, 9:30AM–12:20PM, Music Library Seminar Room. Instructor: Erika Supria Honisch
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A new #reformazing metaphor has just dropped in the fever swamps of the online right. Apparently universities are the latest iteration of the Tudor monasteries, and therefore some metaphorical Henry VIII must dissolve them. Let's parse this a bit. 1/n
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
What’s the appropriate response to grotesque Islamophobia regarding Abdul El-Sayed? Every single one of us — no matter whether we agree with El-Sayed — has an obligation to reject those using this Senate race or policy disagreements to advance Islamophobia.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/08/2026
Mayor David Dinkins once described our city as a gorgeous mosaic. Today, I saw that mosaic in the Hindus and Christians, Muslims and Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs across the Indian diaspora who have helped make our city what it is. To all of them, I say: it is an honor to do that work alongside you.
Women and girls pose on a lawn at the Queens India Day Parade.An officer poses with an Indian flag on his shoulder.Two India Day Parade participants sit side by side.Mayor Mamdani speaks on stage at the India Day Parade.
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kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 12/08/2026
I wrote about the Obama Presidential Center for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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The Nostalgic Architecture of the Obama Presidential Center
Where hope even has a gift shop.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist.
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"Responsibility-Centered Management" (making university depts pay for the square feet they take up by uh teaching and researching) might just be the one corporate euphemism that finally does the humanities in.
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
just the constant undercurrent of panic that sets in a few weeks before the semester starts
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"What concerns me is how little space remains for a genuinely progressive critique of institutional diversity practices – one capable of scrutinising how for many organisations and corporations symbolic representation has been a substitute for deeper reform..."
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The alternative to "progressive" is not "moderate" and it's bananas that that's the framing
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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Lloyd Robertson was a staple in Canadian news. He graced our lives with the day's headlines for over 60 years, first with the CBC and then CTV. We trusted him to bring us the facts. Lloyd was awarded the Order of Canada. Rest peacefully, old friend.💔 www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...
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CTV National News: Legendary former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92
Former CTV National News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson has died. Genevieve Beauchemin reports on his extraordinary career in journalism and his enduring legacy.
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
One day I will form a Monochord Ensemble, who's in? (Also Deirdre's work is wonderful and everyone should read it).
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
But they will be
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m going to be sick. Even the photo they chose — I painted in that exact spot during a concert one of my summers. From the 1970s to the 2010s, which includes the three years I attended. When my friends were there. Back to when some of their *parents* were campers. www.mlive.com/news/2026/07...
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Epstein, 46 others linked to decades of sex assaults at Interlochen, over 70 victims
An investigative report two years in the making was released Tuesday, July 28, detailing decades of sexual abuse at Interlochen Center for the Arts by staff, trustees, visiting artists and Jeffrey Eps...
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Big fucking ups to this quote from Dr. Davis tho: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.”
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
47. The rot runs so deep.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A short story of dogs doing things (in a manuscript of 1300 AD). #dogsky
two dogs running in a manuscript ornament
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
As next school year draws closer (eek), I'm curious to hear an update on your anti-AI defenses, if you're teaching? Policies, sure, but also how you're redesigning assignments and building guardrails. I might write something about all this.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
shutting down academic programs is virtually never about the quality of those programs and often it’s not really even about their actual student numbers or “appeal” very little management policy towards the humanities is specifically “about” research or teaching in the humanities at all, in fact
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/07/2026
Thinking about this in relation to the divide between the impossibility of assigning physical books in classes at UMass-Amherst (bc no student will buy them) and the fact that at Amherst College that is not an issue since the College just buys the books for students: www.amherst.edu/academiclife...
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Amherst College Textbooks | Supporting Students’ Academic Success | Amherst College
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Carney: Wildfires are really bad and I care about the people affected by them. Me: Reminder that Carney, who says this about wildfires, has cut every relevant federal agency, is rolling back climate protections, and pushing more pipelines. Carney fans: YoU sHoULd BLaMe tEh PrEMiErS.
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