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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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h
Fuck this. I don’t know what else to say. Prison kills. mississippitoday.org/2026/10/07/c...
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Wrongly imprisoned Curtis Flowers dies
After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Every life stolen was an entire world. The point is not to pretend that all we need is shared mourning, or to equate the suffering on both sides. Reckoning and accountability are required.
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Three Years Later, We Still Haven't Figured Out How to Mourn:
On October 7th, resisting the flattening of empathy.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 07/10/2026
Weirdest question a university can ask someone hired as an assistant professor in a humanities field after the financial crisis: “why did you 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐞 to work at our university?” You weren’t chosen; there were no other jobs; we were lucky to get anything; eternally grateful but you aren‘t special.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Universities must stop falling in love with every new piece of software … that the tech industry pitches as essential. Administrators spend on software as if it is a durable investment, when all of the evidence shows that it … makes bloat worse.” globecollegetown.substack.com/p/higher-ed-...
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College campuses need to be liberated from their administrators
Higher ed is being strangled by absurd and costly rules. What message is that sending to students?
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Anne Leader @anneleaderphd.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We got our #NEH grant back!!! Justice delayed but not denied. And, we now have until 2028 to spend the funds. awardsearch.neh.gov/AwardDetail....
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NEH Award PW-296829-24, University of Chicago
Florence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society
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Wes Flinn @wesflinn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s all about “research productivity.” Quality doesn’t matter. Just crank out the publications so we can move up the rankings.
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Revisiting Bonnie Blackburn's classic "For whom do the singers sing?"—marveling again at how much she knew and at the clarity of her thinking and writing. I'm sure I'm not the only early music scholar who thinks I am asking a new question, only to find that Bonnie asked & answered it years ago.
screenshot of Bonnie Blackburn's article "for whom do the singers sing?" published in Early Music, November 1997. A color reproduction of a painting from ca. 1500 showing a donor kneeling before the Virgin and Child, while the words "O mater dei, memento mei" on a scroll that floats towards the Virgin, while St. Philip stands behind him supportively.
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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:
Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads: 

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 02/10/2026
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
Oh! What a lovely idea. This does seem to be a step in that direction. I can't keep up with all the partnerships that are being announced. I love it 🙂
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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
We uh don't have a bookstore anymore (there was a brief liaison with Amazon that iirc killed it dead and now I think you can get branded hoodies and keychains and maybe gel pens and occasionally tampons in the space that once had...books)
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I want to bring back the course pack. Do we even have any place on campus to make such a thing anymore?
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Does it have any tools for PDF remediation? (That's the big challenge hum folks are facing at my institution)
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hard copy everything, I guess? -- tl;Dr compliance trumps accessibility.
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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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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Re: India, the view of Hitler as anti colonial (!) might be specifically rooted -- although I don't know how well known Bhose is today en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subhas_...
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Subhas Chandra Bose - Wikipedia
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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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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the perfect caption
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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 · 30/08/2026
I will have to have a word with labor relations
Two dogs, one black brown and white hound dog, the other a scruffy grey mop of a pup, on a human bed with a chewed up toy and a book, ready to entertain concerns
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
and reported with undisguised pity on the benighted people that had allowed such things to happen. 3/3
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Those in neighboring lands were accustomed to their myopic neighbors and their peculiar customs, but later generations of Americans, who found themselves quite unable to make sense of their history, marveled at the folly 2/
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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
(also, this is top-flight CanCon 😀🍁, public broadcasting 4 life etc)
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
(www.fredericback.com/cineaste/fil... ) Stubbornly and quietly, he tends land that has been used and abandoned, cares for it, serves as its steward, and it is transformed. So much solace in this! 5/5
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Frédéric Back, agir ensemble | caring together
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The director's account of what drew him to it gets to the heart of it: "I was very moved by the character's generosity and his utter indifference to any kind of reward. It is the very essence of happiness because the reward is in the act itself and in the vision of its beneficial consequences." 4/
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I find myself so touched by it now—differently, of course, than when I revisited it at other times in my life. I feel keenly now the loss of someone who shaped how I see the world, and also, in these grim and hopeless days, am drawn to its uncluttered morality, as I expect our dad was too. 3/
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Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It tells the story, originally documented by the writer Jean Giono, of a lone Provençal shepherd who spends his life quietly reforesting a desolate, treeless valley. We were so small when we watched it, and our dad was so touched by it—and we were too young to know why. 2/
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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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