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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🗓️ Good morning! 2 days left to submit an abstract to this year's International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany from September 21-23! We're looking forward to your submissions! Infos here: digital.musicology.org/icccm-2026/

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Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg @uni-wuerzburg.de · 12/03/2026

Priests in the Middle Ages used #tropes to comment or introduce gregorian chants. A #JMU study showed that there spread was restricted because of the political borders created by the Treaty of Verdun 843 AD. 📸 Ivan Savini / Adobe Stock ➡️ www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-...

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Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia. You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition. Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

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Research Fellow in Music Science

Job Description: * 5-year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-time position at Academic Level B. * Based at the MARCS Institute with flexible working arrangements. * Salary: $120,908 – $142,769 per annum, plus ...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

How have politics shaped music making in the past? Using generative network models, Tim's work shows that there is a close link between political boundaries in central Europe towards the end of the first millennium and the repertoire of chants. #musicscience transactions.ismir.net/articles/10....

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

🔖*1st Call for Abstracts:* The Int Conf of Computational & Cognitive Musicology will take place from 21-23 September in Würzburg, Germany. Please share! #ICCCM26 #musicscience Call: digital.musicology.org/icccm-2026/

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 06/09/2025

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

This semester, students in my course on Digital Representations of Music and Notation Software had the opportunity to visit our university's Retro Computing Lab, led by Torsten Roeder. It was great fun trying to notate some music on still working C64s. 🎹🤖 #musicscience

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

📣 I'm excited to announce that Johannes Menke's and my project "Musico Pratico - Pietro Pontio's Dialogues in Translation, Digital Evaluation and Critical Reception" will be funded for 3 years by SNSF and DFG within the Weave program. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...

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Einen Renaissance-Musiker digital wiederbeleben

Der Komponist und Musiktheoretiker Pietro Pontio steht im Mittelpunkt eines neuen Forschungsprojekt. Teams aus Würzburg und Basel arbeiten an einer digitalen Edition seiner theoretischen und didaktischen Werke.

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

This week, I was so happy about our first in-person team meeting at @uni-wuerzburg.de's Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität that I grew a shadow antenna out of my head! Always looking out for new connections apparently ;-)

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Today I had the great pleasure to welcome our new postdoc Mauro Orsini Windholz to our team at @uni-wuerzburg.de ! We will continue working on the computational analysis of Brazilian choro. 🇧🇷🎼

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Jean-Baptiste Camps @jbcamps.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !

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Arnold Jacobshagen @jacobshagen.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

GfM Relaunch: Die Gesellschaft für Musikforschung hat einen neuen Auftritt. www.musikforschung.de

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Lauren Tilton @nolauren.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Looking to teach with Humanities Data in R?The second edition of our book is now out! Updates include tidyverse, new data sets, latest code techniques, and more! Available through many libraries. We also have a digital teaching component. DM or email for access! #digitalhumanities #datascience

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

⏰ New year, new publication! Come and watch Anja Volk's talk on "Musical Pattern Discovery" from the CODAMUS series youtu.be/XTa6aCZfpyE and read the transcript here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-volk #musicscience #digitalhumanities #music

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Musical pattern discovery: a dialogue between MIR, Musicology & Music Therapy

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

⏰ Check out Elsa De Luca's talk in the #CODAMUS series "Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-de-... youtu.be/baz6-sZragQ

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Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

⏰ Check out the newest CODAMUS publication by Martha E. Thomae: " #MIR for Early #Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic #Encoding of Mensural Sources into Symbolic Scores" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-eli... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvQ...

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MIR for Early Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic Encoding of Mensural Sources

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

⏰ Latest update: Elena Minetti's talk "From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters within the Henze-digital project" is now online. Check it out here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-min... or on YouTube youtu.be/NuBir4fTkh8! #music #digitalhumanities

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From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And now the big announcement... #CHR2025 will be in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺 That's all for now, signing out from #CHR2024 🫡

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1. Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Missing Data in the Humanities

Call for Papers: Missing Data in the Humanities

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

⏰ Next up: @miriamakkermann.bsky.social's talk "From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems" is now public! Check out the video youtu.be/bmi1gV45vEo or view the publication here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-akk... #music #musicscience #digitalhumanities

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From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems

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Frank Fischer @umblaetterer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Ok, we just tabularised the @spiegel.de literary canon 1924–2024 & enriched it with #Wikidata, #Goodreads, GND IDs for authors and works. Feel free to toy around with it. More to follow soonish… GitHub repo: github.com/temporal-com... @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities"

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

So I'm finishing up my poster for #CHR2024 next week and want to replace the bird (never used the X) with the butterfly in #LaTeX #beamer using the fontawesome5 package or similar. Any suggestions?

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

This is an important new resource for people interested in the science of music. It combines academic rigor and a wide disciplinary scope while still somehow managing to make it accessible for students and non-specialists. I couldn't recommend it more! #musicscience

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🌟 Excited to host an #EarlyMuse STSM at the Institut für Musikforschung, University of Würzburg! Join us to explore digital editions, analysis, and archives of medieval monophony. Hands-on collaboration awaits! Details & application: bit.ly/3Z2RgNk #MedievalMusic #DigitalMusicology #EarlyMusic

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I wish a post like that would have been around a couple of years ago. Fantastic opportunity folks!

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

With her talk on "Musical Difference: Computational and Postcolonial Perspectives", Emily Hansell Clark provides the second contribution to our CODAMUS series. Check it out here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-cla... or watch the video on YouTube: youtu.be/AOZVyqBvDFQ

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Musical Difference: Computational and Postcolonial Perspectives

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Very proud to announce the pub of the 1st contribution of our collection "Computational & Digital Approaches to Music Scholarship"! #musicscience #digitalhumanities "Quantifying recorded sound: Computational analysis and clustering techniques on Pau Casals' legacy" codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-llo...

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Quantifying recorded sound: Computational analysis and clustering techniques on Pau Casals’ legacy

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

I feel honored to be one of the 7 speakers of this year's Science Slam at Würzburg University. I'll be talking about "Music and Maths: How do these two fit together?" (in German, though). If you happen to be in Würzburg on 8 November, feel free to show up: www.uni-wuerzburg.de/alumni/aktue...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Very proud that my PhD students @timeipert @HofmannLucasDH & Adrian Nachtwey's presentations were met with great interest at #GfM2024 @musikforschung last week in Cologne! The future is bright @Uni_WUE! #musicology #digitalhumanities

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Yesterday, I had the honor to speak to the current cohort of PhD students at Uni Würzburg's graduate schools. Thanks for your inspiring questions! Photo credit: Lucas Hofmann

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

We introduce Fourier Qualia Wavescapes, a new analytical method for set class ambiguity based on the DFT #mcm24 #musicscience #musictheory link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 18/06/2024

It was a great pleasure yesterday to talk about #AI, the #digitalhumanities, and #musicology @ACDH_OeAW in beautiful Vienna. Incidentally, this is maybe the most simplistic slide I ever produced 😅

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

How did composers' use of intervals change over time? In our new study in @HSScomms we employ a #Bayesian model of tonal space to study major trajectories in classical #music. @Uni_WUE @durham_uni @epfldh www.nature.com/articles/s41... #musicscience #musictheory #culturalevolution

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 31/03/2024

I'm very excited! Thanks to generous seed funding by @bayfor.bsky.social I'll be leaving for Rio de Janeiro tomorrow for my project "Digital Choro: Exploring the potential of digitization & computational models for #Brazil's musical #culturalheritage"

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 18/03/2024

#job An unserem Institut wird die Leitung der Institutsbibliothek Musik @Uni_WUE neu besetzt (TV-L E10, 100%, jobsharing möglich). Bewerbung bis 22.04. musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04... #musik #bibliothek #musikwissenschaft

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I'm excited about the upcoming workshop "Bayesian modeling for musicology" at Würzburg University this weekend featuring Christoph Finkensiep and Jan Hajič jr sites.google.com/view/bayesmu...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Last Friday marked my 1st anniversary as assistant prof @Uni_WUE 🥳🎶 #musicscience #digitalhumanities #timeforcake

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 29/11/2023

It's been 7 weeks since submitting a manuscript to a journal without any response... A) It's normal, keep waiting. B) What? Retract! C) Contact editors.

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 17/11/2023

Paper : "Historical Changes of Modes and their Substructure Modeled as Pitch Distributions in #Plainchant from the 1100s to the 1500s" with Eita Nakamura and Tim Eipert presented yesterday at #cmmr_2023 #musicscience #digitalhumanities @CompHumResearch fabian-moss.de/publication/...

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Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

At #DLfM23 last week Tim Eipert and I presented "MonodiKit: A data model and toolkit for medieval monophonic chant" to facilitate interoperability between different medieval music corpora. #digitalhumanities #FAIR GitHub: github.com/timeipert/Mo... Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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