iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You might not understand this, but when you say “showing up at” you mean “getting cruelly tricked or forcibly dragged into,” because they are small children.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Me in the intro to my book about atomic culture

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 03/09/2026

Every 1 in 5 people ICE arrested since February is a child. That and more in our latest analysis of data available through Freedom of Information Act lawsuits: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/28/i...

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How is the G20 in western NC when they haven’t even gotten all their hurricane relief?

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

GTA VI like: is spectacle actually going to save us?

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 25/08/2026

everybody is (rightfully) remembering her incredible charity work, the 300 million books and counting for kids, the moderna vaccine, all of it she also wrote 'I Will Always Love You' and 'Jolene' on the same dang day. absolutely peerless

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly loved and mothered all of us who were told by our towns we were too fallen for loving and mothering. The queer. The slutty. The barren. “I know, honey. Just let it out.” —— I’ll leave you this. Dolly (and Linda and Emmylou) loving and mothering the wayward son. youtu.be/wWEQDyrbphE?...

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Dolly Parton Linda Ronstadt Emmylou Harris - The Sweetest Gift

YouTube video by littlesparrow185

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

OH NO DOLLY blessed is the true judge NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ok who just got born we like need you TODAY ok

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @TheRaDR Nov 17, 2020
There's an idea in Judaism that there are 36 special people in the world at all times who secretly maintain the world.

I have begun to suspect that Dolly Parton may be one of them.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

ISO librarian/collections contact for the Canadian Opera Company. Looking to do some more spectacle research 👀👀👀 #opera #classicalmusic

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Nuclear Threat Initiative @nti.org · 20/08/2026

Did you know that Coretta Scott King was a force behind many nuclear weapons protests of the 20th century? She was a delegate for Women Strike for Peace at a 1962 conference in Geneva and pushed for a nuclear test ban treaty. MLK Jr. credited her with influencing his stance against nuclear weapons.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The threat of the “butts in seats” model is being internalized by young profs. I see my peers agonizing that it’s their “fault” students drop their class. The consumerist model of education has fully poisoned the futurity of higher ed.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Tenet, Oppenheimer, the Odyssey: the “you’re a good man, Charlie Brown” Nolan trilogy

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Assigned Attali _Noise_ for my upcoming grad seminar and I gotta say I really miss these grand narrative historiographical accounts.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yall need to read/re-read Gabrielle Hecht’s _Being Nuclear_ bc this definition of “clean energy” comes at the expense of African miners and laborers. Please be for real.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I swear TCM is the only silver lining of our shared employer

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

But mostly, a journey that should take half an hour ends up taking 10 years. Traffic.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Okayyyyy so Odysseus = Oppenheimer. I get you Nolan.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Justice for Egypt shame on VAR

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I’m calling it an empires must fall summer.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

not to brag, but our department is the most diverse music studies department among our peer institutions. and that really says something about our commitment to the future of intellectual thought and knowledge production for our fields.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In honor of DUP’s 100 year anniversary, their sale should be 100% off

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Sorry if someone already said this but the bar for if AI is conscious should be if AI has class consciousness

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Could labor organizing have saved Tony Soprano and his boys?

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Capital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

That May 16, 2025, tornado system was the most destructive tornado to carve through an American city in over a decade. It damaged more than 10,000 properties, killing and injuring residents along its path and leveling entire blocks holding generations of Black history. bit.ly/48Wa8TW

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Trump Weakened FEMA, and a Black St. Louis Neighborhood Is Paying the Price

After the most destructive urban tornado in years, a historic Black community is rebuilding largely on its own.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Do not create a deep fake of yourself in order to have a 24/7 office hours chat bot. Just don’t.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

*90s beat in background* hey you kids! It’s Magnus here! Your new provost of the new year! If you think school is lame, you just haven’t seen my game!

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The spectacle begets spectacle

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Kennedy Owra, a PhD student at UW, and his 13 year old son were deported from Seattle, WA earlier today (4/8/26) after being detained and denied legal counsel. Here is a GoFundMe to help their family with legal costs: www.gofundme.com/f/9wup9u-hel...

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Donate to Help Kennedy and Son Return to Seattle, organized by Kevin M Mcgill

Kennedy Owra is a PhD student in the Information School in good standing. Origin… Kevin M Mcgill needs your support for Help Kennedy and Son Return to Seattle

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

the realest part of The Metamorphosis is how on top of everything he is still expected to show up at the office somehow

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026

A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Giving up on work for today, the Moon/nuke combo is breaking my Cold War brain.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

There’s something here about the importance of paying attention that the study of aesthetics

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Yes, live streaming this is pretty great

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Somebody told me writing a book is a main quest but you have many side quests. My current side quest is quantum theory so I can make one metaphor for the methodology section of my book.

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The fact that humans are in space while the US rages war on other countries for ideologically dubious reasons 2026 is the new 1972

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“Sasha Widman said she had accepted the $3,000 residence scholarship, Still, she does not plan to declare a minor. ‘I don’t think that’s necessarily where I want our society to go, or where I want my education to go,’” Gift link: coalitionforcarolina.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Any good examples of a written methodology section that combines Jameson, Adorno, and Hayden White?

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

How do I put these in my tenure portfolio? 🥺 (the music sorority Tau Beta Sigma gave me my flowers!)

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My student walked into my classroom, sat down, and said I should throw my hat in the ring. HMU Bubba!!!

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Dr. Hyeonjin Park (they/them) @hyeonjin.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Hi #SCMS26, if you're interested in game sound stuff, swing by our panel tomorrow (3/26) at 2:15–4:00pm 🫡 And thank you to @soundmusicscms.bsky.social for sponsoring us!

C20. Embodying and Performing Gameworld Sonic Environments
Siwssôtel, Gstaad/Zermatt, Lucerne Level
Chair: Kate Galloway, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)

Kate Galloway (RPI), "A Walkie-Talkie, A Telephone, A Field Recorder: Embodied Environmental Knowledge and Sound Technologies of Placemaking"
Oscar Moralde (Washington University in St. Louis), "'Wait, someone's singing now?!': The Performative Spectacle of Boss Fight Music in Final Fantasy XIV"
Hyeonjin Park (University of California, Los Angeles), "Feels Bad to Suck: Dealing with Failure in Celeste and Its Music"

Sponsored by Sound and Music Studies Scholarly Interest Group

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I love teaching Dr Strangelove

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abg, phd @gatsbea.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you’re catching the Met live stream of tristan today watch out for this un-caffeinated but drenched in Issey Miyake face

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