Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026With each passing day, I regret more and more, telling the students in my lab I don't like the thumbs up emoji. 🫠 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Someone once asked me "If given the opportunity, what would you ask God about music?" I never really had an answer. Now I don't even think I'd be interested in asking God a question about music, because that would take away from me working towards such an answer, if there even is one. 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Run the mini exploratory study, to figure out the bigger exploratory study, to figure out the actual study... so on and so forth. 020
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Switching to cloth posters this summer was the best professional decision I've ever made. 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A friend and colleague asked me to write for her substack. So I wrote on some recent work. open.substack.com/pub/mtmola/p...open.substack.comSamuel Gardner and Abby Fiedler: Chords and Camouflage in Working MemorySamuel Gardner is an assistant professor of music theory at Oberlin where he likes to run experiments. Abby Fiedler is a recent Oberlin graduate now pursuing a PhD in music cognition at Northwestern. 031
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Very happy this is now published! Here, we find that participants, regardless of musical training, are fairly good at explicitly matching looped harmonic progressions! emusicology.org/article/id/6... 011
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026What an incredible gift to begin your summer with a conference. It's a fantastic feeling starting my most productive time of the year inspired! 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Beyond proud of my students for crushing it at their first presentation today! 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I have received emails from 7 different neuroscientists today, for 7 unrelated reasons. Normally, I receive 0 emails from neuroscientists, and sometimes texts from 1 neuroscientists. 001
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 02/01/2026Watching the Drew Carey Show brings me a cathartic sense of peace. So does finishing an IRB... I think that's basically it. 030
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I just had to write an email that was simultaneously, complex, but low stakes. It took me about 15 minutes. I'm just left thinking how A.I. could possibly have made my life easier in this regard... it can't? It would have taken me just as long writing a prompt to explain the situation. 100
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 13/09/2025Every Friday I meet with my research students, and every Friday I am left wowed by the amazing questions and ideas the have. Today produced four pages of notes of thoughts and ideas, and its just a treat, it really is. 120
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 10/09/2025It has taken over three years, but I have finally submitted and IRB that did not require revisions! 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 02/09/2025I don't understand the need to use AI for emails when you can just hastily send one with zero proofreading. 110
Reposted by SammyTanay Katiyar @adigitaltanay.bsky.social · 29/08/2025On Prolific, "we estimate that about 34% of online study participants use LLMs to answer open-ended questions atleast some of the time..." Seems like a very timely paper for behavioural scientists using online samples: osf.io/preprints/so... ; We really need more papers on this issue 519680
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025This is the one time a semester where I can prep Aural Skills and have music in the background! It's when I'm setting up my syllabus... 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Beaming with pride after having two students give public presentations today, and beyond their excellent presentations, they were just completely dominant in the Q&A.media.tenor.coma baby wearing a penguins jersey holds up his fist in the airALT: a baby wearing a penguins jersey holds up his fist in the air 020
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Obviously, it's odd these days... However, I feel like I should mention: During the entire first year of my PhD, I would watch, and fall asleep, to The Osbournes. I also vividly remember my parents telling me to not watch it when I was 10. 020
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 05/07/2025I often write and edit at this hotel. Seemingly, many moons ago, I "forever borrowed" a pen of theirs. I had to pull it out today, while working at their bar. The bartender shot me a look... I'm not sure I can ever go back. 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Would it really be an issue if I exclusively used the music of Incubus to teach all my classes...? 110
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Submitting an IRB is like the first drink from a cold glass of water. 100
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Kinda surreal moment today where this student who I taught as an undergrad (while I was a grad student), I got to lead in discussion while they were a grad student (and I a professor). 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Making edits to a paper feels more stressful than writing it. When I'm writing, I can say anything; when I edit, it has to be good.... 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Realizing that I teach at a whiteboard school and not a chalk school. Good for me, chalk is gross. 010
Reposted by SammyAnnie Zaleski @anniezaleski.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Happy 40th anniversary today to Wham!’s “Last Christmas”! www.salon.com/2021/12/25/l...salon.comThe soulful revenge of "Last Christmas," Wham!'s potent yuletide breakup songGeorge Michael's turbulent performance is the star in this introspective song that flips the power dynamics 1621024
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024There is always this unique feeling in my stomach right before I run a new experiment. A bit of excitement to run something, a bit of fear of things that might go wrong. 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Found out today that a student's parents went to high school the same years I did... And I am struggling with this information. 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Finally got feedback on a manuscript that I submitted that, while clear adjustments needed to be made to the draft, was also helpful and encouraging. And, I guess I'll take that as my morning win. 000
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A student today introduced me to, unironically, one of the best songs I've ever heard, "Lord Farquaad" by Shrek is Love. Rent was due for these cats. Phenomenal! www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvpa...youtube.comLord FarquaadYouTube video by Shrek Is Love - Topic 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Any time anything by Alanis Morissette comes on the radio, I'm overcome with the desire to teach a class that entirely focuses on Jagged Little Pill. 130
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I was recently asked to supervise a winter semester project on 17-tone equal temperament. I'm using this as my excuse to deep dive everything about learning artificial music systems, and I am beyond excited for my holidays now. 010
Sammy @sammygardner.bsky.social · 12/11/2024I have many SMT takeaways, paramount of which: was why it 30 degrees warmer in the Fall, then it was at SMPC in the summer? 010
