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Sam Dorf

@sndorf.bsky.social
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professor of musicology working in musicology, dance history, and VERY early music. Cheerleader for the Humanities at the University of Dayton. he/him ✡️ צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף

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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Hello, San Francisco! It sure is beautiful, but I refuse to share a photo of one of the weird AI taxis that are driving around.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Come celebrate Natalie Barney’s birthday with us at @universityofdayton.bsky.social on 30 October!!!!
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Natalie Clifford Barney turns 150 next month and we are having at party at the University of Dayton to celebrate. Read more about her here in the @thebuckeyeflame.com thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/09/14/n...
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It's the 150th birthday of one of Ohio's most influential lesbians. Here's why you need to know Natalie Clifford Barney.
The Ohio-born author, salon hostess and proud lesbian was the toast of early 20th century Paris. Her story can and should continue to inspire.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
To call Walter Rice a mensch is an understatement. He is a the epitome of a tzadik. Congrats on your retirement, and thank you for all you do for our country and our local community. www.daytondailynews.com/local/federa...
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Federal Judge Walter Rice retires after 46 years on the bench
United States District Judge Walter H. Rice spent nearly six decades on the bench, presiding over landmark cases, mentoring young lawyers and championing second chances for former offenders.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Hello, 300+ person class. Thank you for singing Dolly Parton with me on the first day :)
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
First day of class change of plans …. 🦋😢
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We keep celebrating #NatalieCliffordBarney leading to her 150th birthday! Swoon Books and Wine made a special drink menu for our literary salon!
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I’ve got some awesome colleagues! www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
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What Consent Teaches Us About Teaching (opinion)
My work as a certified theatrical intimacy director has shaped how I think about consent in the classroom.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
North of the border
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Listening to Yeasteryear as an audiobook and all I want to do is hop back in the car to keep listening!
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DJ Fusion [FuseBox Radio/The Futon Dun] @fuseboxradio.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Here's how gyms, salons and ice cream are changing America's Main Streets l NPR www.npr.org/2026/08/12/n...
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Finally saw #TheOdyssey. I concur with Emily Wilson's LRB review: "There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." I'd also add: "needs more aulos."
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
"In 2022, Wiley removed over 1,300 ebooks from academic library collections; [they said] perpetual access is not an option for subscribed content. In 2025, Clarivate,... announced they would stop offering libraries perpetual access licenses for ebooks and primary-source digital collections."
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Consumers Are Worried About the Loss of Physical Media Ownership. Libraries Are Leading the Conversation. — Association of Research Libraries
Sally Sax is head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships, MacOdrum Library, Carleton University. In a recent Atlantic Monthly article about Sony’s plan to end physical sales of PlayStation console game...
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Years of corruption and bad governance in Columbus has polluted our state. Ohio desperately needs new leaders. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...
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In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground
The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
July 20, 1926: The Arthur Briggs Orchestra playing Taksim Garden Bar in Constantinople. It's a pioneering venue for American jazz in rapidly secularizing Turkey.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Our next Natalie Barney Salon is in a few weeks! Join us at Swoon Books & Wine for a Belle Époque salon in honor of Dayton's original romance writer, Natalie Clifford Barney, the legendary lesbian writer, memoirist, and salon hostess. 1/2
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I spent most of the day thinking and writing about dance. It was a good day.
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
"Let us say that about one-fifth, then, of the papyri circulating at the peak were copies of the Iliad: so, between 200,000 and 500,000 Iliad rolls" — Netz, Reviel. “A Quantitative Model of Ancient Literary Culture.” Chapter 5. In Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture, 536-7 (CUP 2020)
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Bruce Hodges @brucehodges.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Maybe it upset my grandparents, but I decided I should just go do what I wanted to do, which was enter the modern liberal cultural society of New York. I didn’t want to be drunk on medieval piety anymore.” 😇 A terrific read
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 12/07/2026
Commentary: Trump’s attack on TPS for Haitians is an attack on Springfield, Ohio’s entire community ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/07/10/t...
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Trump’s attack on TPS for Haitians is an attack on Springfield, Ohio's entire community • Ohio Capital Journal
“I’ve lived in Springfield, Ohio for 45 years,” writes Rev. Carl Ruby. “I’ve seen the city go from an economic and population freefall to a thriving city on the upswing. That miracle turnaround was…
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Eric Ansley Díaz 🏳️‍🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Work authorization for our Haitian neighbors in Springfield ended today. To help support hungry families donate to Viles Dorsainvil's non-profit organization: ancljkuy.donorsupport.co/page/FoodBox...
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Feed Haitian Families in Crisis
Many Haitian families in Springfield are entering a time of crisis. As Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ends, parents who have worked hard to support their families suddenly find themselves with no in...
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Too Many Books? No such thing! www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/s...
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Too Many Books?
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
It is an absolutely beautiful summer day in Dayton, Ohio. Perfect to take my thoughts for a walk. Grateful for this guy for some of these friends for keeping me company on campus today.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Been listening to Mavis Staples sing this beautiful cover on repeat all afternoon. youtu.be/AqfIe8qEc70?...
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Mavis Staples - "Beautiful Strangers"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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Rafael M Batista @rafmbatista.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Patriot front marching from Union Station right now. White supremacist and neo-fascist organization. Cowards.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Our Natalie Barney salon kick off event was a huge success! Save the date for 12 August for our next salon!
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Kettering Foundation @kettering.org · 23/06/2026
“If the Court rules the wrong way, we are looking at an immediate, manufactured humanitarian crisis.” KF Senior Fellow @mariateresakumar.bsky.social warns that the Supreme Court’s pending birthright citizenship decision is not only a constitutional question but also a test of the American promise.
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The Supreme Court Is About to Decide Who Gets to Belong in America
We are standing on the edge of a precipice.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
We are gearing up for our year of Alumni Chair programming! Exciting things in store, and our first event in Saturday 27 June! udayton.edu/arts-science...
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Got a ton of writing done today!!!
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Looking forward to unpacking this document (and our university leadership's reflections on it) with my colleagues in the fall. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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Higher Ed Should Answer the Pope’s Challenge (opinion)
We should answer.
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
We can't wait to see ya'll in Dayton in just a few weeks! ftm18dayton.my.canva.site/ft-m-18/
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FT&M 18
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Ohio humanities leaders ask Husted to recoup endowment loss
More than 100 history, cultural and humanities leaders across the state, including in Clark County and Dayton, have sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Jon Husted asking for all National
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Rabbi Sandra @rabbisandra.org · 16/05/2026
Today’s Torah portion, Bamidbar, begins with a census. The Torah counts people because people matter. Every tribe. Every family. Every person. Voter suppression and gerrymandering are designed to diminish voices and decide whose votes count and whose voices can be diluted or ignored.
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Dayton Daily News @daytondailynews.com · 13/05/2026
The owners of Wheat Penny and Meadowlark are putting the finishing touches on their new restaurant coming to downtown Dayton. Known as Piccolo Orsetto, the venue will offer various breakfast and lunch dishes 7 a.m.-3 p.m. seven days a week.
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What to expect from Piccolo Orsetto, the new restaurant from the owners of Wheat Penny
The owners of Wheat Penny and Meadowlark are putting the finishing touches on their new restaurant coming to downtown Dayton. Known as Piccolo Orsetto, the venue will offer various breakfast
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Lawyer Lady @afrofuturesq.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Sherrilyn Ifill reminding us, "No democracy can survive if tens of millions of its citizens refuse to fight to protect it because they 'don’t do politics.'”
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Hackers have compromised Canvas, the learninge management system used to teache college courses. The hackeres have made the system slow, inefficient, unresponsyve, and yn manye cases ympossible to use. Studentes and Professors so far have not noticed any difference.
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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” bit.ly/4wmbFg8
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
No grading for me today….
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 16/04/2026
I notice the Fake News Media refuse to report on Trump’s plan to settle all future geopolitical disputes through the power of dance
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
No better time to revisit Antigone than the present. Join us for a Symposium on Ancient Music and its Modern Performance this weekend in Cincinnati!
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Musicological confessions: I was today years old when I figured out that this Suzuki-famous tune was NOT by Mozart and NOT from a piano sonata, but actually from a quintet by Boccherini. Still learning new things! youtu.be/MdUrjUfvruE?...
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Boccherini - String Quintet in E, G. 275 (Complete Score)
YouTube video by AltoClef
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Getting ready for our Symposium "Ancient Music and its Modern Performance" featuring a new production of Antigone at the U. of Cincinnati. Rewatched Juliette Binoche in the 2015 production with Anne Carson's translation and feel completely gutted all over again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVP8...
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Juliette Binoche/ Antigone at the Barbican 2015
YouTube video by La Binoche | Juliette Binoche
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Sam Dorf @sndorf.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Chag Pesach Semeach! We have snacks at the Passover table along with the Seder plate because everyone can use a bit of a nosh during the Seder.
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actioncookbook @actioncookbook.com · 01/04/2026
New Action Cookbook Newsletter! It's April Fool's Day, but we live in odd times. You can't make up a story stranger than our reality, and we're all too on-edge for normal pranks. Here are, in my opinion, the only acceptable pranks for The Times We Live In: www.actioncookbook.com/here-are-the...
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Here Are the Only Pranks That Are Acceptable In These Post-Satire Times
You can't just go filling cars with stuff anymore. We live in a society.
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404 Media @404media.co · 23/03/2026
WE'RE SOOOO BACK. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/judge-allows...
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