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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 7h

These solutions in search of problems are just getting sillier every day…

Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 10h

My phone just autocorrected hexachord to headaches and it’s like it doesn’t want me to write this paper about how intuitive solmization is. 🤨

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 11h

Music studies hivemind: what do you think should constitute acceptable AI use in a journal submission?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 12h

Absolute same, love this petty queen.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 12h

I was part of the CV review session last year at SMT and the piece of advice I gave most often was: put your performance experience on your CV. If you’re in music studies, I want to be able to tell from your CV what instrument you play, whether you’re still playing it, and in what capacity!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 12h

Also make sure people can find accurate contact information for you! It’s so frustrating when you want to reach out to someone, say to review a paper, and you can’t find an email address.

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

arXiv limits people to 2 submissions a month, to hold back the tide of AI papers. Feels entirely sensible - today I happened to notice one person had submitted 3 papers, all AI-assisted, in September. Totally out of step with academic norms and simply not sustainable blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/u...

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Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated Rate Limit Policy

arXiv, and the scientific community at large, are facing a watershed moment. Scholarly publishing is currently changing at a rapid pace, and we are seeing a…

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Finally updated my operating system and apps and what fresh hell is this from Keynote? Remember when buttons had words on them so you knew what they were for? Ahh, of course, two overlapping diamonds means "animate," silly me.

The menu bar for Keynote, with a series of incomprehensible icons where there used to be a text-based menu.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The argument here is that conversation is a truer path to thinking than writing. But what is writing if not a conversation with oneself? And more to the point: would that we all had the luxury of giving each student a one-on-one 45-minute aural exam at the end of the semester!

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think.

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.

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H Mac @hmac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The quote that went around when Wendell Berry died, "the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines" comes to mind *often* these days. Trying to live as a creature is becoming my north star.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hear me out: sometimes it’s nice to learn about something just because … it’s fun and interesting! College is not supposed to be about optimizing yourself for A Career with no detours. It’s supposed to be an opportunity to learn and grow *as a human being* — much of which happens outside your major.

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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

What if my interviewer offers me Turkish Delight?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As a hopeless coffee addict myself I always take an opportunity to ask a candidate if they’d like me to take them to a coffee shop to grab something before their sample class/job talk/sit down with the dean. Nothing worse than navigating a two-day interview on nothing but morning hotel coffee.

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Gosh let's talk about something pleasant for a change. A brand-new, open-access translation of CPE Bach's Versuch has just been published, and the translator for Part II (the part about thoroughbass) is the amazing Derek Remeš, precisely the person in the whole world you would want to have do this

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Essay on the True Manner of Playing the Clavier

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Picking up fast food before your 3:30 pm call dressed like you’re coming from a magician’s funeral.

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Jonathan Fine @jonathanbfine.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

how am i supposed to know when my office hours are? what kind of a trick question is that?

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

my in-class writing assignment today—students will complete one of: "I couldn't help but wonder about...[detail in the text, quote of just a few words on page number]" "What's the deal with...[detail in the text, quote of just a few words on page number]" yes, SaTC and Seinfeld set ups

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From journal editing experience, LLMs appear to be *undoing* the good research of non-English speaking scholars. You can see signs of a solid study in a manuscript that chat or claude et al - used for "editing only" - have otherwise *wrecked*. I keep suggesting they try again without AI "editing."

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Noriko Manabe @nmanabe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

On pre-order on the Oxford University Press website: The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music! Many thanks to all our contributors and OUP staff. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Liner Notes Danny @linernotesdanny.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No 👏👏👏 more 👏👏 lazy 👏minimalism 👏👏 jokes!!!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

This is my number one piece of advice to new graduate students.

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

TLDR; using generative AI (even in supervised educational contexts) is allowing students to complete tasks quickly but greatly impeding their actual comprehension Duh

economist.com

Does AI stop children from learning?

New data show the peril and promise of the technology

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Bible, by which I mean Zarlino’s Istitutioni harmoniche, belongs in the classroom.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Wow who could have predicted this gosh if only people in education had been sounding the alarm for years 🙄

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Prof Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The Bible, by which I mean Frans Wiering's The Language of the Modes, belongs in the classroom.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I’ve been reluctant even to use research assistants for the “mindless” tasks of cataloguing details from large numbers of sources. Inevitably I learn so much from doing that work myself I really don’t want to hand it off to anyone else.

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skELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

INSIGHT IS AN EMERGENT PROPERTY OF DOING THE WORK

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Sign up! The AMS Study Group for Early Musics Skills & Resources hosts free Early Music 101 workshops for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, & researchers seeking a 2nd specialization in early music. Introducing longstanding and emergent areas of inquiry & demystifying essential skills.

Medieval manuscript illumination depicting Pythagoras in green garb holding hammers and bells.

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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Just a heads-up - my Semester At A Glance calendars are up and available for AY26-27! They show 4 months of time on a single sheet of paper and are great for high-level overviews of due dates (yours & students'!), breaks, travel, etc. Situational awareness matters!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Confession: I’ve never fully understood what admin types mean by “assessment” and how it interfaces with what I understand my job to be as an instructor, but this makes it clear as day.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I don’t actually want an educational paradigm that gives me a purity score generated by a rapacious corporation next to every assignment a student submits to an online learning site produced by a separate corporation that is using it to harvest data.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

My library director has assured me again and again that we will have perpetual access to our increasingly large e-book collection. I keep asking: how do we know? And what protects us from cyber attacks, changes to dominant media storage systems, and more?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

It’s deeply disturbing that anyone would market a product like this as helping students learn, and worse, that a single university administrator might think this was a good thing for their students.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I expressed my long standing fear of this to our library director who told me matter of factly that in a pinch you should just dive onto a shelf and the books will push through to the other side. Sounds like something she learned from experience??

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Ryland Grace of California, Scientist: Who lived Eight Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Ship on the Coast of Tau Ceti; Having been comatose, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Using lists of three is not an "AI tell." It's a common trait in human writing because our brains biologically want to make sure there's always one thing to marry, one thing to fuck, and one thing to murder.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Too bad there’s no other way to find papers and professional scholars aren’t *trained* to do precisely that! What can you do? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

People who don’t collapse their boxes before putting them in the communal recycling dumpster.

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Evan Angus MacCarthy @angusmacevan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Early fifteenth-century composer John Dunstaple’s annotations add new light to our understanding of the reception of Boethius’s treatise De institutione musica.

The book cover of John Dunstaple Reading Boethius, showing manuscript page with annotations.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Junior women are more likely to succeed when they have mid-career and senior women in their departments. Go figure!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/07/2026

JM Coetzee has a wonderful essay about the meaning of the "classic" that ends as follows. Possibly one downstream effect of the defunding of the humanities is that people have forgotten the function of criticism: www.scribd.com/document/814...:

Screenshot of the last two paragraphs of JM Coetzee's essay "What Is a Classic?" The screenshotted text reads: "So we arrive at a certain paradox. The classic defines itself by surviving. Therefore the interrogation of the classic, no matter how hostile, is part of the history of the classic, inevitable and even to be welcomed. For as long as the classic needs to be protected from attack, it can never prove itself classic. One might even venture further along this road that the function of criticism is defined by the classic: criticism is that which is duty-bound to interrogate the classic. Thus the fear that the classic will not survive the recentering acts of criticism may be turned on its head: rather than being the foe of the classic, criticism, and indeed criticism of the most skeptical kind, may be what the classic uses to define itself and ensure its survival. Criticism may in that sense be one of the instruments of the cunning of history."

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Higher ed admin’s eagerness to throw away their entire value proposition must be one of the dumbest and most spiteful own goals in history.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It seems like academic book reviews have also veered towards “only say positive things” which is ultimately not that helpful. We can respect each other’s work and also be prepared to offer meaningful critiques in the spirit of moving the conversation forward.

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Jon Danziger @danziger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

IN A WORLD WHERE TWO ROADS DIVERGE ONE CHOICE CAN MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE

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