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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, fun, if fun means INCREDIBLY STRESSFUL.

Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 2h

This has also long been our approach to hosting and I highly recommend. We are rarely organized or fancy and all our friends know to open the fridge and help themselves to a beverage when they arrive. And ideally they host you back — and there’s nothing better than a surprise night off from cooking.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 2h

My favorite part is the idea that one could misplace a theorbo.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

From what I can tell early music is Neither. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Scholars just “curate” extant ideas didn’t you know

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I also definitely think of my scholarship as “high quality academic content.”

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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For sure. Anyway my reason for posting about this is, above all, so students/junior scholars in particular can better understand why the journal review process has gotten so slow and chaotic. After all editors are shouldering extra labor, but it’s really junior and precarious scholars suffering.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Also, note to ProQuest, dissertations already have summaries, they’re written by the authors and they’re called abstracts. 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I have been wondering whether, say, ProQuest summaries are actually accurate. Has anyone tested this on their own work?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ugh yes, parallel constructions with nob-parallel grammatical elements make me nuts

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I admit I’m a sucker for ”not only X, but also Y” though.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The more weirdly specific the more delightful. Love this.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Often used in lieu of a more precise explanation too, excellent choice.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You can wave a magic wand and eliminate one word, phrase, or rhetorical strategy from all writing. What do you choose? Mine is “the ways in which.” Friends, we mean “how.”

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

My favorite part is that my book is paywalled so the AI has only ingested the back of the book text, most of which it quotes verbatim in its email to me.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I got my first one of these this week! Achievement unlocked I guess?

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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some ppl's thought process seems to go: since orchestras play mostly old music (partly true), there must have been a time in the past when orchestral music = "popular music" (not really true) and thus financially self-sustaining if not outright profitable (NO! COMPLETELY FALSE!). Anyway, read this 🧵

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I definitely agree. It seems to me that using LLMs to generate prose, summarize literature, or search the web is quite different than protein fold analysis or even getting help writing an excel formula.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This seems very reasonable to me!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is helpful to know about! Good writing is good writing IMO.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think this is where I am landing as well.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Say it once more for the folks in the back!!!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a great point. But I think of musicology and music theory as fields where the writing is an important and valued part of the product.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Can you give me an example of how this works?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hard agree with the rough for awhile diagnosis. It’s bleak at the moment.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I find the LLM for lit review use case particularly puzzling. The whole point of lit review is *reading the literature yourself*, mentally organizing it (hopefully in a novel way), and then making sense of how your own work does and does not fit in. It‘s not a rhetorical hoop to jump through!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You can use them to run queries along the lines of “Find passages in these motets that have the same sequence of vertical intervals”.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One example I can think of is there are online tools built on music21 and similar that now have chatbot-style interfaces to run queries without coding. I haven’t tested these out for accuracy yet but I do have confidence in the music scholars who built the tools.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Do many professional scholars use grammarly though?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

100% agree with you there, and this is now baked into many journals’ review policies.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

Are LLMs even a particularly efficient/useful way to do this? Word processors have spell and grammar check already!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This has definitely been my experience as well, but I’m always curious if it doesn’t have an argument because it was written by AI or if it uses AI because the author doesn’t have an argument.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What constitutes language correction?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I agree but curious if this is a consensus take.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

Absolute same, love this petty queen.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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 · 02/10/2026

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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