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[Narrator: It rained a few hours later]

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Aug 16

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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Birding the gender gap

An exploration of how the study of female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Aug 16

The story follows Team Galbatross, who compete in the World Series of Birding and focus their efforts on the almost-Sisyphean task of only counting female birds. They travel through forests, beaches and wetlands, hoping to raise awareness in their conservation efforts

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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Birding the gender gap

An exploration of how the study of female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature

www.bbc.co.uk

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Aug 16

About a year ago, I took a walk through an ecological park in Mexico City with a bird expert, who told me in passing about the "birding gender gap" - the lack of research into female birds. Since then, I've been working on an audio doc about it, now out on the BBC:
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BBC World Service - The Documentary Podcast, Birding the gender gap

An exploration of how the study of female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature

www.bbc.co.uk

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Aug 5

New band name

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jul 11

Out of the narrative forest, but now wading in the marshes of SD. Hopefully should be out soon

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jul 10

Got mine a couple of weeks ago

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jul 1

Does this mean your Japanese Period is over?

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jun 29

I could do a Japanese konbini crawl the way other people do temple pilgrimages

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jun 24

Yep. Every time I come back to Australia after being overseas, the first thing that strikes me is all the prime land wasted on parking.

This 99pi episode goes into a lot of the Japan stuff 99percentinvisible.org/episode/firs...

First Errand - 99% Invisible

Back in March, Netflix picked up a long running Japanese TV program based on a children’s book from the 1970s. The show is called Old Enough, but the name of the original Japanese program translates t...

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jun 24

I think they're not gigantic because the streets are small! And I'm pretty sure you can only buy a car if you have proof that you've got a parking space

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jun 24

Narrow streets ftw!

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Glenn McDonald would probably agree with you on that. But streaming critics might say there's no way for those independent musicians to make a living/career out of it, and Spotify keeps making it harder for them to even get discovered

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Apr 29

Spotify called me a Cyclops, so I get back it by looking at two (!) competing visions of what its rise has meant for music (spoiler: they both end in disappointment).

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Every Noise is a Mood: Two Visions of Our Unfulfilled Streaming Present — Daniel Semo

After being called a "Cyclops" by Spotify, I dug into two recent books about how streaming is reshaping both music and us.

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hey a click's a click

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Apr 11

Drummers are often the most unsung members in rock bands. Lo Zun Long is one of my favourites, and the best I've ever seen up close. I write about what makes him, and the drums, so special.

Oh and pants. I write about pants.

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Anatomy of a Genius in 5 Reductive Theories — Daniel Semo

He clamps into the groove and doesn’t let it go… From the beginning, I found his playing utterly hypnotic and would often stare at him for the length of the show, no matter what band he was in.

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Apr 7

Can we at least use AI to add a cable to this damn stock photo that annoys me every time I see it?

Kid screaming into a condenser microphone that is not plugged in

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Josh Nicholas @joshnicholas.com · Mar 21

I wrote a thing about drawing and Melbourne www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tourists, watercolours and the sad, still Star: sketching the route 35 tram showed me a Melbourne I had never really noticed

When you are in a city every day, you start to take things for granted. So, after three years in Melbourne, Josh Nicholas decided to be a tourist

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Mar 19

In which I go to a noise gig in the hip part of Melbourne with all the vintage shops and I'm reminded of noise gigs in the hip part of Tokyo with all the vintage shops... except for the footy on the pub screen
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Live Review: Otomo Yoshihide et al — Daniel Semo

A humble weeknight gig at the Northcote Social Club, watching noise artists and avant-garde composers, brings back memories of basement club nights in Koenji.

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Mar 11

It's the story of two childhood friends, Brian Johnson and Brian Morden, who bonded over music and video games. And who then, through an extraordinary wish, found themselves on a journey that made gaming history

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Mar 11

Given that I've never played Halo (and the last console I owned was probably a PS1), it might seem odd that I would help write and produce this Twenty Thousand Hertz episode. But when it's such a moving story, so incredibly well told, my job is pretty easy.

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Feb 25

I returned to an old haunt in Taipei, listened to the full catalogue of the world's most hated band, and lived to write about it
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No Coldplay: Reassessing Old Maxims — Daniel Semo

I return to an old haunt and try to figure out if it still stands for it once did, and what the most hated band in the world has to do with it.

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Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jan 31

How much of Claude's classy allure is simply about the serif font?

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jan 29

I assume Ponting's busy looking for the 8 other jobs he'll have in the next 6 months. So LinkedIn maybe?

Daniel Semo @dsemo.bsky.social · Jan 22

I profiled the Balinese electronic-gamelan duo Kadapat, whom I saw in an experimental music festival in Taipei last month. After hours of glitchy computer noise and black-box electronics, hearing two guys hitting bits of wood and metal with sticks was refreshing www.danielsemo.com/writing/ligh...

Light and Dark: Kadapat’s Experimental Take on Balinese Gamelan — Daniel Semo

It was about four hours into an experimental music festival in Taipei when I saw Kadapat, an electronic-gamelan duo from Bali, standing ominously on a foggy stage, striking metal and wood in complex p...

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