Erin K. Maher
@erinkmaher.bsky.social
Academic copyeditor, line editor, and indexer in the arts and humanities. PhD in musicology, UNC Chapel Hill (2016). She/her/Dr. It's pronounced "mar."
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
Bonny Light Horseman stage banter from a 2022 show that's on archive dot org:
February 9, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Bonny Light Horseman stage banter from a 2022 show that's on archive dot org:
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Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.
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This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:15 PM
This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.
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I am hitting a “music may not be a universal language” portion of my research (don’t ask) and I haven’t seen her cited yet, but I hope people never forget the contributions of Linda Shaver-Gleason, whose scholarly contributions did not stop in the face of her oncoming death. May we always remember.
February 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I am hitting a “music may not be a universal language” portion of my research (don’t ask) and I haven’t seen her cited yet, but I hope people never forget the contributions of Linda Shaver-Gleason, whose scholarly contributions did not stop in the face of her oncoming death. May we always remember.
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This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.
February 8, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This headline in The Chronicle makes it sound like most adjuncts are independently wealthy when the reality is they have to hold second and third jobs just to make ends meet.
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Gates McFadden told a great story at a Star Trek convention I went to as a kid about Kermit goofing around with her props on a break between takes during her scene in “Muppets Take Manhattan” and finally she goes “KERMIT, STOP THAT!”, like straight to the frog, and the whole crew lost their shit
This is entirely correct / back in the day I was picked to ask Kermit a question at a Thing (all the questions were scripted but askers were allowed to embellish a little) and in the moment I was absolutely talking to Kermit, who is real.
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
February 8, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Gates McFadden told a great story at a Star Trek convention I went to as a kid about Kermit goofing around with her props on a break between takes during her scene in “Muppets Take Manhattan” and finally she goes “KERMIT, STOP THAT!”, like straight to the frog, and the whole crew lost their shit
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Plot point: the muppets mistake Zizek for a muppet they’ve never met before
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Plot point: the muppets mistake Zizek for a muppet they’ve never met before
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
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I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
February 7, 2026 at 2:45 PM
I'd watch a muppet show movie where the muppets infiltrate an academic conference.
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LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 AM
LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this
I need a bigger desk.
February 7, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I need a bigger desk.
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The Winter Olympics are a lot more about almost dying than the summer ones, tbh
February 7, 2026 at 1:05 AM
The Winter Olympics are a lot more about almost dying than the summer ones, tbh
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copyediting on two keyboards like
Hazel Scott playing two pianos virtuosic
YouTube video by Liubov Piano
youtube.com
July 12, 2025 at 12:21 AM
copyediting on two keyboards like
this part has 2020s DCI energy
February 6, 2026 at 10:02 PM
this part has 2020s DCI energy
Prisencolinensinainciusol
February 6, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Prisencolinensinainciusol
it's Bandcamp Friday
February 6, 2026 at 7:34 PM
it's Bandcamp Friday
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We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
February 6, 2026 at 5:10 AM
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
90s-themed rhythm dance making me feel very old this morning
a Dance Dance Revolution–inspired routine by people born in 2003, when I was at the mall watching my friends play Dance Dance Revolution 💀
a Dance Dance Revolution–inspired routine by people born in 2003, when I was at the mall watching my friends play Dance Dance Revolution 💀
February 6, 2026 at 2:31 PM
90s-themed rhythm dance making me feel very old this morning
a Dance Dance Revolution–inspired routine by people born in 2003, when I was at the mall watching my friends play Dance Dance Revolution 💀
a Dance Dance Revolution–inspired routine by people born in 2003, when I was at the mall watching my friends play Dance Dance Revolution 💀
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I don’t know, does it feel like every single person on this website has to repost the racist image, like, can we talk about it without sharing it.
February 6, 2026 at 12:24 PM
I don’t know, does it feel like every single person on this website has to repost the racist image, like, can we talk about it without sharing it.
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"we prohibit the use of AI in peer reviews of articles ... conducting literature reviews, describing methods, collecting and analyzing data, ... drafting descriptions of analyses and findings, interpreting analyses, or ... identifying citations and references" 😍 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
"we prohibit the use of AI in peer reviews of articles ... conducting literature reviews, describing methods, collecting and analyzing data, ... drafting descriptions of analyses and findings, interpreting analyses, or ... identifying citations and references" 😍 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
musicologists are basically all 1 or 2 🙃
Your "Epstein Number" is the number of hops between you and someone sending a chummy email to notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein
February 5, 2026 at 5:08 PM
musicologists are basically all 1 or 2 🙃
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In general, fuck the NFL, but I do find it really funny that they were like “oh word, you want white performers at the Super Bowl? Here, have Brandi Carlile and Green Day”
February 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
In general, fuck the NFL, but I do find it really funny that they were like “oh word, you want white performers at the Super Bowl? Here, have Brandi Carlile and Green Day”
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Received this text message from my father yesterday. Panicked that he had had a stroke, or similar.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.
February 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Received this text message from my father yesterday. Panicked that he had had a stroke, or similar.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.
Turns out it was my iPhone trying to transcribe the Irish language.