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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion
@mcegillion.bsky.social
• Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
• MSCA Alumna
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I like to say that I'm a musicologist (cultural historian of music and books) by training and a research coordinator by profession.

Here's a little interview about how I changed careers, what I do now, and my very best grant writing tip!

internt.slu.se/en/support-s...

#EnvHum #EnvHist
Meet the Grants Office: Marianne | Medarbetarwebben
Marianne Gillion joined the SLU Grants Office as a Research Coordinator in April 2024. She comes to us from the world of social sciences, humanities, and musicology!
internt.slu.se
First Nottingham, now Northumbria ... my heart aches for all of my musicological colleagues.
Statement from the Royal Musical Association on the Proposed Suspension of Recruitment to the BA and Foundation Year in Music at Northumbria University

https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/25/rma-statement-on-northumbria-music-recruitment/
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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RMA statement on the proposed suspension of recruitment to all UG music programmes at the University of Nottingham: www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/17/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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If someone knits or crochets you a blanket or sweater, they want to keep you warm AND they dedicated many hours of their lives to making it for you.

There's no profit in fiber arts, not when you can get a machine made at Target for 30 bucks. So know fiber artists making for you? Is an act of love.
November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I can‘t believe that we‘re willingly handing over crucial parts of our workforce, data management and even education to a criminal version of Clippy
November 15, 2025 at 9:56 PM
International musicology friends: you can sign this petition if you've ever been a member of the American Musicological Society. There is also an option to sign anonymously if having your name linked to a petition would not be good for you &/or your career.

Sharing in solidarity as a Never Member.
I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AMS Petition 2025
Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...
docs.google.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Bifolium from a breviary used as cover material for a printed book (@unihalle.bsky.social, Cb 2246)
nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:g...
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Very excited to see our article on a fabulous central European music fragment now out in Plainsong & Medieval Music. Thanks to co-authors Jared Hartt & Karen Desmond! Fully open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Introducing a central European fragment of medieval polyphonic song | Plainsong & Medieval Music | Cambridge Core
Introducing a central European fragment of medieval polyphonic song - Volume 34 Issue 2
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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There is a weird Protestantism that hangs about contemporary academia. We have festschrifts for retirees but absolutely no customs to manage losing SO MANY from our communities before we reach that point.
There is no churching when contracts are renewed, no Placebos when careers are lost.
November 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Andrea Reyes Elizondo @altibel.bsky.social and I have responded to a blog, recently published on @leidenmadtrics.bsky.social, which argued that using AI responsibly in research means being transparent about it. We object that supposed transparency obscures more fundamental ethical questions.
Why AI transparency is not enough
Recently, a taxonomy to disclose the use of generative AI (genAI) in research outputs was presented as an approach that creates transparency and thereby supports responsible genAI use. In this post we...
www.leidenmadtrics.nl
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Welp.
October 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
#TinyJoys on a blustery Saturday morning: hot chocolate, cake, knitting, good conversation.
October 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Soundcheck with nano-nun, a relic from yarnbombing Latitude Festival in 2011. #nuntastic #BBC #InTune
October 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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First op-ed for @LiveScience.com on my @absw.bsky.social media fellowship.
"Whether good science is swamped by a quagmire of poor quality studies depends on the integrity of researchers and the awareness of the organizations which facilitate and fund it."
Citation cartels, ghost writing and fake peer-review: Fraud is causing a crisis in science — here's what we need to do to stop it
Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false representation.
www.livescience.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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And yet, every scientific conference and meeting has at least one track with: AI and knowledge production, or how to integrate ethically AI in research. [Redacted] 😒
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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To celebrate the launch of our 11th album, *for this week only* if you buy a copy from our shop, you'll get an extra 25% off any of our other CDs on top of our normal 15% discount. That's 15% of your copy of Ricordanze and 40% off up to 5 other CDs. It's #nuntastic!
musicasecreta.org/product/rico...
Ricordanze - a record of love - Musica Secreta
Preorder the download album from our shop on Bandcamp.
musicasecreta.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I purchased a #nuntastic print from @emilyscartoons.bsky.social and I absolutely adore it!

#TinyJoys
September 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Three more days to wait, and our new album Ricordanze will grace the airwaves and the internet! In the meantime, here's a comprehensive interview with Robert Hugill to pique your curiosity about our #nuntastic project. www.planethugill.com/2025/09/one-...
One little book sitting in a convent: Laurie Stras introduces the background to Musica Secreta's new recording of music from the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript
One little book sitting in a convent - interview: Laurie Stras introduces Musica Secreta's disc of music from the Biffoli-Sostegni manuscript
www.planethugill.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.
September 28, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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One easy way to see that those were labor issues was the fact that many of your colleagues with a different employment status didn't have those rights and protections. Instead of seeing that as a problem to be fixed for the good of all, too many saw it as a sad fate they'd avoid because of ✨merit✨
I think one of the biggest mistakes we’ve made in academia over the last few years was treating tenure and academic freedom as a guaranteed right and not a labor relation. Had more understood it as the latter perhaps we would have been better prepared to protect it
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
September 27, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Today I saw a single magpie on the way to work and panicked slightly. But then I remembered that in Sweden, magpies aren’t associated with luck at all! They’re just … birds. Anyone know how magpies became associated with luck? Is it an anglophone thing or more widely spread?
September 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM