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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

Something something educated populace something something liberal democracy, idk.

Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 2d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 3d

This! (Roxane's post is re: students using AI.) So much of my pedagogy for first-year students is just building growth mindset and helping them see that they *already know* a lot about music, I'm just helping them access that knowledge. They are so afraid to say "I don't know" or "I don't know yet."

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3d

What's especially frustrating is that these kids are SMART! They're charming! They're interesting! I am not sure why they don't trust themselves.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 6d

Just accidentally signed an email "All beset" instead of "All best" how is your day

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 6d

New book alert!!

Chelsea Burns @burnschelsea.bsky.social · 6d

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A photo of me holding my new book, The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations!!!

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

I was reflecting on this question this weekend and concluded that resisting AI is good pedagogy but bad institutional strategy. And when enrollment is one of the existential threats to small colleges, I can understand why administrators choose strategy over pedagogy/outcomes. But I don't like it.

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 8d

Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?

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

Fixed it: "By discouraging students and faculty from talking to each other, we are enabling them to make factually incorrect connections and destroying the value of expertise at the cost of our collective knowledge and understanding. But at least nobody will have to feel dumb asking a question."

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 7d

what is this word vomit

Douglas Schmidt, dean of CDSP, sees AI as a catalyst for cross-disciplinary collaboration and a tool to accelerate problem-solving by discovering correlations that may otherwise have gone unnoticed, enabling researchers to innovate faster than ever before.

“By breaking down silos between departments and schools, we are creating opportunities to apply the technological power of AI to diverse domains, sparking new ideas, challenging assumptions, and integrating a wide range of perspectives,” stated Schmidt. The ChatGPT Edu pilot is one of several AI initiatives currently ongoing at William & Mary. W&M also launched a new minor in AI this fall for students to learn how to apply AI in their respective fields, with additional bachelor and graduate-level opportunities under development.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 8d

My response to our institutional AI survey was long and fiery, but mostly amounted to: Liberal arts colleges should be advertising that you will actually use your brain here; if we're not a bastion against this technology, what are we even doing?

Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 8d

This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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

But wait you make videos

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 10d

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...

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Jacques Dupuis @jacquesdupuis.bsky.social · 13d

Where are people getting musicology announcements now? CFPs, fellowships, etc. It seems like AMS's move to this career center thing has nothing (maybe bc of pay-to-post?). I still get MUSICOLOGY-ALL, but I hear nothing anymore from North America. Where is that happening now?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

SO relatable!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

TFW you get to the homophonic "alle alle alle alle alle Heiden" iykyk

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

Our prep conductor wiped literal sweat off her brow after watching our successful performance in concert.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

Me, practicing:

Lobet lobet lobet lobet lobet f*&# f*&# f*&# f*&#
Lobet lobet lobet lobet lobet lobet lobet f*&# f*&#
Lobet lobet lobet f*&# f*&# f*&# f*&# f*&# f*&#

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

"Pieces that are almost impossible to perform but you can't tell by listening" is SUCH a category. Absolutely the most stressful thing I've ever performed was Sven-David Sandström's "Lobet den Herrn."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E9z...

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

I'm not in charge any more but I'll send your info over to the new editor!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 14d

I mentioned my fear of being squished to the head of the library and she just nonchalantly suggested I dive into a shelf and push the books through so I can roll out the other side.

Why does this not make me feel better??

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 14d

And there's more! I'm looking at you ML3800s (second floor).

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 14d

Feeling personally attacked that in our music library the MLs are on the lovely open stacks on the ground floor and the MTs are in the scary moveable stacks on the second floor.

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12tone @12tone.nebula.tv · 14d

My one complaint about SMT-V is they keep making videos that I wish I'd made first:

SMT-V 11.5: Between Art & Science: Amy Beach's Hermit Thrush at Eve & Early Birdsong Transcription

YouTube video by SMT-V: The Society for Music Theory Video Journal

youtu.be

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 14d

How about a collab??

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