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Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social · 10d

"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning"
www.media.mit.edu/publications...

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm delighted to share my new article: Regionalizing the Nation: The Symphonies of Franz Lachner and Emilie Mayer in Relationship to German National Identity
Great experience publishing with JAMS. The article is open access for a limited period: online.ucpress.edu/jams/article...

Regionalizing the Nation: The Symphonies of Franz Lachner and Emilie Mayer in Relationship to German National Identity

Abstract. Historians of nationalisms and national-identity construction increasingly analyze identities at various geographical levels, especially the local, regional, and the transnational. Such work...

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

@kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900.

SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST

APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665

SHARE!!!

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Faculty of Music, Oxford University @oxmusicfaculty.bsky.social · Jul 15

📢 WE'RE HIRING 📢
Three fantastic jobs available at the Faculty of Music!
Please share with anyone who might be interested.
🔗 Apply now: jobs.ox.ac.uk

Graphic advertising three job vacancies.

New Music Co-ordinator: £31,459 – £36,616 per annum (pro rata), deadline Monday 21 July, 12pm.

Director of Musical Performance and Performance Studies: £48,235 – £57,255 per annum (pro rata), deadline Monday 28 July, 12pm.

Administration Officer (Graduate Studies): £27,838 – £31,459 per annum, deadline Friday 8 August, 12pm.

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Jun 30

Moving office on the hottest day of the year! Perhaps not the best idea!

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Archiv Frau und Musik @archivfraumusik.bsky.social · Jun 26

Hier erzählt Barbara Beuys 2021 zum FrauenOrchesterProjekt zu Emilie Mayer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TGB...

Frauenorchesterprojekt — Barbara Beuys spricht über die Komponistin Emilie Mayer eine Spurensuche

YouTube video by Frauenorchesterprojekt

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jun 26

Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.

The IHR Fellowship

The IHR Fellowship is comprised of leading historians recognised for their research and the promotion of history.

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RMA @royalmusical.bsky.social · Jun 10

Please share - Call for Applications for our brand new RMA 150th Anniversary Fellowships!

Fellowships available for scholars not holding full-time, open-ended teaching and research, or full-time research-only academic posts in Higher Education.
www.rma.ac.uk/2025/06/10/t...

The Royal Musical Association 150th Anniversary Fellowships (for Early Career Researchers) – Royal Musical Association

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Jun 4

And got to have dinner somewhere of historical significance too—the Pizza Express in Woking! No sign of Prince Andrew though.

Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Jun 4

I’ve really enjoyed spending a couple of days at the very friendly Surrey History Centre looking at the Broadwood Piano archives. Researching Broadwood’s trade to British colonies. Also saw some lovely piano designs.

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 28

Enjoyed a couple of days at the Pitt Rivers Museum and Ashmolean Museum archives. Trying to track down the histories of their collections of Indian instruments donated by SM Tagore.

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 28

Thanks very much! Yes dLOC is great. The British Library has lots of digitised colonial newspapers but the online resources are still out of action following the cyber attack 😔

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 18

Yes, I think thought it was very exciting! It was just a little shop off La Rambla with mostly sheet music and biographies plus a few more scholarly ones like yours.

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 17

Having a weekend break in Barcelona and happened to spot a Spanish translation of Alex Wilson’s The Puccini Problem in a local music shop! @amwilson.bsky.social

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 7

@caribbeanstudies.bsky.social @caribbeandsc.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 7

@dlocaribbean.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @royalhistsoc.org @royalmusical.bsky.social

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 7

Please share this advert for a fully funded 3-year PhD student ship. It’s a fantastic opportunity to look at the performance and reception of Western Classical music in the Caribbean in the C19th.

Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Apr 23

Job Alert! Fully-funded 3-year #PhD Studentship available looking at #music-making in the colonial #Caribbean. Come and join my team working on the musical legacies of the #BritishEmpire To apply see: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: PhD Studentship: Western Classical Music in Global History: Performance and Musical Trade in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD place, which will be supervised by Dr Joanne Cormac of the University of Nottingham's Music Department, for three years, starting on 1 October 2025,...

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · May 2

My first Chinese publication! How exciting! It’s an edited book that came out a while ago called 30-Second Classical Music.

Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Apr 23

I think the V&A wins the award for most opulent #museum cafe.

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Apr 23

Some of the instruments on display in the South Asian gallery were donated in the C19th by collectors Carl Engel and Sourindro Mohun Tagore. But this is only a v small part of the collection, most of which is in storage.

Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Apr 23

Very much enjoying my first visit to the very grand National Art Library at the V&A Museum. Researching the history of exhibiting Indian musical instruments.

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Joanne Cormac @jcormac.bsky.social · Apr 23

Job Alert! Fully-funded 3-year #PhD Studentship available looking at #music-making in the colonial #Caribbean. Come and join my team working on the musical legacies of the #BritishEmpire To apply see: jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: PhD Studentship: Western Classical Music in Global History: Performance and Musical Trade in the Caribbean in the Long Nineteenth Century

We are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD place, which will be supervised by Dr Joanne Cormac of the University of Nottingham's Music Department, for three years, starting on 1 October 2025,...

jobs.nottingham.ac.uk

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Katherine Butler @ka-butler.bsky.social · Apr 22

In North East UK and making plans for May bank holiday weekend? Why not visit Kiplin Hall and join in with singing some fun Jacobean rounds? All age/ family friendly 15-minute drop-in workshops 11am-2pm on 3 May. All voices welcome! kiplinhall.co.uk/events/pop-u... #earlymodern #singing #history

Event poster with image of people in Jacobean costume singing, playing instruments and having a merry time. For event details see the URL in the post

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you can't come to our transcribing workshop on 30 April, or even if you can (book here: recordoffice.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/a...), why not join the team from Birmingham University with their online transcribathon this Friday.

#ArchiveAction

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Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social · Apr 11

Are you an enthusiastic archivist who would love the chance to delve into the vast photographic archive of the Peak District National Park and catalogue it all? Then apply to join us for this 1 year project funded by Archives Revealed: jobs.derbyshire.gov.uk/libraries-pl...

Colour photograph of a small river flowing through woodland. The sun is shining brightly through the leaves of the trees.

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