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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion

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• Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences • Musicologist & book historian • MSCA Alumna • Opinions mine • She/her

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · Nov 17

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!

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#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!

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Sam Kaislaniemi @samklai.bsky.social · 4d

Welp.

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 4d

#TinyJoys on a blustery Saturday morning: hot chocolate, cake, knitting, good conversation.

I am sitting in a coffee shop with several people (not pictured). My knitting is balanced on my knee and a large ball of teal wool sits next to a large, empty cup that held a hot chocolate. Out of frame is a plate that held carrot cake. The vibe is cozy.

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Laurie Stras @lauriestras.bsky.social · 5d

Treat yourself - listen on Bandcamp, and then buy it to keep! Bandcamp waive their commission on Bandcamp Fridays, so Musica Secreta will benefit even more from your purchase.

Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 5d

Hey hey it's #BandcampFriday everyone and our new album is just right here, right now, celebrating women and music, and you just KNOW you want to order it today!!

musicasecreta.bandcamp.com/album/ricord...

Ricordanze: a record of love, by Musica Secreta

31 track album

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Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 7d

Soundcheck with nano-nun, a relic from yarnbombing Latitude Festival in 2011. #nuntastic #BBC #InTune

A group of five women standing behind microphones and music stands and a sixth woman at a small chest organ. The studio is lit in purple and salmon, the floor is a herringbone parquet.

A close up of a small knitted nun on the music desk of the chest organ.

A group of five women standing behind microphones and music stands. The woman on the far left is playing a lute .

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 7d

“There’s artificial intelligence … and then there’s actual intelligence.” Beautiful.

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 8d

Weirdly my thought didn’t go to musical partbooks but to breviaries, which were often published in four parts.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

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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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 9d

“Poetry is everywhere if you’re looking” is such a beautiful and comforting truth; thank you both.

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 9d

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] 😒

Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 10d

Regular reminder that behind damn near every large-scale "Automated" "AI" system is a team of underpaid and otherwise exploited humans. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

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Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 10d

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.

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 10d

I really want to get the one where they are singing together (with Sister Penguin). This series is fantastic!

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 10d

I purchased a #nuntastic print from @emilyscartoons.bsky.social and I absolutely adore it!

#TinyJoys

A framed print by Emily McGovern about a nun’s life sits on a white bookshelf. Books peep from behind and the shelf above, along with yarn and a trailing tendril of pathos.

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Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 10d

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

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 10d

“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.

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 11d

Thankfully many professors I have interacted with since have been far more realistic and are working for positive change!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 11d

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✨

Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 11d

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

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11d

“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.”

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 11d

It’s the Swedish word for tree!

Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 11d

I once had a professor assure me that if someone didn’t have a job it was because they weren’t Excellent. Nothing I said could shake them from that view.

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 13d

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Thirteen for an extremely successful CD release!!

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 13d

The thyme starts, “one for sorrow, two for joy”. So seeing a single magpie is bad luck, and you must call a greeting to it. The one I know is, “Best to your missus!”

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Musica Secreta @musicasecreta.bsky.social · 13d

Six days to go until the album release, and we have a new blog post... musicasecreta.org/ricordanze-l...

Ricordanze launch events, and scores now in the web shop - Musica Secreta

With just under a week to go until the release of our new album Ricordanze, scores for all the tracks are now available in our web shop. Full perusal scores can be downloaded, and there are the usual ...

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 13d

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?

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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 14d

This is terrible and I’m so sorry it’s happening to you.

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 14d

FINAL CALL! ⏰

One week left to apply for our Nottebohm Fellowship!

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 20d

Interested in exploring rare books, archives, or book history in Antwerp? Applications for the 2025 Nottebohm Fellowship are open for 2 more weeks: tinyurl.com/applyNB

Fellowship Programme | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The Plantin-Moretus Museum and the Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library (Antwerp) are pleased to launch a new call for applications for our fellowship programme. We will award two travel grants for res...

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