I've had a few people mention The So Strangely podcast to me this conference season. Maybe its time to bring it back!

Again enjoying following research on music as part of culture and society in a contrast to my usual focus on music as physical phenomenon investigated through music cognition, music technology, and performance-oriented musicology. Our work shouldn't be so separated ccrs.ku.dk/research/asi...

CedarBough T. Saeji @thekpopprof.bsky.social · last yr.

Totally didn't upload this before because I thought only two speeches would be online, but today we zoomed the entire day's content and we should tomorrow as well, #Korea #soundstudies #music #sound #conference from 9:30 am Denmark time. ccrs.ku.dk/.../final-co...

Midsommer, Jyväskylä, 2025

Lovely discussions all through #RPPW20! Sorry to see it end. More about breathing and action coordination to come!

RPPW20@rppw.bsky.social · last yr.

Social and Interpersonal Rhythm session continues with @finneco.bsky.social from @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social #RPPW20

BREAKING: Trans Kids Deserve Better are currently holding a demo outside the United States Embassy in protest of trans rights They're making friendship bracelets

NEW: WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.

Pronouns Are Being Forcibly Removed From Government Email Signatures

WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.

wired.com

Any countries whose scientific research funding bodies are NOT currently under siege by their own national leadership would do very well announcing investments in bringing in foreign research talent right now

Things to keep close to keep yourself afloat. 20 things to counter fascism, from Jewish anarchists. Includes a zine pdf if you wish to disseminate in printed form. itsgoingdown.org/dont-just-do...

Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism

Jewish anarchists weigh-in on how people can organize and act in the changing terrain. For a zine PDF, go here. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it. ...

itsgoingdown.org

I never got to meet Jimmy Carter, but I worked on several projects that involved him and music in both popular and classical and just nothing but respect.

Scrunching up To Do postits is satisfying but they look so much smaller than the waiting tasks

💥 THE BATTLE BEGINS 💥 The tech industry has had quite a year with its billionaires revealing who they really are for all to see. Who will be the WORST PERSON IN TECH? 🗳️ Voting is now open: forms.gle/XYERvxNFTBV1...

My daughter was one of almost 400 tuba players gathered at the Kauffman Center for A Tuba Christmas. It was beautiful.

Nice to see replication in pedagogy!

Music Psychology Lab - Durham@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 2y ago

In our #musicscience module, 2nd & 3rd year undergrads are tasked with conducting replication studies of existing research. Their experiments often come with fascinating results! Instead of waiting for musicscience.net/durms/, here are some highlights from their recent project presentations 🪡🧵

wonder if this might be a good venue for some new work on laughter during participatory dance activities

Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS)@ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 2y ago

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠 🎶 SIMM-posium #10 | Brussels, Belgium | 24th-26th November 2025 🎤 The 10th SIMM-posium: The role of the practice of music-making within social and community music projects and programmes. EOI by 31 January 2025. 🌐 www.simm-platform.eu/simmposia/si...

on my way home from RM's Wrong People Right Place, think about this KPop star learning about music built by/with live musicians after years of recording alone in a booth to a producer constructed track.

The result of crowd sourcing the exposure and simultaneity of various audience behaviours via analogue interactive plots at the RITMO Largo poster session yesterday.

Spotify cutting off audio features API access? I'm only half surprised. I wonder what the full story is. techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/s...

Spotify cuts developer access to several of its recommendation features | TechCrunch

Spotify will no longer allow developers building third-party apps with its Web API to access several features within the music streaming platform, such as

techcrunch.com

almost released a "Dance Bachground" survey yesterday. Dyslexia is more creative than i am.

New open dataset of biosignals from academics at a workshop. Why only look at group physiological responses in controlled conditions? osf.io/rk6qs/

EmbodiedWorkshop2024-dataset

Concurrent physiological measurements from participants at a multi-day worshop between education, music, and technology researchers. During a variety of presentations, discussions, and activities on e...

osf.io

Moss

Listening to @404media.co complain about python installation management on mac was like looking in a mirror.