Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey
@sarahpcphd.bsky.social
Ludomusicologist, mom, musician, editor, photographer, baker of goods, eater of foods, pro-bono appliance repair person
I met so many amazing, wonderful, brilliant, and kind people at Save the Games 2026 hosted by @borman.bsky.social and I would love to keep in touch! Chris made this spreadsheet and would love for you to share whatever contact info you feel comfortable with!
Ghaleon Unlimited (Chris Hatala)@ghaleonunlimited.bsky.social · 3w agoAlso @sarahpcphd.bsky.social please enter your contact info / interests when you can and share w attendees ! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Saw a great talk on museum collecting of video games and there's a survey for Alysha's PhD research you all can take as gamers, fans, curators, researchers, game developers, and practitioners. She said she's looking for more North American respondents! researchsurveys.deakin.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_...
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@floreustebius.bsky.social I was somehow unaware of your paper using palimpsest as a framework. That is one of my favorite words, and if I didn’t already know you and how cool and brilliant you are, this alone would make me badger @bardicknowledge.bsky.social to introduce us
Ok, @franklehman.bsky.social I see the appeal of photographing birds, at least when it can be done in a lovely pollinator garden on a pleasant riverwalk
When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind. It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI... 🧵
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...
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I’m going to belatedly chime in here (thank you, @bardicknowledge.bsky.social for tagging me in!) and add a few things. In general, I agree with both of these threads, and largely what I want to add are questions
Ryan Thompson@bardicknowledge.bsky.social · last yr.This is a good thread. I'm one of two people in my immediate academic orbit (the other is @sarahpcphd.bsky.social) fully qualified to address this from every angle, and I agree with a solid 90% of David's thoughts. Two things he doesn't cover (but likely has thoughts on) below.
Okay so a couple years ago, someone* said "Twitter, tell me about f*ckbois of the 19th century" and we all went on this journey together *I would credit but they have since nuked their account (I just checked)
🎹 sharon su@doodlyroses.com · 2y agoRemind me one of these days to retell you all exactly how the pianist Marie Pleyel was so hot that all your composer faves (Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, Robert Schumann) lost their absolute minds around her
A version of the Orpheus myth where the audience knows that Hades is lying about whether Orpheus can take her back. She was always going to fade into smoke before she crossed the threshold. It is a small comfort, rather than a great tragedy, that Orpheus at least looks back.
In general, "career breaks" are poorly defined where academia is concerned; not all career breaks are health- or family-related. For humanists, working outside academia usually does not involve having ample time and resources for research and thus should absolutely be considered a "career break".
When Dave Ramsey is calling people idiots for spending money on childcare, it's because, in his mind, the right and proper way to get child care is to rely on the unpaid labor of women. The unsaid part of "why are you paying that much for child care" is "there's a woman who should do it for free."
A real life classical music shitposter 🫡
Steve Smith@nightafternight.bsky.social · 3y agoGoodnight to the Bard of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople: The extraordinary Peter Schickele has entered eternity, attended by a prime example of the art (yes) of Margalit Fox. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/a...
Symphonies and operas (and performances of them) were traditionally fully paid for by aristocrats as a way for them to flex their wealth and cultural power—orchestras as we know them were never designed to fund themselves
Musicology Duck@musicologyduck.bsky.social · 3y agoi do think it is worth a reminder that a lot of art is inherently expensive (like getting a few hundred people to produce a symphony or opera) and will never work super well in a capitalist model even if people do pay up for tickets or recordings
The integration of the “Simple Song” melody into the new Bluey episode _Relax_ is a great little detail that I’m using to distract myself from how hard Chili’s depiction in this episode is attacking me
I think we might see a hire for a one-year position with a 4/4 coaching load (football, tennis, bowling, beach volleyball)
Jimi Eat Hendrix@vcmusictheory.bsky.social · 3y agoThink they'll have a VAP this year or will they go straight for a TT hire? Maybe a pop music scholar, but looking at there other coaches research interests no one studies early modern music
Having family stay for the holidays is like watching players test the game you designed. They are using the space in such interesting ways. They are getting a mug to drink water from even though we have a cabinet full of glasses. I guess the visual language wasn’t clear enough there and that’s on me
Our students deserve better. The US leaves public educators and their students on the front lines of gun violence. They don’t want us to teach or learn, they want us to stay afraid. Our students said fuck this, we demand better.
Staci D. Kramer@sdkstl.bsky.social · 3y agoThe cover of Thursday's The Daily Tar Heel, a striking response by the student-run paper to an on-campus lockdown and killing. (more twitter.com/caitlyn_yaed...)
Medieval manuscript catalogs have their own arcane language & it varies. There are some nice guides to how to read them, but I think my students will also benefit from infographics. So in the lead-up to the semester, here ate a couple I'll share here. Hope people find them useful!
One of my longest-held, unrealized concepts for a musical work is a 're-make' of "Pagliacci" in which the characters are in a metal band - first, I thought they should play power metal (a fun aesthetic), but now I think they should play Black Metal (allows a corpse paint aria)
The biggest enabler for creativity is stability. I wish that was made more central to the creative narrative. Figure out what your specific needs are to limit stressors and enable "boring" time and work to achieve that as hard as you're practicing your art.
She also got engaged to some aristocrat (but he broke it off when he learned that she couldn't have children.) and also, when Billy Graham came to London in 1966, lay on his car to protest his saying miniskirts are sinful, thus cutting his speech short. Absolute legend.
Jenna Daugherty 💜🏳️⚧️🤘🏻@jennnuuuhhh.bsky.social · 3y agoDid you know this iconic ska silhouette is a trans ska singer named Brigitte Bond? The English Beat drew her from a photo of her dancing with Prince Buster and it ended up being the now iconic “Rude Girl” silhouette. We’ve always been around and we’ve always been creative icons 💜🏳️⚧️🤘🏻
Finally, some good news about the case where the British Museum used my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry without permission. https://yilinwang.com/qiu-jin-british-museum/
Statement on Qiu Jin’s Poetry Translations and the British Museum’s “China’s Hidden Century�...
August 7, 2023 Statement on Qiu Jin’s Poetry Translations and the British Museum’s “China’s Hidden Century” exhibit I am happy to announce that the British…
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Naomi and I just went to our local polling station and voted NO on Ohio Issue 1. Well, I voted and Naomi got a sticker.
