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Fabian C. Moss
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Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory at Würzburg University, Germany www.fabian-moss.de
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One week left to apply! #job #academicjobs
fabianmoss.bsky.social Fabian C. Moss @fabianmoss.bsky.social · Sep 8
📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...
Würzburg
October 7, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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olivia.science
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...
Würzburg
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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This semester, students in my course on Digital Representations of Music and Notation Software had the opportunity to visit our university's Retro Computing Lab, led by Torsten Roeder. It was great fun trying to notate some music on still working C64s. 🎹🤖 #musicscience
July 15, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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📣 I'm excited to announce that Johannes Menke's and my project "Musico Pratico - Pietro Pontio's Dialogues in Translation, Digital Evaluation and Critical Reception" will be funded for 3 years by SNSF and DFG within the Weave program. www.uni-wuerzburg.de/aktuelles/ei...
Einen Renaissance-Musiker digital wiederbeleben
Der Komponist und Musiktheoretiker Pietro Pontio steht im Mittelpunkt eines neuen Forschungsprojekt. Teams aus Würzburg und Basel arbeiten an einer digitalen Edition seiner theoretischen und didaktischen Werke.
www.uni-wuerzburg.de
May 14, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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theguardian.com
Chimps’ rhythmic drumming could shed light on music’s evolutionary roots
Chimps’ rhythmic drumming could shed light on music’s evolutionary roots
Research found chimpanzees drum with non-random rhythms that suggest building blocks of music may predate humans by millions of years They might not produce Gershwin hits, but chimpanzees have got rhythm, researchers have found in a study they say sheds light on the evolutionary origins of music. Scientists have previously found chimpanzees drum on the buttress roots of trees to send information to each other, with each individual having their own signature style. Continue reading...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This week, I was so happy about our first in-person team meeting at @uni-wuerzburg.de's Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität that I grew a shadow antenna out of my head! Always looking out for new connections apparently ;-)
Team in Würzburg
May 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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Proud to share the latest work from our group! We liberate musicological data from their printed form and provide a novel machine-readable resource for computational analysis! #digitalhumanities #musicscience
www.linkedin.com/posts/timeip...
Corpus Troporum Dataset: A Digital Catalog of Trope Elements in Medieval… | Tim Eipert
Excited to share that my paper on a Dataset I created with Corinna Bongartz and Fabian C. Moss has just been published! It could be interesting to everyone who works with medieval chant, tropes, and m...
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April 24, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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Today I had the great pleasure to welcome our new postdoc Mauro Orsini Windholz to our team at @uni-wuerzburg.de ! We will continue working on the computational analysis of Brazilian choro. 🇧🇷🎼
April 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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jbcamps.bsky.social
Are you interested in cultural transmission, medieval manuscripts or digital humanities, and want to pursue a PhD in a city bustling with intellectual and cultural life ? Come work with us !
lostma.bsky.social LostMa ERC @lostma.bsky.social · Feb 18
📣 Job offers
We are recruiting two PhD students in computational philology, to work on textual transmission with a methodology blending cultural evolution models, philology and data analysis 🧪
Deadline: 31 March 2025
The job advertisement, in png format page 2 page 3
February 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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jacobshagen.bsky.social
GfM Relaunch: Die Gesellschaft für Musikforschung hat einen neuen Auftritt.

www.musikforschung.de
February 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Great thinkpiece by @gewang.bsky.social on #GenAI and #creativity (especially #music): hai.stanford.edu/news/ge-wang...
Ge Wang: GenAI Art Is the Least Imaginative Use of AI Imaginable
The prevailing public mindset that AI is only a labor-saving tool betrays a lack of understanding of why people create and a lack of imagination of this technology's potential.
hai.stanford.edu
February 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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nolauren.bsky.social
Looking to teach with Humanities Data in R?The second edition of our book is now out! Updates include tidyverse, new data sets, latest code techniques, and more!
Available through many libraries. We also have a digital teaching component. DM or email for access! #digitalhumanities #datascience
January 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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⏰ New year, new publication! Come and watch Anja Volk's talk on "Musical Pattern Discovery" from the CODAMUS series
youtu.be/XTa6aCZfpyE and read the transcript here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-volk #musicscience #digitalhumanities #music
Musical pattern discovery: a dialogue between MIR, Musicology & Music Therapy
YouTube video by CODAMUS
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January 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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⏰ Check out Elsa De Luca's talk in the #CODAMUS series "Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-de-... youtu.be/baz6-sZragQ
Encoding Early Music: The Challenges and Beauty of Neumatic Music Scripts
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December 19, 2024 at 7:08 AM
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Strong presence of Uni Würzburg DH/CH at #CHR2024 earlier this month! www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/news/sin...
Starke Präsenz des ZPD auf der CHR 24
Vom 03.-06. Dezember fand die fünfte Computational Humanities Conference in Aarhus (Dänemark) erneut mit starker Beteiligung aus Würzburg statt.
www.uni-wuerzburg.de
December 18, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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⏰ Check out the newest CODAMUS publication by Martha E. Thomae: " #MIR for Early #Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic #Encoding of Mensural Sources into Symbolic Scores" #digitalhumanities #musicscience codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-eli... www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvQ...
MIR for Early Music Documents: Technologies behind the Semi-Automatic Encoding of Mensural Sources
YouTube video by CODAMUS
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December 16, 2024 at 9:24 AM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
⏰ Latest update: Elena Minetti's talk "From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters within the Henze-digital project" is now online. Check it out here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-min... or on YouTube youtu.be/NuBir4fTkh8! #music #digitalhumanities
From analogue to digital in correspondences research: tracing the potential of encoding letters
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December 12, 2024 at 10:02 AM
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mariaa.bsky.social
And now the big announcement... #CHR2025 will be in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺

That's all for now, signing out from #CHR2024 🫡
December 6, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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mariaa.bsky.social
Reminder that we have two open calls for special issues, as well as a general call, deadline Jan 1.

Missing Data in the Humanities: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

LLMs in Humanities Research: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Missing Data in the Humanities
Call for Papers: Missing Data in the Humanities
www.cambridge.org
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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OMG
December 2, 2024 at 7:09 PM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
⏰ Next up: @miriamakkermann.bsky.social's talk "From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems" is now public! Check out the video youtu.be/bmi1gV45vEo or view the publication here: codamus.pubpub.org/pub/2023-akk... #music #musicscience #digitalhumanities
From computer-aided to automatic compositions? A closer look at generative music systems
YouTube video by CODAMUS
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November 28, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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umblaetterer.bsky.social
Ok, we just tabularised the @spiegel.de literary canon 1924–2024 & enriched it with #Wikidata, #Goodreads, GND IDs for authors and works. Feel free to toy around with it. More to follow soonish…

GitHub repo:
github.com/temporal-com...

@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social #EXC2020 "Temporal Communities"
"Der Spiegel" cover. Excerpt from tabularised data.
November 27, 2024 at 9:55 AM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
So I'm finishing up my poster for #CHR2024 next week and want to replace the bird (never used the X) with the butterfly in #LaTeX #beamer using the fontawesome5 package or similar. Any suggestions?
November 26, 2024 at 3:28 PM
fabianmoss.bsky.social
This is an important new resource for people interested in the science of music. It combines academic rigor and a wide disciplinary scope while still somehow managing to make it accessible for students and non-specialists. I couldn't recommend it more! #musicscience
tuomaseerola.bsky.social Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Nov 25
I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/
Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones
November 26, 2024 at 6:10 AM