Dr Daniele Shlomit Sofer they/them
@shlomitsofer.com
Professes music theory & tech, electronic music area coordinator at UDayton 🏳️⚧️🎾🎛️🎻🎹
SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/
Executive Director @lgbtqplusmusicsg.bsky.social
SEX SOUNDS (open access): https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262045193/sex-sounds/
Executive Director @lgbtqplusmusicsg.bsky.social
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Happy #TDOV! Are you Trans in Dayton, Ohio? Here's a zine I made with resources for you (health, food, housing, worship, community, etc.). They could take it all away and I'd still be trans.
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WASHINGTON — With the support of nearly 70 colleagues, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) on Wednesday introduced three articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Democrats Unveil 3 Articles Of Impeachment Against Kristi Noem
"Secretary Noem, you have violated your oath of office and there will be consequences," said Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.).
www.huffpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:32 PM
WASHINGTON — With the support of nearly 70 colleagues, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) on Wednesday introduced three articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
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Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
January 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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🚨 NEW: A federal judge has denied elite U.S. universities’ request to dismiss a price-fixing lawsuit alleging students overpaid roughly $1,200 annually.
January 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
🚨 NEW: A federal judge has denied elite U.S. universities’ request to dismiss a price-fixing lawsuit alleging students overpaid roughly $1,200 annually.
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If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
January 13, 2026 at 7:02 PM
If you have “sincere concerns” about trans athletes in sports, all it means is that you have given yourself a rationale for your bigotry that you sincerely believe exonerates you for aligning to a far-right tactic for marginalization and exclusion.
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leftist plan to increase the birthrate:
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
As birthrates tumble, some progressives say the left needs to offer ideas and solutions
The US and other countries face aging, shrinking populations. Conservatives have shaped debate over the issue. Some liberals say it's time for progressives to weigh in.
www.npr.org
January 13, 2026 at 6:24 PM
leftist plan to increase the birthrate:
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
- universal health care
- free child care
- better paid family leave
- better workforce protections so they can't lay you off while you're pregnant and be like "no it was for something else i swear"
ok i did it
www.npr.org/2026/01/12/n...
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Academics - if you are expert in the history of the fourth amendment, today is a day you could pitch your favorite news outlet with a piece about it. If you're interested, do a little writing, then email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll give you some free op-ed coaching.
What’s this old thing
January 12, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Academics - if you are expert in the history of the fourth amendment, today is a day you could pitch your favorite news outlet with a piece about it. If you're interested, do a little writing, then email me lollardfish at gmail and I'll give you some free op-ed coaching.
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We are doing so fucking much.
The "Why aren't Americans doing anything?" posts are a case study in media manipulation and external propaganda. Because so many accounts claiming there are no protests are just bots
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 PM
We are doing so fucking much.
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BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
January 12, 2026 at 12:26 AM
BREAKING and HUGE news for transgender people: The bipartisan final negotiated text for these spending bills REMOVED language to restrict gender-affirming care as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program.
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
docs.house.gov/billsthiswee...
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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In my musical journey, I went from exclusively using triads and hating making music, to using both triads and extended chords and having fun, to exclusively using extended chords and hating making music, then back to using both triads and extended chords and having fun again.
January 11, 2026 at 7:51 PM
In my musical journey, I went from exclusively using triads and hating making music, to using both triads and extended chords and having fun, to exclusively using extended chords and hating making music, then back to using both triads and extended chords and having fun again.
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I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
January 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
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Good day from Downtown Orlando.
January 11, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Good day from Downtown Orlando.
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Apparently, according to Mounk, "woke" means being a woman.
This person analyzes american politics for a living
writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
writing.yaschamounk.com/p/help-me-un...
January 11, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Apparently, according to Mounk, "woke" means being a woman.
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Exciting news in Florence Price Land: Samantha Ege’s edition of Price’s 4 Fantasies is now available for pre-order, thus saving all future pianists from the nightmare hell that I went through
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
Exciting news in Florence Price Land: Samantha Ege’s edition of Price’s 4 Fantasies is now available for pre-order, thus saving all future pianists from the nightmare hell that I went through
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Today I attended a training with 1000+ people who want to be more engaged and do more to protect our neighbors together. Previously worked in electoral politics for 20 years and I’ve never seen a groundswell like this for anything.
Our city group chat went from ~40 to nearly 600 since Wednesday
Our city group chat went from ~40 to nearly 600 since Wednesday
January 11, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Today I attended a training with 1000+ people who want to be more engaged and do more to protect our neighbors together. Previously worked in electoral politics for 20 years and I’ve never seen a groundswell like this for anything.
Our city group chat went from ~40 to nearly 600 since Wednesday
Our city group chat went from ~40 to nearly 600 since Wednesday
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My book Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson is now open access! It originally came out in 2023 (based on my 2019 dissertation), but is now freely available as part of JSTOR's Path to Open initiative.
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson on JSTOR
Ebook available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open intiative. It will be made available open access after three years. Imagining Musical...
doi.org
January 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
My book Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson is now open access! It originally came out in 2023 (based on my 2019 dissertation), but is now freely available as part of JSTOR's Path to Open initiative.
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
The accordion is the most music-theoretically logical instrument. Discuss
This place needs some Innocuous Discourse pronto. Quote this with a take that’s not political or aggressive
January 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The accordion is the most music-theoretically logical instrument. Discuss
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Such a good quote!
January 10, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Such a good quote!
He shot her in the head because he was afraid.
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 10, 2026 at 1:55 AM
He shot her in the head because he was afraid.
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Somehow I am only just learning that Fux and Mattheson got into a huge fight in the 1710s over hexachordal solmization, and Mattheson commissioned a woodcut for a publication depicting a LITERAL GRAVE for Guido of Arezzo, the hexachords, and the modes. Pettiness level: advanced.
January 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Somehow I am only just learning that Fux and Mattheson got into a huge fight in the 1710s over hexachordal solmization, and Mattheson commissioned a woodcut for a publication depicting a LITERAL GRAVE for Guido of Arezzo, the hexachords, and the modes. Pettiness level: advanced.
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We received word that our accelerated BS/MS in Music Technology has been approved. Students will be able to complete both degrees in five years. We’re very excited and look forward to sharing more details in the coming weeks.
January 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
We received word that our accelerated BS/MS in Music Technology has been approved. Students will be able to complete both degrees in five years. We’re very excited and look forward to sharing more details in the coming weeks.
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Hence my theory — cockamamie, of course, except that is it really? — that there was once a concert in which MTT conducted a piece by Feldman. And told the story.
And in the audience was a member of the SNL writing staff, about to make history.
And in the audience was a member of the SNL writing staff, about to make history.
a man in a leather jacket and glasses says i gotta have more cowbell baby
Alt: Christopher Walken in the SNL skit about needing "more cowbell, baby!"
media.tenor.com
January 9, 2026 at 3:31 PM
Hence my theory — cockamamie, of course, except that is it really? — that there was once a concert in which MTT conducted a piece by Feldman. And told the story.
And in the audience was a member of the SNL writing staff, about to make history.
And in the audience was a member of the SNL writing staff, about to make history.
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Anti-ICE march in lower Manhattan is moving north, destination unknown.
Looks to be about a thousand people.
This march does not have a permit, and used amplified sound at the rally with no issues. A notable shift from the Adams admin that directed NYPD to nitpick.
Looks to be about a thousand people.
This march does not have a permit, and used amplified sound at the rally with no issues. A notable shift from the Adams admin that directed NYPD to nitpick.
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Anti-ICE march in lower Manhattan is moving north, destination unknown.
Looks to be about a thousand people.
This march does not have a permit, and used amplified sound at the rally with no issues. A notable shift from the Adams admin that directed NYPD to nitpick.
Looks to be about a thousand people.
This march does not have a permit, and used amplified sound at the rally with no issues. A notable shift from the Adams admin that directed NYPD to nitpick.