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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 10h

you show me the most screamingly opposed reader reports and I WILL insist they’re not irreconcilable and are actually pushing if not for the same then for complementary ends

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

This is a good one!

Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I didn't need my writing to be lag-free or my documents to load every time, I needed a smart summary of MY OWN PERSONAL NOTES.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

What is your most niche marginalia practice?

Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 1d

MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday

mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

I small drawing of a face in the margin of a manuscript to mark part of the text.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

Luckily we had to opt into this update ... oh wait, no.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

What happened to being able to draw a straight f&*#ing line???

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

I started writing little eye roll emojis in my margins when I was reading an argument that particularly annoyed me.

Trinity College Library, Cambridge @trincolllibcam.bsky.social · 1d

MSS B.1.20, Instead of manicules, the reader of this 13th c manuscript used tiny faces to mark interesting points in the text. #marginaliamonday

mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/B...

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 1d

Here's looking at you, @goodnotesapp.bsky.social -- please, keep adding useless, clunky, ugly features and making it harder and harder to *checks notes* write things down.

Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 1d

From a product management standpoint, seems like makers of most products have lost their way. Upgrades are becoming dreaded in every sphere of life.

Enshitification is too mild a word.

We're now expecting upgrades to make products worse, to add inconvenience, or to diminish privacy and choice.

Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 1d

The future is great, huh?

"A software update to Jeep 4xE models caused major malfunctions over the weekend – leaving many owners stranded and some in danger after their power failed."

www.thestack.technology/jeep-softwar...

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 6d

Something something educated populace something something liberal democracy, idk.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 6d

This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 7d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 8d

This! (Roxane's post is re: students using AI.) So much of my pedagogy for first-year students is just building growth mindset and helping them see that they *already know* a lot about music, I'm just helping them access that knowledge. They are so afraid to say "I don't know" or "I don't know yet."

Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 8d

What's especially frustrating is that these kids are SMART! They're charming! They're interesting! I am not sure why they don't trust themselves.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 11d

Just accidentally signed an email "All beset" instead of "All best" how is your day

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 11d

New book alert!!

Chelsea Booo-urns @burnschelsea.bsky.social · 11d

I'm so pleased to finally have this book in my hot little hands! You, too, can have this feeling—for 30% off!—with code AUFLY30 at global.oup.com/academic. Want to try before you buy? You can read the Intro for free at this link (available until October 30): academic.oup.com/book/60725/c...

A photo of me holding my new book, The Exotic Self: Mexican and Brazilian Modernists Abroad and at Home.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 11d

Congratulations!!!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 12d

I was reflecting on this question this weekend and concluded that resisting AI is good pedagogy but bad institutional strategy. And when enrollment is one of the existential threats to small colleges, I can understand why administrators choose strategy over pedagogy/outcomes. But I don't like it.

Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 13d

Sincere question: is there a single college or university anywhere that is approaching AI from a position of resistance?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 12d

Fixed it: "By discouraging students and faculty from talking to each other, we are enabling them to make factually incorrect connections and destroying the value of expertise at the cost of our collective knowledge and understanding. But at least nobody will have to feel dumb asking a question."

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12d

what is this word vomit

Douglas Schmidt, dean of CDSP, sees AI as a catalyst for cross-disciplinary collaboration and a tool to accelerate problem-solving by discovering correlations that may otherwise have gone unnoticed, enabling researchers to innovate faster than ever before.

“By breaking down silos between departments and schools, we are creating opportunities to apply the technological power of AI to diverse domains, sparking new ideas, challenging assumptions, and integrating a wide range of perspectives,” stated Schmidt. The ChatGPT Edu pilot is one of several AI initiatives currently ongoing at William & Mary. W&M also launched a new minor in AI this fall for students to learn how to apply AI in their respective fields, with additional bachelor and graduate-level opportunities under development.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 13d

My response to our institutional AI survey was long and fiery, but mostly amounted to: Liberal arts colleges should be advertising that you will actually use your brain here; if we're not a bastion against this technology, what are we even doing?

Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 13d

This should also be how universities reply to the AI thing btw

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 13d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 15d

But wait you make videos

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 15d

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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Jacques Dupuis @jacquesdupuis.bsky.social · 18d

Where are people getting musicology announcements now? CFPs, fellowships, etc. It seems like AMS's move to this career center thing has nothing (maybe bc of pay-to-post?). I still get MUSICOLOGY-ALL, but I hear nothing anymore from North America. Where is that happening now?

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 18d

SO relatable!

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 18d

TFW you get to the homophonic "alle alle alle alle alle Heiden" iykyk

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Megan Non Brevis @theorymeg.bsky.social · 18d

Our prep conductor wiped literal sweat off her brow after watching our successful performance in concert.

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