Benjamin Tausig
@burrata.bsky.social
Associate professor of music and sound in Asia/anthropology. Crossword puzzle editor; TNG watcher.
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
Author of “Bangkok after Dark” (Duke 2025) and “Bangkok Is Ringing” (Oxford 2019).
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Benjamin Tausig
@burrata.bsky.social
· Jan 7
www.dukeupress.edu
My new book, "Bangkok After Dark: Maurice Rocco, Transnational Nightlife, and the Making of Cold War Intimacies" is now available for pre-order!! It comes out in May.
You'll love reading it, I believe!
Use code E25TAUSG and it'll be about $21 + shipping.
www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-afte...
You'll love reading it, I believe!
Use code E25TAUSG and it'll be about $21 + shipping.
www.dukeupress.edu/bangkok-afte...
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In a similar project, I will begin studying my freezer's ability to bake a cake
The National Cancer Institute will begin studying ivermectin's ability to kill cancer cells, @rachanadpradhan.bsky.social reports
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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists
The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.
www.statnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:02 AM
In a similar project, I will begin studying my freezer's ability to bake a cake
The new issue of @mekongreview.com has a bunch of sound and music stuff, including this lovely piece about street cries in Vietnam, which happens to be open-access. By Phạm Thu Trang.
mekongreview.com/street-cries/
mekongreview.com/street-cries/
Street cries - Mekong Review
Street cries in Vietnam are more than simple calls of commerce; they form an urban soundscape—a way of sensing time, place, and season.
mekongreview.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:00 AM
The new issue of @mekongreview.com has a bunch of sound and music stuff, including this lovely piece about street cries in Vietnam, which happens to be open-access. By Phạm Thu Trang.
mekongreview.com/street-cries/
mekongreview.com/street-cries/
Credit where due, though: this perfectly describes the experience of playing Monopoly (and by design in fact).
Living under capitalism is like being forced to play a board game you dislike where the rules are boring, unfair and nonsensical but which the winners, who started with an advantage, keep explaining are excellent, and if you try improve the game you’re “cheating” but if you stop playing you’ll die
February 10, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Credit where due, though: this perfectly describes the experience of playing Monopoly (and by design in fact).
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Computational Cultural Studies replaces Literature and Cultural Studies sounds like a David Lodge novel without the humor.
This is bleak as hell. Who cares about literature when you’ve got computers?
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Way to go Carnegie Mellon. Our tech oligarchs will not reward your loyalty
the-tartan.org/2026/02/09/l...
Literature and Cultural Studies program cut, replaced with Computational Cultural Studies - The Tartan
In Feb. 2024, Richard Scheines, Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, placed an administrative hold on admissions to Carnegie
the-tartan.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Computational Cultural Studies replaces Literature and Cultural Studies sounds like a David Lodge novel without the humor.
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I’m jabbering at UC Berkeley on April 3rd, stop by! Music and CSEAS joint event.
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
Discarded Civilization: Music, Intimate Nightlife Labor, and the Development of Thailand during the Cold War
Thailand was dramatically transformed, both spatially and economically, during the historical period called ยุคจีไอ, or the G.I. era....
events.berkeley.edu
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I’m jabbering at UC Berkeley on April 3rd, stop by! Music and CSEAS joint event.
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
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Used to be you could schlep down to the deli in your pajamas and bandana to buy cigarettes, beer, salsa, and shampoo, but now they got all these foreign words everywhere.
February 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Used to be you could schlep down to the deli in your pajamas and bandana to buy cigarettes, beer, salsa, and shampoo, but now they got all these foreign words everywhere.
I’m jabbering at UC Berkeley on April 3rd, stop by! Music and CSEAS joint event.
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
Discarded Civilization: Music, Intimate Nightlife Labor, and the Development of Thailand during the Cold War
Thailand was dramatically transformed, both spatially and economically, during the historical period called ยุคจีไอ, or the G.I. era....
events.berkeley.edu
February 9, 2026 at 7:09 PM
I’m jabbering at UC Berkeley on April 3rd, stop by! Music and CSEAS joint event.
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
events.berkeley.edu/cseas/event/...
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Why is there Spanish at my friggin bodega?
February 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Why is there Spanish at my friggin bodega?
Used to be you could schlep down to the deli in your pajamas and bandana to buy cigarettes, beer, salsa, and shampoo, but now they got all these foreign words everywhere.
February 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Used to be you could schlep down to the deli in your pajamas and bandana to buy cigarettes, beer, salsa, and shampoo, but now they got all these foreign words everywhere.
Hot damn, right down to using a figure of speech from the wrong sport!
yeah, not great, but i do want to highlight that kasich tweet. politicians really used to talk like that!
This woman is in charge of the US Agency for Global Media, which is supposed to serve and represent the best American values
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Hot damn, right down to using a figure of speech from the wrong sport!
Blah, the Thai general election falls to the nationalist bhumjaithai party. Not quite far-right in global terms, but plenty lousy.
It wasn’t a terribly fair election, either, to put it mildly.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
It wasn’t a terribly fair election, either, to put it mildly.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Thai PM claims election victory with conservatives well ahead of rivals
The ruling conservatives defied opinion polls predicting a win for the reformist People's Party.
www.yahoo.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Blah, the Thai general election falls to the nationalist bhumjaithai party. Not quite far-right in global terms, but plenty lousy.
It wasn’t a terribly fair election, either, to put it mildly.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
It wasn’t a terribly fair election, either, to put it mildly.
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Just putting it out there that the Arkestra would play the best Super Bowl halftime show anyone could even imagine
I want to explore the ultra dimensions of being. We must move beyond life and death considering they are not essential in the universe.
(Sun Ra)
(Sun Ra)
February 8, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Just putting it out there that the Arkestra would play the best Super Bowl halftime show anyone could even imagine
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These were sold out by me and I’m SO MAD
February 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
These were sold out by me and I’m SO MAD
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this should be a tradition
February 8, 2026 at 5:43 PM
this should be a tradition
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Love revisiting this advert around this time of year
February 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Love revisiting this advert around this time of year
With artdump.ai I can make ten thousand art per second, compared to Renoir who couldn’t even do 100 art per year, a bad rate; this is why he has never been exhibited at an Applebee’s, and maybe never will
February 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
With artdump.ai I can make ten thousand art per second, compared to Renoir who couldn’t even do 100 art per year, a bad rate; this is why he has never been exhibited at an Applebee’s, and maybe never will
Love revisiting this advert around this time of year
February 8, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Love revisiting this advert around this time of year
Scientists have discovered a new color, “Two-Week-Old-NYC-Sidewalk-Snow Brown”
February 7, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Scientists have discovered a new color, “Two-Week-Old-NYC-Sidewalk-Snow Brown”
Sorry for the dull post but public uni college students are the absolute best; they are killing this class (hearing politics) so hard. I love teaching them and wouldn’t want to do any other job in the world.
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Sorry for the dull post but public uni college students are the absolute best; they are killing this class (hearing politics) so hard. I love teaching them and wouldn’t want to do any other job in the world.
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I just walked past the Heritage Foundation offices and can confirm they are BLASTING Serge Gainsbourg’s greatest hits with the windows open
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I just walked past the Heritage Foundation offices and can confirm they are BLASTING Serge Gainsbourg’s greatest hits with the windows open
I just walked past the Heritage Foundation offices and can confirm they are BLASTING Serge Gainsbourg’s greatest hits with the windows open
very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth
February 5, 2026 at 2:49 PM
I just walked past the Heritage Foundation offices and can confirm they are BLASTING Serge Gainsbourg’s greatest hits with the windows open
"I fully deny that I ever associated with Jeffrey Epstein; his actions are disgusting," say hundreds of men who associate with Donald Trump.
February 5, 2026 at 1:50 PM
"I fully deny that I ever associated with Jeffrey Epstein; his actions are disgusting," say hundreds of men who associate with Donald Trump.
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This is a genuinely tough situation. Briefly, new ADA Title II rules (effective this April) require public universities to meet new accessibility requirements for all course materials. Good!
But …
edtechmagazine.com/higher/artic...
But …
edtechmagazine.com/higher/artic...
A Guide to the ADA Title II Accessibility Rule
Universities must improve website accessibility, mobile apps and digital course materials before April 2026 to comply with federal regulations related to the Americans with Disabilities Act.
edtechmagazine.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:23 PM
This is a genuinely tough situation. Briefly, new ADA Title II rules (effective this April) require public universities to meet new accessibility requirements for all course materials. Good!
But …
edtechmagazine.com/higher/artic...
But …
edtechmagazine.com/higher/artic...
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I gotta plug this anthology I made with my NYU colleagues that has a lot of typeset musical examples in MuseScore that have braille notation options: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...
Music Theory Anthology
About the Anthology
The NYU Music Theory and Aural Skills Anthologies were created to provide a broad range of musical examples for study in the undergraduate theory sequence at NYU Steinhardt. The an...
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February 4, 2026 at 10:01 PM
I gotta plug this anthology I made with my NYU colleagues that has a lot of typeset musical examples in MuseScore that have braille notation options: sites.google.com/nyu.edu/nyu-...