abg, phd
@gatsbea.bsky.social
sensitive comrade | taga ilog hanggang dagat
assntprof @ unc-ch music/american studies
cultural history of the atomic bomb and nuclear age, screen media, opera
views my own etc. etc.
assntprof @ unc-ch music/american studies
cultural history of the atomic bomb and nuclear age, screen media, opera
views my own etc. etc.
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abg, phd
@gatsbea.bsky.social
· Jan 10
Everyone wish Max Furheimer and Teddy Adormeow a happy 4th birthday!
“To achieve the condition of an animal at the level of reflection—that is freedom. Freedom means not having to work.”
“To achieve the condition of an animal at the level of reflection—that is freedom. Freedom means not having to work.”
Will always remember that he wrote a horrible MAPH thesis at UChicago on Wagner 🤣🙂↔️✌🏽
this is small comfort given he has state power and i don’t but i am struck by what an obviously weak and fragile man miller is. a blubbering piss baby whose entire affect and personality is an attempt to make up for his profound feelings of inadequacy
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Will always remember that he wrote a horrible MAPH thesis at UChicago on Wagner 🤣🙂↔️✌🏽
It’s my truly last day of sabbatical RIP
January 6, 2026 at 1:59 PM
It’s my truly last day of sabbatical RIP
Some helpful advice from outsiders for even more scrutiny of unc syllabi /s
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December 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Some helpful advice from outsiders for even more scrutiny of unc syllabi /s
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I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester.
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:
NEW: Public universities in red states, from Texas to Florida, are increasingly required to make their syllabi public. The University of North Carolina may be next. Does "syllabi transparency" help combat distrust in higher ed, or feed ill-informed suspicions of it? www.chronicle.com/article/when...
December 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.
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"Queer Ear still centers masculine representations that presume an inherently cis and male subject...in many ways enforcing a false equivalence between what is masculine and what is wrong with what we might construe as the non-queer music theory: cis music theory."
Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory
History shows us how life could be otherwise, but if we don’t see ourselves in history, how can we build a future? José Esteban Muñoz finds his answer in t
academic.oup.com
December 15, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"Queer Ear still centers masculine representations that presume an inherently cis and male subject...in many ways enforcing a false equivalence between what is masculine and what is wrong with what we might construe as the non-queer music theory: cis music theory."
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For decades we have competed with UNC for talented PhD students interested in studying European politics. Sometimes they won, despite their significantly lower stipends, in part because of their great Europe center. So much for that.
December 18, 2025 at 4:00 AM
For decades we have competed with UNC for talented PhD students interested in studying European politics. Sometimes they won, despite their significantly lower stipends, in part because of their great Europe center. So much for that.
When Harry Met Sally is the best Christmas / New Years + “I ♥️ NY” movie
December 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
When Harry Met Sally is the best Christmas / New Years + “I ♥️ NY” movie
Dear UNC folks! Please share widely!! Peter Hans and UNC System administrators plan to create a single, searchable repository of all university and college syllabi. This move could invite political actors to attack the free inquiry on our campuses. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
actionnetwork.org
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Dear UNC folks! Please share widely!! Peter Hans and UNC System administrators plan to create a single, searchable repository of all university and college syllabi. This move could invite political actors to attack the free inquiry on our campuses. actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
I need an onsen or Korean spa in the triangle now
December 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I need an onsen or Korean spa in the triangle now
It's snowing in the South, 'tis the season for Byrd's "Puer natus est"
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It's snowing in the South, 'tis the season for Byrd's "Puer natus est"
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“If there is a threat of resumed testing today, it most likely comes from a desire for political posturing rather than technical necessity” - @dkspaulding.bsky.social of @ucs.org www.denvergazette.com/2025/11/22/s...
Should America resume nuclear tests?
America’s last nuclear detonation was nothing special. Smaller than the bomb that killed 73,000 people in Nagasaki, it exploded 1,397 feet below the Nevada desert. It shook the ground, created a shall...
www.denvergazette.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“If there is a threat of resumed testing today, it most likely comes from a desire for political posturing rather than technical necessity” - @dkspaulding.bsky.social of @ucs.org www.denvergazette.com/2025/11/22/s...
Just a reminder to petition signers that one major action is withholding membership renewal dues and end of year donations. Also a reminder to petition haters that anonymous signatories are folks in precarious positions, whose very publicity could be a liability for job security.
Not AMS sending out membership renewal emails NOW, while there’s an open petition and a Chronicle article about it.
November 22, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Just a reminder to petition signers that one major action is withholding membership renewal dues and end of year donations. Also a reminder to petition haters that anonymous signatories are folks in precarious positions, whose very publicity could be a liability for job security.
I’m coming out of ASA with a hunch that what’s old is new, and what’s new is old. Imperialisms vs intimacies. History vs self. Material vs Metaphorical
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I’m coming out of ASA with a hunch that what’s old is new, and what’s new is old. Imperialisms vs intimacies. History vs self. Material vs Metaphorical
Thanks to @elmcitytree.blacksky.app and Eva P for the early morning brain juices. I’m really lucky to be in thinking spaces with everyone here.
November 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Thanks to @elmcitytree.blacksky.app and Eva P for the early morning brain juices. I’m really lucky to be in thinking spaces with everyone here.
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Sounds like my panel at ASA!
November 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Sounds like my panel at ASA!
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Good piece from @joshuakeating.bsky.social:
"A rogue AI killing us all is, for now at least, a far-fetched fear; a human consulting an AI on pressing the button is the scenario that should keep us up at night." www.vox.com/politics/468...
"A rogue AI killing us all is, for now at least, a far-fetched fear; a human consulting an AI on pressing the button is the scenario that should keep us up at night." www.vox.com/politics/468...
When it comes to nukes and AI, people are worried about the wrong thing
It’s more subtle than Skynet.
www.vox.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Good piece from @joshuakeating.bsky.social:
"A rogue AI killing us all is, for now at least, a far-fetched fear; a human consulting an AI on pressing the button is the scenario that should keep us up at night." www.vox.com/politics/468...
"A rogue AI killing us all is, for now at least, a far-fetched fear; a human consulting an AI on pressing the button is the scenario that should keep us up at night." www.vox.com/politics/468...
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Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,” says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the #COP30 conference.
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Rather than working "to stabilize the climate" at 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, "we are actually going to a trajectory to have an increase in temperature of 2.8 Celsius,” says Susana Muhamad, former Colombian environment minister, speaking from the #COP30 conference.
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Hearings repeatedly ended with cases dismissed by the government, allowing plainclothes federal agents to carry out arrests in courthouse hallways in close coordination with attorneys from the Department of Homeland Security. Here are some images of what that looks like.
November 19, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Hearings repeatedly ended with cases dismissed by the government, allowing plainclothes federal agents to carry out arrests in courthouse hallways in close coordination with attorneys from the Department of Homeland Security. Here are some images of what that looks like.
It’s horrifying to hear that the 🧊operation is named after a children’s book, the message of which is saving your friends from slaughter. Protect your neighbors. Our community is terrific.
The operation in the Triangle comes amid “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” in which over 100 people have so far been detained in Charlotte, another Democrat-run city targeted by the Trump administration as part of the president’s efforts to ramp up deportations.
“They’re Just Kind Of Grabbing People”: Fear Grips Durham As Federal Agents Arrive
Federal agents detained at least three people as volunteers mobilized to track the agents through Durham.
indyweek.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:23 PM
It’s horrifying to hear that the 🧊operation is named after a children’s book, the message of which is saving your friends from slaughter. Protect your neighbors. Our community is terrific.
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Why is a university in stellar financial condition seeking to impose a $70 million cut on its lowest-paid staff? This audit lays bare the truth: cuts at UNC-Chapel Hill are the result of political pressure.
Press release
unc-ch-aaup.org/assets/exter...
Presentation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULA...
Press release
unc-ch-aaup.org/assets/exter...
Presentation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULA...
UNC Chapel Hill Budget Audit Presentation by Dr. Howard Bunsis Commissioned by UE150 & AAUP-NC
YouTube video by UE 150 Workers Union at UNC
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Why is a university in stellar financial condition seeking to impose a $70 million cut on its lowest-paid staff? This audit lays bare the truth: cuts at UNC-Chapel Hill are the result of political pressure.
Press release
unc-ch-aaup.org/assets/exter...
Presentation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULA...
Press release
unc-ch-aaup.org/assets/exter...
Presentation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULA...
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ICE appears to be headed to Raleigh today.
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 PM
ICE appears to be headed to Raleigh today.
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
If you suspect ICE presence, call the Siembra hotline to verify: 336-543-0353. It is important to share information, not spread panic.
If you see an arrest happening, make noise, take video, draw a crowd.
Know your rights:
There are over 200 currently registered members on this petition, 40% of signatories are tenured professors, almost 100 current or former donors to the AMS. This petition has really galvanized scholars to reactivate their commitment and vision for our Society.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AMS Petition 2025
Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...
docs.google.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There are over 200 currently registered members on this petition, 40% of signatories are tenured professors, almost 100 current or former donors to the AMS. This petition has really galvanized scholars to reactivate their commitment and vision for our Society.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Not to get vulnerable on main...
Not to get vulnerable on main...
November 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
Not to get vulnerable on main...
Not to get vulnerable on main...
Heading to San Juan for ASA this week! Send me PR recs! HMU if you’re in town too!!
November 16, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Heading to San Juan for ASA this week! Send me PR recs! HMU if you’re in town too!!