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Pat Savage
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Director: @compmusiclab.bsky.social. Rutherford Discovery Fellow @U Auckland. Assoc. Prof. @Keio U. PI @manyvoices.bsky.social. Music, evolution, diversity. He/him. Tangata tiriti.
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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · Dec 14
Just submitted corrected proofs for my first book!
Publication (open access) is scheduled for late Feb 2026 (but the preprint is already available if you don't want to wait: osf.io/preprints/ps...)
COMPARATIVE MUSICOLOGY: Evolution, Universals, and the Science of the World's Music By Patrick E. Savage (to published by Oxford University Press in Feb 2026)
patrickesavage.bsky.social
My student @gchiba.bsky.social passed his PhD dissertation defence with flying colours! He's a stellar example of an artist-scholar - in fact he's the reigning national Tsugaru-shamisen champion!
(almost) Dr. Chiba is on the job market - please reach out if you have good leads!
www.gakuto-chiba.com
Newspaper article from May 2025 reporting Gakuto's winning the national Tsugaru shamisen competition. Gakuto's Google Scholar profile (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7jI5CkEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao) Gakuto featured in NY Times reporting on an article he co-authored (https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/science/universal-music-evolution.html)
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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We are silk, not burlap And through us, folk poetry lives
February 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
patrickesavage.bsky.social
My book has an official website! (Though the full book won't be officially published for a few more weeks)
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Official Oxford University Press website for my forthcoming book, "Comparative musicology: Evolution, universals, and the science of the world's music"
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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katestorrs.bsky.social
Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Non-paywalled version:
arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786

Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence
Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...
www.nature.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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dorsaamir.bsky.social
Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty —  across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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plosbiology.org
Does our very human ability to anticipate #musical structure exist at birth? @robertabianco.bsky.social @giacomonovembre.bsky.social &co show that #newborns encode #rhythmic (but not melodic) expectations based on statistical regularities in real #music @plosbiology.org plos.io/4kqKVWg
Top left: Experimental paradigm. The authors analyzed EEG data recorded from 49 sleeping human newborns while being exposed to monophonic piano melodies composed by J. S. Bach (real condition) and control stimuli (shuffled condition). Top right: Surprise and entropy. Surprise and entropy associated with each note’s timing (green, St and Et, respectively) and pitch (yellow, Sp and Ep, respectively) were estimated using an unsupervised statistical learning model trained on all stimuli. Dot plots display mean surprise and entropy associated with real and shuffled music, averaged across melodies (left panel), and separately for each melody (right panel). Bottom: Analytical approach. Multivariate Temporal Response Function (mTRF) models were fit to describe the forward relationship between multiple stimulus features and the EEG signal. The full TRF model (leftmost panel) included acoustic low-level features (spectral flux, acoustic onset, IOI, and IPI) and high-level features (surprise and entropy of pitch and timing).
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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simine.com
Academics:
If you’re trying to make sense of how people you know knew Epstein, it’s book agent John Brockman. He’s savvy enough to lay low, but we should be talking about him.

Friends don’t let friends sign with Brockman.

www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pete...

And

newrepublic.com/article/1548...
How Jeffrey Epstein Bankrolled An Exclusive Intellectual Boys Club And Reaped The Benefits
The Edge Foundation runs what has been called the “world’s smartest website” and held annual “billionaires’ dinners.” It was also financed by Jeffrey Epstein and gave him access to elite circles in sc...
www.buzzfeednews.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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statsepi.bsky.social
Don't you f**king dare.
Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
patrickesavage.bsky.social
Key to many of these connections was Brockman, "Epstein's intellectual enabler": newrepublic.com/article/1548...
More Elite Universities Appear The latest files from the Justice Department also offer new details about communications between Epstein and Jennifer Jacquet, a professor of environmental science at the University of Miami. Jacquet has previously said she never accepted money from Epstein. She told The Chronicle in November that Epstein once offered her $25,000 for research, which she declined and instead suggested he donate to the University of British Columbia, where she earned her Ph.D. in 2009. ADVERTISEMENT New emails from July 2011 show Jacquet discussing potential funding connected to Princeton. She asked Epstein’s associate John Brockman whether it would be “too ironic” to ask Epstein to donate to the university’s Center for Human Values, writing, “I could carry out what I want to do there.” Brockman forwarded the message to Epstein and asked whether he would fund a grant to “pay her way.” Jacquet told The Chronicle Tuesday that she has “no knowledge about Jeffrey Epstein funding a position at the Princeton Center for Human Values.” In another email to Brockman, Jacquet discussed the logistics of accepting Epstein’s funding for the Princeton opportunity. She also referenced a pending Newton Fellowship application in the United Kingdom, writing, “Why take Jeffrey’s money when I can take Andrew’s?” — a reference to former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, who was stripped of his royal title due to his Epstein ties. The following day, Epstein emailed Kahn, his accountant, instructing him to transfer $25,000 to a program at “bc,” adding that “jen will provide detailed instructions.” Jacquet was copied on the message and responded hours later, thanking Epstein, expressing surprise at the transfer, and inviting him on a vacation.
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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troybaisden.bsky.social
The current reforms of the research system are now on track for another failure. They double down on mistakes that undermine long-term growth, well being & safety. We must ask for accountability and transparency about three key issues as we go into the election year.

scientists.org.nz/news/13593197
February 2, 2026 at 8:31 PM
patrickesavage.bsky.social
Can anyone create a Google Scholar plugin for this?
Screenshot of what a hypothetical e-index [Epstein index = number of times name appears in Epstein files] plugin might look like
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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steamtraen.eu
Wiley: "We’re supporting responsible research assessment practices" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1520...

Also Wiley: "Prove that your article is a good fit for this journal 😉😉😉😉😉 by citing at least two of our articles in your manuscript before we will even consider reviewing it" 🤡
January 30, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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jonchristian.net
NEW: Elon Musk has insisted that Jeffrey Epstein invited him to the notorious island and he declined. But new emails show the opposite -- Musk was practically begging to party with Epstein in the Caribbean, years after Epstein's sex convictions were public knowledge

futurism.com/future-socie...
Elon Musk Emailed Extensively With Jeffrey Epstein, Begging to Visit His Notorious Island
Newly released documents show how Elon Musk extensively communicated with Jeffrey Epstein to plan parties and trips to his island.
futurism.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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alexh.bsky.social
Exciting to see this launch. Been in the works for a long time, with dozens or possibly hundreds of journals involved, and major library institutions, banding together for sustained support of free to read, free to publish in, open access journals. #openaccess
ojcollective.bsky.social Open Journals Collective @ojcollective.bsky.social · 11d
We've officially launched! With our new #DiamondOpenAccess investment campaign to help libraries build a sustainable, community‑led future for scholarly publishing & support journals flipping away from costly subscription models. Read the Press release here drive.google.com/file/d/10Hgf...
An image reading the statement "The Future is Diamond" alongside the logo of the Open Journals Collective.
January 29, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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usili.bsky.social
Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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lcsnz.bsky.social
Evergreen reminder that this was something she came up with, not something she was advised to do. In fact she was pretty specifically advised it was a terrible idea (it was) but she went ahead with it anyway because something something Not Real Science
January 28, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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thomaspellard.bsky.social
‘Bizarre’ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bizarre...
@lameensouag.bsky.social @dingemansemark.bsky.social @verbingnouns.bsky.social
‘Bizarre’ linguistics paper on water retracted by Springer Nature
Jordanian professor’s free-wheeling study is pulled and an editorial board member sacked after linguists criticised ‘extremely strange’ article
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 21, 2026 at 8:10 AM
patrickesavage.bsky.social
I'm finding Alex Petti's murder especially hard to process because he's almost the same age my brother Kelly would have been if he had not also been killed. Details are different, but in both, the people in power decided not to investigate themselves.
shorthand.radionz.co.nz/kelly-savage...
Death Bed: The story of Kelly Savage
A young New Zealander entered a Japanese hospital in psychosis. He left braindead. His grieving mother is fighting for change.
shorthand.radionz.co.nz
January 26, 2026 at 12:03 PM
patrickesavage.bsky.social
Thinking of this song a lot: "16 SHOTS":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPWX...

RIP Alex Pretti.
RIP Renée Good.
RIP George Floyd.
RIP Laquan McDonald.
RIP USA.
Agents appear to shoot at him at least ten times within five seconds, beginning while he was pinned to the ground and continuing after he collapsed and his body lay motionless. McDonald was walking away from the police when he was shot 16 times by Officer Van Dyke
January 26, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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samthielman.com
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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dreadships.bsky.social
Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done"

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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msshai.bsky.social
Top of the charts at my house today
January 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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danifroom.bsky.social
Twitter is a defiant producer of illegal porn, the kidnapped president of Venezuela is on trial in New York, and Europe is scrambling to figure out a response to a potential US invasion of Greenland.
January 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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samuelmoore.org
"Ultimately, peer review didn’t transform Nature’s standing so much as protect it, converting exclusivity that might have seemed arbitrary into gatekeeping that appeared meritocratic."

Nice piece by Robert Reason on the prestige of Nature www.asimov.press/p/nature
How Nature Became a 'Prestige' Journal
Since launching in 1869, Nature has evolved from a periodical offering commentary on pigeons to the prestige journal in science. But how did Nature build its reputation, and can it last?
www.asimov.press
January 11, 2026 at 6:57 AM
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rmcelreath.bsky.social
It is as it ever was. elevanth.org/blog/2022/01...
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM