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Pat Savage
@patrickesavage.bsky.social
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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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...)
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
February 10, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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February 9, 2026 at 10:54 AM
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...
February 9, 2026 at 9:53 AM
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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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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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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
February 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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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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Don't you f**king dare.
February 3, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Key to many of these connections was Brockman, "Epstein's intellectual enabler": newrepublic.com/article/1548...
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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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
Can anyone create a Google Scholar plugin for this?
February 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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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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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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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
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...
January 29, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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January 28, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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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
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
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.
January 26, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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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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Top of the charts at my house today
January 17, 2026 at 2:43 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM
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"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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It is as it ever was. elevanth.org/blog/2022/01...
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 AM