Daniel Shanahan
@danielshanahan.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Music Theory and Cognition at Northwestern
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40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
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"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine."
BINGO
BINGO
November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"If discovery tools return hallucinated results, the credibility of the library itself could be undermined. Students may come to see the library’s systems as just another unreliable search engine."
BINGO
BINGO
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Excited (and nervous!) to present about Disney music at SMT this weekend. In the Music Cognition Interest Group meeting!
November 4, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Excited (and nervous!) to present about Disney music at SMT this weekend. In the Music Cognition Interest Group meeting!
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Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
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jays fans 🤝 people who want to go to bed: please end this now
dodgers fans 🤝 baseball sickos: please keep going
the teams will switch places every half inning or so until it’s actually over
dodgers fans 🤝 baseball sickos: please keep going
the teams will switch places every half inning or so until it’s actually over
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
jays fans 🤝 people who want to go to bed: please end this now
dodgers fans 🤝 baseball sickos: please keep going
the teams will switch places every half inning or so until it’s actually over
dodgers fans 🤝 baseball sickos: please keep going
the teams will switch places every half inning or so until it’s actually over
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A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 AM
A wild-eyed Christopher Lloyd explaining that the only way to close the inter-dimensional wormhole from the Cubs winning the World Series is to play another World Series in the "null hour" when clocks are turned back.
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I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.
October 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I really love how in England they have modified No Kings to No Tyrants out of local sensibilities whilst in Ireland they are all like NO KINGS, do I stutter.
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it was awesome to join @danielshanahan.bsky.social ‘s grad seminar yesterday to discuss my research on everyday music listening. these emerging #MusicScience folks didn’t hold back - critically engaging with our knowledge and pushing it forward. a true pleasure and some ideas to reflect on!
October 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
it was awesome to join @danielshanahan.bsky.social ‘s grad seminar yesterday to discuss my research on everyday music listening. these emerging #MusicScience folks didn’t hold back - critically engaging with our knowledge and pushing it forward. a true pleasure and some ideas to reflect on!
This ChatGPT ad at my university bookstore is trying to normalize using AI to replace educators. It’s family weekend, so I did my best to keep my swearing to a minimum.
October 17, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This ChatGPT ad at my university bookstore is trying to normalize using AI to replace educators. It’s family weekend, so I did my best to keep my swearing to a minimum.
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Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments?
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.
#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.
#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych
October 8, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments?
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.
#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.
#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych
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Conversations about AI all last week and today on here have me thinking:
How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?
How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Conversations about AI all last week and today on here have me thinking:
How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?
How would we see the possibilities of software work for people if we had goals of human expression rather than production?
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After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.
October 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
After the 15th inning it is time to replace one player with a dog until someone wins or it's all dogs.
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Maybe nothing in sports as close to hard drugs as watching a bullpen rollicking in and out of jams, wet hair and strange jewelry, spitting and cursing, having entire conversations with themselves. A ship of filthy pirates drunk on the high seas.
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Maybe nothing in sports as close to hard drugs as watching a bullpen rollicking in and out of jams, wet hair and strange jewelry, spitting and cursing, having entire conversations with themselves. A ship of filthy pirates drunk on the high seas.
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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.
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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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And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
And now for a report from the hellish, war-zone that is Portland
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On the left, reportedly a photo of Texas National Guard members arriving in Illinois. On the right . . . I have questions.
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 PM
On the left, reportedly a photo of Texas National Guard members arriving in Illinois. On the right . . . I have questions.
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JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions.
societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...
societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...
Florida State University College of Music | SMT
societymusictheory.org
September 20, 2025 at 11:05 PM
JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions.
societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...
societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...
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What is the sonic equivalent to “visionary” — aurallary? RIP to one of those, maybe the best of them
The Sorcerer's Ascension
RIP Hermeto Pascoal, who found music in everything
open.substack.com
September 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM
What is the sonic equivalent to “visionary” — aurallary? RIP to one of those, maybe the best of them
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The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The biggest trick the devil ever pulled is to call LLMs “artificial intelligence.”
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Go for it. I don't even care any more.
August 2, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Go for it. I don't even care any more.
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Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
August 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Today is August 1.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.
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Still not as bad as Microsoft Teams
Today in 1184 Henry VI of Germany was having a strategy meeting when the wooden second storey floor collapsed. Most of the courtiers fell through into the latrine cesspit below the ground floor, where more than 50 drowned in liquid excrement.
July 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Still not as bad as Microsoft Teams