Sarah Pozderac-Chenevey
@sarahpcphd.bsky.social
Ludomusicologist, mom, musician, editor, photographer, baker of goods, eater of foods, pro-bono appliance repair person
@floreustebius.bsky.social I was somehow unaware of your paper using palimpsest as a framework. That is one of my favorite words, and if I didn’t already know you and how cool and brilliant you are, this alone would make me badger @bardicknowledge.bsky.social to introduce us
November 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
@floreustebius.bsky.social I was somehow unaware of your paper using palimpsest as a framework. That is one of my favorite words, and if I didn’t already know you and how cool and brilliant you are, this alone would make me badger @bardicknowledge.bsky.social to introduce us
Ok, @franklehman.bsky.social I see the appeal of photographing birds, at least when it can be done in a lovely pollinator garden on a pleasant riverwalk
August 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ok, @franklehman.bsky.social I see the appeal of photographing birds, at least when it can be done in a lovely pollinator garden on a pleasant riverwalk
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When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind.
It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
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It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
🧵
July 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
When I think about the stupid mistakes LLMs make with words sometimes, (cf. the strawberry problem, fabricating quotations, or mixing up terms etc.), there's a well-known Old English riddle that comes to mind.
It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
🧵
It's more than 1,000 years old but I think it has something to tell us about AI...
🧵
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
July 27, 2025 at 9:01 PM
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...
www.historyrespawned.com
July 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.
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Make Weird Stuff.
Making Weird Stuff is one of the things that keeps me going. It can be the same damn task, but if I have to do it for work? Draining and terrible. For absolutely no purpose or utility? Life giving. Making Weird Stuff is one of the best things about being human, along with connecting with others
July 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Make Weird Stuff.
I’m going to belatedly chime in here (thank you, @bardicknowledge.bsky.social for tagging me in!) and add a few things. In general, I agree with both of these threads, and largely what I want to add are questions
This is a good thread. I'm one of two people in my immediate academic orbit (the other is @sarahpcphd.bsky.social) fully qualified to address this from every angle, and I agree with a solid 90% of David's thoughts.
Two things he doesn't cover (but likely has thoughts on) below.
Two things he doesn't cover (but likely has thoughts on) below.
We're having a "scientific conferences need to become more accessible" conversation again, this time in terms of the Trump administration making it unsafe for some international colleagues to join us in the US.
I'm on the Board of multiple orgs that plan conferences. Here are some thoughts.
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I'm on the Board of multiple orgs that plan conferences. Here are some thoughts.
🧵🧪🦑🌎
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m going to belatedly chime in here (thank you, @bardicknowledge.bsky.social for tagging me in!) and add a few things. In general, I agree with both of these threads, and largely what I want to add are questions
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Okay so a couple years ago, someone* said "Twitter, tell me about f*ckbois of the 19th century" and we all went on this journey together
*I would credit but they have since nuked their account (I just checked)
*I would credit but they have since nuked their account (I just checked)
Remind me one of these days to retell you all exactly how the pianist Marie Pleyel was so hot that all your composer faves (Liszt, Chopin, Berlioz, Robert Schumann) lost their absolute minds around her
Before I die we must move the Overton window of Symphonie Fantastique discourse from "kooky silly high man lololol" discourse to "horny stalker and potential serial killer" discourse, with a sprinkling of "Fuck, Marie Pleyel was hot" discourse
December 3, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Okay so a couple years ago, someone* said "Twitter, tell me about f*ckbois of the 19th century" and we all went on this journey together
*I would credit but they have since nuked their account (I just checked)
*I would credit but they have since nuked their account (I just checked)
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A version of the Orpheus myth where the audience knows that Hades is lying about whether Orpheus can take her back. She was always going to fade into smoke before she crossed the threshold. It is a small comfort, rather than a great tragedy, that Orpheus at least looks back.
March 30, 2024 at 10:43 PM
A version of the Orpheus myth where the audience knows that Hades is lying about whether Orpheus can take her back. She was always going to fade into smoke before she crossed the threshold. It is a small comfort, rather than a great tragedy, that Orpheus at least looks back.
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Physicists have discovered ethnomusicology
Stop the presses, this thing musicologists and composers have been saying for literal decades just got validated by one of the fields of study people actually respect
Pythagoras was wrong: There are no universal musical harmonies, study finds
The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater e...
phys.org
March 1, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Physicists have discovered ethnomusicology
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In general, "career breaks" are poorly defined where academia is concerned; not all career breaks are health- or family-related.
For humanists, working outside academia usually does not involve having ample time and resources for research and thus should absolutely be considered a "career break".
For humanists, working outside academia usually does not involve having ample time and resources for research and thus should absolutely be considered a "career break".
February 1, 2024 at 1:57 AM
In general, "career breaks" are poorly defined where academia is concerned; not all career breaks are health- or family-related.
For humanists, working outside academia usually does not involve having ample time and resources for research and thus should absolutely be considered a "career break".
For humanists, working outside academia usually does not involve having ample time and resources for research and thus should absolutely be considered a "career break".
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knowing the 17th edition is my whole personality (professionally speaking, anyway), so I'm NOT PREPARED
January 30, 2024 at 9:26 PM
knowing the 17th edition is my whole personality (professionally speaking, anyway), so I'm NOT PREPARED
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When Dave Ramsey is calling people idiots for spending money on childcare, it's because, in his mind, the right and proper way to get child care is to rely on the unpaid labor of women. The unsaid part of "why are you paying that much for child care" is "there's a woman who should do it for free."
January 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM
When Dave Ramsey is calling people idiots for spending money on childcare, it's because, in his mind, the right and proper way to get child care is to rely on the unpaid labor of women. The unsaid part of "why are you paying that much for child care" is "there's a woman who should do it for free."
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A real life classical music shitposter 🫡
Goodnight to the Bard of the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople: The extraordinary Peter Schickele has entered eternity, attended by a prime example of the art (yes) of Margalit Fox. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/a...
Peter Schickele, Composer and Gleeful Sire of P.D.Q. Bach, Dies at 88
He wrote more than 100 symphonic, choral, solo instrumental and chamber works. But he was better known, and celebrated, as a musical parodist. Who can forget “The Concerto for Horn and Hardart?”
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2024 at 7:02 AM
A real life classical music shitposter 🫡
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Symphonies and operas (and performances of them) were traditionally fully paid for by aristocrats as a way for them to flex their wealth and cultural power—orchestras as we know them were never designed to fund themselves
i do think it is worth a reminder that a lot of art is inherently expensive (like getting a few hundred people to produce a symphony or opera) and will never work super well in a capitalist model even if people do pay up for tickets or recordings
people really think if we post hard enough on social media we can save classical music, instead of just taxing billionaires
January 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Symphonies and operas (and performances of them) were traditionally fully paid for by aristocrats as a way for them to flex their wealth and cultural power—orchestras as we know them were never designed to fund themselves
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"neessuun wooorma"
January 15, 2024 at 1:49 AM
"neessuun wooorma"
I didn’t know I could love my favorite flour company any more
January 13, 2024 at 4:02 AM
I didn’t know I could love my favorite flour company any more
The integration of the “Simple Song” melody into the new Bluey episode _Relax_ is a great little detail that I’m using to distract myself from how hard Chili’s depiction in this episode is attacking me
January 12, 2024 at 4:52 PM
The integration of the “Simple Song” melody into the new Bluey episode _Relax_ is a great little detail that I’m using to distract myself from how hard Chili’s depiction in this episode is attacking me
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I think we might see a hire for a one-year position with a 4/4 coaching load (football, tennis, bowling, beach volleyball)
Think they'll have a VAP this year or will they go straight for a TT hire?
Maybe a pop music scholar, but looking at there other coaches research interests no one studies early modern music
Maybe a pop music scholar, but looking at there other coaches research interests no one studies early modern music
January 11, 2024 at 1:21 AM
I think we might see a hire for a one-year position with a 4/4 coaching load (football, tennis, bowling, beach volleyball)
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Having family stay for the holidays is like watching players test the game you designed. They are using the space in such interesting ways. They are getting a mug to drink water from even though we have a cabinet full of glasses. I guess the visual language wasn’t clear enough there and that’s on me
December 22, 2023 at 10:03 PM
Having family stay for the holidays is like watching players test the game you designed. They are using the space in such interesting ways. They are getting a mug to drink water from even though we have a cabinet full of glasses. I guess the visual language wasn’t clear enough there and that’s on me
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Our students deserve better. The US leaves public educators and their students on the front lines of gun violence. They don’t want us to teach or learn, they want us to stay afraid. Our students said fuck this, we demand better.
The cover of Thursday's The Daily Tar Heel, a striking response by the student-run paper to an on-campus lockdown and killing. (more twitter.com/caitlyn_yaed...)
August 30, 2023 at 11:23 AM
Our students deserve better. The US leaves public educators and their students on the front lines of gun violence. They don’t want us to teach or learn, they want us to stay afraid. Our students said fuck this, we demand better.
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Medieval manuscript catalogs have their own arcane language & it varies. There are some nice guides to how to read them, but I think my students will also benefit from infographics. So in the lead-up to the semester, here ate a couple I'll share here. Hope people find them useful!
August 23, 2023 at 3:46 PM
Medieval manuscript catalogs have their own arcane language & it varies. There are some nice guides to how to read them, but I think my students will also benefit from infographics. So in the lead-up to the semester, here ate a couple I'll share here. Hope people find them useful!