Nick Shea
@shdocea.bsky.social
Music researcher. Style transmission, kinesthetic cognition, popular music. Asst. prof in the Sonoran desert. From STL.
🎵 📓 Website: www.sheatheory.com
🧠 🌵 Cog lab: https://www.cactusmusiclab.com/
🎵 📓 Website: www.sheatheory.com
🧠 🌵 Cog lab: https://www.cactusmusiclab.com/
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Nick Shea
@shdocea.bsky.social
· May 21
Metric Accent Affects Perception of Key Center in Pop-Music Chord Loops
Looped chord progressions in popular music can often be heard as having multiple plausible key centers. In a series of two experiments, we investigate meter’s role as an orienting force within these p...
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Our paper "Metric Accent Affects Perception of Key Center in Pop-Music Chord Loops" is now live on Music Perception! @chriswmwhite.bsky.social @brynhughes.bsky.social @dominiquevuvan
Read it for free: online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/4...
Read it for free: online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/4...
Checking out of Bsky for a bit. Seems like a good opportunity for a reset with our church’s annual weekend retreat to Prescott (70F!, mountains!) coming up Friday.
Take care of yourselves. Log off, too, if you need it!
Take care of yourselves. Log off, too, if you need it!
September 16, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Checking out of Bsky for a bit. Seems like a good opportunity for a reset with our church’s annual weekend retreat to Prescott (70F!, mountains!) coming up Friday.
Take care of yourselves. Log off, too, if you need it!
Take care of yourselves. Log off, too, if you need it!
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this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
September 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
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Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter
September 12, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Sorry, folks. Sounds like the civil war has been postponed due to white shooter
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One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.
September 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
One policy solution to Young Men we should be considering is Universal Basic Electric Guitar (UBEG). I'm not joking, by the way. Kids of any gender should get a low-cost starter kit for some hobby of their choosing once they turn 13. A camera, paints, a cheap sampler, etc.
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What also gets to me is that it's bad in a way that you don't need any training to recognize. Any thinking undergraduate student can tell it's incoherent. In fact, it takes multiple years of training and dedication to that particular subfield to fail to realize how bad it is.
I skimmed a paper of an author I dislike and it's amazing how a certain style of writing --overly complicated explanations of trivial claims, new jargon that hides how vacuous it all is, an overemphasize on mathematization regardless of whether it actually maps onto the claims made-- just wrecks me.
September 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
What also gets to me is that it's bad in a way that you don't need any training to recognize. Any thinking undergraduate student can tell it's incoherent. In fact, it takes multiple years of training and dedication to that particular subfield to fail to realize how bad it is.
The way my son says “itsy!” when referring to spiders — in books, my Spider-Man mug, etc. — is just too much. A stake through my heart. Such cute.
September 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The way my son says “itsy!” when referring to spiders — in books, my Spider-Man mug, etc. — is just too much. A stake through my heart. Such cute.
Wife: “Maybe you have sleep apnea.”
Me: “I haven’t gained that much weight.”
W: “It can happen to anyone. You do have allergies and wake up with dry mouth.”
Me: “Holy shit.”
It would explain sleeping all the time but still being tired, the weight gain, and dehydration despite pounding water.
Me: “I haven’t gained that much weight.”
W: “It can happen to anyone. You do have allergies and wake up with dry mouth.”
Me: “Holy shit.”
It would explain sleeping all the time but still being tired, the weight gain, and dehydration despite pounding water.
September 10, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Wife: “Maybe you have sleep apnea.”
Me: “I haven’t gained that much weight.”
W: “It can happen to anyone. You do have allergies and wake up with dry mouth.”
Me: “Holy shit.”
It would explain sleeping all the time but still being tired, the weight gain, and dehydration despite pounding water.
Me: “I haven’t gained that much weight.”
W: “It can happen to anyone. You do have allergies and wake up with dry mouth.”
Me: “Holy shit.”
It would explain sleeping all the time but still being tired, the weight gain, and dehydration despite pounding water.
The generic Asian-woman bot-follow stream has been strong lately.
September 7, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The generic Asian-woman bot-follow stream has been strong lately.
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Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood?
McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood
McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood
September 6, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Me: Can I have one of those blue milkshakes that symbolizes Grimace’s blood?
McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood
McDonalds Cashier: (offended) We believe every beverage symbolizes Grimace’s blood
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the strawberry-wanter has logged on
September 5, 2025 at 4:57 PM
the strawberry-wanter has logged on
Show. Me.
September 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Show. Me.
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I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
September 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.
1) Quote poster is correct, 2) I am now a libertarian (lactose intolerant).
what the fuck are you talking about. what the fuck does any of this mean!!!! shut the fuck up!!!!!
September 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
1) Quote poster is correct, 2) I am now a libertarian (lactose intolerant).
Left your phone on campus? Sucks. Left your phone on campus when you bike to work? Major bummer.
September 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Left your phone on campus? Sucks. Left your phone on campus when you bike to work? Major bummer.
"In short, [proceeds to write the longest sentence in the paragraph]."
September 4, 2025 at 7:14 PM
"In short, [proceeds to write the longest sentence in the paragraph]."
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Super fun #TidyTuesday data all about frogs this week! 🐸
I decided to try to visualise the scientific names of the different frogs using a sunburst diagram 📊 Thanks to {ggiraph} - it's also interactive!
Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
I decided to try to visualise the scientific names of the different frogs using a sunburst diagram 📊 Thanks to {ggiraph} - it's also interactive!
Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
September 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Super fun #TidyTuesday data all about frogs this week! 🐸
I decided to try to visualise the scientific names of the different frogs using a sunburst diagram 📊 Thanks to {ggiraph} - it's also interactive!
Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
I decided to try to visualise the scientific names of the different frogs using a sunburst diagram 📊 Thanks to {ggiraph} - it's also interactive!
Code: github.com/nrennie/tidy...
#RStats #DataViz #ggplot2
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I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
September 3, 2025 at 12:56 AM
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
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Building my coding skills. (Yelling at our IT department because they won't allow me to install the newest version of R without their intervention.)
September 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Building my coding skills. (Yelling at our IT department because they won't allow me to install the newest version of R without their intervention.)
Saw my former psychiatrist at the Children’s Museum today. Said hello and all that, but wasn’t really sure of the protocol.
It was just about as awkward as the time I physically ran into my ex in the hall during my undergrad.
It was just about as awkward as the time I physically ran into my ex in the hall during my undergrad.
September 1, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Saw my former psychiatrist at the Children’s Museum today. Said hello and all that, but wasn’t really sure of the protocol.
It was just about as awkward as the time I physically ran into my ex in the hall during my undergrad.
It was just about as awkward as the time I physically ran into my ex in the hall during my undergrad.
Dietary aide at an assisted living home. Washed dishes, mopped floors, scraped puréed food off of plates. $7.50/hour.
That job taught me so much compassion. It was one of the best moves my parents made — making me get a job at 16 if I wanted to drive.
That job taught me so much compassion. It was one of the best moves my parents made — making me get a job at 16 if I wanted to drive.
September 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Dietary aide at an assisted living home. Washed dishes, mopped floors, scraped puréed food off of plates. $7.50/hour.
That job taught me so much compassion. It was one of the best moves my parents made — making me get a job at 16 if I wanted to drive.
That job taught me so much compassion. It was one of the best moves my parents made — making me get a job at 16 if I wanted to drive.
