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06.03.2026 04:26
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I remember when you had to choose between internet and telephone, rather than the internet being a thing you do on your telephone
I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia.
You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition.
Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...
Looking for some good readings for a graduate student who is interested in the philosophy and cognitive science of music #perception. Any recommendations—philosophical or otherwise? #PhilPerception #PhilQ
Here's a book and short Nature summary I just published that may be of interest:
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It's a strange thing. There was a small but vocal bunch of scientists shrieking (rather ahistorically) about Lysenko when their enemy was "wokeness", from whom we seem to hear nothing now.
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
We're pleased to announce the call for the 2026 Richerson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research, for a recent PhD dissertation that significantly contributes to the field of CE.
Recipients receive a $300 award, a 3-yr CES membership and CES conference registration.
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This is absolutely bizarre, I’ve never seen anything like it, and I still don’t know what to make of it.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
ai/dr
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Lichess blitz stats showing 2001 rating
Broke 2000 rating in Lichess!
How have politics shaped music making in the past? Using generative network models, Tim's work shows that there is a close link between political boundaries in central Europe towards the end of the first millennium and the repertoire of chants. #musicscience
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Is h-index more useful than raw citations here?
Music is not a universal language — but it can bring us together when words fail www.nature.com/articles/d41...
New newspaper headline for your Intro to Causal Inference lecture just dropped
“Understanding deep evolutionary origins of music & language requires inclusive & equitable collaborations across cultures & disciplines, weaving together Indigenous knowledge & the humanities with natural & social sciences.” Informative engaging essay by @patrickesavage.bsky.social in @nature.com.🧪
How it started / How it ended
The excellent movie, ‘Sinners’ showed this soooooooo perfectly.
This scene alone deserves the Oscar. Like it emphasises this point so perfectly. 💙
Omg Sinners blew me away - especially this scene!!
Thanks, Philip!
The title of this excellent article from Patrick Savage is spot on.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
None of us, other than Jacob, had any idea what the song was about. Afterwards, he explained it concerns the mayam tree, the leaves of which his people use to make traditional medicines. But it didn’t really matter. Singing and playing these near-universal scales and rhythms collectively had bonded us together in ways that couldn’t be expressed in words. That is the power of music. Music is not a universal language — but it can bring us together when words fail.
Here's the segment in my @nature.com essay (www.nature.com/articles/d41...) where I describe the clip:
I'm so pleased Jigar Ganatra captured this special cross-cultural jam session at my house on video. It perfectly capture the key message of my essay that "Music is not a universal language - but it can bring us together when words fail":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfJB...
Excellent paper! @carlbergstrom.com & Gross correctly note there is no simple solution for broken peer review, but I'm most excited about open-review models like @peercommunityin.bsky.social (esp. @pci-regreports.bsky.social) to streamline peer review and reduce "serial re-review".
"Western listeners usually find music in major keys happy and in minor keys sad. By contrast, Papua New Guinean listeners felt no difference in happiness between major and minor keys, and Pakistani listeners found minor keys happier than major ones" www.nature.com/articles/d41...
With the shitstorm of mess happening at all times, this story of RFK Jr's very own colonial pseudoscience trash study experimenting on extremely vulnerable African babies...that wasn't reviewed for ethics AT ALL...got buried.
We now know our efforts led to the halt of the study. Worth every dime.
Sorry for my ignorance but I never use e-readers if that’s what you’re asking about so I’m not quite sure if/when/how an epub format will come out (maybe with the physical book next month?). You can download the pdf free from the link above though!
Congrats to my colleague Pat the mammoth achievement that is a (first) book - not that common in psychology compared to some other disciplines! And a fascinating topic! Also very envious/admiring that Pat managed to get Bad Bunny at the Superbowl into a scholarly article so quickly. Nice work!!
If I had a nickel for every textbook about my favorite topic published in the last year FOR FREE, I'd have two nickels:
Comparative Musicology by Patrick E. Savage
academic.oup.com/book/62353
Bird Brains and Behavior by Georg F. Striedter and Andrew N. Iwaniuk
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255273...
Ever wondered why people argue whether music is a "universal language"? Here is my take published today.
This text by @patrickesavage.bsky.social is really good. Read it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...