Music theorist, early music specialist, mezzo soprano, feminist, yogi, hiker. Into equitable pedagogy. Author of Hearing Homophony (OUP 2020: http://bit.ly/341RhmB). She/her/hers.https://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mu3lv5sxec24It can’t, hope that helps. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 Aug 2026 19:37 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3lv5sxec24https://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mtp4cytnbc2eThis is my number one piece of advice to new graduate students. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 20:26 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtp4cytnbc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mtgzw5avy22zThe Bible, by which I mean Zarlino’s Istitutioni harmoniche, belongs in the classroom. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 15:22 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgzw5avy22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mtgzs4th2c2zWow who could have predicted this gosh if only people in education had been sounding the alarm for years 🙄 [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 15:20 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgzs4th2c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mtgze26q5s2zI’ve been reluctant even to use research assistants for the “mindless” tasks of cataloguing details from large numbers of sources. Inevitably I learn so much from doing that work myself I really don’t want to hand it off to anyone else. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Aug 2026 15:12 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgze26q5s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3msvcsnbuxc2aConfession: I’ve never fully understood what admin types mean by “assessment” and how it interfaces with what I understand my job to be as an instructor, but this makes it clear as day. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Aug 2026 14:13 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msvcsnbuxc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3msqqewrtuc2dPraise be! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Aug 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqqewrtuc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3msimc4efbk2pMy library director has assured me again and again that we will have perpetual access to our increasingly large e-book collection. I keep asking: how do we know? And what protects us from cyber attacks, changes to dominant media storage systems, and more? [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Aug 2026 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3msimc4efbk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mse6agzpys2nIt’s deeply disturbing that anyone would market a product like this as helping students learn, and worse, that a single university administrator might think this was a good thing for their students. [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Aug 2026 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mse6agzpys2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mscbooutek2wI expressed my long standing fear of this to our library director who told me matter of factly that in a pinch you should just dive onto a shelf and the books will push through to the other side. Sounds like something she learned from experience?? [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Aug 2026 00:32 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mscbooutek2whttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mrzofcahg22jToo bad there’s no other way to find papers and professional scholars aren’t *trained* to do precisely that! What can you do? 🤷🏼‍♀️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]01 Aug 2026 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrzofcahg22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mrxa6oxwrc26People who don’t collapse their boxes before putting them in the communal recycling dumpster. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Jul 2026 15:06 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxa6oxwrc26https://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mrrwut26d22aJunior women are more likely to succeed when they have mid-career and senior women in their departments. Go figure! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrrwut26d22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mrqmpn3glc2oHigher ed admin’s eagerness to throw away their entire value proposition must be one of the dumbest and most spiteful own goals in history. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrqmpn3glc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theorymeg.bsky.social/post/3mrppwn5cys2wIt seems like academic book reviews have also veered towards “only say positive things” which is ultimately not that helpful. We can respect each other’s work and also be prepared to offer meaningful critiques in the spirit of moving the conversation forward. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Jul 2026 15:27 +0000at://did:plc:5jw7vnn7j3jmkf2dsggorttp/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrppwn5cys2w