🇫🇮 Assistant Professor, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Music education, philosophy (esp ethics), research. And any combination of those.
Vienna, Austria
Joined October 2017
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We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.
The short answer: page by page, by hand.
You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.
Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: blog.archive.org/2021/02/09/…
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"I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.link/kfJxWVn
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Benefits of music practice vary from person to person. In our newest study, we show that genetic differences in cognitive abilities play a role in why individuals might differentially benefit from practice, suggesting G x E interaction 🧬🎵
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”Annoyance and irritation, though, are often taken as a sign that the concerns aren’t that big of a deal, that the arguments are mere quibbles that can be safely dismissed. Call this the eyeroll heuristic: if it’s preachy and annoying, it’s OK to ignore it.”👏 @evan_westra
You might feel you can trust your gut to tell right from wrong, but the friction of social change shows that you can’t @evan_westra
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Well, this is wild! Our article on learning music theorising using songwriting processes, students’ preferred songs, and digital tools is among the top downloads of the @BJMEMusic! It’s available open access here: bit.ly/3yVY99A
Cecilia Björk retweeted
Drowning in papers?
Use this 7-step method to find your PhD research gap!
The PhD literature mapping blueprint
ALT Example of a literature map for a specific research question. Credit: KRISTA SINISCARSO
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Researchers want a ‘nutrition label’ for academic-paper facts buff.ly/3Q9IGsi
2nd edition, 2024! 🍾@P_A_Kirschner routledge.com/How-Learning-H…
”Terms like excellence,” the ACE authors advise, “are indicative of the way in which opera and music theatre still retains unhelpful hierarchies about what kinds of work are valued.” Instead, ”engage with the stories of the contemporary nation” (or else). theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Neuroimaging research in psychology has led to so many false positive, non replicable findings due to questionable research practices & publication bias that Science Advances now publishes null findings to clean up the literature (this is from 2022).
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Kant argues that human cognition can't be reduced to following instructions, no matter how complex. A being whose cognition consists entirely of a set of instructions could make no dist. btw instructions & experience of the world outside those instructions time.com/6309281/immanuel-ka…
”Most children learning maths do not need their teachers to intentionally cause them to struggle because they are going to struggle anyway . . . What they need most when facing a new problem is strategies they can apply to solving it — which is why we have maths teachers.”
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📢New paper in Regional Studies!
Did migrants help Paris & Vienna become beacons of art & music? Or was their rise a pure consequence of local actors?
In this paper, we answer this question by exploring the migration of 22,000+ famous figures born in the past 1,000 years. /1 🧵
Cecilia Björk retweeted
The extraordinary 'Optical illusion' of the marble mosaic tiles of the 17th Century AD, Florence Cathedral Santa Maria del Fiore, Italy.
The mosaic optical illusion of the Cathedral, seen from above, this intricate geometry creates the illusion of a giant abyss into which people could stumble.
The red, white, black and green marble floor was a colossal job that took 160 years to complete. It was built by the grand Florentine craftsmen, led by the Renaissance sculptor Baccio d'Agnolo, and completed in 1660 AD.
The primary goal of the builders was to surpass the splendor of the Roman imperial floors, especially those of the Pantheon. The result forms a gigantic unit of fascinating geometric carpets, lined within the arches of the cathedral.
In various parts of the floor you can see the coat of arms of the Medici family, the family of bankers who left an indelible mark on all of Florence and who played a leading role in the completion of the cathedral.
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The Finnish Journal of Music Education is inviting submissions for a special issue (01/2024), Sustainability in Music Education. 🌱 Full-text research articles of maximum 7,000 words are welcome. The deadline for manuscripts is 10 December. Details: sites.uniarts.fi/en/web/fjme…
Our article on learning music theorising through inspiration and curiosity is out & available open access in the BJME! bit.ly/4807oCy
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One of my most important studies is finally published: the pain-reducing effects of music are stronger when we tap along in sync with the music. Everyone can use this effect, in clinical & non-clinical settings, to reduce pain, anxiety, and worries. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
