@joematson

Director of International Programs at Iowa State University. Music teacher, writer, researcher, and fan.

Joined November 2009
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No one in the business listens like @imwithherband Great show in Des Moines!
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Matt Rose@rose_matt24 Apr 2025
Learnt today that you can type any nonsense into Google followed by "meaning", and AI will assume you're searching a well-known human phrase and frantically come up with what it thinks it could mean.
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A Thread of Fascinating Maps That Show The Side Of The World We Rarely See (Best Of All Time) 1. List Of Countries Mentioned Or Referred In The Bible
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Almost halfwaye through the new Chicago Manual of Style and absolutelye no advyce yet on what to wear.
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In honor of Richard Wagner’s birthday— Clara Schumann’s EPIC burns of his operas:🔥 “This is not music at all to me—though I don’t deny his powers for drama.” (Tannhäuser) 🧵
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So fun to see @SaraWatkins alllll over the stage in Des Moines tonight. If she moves her hips any more, people will start calling her @christhile !
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samuel⁷@fauvelized11 Nov 2023
#ams #amssmt23 Someone (accidentally?) took my black AMS Boston 2019 tote bag at the LGBT party. It had an orange notebook in it that has a bunch of my research notes in it. If you have it, I'd love to get it back!!
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Meet Molly Compton (@mollster_mash), the "scene mom" behind Ur Mom Records, a small DIY label making handmade runs of records, tapes, and T-shirts for small artists. Her goal? To help these artists sustain themselves on the road. | ✍️ @debbiemarieb_ chicagoreader.com/music/chic…

Molly Compton, founder of Ur Mom Records - Chicago Reader

Molly Compton explains why she founded her DIY label: “I wanted to be able to help artists who maybe just don't have the time, experiences, the resources, or the skills to make something that is...

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Note especially how the AI responses compare to those from a real person (a prof at Stanford).
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
@MushtaqBilalPhD24 Mar 2023
How I trained ChatGPT to think like a Stanford professor:
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Another run at this one: This mid-1940s portrait seems to be of a NYC dancer or operatic singer—perhaps jazz singer. Someone in the arts. Any good idea who it might be?
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I like this method for active reading / note taking.
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD
@MushtaqBilalPhD15 Feb 2023
Replying to @MushtaqBilalPhD
As you read and take notes, a bunch of ideas/questions will come to your mind. Write down these ideas/questions on the left-hand page. Right is for writing Left is for thinking
An image of Mushtaq's notebook. The right-hand page contains notes while the left-hand page ideas and questions.

ALT An image of Mushtaq's notebook. The right-hand page contains notes while the left-hand page ideas and questions.

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Florida school bookshelves and German memorial to Nazi book burning in Berlin.
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besties, germany, ca. 1540
A medieval drawing of a skeleton wearing a shroud and carrying a lute in one hand. With the other hand the skeleton is holding the hand of a man with a long beard, red clothes, and a flag

ALT A medieval drawing of a skeleton wearing a shroud and carrying a lute in one hand. With the other hand the skeleton is holding the hand of a man with a long beard, red clothes, and a flag

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Roses are redde Elegant are manatees To create a bettir and more just future We neede more funding for educacioun and advanced researche yn the artes and humanityes
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h/t @jdnarum
Mark McConville@markmcconville5 May 2022
Every time I think I have a favorite John Prine song, I hear another John Prine song and it’s back to square one.
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Academic versions of great song titles: OutKast’s “The Way (In Which) You Move”
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Due to a schedule conflict, I have not been able to live tweet #amsmw like I usually do. But I had to share this screen shot of Michael Broyles quoting Mendelssohn when The Hebrides was a work in (slow) progress.
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