Pat Savage

Amazon page for my book, "Comparative musicology", encourages me to "Follow the author"

I am the author ("I am the danger" Breaking Bad meme)

Trying to create my Amazon author profile

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I try to teach my students to always think about "What did you like?" as well as "How could it be improved?" when reading (doi.org/10.31234/osf...)

Were You Born to Love Music? Were You Born to Love Music?: How you respond to art—from poetry, to visual art, to music—may be partly written in your DNA

Here's an engaging & accessible introduction to our studies of individual differences in how people respond to poetry, art, & music. @kristenfrench.bsky.social interviewed @giacomobignardi.bsky.social about the research he's leading to decipher the mysteries of “aesthetic chills”.
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This is a great idea. I'd rather the norm in science to be wrong for the right reasons, than right for the wrong ones.

As someone who freaked out about retracting my own Nature paper, I love this initiative!

If you currently do not have a reproducible workflow where you can share data and code where possible, I expect you will soon not be able to publish in good journals.

Beyond being best practice, journals will use this to identify papers written by AI.

Plan a new project accordingly.

The biology of musicality In this essay, Henkjan Honing argues that advances in psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and comparative cognition have moved the study of music’s origins from speculation to testable biology by focu...

"Through evolution, these capacities may have become integrated into a coherent system — a biological platform for organizing and appreciating patterned sound". Great essay by @musiccognition.bsky.social on the biological capacity that enables humans to perceive, produce, and enjoy music.

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You know that feeling when you're struggling to stay awake? #kakapo chicks Tiwhiri-A3 and Tiwhiri-A4 in Tiwhiri's nest on Pukenui/Anchor Island. Both around two weeks old, and doing well. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

I remember when you had to choose between internet and telephone, rather than the internet being a thing you do on your telephone

Research Fellow in Music Science Job Description: * 5-year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-time position at Academic Level B. * Based at the MARCS Institute with flexible working arrangements. * Salary: $120,908 – $142,769 per annum, plus ...

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.

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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.
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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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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 Societies, animals and even machines have music in common. Our varied experiences of it might tell us about the origins of language.

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

Music is not a universal language — but it can bring us together when words fail Societies, animals and even machines have music in common. Our varied experiences of it might tell us about the origins of language.

“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!

Music is not a universal language — but it can bring us together when words fail Societies, animals and even machines have music in common. Our varied experiences of it might tell us about the origins of language.

The title of this excellent article from Patrick Savage is spot on.
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