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your favorite musicologist’s favorite musicologist.✨ music/cultural historian at the University of Florida 🐊, Tar Heel bred, professional social media haver. is always on brand, & the brand (🇬🇧) is strong 😉 she/her 🏳️‍🌈 https://linktr.ee/imanimosley
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i have a joke about Medusa. and i think it’s rock solid.

baby, get you a hair stylist who you can talk coffee, social media, Tyler Perry, polyamory & trans rights with who will also work that silk press OUT

i have a lot because i used to work at the UWS Apple Store so something different: i sat next to Ed Koch at LGA for a 6am flight to Raleigh & someone came up to him & said “has anyone told you you look a lot like Ed Koch?” & he’s like “you don’t say? 😑” & i burst out laughing

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, will cross-endorse each other, creating a late-stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass Andrew Cuomo in ranked-choice balloting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

so excited for this fantastic new book edited by my dearest friend, Charles McGuire!

watching a youtube video that’s just someone trying to get a platinum medal in wii sports baseball & absolutely crashing out is why the internet exists

imma need my good sis Chelsey (the new president of the Recording Academy BOT) to investigate, cause what tomfoolery is this 🧐

happy Founders’ Day to all my sisters of Sigma Alpha Iota who continue to inspire & uplift, and be beacons of musical excellence & sisterhood. love and roses!

Because Black people know that there is no such thing as “identification” or “identifying yourself”. They aren’t saying Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. Senator. They are saying that there is only one acceptable identity — credential — being white and, in these times, being pro-Trump.

just put on your headphones & listen. youtu.be/K9bcgSHfeOk?...

you mocked me all those years for my deep love for & defence of the bagpipes! no more!

Bad week for troubled geniuses.

the loss of Sly Stone and Brian Wilson in one week may just be too much for me to bear

The Fulbright Scholarship board resigned due to political interference from the Trump administration. The State Department, led by Marco Rubio, is canceling scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers based on their research topics, which include climate change, gender, and race.

my last obligation of this academic year, welcome our newest English PhD, Dr Kimberly Williams! her work is poignant, heart-rendering, & a statement of love to Black people. plus, she’s headed to a TT faculty position at Old Dominion!

Me: It doesn't feel right to go watch the World Cup in authoritarian countries. I wish it could be right here in the US of A!

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

me, this morning: i wonder why Kitty’s been snuggled up next to me & so patient me, this afternoon: *becomes painfully ill* ah, that’s why

NEVER RANK CUOMO my fellow New Yorkers, you can do this!

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

if you've been watching the community defenses against ICE and thinking, "i support my comrades but i don't feel comfortable being on the ~front lines~" please know there are many other ways to support! you can drop off a case of water and snacks, buy medical supplies, donate to jail support, etc

Patti switching her TV to the NBA finals

rise up lesbians, Sarah Paulson & Jean Smart are on stage at the Tonys

there are others but this one is special. this comes on & i lose my cot damn mind youtu.be/tHnA94-hTC8?...

i teach one undergrad non-major class a year on music, tech, law, & ethics & this last semester one of my students wanted to talk to me about my work over coffee; she’s a business admin major (pre-law) & she said “i hate business & your class helped me think about what i want to do…”

There is no staying in any one place; for at one and the same time everything has to be done everywhere.

this is a fantastic thread! it’s also something i encourage to my fellow educators — it’s hard to argue against genAI* in the classroom without seeing how it works, how students might use it, & how it’s being advertised to schools *not hard to argue against it, like, generally

i’m shocked by this news, positively shocked 😐🙄

the way i took a nap for FORTY-FIVE MINUTES & everyone in my phone texted me. it ought to be studied.

instantaneous, violent, convulsive

seeing multiple people on my feed independent of each other make the Swan Lake joke makes me feel like i did a good job curating my feed 😂

This is like watching Cardi & Offset, except the fate of the country

this is why you should never co-teach 😉

President Donald Trump on Wednesday restricted the entry of travelers to the United States from more than a dozen countries, resurrecting and expanding sweeping restrictions from his first term that are expected to draw swift legal challenges. It is slated to go into effect June 9. wapo.st/3HsquIS

The Trump administration escalated its attack on Columbia University on Wednesday by taking a warning shot against its accreditation, a key credential that U.S. universities need to receive federal student aid.

UPDATED: Ono spent much of the meeting dodging direct answers. When pressed on Covid mandates — with the questioner pointing out that as an immunologist, he must have an opinion — he answered: “I’m a mouse doctor. I’m a test tube kind of guy.” www.chronicle.com/article/stat...

“UF needs the anti-DEI 2.0 president,” DeRose said. He added that Ono will appoint “ideologues to do his bidding" to fill the five dean vacancies in the university. (hey, guess whose college is absent a dean?) www.alligator.org/article/2025...

Kent Fuchs right now

“‘I am here to ensure that DEI never returns to the University of Florida,’ Ono said Tuesday.” you did all that my man & they didn’t even give you the damn job? kissing up to white supremacy gets you NOWHERE www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...