Steven Zielke

Steven Zielke

@zmus.bsky.social

Reser Prof of Music and Director of Choral Studies @OregonState. Exec Dir-Oregon Ambassadors of Music. He/Him/His. Pres-NWACDA. Voice of the OSUMB. 🦫. linktr.ee/zmus

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Steven Zielke
@zmus.bsky.social

I'm new! I'm the Dir of Choirs at Oregon State University. I'm always looking for community in music, politics, higher ed, sports, and generally intelligent talk about anything. I enjoyed many of the younger composers, musicologists, and theorists who seemed to be on Twitter, or at least they were.

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Fabian Nicieza
@fabiannicieza.bsky.social

Can you imagine if White House correspondents had the courage to support each other the way the opening acts on Sheeran's tour are supporting Macklemore...?

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

One of the coolest things about people who don't have a lot of power taking a principled stand is it lays bare the complete cowardice of the ones who actually *do* have power when they fail to do even a fraction as much.

Steven Zielke
@zmus.bsky.social

Dem leaders should be clear that corporations will be held civically responsible for harm that they cause.

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

They’re absolutely trying to kill people. Trump is expected to announce tomorrow that the US will no longer limit the planet-warming pollution power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas. Gift link. 👇 www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/c...

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Nancy Flanagan 🎼
@nancyflanagan.bsky.social

The (ahem) tl;dr: college students can no longer sustain attention to/comprehension of 20-pg articles, so professors have to break articles into pieces & spoon-feed comprehension strategies to college freshmen. K12 teachers have been dealing w/ this forever teacherinastrangeland.blog/2026/06/13/t...

teacherinastrangeland.blogThe ‘Generational Collapse’ in LiteracyThere’s been a robust edu-discourse bubbling up over an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education titled My Students Can’t Read. The (ahem) tl;dr: college students can no longer sustain attentio…

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Eddie Smith
@eddsmitty.bsky.social

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Steven Zielke
@zmus.bsky.social

Program cuts do save money but they won’t increase students. You can’t student services like campus amenities as this is how student can choose a school. There really is only one answer and that is a return to state investment and lowering tuition.

Steven Zielke
@zmus.bsky.social

But this will increase lack of institutional independence. The state will require all sorts of cuts universities won’t like and they will want to end program duplication. The “good news” is that states are unlikely to want to significantly spend more. And don’t get me started on athletics.

Steven Zielke
@zmus.bsky.social

Obviously admin cuts must be a hard and painful step. If you are a professor, this won’t affect you as much as it used to as many admin functions that used to support faculty programs were transferred to faculty in the last 15 years.

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John Pavlovitz
@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social

This Easter, the God lovers will be everywhere. Your social media feed, your street, and perhaps even your dinner table may be filled with people who loudly claim adoration for both Jesus Christ and this President... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/on-easter-...

johnpavlovitz.substack.comOn Easter, MAGA Christians Will Tell You They Love God and That Jesus is Risen. They Will Be Lying.This Easter, the God lovers will be everywhere.

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Aaron Rupar
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Swalwell: "I want to knock out this argument we even need ICE doing what they're doing in the first place. If they are so easily moved from our streets, where they are terrorizing people, to passing out bottles of water in the airport, did we really need them terrorizing people in the first place?"

Steven Zielke
@zmus.bsky.social

And this is why liberal studies in the humanities is necessary in a college education. This guy is incapable of critical thinking.

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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

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NY Times Pitchbot
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.