This community is already popping off! Let’s keep it up synthesists!!
November 13, 2024 at 7:41 PM
This community is already popping off! Let’s keep it up synthesists!!
@edyong209.bsky.social is one of the most crucial, most unselfish, and most open-hearted journalists/synthesists of our age and I am so glad #xoxofest is getting a view into the moral compass behind his work. ❤️❤️❤️
August 25, 2024 at 2:05 AM
@edyong209.bsky.social is one of the most crucial, most unselfish, and most open-hearted journalists/synthesists of our age and I am so glad #xoxofest is getting a view into the moral compass behind his work. ❤️❤️❤️
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production: Suzanne Ciani · Feature ⟋ RA
A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists.
ra.co
March 16, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production: Suzanne Ciani · Feature ⟋ RA
A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists.
ra.co
September 16, 2026 at 7:15 AM
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
Confront EBM's "evidence synthesists" with these failures and they retreat to claiming no individual screwup counts, because you have to consider "the totality of evidence".
But because even the worst junk clinical research is almost impossible to get retracted, their "totality" is contaminated.
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But because even the worst junk clinical research is almost impossible to get retracted, their "totality" is contaminated.
🧵
Health policy and guidance *must* be based on rigorous science. Not opinion laundering, not ""Evidence Based Medicine", not GRADE, not seniority.
There's a reason science builds everything around mechanistic understanding - nothing else is remotely as effective.
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There's a reason science builds everything around mechanistic understanding - nothing else is remotely as effective.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
A reminder that while "Evidence Based Medicine" sounds like a good thing, so does "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
For a preview of what the Trump NIH budget will likely be diverted to, read this 🧵.
EBM is a world where 2 + 2 can be 5 if the right people say so.
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For a preview of what the Trump NIH budget will likely be diverted to, read this 🧵.
EBM is a world where 2 + 2 can be 5 if the right people say so.
bsky.app/profile/mark...
April 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Confront EBM's "evidence synthesists" with these failures and they retreat to claiming no individual screwup counts, because you have to consider "the totality of evidence".
But because even the worst junk clinical research is almost impossible to get retracted, their "totality" is contaminated.
🧵
But because even the worst junk clinical research is almost impossible to get retracted, their "totality" is contaminated.
🧵
We might imagine that the evidence synthesists (who also often lack the subject-matter expertise necessary to identify errors, and reflexively embrace RCTs as "gold standard") could rely on prominent journals and peer review to do the work they don't have the training for.
Unfortunately, no:
Unfortunately, no:
🧵An example of the shenanigans and junk science accepted in medical journals.
In September 2023, JAMA Pediatrics published a ludicrously bad paper (quasi-retracted after much effort) claiming long COVID is "strikingly rare" in kids, supposedly vs the WHO definition.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
In September 2023, JAMA Pediatrics published a ludicrously bad paper (quasi-retracted after much effort) claiming long COVID is "strikingly rare" in kids, supposedly vs the WHO definition.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
RETRACTED: Post–COVID-19 Condition in Children
This cohort study assesses the parent-reported incidence and resolution of post–COVID-19 symptoms among children aged 8 to 13 years.
jamanetwork.com
May 24, 2025 at 9:26 PM
We might imagine that the evidence synthesists (who also often lack the subject-matter expertise necessary to identify errors, and reflexively embrace RCTs as "gold standard") could rely on prominent journals and peer review to do the work they don't have the training for.
Unfortunately, no:
Unfortunately, no:
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production: Suzanne Ciani · Feature ⟋ RA
A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists.
ra.co
September 9, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production: Suzanne Ciani · Feature ⟋ RA
A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists.
ra.co
April 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
"A lesson in spatial sound design and feminine expression from one of electronic music's most influential modular synthesists."
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
The Art of Production — Suzanne Ciani:
PREORDER: 'Tone Science Module No. 10 - The Final Patch' by Various
The final volume in DiN’s Tone Science series gathers tracks from twenty modular synthesists.
www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...
The final volume in DiN’s Tone Science series gathers tracks from twenty modular synthesists.
www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...
July 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
PREORDER: 'Tone Science Module No. 10 - The Final Patch' by Various
The final volume in DiN’s Tone Science series gathers tracks from twenty modular synthesists.
www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...
The final volume in DiN’s Tone Science series gathers tracks from twenty modular synthesists.
www.normanrecords.com/records/2105...
Just seen that the Elemental Analysis service at London Met is closing! This is devastating for us UK inorganic synthesists. They have been such a great, reliable service. @londonmetuni.bsky.social #chemsky
August 5, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Just seen that the Elemental Analysis service at London Met is closing! This is devastating for us UK inorganic synthesists. They have been such a great, reliable service. @londonmetuni.bsky.social #chemsky
@loulayorke.bsky.social quickly becoming one of my favorite synthesists. This album is packed with beautiful motion and layering. Keeping the synth wizardry of the greats alive 🪄
November 14, 2024 at 1:51 AM
@loulayorke.bsky.social quickly becoming one of my favorite synthesists. This album is packed with beautiful motion and layering. Keeping the synth wizardry of the greats alive 🪄
synthesists: "yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
September 29, 2025 at 4:32 AM
synthesists: "yes... ha ha ha... yes!"
dumb product idea du jour, for modular synthesists: Tangle ™️ - its just a plastic hub with 16 identical patch cables coming out of it. but you cant tell what end is connected to what. you just patch it randomly and hope for the best. amount im joking: 3/5
August 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
dumb product idea du jour, for modular synthesists: Tangle ™️ - its just a plastic hub with 16 identical patch cables coming out of it. but you cant tell what end is connected to what. you just patch it randomly and hope for the best. amount im joking: 3/5
Moving here from Twitter for reasons that are way to strange to put into words.
One of the weirder timelines.
I found these Starter Packs great to find a new home, full of psychologists, research synthesists, open science enthusiasts, R users, meta-researchers, network & measurement people!
1/n
One of the weirder timelines.
I found these Starter Packs great to find a new home, full of psychologists, research synthesists, open science enthusiasts, R users, meta-researchers, network & measurement people!
1/n
November 13, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Moving here from Twitter for reasons that are way to strange to put into words.
One of the weirder timelines.
I found these Starter Packs great to find a new home, full of psychologists, research synthesists, open science enthusiasts, R users, meta-researchers, network & measurement people!
1/n
One of the weirder timelines.
I found these Starter Packs great to find a new home, full of psychologists, research synthesists, open science enthusiasts, R users, meta-researchers, network & measurement people!
1/n
The other day I posted a link to some of my writing aimed at beginning synthesists. Today, how about a link to some stuff for more advanced synthsters? Here's a post I wrote about one of my favorite sound design techniques: pinging filters!
www.etherdiver.com/2023/04/09/p...
#synth #synthesizer
www.etherdiver.com/2023/04/09/p...
#synth #synthesizer
Patch 14: Modular is a Machine that Goes PING! – Ether Diver
www.etherdiver.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The other day I posted a link to some of my writing aimed at beginning synthesists. Today, how about a link to some stuff for more advanced synthsters? Here's a post I wrote about one of my favorite sound design techniques: pinging filters!
www.etherdiver.com/2023/04/09/p...
#synth #synthesizer
www.etherdiver.com/2023/04/09/p...
#synth #synthesizer
I'm operating on levels not even synthesists can comprehend
April 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I'm operating on levels not even synthesists can comprehend
jiggling my little music mouse around except its not sending midi but baiting all the synthesists
February 17, 2026 at 6:42 PM
jiggling my little music mouse around except its not sending midi but baiting all the synthesists
Modular synthesists owe their allegiance to CV 🇨🇻
Richarddevine Modular Synthesizer Setup
Alt: Richarddevine Modular Synthesizer Setup
static.klipy.com
July 3, 2026 at 10:23 PM
Modular synthesists owe their allegiance to CV 🇨🇻
There are five different types of thinkers with their own thinking styles: synthesists, idealists, pragmatists, analysts, and realists.
We're going to need everybody to figure out how to #StopTrump together!
We're going to need everybody to figure out how to #StopTrump together!
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ALT: Tigger Mind GIF
media.tenor.com
November 16, 2024 at 3:22 PM
There are five different types of thinkers with their own thinking styles: synthesists, idealists, pragmatists, analysts, and realists.
We're going to need everybody to figure out how to #StopTrump together!
We're going to need everybody to figure out how to #StopTrump together!
Heinlein had this notion of “encyclopedic synthesists” and there’s something to that, the idea of an “expert generalist” but writ even larger, more broadly scoped. Squad goals.
the other day I looked at a line that was difficult to localize and went “oh I see what’s happening here. there’s a Shakespeare reference baked in that we don’t want to lose”. you don’t get that without filling your head with all of these creative pieces you squirrel away because of their meaning
YES! this is what techbros who have let their creative selves wither call "procrastination" or "inefficiency" and try to technologise away, not understanding that it is the source of creativity and imagination and everything good
December 19, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Heinlein had this notion of “encyclopedic synthesists” and there’s something to that, the idea of an “expert generalist” but writ even larger, more broadly scoped. Squad goals.
Hello, Bsky world. We're @MetaReviewer! We are evidence synthesists making a tool that helps conduct evidence syntheses. Follow us for news and info about #systematicreviews #metaanalysis #evidencesynthesis
February 4, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Hello, Bsky world. We're @MetaReviewer! We are evidence synthesists making a tool that helps conduct evidence syntheses. Follow us for news and info about #systematicreviews #metaanalysis #evidencesynthesis
Lovins:
Now is the time to be practitioners, not theorists; to be synthesists, not specialists; to do solutions, not problems; to do transformation, not incrementalism. It’s time to shift language and action from “somebody should” to “I will,” to do real work on real projects and to go to scale.
Now is the time to be practitioners, not theorists; to be synthesists, not specialists; to do solutions, not problems; to do transformation, not incrementalism. It’s time to shift language and action from “somebody should” to “I will,” to do real work on real projects and to go to scale.
January 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Lovins:
Now is the time to be practitioners, not theorists; to be synthesists, not specialists; to do solutions, not problems; to do transformation, not incrementalism. It’s time to shift language and action from “somebody should” to “I will,” to do real work on real projects and to go to scale.
Now is the time to be practitioners, not theorists; to be synthesists, not specialists; to do solutions, not problems; to do transformation, not incrementalism. It’s time to shift language and action from “somebody should” to “I will,” to do real work on real projects and to go to scale.
There’s always a hierarchy. West coast synthesists thought Moog adding a keyboard was the end of electronic music. Ussachevsky thought a Buchla sequencer was the end of electronic music. Purism and essentialism can be overly dogmatic, but there’s some truth in these ideas.
March 6, 2024 at 2:58 PM
There’s always a hierarchy. West coast synthesists thought Moog adding a keyboard was the end of electronic music. Ussachevsky thought a Buchla sequencer was the end of electronic music. Purism and essentialism can be overly dogmatic, but there’s some truth in these ideas.