The application deadline is rapidly approaching: 11:59pm (time in Sydney Australia), Tuesday 24 March 2026.

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. Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

The first study from my PhD project is now available! 🎉 "Micro-variations in timing and loudness affect music-evoked mental imagery" Supervised by wonderful @steffenherff.bsky.social @andytonality.bsky.social and @muireannirish.bsky.social. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are offering an exciting #Cross-Cultural #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney for our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Emotion": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! www.westernsydney.edu.au/schools/grs/...

We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.

"Have directed acyclic graphs fullfilled their promise?" - the recording of my debate with @margaritamb.bsky.social at the World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79... #EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025

We were thrilled to welcome Prof George Williams AO, Vice Chancellor of Western Sydney University to MARCS Institute! The VC chatted to our researchers about the exciting work in child development, neuromorphic research, biomedical engineering, & music science. Thanks for your support & insights!

🌎As #languages disappear, so do parts of a #community’s identity and culture. ✨Newly funded ARC Discovery Project, led by Dr Hannah Sarvasy, will explore the impact of preserving #Indigenous languages in Papua New Guinea and beyond. 🔗 tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5 @katestevartssci.bsky.social

I am very happy to report that our ARC Discovery project – Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect – has been funded ($915,000 over 4 years). The team is amazing, and the project has unprecedented scope for multicultural music cognition field experiments. #MusicScience

Music communicates emotions across cultures, but how much is universal vs cultural? ✨Newly funded #ARC #Discovery Project will explore music's impact on #health, #wellbeing, and the global #music industry. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/2fda6wy5 #MusicScience @katestevartssci.bsky.social

Yesterday was an improvement for Discovery Projects. An extra ~$110 million was invested compared to last year (which was a low point). It replaces rapid loss in last 2 years & aligns investment with the last 12 years (adjusted for inflation). Not enough, but a start!

Acoustical and cultural explanations for contextual tonal stability: http://osf.io/zhjd2/

Our International Visiting Scholar Scheme 2024 is now open! Spend 1-3 months in 2024 working with our brilliant researchers in amazing facilities! Two streams available: #PhD Students: $AUD 2,500 & #ECR #MCR: $AUD 3,500. Applications close: 24th January 2024. tinyurl.com/visitMARCS

Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoc Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience to investigate perceptual & cognitive processes of #socialinteraction & #communication with @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @perikeller.bsky.social Applications close 1 Dec tinyurl.com/JoinMARCS #postdoc #cogneuro #musicscience

I'm so thrilled that Adrian's pioneering work on randomising grant outcomes is gaining traction internationally. We need an organisation here in Australia willing to give it a go... #statsky #biostats

JCU has the Elizabeth Pearse Music Scholarship to fund the study of music at Masters or PhD level. Applications now open. #MusicScience

Two postdoc positions in cyberpsychology at the University of Newcastle, Australia More info: mathpsych.org #CogPsyc #Psychology #PhDSky #PsychJobs

More ways of splitting the octave www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/10...

Open peer review planned for Psychological Science #Psychology #MetaSci #ScientificPublishing www.science.org/content/arti...

Some words on Carla Bley: warmrationalism.blogspot.com/2023/10/no-m...

RIP the wonderful Carla Bley www.theguardian.com/music/2023/o...

New platform, new paper! 🎵 doi.org/10.1371/jour... The second article from our #musicscience field-research in Papua New Guinea and Sydney is out! We find that acoustical roughness is universally associated with musical consonance/dissonance (operationalized as “stability”)!