Latest post on our @innermusicgroup.bsky.social blog. Thanks to Prof Beaman for his musings on the potential impact of earworms on memory.

Want to know what we were up to last month? This blog describes our @innermusicgroup.bsky.social international symposium. Lots of exciting work going on and food for thought.

Thanks to @mocapmarc.bsky.social and the whole Music team for such a warm welcome @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social. I’ve loved hearing about current research, and enjoying the Spring sunshine.

The excitement is ramping up as our @innermusicgroup.bsky.social symposium is just weeks away. This performance of acts from The Tempest will be on Day 2. Looking forward to exploring the challenges of staging imagined music.

We're recruiting for a Research Fellow in Music Science. #music #cognition #computation #neuroscience #research Join us! @marcsinstitute.bsky.social au.smrtr.io/g3Vv

📢 Calling all musicology students! The abstract deadline for #SysMus26 at Durham University is Jan 31! 🗓️ 📍 Durham, UK + Online (Hybrid) 📅 22–24 July 2026 💰 Limited travel funding available for unwaged presenters! Submit your abstract here: musicscience.net/events/sysmu... #SysMus #AcademicSky

What makes a person accessible from the perspective of adults with learning disabilities? I’m so pleased to have been involved in this important work by @drmkirby.bsky.social and the Purple Research Group @purplepatcharts.bsky.social. Full article is here doi.org/10.1111/bld....

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💥 Registration is now open for our International Symposium! 💥 Find the signup link and a provisional programme here: musicinmyhead.org/internationa...

These video portraits of musicians silently imagining their way through their own choice of music are really moving. Perfectly connected to our interests @innermusicgroup.bsky.social

Final stretches of pre-Christmas activities. This weekend features @yorkshirewinds.bsky.social festive programme in York then Leeds Haydn Players concert (prominent oboe solos 😬) in Leeds. Saying a prayer to the god of oboe reeds. Tap performance is next. Exhausted already and no letup with work 😅

We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Looking forward to reading this research from my @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social colleagues

Today’s the day. Send us your abstracts to present at the Inner Music and Wellbeing International Symposium.

I’m really looking forward to welcoming our new postgraduate students to our ‘Applied Psychology of Music’ and ‘Music and Well-being’ programmes next week @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Another exciting year ahead!

Spread the word. This promises to be a stimulating event (though I might be a bit biased!).

Super exciting news: We’re proud to announce the call for contributions for the inaugural Inner Music and Wellbeing international symposium, with funding from the AHRC. Here are the details.

Neat design for a new test of musical imagery ability incorporating pitch and rhythm presented by @aliyaedwards.bsky.social at #ICMPC18 #musicscience

Looking forward to sharing our research at today’s Music and Parental Wellbeing Symposium with Polly Ives from Concerteenies and Karen Burland.

Wonderful talk by @j-w-cannon.bsky.social from @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social presenting survey study and rich data on emotion, embodied pleasure and social connection at electronic dance music events #ICMPC18 #ICMPC2025 #MusicScience

Academic conference attendees: you know how hard it is to pick which papers to attend with parallel sessions? By attending #icmpc18 and the Music for Parental Wellbeing symposium concurrently (online), I’ve doubled the problem! Exhausted already!

Stimulating symposium at #icmpc18 on inclusion and diversity in music studies.

SysMus has become such an important highlight in the research calendar for our early career researchers. Great to see @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social members making the most of their time in Oslo.

Warm and humid at work today, so the perfect time to remember this lovely embroidered fan which was a gift from a student.

Great to see members of @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social in your photos @j-w-cannon.bsky.social

@innermusicgroup.bsky.social, this looks like some fascinating research

Excited to see the ECR #musicscience community in Oslo and online next week for @sysmus.bsky.social Who is coming along?

New entry in our database of musical imagery in fiction and biography! 📖 Jack Reacher, the protagonist of @leechild58.bsky.social's novels, often experiences music internally rather than through external devices. Example from 'The Killing Floor' below 👇 musicinmyhead.org/musical-imag...

Tomorrow evening I'll be delivering a public talk about the 'Science of 'Earworms': reasons to care about the 'sounds' of silence': www.cafe-sci.org.uk Ideas relating to our work at the @innermusicgroup.bsky.social

🎤 If the government wants national renewal, they should invest in the arts and culture 🎤 Today, we're launching a petition to remind Rachel Reeves: the arts make our lives happier and our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them 🌱 www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp... 🧶👇

The authors of this latest blog from @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social are too modest to say but Leeds University Union Music Impact in the Community has also just won a Riley Award for their work. Congratulations!

We have a new blog post! @aliyaedwards.bsky.social reflects on our Collaborative Exchange scheme ☕💬 Read here: musicinmyhead.org/blog-3/

@drmkirby.bsky.social is doing @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social proud at #SEMPRE conference with her Hickman Award talk on inclusive arts-based learning experiences for adults with learning abilities.

What a rich programme ahead at SEMPRE Conference. Thanks to lovely colleagues who are organising and I’m sad I can’t be there in person. But @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social are really well presented.

Unwanted inner music: when and why does it become difficult? This is one of several questions that @innermusicgroup.bsky.social is asking. Find out more by reading this blog by @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social

Our first blog post is live! 📖 🤩 @freyabailes.bsky.social reflects on our first webinar led by Professor Andrea Halpern and @jgkennaway.bsky.social. Read it through the link below👇 musicinmyhead.org/blog-1/

That’s a long time indeed! I’m wondering whether there’s an emotion attached to the earworm for him or for you. @innermusicgroup.bsky.social

Did you know we have a Youtube Channel? @kirtsconnor.bsky.social sits down with ESCOM President Suvi Saarikallio to chat about the society and how others can become members. #musicscience #musicpsychology #psychology Check it out here: youtu.be/oADXAWMAOs8

The challenge is on! Could you be one of our #CWNN100Heroes this March and raise £100 to help us keep singing? Hold a bake sale, become a human jukebox or ask 10 mates to give a tenner. There are 100s of ways to be a hero. Find more info and sign up here! www.choirwithnoname.org/100heroes

Thanks to all who attended our webinar today! And particular thanks to Dr Jan Coebergh and his guests for a fascinating presentation 🌟

I’m looking forward to today’s Music Psychology @ Leeds meeting with its focus on ‘Music Psychology then and now’. Individual reflections on how aspects of our own research or the field at large have changed over the years.

Calling brass and percussion players of Yorkshire! Come along to our upcoming Come and Play rehearsals, either with a view to joining us regularly, or just for an evening of fun and challenging playing.

Hot off the press! Great to work with my Leeds colleagues on this one. Bannister, S., Bailes, F., & Greasley, A. E. (2025). “With a Little Help from my Friends”: Exploring Pseudo-Social Music Listening Experiences. Music & Science, 8. doi.org/10.1177/2059...

How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...

Our network member Andrea Halpern has been cited in a recent article by Stan B Klein and Judith Loftus titled 'Creating a World in the Head' This has got us thinking: how might musical imagery and wellbeing relate in an evolutionary perspective? philpapers.org/archive/KLEC...

We are pleased to share the Book of Abstracts for ESCOM12. You can access it below Schiavio, Daffern, Glasser, Osborne, Martinez, Marchiano, Pérez, Kempf, Norton, Gibbs, Owen, Kirts, O’Neill, & Jackson (Eds., 2024).

#MusicScience Conference Opportunity 🎶🧠 🎶 The 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition | São Paulo, Brazil (Hybrid Format) | 21-25 July 2025. 🎤 Their call for papers is open now, with a deadline of 20 January 2025. 🌐 www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com

Do you know of any great examples of ‘earworms’ or deliberately playing music in your head which come from film, tv, literature, theatre, poetry etc? We’d love to add them to our website. Please follow the link below to find out more.

Participants needed for a study run by one of our members! ✏️ Details in the power below: