Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇

It was an honor to be interviewed about my doctoral research by @bdalile.bsky.social for #KarakterCast! This interview happened on the occasion of me receiving the ASL research award for Human Sciences for my PhD work. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...

We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring a funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

Tag yourself. I’m “puzzled-misinformed.”

Work with Steven Brown and Elizabeth Phillips: They annotated by ear an impressive set of ~400 scales from vocal music across the world. I used algorithms to get accurate estimates of scale degrees in cents. Cool stuff! Data is all available here: zenodo.org/records/1060... Will release code later

Excited to announce our next Whitehead Lecture by @harinlee.info on Understanding Music in the Age of Machine Learning. Join us online or in person: Wednesday, 4pm (see link). @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social #MusicCognition #BigData

🎶Join us tomorrow for a talk on 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 by Prof Pam Heaton (details in link). Pam's research has shaped the cross-disciplinary study of developmental disorders and its relation to music cognition. #AutismResearch #MusicCognition

New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This sounds like a dream: Barcelona + Cognitive Modelling!

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️

5-yr position in computational humanities with @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @jbcamps.bsky.social in Paris! Original deadline has passed but search is ongoing. Details here: cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...

The final speaker of the term will be Oliver Durcan on "Exploring the Dynamics of Flow State Episodes" — those moments of heightened absorption, effortless control, and increased enjoyment during skilled activities like music making. Join us in person this Thursday (12-1PM) or DM for an online link.

This Thursday Young-Jin Hur (University of Arts London) will be presenting recent work on the psychology of fashion and everyday clothing choices at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Feel free to join! This is part of our SCAPA seminars (Science of the Creative and Performing Arts).

Delighted to share that our edited volume, The Science Music Borderlands, won the 2024 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society! Thank you to all who helped on the project.

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

To help find people at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Of course let me know if I missed someone or you’d like to be added 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs

Some resources i've curated for the cognitive and computational neuroscience communities on bluesky! First, a twin set of starter packs. go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence

Our mega project, jointly led with @manuelangladatort.bsky.social, is out now as preprint! We monitored millions of daily music discoveries across 1,423 cities and use this data to probe worldwide cultural shifts in real-time during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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🎵Notes from Beethoven's genome 🧬 A depiction of the challenges of individual-level genetic predictions using Beethoven's genome From L. Wesseldijk, S. Fisher, me, @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social, and many more. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Really excited to be back working on the evolution of musical scales. My project is coming to an end at last after 6 years. 🎵🧬 🎵🧠 First, I created a database of scales from data in the ethomusicology literature. Kudos to Ellis, Kunst, Tracey, Kubik, and all who followed in their footsteps. 1/5

Abstract submission for #ces2024durham is OPEN!! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Deadline to submit is the 11th March 2024 09:00am GMT! Submit here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/abstract-sub... See the below thread for more details [1/6]

A PhD student in our lab in conducting this survey study on natural singing. Everyone can participate, all ages, all countries welcome! Please help her participating in her study and spreading the word! ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Why do we love music? Our lab’s 9-study suite on learning rewards from levels of predictions in a new musical system, out today in @psychscience.bsky.social #musicscience #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence, @nickkathios.bsky.social & Matt Sachs w/ Tia Ou, Euan Zhang journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

Funded PhD project on music, autobiographical and collective memories with me at Keele Uni, UK -psych grads only, sorry, but distance learners welcome. Closes 4 December. #musicscience

Despite concerns of YouTube's algorithm leading to right-wing rabbit holes, Ibrahim et al. conduct an algorithmic audit and find that the algorithm pulls users away from political extremes and even skews left-leaning doi.org/10.1093/pnas...

bluesky is growing approximately exponentially, with the current growth rate around 1%/day 🧪 vqv.app/stats/chart

Pls 🔄: 🗓️ Only two more weeks until the beginning of our exciting lecture series at Würzburg University and our poster is making appearances all over the city! Talks will be recorded an published here codamus.pubpub.org in case you can't attend in person! #musicscience #digitalhumanities #dh

If you need to convince other people to join us on 🎵🧪 , wrote a post so I don't have to keep saying the same thing over and over again. davidjohnbaker.rbind.io/posts/2023-0...

Hi Bluesky 🔵 Travelling to Tokyo this week for ICMPC 2023 to present a two year long project led by @manuelangladatort.bsky.social and myself, studying how music diffuses around the globe 🎶

My chapter on cultural evolution of literature & film – for the upcoming Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution – is now on the OUP website: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.45 But accessing it isn't easy 😿 So check out its preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/7h3jy/

Less than a week for #icmpc17 Japan! Is the feed working?? @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social

Contrary to what's often claimed, this paper finds that "among the five emotions, risk and disgust are least well-preserved, compared with joy, sadness, and embarrassment" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-29178-8

Excited for this fresh start on BlueSky, it would be great to rediscover the great academic community we used to have on Twitter. If only @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social can get the #musicscience feed to work, that'll be a good start!

one small step for man, one giant leap for #musicscience

#musicscience on BlueSky https://davidjohnbaker.rbind.io/posts/2023-08-04-musicscience-on-bluesky/

Intro for #PsychSciSky 🧪: I study human cognition and culture, focusing on music and aesthetics. I run advanced behavioral experiments, such as cultural transmission and social networks. Currently at Uni. of Oxford. See recent work https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982223002439