An insightful & enjoyable conversation with computational cognitive scientists Dr @olivia.science & Prof @irisvanrooij.bsky.social about their paper 'Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia' Give it a listen❗ Share this & the paper w university leadership & administrators❗

New paper! Excellent work by Rebecca Jane Scarratt on the neural responses to relaxation music published in the journal Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience. @musicinthebrain.bsky.social #Musicscience link.springer.com/article/10.3...

🤔How does the human brain predict unexpected sounds? Our new study shows that the prefrontal cortex doesn’t work as a single unit. Instead, the orbitofrontal and lateral prefrontal cortex make distinct, time-sensitive contributions. #iEEG #BrainLesion #OFC #LPFC doi.org/10.1101/2025...

We're excited to take this step, and to talk to other folks who are interested in experimenting. If you have something you're excited to try, reply here -- and we might even fund it. asterainstitute.substack.com/p/scientific...

Don't miss the chance to apply to work with Andres. He is a great researcher in the field of predictive processing, working with #iEEG across humans and non-human primates

Excited to announce a new study from my time at the Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, now available on bioRxiv! Inharmonicity enhances brain signals of attentional capture and auditory stream segregation www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #EEG #neuroscience #neuroskyence

as an experiment in academic internet stuff I made a 'new-auditory' list for folks interested in audition, hearing, speech, music etc anybody can join at groups.google.com/g/new-audito... the 30-year-old AUDITORY list is v cool but has many drawbacks, not least that it runs on 30-yr-old tech

Dear #eeg #neuroskyence #neurosky people: we've just set up a feed that focuses on intracranial EEG research. Please check it out: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:j3iraqfrxtckpozvwlzbtihc/feed/aaabu2nq26lhy Use the tags #iEEG, #ECoG, #sEEG or #stereo-EEG to post. (this time with the correct link 😅)

Very excited to share with you our new paper on sleep strategies in the general population! #musicscience #sleepscience

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Hello! For my PhD at the @musicinthebrain.bsky.social we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep. 🎶💤 Click on the link if you’re more than 18 and listen to music for sleep! It takes around 15 minutes ☀️ survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto... Thank you! #musicscience @lullabyte.bsky.social

Powerful, provocative piece from @cbo.bsky.social this morning.

Best use of AI so far youtube.com/watch?v=bL9i... "AI granny speaks to scammer"

#musicscience folks: Unhappy with the long and secretive review process of traditional journals? Tired of paying nonsensical APCs for open access? I hear rumors of a diamond OA @peercommunityin.bsky.social in Systematic Musicology. Anyone interested? @js.bamford.id.au @stupacher.bsky.social

You can read our new paper on modelling multiple data streams with varying dimensionality (alternately titled "What am I going to do with all these dimensions?!") if you want to. It's not even a little bit illegal.

Check out @musicinthebrain.bsky.social new paper published in Physics of Life Reviews on the Major - Minor dichotomy in music perception. I share first authorship with Giulio Carraturo. Thanks to all co-authors and to @dg.dk #musicscience www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Lots of folks have joined since I first shared the #musicskyence starter pack below (up to 110 now). Worth checking out the new arrivals. To stay up to date you can also pin the #musicscience feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... and the #musicscience list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

It often makes me laugh that Fuck Around, Find Out is simply and quite literally how the scientific method actually works. #AcademicSky #Science

Some #musicscience humor to start the week

I’ve created a starter pack to collect the #musicscience and #musicpsychology related organizations and labs together in one place. Let me know if there is anyone to add! go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

New preprint out with Rebecca Jane Scarratt 🥳🎉 Using a text mining approach to YouTube comments, we investigated how different motivations for using sleep music can influence the type of music used for sleep @musicinthebrain.bsky.social @lullabyte.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"

Welcome to bsky @musicinthebrain.bsky.social ! You can find a bunch of the #musicscience #musicskyence folks here:

Happy to share our new #musicscience article w/ Nathalie Bedoin & Barbara Tillmann! We discuss why a recent rhythmic priming implementation in English failed. Key factors: ⏱️ added delays after primes, 📝 relaxation instructions, and 📈 small sample size 🧠 🎵🎶 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is spot on👌

I don’t see why people get worked up about academic publishing. It’s easy. You just publish in a journal that’s not-for-profit, open access, free to publish, and highly respected in and out of your field because it only publishes high quality papers. With fully transparent but double blind review… 🧵

Do you have imaginary conversations with yourself or others? Can you replay a favourite song or hear other sounds in your head? Why do we have these experiences? What are they for? Join our trans-disciplinary conversation and participate in #The Mind’s Ear and Inner Voice 2025.

I am seeking PhD students to join my new lab at Cornell! Work with me at @co3lab.bsky.social on perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large scale online experiments, cross cultural experiments or computational music cognition. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested!

We are recruiting PhD students! Our research covers a diverse range of topics, including perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large-scale online experiments, cross-cultural studies, and computational music cognition. Please spread the word!

Bluesky academics, let's get to know each other! Quote this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1. Reasoning behind over- and under-confidence in one’s abilities 2. Is resilience always healthy?

Hello #musicscience friends! If you haven't seen our newly-updated website, check it out here: www.musicperception.org

I am beyond excited to share our new preprint ‘A neural basis for distinguishing between imagination and reality’ with Thomas von Rein, @peterkok.bsky.social and @smfleming.bsky.social! osf.io/preprints/ps... a thread 🧵

@innermusicgroup.bsky.social, or AHRC funded project on Inner Music and Wellbeing, is now on Bluesky! Please follow us! #musicscience

Hello! For my PhD at the Center for Music in the Brain we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep. 🎶💤 If you’re more than 18 and you listen to music for sleep you can participate! It only takes around 15 minutes 😊 survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto... Thank you for your help!

New explainer: In June, Denmark announced a groundbreaking new agriculture & climate policy, which is the world’s most comprehensive national effort to address the environmental & climate challenges of agriculture. It should help the country reach its goal to reduce ag emissions 55%-65% by 2030. 1/

So thrilled to share our new paper published @Nature Communications Frontoparietal network topology as a neural marker of musical perceptual abilities Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus CFIN/MindLab Aarhus Universitet Find the paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

with an uptick in #musicscience interest on here i thought i’d take the time to introduce myself w a few recent pubs! im a 4th yr phd candidate @ northeastern u interested in music, reward, and development. to start off is a recently in press paper at memory: tinyurl.com/2r6jed9r

Welcome to the newcomers 🦋! If you have a native/proficient level of English, participate & share my survey on singing, music, art, and personality traits! 🎤🥁🎨🎭 Have the chance to win a tablet and help expand the knowledge on the passion for singing🧍🌍 ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Would you like to play an online game on Auditory Memory for Indian Rhythms? I am looking for musicians unfamiliar with Indian music to participate in this fun study. You will get a score on completion. 🤓 #musicpsych Click to participate: durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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

It's an opportunity for the rest of the world to step up. America has fallen. Hard to see a future there that doesn't involve MAGA rigging the system so as to remain in power indefinitely. The longer we pretend it's business as usual, the worse it will be for the rest of us. Realignment needed ASAP.

The proof corrected version of our paper on neural representations of perceived and imagined musical sounds is out in PLoS Biology. Check it out! #workingmemory #imagination #musicscience #neuroskyence #compneurosky #neuroscience Link to the article: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This note from the 1st recipient of our new scholarship brought a tear to my eye. The Earl K. Miller First Generation Scholarship is given to 1st generation college students at Kent State University. You can contribute. Contact: kent.edu/philanthropy

“Data descriptions are not models. Strictly speaking, a linear regression (for example) [or an LLM] is a model of sorts. It models the regularity in a data set. It can be a convenient summary of data. But a data summary does not explain the pattern or why the pattern is as it is.” rdcu.be/cGQpY 2/n