🚨NEW BLOG🚨 “Conferences, huh. What’s the point?” @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway. #musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...

Noticed a lot of new people and labs on Bluesky who attended #ICMPC18 I’ve added @co3lab.bsky.social and @smmb-lab.bsky.social to this starter pack! Share it with people who are new to bsky! Also feel free to recommend any #musicscience related labs left out. go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a talk at #ICMPC18 on steps researchers can take to report their #measurement decisions and what questionable practices are common for the discipline #musicscience #psychometrics

Had a blast 💥 at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo!! Super lucky for the opportunity to disseminate our research and engage with international colleagues! 🌏🌍🌎

Great to be in São Paulo to present what I’ve been working on at #ICMPC18! Go check it out doi.org/10.31234/osf... #musicscience #psychometrics #measurement

#tunetwins will be launched this Tuesday in Sampa, Brazil at #icmpc18 @illc-uva.bsky.social @knaw-nl.bsky.social @universiteitennl.bsky.social #musicscience #cognition #psychology #iedereenismuzikaal #icmpc2025

exciting news this Saturday: another article PUBLISHED!! “Thoughtscapes” takes a deeper look people’s thought landscape while listening the range of music clips and styles in the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set :)) 👂💭 🎨💥🎬 doi.org/10.1177/0305...

#musicscience workshop #RPPW20 all about rhythm perception kicking off @coe-mmbb.bsky.social 😮

Putting this on the #musicscience radar for those who may not know about this opportunity or follow @musiccognition.bsky.social!!

exciting discipline-specific expansions on the way from @reproducibilitea.org…! 🔭💫 #OpenResearch

Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD.…

#musicscience related postdoc opportunity @musicpsychshef.bsky.social

Super excited to launch ReproducibiliTea’s newest reading list: “Open Research… in the Arts?” 🔬🎭🎨🎷📐 Probe the boundaries of Open Research expectations across disciplines, explore data outside the sciences, discuss challenges facing empirical and practice-based arts, and more ⭐️ Get stuck in! ☕️🫖

Calling student members, PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and junior faculty in #musicscience 📣 Our Early Career Researchers’ Group (ECRG) is being established to provide support, networking, and mentorship across institutions and countries. Join up below!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Very grateful for this collaboration with @tuomaseerola.bsky.social and Renee Timmers, on the first empirical study examining #empathy and #synchrony in children's music-making from a bidirectional perspective. Full paper here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Why do we teach music? While debates about funding for the arts are ongoing, it's worth reflecting on what music does for society. In this short piece, we discuss some of the predominant theories about the role of music education. doi.org/10.57874/nsy... #musicscience

Recently added @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social to the #musicscience labs starter pack. If there are other labs I’ve missed let me know!

Last chance to register for our SEMPRE conference 9-10 April at our RNCM! sempre.org.uk/conference/s... You can join us in person if you book by the end of tomorrow (Tue 25th March), or bookings will remain open for online attendance (£50 for the whole two days - bargain!).

I recently got to sit down with Professor Suvi Saarikallio from the @coe-mmbb.bsky.social lab in @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social to chat about @escom.bsky.social! Had a great discussion about ESCOM and how she got involved by going to a conference early in her career. Check out the video:

We are starting tonight! If you registered, Zoom link for the meeting was sent to your email adresses, check you spam folder if you haven't seen the email yet.

Been adding #musicscience groups/labs/societies as they’ve joined bluesky. Recently added , @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @sysmus.bsky.social and @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social If there are any missing from the starter pack leave a comment!

We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

How WEIRD is #musicscience? Our newest publication surveyed the field of #musicpsychology to understand the diversity of participant and musical samples used by researchers. We identified key gaps and trends to follow. Find out how you can diversify #musicscience here: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

Our PhD students @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social and @kirtsconnor.bsky.social started Durham University’s @reproducibilitea.org journal club! Based in the Music Department, our journal club hopes to facilitate discussion about #OpenResearch practices across disciplines, from the sciences to the arts

@researcherswell.bsky.social are putting together a webinar series to address common #mentalhealth issues researchers face. Filling out the survey below will let them know what topics are important and what you’d like to see discussed. #musicscience #neurosky #psychology

Our co-director @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social presented to Durham Comp Sci students about her @leverhulme.bsky.social project looking into music-evoked thoughts Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music Interested? Check out musicscience.net!

🎉 What a pleasant early Christmas surprise! I'm thrilled to share that my paper, "The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music," is now published in Psychology of Music. 🎶 You can read the article here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...

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...

I’ve been adding groups to this starter pack for #musicscience labs as I’ve found them. If there are any that I’ve missed drop them in the comments! go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

@carocaronet.bsky.social has done some amazing work looking into how developing brains understand music, processing emotion and creating vivid imagery. Cool #musicscience project to do with your child!!

Super funky getting to see the first use of my new music stimulus set (!) in a replication project by some Durham Uni undergrads! 🫢 Research replication is cool 😎 #musicpsychology #musicscience

In our #musicscience module, 2nd & 3rd year undergrads are tasked with conducting replication studies of existing research. Their experiments often come with fascinating results! Instead of waiting for musicscience.net/durms/, here are some highlights from their recent project presentations 🪡🧵

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

The 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) São Paulo, Brazil 21-25 July 2025 The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format, with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely. Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2025

Our lab has indeed left the bad place, give it a follow! @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #musicscience #musicpsychology

Ok, now that we are all here … *please share* this invite to IMRF in our beautiful Durham 2025! Abstracts open in Jan. imrf2025.sciencesconf.org @meike-scheller.bsky.social @markonardini.bsky.social

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

Have you ordered a copy of Tuomas's new book yet? Read about what you'll find inside in our Lab's latest blog: musicscience.net/2024/11/24/m... #musicscience #musicpsychology #psychology #neurosky #music #openscience #research #data #quarto #rstats

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/

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

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_...

New #musicscience paper out with @amybelfi.bsky.social on how music-evoked autobiographical memories vary in relation to individual differences in mental imagery capacities and musical engagement/reward. doi.org/10.1177/1029...

🚨 New #openaccess article theorizing how music impacts our emotions See, doi.org/10.1177/0305... Next steps: following #psychometric methodology to build a new instrument for the #musicscience community :) Have insight about the development process for #psychology #measurement? Let me know! #phd

New theory out! What do you get when you mix music and emotion regulation literature with the functions of music and explanations of music-induced emotions? You get a new theory called the 'Episode Model of Emotional Experiences of Music' 1/5 #musicscience

Researchers should stop paying to publish their papers. Tom Morgan and I wrote a short piece about it. (1) osf.io/preprints/os...

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social presenting the new & shiny Episode Model of musical emotions. Lots of very interesting applications to come. Get inspired and check out the pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #escom12 #musicpsych

Thanks to all who stopped by. If you missed me you can check out the video here: youtu.be/a94xX_PelnA?... #escom12 #musicpsych #musicscience #affectivescience

Ditto! A lot of great presentations lined up at #ESCOM12York this week!!! #musicscience #musicpsychology #ESCOM @escom12.bsky.social