Computational models for music emotion recognition (MER) have steadily improved. Our meta-analysis is now out in ACM Computing Surveys. We reviewed 34 studies comprising 290 models, distilled from a much larger initial pool. #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion #MIR

Excited to announce our article has been published! doi.org/10.1177/2059... I led a project to operationalise constructs that identify the emotional episodes people experience listening to music. #MusicScience experts assessed items against prior theory, a surprisingly under reported practice 🔭❗

📣We have a 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions. The position is connected to our new project 𝘊𝘰-𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦) led by Research Professor Lara Pearson

Do you want to host SysMus in 2027? To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we want to connect early-career researchers around the globe. Any institution from around the world can join this multi-hub endeavour! Find out more at sites.google.com/view/sysmus/... #musicpsych #PsychSciSky

SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—is being held this coming year at Durham University, UK, July 22–24 (Wed–Fri), 2026! Abstract submission deadline is 30 January 2026. Check out the SysMus 26 site for further details: musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data? If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Cool stuff coming out from PhD work done by @nashraa.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fantastic display of collaboration in #musicpsych!!

Fascinating to hear @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social talk at Leeds about how music shapes imagination, covering importance of genre, age, auditory features and contextual associations with music for content of imagined thoughts when listening! Brilliant collaborative work!

Which memorisation techniques help young piano students perform their best? PhD @charasteliou.bsky.social presented at #ISPS25 in Shanghai, showing that multimodal memorisation goes beyond repetition exercises in a pedagogical intervention study. #musicscience #psychology #MusicSky #musiciansky

How does a performer's interpretation of timing and dynamics affect the emotions we perceive in music? We explore this question and more in our latest article published in QJEP: doi.org/10.1177/1747... @maplelab.bsky.social @michaelschutz.bsky.social #musicscience

Great to see ECR colleagues promoted in the #musicscience community. Best of luck to @harinlee.info!

It was a pleasure to get a quick interview with Lalit while at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo. #musicscience #musicpsychology

Lab member @fruzsiszucs.bsky.social has written about her recent experience going to her first international conference at musicscience.net! #musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18

🚨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