We’d a Great time at Gorillaz mountain tour this evening - staging was unreal. House was packed, everyone singing like crazy, so many musicians on the stage. Everything from grunge to disco - And never more needed 🤘 🪩 🕺🏻 🎸 #Gorillaz #TimeToDance #HappyEaster

Delighted to catch up with Saoirse Finn during her research visit to Dublin - in line with her talk on genetics, arts and wellbeing we went to visit the #DNA helical structure sculpture in the National botanical gardens 🧬 🌺 🌲 🌞 #botanics #leisure #health

Why does live music hit different? Our new paper has a neural answer: EEG in a concert hall showed stronger brain-rhythm phase locking during live vs. recorded Bach violin — and that predicts higher pleasure & engagement. 1/2

It’s SPRING! And the blossoms are out #flowers #spring #dublin

Well done to Georgina Coyle who set up the second showing of our Photovoice Exhibition at the Neuroconvergence event @ucddublin.bsky.social The event show cased artwork from 14 neurodivergent individuals, which highlighted how #music and #arts can be used to support #neurodivergence.

🚨 #AMPlify2026 March Seminar: So… Can I Use AI for That? Ethical and Practical AI Use in Music Psychology Research with Dr. Solange Glasser 🗓When: Wednesday 11 March, 4-5pm AEDT 🌐Where: Via Zoom 💻Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...

Looking forward to it!

Today we’re launching the website and social media pages for the new Music Cognition Lab from Dublin, Ireland! Stay tuned for #Music #Cognition updates 🎶🧠🎶🎉 @escom.bsky.social @creativebrainweek.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social @musicperception.bsky.social #musicpsychology

Delighted to share our new lab page from the Music Cognition Lab! We have lot's of events and research projects coming up, so you can stay updated here! #MusicPsychology

Looking forward to Creative Brain Week, I’ll be speaking on Wednesday in RIAM on some psychology experiments on #music and #pain @ria.ie #musicscience #creative

We aren't kidding when we say that we book out early. Friday 6th March is ALREADY BOOKED OUT and the rest is going quickly. www.creativebrainweek.com Get your place booked! (Join the waiting list for Friday 6th if you are an optimist - sometimes we get returns).

Thanks to @alenedawson.bsky.social for this great piece integrating findings from the scientific study of aesthetics, including work from my lab. www.templeton.org/news/how-bea...

"Babies can categorise objects at two months" - Listen to Professor Rhodri Cusack discuss with RTÉ this exciting new research being done at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN). Listen below: https://ow.ly/fYnZ50Yc7NN TrinityNeuroscience

Love this, Shame it’s underpowered but delighted to see the use of a low-latency audio platform for a music group. This has been one of the biggest short comings in online music therapy- which has exploded post COVID. Hopefully there will be a follow up study.. doi.org/10.1177/2059...

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 🔭❗

What’s in your head while you listen to music? Share your thoughts as you listen to music during a 40-minute survey we are running @durhammusicdept.bsky.social from the 18-20th February. Sign up at www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA5... to book your preferred time slot. #MusicScience

"In 6,700 tests, the bot managed to pass standard 'attention check' questions (which are designed to catch inattentive humans and simple bots) 99.8% of the time." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love this. “Spontaneous” has always really meant “we don’t know why X is happening”, a perspective tied to the dominance of structured task paradigms for studying cognition, behavior, and brain activity.

Wonderful! I was watching a documentary about the 60’s and 70’s and was struck how integral music was to the revolution against Nixon, Vietnam, and Civil Rights. Music is power.

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Last week to submit abstracts to join our group in Durham in July for the SysMus26 conference! Please share with any interested #musicscience students! musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

Slow Research, yes, but not boring!

2026 is off to a great start! 🎉 Excited to share my new open-access publication in @plosone.org! 🎶 This study examines how our sense of self (self-construal) influences the pleasure (musical reward) we get from listening to our favourite music. Read it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Reminder: Apply or Nominate someone for the 2026 SfNC Awards! Deadline - Feb. 1st ⏰ SfNC is proud to offer three annual awards recognizing outstanding contributions to creativity research. Winners receive a cash prize and are invited to present their work. Details here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

Sometimes I remember that I have a bluesky account ;) I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise: url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article... @cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote) www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

#MusicScience AND #NeuroJobs, together at last! I can personally recommend several excellent chocolateries nearby: www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Music plays an important role in relationships, especially in the early stages. It can help people express identity, share emotions and bond. But how does music contribute to romantic love at different stages of a relationship? Read more: doi.org/10.12688/ope... #MusicScience #MusicSky

Just watched it this week and loved it! Such a good sound track 🧛🏻‍♀️🎶🎸🌅

Over the holidays I saw this mesmerising sound sculpture by Zimoun in #Nantes in the Museé d’arts. 528 prepared dc motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes ‘a soundscape of opposites: the individual and the collective, order +chaos, routine +chance, simplicity and complexity’ #aesthetics #museum

From: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in Light of the Diagnosis of Autism philpapers.org/rec/SILLWP-2...

* CURRENTLY RECRUITING * Do you have experience of hearing loss? Do you regularly listen to music? If you can answer yes to both questions, then we would like to hear from you. This study is concerned with understanding the link between everyday music listening, mental health & wellbeing. 1/4

Why are heavy metal fans so nice? #heavymetal #metalheads #musicpsychology #mentalhealth #neuroscience #sciencecommunication

🎶💤 Registration for the 1st #ConfMusSleep in Aarhus, DK is now open! 🕒 Early-bird: until 15/03/26 🕒 Regular: 16/03–26/04/26 👉 For registration link, fees and deadlines: musicinthebrain.au.dk/internationa... #musicscience

Bad news: A deadline I thought was in February is this Friday. ❌ Good news: My February just opened up. ✅ #backToSchool #Academic #WhatIsTime

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/o... Nice reminder that we can dance our way through the bleakness of just about anything - even January… 🎶💃🕺🪩👯‍♀️🎶

Nice new paper here providing a model of why we want to move. #musiccognition #music #research #musicscience nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Not even finished data collection, and this magician has already declared us victorious, and built an AI model to select music based on facial expressions. NO IDEA how or why you would want to select music this way, but allegedly now we can. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Phenomenal discussions today with Artist Moss Russell exploring how socially engaged art can foster autonomy and agency - in preparation for het new performance ‘Uncooth’ as part of the disability arts festival in March 2026 @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

It was great to see everyone at the exhibition "How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity"! Thanks so much to Rachel for the photos. #neurodiverse #neurosciences #psychology #art #neurodiversityireland @dancingresearch.bsky.social

I just backed YES! Dublin – A New LGBTQ+ Café & Nightclub on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/yes...

We had a great time at the launch today, it was a full public display of emotion and we got a great response from the attendees. Still time to check it out tomorrow…

This amazing exhibition will run today and tomorrow from 12:00 - 20:00 at the Trinity Business School. #neurodiversity #ireland #art #exhibition #music #psychology Hosted by Claire Howlin 🎶🧠

Join us today and tomorrow (30th-31st) for the "Music and Arts Supporting Neurodivergence: A Photovoice Exhibition" in the Trinity Business School from 12:00 - 20:00 Claire Howlin 🎶🧠@geo

Here we are setting up the photovoice exhibition - thankfully we had an expert in straight lines with us… Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out! @georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie

Join us for the launch Tomorrow at 2pm - "Music and Arts Supporting Neurodivergence: A Photovoice Exhibition" Grab a free ticket here: tinyurl.com/3wub8377 The exhibition is open daily from 12:00–20:00 on 29th, 30th, and 31st October 2025 at Trinity Business School. @dancingresearch.bsky.social

Cant wait for this - the artwork gives a beautiful insight into how different minds work, from extremely literal to impossibly abstract. To give our participants more agency we’ll be hearing from them directly, including non speaking people, and professional artists. 🧑‍🎨 🧠🌈 #dublin #psychology

"Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness. Scientists are listening" - Dr Claire Howlin, Assistant Professor, was featured in the Associated Press. Please read the full article below: @dancingresearch.bsky.social apnews.com/article/musi...