Its too late, but at least it finally happened: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Ali Akbar Razi - master of soz - strikes again this Muharram! I really love Soz o Salaam - perhaps even more than qawwali with instruments! Those overlapping voices and slight discrepancies really stir something inside. youtu.be/9YAVmIuvgRk?...

#OpenResearch has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha @lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative

Let’s talk about social anxiety in ethnographic research. I’ve always frozen up in social situations that seemed important. This seems like a problem in research, especially in fieldwork where there are certain people you want to speak to. Can an anxious person be a good ethnographer? #ethnography

Happy to have been involved in the creation of two resources on preregistration and pre-analysis plans at LSE - one covering various methods, and one specifically for experimental methods: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... doi.org/10.5281/zeno... #OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research

With the last #OSFest25 session this afternoon, thank you to everyone who's been involved in each thought-provoking session and our co-hosts @lselibrary.bsky.social and @crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃

They were some really interesting topics and it was a pleasure to be involved in the organisation. “Positivism creep” is a thing! #OSF25

Don’t let them come for Keele’s music department again.

Folks working on curation in museums or archives, we need a little bit of advice! Please reply to the tweet if you’re down to chat. Reshare for reach please! #archives #museums #curators

With the government’s attack on trans women’s right to exist today, I want to affirm that, despite the chilling headlines, and the change in the law, trans women are women. Trans colleagues and friends, you are not alone.

This week I taught the last lecture of my first module as a convenor. I had a part-time contract to teach “World Music Traditions” at Durham University. The students were great, and I come away reaffirmed in my love of teaching, especially of teaching music! #teaching #music #university #academia

Publication alert! The book was published back in October, but an AAM of the chapter is now available Open Access from the University of Glasgow’s repository: eprints.gla.ac.uk/325506/ This short theoretical piece explores how music facilitates interfaith friendships! #musicresearch #openaccess

youtu.be/skXlKxjlUoo?... What a fantastic collaboration - combines a bunch of things i love in music: lyrics with a life-affirming message ✅ heavy metal with a fat riff ✅ South Asia ✅ Japanese anime music ✅ Urdu ✅ tierce de picardie ✅ - Top marks to Bloodywood and Babymetal! #music #fusion #metal

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...

The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here /1

Great news for academic composers, artists, practice-based researchers, and teaching-focused academics!

On the train up to Durham ahead of teaching my first lecture as a module convenor (and first time teaching in nearly 2 years) tomorrow - excited and nervous! World Music Traditions here we come! #teaching #university

If you are a researcher in London in the first week of February, why not take the opportunity to learn about how to boost the public reach if your research at this LSE event! #impact #research #publishing www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/publishing...

Want to draw attention to the guiding principles of UNESCO’s recommendation in open science. Open research spaces often don’t talk enough about the need to take seriously the knowledge of marginalised communities, linguistic diversity, and flexibility. www.unesco.org/en/open-scie...

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'm pleased to announce that my chapter "Love From India: YouTube Qawwālī as Affective Solidarity in India—Pakistan Relations" has now been published in Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region edited by Radha Kapuria and Vebhuti Duggal. #music #research #publication doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Was pleased to see a positionality statement and serious engagement with postcolonial critiques of open access and the critique of OA as privileging scientistic epistemologies in @stephenpinfield.bsky.social’s annual Open Research lecture. As Harrington (1992) says, enabling strategies are needed!

Worth a chuckle.

If you’re interested in South Asian musics of any kind - I recommend a follow - should be some interesting stuff coming in the North-East! #musicsky

Exactly. Interpretation is ultimately a subjective or intersubjective practice, no matter the method.

My first time planning and redesigning lectures for a whole module. Im enjoying it and looking forward to teaching! But I’m doing it in my free time after work and on weekends, and its so much work. Any tips for planning teaching when you already have a FT job from those who have been there before?

Took the plunge today and deactivated Twitter/X. Ill miss many of the accounts i followed there - particularly those associated with Sufi dargahs and Urdu language, but the feed had become so bad that it wasn’t worth it. Worth considering why more global south creators haven’t switched to Bluesky?

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/

Sokal called, he wants his hoax back.

Sometimes the simplest messages are the most useful: gratitude.

To follow up my point about open fieldnotes for ethnomusicology, this raises questions not only about informed consent, but also about how this raw data may be abused by ethnocentric LLMs or researchers with little cultural context for the representation. Requires mindful note-writing! #openresearch

💥New: How to get started with academic Bluesky 👨‍💻 @nedpotter.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhDSky

Such a wonderful and moving performance. It reminds me, weirdly, of David Bowie’s Blackstar - its like he knew his days were numbered and needed to tell us something. Much respect for the late, great Ustad Maulvi Haider Hassan Vehranwale: youtu.be/Yjll-IOhHPY?... #musicsky #qawwali

How do religious convictions affect research practice? Since I started researching music, I’ve shifted from Atheist, to Agnostic, to spiritual, to Christian. This is largely due to reading and meeting Sufis. Ive also changed from an empiricist into a neopragmatist. These are related. #academicsky

Starting a new Open Research role this week has given me opportunity to reflect on open research in music studies. The benefits of open research are greater transparency, replicability (where relevant), discoverability &c. But it also presents difficulties for ethnographic and historical methods. 🧵

Had a lovely Friday evening attending Prof Rachel Harris’ RAI Blacking lecture on ways of listening and maqam across borders. Enjoyed watching some wonderful musical fusion between Turkish baglama and Uyghur dotar & satar, and seeing some friends i havent seen in a while!

I’m new here so i’ll introduce myself. I graduated my PhD in ethnomusicology/music psychology this summer, with research on musical emotion in qawwali listeners. Now i work in open research support at LSE, and will be teaching a module at Durham uni next term. Expect stuff about music and research!

Highly important and relevant study by Borgohain et al. provides novel empirical, transcultural, and historical insights into visual mental imagery induced by Hindustani classical music. A must-read for anyone interested in #musicscience and #mentalimagery: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...