I'm pleased to share that I now have a personal website. It contains information about my research background, publications, teaching, and blog posts. thomasgravesmusic.wordpress.com/about/ #musicresearch #website #EarlyCareerResearcher

Happy to be a member of the LSE Religion Scholars Network, and excited to continue to participate! www.lse.ac.uk/rgs/Scholars... #ReligiousStudies #ResearchNetwork

My review of Jarjour's book "Syriac Chant in Aleppo" has been published in Ethnomusicology Forum. I recommend the book for anyone interested in the circulation of musical emotions, or what "mode" means in music. Read my review: doi.org/10.1080/1741... #ethnomusicology #musicresearch #bookreview

Today I presented my paper “Presentation, presence, and the present: the many meanings of hāzirī at Chishti dargahs and qawwālī performances in South Asia” at the British Forum for Ethnomusicology conference at @kingsmusic.bsky.social #ethnomusicology #musicresearch #spirituality

Exciting day! Today my copy of Music, Mortality, Memory arrived. You can buy the book here: lnkd.in/ey8qVZtZ You can read a pre-publication version of my chapter on Durham’s Open Access repository here: lnkd.in/eb4XbQMa #musicresearch #book #death #anthropology #ethnomusicology #greenopenaccess

Our article is now assigned to volume 30, issue 1! doi.org/10.1177/1029... Citation: Graves, T. A., Eerola, T., Clayton, M., Nizami, S. M., & Rafiq, M. U. (2026). A genre-specific structure of subjective feeling in music listening: What do qawwālī listeners feel? Musicae Scientiae, 30(1), 3-26.

Had a great time yesterday at #OxFOS talking about my work with Annayah Prosser and Madeleine Pownall on open reaearch and positivism creep! Lots of interesting stuff on open qualitative research and AI. Photos by Domi Smithson and Annayah Prosser #openresearch #library #Oxford

My chapter "Death, Jubilation, and Juxtaposition in Qawwālī" is now published in "Music, Mortality, Memory", edited by Matthew McCullough and Douglas Davies. Publisher version: brill.com/display/book... AAM available on Durham's research repository: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4989911

I’m excited to see Laufey in concert next month, and couldn’t agree more with her Grammy speech. We must value our music and arts education system. It can’t take any more cuts. youtu.be/ZfJjDz3RQnY?... To read my full perspective, see my LSE HE blog post from last year: lnkd.in/ekrFZz36 #Grammys

This year’s British Forum for Ethnomusicology (@bfeadmin.bsky.social) conference programme dropped today, and I’m delighted to be sharing a session with my long-time friend, singing teacher, and colleague Budhaditya Bhattacharyya (@ragameister.bsky.social) #ethnomusicology #conference #music

What makes qawwali such a powerful musical tradition? My new blog post for LSE South Asia blog explores what kinds of emotions people feel when they listen to qawwali at Sufi shrines in India: blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/20... #music #research #blog #spirituality #emotion #qawwali #southasia

What role does culture play in how we classify emotions we feel with music listening? Get the view from one musical tradition (qawwali) in our new article doi.org/10.1177/1029... #culture #music #emotion #research #musicpsychology #crosscultural #Indianmusic

What emotions does music evoke beyond Western genres? A data-driven study of qawwālī (South Asian Sufi music) shows that listeners report ethical/virtuous feelings, spiritual love, and trance. Culture & the construction of emotions matter. doi.org/10.1177/1029... #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion

Do different musics create different emotions? Now published: the first quantitative article on the South Asian Sufi music qawwali to be published in a major music psychology journal! Read the article open access here: lnkd.in/g7Dxpw3Z Data are available here: lnkd.in/gQK2RCJp #musicandemotion

Two new publications in one week! If you’re interested in the arts and the current UK universities crisis check out my blog post: blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat... If you are interested in what open research means for non-positivist researchers, read our preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

With the news that Nottingham is just the latest uni to close music courses, @thomasgraves.bsky.social explores why music degrees seem to be such an easy target for the axe - and why that's a tragedy blogs.lse.ac.uk/highereducat...

Excited to share my latest paper with Martin Clayton and @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on cross-cultural differences in rhythm pattern perception, focusing on Hindustani (North Indian) musical rhythms. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #musicpsych @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

Want to be part of a world first? My wonderful and very talented friend Dr Matthew Warren is composing the world’s first Manx language opera, and needs your help to get it done! gogetfunding.com/caillagh-the... #worldfirst #endangeredlanguages #opera

The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music

Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....

Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale. A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach. Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? ✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org #OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms

This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography

Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...

So sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

In Trump’s USA, someone who migrates to the US to marry a US citizen can apply for a green card immediately. In the UK, Labour want to extend the time it takes for a spouse to get Indefinite Leave to Remain to 10 years! Those centrists who support these new immigration rules should think on that.

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.