Some “light” holiday reading - #blackholes another excellent book by Cox & Forshaw. I can finally say I understand the Penrose diagrams… well, close enough to understanding.

Seeking to improve the science of measurement in the affective sciences? What are we measuring? how did we measure it? and does it work across research context? Really important and very valuable work by @kirtsconnor.bsky.social

New music dataset are always important contributions to #musicscience research: "Creating an open‑access music audio dataset for deep phenotyping of subjective experience of musical emotions" -- by @seunggookim.bsky.social #icmpc2025

Want automated reproducibility checks for your R Markdown docs on GitHub? reproducibleRchunks v1.2.0 is now on CRAN! ✅ Generates GitHub Actions for cloud-based reproducibility checks (with cool badges) 📦 Supports renv for dependency management 👉 cran.r-project.org/package=repr...

Excellent talk by @camandrsn.bsky.social - make sure to check out his new R package ggcommonality: bar plots of unique and joint effects from a commonality analysis 👉 github.com/cmndrsn/ggco...

Enjoying some great live Japanese rock music with Taiki Shimozono #icmpc2025

Excellent presentation @camandrsn.bsky.social. It's going to be an incredibly useful review

🌍🎶 How universal is music? Challenging assumptions about the perception of music cross-culturally. A great talk by @norijacoby.bsky.social at #icmpc2025

🌍✨ A fascinating new look at assessing musical cultures across the globe by award-winning @harinlee.info

🎵 "Hello darkness, my old friend..." sad music isn’t always a red flag 🟥 Anđela Milošević develops a qualitative analysis of how teens view the use of sad music not to stay sad—but to move through it. #ICMPC2025

🎵 Do lyrics really shape how we feel music? How matching, clashing, and nonsense lyrics affect emotional perception across genres. Results suggest sad songs + sad words = strongest feels. #ICMPC2025

🎵 How do our digital footprints reflect our musical minds? Vinoo Alluri (Keynote) explores situated music cognition, linking what we say about music to what we actually listen to, feel, and need. Take a deep dive with Muselt: github.com/Muse-it/MuseIt #musicscience #ICMPS18

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

#SysMus25 has been wonderful. Thank you for the wonderful presentations, workshops, talks, and smiles. An extra big thank you to the wonderful and ever cheerful Abbigail Fleckenstein and all the organising team. 🥰

What music do you prefer to sleep with (if you sleep with music)? How might we capture the characteristics of such music? @samuelmorgan.bsky.social contributing to these questions - 'Active Preference Learning for Musical Stimuli (for Sleep)'

Bridging the divide between psychometricians and musical-affective measures - A really valuable contribution from @kirtsconnor.bsky.social seeking to ensure rigorous measurement of emotional episodes with relevance and clarity. #sysmus25

'Thoughtscapes' - what types of thoughts emerge across different musical genres? A fascinating look at how music shapes the mind by @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social #sysmus25

Wonderful research by @spooky-kat.bsky.social at #sysmus25 on 'Adolescent Experiences of Scary Music'. One of the fascinating experiential juxtapositions generated by music. 👻 Personal fav of the stimuli: Korn - Dead Bodies Everywhere

Building a taxonomy of childrens' musical experiences (embodied - detached). Novel data collection and novel insights by @carocaronet.bsky.social at #SysMus25 p.s. check out the stories of Splat 👾 the alien 🫶

@harinlee.info Congrats - Best Student Paper Award #ICMPC18 🥇 📄Paper: Global similarities and diversities of melody and rhythm. Looking forward to seeing the presentation.

Insights into the different affordances music has in aging - by Heini Siltainsuu #SysMus25

The Emotional-Motivational Functions of Musical Imagery in Parkinson's Patients by Marietta Ungerer at #SysMus25

More important work from #SysMus25. @nashraa.bsky.social exploring the role of cultural familiarity and learning in the experience of isochronous & non-isochronous beats.

Some fascinating findings form @jayteetang.bsky.social regarding the role of the self-construal (a proxy for individualist and collectivist cultures) in the experience of musical reward. Interesting question: to what degree are rewarding experiences with music Westerly constructed?

A very interesting talk by Tristan Eissing @ #SysMus25 exploring the under-explored area of negative impacts of music - "How Music Can Jeopardise the abstinence of Individuals with Substance Use Disorder."

Excellent talk by @silviagenovese.bsky.social on evaluating how individual sleeping goals and motivations influence preferences in music for sleep - very much looking forward to seeing more results.

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/

Welcome to the newcomers 🦋! If you have a native/proficient level of English, participate & share my survey on singing, music, art, and personality traits! 🎤🥁🎨🎭 Have the chance to win a tablet and help expand the knowledge on the passion for singing🧍🌍 ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

First snow of the year in #Bulgaria! On my right - colleagues Rossen Petkov and @lennietm.bsky.social. That's the #AUBG campus in the background with some faint mountains at the right. I love experiencing four seasons :)

Our Dept is hosting an info session on campus tonight. Here’s the poster I made (re-opened InDesign after a long hiatus). #AUBG

Morning #musicskyence, I’m gearing up to create a new Music Psychology (undergrad) course next term and am looking for studies to consider for student replication projects. Any recommendations for intriguing research that lends itself well to replication? #Psychology #MusicCognition #TeachingIdeas

It was wonderful to be out presenting for colleagues at PAM-IE 2024 🇭🇷 A great few days catching up with old friends and making new ones. This growing conference marks the expanding field of music psychology on the Balkans. #musicscience

A really important talk on the importance of sharing data and analysis scripts in #musicscience / #musicpsych More needs to be done and faster advancements in the field will follow. @tuomaseerola.bsky.social at #escom12

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

@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

Wonderful keynote by Jennifer MacRitchie talking about how you’re never too old to get the benefits from learning music. Moreover, some of the applications to dementia care. “Careful design will lead to better musical experiences for more people” #escom12 #musicpsych

Grove as more that just the “urge to move” - it’s also ‘immersive’ & ‘social’ phenomena. A wonderful presentation by Deniz Dumas and one that draws on more dynamic models of music processing. #escom12

Wonderful presentation by Scott Bannister and Emily Payne exploring chills in musical performance #escom12

Beautiful talk and a beautiful title (“surfing the pleasure wave”) by Emery Schubert focusing on modelling the pleasure from exposure to music #escom12

A fantastic application of goal-directed approaches to understanding individual differences in the relevance of musical lyrics by Emma D’Aprano #escom12

Presenting from sunny Oz to #escom12, @jasongoopy.bsky.social and Stephanie MacArthur provide a wonderful example of the benefits of scoping reviews #musicpsych

How diverse are the participants and music that we use in hashtag #musicscience research? Check out our new pre-print on this topic: osf.io/preprints/ps... In this wonderful collaboration we examine the samples and stimuli used in over 1,600 studies from the past 13 years.

The uni is updating its digital journal subscription. 👀 looking for a good general interest #AffectSci journal 📔 Any good suggestions…?

Looking for suggestions ‼️Any #opensource qualitative video and audio analysis software people would recommend #musicscience

A great morning at #SysMus23. One key recurring idea from our morning on #AffectSci experiences with music appears to be a greater focus on the role of attention in the 'meaning-making' process. #musicscience

A great morning at #SysMus23. One key recurring idea from our morning on #AffectSci experiences with music appears to be a greater focus on the role of attention in the 'meaning-making' process.

A great listen! And for those attending #sysmus23 this will make a great intro to Julian Céspedes Guevara’s keynote on constructed musical emotions

There were some truly wonderful moments to this evening, but unfortunately BlueSky does not yet have the option to share videos. When it does, I’ll share some of the fantastic music I heard

Out in Sofia tonight to see the wonderful #Tamikrest. One of the finest Malian #DesertBlues groups

For the 🎵🧪 people recently back from #icmpc23 🇯🇵 you might enjoy this little post on the origins of sushi 🍣 to relive the memories. It’s very infographic friendly for an easy read.