The longest author list I’ve been on yet, but for good reasons! A massive and rigorous international research collaboration. Well done to Massimo and Francesca for leading this!

Thanks to @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social and Leeds School of Music for a fun and stimulating visit. And with many thanks to the rest of the team doing this research @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social, @weiwu.bsky.social, @margulisa.bsky.social

New #openaccess paper on musical chills! 🎶🎺 Most work on listeners, but we find musicians experience chills while performing! Chills linked to performance qualities, connections between performers and personal associations. Findings suggest chills + wellbeing link Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0305...

One more day!! Please consider joining us in Durham if you do research on imagined music and wellbeing!

After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%

🌀 Still time to submit to our international symposium! 📍 Durham University | 18–19 May 2026 🗓️ Submissions close 4 Nov 2025 musicinmyhead.org/network-acti...

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

📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...

🚨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...

Great to see this paper out, which is a super useful resource for people wanting to use music and/or movies as autobiographical memory cues. Thanks to Amy Belfi and her awesome students for involving me in this work! doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Can you think of examples of books, films, TV shows, etc. featuring earworms or other types of imagined music? Please share them here! musicinmyhead.org/inner-music-...

We’re thrilled to announce that the Inner Music and Wellbeing Network is a Strategic Partner of the 4th World Tinnitus Congress & XV International Tinnitus Seminar, 30 June–2 July 2027. @freyabailes.bsky.social will lead a track on Consciousness, Inner Music & Auditory Imagery. wtc2027.co.uk

I'm on leave from work till late Sept, but great to see the research of our @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social being shared with colleagues from across the globe at #ICMPC18 by our highly capable and joyful students and postdocs!

Almost forgot @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social poster highlight from #ICMPC18! Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a presentation on the content validity assessment for his music-emotion episode instrument! Out now as a preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... #musicscience #psychometrics

Postdoc @weiwu.bsky.social giving a presentation at #ICMPC18 on music evoked thoughts. Semantic similarity analysis showed that adjacent age groups share similar thoughts to the music! #musicscience

Been having some wonderful and really engaging discussions with many of the #ICMPC18 attendees this year in São Paulo! So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people 🧠💫 (P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)

Shout out to @katiesvish.bsky.social!!

Another great presentation from @aliyaedwards.bsky.social!!

@curwen01.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo about her @leverhulme.ac.uk project connecting music-evoked narrative imaginings and synaesthesia! #musicscience

@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social gave a presentation yesterday exploring the types of thoughts occurring while listening to music from a wide range of styles, familiarity, and more! Great to disseminate this @leverhulme.ac.uk project to the #musicscience crowd at #ICMPC18!!

Insights into the effectiveness of different memorisation techniques by @charasteliou.bsky.social!! #musicscience #musicpedagogy #musicteaching #ICMPC18

@fruzsiszucs.bsky.social gave a presentation at #ICMPC18 about how musical cues depict different concepts and their connection to specific memories! #musicscience

Congratulations to @harinlee.info for winning the #ICMPC18 best student paper award! 🥇

Neat design for a new test of musical imagery ability incorporating pitch and rhythm presented by @aliyaedwards.bsky.social at #ICMPC18 #musicscience

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...

. @norijacoby.bsky.social, Mapping cross-cultural internal representations in music a whopper of research-packed keynote -- new behavioural methods (incl. online and field exps.) can address Qs about perception of music and their underlying cognitive and neural mechanisms #ICMPC2025 #MusicScience

Good luck to all the @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social members presenting both in-person and virtually at #ICMPC18 this week!

I’m hiring a lab manager for my new music cognition lab at Cornell. I’m also looking to recruit PhD students and postdocs next year. I’ll be at #ICMPC_SaoPaulo and #CogSci2025—feel free to reach out or spread the word for relevant candidates.

The first two papers from the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded Music & Imagination project are now out, led by the fantastic @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social! First, we built and validated a stimulus set of over 350 music clips varying in genre, familiarity, emotion, etc. doi.org/10.3758/s134...

JOB OFFER: 4-year PostDoc position in the field of music psychology. Join us at the University of Innsbruck, in the heart of Austrian Alps! lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...

So proud of @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social for her hard work on the first paper of her PhD! New set of validated music stimuli from 17 genres, with behavioural ratings of lots of features of these clips!

Proud of @katiesvish.bsky.social @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @kirtsconnor.bsky.social & @nashraa.bsky.social representing the lab and @durhammusicdept.bsky.social with their presentations @sysmus.bsky.social #SysMus25 in @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social 😎

Really looking forward to meeting all the up and coming minds in our field next year at @sysmus.bsky.social in @durhammusicdept.bsky.social!

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

Congrats to all!

Well done to all the postgrads representing @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social @durhammusicdept.bsky.social at #sysmus25 this week!

Hazel & Connor recently represented @durham-university.bsky.social for @ukrepro.bsky.social's retreat, hosted by @lselibrary.bsky.social! They presented @reproducibilitea.org's new discipline-specific resources, using their interdisciplinary perspective in #MusicScience @durhammusicdept.bsky.social

Great to see @curwen01.bsky.social’s Leverhulme ECF project from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social on musical imaginings in synaesthesia featured here!

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Paper finally published in JEP General! Individual variability in mental imagery vividness does not predict perceptual interference with imagery: A replication study of Cui et al., 2007: osf.io/preprints/os... A study cited over 500 times couldn't be replicated, even in extreme imagery... a 🧵 1/8

Thanks to @aliyaedwards.bsky.social from @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social for this excellent guest blog post about the opportunities she’s been afforded by the Inner Music and Wellbeing network!

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...

Durham University is offering 100 x £3,000 Postgraduate Student Support Scholarships to UK students from low and middle income households. For more info, visit: www.durham.ac.uk/study/schola...

Love seeing the smiling faces of past and present members of @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social united!

Great to see Chara’s positive memorisation intervention results getting a first airing at SEMPRE!

Well done Hazel! Paper reporting these results will be out soon in Psychology of Music!

Congrats to Fruzsi on her first conference presentation of the PhD!

@leverhulme.ac.uk funded postdoctoral researcher @curwen01.bsky.social spoke today at #SEMPRE about music-colour synaesthesia and how this may impact event segmentation in MENI generation #musicscience

At SEMPRE25 our lab member @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social has a poster detailing the MUSIFEAST-17 stimuli dataset. Found in more detail here: osf.io/5ebz2/