After few flights and 8hrs of canoe ride up the Maniqui river, we met the Tsimane villagers in Bolivian Amazon to understand what they find appealing to hear and see, and how they compare to other parts of the world. @manuelangladatort.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social

7.5 years after signing the contract, I finally submitted the full manuscript of my book to Oxford University Press!!! Thanks to Keio's Fukuzawa Fund, it will be published open access. You can already read the submitted version as a preprint at osf.io/b36fm I hope you all find it useful!

Extremely honoured to be the recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the upcoming ICMPC 2025 in São Paulo, the largest international conference on music cognition and perception. All possible through working with the great team and supervisors.

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇

Ready to submit my PhD thesis. After taking this picture I realised that the thesis cover I designed matches the lamp and the sofa in my flat. Definitely some psychological priming going on here!

Excited to share two papers tapping into cross-cultural perception of aesthetics and word associations to music emotion across languages. Accepted to be presented at the upcoming CogSci 2025 conference! @mpicbs.bsky.social

Serving as a co-chair for ISMIR 2025 in Korea, we are excited to announce call for the music-program! If you have MIR integrated creative music performance in mind to be performed at gorgeous KAIST auditorium, do consider applying. Submission: ismir2025.ismir.net/call-for-music Deadline: 30th June

Tomorrow at Cambridge! Visiting the Centre for Music & Science led by @pmcharrison.bsky.social www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...

Emotional to be returning to Goldsmiths where did my undergrad and masters! @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

Pleased to see our work published: The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies. Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter. doi.org/10.1017/S095...

Bringing EEG brain science to Berghain club, Berlin 🧠🎛️ Next weekend I’m teaming up with a Berlin-based DJ/producer “Egregore” to integrate brain oscillations to live ambient music. We will control melodic pulses with neural tempo and use different mind states to alter fragments of sounds!

We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New cultural evolution modelling paper with @bdecourson.bsky.social on @pnas.org! "Weak individual preferences stabilize culture" A quick 🧵 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)

Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️

📢 Incredible postdoc position for early career researchers in cultural evolution with the amazing @oliviermorin.bsky.social at ENS, Paris. Deadline 20th March! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social

Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Finding your first postdoc job can be daunting and resembles Squid Game. So that others don't go through the same trouble, I'll be sharing my insights on where and when to look, what to prepare etc. Tomorrow 12pm CET and will also stream via zoom (send me DM for a link). Here are some highlights 🦑

📣📣📣 Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!! Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply! More info: disi.org

We are recruiting PhD students! Our research covers a diverse range of topics, including perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large-scale online experiments, cross-cultural studies, and computational music cognition. Please spread the word!

Wow the silencing in X is so real. Many of my friends saw the post but couldn't interact and it shadow banned these posts...

Attended this last year and was truly an inspiring experience. Great crowd and toulouse is absolutely gorgeous. Highly recommend!

Incredible opportunity to work with Mason, the one and only!

Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at @stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...

Great to see the community has become more vibrant over here! I have now made the switch, bye X ✋

Our paper is out in this cool special issue on cognitive technologies. It’s on the topic of traditional and informal measurement systems across cultural traditions. How have people *really* measured their world? with @mamanninen.bsky.social @jussiteronen.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tops...

Beginning to scan for postdoc options starting from autumn 2025. Preferably Europe (incl. UK) and independence-focused fellowships with topics in cognition, cultural evolution, large data with ML. Any suggestions would be valuable!

Our mega project, jointly led with @manuelangladatort.bsky.social, is out now as preprint! We monitored millions of daily music discoveries across 1,423 cities and use this data to probe worldwide cultural shifts in real-time during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This preprint looks pretty cool: The authors use data from Deezer (a music streaming service), to investigate cultural diversity -- between people (how different are people's tastes in a specific region) and within people (how diverse is the music a person listens to?).>

Hi Bluesky 🔵 Travelling to Tokyo this week for ICMPC 2023 to present a two year long project led by @manuelangladatort.bsky.social and myself, studying how music diffuses around the globe 🎶