So much amazing work from @drsrishtin.bsky.social and her team! Check out her thread for highlights!

Wondering what’s been going on in the Music Cognition Lab? Check out our latest newsletter! Community engagement updates, research studies for all ages, and even an end of year matching gift opportunity! 🎵🎉 mailchi.mp/vumc/2025yea...

🎶 New paper! InCHORRRuS Framework: Infant-directed Communication Highlights and Organizes Repetition and Redundancy through Rhythmic Structure Led by Camila Alviar, we consider how caregivers modulate their communication to 👶, including through song: nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖 northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Vandy CaLL is hiring a Project Manager for early 2026! We're looking for someone that can help manage work on an NSF-funded project investigating how individual differences in cognitive ability and language experience shapes L2 sentence processing. ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV). 📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418 Please share!

New paper alert! Systematic epidemiological analyses of up to 39,000 people illuminate biological/clinical links between impaired musical rhythm abilities & disorders affecting speech-language development. International collaboration led by @drsrishtin.bsky.social, out in @natcomms.nature.com. 👇🧪

The Human and Organizational Development department at Vanderbilt University is hiring a senior and junior faculty member whose research focus is on social innovation and/or entrepreneurship for strengthening communities. Apply if you’d like to work in an incredibly interdisciplinary department!

I'm happy to announce that Vanderbilt Psychology's clinical area is hiring a TT asst prof this year! Please share with your networks and consider applying if you're on the market! Happy to (try to) answer questions about the search if you have them. Link here: apply.interfolio.com/173316

Exciting paper on genetic influences on speech fluency, out now in @natgenet.nature.com. In a big step forward for the field, genome scans of almost 100,000 people with self-reported stuttering, & 1 million controls, identify 57 associated loci. Great work by @piperbelow.bsky.social & her team.🗣️🧬🧪

Our team is growing! Looking to hire a Speech-Language Pathologist (including clinical fellowship candidates) or Clinical postdoctoral fellow (psychology or communication sciences) with a strong interest in clinical-translational research in autism! See link below for more info!

We are looking for a clinical psych postdoc to join our team in 2025 or 2026 to help with studies of mood disorders and suicidal behavior in youth and families (using EEG 🧠 and EMA 📱 methods). See www.moodemotionlab.com for more info on the lab and projects.

We are hiring! Two open positions at Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab for opportunities spanning coordinator, clinical assessment/intervention, and research analyst for studies into communication and social engagement in autism, as well as rhythm and early musical experiences. See below for links!

This role could serve as a lunchpad for a PhD within my lab! Experience w/ infant data collection preferred. Experience w/ EEG or fMRI data acquisition/analysis is helpful. Interested? Submit a cover letter, CV, & contact information for 2 recommenders to [email protected]

Our study is now out in @naturecomms.bsky.social! Here, we integrate large-scale registry musicality data from twins to investigate the genetics of music enjoyment 🧬🎶🧑‍🤝‍🧑

Interested in rhythm and communication? Infant-directed speech and song? Social and language development in autism? Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab is recruiting a postdoc focused on these areas! #musicscience redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=N...

We’re hiring! Seeking a full-time project coordinator to run EEG study sessions with research participants, administer diagnostic interviews, and assist with the organization and analysis of study datasets. More info below: ecsr.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

What leads to parenting musically? Ashley Boyne & @camilaalviar.bsky.social find parent social motivation promotes an early musical home, esp. for infant-directed singing! And singing is associated with child language! Out now in @infantstudies.bsky.social ! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Cool #musicscience #neuroskyence alert: Auditory Rhythm Encoding during the Last Trimester of Human Gestation: From Tracking the Basic Beat to Tracking Hierarchical Nested Temporal Structures www.jneurosci.org/content/45/4...

Genomic advances offer a novel route for investigating biological overlaps between musicality- and language-related traits. Here's a nice blog by my fab co-author Reyna Gordon, not (yet) on Bluesky, in which she breaks down our recently published @naturehumbehav.bsky.social paper on this topic. 🧪

What's your favourite example of a basic science discovery yielding practical results later on — but that one didn't know it would be used for at the time?

The 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC) São Paulo, Brazil 21-25 July 2025 The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format, with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely. Abstract submission deadline: 20 January 2025

I used to run a summer internship for expanding psychology... if you don't remember here it is: som.yale.edu/news/2018/09... The news is that we're back up and running in partnership with the Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP) at Northwestern: www.summerpsych.com Applications are open!

I am so impressed with the lightning talk research videos from @musicperception.bsky.social 2024 Student Research Award finalists! You can check out a selection of them here for some of the latest #musicscience!

Interested in infant-directed speech and song and language development in autism? Rhythm and communication? I’m reviewing PhD applications in Hearing and Speech Sciences at Vanderbilt! 🎶🗣️Deadline to apply is Dec 1. For more info on the PhD program: medschool.vanderbilt.edu/hearing-spee...

Breitfeld, Comptonn, & @jennysaffran.bsky.social (2024): toddlers learned words better from adults who previously behaved in an engaging way ➡️ engaging social experience w/ speakers supports toddlers’ subsequent learning #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #infancypapers onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our paper out today in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social integrates data from large-scale genome scans of dyslexia & rhythm skills, as a novel way to investigate biological overlaps between human traits related to language & musicality. Co-led by Reyna Gordon (Vanderbilt). 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

ICMPC website now up, including call for papers with abstract submission deadline of Jan 20. Hope to see you all in Brazil next July 21-25! www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...

Help us learn more about why we like listening to music! Our collaborative study at Northeastern University is seeking participants ages 7-17 years old local to the Boston area. For more info, email [email protected] & pls share! 🎸🕺🎧

New SMPC website updates! Congrats to all recipients!

Research Analyst position available in the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab! For more info and to apply: vumc.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/vumcca...

Here's the full interview with Francis Collins and Renée Fleming. Lot of great stuff in here. open.substack.com/pub/holdenth...

Interested in music, health, wellness, and development? Join for this two day NIH Sound Health workshop on Dec 14-15! Free virtual livestream of sessions: www.eventbrite.com/e/music-as-m...