It was a joy being part of the judging panel for the Manchester Cathedral bell chime competition Congratulations to James Nissen, whose wonderful chime was based on Ewan MacColl’s ‘The Manchester Rambler’ Thank you BBC News North West Tonight for covering this special moment for Manchester! ⛪️ 🔔 🏆

Huge congratulations Dan (and also to Abbigail!)! Dan’s work with us at @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social is awe inspiring, and brings together composition with music psychology and neuroscience, all represented in real world concert hall performances. Bravo Dan, we’re so proud! 🍾

Systematic review advice needed please! 📝 🧮 🧪 Has anyone used any quality rating assessment tools in a systematic review or seen good papers that do? I’m trying to establish: 1) how common is this? 2) what quality tools are used (CASP?)? 3) is this becoming best practice? Thanks in advance!

What an honor to be invited to deliver the keynote talk at the Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory this weekend in The Hague. Here’s to collaboration, sharing of ideas, and working across boundaries - disciplinary and geographical. @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

FOURTH JOB! We're hiring a 2-year Early Career Development Fellow in Jazz and Popular Music! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/140186-...

We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Stimulating week on this BPM Rehab research project with DJ Mark One, Dr Penny Trayner & Charlotte Naylor The project explores how immersive training environments influence DJ education for individuals with neurodisability or neurodivergent profiles @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

Study from MUSICOTAS: www.jyu.fi/en/projects/..., with @dana-and-monsters.bsky.social , @pattinijhuis.bsky.social, @js.bamford.id.au , lead by Martin Hartmann. Consortium with @vtt.fi

News page from our university about a group interview study we just launched! Feel free to share. We are looking for people based in Finland, fluent in English, 18+. www.jyu.fi/en/news/what... #musicresearch #musicscience

Soooooooo honoured and over the moon to be a finalist in the Northern Power Women Awards! Here’s to all the inspiring powerful Northern women in my life! 😍 💪

We’ve got 8 PhD studentships open in Durham for interdisciplinary research, especially projects sitting at the intersection of humanities and sciences. Many music psychology projects can tick these boxes! Feel free to get in touch www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Over the moon to win the Alan Turning Award at last night’s ’I Love Manchester’ ceremony, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals & organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking’ 😃 🏆 Our @rncmlive.bsky.social students rocked the stage with their music!

Fully funded #PhD at RNCM alert! RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡 💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered 📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025 👉 rncm.ac.uk/news #DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch

“Manchester has been a musical explosion!” -John Adams after the concert ‘Hallé Chamber Series: John Adams Chamber Symphony’ just now at our @rncmlive.bsky.social with Hallé & RNCM musicians Awesome performances & a wonderful chance for our incredible students to work with this musical legend!

What a special opportunity tonight - to see & hear John Adams conducting his music with the awesome Halle orchestra at the wonderful @bridgewaterhall.bsky.social! Excited about tomorrow when John Adams visits us for 2 performances of his music @rncmlive.bsky.social www.rncm.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Great to deliver this KTP50 talk today! Thanks Sinead (MMU), Clare (Uni of Manc Innovation Factory) & Paul (Uni of Salford) It’s been fab to work on our CCF RED TTO project funded by Research England on IP, commercialisation & consultancy @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social #KTP2025

🧠 🎵 🪩 New blog post by me & Jason Taylor: 🪩 🎵 🧠 @canadianjason.bsky.social www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/self-es... We had the utter joy of seeing @selfesteem.music-social.com ‘s ‘A Complicated Woman’ show-Great to see what we know from our research on live music in action! #AComplicatedWoman

What a wonderful talk this was - utterly stimulating, & so relevant & important to everything we do at @rncmlive.bsky.social. And a brill evening in great company, thanks Ian and David (you were with us in spirit, Katya!). Fab to round off with whiskey with Ian & Jason @canadianjason.bsky.social

🧠 🎵 Great to talk to John Pienaar on Times Radio today about this amazing story of Denise, who played her clarinet while undergoing deep brain stimulation surgery to help with her Parkinson’s symptoms: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🎵 🧠 @rncmlive.bsky.social @rncmresearch.bsky.social

🌟 We’re hiring! 🌟 Are you interested in memory, cognitive training, & healthy ageing? We’re looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOZ814/r... 👉 0.5 FTE (2.5 days/week), 4 months (likely from 01/26) 👉 Annual salary £32,080 to £33,002 (pro-rata) 👉 Based in Sheffield, UK

🎵 ☠️ New blog: Music in Traitors Mansion ☠️ 🎵 “As we romp merrily through this awesome series, we have a rich chance to acknowledge & celebrate what music does for us, & for everyone who’s Faithful to this bananas & mesmerising show” #CelebrityTraitors www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/music-i...

🏆 😃 🏆 Utterly honored to be nominated for the Northern PoWEr Women Awards 2026! #NPWAwards #wearepower

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood. If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Incredible Music, Movement, Mood & Parkinson’s symposium at @hslu-luzern.bsky.social Switzerland, led by the magnificent Prof Dawn Rose. Here, Jane talked about our concerts in Lucerne & @rncmlive.bsky.social Very proud to have been invited to be part of the final panel! @beamlab.bsky.social

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

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!

Chuffed that our music and Parkinson’s paper on ‘The Use of Music Among Swiss People with Parkinson’s: A Mixed Methods Survey and Comparison to the UK Findings’ led by the wonderful Prof Dawn Rose and with lots of fab collaborators, is now out! #PPI #Parkinsons journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Some photos of @kateywarran.bsky.social speaking at The Royal Institution @rigb.org alongside @michelle-phillips.bsky.social @rosielperkins.bsky.social & Ming Hsu for the ABRSM symposium

Bucket list moment! 🪣 🤩 Tonight I presented at The Royal Institution in London! I was hosting a panel for an ABRSM Music, Health and Wellbeing symposium - what an honour to be asked! I’m buzzing! Now returning to Manchester to continue week 1 of our new @rncmlive.bsky.social academic year!

🥇 🏆 🎵 💡 🧬 Honoured to be shortlisted for the I Love Manchester ‘Alan Turing Award’, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals and organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking.’ Voting is open here until 3rd October 2025 ilovemanchester.com/awards

We won! Total joy to work with Suneel Kunamaneni (Uni of Manchester), Ambarin Asad (Uni of Salford) & Catherine Brentnall (Manchester Met Uni) to run an entrepreneurship event for students from all 4 institutions Our paper won Best in Track at the International Enterprise Ed Conference 2025! 🏆🥇💪

Absolutely glorious time at International Enterprise Educators Conference 2025! #EEUK #IEEC2025 Great to catch up with fab friends & present two papers with collaborators: first on our Manchester Unhackathon, & second on our EEUK Impact Award funded project on music enterprise education in schools

🎵☀️New blog: A summer of music☀️🎵 www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/a-summe... From #Oasis gigs enjoyed from my garden, to music & our football champions, #DannyElfman’s music for Universal’s new #EpicUniverse theme park, the Proms, #TaylorSwift & #FreakierFriday -what a glorious summer of music!

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department! #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance. #FanStudies #AudienceResearch

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations tinyurl.com/5dku4du9 @timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social please repost 🙏

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience 🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research 🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available 📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site 🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Revelling in a holiday that includes the celebration of all things Disney, film and music #DisneyWorldOrlando #DisneyHollywoodStudios #DisneySoul 🐭 🎵 🎥

Excited to get stuck into this year’s #BookerPrize2025, although, like others, I’m disappointed that Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’ didn’t make it 📖

❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy? The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications. Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

Yes! “Research excellence looks different in different contexts ..A specialist arts institution may demonstrate world-leading innovation through creative practice that doesn’t align neatly with standard research output categories” Really nice, thanks @wonkhe.bsky.social wonkhe.com/blogs/ref-pa...

Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for featuring our music & neuroscience work on your ‘Power of Music’ show today. It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)

It was SO cool to be part of a panel in a flipping planetarium! Bucket list complete!! 😂 🪣 @jodrellbank.bsky.social

What an honour to be part of this panel on ‘The Science and Politics of Togetherness in Music Cultures’ tonight at Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social. Thanks @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social and everyone involved in this wonderful event! @rncmlive.bsky.social

📺 🎵 This Sunday 1.15pm, our music & neuroscience research will be on BBC Songs of Praise 🎵 📺 This is a collaborative project put together with these amazing researchers: Ana Marta Pacheco Aguiar Dan Baczkowski Stephen Ball Sam Roberts Dr Jason Taylor Aestus String Quartet @rncmlive.bsky.social

“higher education needs to develop a much better account of how the knowledge that students engage with through their degrees prepares them to make important contributions to society…Our role is to support society & students to understand the power of this knowledge & what it can do in the world.”👍

Fab evening at the Sage summer party at Natural History Museum London Champagne, live jazz, and lots of fascinating people. Brill welcome: “Education and scholarship are tools to shape a better world.” Loving being joint Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music with Nikki Moran 🥂 🎵 📕 🦕

It was a joy & honour to be part of this enterprise & entrepreneurship podcast, & to share all we do at our @rncmlive.bsky.social Thanks @advancehe.bsky.social and Stuart Norton for the invite, and thanks to inspiring fellow guests Alison Price @enterpriseev.bsky.social, Lisa McMullan & Leigh Seer

📢 New blog by me & Sarah Walters 📢 @mssarahwalters.bsky.social @rncmlive.bsky.social BRITAIN’S GOT A LOT OF TALENT, BUT MAKING MUSIC IS OUR SUPERPOWER SKILL How BGT (live final tomorrow), shows us the vital role of music in our lives 🎵 #BGT @itv.com www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/britain...