www.instagram.com/p/DH4FeECshE...

My friend, Lydia Ballam, is doing amazing work on conservatoire students’ experience with dyslexia. Consider sharing this or participating!

Important, and critical information to have!

Open, free, and public access to scientific information is critical to a healthy, intelligent, and well informed society!

WHICH IS WHAT “THEY” DONT WANT!

GO AND LEARN!

Music, perfectionism and the ultra thin – the normalisation of disordered eating — Things Musicians Don't Talk About Eating Disorder Awareness Week might last for 7 days, but issues facing musicians around body image pressures are inherent and must be challenged

www.thingsmusiciansdonttalkabout.com/blog/j2s83vh...
A blog post by my friend and fellow RCM researcher, who addresses the normalization of disordered eating in the music industry. A conversation that I think it long overdue

From threatening to take over Gaza, to shipping immigrants to Guantanamo, Trump is acting on the legacy of U.S. empire. The roots of that empire lie with this country’s treatment of Indigenous peoples. Bc we have NEVER dealt with that history it will keep rearing its ugly head.

Hello! For my PhD at the @musicinthebrain.bsky.social we are conducting an online survey on music for sleep. 🎶💤
Click on the link if you’re more than 18 and listen to music for sleep! It takes around 15 minutes ☀️

survey.au.dk/LinkCollecto...

Thank you!

#musicscience
@lullabyte.bsky.social

‘We’re Being Punished’: NIH Tosses Some Grant Applications From Minority Researchers The sudden withdrawal affects early-career scholars who applied for a prestigious federal grant with a diversity notation — flagging that they came from underrepresented backgrounds.

this piece explains what's going on more coherently than me lol www.chronicle.com/article/were...

Research Participant Opportunity 🫵

Australian Master's research in music and wellbeing is seeking music listeners between the ages of 16-65. If you or anyone you know may be interested in taking part please complete the survey below:
swinuw.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...

Happy Banting rejection day to all! The calibre of the rejections I have received this year is extremely high, however, and I am unable to accept their rejection at this time.

I look forward to receiving the funding in September and they are welcome to resubmit a rejection in the next cycle

Been adding #musicscience groups/labs/societies as they’ve joined bluesky.

Recently added , @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @sysmus.bsky.social and @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social

If there are any missing from the starter pack leave a comment!

Ah, that question never gets easier. But I think those who ask usually are, or are very close

Are you a PhD student whose funding is in jeopardy because of recent executive actions, or a faculty member in a program dealing with these considerations? @mkhaw.bsky.social and I want to hear from you @chronicle.com. DM or email! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #HigherEd

Data collection for the first study of my PhD has begun! I’m so grateful to be able to use RCM’s simulator and talk with so many incredible people for this!

As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub 👩🏽‍💻

Looking for another 20 participants for our @york.ac.uk online music listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11. What does music make you feel or imagine? Help Splat the alien 🛸learn what music means to Earthlings! #musicscience Info and access: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Congrats on this!!

Kelly standing in front of a class talking. A slide shows “Predicting music-evoked thought content from perceptual and experiential properties of music”

Our co-director @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social presented to Durham Comp Sci students about her @leverhulme.bsky.social project looking into music-evoked thoughts

Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music

Interested? Check out musicscience.net!

Nice to see our work discussed here!

@researcherswell.bsky.social are putting together a webinar series to address common #mentalhealth issues researchers face.

Filling out the survey below will let them know what topics are important and what you’d like to see discussed.

#musicscience #neurosky #psychology

Link should now be working 🤞

📣 SEMPRE conference 9-10 April 2025, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK 📣

Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2025

Keynotes: Karen Burland & Daniel Müllensiefen

Please do join us, and please share with any colleagues who you think may be interested!

sempre.org.uk/conferences/...

***Please note, this deadline has now been extended to Friday 24th January 2025. All other details remain the same.***

Music can improve focus for people with ADHD. Here’s what to listen for New research from Northeastern music professor Psyche Loui and Brain.fm pinpoints the musical characteristics that can help concentration.

The @northeasternu.bsky.social global news did a nice writeup of our study on background music and ADHD #neuroskyence #musicscience #psysky news.northeastern.edu/2025/01/14/m...

I live with headphones in on low. I do better when a my life has a soundtrack

My music cognition class at the time had a whole period devoted to arguing about this from a neurological perspective

Season 1 Trailer Performance Science · Episode

Listen to my department’s new podcast, Performance Science, hosted by my supervisor Professor Aaron Williamon. It explores the science of performing and the role of performance in society. Available on all platforms, releasing episodes on Wednesdays

open.spotify.com/episode/1AFr...

UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science The UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science is the first international standard setting instrument on open science.

Want to draw attention to the guiding principles of UNESCO’s recommendation in open science. Open research spaces often don’t talk enough about the need to take seriously the knowledge of marginalised communities, linguistic diversity, and flexibility. www.unesco.org/en/open-scie...

Let the rhythm not stop

doi.org/10.1177/2059...

Great to see our article exploring whether exposure to reality TV singing (a technically demanding style of CCM singing) would negatively influence singing self-concept compared to hearing amateur singers or unembellished, professional singing now out in an issue of Journal of Voice. #MusicScience