Have you ever felt a deep, powerful connection to music — a moment when a song pulls you in, moves you, or completely absorbs you in it? We would love to hear about those experiences.
Learn more and participate on our study on musical immersion: www.jyu.fi/en/news/join...
#MusicScience
Deadline postponed 🥳 A few more days to work on your abstract and send it our way 🤗 new DL: 12th April
✨ What better way to wrap up a conference day than sharing this view with colleagues and friends, after inspiring science and insights into mobile brain imaging?
Join the Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference #MoBI2026 August 25–28, 2026 and enjoy this view during our social!
👉 lnkd.in/d-5SKVtU
Can the same song make you feel happy and sad? Our new study shows emotional complexity—feeling both positive and negative emotions—is common with personally meaningful music, but varies across people. Discover what influences it: doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...
#musicscience #emotions #personalityresearch
Come work with us in Oslo! We are hiring a PhD fellow in the psychology of music, AI, and creativity, affiliated with the newly established @mishmashcentre.bsky.social
Details: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Come study with us! We are excited to announce the international application period for our Master’s Degree in Music and Science is now open!
www.jyu.fi/en/study-wit...
You can apply until 21 January 2026. Please distribute to anyone interested!
[Please share] Call for Fellowship Applications for Early Career Researchers from the Global South — to attend an international workshop on ‘spectral percepts’ and the Origins of Musicality in The Netherlands.
Deadline : 19 December 2025 (23:59, AoE).
See www.lorentzcenter.nl/index.php?pn...
Quote by Dr. Iballa Burunat reads: Music unfolds over time. Its rhythm, melody, and structure provide a kind of sequential framework, a timeline. Image is of the back of a head of a man listening to music through his headphones as he looks at a train going past him.
Men tend to stick to music they love in their teens, whilst women constantly adapt tastes, suggests a new study🎵
Findings show the deepest musical attachments hit men aged 16, but women 19; and this is why older songs sink their claws in deep for men🎸
spr.ly/601471cRw
Seeking PhD students for research in computational models of rhythm perception at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). Work may also include experiments on rhythm production in Parkinson’s patients and/or analysis of intracranial dopamine and LFO data, depending on interests and skills.
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab and work on Multi-Brain Stimulation (MBS).
Learn more about the project and how to apply below 👇
This position is funded by the @erc.europa.eu
Reposts are very welcome 🙏
#Postdoc #Neuroscience #BrainStimulation #EEG #SocialNeuroscience
NEW PREPRINT 🥁
This project was on my desk for about 2.5 years, so I am happy to finally share it with everyone. Gathering evidence from various disciplines, together with Suvi Saarikallio, we proposed four sources of #pleasure associated with the experience of #groove
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
🎵 A new study led by the University of Jyväskylä analysed the emotional content of 176 national anthems. The results show that anthems from countries near the equator tend to be more energetic, whereas those from northern regions tend to be more melancholic. 🌏 Read more: r.jyu.fi/GlU
@ptoiviai.bsky.social is delivering the 1st keynote lecture on "Embodied Dynamics of Music Perception" #RPPW20 @coe-mmbb.bsky.social
Organisers are doing the final touches to the #RPPW20 we look forward to welcoming our colleagues to Jyväskylä next week @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Position in Interdisciplinary Concert Research at Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Postdoctoral position in music cognition and concert research at Aarhus University, Denmark. Full-time role focused on interdisciplinary experimental research. Eligible candidates must hold a PhD.…
I received some great news during our @coe-mmbb.bsky.social meeting last week: my paper was selected for the Outstanding Paper Award of our Center for the year 2022 🥳 Now I am motivated to produce more 😁 read it here journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Our new study is out in this week’s issue of PNAS!
People in therapy for heroin and cocaine addiction felt more groove – the pleasurable urge to move to music – when listening to complex rhythms and harmonies, compared to people without drug addiction.
Open access: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Prof. Toiviainen and Prof. Särkämö: cutting funding for culture is a short-sighted policy that undermines societal wellbeing, given the crucial role of arts and music in supporting mental health, social cohesion, and human development across all ages
👇 Linkki: www.aamulehti.fi/lukijalta/ar...
When did humans first begin to sing, and why?
I had a crack at answering this question as part of @newscientist.com's LastWord series. www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...
#musicscience @coe-mmbb.bsky.social
What does music make you feel or imagine? @yorkmusicpsych.bsky.social the 3rd experiment in our longitudinal study for 5-11yo and their families is now online. Help Splat the alien 🛸learn about what music means to Earthlings! Info and access:
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#musicscience
NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.
So, best we share all the footage we can here!
This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.
🇹🇷 #Turkey
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...
Welcome to join the Webinar on Researchers' Wellbeing & #Perfectionism on 19 March at 18:00 GMT.
Practical tools will be given by a counsellor to support our #academic journey.
Register: link.webropolsurveys.com/S/6ECFA547B8...
Supported by: @escom.bsky.social & @tieteentekijat.bsky.social
So proud to share that our own Professor Petri Toiviainen has been honored with a prestigious award from the Finnish Cultural Foundation! 🎉 Thrilled to see his contributions getting the recognition they deserve! #musicscience @phtoiviainen
skr.fi/en/news/finn...
Doughnut academia. Adapting the “doughnut” model of economics to the academic world enables us to visualize the inner social foundations that universities should provide, and the outer human and planetary boundaries that universities need to avoid overshooting. Note that the ordering of elements within the inner and outer rings is random; there is no direct pairing between foundations and ceilings. Adapted from Raworth, 2017 under a CC-BY-SA license.
Seven ways to think like a 21st century scientist. 1. Change the goal: from a business that produces papers and graduated students, towards a university that works towards the inside space of the academic doughnut. 2. Get savvy with systems: from feeling like a cog in the university machine, towards being gardeners of our academic system. 3. See the big picture: from academics who look out over the world from their ivory tower, towards scholarship which accepts its own embeddedness in (and dependence on) society and the planet. 4. Create to regenerate: from a rat race where we tread water, towards “slow scholarship” that values community building, deep thinking and rest crucial for intellectual work. 5. Nurture human nature: from the lone genius, towards team science. 6. Design to distribute: from a funding system where the rich get richer, towards a fair distribution of opportunities and resources. 7. Be agnostic about growth: from a focus on increasing numbers of papers, citations and students, towards rebuilding trust in our own academic communities and with society.
Feeling like academia is in pretty bad shape? You're not alone.
@clarekelly.bsky.social and I previously wrote about the need to collectively rethink and reshape scientific practice: the academic doughnut. Read more at elifesciences.org/articles/84991
But, have these ideas changed anything? 👇
We are starting tonight! If you registered, Zoom link for the meeting was sent to your email adresses, check you spam folder if you haven't seen the email yet.
New online study looking at how people rate a musical rehearsal between two singers. It just takes 5-10 minutes and it'd be great if you could have a listen:
oxfordanthropology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
curious what are your takes on the book
We are starting recruitment for our next study! @musicinthebrain.bsky.social
