🎵 Registration is open for the 2026 SEMPRE Conference on #MusicScience and #MusicPsychology at Cambridge University (CMS + MMB) on 16 April 2026. Talks and posters from early career researchers, a keynote by Dr Marcus Pearce, and many opportunities to connect with others. Website: lnkd.in/eEQPKr5Q

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 ⬇

It was an honor to be interviewed about my doctoral research by @bdalile.bsky.social for #KarakterCast! This interview happened on the occasion of me receiving the ASL research award for Human Sciences for my PhD work. Check it out on Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/07Zu...

We are recruiting postdocs! Want to grow your own social networks to study creativity, cultural evolution & decision-making? We are hiring a funded postdoc at Cornell in collaboration with UC Davis, CUNY, & Princeton. Apply here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28959

Nori Jacoby@norijacoby.bsky.social · last yr.

We are recruiting two postdoctoral scholars for a research project in human collective intelligence and creativity at UC Davis and Cornell. Joint project with @enfascination.com, @norijacoby.bsky.social, @oferon.bsky.social & Dalton Conley. Please forward this thread to relevant people. 1/n

Tag yourself. I’m “puzzled-misinformed.”

Dr. Angelica Lim@petitegeek.bsky.social · last yr.

Structure in conversation: Evidence for the vocabulary, semantics, and syntax of prosody www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Work with Steven Brown and Elizabeth Phillips: They annotated by ear an impressive set of ~400 scales from vocal music across the world. I used algorithms to get accurate estimates of scale degrees in cents. Cool stuff! Data is all available here: zenodo.org/records/1060... Will release code later

Musical scales optimize pitch spacing: a global analysis of traditional vocal music - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - Musical scales optimize pitch spacing: a global analysis of traditional vocal music

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Excited to announce our next Whitehead Lecture by @harinlee.info on Understanding Music in the Age of Machine Learning. Join us online or in person: Wednesday, 4pm (see link). @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social #MusicCognition #BigData

Harin Lee will talk on "Understanding music in the age of machine learning"

Harin leverages big data to explore music from diverse cultures worldwide and investigates the psychological foundations of human music perception.

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🎶Join us tomorrow for a talk on 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗺 by Prof Pam Heaton (details in link). Pam's research has shaped the cross-disciplinary study of developmental disorders and its relation to music cognition. #AutismResearch #MusicCognition

Professor Pam Heaton: Approaches to understanding musicality in autism

Professor Pam Heaton, Emerita Professor of Psychology, Goldsmiths, will present her research on A re-evaluation of approaches to understanding musicality in autism

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New paper on the demographic drivers of cultural evolution in Great Tit song published today - epic work led by @nilomr.bsky.social with help from @andreaestandia.bsky.social Ella Cole & Sara Keen. Why did we do this, and what did we find? 🧵 follows: 1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The demographic drivers of cultural evolution in bird song

Social learning can give rise to shared behavioral patterns that persist as culture within animal communities,1,2 such as bird and whale songs and cet…

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This sounds like a dream: Barcelona + Cognitive Modelling!

@alexhyafil.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our Barcelona-based summer school, BAMB! (bambschool.org) just opened applications! Come join us: 15-24th July, to learn how to model behavioral data using RL, Bayesian, latent variable models, RNNs, DDMs & more! #BAMB2025

I hope you enjoy some of the ideas I put forward in “Metacognition in the listening brain”: Trends in Neurosciences www.cell.com/trends/neuro... — out now.

Metacognition in the listening brain

How do you know you have heard right? Metacognition, the ability to assess and monitor one’s own cognitive state, is key to understanding human communication in complex environments. However, the foun...

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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 ⬇️

5-yr position in computational humanities with @oliviermorin.bsky.social and @jbcamps.bsky.social in Paris! Original deadline has passed but search is ongoing. Details here: cognition.ens.fr/en/job/junio...

The final speaker of the term will be Oliver Durcan on "Exploring the Dynamics of Flow State Episodes" — those moments of heightened absorption, effortless control, and increased enjoyment during skilled activities like music making. Join us in person this Thursday (12-1PM) or DM for an online link.

Exploring the dynamics of flow state episodes

Oliver Durcan

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This Thursday Young-Jin Hur (University of Arts London) will be presenting recent work on the psychology of fashion and everyday clothing choices at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social. Feel free to join! This is part of our SCAPA seminars (Science of the Creative and Performing Arts).

From the sublime to everyday clothing choices

Young-Jin Hur

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Delighted to share that our edited volume, The Science Music Borderlands, won the 2024 Ruth Solie Award from the American Musicological Society! Thank you to all who helped on the project.

Starter packs seem all the rage so here’s a cultural evolution one go.bsky.app/6mZJyQq

Announcement! The next @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social CES conference will be at UM6P in Rabat, Morocco, provisional dates 11-13th May 2026! Hosted by Mathieu Charbonneau, @sarahalami.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com & @edseabright.bsky.social. Save the dates! culturalevolutionsociety.org/news-and-eve...

Cultural Evolution Society 2026 Conference Announced - Cultural Evolution Society

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To help find people at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Of course let me know if I missed someone or you’d like to be added 🧪 🧠 #neuroskyence go.bsky.app/CAfmKQs

Some resources i've curated for the cognitive and computational neuroscience communities on bluesky! First, a twin set of starter packs. go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

Okay the people requested one so here is an attempt at a Computational Cognitive Science starter pack -- with apologies to everyone I've missed! LMK if there's anyone I should add! go.bsky.app/KDTg6pv

For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics. just comment below if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj #musicskyence

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.

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Harin Lee@harinlee.info · 2y ago

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.

🎵Notes from Beethoven's genome 🧬 A depiction of the challenges of individual-level genetic predictions using Beethoven's genome From L. Wesseldijk, S. Fisher, me, @davidjohnbaker.bsky.social, and many more. doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Really excited to be back working on the evolution of musical scales. My project is coming to an end at last after 6 years. 🎵🧬 🎵🧠 First, I created a database of scales from data in the ethomusicology literature. Kudos to Ellis, Kunst, Tracey, Kubik, and all who followed in their footsteps. 1/5

Abstract submission for #ces2024durham is OPEN!! @culturalevolsoc.bsky.social Deadline to submit is the 11th March 2024 09:00am GMT! Submit here ces2024.webspace.durham.ac.uk/abstract-sub... See the below thread for more details [1/6]

Abstract Submission - CES 2024 Conference

Abstract submission for the CES 2024 Conference will run from 15:00 GMT on 12th January 2024 until 09:00 GMT on 11th March 2024. Please read the guidance on this page first, and then submit your abstr...

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A PhD student in our lab in conducting this survey study on natural singing. Everyone can participate, all ages, all countries welcome! Please help her participating in her study and spreading the word! ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Journal fees for open access are becoming obscene. But what are we, scientists, paying for? I made a simple plot with journals in my research area(s). Clearly, we are paying for prestige: a shockingly clean correlation between the impact factor and journal fees

Why do we love music? Our lab’s 9-study suite on learning rewards from levels of predictions in a new musical system, out today in @psychscience.bsky.social #musicscience #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence, @nickkathios.bsky.social & Matt Sachs w/ Tia Ou, Euan Zhang journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....