Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring, Head of the Organising Team, on why you should join the lAEA Aesthetics Conference 2026 in Jena. We're looking forward to welcoming you!

All the hugs for our newest Doctor! @kirrenchana.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD "Reading in the City" last Friday. Congratulations! 🎉🎓

Submissions are now open! The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics. iaea-jena2026.org

Submissions are now open! The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.

Welcome to the IAEA Aesthetics Conference 2026 in Jena! We are delighted to announce that the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) will hold its next international conference in Jena, Germany, from 5th to 8th May. Discover more at iaea-jena2026.org (link in bio)

Volunteers needed to help organize next years CoBeNe PhD Academy! You will have the chance to learn how to organise the conference and gain (4) ECTS for it. vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-news-edu... Interested in being a volunteer? email: vds.cobene@univie.ac.at

In September, the Open Science Festival will take place @univie.ac.at . Want to explore the future of Open Science & discover ongoing work? Become part of a vibrant academic community through networking opportunities? More info here: osfestival2025.univie.ac.at/en/

I'm hiring! PhD position available at @everydaymedialab.bsky.social , starting in October and focusing on knowledge-related social media use. If you're at #ica25, feel free to talk to me at the opening reception or later. Or share the info with your master students www.psychjob.eu/de/job/resea...

Researcher / PhD Position (m/f/d)

The Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) conducts research into the acquisition and sharing of knowledge and cooperation with digital media. The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association (L...

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my lab (lacns.github.io) at @mpi-nl.bsky.social and @dondersinst.bsky.social is recruiting for two PhD and two postdoctoral positions funded by an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator - come join us! PhD: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... Postdoc: www.mpi.nl/career-educa... (please share widely)

🚨 New Publication! 🚨 📚✨ How do text and image features on book covers influence what we remember and how we evaluate them? As part of a collaborative project with @evalabs.bsky.social @univie.ac.at & literature researchers in Verona Full study in Literature (MDPI): 👉 doi.org/10.3390/lite...

EVAlabs Vienna@evalabs.bsky.social · last yr.

Can you judge a book by its cover? Turns out—yes, and it sticks with you. 📚✨ Our new article explores how text + image features on book covers affect memory and aesthetic judgement—using Italian novels as part of a collaboration with the University of Verona doi.org/10.3390/lite... @univie.ac.at

Last week we went on a little lab retreat. We stayed at the beautiful Rudolfsvilla in Reichenau an der Rax. We had food prepared by our wonderful chefs Helmut, Jan, and Kirren. We discussed future career plans of our PhD students in the garden and around the fire. We all had a beautiful time ❤

Do aesthetic experiences require real sensory input, or can mental imagery evoke them just as powerfully? Our study shows that vivid mental imagery alone can trigger aesthetic experiences nearly indistinguishable from those caused by real sensory input! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112588

Only 1 week left to apply for our open PhD position! 🧠 ‼️ Deadline: May 18th

SCAN Unit@scanunit.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Come work with us! 3-year fully funded PhD position in Social and Cognitive Neuroscience @univie.ac.at @clauslamm.bsky.social to join our project investigating prosocial behavior under uncertainty. More info: shorturl.at/1fnb2 Please share widely 🔁

JOB ALERT! 2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults. Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...

🥂🎓 Congratulations to Akshay Mendhakar who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Text mining as an assistive tool to improve aesthetic reading experience in English as a foreign language" yesterday! 🎉🥂

Lovely write up of our artist-in-residence @judithschaechter.bsky.social at the @pcfn.bsky.social written by @sarcher.bsky.social . Scientific inspiration made manifest in art. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/a...

At a Pennsylvania Museum, an Artist’s Glass Dome Provides Sanctuary (Gift Article)

As the artist in residence at the Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Judith Schaechter created a giant dome to spark joy. It’s now on view outside Philadelphia.

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🎉 New paper out 🎉 We tested participants in a biophilic space, a control space & a forested area. We found: 🍀 higher aesthetic ratings for the natural environment 🍀 higher divergent thinking in the natural environment doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #neuroaesthetics #biophilia @pcfn.bsky.social

Last September we celebrated the EVALabs' 20th anniversary, now we finally have some photos to share from the event. 🎉🥂 📷: Chris Valuch head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at

“What an odd thing“ wrote Oliver Sacks “to see an entire species playing with listening to meaningless tonal patterns, preoccupied for much of their time by what they call ‘music’...“. Our new paper, led by ace student @giacomobignardi.bsky.social, unpacks this puzzle from a genetic perspective. 🧪

Twin modelling reveals partly distinct genetic pathways to music enjoyment - Nature Communications

Here, Bignardi et al. report on a study of over 9,000 Swedish twins that indicates the ability to enjoy music is influenced by multiple partly distinct genetic factors.

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PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art. www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....

Join me online today with Conscious Vienna #ccities25! 🌍 🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨ 📅 Date: March 25, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET) 📍 Location: Online theccd.org/event/the-ae...

Are you looking for a Master's program? Are you interested in research on #art, #neuroaesthetics? 👀🎨🎹🏘️🧠 The new 1-year MSc in Cognition and Aesthetics at Liverpool Hope might be the perfect fit! rb.gy/pojlr1

New study by @margot-dehove.bsky.social of the Faculty of Psychology of Uni Vienna explored the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing and published them in Frontiers in Psychology. 🖼 #psychology #PsychSciSky Read the study here: ⤵ www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Frontiers | Exploring the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing: an empirical field experiment

While cities are attractive places, brimming with opportunities and possibilities for their inhabitants, they have also been found to have negative consequen...

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As part of the EvaLabs 20th anniversary, some of our PhD students co-organised a summer school using the Cobene PhD Organised Events Grant. Read more on the event here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/p... Also want to organise and event? find info here: vds-cobene.univie.ac.at/phd-corner/f...