Reposting this - help me get my PhD, participate, please! And feel free to share and repost. ❤️ Auta mua saamaan tohtorinhattu ja erityisesti -miekka, osallistu tutkimukseen! Saa jakaa. ❤️ #musicscience #musicsky #horror #fear #scarymusic #recreationalfear #musasky #musiikintutkimus

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Participate in a study about scary music! 🦇💀 📝 Anonymous online survey (20–30 min) 👥 Open to adults and adolescents over 15 years 🔤 Good English skills required 🎧 Please wear headphones! ♫ Listen to music clips, answer questions. Participate here: link.webropol.com/s/mapping-sc... #musicscience

Why Context Matters in Music and Emotions — a blog post on why emotional experiences with music cannot be explained by musical features alone, but require a contextualised understanding of the listener and situation.

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

Join Our Study on Musical Immersion

We invite you to take part in our Immersion Journaling Study, where we explore how people feel and think when they truly connect with music.

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Deadline postponed 🥳 A few more days to work on your abstract and send it our way 🤗 new DL: 12th April

Margarida Baltazar@margarida-baltazar.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We are excited to announce the MUSICONNEX Conference! The hybrid conference will be hosted @coe-mmbb.bsky.social , @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social, Finland, on Sept 22–24th 2026. Check our keynotes, website, and contact information in the comments. #musicscience #musicresearch #musiconnex

✨ 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

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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...

Doctoral research fellowship in the psychology of music, AI and creativity (290355) | University of Oslo

Job title: Doctoral research fellowship in the psychology of music, AI and creativity (290355), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, March 1, 2026

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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!

Master's Degree Programme in Music and Science

The Master's Degree Programme in Music and Science at the University of Jyväskylä aims to help students understand the various functions of music in modern everyday life by examining music through a c...

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[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...

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

Martin Hartmann is opening the #RPPW20 conference @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social @coe-mmbb.bsky.social

@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.…

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. Apply by 25 June 2025. Location: Aarhus, Denmark. Advance your academic career in a leading research environment.

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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/...

Individuals with substance use disorders experience an increased urge to move to complex music | PNAS

Substance use disorders disrupt the dopaminergic system of the human brain, which plays a central role in movement and reward processing, altering ...

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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...

Lukijalta | Lyhytnäköiset leikkaukset kulttuurista kylmäävät – romuttaa hyvinvointivaltion perustuksia

Kulttuurista leikkaaminen on lyhytnäköistä hyvinvointipolitiikkaa.

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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

Is it known when humans or our ancestors first started to sing?

As songs don't fossilise, this is a difficult task, point out our readers – but this doesn't stop them having a go

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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...

Finnish Cultural Foundation awards go to Iris Candelaria, Pirkko Saisio and Petri Toiviainen  - Finnish Cultural Foundation

Every year, the Finnish Cultural Foundation presents three €40,000 awards for activities in the fields of science, research, art and culture. The winners are some of the most interesting researchers, ...

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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.

Researchers' Wellbeing Webinar Series@researcherswell.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 Our first webinar is coming up! Join us on 19 February at 19:00 GMT for "Understanding the Key Factors Influencing Wellbeing and #Perfectionism " There will be some practical tools given by a clinical therapist to support our #academic journey. Register: link.webropolsurveys.com/S/6ECFA547B8...

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_...