🎧 Why does the same song make you feel different things at different times? My new paper shows it’s not just the music — it’s your goals. 👉 Do our goals shape the emotions music evokes? 🎥 2-minute visual abstract below. doi: doi.org/10.1177/1029...

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- Although such systems are promoted as tools for personalized listening, they *could* also be used to infer or profile individuals’ beliefs A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3

Some “light” holiday reading - #blackholes another excellent book by Cox & Forshaw. I can finally say I understand the Penrose diagrams… well, close enough to understanding.

Seeking to improve the science of measurement in the affective sciences? What are we measuring? how did we measure it? and does it work across research context? Really important and very valuable work by @kirtsconnor.bsky.social

New music dataset are always important contributions to #musicscience research: "Creating an open‑access music audio dataset for deep phenotyping of subjective experience of musical emotions" -- by @seunggookim.bsky.social #icmpc2025

Want automated reproducibility checks for your R Markdown docs on GitHub? reproducibleRchunks v1.2.0 is now on CRAN! ✅ Generates GitHub Actions for cloud-based reproducibility checks (with cool badges) 📦 Supports renv for dependency management 👉 cran.r-project.org/package=repr...

Excellent talk by @camandrsn.bsky.social - make sure to check out his new R package ggcommonality: bar plots of unique and joint effects from a commonality analysis 👉 github.com/cmndrsn/ggco...

Enjoying some great live Japanese rock music with Taiki Shimozono #icmpc2025

Excellent presentation @camandrsn.bsky.social. It's going to be an incredibly useful review

🌍🎶 How universal is music? Challenging assumptions about the perception of music cross-culturally. A great talk by @norijacoby.bsky.social at #icmpc2025

🌍✨ A fascinating new look at assessing musical cultures across the globe by award-winning @harinlee.info

🎵 "Hello darkness, my old friend..." sad music isn’t always a red flag 🟥 Anđela Milošević develops a qualitative analysis of how teens view the use of sad music not to stay sad—but to move through it. #ICMPC2025

🎵 Do lyrics really shape how we feel music? How matching, clashing, and nonsense lyrics affect emotional perception across genres. Results suggest sad songs + sad words = strongest feels. #ICMPC2025

🎵 How do our digital footprints reflect our musical minds? Vinoo Alluri (Keynote) explores situated music cognition, linking what we say about music to what we actually listen to, feel, and need. Take a deep dive with Muselt: github.com/Muse-it/MuseIt #musicscience #ICMPS18

GitHub - Muse-it/MuseIt: MuseIt, a music sentiment analysis/viz tool. SolidJS frontend and Flask backend.

MuseIt, a music sentiment analysis/viz tool. SolidJS frontend and Flask backend. - Muse-it/MuseIt

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Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

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#SysMus25 has been wonderful. Thank you for the wonderful presentations, workshops, talks, and smiles. An extra big thank you to the wonderful and ever cheerful Abbigail Fleckenstein and all the organising team. 🥰

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Last day of #SysMus25! It's been a pleasure hosting you all 🫶 @sysmus.bsky.social

What music do you prefer to sleep with (if you sleep with music)? How might we capture the characteristics of such music? @samuelmorgan.bsky.social contributing to these questions - 'Active Preference Learning for Musical Stimuli (for Sleep)'

Bridging the divide between psychometricians and musical-affective measures - A really valuable contribution from @kirtsconnor.bsky.social seeking to ensure rigorous measurement of emotional episodes with relevance and clarity. #sysmus25

'Thoughtscapes' - what types of thoughts emerge across different musical genres? A fascinating look at how music shapes the mind by @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social #sysmus25

Wonderful research by @spooky-kat.bsky.social at #sysmus25 on 'Adolescent Experiences of Scary Music'. One of the fascinating experiential juxtapositions generated by music. 👻 Personal fav of the stimuli: Korn - Dead Bodies Everywhere

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ALT: patrick and spongebob are standing next to each other

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Building a taxonomy of childrens' musical experiences (embodied - detached). Novel data collection and novel insights by @carocaronet.bsky.social at #SysMus25 p.s. check out the stories of Splat 👾 the alien 🫶

@harinlee.info Congrats - Best Student Paper Award #ICMPC18 🥇 📄Paper: Global similarities and diversities of melody and rhythm. Looking forward to seeing the presentation.

Insights into the different affordances music has in aging - by Heini Siltainsuu #SysMus25

The Emotional-Motivational Functions of Musical Imagery in Parkinson's Patients by Marietta Ungerer at #SysMus25

More important work from #SysMus25. @nashraa.bsky.social exploring the role of cultural familiarity and learning in the experience of isochronous & non-isochronous beats.

Some fascinating findings form @jayteetang.bsky.social regarding the role of the self-construal (a proxy for individualist and collectivist cultures) in the experience of musical reward. Interesting question: to what degree are rewarding experiences with music Westerly constructed?

A very interesting talk by Tristan Eissing @ #SysMus25 exploring the under-explored area of negative impacts of music - "How Music Can Jeopardise the abstinence of Individuals with Substance Use Disorder."

Excellent talk by @silviagenovese.bsky.social on evaluating how individual sleeping goals and motivations influence preferences in music for sleep - very much looking forward to seeing more results.

I'm proud to announce a new textbook for #musicscience titled "Music and Science: A Guide to Empirical Research". It covers methods in music psychology, empirical research, #openresearch & music computation in 298 pages. For details, see doi.org/10.4324/9781.... Codes at tuomaseerola.github.io/emr/