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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Can’t believe it’s the season for #lilyofthevalley again already.. but the big lilies are really stealing the show this year after all the rain #garden #flowers

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

And we’re off, great keynote speech from Marcus Pearce highlighting how the idyom model can be used to model cultural differences in music perception and pleasure. #musicscience #idyom #cambridge #sempre

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

We’d a Great time at Gorillaz mountain tour this evening - staging was unreal. House was packed, everyone singing like crazy, so many musicians on the stage. Everything from grunge to disco - And never more needed 🤘 🪩 🕺🏻 🎸 #Gorillaz #TimeToDance #HappyEaster

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Delighted to catch up with Saoirse Finn during her research visit to Dublin - in line with her talk on genetics, arts and wellbeing we went to visit the #DNA helical structure sculpture in the National botanical gardens 🧬 🌺 🌲 🌞 #botanics #leisure #health

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Over the holidays I saw this mesmerising sound sculpture by Zimoun in #Nantes in the Museé d’arts. 528 prepared dc motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes ‘a soundscape of opposites: the individual and the collective, order +chaos, routine +chance, simplicity and complexity’ #aesthetics #museum

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Phenomenal discussions today with Artist Moss Russell exploring how socially engaged art can foster autonomy and agency - in preparation for het new performance ‘Uncooth’ as part of the disability arts festival in March 2026 @artscouncilireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Here we are setting up the photovoice exhibition - thankfully we had an expert in straight lines with us… Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out! @georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

So here I am on IrelandAM! Talking music development in babies + a new dance album by Graham Smyth made for babies and parents together -drum breaks with a pianola it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly. #music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

We’re at an opera in the park here in Drumcondra this evening - it’s fab (Crowd is huge we’re side stage) #dublin #summer #outdoor #opera #28degrees

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

It’s always sunny like this in Dublin I swear. #Summer

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Fully enjoyed #Dublin #Pride festival - a strong mix of protest and celebration. It may have rained on the parade a little, but it only made everyone cheer even louder. Big shout out to the Dublin Gay Men’s Choi 🎶 🏳️‍🌈🥳 🏳️‍⚧️✌️🇵🇸❤️🇭🇺 #DublinPride #MakePeaceNotWar #LGBTQIA #Love #DGMC #ChooseLove

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

It was such a pleasure to visit the @stresslabvienna.bsky.social this week and present a guest lecture on the cognitive mechanisms that underpin music based analgesia. 🎶🧠☺️ Such an impressive department - thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome.

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I’m @univie.ac.at on a research visit to the faculty of #psychology hosted by Anna Fekete in Urs Nater’s lab.. We’ve a busy week ahead planning some new music and pain studies focused on absorption - and turns out there’s a few other guest speakers in the department this week… 🤓 🎶 ❤️ #musicscience

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Nice addition in Dublin airport. Also when you self-check your bag in Dublin they’ve a reminder not to check in your own passport. Very helpful. ✈️ 🇦🇹 👩🏻‍🏫 🎶

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

This week at the Music and Health Psychology Lab we were thrilled to have @bleizdelsette.bsky.social in Queen Mary University of London discuss his development of a #genAI platform to support #music selection for people with #chronicpain. #psychology #musicscience @tcdpsychology.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Still some time to take part in an online study exploring the links between musicality and neurodivergent traits… 🧠🎶🔥 #adhd #autism #music #takepart

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Tell me, does this happen in any other country - they deliver FRESH MILK by just leaving it outside on the ground?

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Very proud of my first years - they've managed to complete a #music and #pain experiment that shows that listening to REM's 'Everybody hurts' is not as effective as choosing their own favourite piece of music at increasing duration on the wall sit task. @tcdpsychology.bsky.social #musicscience

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Proud of my little garden - a random french woman just knocked on the door to ask where we got our Lilys of the valley but they actually just came with the house and grow back every year. #flowers #LilyofTheValley #Rare #Nature

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

It was blisteringly sunny yesterday as the #psychology undergrads had to sit inside and take a #stats exam So sunny I took down my summer clothes from storage, only to wake up and see its LASHING Rain today Hope they celebrated yesterday ☀️🐍🌸 #EndOfTerm #Dublin @tcdpsychology.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thank you to Nina Damon from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for sharing her PhD composition #Volcano which elicits physical and visual #imagery to challenge NeuroNormative conceptualisations of #music. #MusicScience #MusicPsychology #SonicLego #AuralDivergence

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

So proud of my violets - got the bulbs from Trinity urban garden and they’re shooting up already! Not sure when they flower but will definitely share when they do #flowers #botanical #urbangarden #urbanity

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Great performance of Mongolian music and dance from Khuur band at Trinity Long Room Hub - it’s all about the arm movements apparently because there’s much space for dancing around in Yurts! 🛖 💃🏻🎶💪🏻 @trisstcd.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

It’s beginning to look A lot like Christmas… GREAT Carols at the Christmas tree lighting in Trinity this evening - the whole front square is packed ✨🎄🎶✨ #Christmas #Holidays #EndisNear

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Great to see the buzz back on campus in Trinity College Dublin - but my goodness how do the students keep getting younger! Delighted to have my quiet corner to work on my new #musicpsych projects #MondayMotivaton @trisstcd.bsky.social #university

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Oooh oooh feeling mighty special as one in ten million and I was #1,771,035! Top 20th percentile right there 😂

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,771,035, Claire Howlin ‪@dancingresearch.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 30, 2023"

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 13/08/2024

Fantastic talk today at Trinity from Dr Joshua Wooly from @UCSF we started with Newgrange, segued to ice buckets and finished with how #music is integral for psilocybin #clinicaltrials - but nobody has looked at it systematically… yet? #musictherapy #musicscience #musicpsych

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 07/07/2024

Can’t believe I got to conference this week with hubs in Australia and Argentina, and all without the need for long haul flights home to sunny Dublin. 👩🏻‍🏫 🛫 ☀️ 🇮🇪 #accessible #musicscience #musicpsych #SustainableFuture @escom12.bsky.social @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

And we’re off! Andrew Schaivio and Helen Daffern launching proceedings and giving us all a great big welcone to @escom12.bsky.social #musicscience #conferenceseason #music #Helsinki

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 07/06/2024

Here’s my flower patch now - it’s the gift that keeps on giving. Two big native Irish flowers foxglove at the front and lupin in the background there. Can you see the third little bud floating in the air ready to pop?! #flowers #bees #wildflowers #dublin

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

So proud of my flower patch this year. This nobbeldy one in the corner should grow into a big tall #foxglove later in the ‘summer’ Stay tuned. #flowers #summer #TFIFriday

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Full house for the keynote speech today from @amybelfi.bsky.social at #IAEA2024 … and that animation on PowerPoint 🤤 #Palma

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 20/12/2023

Just popped into the wonderful Jen Zamparelli show @RTE2fm radio to talk about how choosing to actively listen to #music can benefit your #health and #wellbeing If you have time Choose the Tunes over the holidays @PsychologyTCD

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