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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 22h

Our article got published today!! 🎉🎉🎉 If you’re looking to capture contextual variables around emotional episodes with music, this 35 item instrument will help! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... #musicscience #emotion #psychology #psychometrics #measurement #psychsky #music

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Had a great time at the Tilburg Experience Sampling Center this week! Such a wonderful group of people focused on ESM came together to collaborate on grants for MITNB. Super fun to chat about music psychology with this group, who knew music lovers were everywhere?!

Outside the Tilburg University building that houses the department of social and behavioural sciences

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@studylistening.bsky.social showcasing how music programming and environment relate to the improvement of mood and well being; focused listening outcomes are driven not only by the music, but also the context, and listener interactions #musiconnex

Presentation slide from Amanda Krause at Musiconnex

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#musicconnex is a blast so far! Getting the word out about how we can study the dynamic, situated, and contextual experience of music #musicscience

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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵

Two-panel figure. Panel a is a flow diagram tracking 1,611 empirical psychology articles from publication year (545 in 2015, 552 in 2020, 514 in 2025) to repository-link type: 785 link an OSF project, 85 link another platform, and 741 link no repository. Of those with an OSF link, download counts were retrieved for 670 and not retrieved for 115. Panel b is a line chart of the share of empirical papers linking OSF across 2015, 2020 and 2025. The overall rate, shown as a dashed black line, rises from 9% to 57% to 82%. All four journals rise steeply and end close together: Psychological Science 92%, JESP 89%, JML 83%, Cognition 76%, with Psychological Science highest throughout.

Three-panel figure. Panel a: ridgeline plot of downloads per file by material type on a log scale, with the percentage never downloaded labelled for each — archive 16% of 545 files, documents 20% of 2,970, code 12% of 3,471, other 17% of 1,646, data 21% of 10,051, media 35% of 2,120, images 35% of 4,102. Most files cluster between 1 and 10 downloads, with long right tails past 100. Panel b: ridgeline plot of downloads per paper by journal, log scale, with dashed median lines; Psychological Science is highest, then JESP, JML and Cognition. Panel c: stacked bars showing, for documents, data and code separately, the share of papers by download band (0, 1–10, 11–100, more than 100) in 2015, 2020 and 2025. The share exceeding 100 downloads falls sharply over time in all three types, from roughly two-thirds in 2015 to a quarter or less in 2025, as the 1–10 band grows.

Four-panel figure. Panel a: statistical languages detected among 333 papers with retrievable code — R 88%, SPSS 12%, Stata 4%, SAS 1%. Panel b: code red flags among those 333 papers — 34% hard-code an absolute path, 40% reference a missing file — above documentation among 672 OSF-linked papers — 21% have a README, 30% are documented by README, description or wiki. Panel c: among 562 Elsevier papers with no repository link, 44% (245) host at least one journal supplementary file but only 14% (77) host data, code or an archive. Panel d: composition of those 448 hosted files — documents 52%, data 21%, media 9%, other 7%, archive 6%, code 3%, images 1%. The code panels are green, the journal-supplement panels blue.

Coefficient plot (download predictors)

Dot-and-whisker plot of three standardised predictors of OSF download volume, each with a 95% confidence interval. Repository size (number of files) has the largest effect at about 0.76, citations about 0.38, and altmetric attention about 0.12. All three intervals sit entirely above zero, so each predicts more downloads, with repository size roughly twice the effect of citations and six times that of attention. X-axis: standardised effect, −0.2 to 1.0.

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 18/09/2026

This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

1/2 A new study of music psychology papers published from 2000–2025 finds encouraging progress: women had 41% higher odds of first authorship than men, despite making up only 40% of all authors. #musicscience Open access article out in Music & Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

particularly recommending my fully openly available #OpenResearch research repositories with my embedded interactive 👾 MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set Shiny app 💫 hazelvdw.github.io/repositories... #MusicScience #MusicPsych #GitHub

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Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

#MusicScience Conference Opportunities 🎶🧠 🎶 Inaugural Musical Care International Network Conference | Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Scotland and online [Hybrid] | 9-11 Jun 2027 🎤 Submission deadline 23 Oct 2026 🌐 Conference LinkedIn page: shorturl.at/8abBC

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Musical Care International Conference | Inaugural Musical Care International Conference

Submissions welcome for the Inaugural Musical Care International Network Conference! The Musical Care International Network is thrilled to welcome submissions to its first-ever hybrid conference, mar...

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

📢 Open positions at @coe-mmbb.bsky.social — the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in Finland! We are recruiting 5-9 postdoctoral & 2-6 doctoral researchers to join our large, international research community 🇫🇮 #musicscience 🔹 Postdocs: bit.ly/4gADdbx 🔹 Doctoral: bit.ly/4g10xPz

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5-9 Postdoctoral researchers, CoE in Music, Mind, Body and Brain

The Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Music, Mind, Body and Brain at [the Department of Music, Art and Culture studies](https://www.jyu.fi/en/humsoc/mutku) of the University of Jyväskylä is seeking to rec...

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Excited to see some top discussion about open research!

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Pat Savage @patrickesavage.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Heads up: what appears to be a scam/predatory academic organisation calling itself the International Institute of Music Science and Arts is setting up. Myself and other real scholars were emailed and told we were "appointed" as Fellows, but as far as I can tell...

Research page includes these apparently fabricated journals:

IMSA Academic Journals
IIMSA Journal of Music Science
Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

2345-6789

Impact Factor

3.12

Scope

Music neuroscience, acoustics, psychology, AI, and technology

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IIMSA Journal of Music Arts & History
Frequency

Biannual

ISSN

2345-6790

Impact Factor

1.87

Scope

Music theory, history, ethnomusicology, and performance studies

Submit a manuscript

Leadership Team includes fabricated and/or misleading information (e.g., Prof. Robert Sterling as "former president of the American Musicological Society" who "has led IIMSA since 2018")

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Stephanie Pitts @sparcsheffield.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Huge congratulations to our brilliant @musicpsychshef.bsky.social colleague Nikki Dibben for her election to a British Academy fellowship. Very well-deserved recognition for her diverse and impressive work in music cognition, popular music, and music and AI. Looking forward to celebrations!!

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@sempre-uk.bsky.social has joined Bluesky! For the #musicpsych crowd, I’ve added them into a starter pack of labs and orgs in the field. go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

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European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music - ESCOM @escom.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Amazing to see early career researchers coming together in #musicscience. We welcome everyone to become a member of ESCOM to stay up to date on other opportunities and events www.escomsociety.org/membership

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Membership | ESCOM Society

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Addie - inky, pinky, thinky @addiebabe.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yay, time for the Open Research / Open Scholarship / Open Science workshop! Thanks Hazel for bringing this session to the conference 😁 @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social #sysmus #openresearch #phdsky #musicscience

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Reposting this thread for the #musicscience crowd. Great work by @rainerpolak.bsky.social, Laura and Sam!

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Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

✨Creating Extraordinary Musicians with Psychological Health in Mind🧠🎶 Watch the interview between Professor Margaret Osborne and Susan Eldridge on musicians' wellbeing and performance here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALYN...

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Creating Extraordinary Musicians with Psychological Health in Mind

YouTube video by AMPS

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Caroline Owen @carocaronet.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What does music make you feel or imagine? Part 6…It’s Splat the Alien’s last chance to discover what music means to Earthlings! Young people aged 5-11, please help Splat complete the final Quest! (adult consent required): york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #musicscience #musiceducation

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

#SysMus26 loading…👾 to get you even more excited, our team have made a @sysmus.bsky.social promo video! 🧑‍🚀🚀 Watch it on YouTube youtu.be/50m5J7ZEwGY?... &/ visit our website musicscience.net/events/sysmu... We can’t wait to see you all there!! #MusicResearch #MusicScience #MusicPsych #conferences

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Get ready for SysMus26 in Durham!

YouTube video by SysMus

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Australian Music & Psychology Society (AMPS) @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

‼️ APSCOM/AMPS 2026 Conference Early Bird Registration‼️ Don't forget early bird registration closes next Wednesday on 1st July 2026! 🐦 Registrations are now open for in-person and online attendance. Register now: amps.org.au/conference-r...

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Conference Registration 2026 | Australian Music & Psychology Society

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Excellent to see our Music Psychology PhD researchers @kirtsconnor.bsky.social, @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social, and Anthi Georgiadou sharing their work at the Arts and Humanities Research Celebration Event at Durham University. Photo by Astrid Buschhoff. #MusicScience #ResearchCulture #PhDLife

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Eren Günseli @erengunseli.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my lab at Sabancı University in Istanbul for a 2-year TÜBİTAK-funded position, with possible extension. Interested candidates can email me with a CV and a brief note about their research interests. More details on gunselilab.com soon.

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Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab | Istanbul | Sabanci Uni.

Memory, Attention, & Cognitive Control Lab at Sabancı University - Eren Günseli. We study how memory and attention interact, how humans control what to remember, what to forget, what to attend to, and...

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

NEW #MusicScience preprint! A #NaturalLanguageProcessing study asking: Can brief contextual cues—framing music within social/cultural situations—systematically align listeners’ thoughts during music listening? 🖼️ 💽 🎧 🧠 #MusicPsychology 🔬Read *Framed Listening* here: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

New blog post by @tuomaseerola.bsky.social on why #MusicScience should seek to contextualise emotional experiences people have with #music. To capture different aspects of experiences (e.g. why music is meaningful) new #psychometric tools need to be developed... Read more: doi.org/10.31234/osf....

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Glad to have connected with friends and met new colleagues in Cambridge this week. Great discussions about the importance of proper #psychometric validation for #musicpsych measures

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Great study out from @lennietm.bsky.social showing that an individual’s goals can shape the induced emotional response to music, even the same piece of music. Music evoked emotions aren’t just stimulus driven, we also need to understand functions and goals. #MusicScience #psychsci

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European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music - ESCOM @escom.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Extended call for papers! 🚨🔍 Apply by March 1st, 2026 for the Psychology & Music Interdisciplinary Encounters (PAM-IE) conference happening at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, from the 14-17th of October 2026. www.pam-ie2026.com #musicscience #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Computational models for music emotion recognition (MER) have steadily improved. Our meta-analysis is now out in ACM Computing Surveys. We reviewed 34 studies comprising 290 models, distilled from a much larger initial pool. #musicscience #musicpsych #emotion #MIR

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Excited to announce our article has been published! doi.org/10.1177/2059... I led a project to operationalise constructs that identify the emotional episodes people experience listening to music. #MusicScience experts assessed items against prior theory, a surprisingly under reported practice 🔭❗

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UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

📣We have a 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions. The position is connected to our new project 𝘊𝘰-𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 (𝘚𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘎𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦) led by Research Professor Lara Pearson

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Postdoctoral research fellowship in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions (289576) | University of Oslo

Job title: Postdoctoral research fellowship in the computational analysis of gesture-vocalization interactions (289576), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Saturday, February 28, 2026

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SysMus @sysmus.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Do you want to host SysMus in 2027? To celebrate our 20th anniversary, we want to connect early-career researchers around the globe. Any institution from around the world can join this multi-hub endeavour! Find out more at sites.google.com/view/sysmus/... #musicpsych #PsychSciSky

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SysMus @sysmus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—is being held this coming year at Durham University, UK, July 22–24 (Wed–Fri), 2026! Abstract submission deadline is 30 January 2026. Check out the SysMus 26 site for further details: musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

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SysMus26

We are looking forward to hosting the next International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology very soon! SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—i…

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

What prevents music psychologists from sharing primary research data? If you are a music psychology researcher (of any level/experience), do help us and complete this anonymous 10-minute questionnaire. #musicpsych #musicscience #opendata #survey durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

This is a chatGPT created image about barriers to data sharing.

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Scott Bannister @sb-78.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Fascinating to hear @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social talk at Leeds about how music shapes imagination, covering importance of genre, age, auditory features and contextual associations with music for content of imagined thoughts when listening! Brilliant collaborative work!

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Which memorisation techniques help young piano students perform their best? PhD @charasteliou.bsky.social presented at #ISPS25 in Shanghai, showing that multimodal memorisation goes beyond repetition exercises in a pedagogical intervention study. #musicscience #psychology #MusicSky #musiciansky

Chara presenting at the International Symposium on Performance Science in Shanghai, China.

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Great to see ECR colleagues promoted in the #musicscience community. Best of luck to @harinlee.info!

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

It was a pleasure to get a quick interview with Lalit while at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo. #musicscience #musicpsychology

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Lab member @fruzsiszucs.bsky.social has written about her recent experience going to her first international conference at musicscience.net! #musicpsychology #earlycareerresearcher #psychology #conference #ICMPC18

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Music & Science

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Connor Kirts @kirtsconnor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Noticed a lot of new people and labs on Bluesky who attended #ICMPC18 I’ve added @co3lab.bsky.social and @smmb-lab.bsky.social to this starter pack! Share it with people who are new to bsky! Also feel free to recommend any #musicscience related labs left out. go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a talk at #ICMPC18 on steps researchers can take to report their #measurement decisions and what questionable practices are common for the discipline #musicscience #psychometrics

Connor presenting at ICMPC18 in São Paulo

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Had a blast 💥 at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo!! Super lucky for the opportunity to disseminate our research and engage with international colleagues! 🌏🌍🌎

Some members of the lab (Hazel, Connor, Caroline, Aliya, Katie, and Fruszi) at ICMPC18

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