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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

🎧 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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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Слушаш ли музика на телефона си? Разбери как тя влияе на твоите емоции. Можеш да спечелиш 6 месеца Premium Spotify. За да участваш, посети www.MusicStudy.eu

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

- 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

this is top portion of the article displaying the title of the study, Personalisation and profiling using
algorithms and not-so-popular Colombian
music: goal-directed mechanisms in music
emotion recognition

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

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.

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

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

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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...

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🎵 "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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🎵 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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🎵 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

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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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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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...

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

#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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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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)'

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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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patrick and spongebob are standing next to each other

ALT: patrick and spongebob are standing next to each other

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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 🫶

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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?

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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."

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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/

Music and Science book cover featuring a listener with headphones

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Emma Segura @emminorchord.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Welcome to the newcomers 🦋! If you have a native/proficient level of English, participate & share my survey on singing, music, art, and personality traits! 🎤🥁🎨🎭 Have the chance to win a tablet and help expand the knowledge on the passion for singing🧍🌍 ubpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Ezra Winton @ezrawinton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

First snow of the year in #Bulgaria! On my right - colleagues Rossen Petkov and @lennietm.bsky.social. That's the #AUBG campus in the background with some faint mountains at the right. I love experiencing four seasons :)

Three colleagues standing in front of AUBG campus buildings while it snows.

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Ezra Winton @ezrawinton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Our Dept is hosting an info session on campus tonight. Here’s the poster I made (re-opened InDesign after a long hiatus). #AUBG

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Morning #musicskyence, I’m gearing up to create a new Music Psychology (undergrad) course next term and am looking for studies to consider for student replication projects. Any recommendations for intriguing research that lends itself well to replication? #Psychology #MusicCognition #TeachingIdeas

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

It was wonderful to be out presenting for colleagues at PAM-IE 2024 🇭🇷 A great few days catching up with old friends and making new ones. This growing conference marks the expanding field of music psychology on the Balkans. #musicscience

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

A really important talk on the importance of sharing data and analysis scripts in #musicscience / #musicpsych More needs to be done and faster advancements in the field will follow. @tuomaseerola.bsky.social at #escom12

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

@kirtsconnor.bsky.social presenting the new & shiny Episode Model of musical emotions. Lots of very interesting applications to come. Get inspired and check out the pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/ps... #escom12 #musicpsych

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Wonderful keynote by Jennifer MacRitchie talking about how you’re never too old to get the benefits from learning music. Moreover, some of the applications to dementia care. “Careful design will lead to better musical experiences for more people” #escom12 #musicpsych

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Grove as more that just the “urge to move” - it’s also ‘immersive’ & ‘social’ phenomena. A wonderful presentation by Deniz Dumas and one that draws on more dynamic models of music processing. #escom12

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Wonderful presentation by Scott Bannister and Emily Payne exploring chills in musical performance #escom12

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Beautiful talk and a beautiful title (“surfing the pleasure wave”) by Emery Schubert focusing on modelling the pleasure from exposure to music #escom12

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

A fantastic application of goal-directed approaches to understanding individual differences in the relevance of musical lyrics by Emma D’Aprano #escom12

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 05/07/2024

Presenting from sunny Oz to #escom12, @jasongoopy.bsky.social and Stephanie MacArthur provide a wonderful example of the benefits of scoping reviews #musicpsych

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

How diverse are the participants and music that we use in hashtag #musicscience research? Check out our new pre-print on this topic: osf.io/preprints/ps... In this wonderful collaboration we examine the samples and stimuli used in over 1,600 studies from the past 13 years.

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

The uni is updating its digital journal subscription. 👀 looking for a good general interest #AffectSci journal 📔 Any good suggestions…?

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 20/10/2023

Looking for suggestions ‼️Any #opensource qualitative video and audio analysis software people would recommend #musicscience

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

A great morning at #SysMus23. One key recurring idea from our morning on #AffectSci experiences with music appears to be a greater focus on the role of attention in the 'meaning-making' process. #musicscience

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

A great morning at #SysMus23. One key recurring idea from our morning on #AffectSci experiences with music appears to be a greater focus on the role of attention in the 'meaning-making' process.

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