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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Attendees of the Lorentz Workshop last April are working hard on their manuscripts... We’re aiming to have the volume in print by spring 2027! Stay tuned for updates: www.mcg.uva.nl/d11/

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Phil Trans B | Theme Issue (D11)

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#musicgens We just started the fifth edition in Reykjavik! musicgens.org

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

26 September it will again be streamed on Arte : The Musical Animal, a documentary by Connie Edwards. See tv.de/sendung/rhyt...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“Twenty years of beat perception research: separating convincing evidence from premature claims“, a critical review on the development and evolution of beat perception, together w/ Gábor Háden, HUN-REN. See press release at lnkd.in/eNCKfnW7 and #OpenAccess paper at lnkd.in/e-SzkUrj

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Imagine this: you are born into a world where everything revolves around singing, but you have rhythm mainly in your feet. In #HappyFeet, the penguin Mumble dances against the rules of his colony. But what exactly is a sense of rhythm? podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/n... #NetEcht #Musicality

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

‘Musical animals: Are we? Can there be?’ | academic.oup.com/book/63102 A new interdisciplinary volume exploring the biology and evolution of music, bringing together perspectives from neuroscience, biology, psychology, anthropology, AI, and musicology. @andrearavignani.bsky.social

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The Biology of Music: Interdisciplinary Insights

Abstract. This volume offers a multifaceted, interdisciplinary exploration of the biology of music. It approaches musicality as a biologically grounded, cu

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Alex South @amsouth.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

It's great to see The Biology of Music - Interdisciplinary Insights edited by @andrearavignani.bsky.social out in the wild! I have a co-authored chapter in there on #animalmusicking, with @emilydoolittle.bsky.social and Pralle Kriengwatana. academic.oup.com/book/63102.

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mhoeschele.bsky.social @mhoeschele.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Our book, "Nature Beats" is finally out. It talks all about how we can study rhythm across species and what that can tell us about the evolution of music. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Out in NYAS soon | doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Bjorn Merker a few decades ago on BPS ! Read the latest on this topic in a freely downloadable #OpenAccess book called ‘Nature Beats’ (Springer Nature, 2026, doi 10.1007/978-3-032-24250-1), w/ several contributions by Merker and his colleagues)! www.instagram.com/reel/DbJG0h0...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Nature Beats is now available #OpenAccess: a timely, cross-disciplinary volume exploring the what, how, and why of rhythmic behaviour in animals. It brings together empirical findings, new data, and theories on the evolution of musical rhythm across species.

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Nature Beats

This open access book offers the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of rhythmic behavior across the animal kingdom.

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Ancient Greeks proved Earth was round using sticks and shadows. Eratosthenes calculated its circumference to within 2% accuracy over 2,000 years ago. No satellites needed.

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

1/2 : ‘Meeting a friend in the corridor, Wittgenstein said: “Tell me, why do people always say it was natural for men to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?”

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Longuet-Higgins, pioneer in the computational modeling of #musiccognition, in #Nature (1976)! doi.org/10.1038/2636...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

‘Dat is eigenlijk m’n punt’ :-)

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

With a long article on rhythm (pp. 64-69) w/ @andrearavignani.bsky.social @pfcook.bsky.social Michael Greenfield, Benjamin Morillon, Hugo Merchant, etc.

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Parti di Camera on the cover of Composers and the Computer - composed in 1984 as student at CCRMA Stanford University - what an utopian experience that was..

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My bro: www.northseajazz.com/en/program/2...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Roughly six years ago, at MCG, we set out to explore what we called “intrinsically motivating games.” Thanks to all the input, enthusiasm, tears, and sweat of everyone involved, that line of research is now bearing fruit, with the first papers on the way… See #preprint doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Alles bij elkaar genomen, van alle kanten bekeken, en er nog eens over nadenkend, kom ik weer uit op precies hetzelfde. Dat was eigenlijk gewoon m’n #punt. :- ) [zie de volledige bootleg video op : lnkd.in/e52FeVX3 ]

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

In 2022, we started an ambitious project on comparative auditory perception in humans and songbirds. A #preprint will be out soon! Proud of the whole team. For now, read how it all started: www.amsterdammusiclab.nl/blog/songbir...

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Can you do better than a songbird?

You are invited to participate in a scientific experiment that compares the auditory perceptions of humans & songbirds (zebra finches). You will be asked to complete an acoustic task that takes ca. 10...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Interview in zomernummer van EOS Wetenschap. www.mcg.uva.nl/press/2026-0...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

See doi.org/10.1038/d415... and musiccognition.blogspot.com/2026/06/cele...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My piece in @theconversation.com - on the study of arts engagement & aging - was heavily delayed to give the authors a 'right to reply'! Their rebuttal (see pic) appears directly below my piece. I didn't know this would happen & was not given a chance to respond, so I will respond here! 1/10 🧵

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Peter Cook @pfcook.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

🧠🧪🧵1/37 Our new paper on how pinniped (seal and sea lion) brains evolved to unlock vocal plasticity is this week's @science.org cover. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Abdel Abdellaoui @dr-appie.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Here are my four GWAS lectures of ~20 minutes each for the International Statistical Genetics Workshop 2026. They're part of the broader workshop curriculum but also work as standalone lectures covering the basics of GWAS from the ground up. Videos are below 👇🏽

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Zeng et al. (2026, Science) reported an intriguing study of rhythmic pattern discrimination in bumble bees (Bombus terrestris). Yet the claim that ‘[they] form robust abstract rhythm representations’ may be premature. See doi.org/10.31234/osf....

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

New preprint—A critical review on what we know about beat perception (and why that matters 🙂) w/ Gábor Háden. See doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The Musicality Genomics Consortium #MusicGens has #fellowships available to attend the 2026 Iceland meeting (pending funding availability). These fellowships are intended to support early career researchers who are from the #GlobalSouth See for more information : musicgens.org | lnkd.in/efgT65tW

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Reykjavík / Hveragerði, Iceland.

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

New series of blog entries on ‘Spectral Percepts’ — in 333 words :-) See musiccognition.blogspot.com/search/label...

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

... and another one in September. This time in Iceland! musicgens.org

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Reykjavík / Hveragerði, Iceland.

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

“Biolgocial”? Brilliant, I like that term! #biolgocial ;-)

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Just rrived: New books by Robert Zatorre and Marcus T. Pearce at #OxfordUniversityPress, with at least two more in the mail... (by Lisa Margulis and Pat Savage :-)

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Henkjan Honing @musiccognition.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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