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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New paper out today! 🎶 How can we capture the situated and functional nature of emotional experiences with music? We introduce MEEM — Measure of Emotional Episodes with Music: a new 35-item, modular instrument covering 5 types of emotional episodes. With @kirtsconnor.bsky.social & Suvi Saarikallio

This figure is the figure 1 from the article that shows all 5 episode types

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@h-r-peltola.bsky.social suggests that online music platforms allow rich ways for self-construction. Through digital ethnography data on young Finns, she summarised the insights of the thematic analysis into three: 1. discovery, 2. engagement, and 3. social interaction. #MUSICONNEX #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@studylistening.bsky.social explores the topic of social deep listening, a practice organised by Sonaur in Australia, through interviews. Fascinating setup for a study that reveals notions about focus, well-being & motivation to listen to music in a particular frame of mind #MusicScience #MUSICONNEX

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@margulisa.bsky.social delivers Day 3 Keynote at #MUSICONNEX about imagination, shared experience, and connection: what we know about people imagining while listening to music: very concrete, often similar imagery across people, similar narratives, as measured by semantic similarity.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@margarida-baltazar.bsky.social shared early observations from MUSICOTAS project. The survey was designed to reveal how in-person concerts are different from live streams. Thematic analysis was neatly divided into Social, Self, and Context themes, each divided into further themes and levels.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

@cerenayyildiz.bsky.social tells us how older adults’ musical choices for alleviating loneliness are different from the music they like; and the key ingredients are greater autobiographical memories, positive affect, & meaning. Great talk! #MUSICONNEX #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#MUSICONNEX Day 2 keynote by Hauke Egermann about social bonding in the audience. New tools for live music research and great conceptual framework to bring the crucial elements under the focus of #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#musicconnex rolls on with more studies about ‘music influenced mental content’ (MINC) where @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social summarises a large-scale qualitative content analysis of the experiences of these experiences, divided in narrational, referential and experimental themes and sub-categories

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#musicconnex theory and measurement session kicked off by @kirtsconnor.bsky.social to highlight the importance of context and situation for emotions in music. #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Musiconnex event started at Jyväskylä, led by Suvi Saarikallio. 3 days about research findings of how music regulates & connects people #erc #EU @coe-mmbb.bsky.social

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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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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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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Proud parent moment: celebrating my daughter graduating with a Master’s in Biochemistry from Oxford. Four years of hard work, choir singing, music making, friendships and growth #Oxford #Biochemistry #Graduation

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Can you believe #SysMus26 is over?! An absolute joy getting to know these wonderful lot & interact with their passions & curiosities first hand #musicology #MIR #musicscience #musiceducation #musicculture #musicperformance #disabilitystudies #neuroscience AND MORE! @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

End of conference photo taken by our keynote, Assoc. Prof. Eamonn Bell.
In person attendees sat in rows, passing of the SysMus flag from this year’s organisers at Durham to the Helsinki organisers for next year, and our online attendees on the big screens

Day-3 post-lunch walk to Durham Cathedral around the river. Bright sunny day with our attendees waving and smiling.

Day-1 post-lunch walk up Observatory Hill to get a good look at Durham. A bright day with Durham Cathedral and Penshaw Monument visible in the background, with our attendees
standing on the slope of the hill smiling and waving

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Midnight tranquility at a Finnish summer cottage. #holiday #lake #Finland

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Congratulations to @nashraa.bsky.social on successfully defending her #PhD on long rhythmic cycles in North Indian Classical Music! Many thanks to Rainer Polak (RITMO, Oslo University) for the insightful examination and discussion. #musicscience

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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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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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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Last day at Durham University today. 13 years have flown by. I'm grateful for the students, colleagues, collaborators & friends who made Durham such a rewarding place. In August, find me at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain (@coe-mmbb.bsky.social), Univ. of Jyväskylä, #finland

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

#SysMus26 poster drop from @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social 🪩🪩🪩 Can’t wait to have 89 #musicscience early career researchers in Durham from July 22nd-24th! 🫪🤩😎 Registration closes on the 26th of June, check out musicscience.net/events/sysmu... for more info 🤓

Concert style poster for SysMus26. Highlighting key dates and details

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Why Context Matters in Music and Emotions — a blog post on why emotional experiences with music cannot be explained by musical features alone, but require a contextualised understanding of the listener and situation.

This shows a middle-aged man listening to music in five different situations that exemplify the different emotional episodes that each have a different functional purpose. The labels in the image list (1) focus-motivation, (2) connection-belonging, (3) personal reflection, (4) aesthetic-interest, and (5) enjoyment-relaxation.

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Some of our lab members went to the SEMPRE conference this weekend, hosted by @cam.ac.uk Centre for Music and Science. 🧵🪡 detailing all of the ongoing #musicpsych research from our PGR and ECR researchers below!

Durham Music & Science Lab members at SEMPRE 2026!

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Margarida Baltazar @margarida-baltazar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There's still time to submit abstracts to MUSICONNEX conference. See you in Jyväskylä :)

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Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I am writing to announce a 5-year Research Fellowship in Music Science at the MARCS Institute, Australia. You will design and lead research projects that use mathematical and computational approaches to investigate music and its cognition. Further details: jobs.smartrecruiters.com/WesternSydne...

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Research Fellow in Music Science

Job Description: * 5-year Fixed-Term Contract, Full-time position at Academic Level B. * Based at the MARCS Institute with flexible working arrangements. * Salary: $120,908 – $142,769 per annum, plus ...

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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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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Does musical tension make the final resolution sweeter? 🎵 New research says perhaps no! We found that high dissonance in the penultimate chord actually makes the final tonic sound less pleasant, debunking the long-held "contrast effect" theory. #musicscience #musicresearch doi.org/10.1177/0305...

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Lara Pearson @musicalgesture.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Research position suitable for a PhD student (or beyond), keen to work with multimodal vocal performance data in beatboxing: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun... Deadline: 12 January! Apply here: jobportal.uni-koeln.de/bewerben/2429 Feel free to contact me with questions about the position

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Excited to be hosting promising scholars during SysMus26! 🎉 Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu... #musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences

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Scott Bannister @sb-78.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

🎶 Nice write up of our recent work exploring musicians chills/frisson experiences while performing! 🎶 You can find the 🔓 #openaccess paper here - doi.org/10.1177/03057356251383805 #musicscience #musicpsych

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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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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....

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Harin Lee @harinlee.info · 04/06/2025

Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social Highlights ⬇

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Andy Milne @andytonality.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We are advertising an exciting #MusicScience PhD scholarship in Sydney, Australia as part of our ARC Discovery project "Revealing Universal and Cultural Origins of Music-Induced Affect": international field trips, music cognition experiments, Bayesian analyses! Please share.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Want to measure how "major" or "minor" a musical passage feels on a sliding scale, not just as a simple label? 🤔 Mike Schutz and I refined the concept of 'relative mode', treating it as a continuous spectrum from minor to major. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #musicscience #MIR 1/3

Shows a plot of audio waveform with continuously changing estimation of majorness to minorness (relative mode) in a Bach prelude. It is a screen capture from GitHub.

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

New study by @persatz.bsky.social on children's music-making explores empathy & synchrony! Findings show that higher trait empathy helps children synchronize better, especially when their timing is less stable. Female-female pairs also synchronized better. 1/2 #musicscience

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Giacomo Novembre @giacomonovembre.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

🚨 We’re hiring! 🚨 A postdoc position is available at my lab (npa.iit.it) in Rome! Join us to explore: 🎵 Neural bases of musicality (humans, infants, macaques) 💃🕺 Dance & joint music-making 🤝 Spontaneous social behavior ⬇️ Apply through the link below! ⬇️

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

What emotions does music express? Through 3 experiments with association tasks & context-based activities with 5000+ participants & 600+ affect terms, we report structures that differ from music-induced emotions such as romantic, in love, free, & festive #musicscience doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Visualisation of search frequency of 213 affect terms, term similarities and clustering solution for 88 prominent terms, and the terms positioned within the affective circumplex space

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Great self-diagnostic tests about your well-being in academia. By going through the survey, you get to reflect what elements are a drain and many – but not all – of these we can influence. I'm looking forward to see what this early career team can put together for the February webinar #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I’m thinking of reigning in a collaborative/GitHub #rstats project to have a reproducible environment: Would you recommend renv or rix for this? Project utilises a mixture of GitHub / CRAN packages & users have different OSes (Mac/Win).

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...

This infographic displays the key statistics from an analysis of 239 studies in music psychology and compares the prevalence of data sharing, preregistration and open access publication to a similar analysis in psychology

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RPPW20 @rppw.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW 20) will take place at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland from the 16th to the 19th of June 2025. The portal for abstract submissions is now open here: www.rppw.org/rppw20 #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Our new @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social account looks great. Notice the facilities (built in 1093) literally next to our lab in the background of the group photo.

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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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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

New theory out! What do you get when you mix music and emotion regulation literature with the functions of music and explanations of music-induced emotions? You get a new theory called the 'Episode Model of Emotional Experiences of Music' 1/5 #musicscience

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Caroline Owen @carocaronet.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

🎶What does music make you feel or imagine? Our second listening experiment for families with children aged 5-11 is now online. Help Splat 👾 the alien learn about what music means to Earthlings! Info and link: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_42… #musicscience

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · 13/10/2024

I made a 1-minute YouTube video of how to create an index to a book with keywords, page proofs and python scripting. youtu.be/E50CeDgoBIA #musicscience #book #workclevernothard

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