Claire Howlin 🎶🧠

🚨 #AMPlify2026 March Seminar: So… Can I Use AI for That? Ethical and Practical AI Use in Music Psychology Research with Dr. Solange Glasser

🗓When: Wednesday 11 March, 4-5pm AEDT
🌐Where: Via Zoom
💻Link to register: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/amplify-20...

Looking forward to it!

Thanks Kira!

Today we’re launching the website and social media pages for the new Music Cognition Lab from Dublin, Ireland!

Stay tuned for #Music #Cognition updates

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@escom.bsky.social @creativebrainweek.bsky.social @sas.upenn.edu @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social @musicperception.bsky.social #musicpsychology

Delighted to share our new lab page from the Music Cognition Lab! We have lot's of events and research projects coming up, so you can stay updated here!

#MusicPsychology

Looking forward to Creative Brain Week, I’ll be speaking on Wednesday in RIAM on some psychology experiments on #music and #pain

@ria.ie #musicscience #creative

We aren't kidding when we say that we book out early. Friday 6th March is ALREADY BOOKED OUT and the rest is going quickly. www.creativebrainweek.com Get your place booked! (Join the waiting list for Friday 6th if you are an optimist - sometimes we get returns).

How Beauty Changes the Beholder

Thanks to @alenedawson.bsky.social for this great piece integrating findings from the scientific study of aesthetics, including work from my lab.

www.templeton.org/news/how-bea...

Babies can categorise objects at two months, TCD-led research reveals Professor Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, explains research that found two-month-olds can categorise objects in their brain.

"Babies can categorise objects at two months" - Listen to Professor Rhodri Cusack discuss with RTÉ this exciting new research being done at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN). Listen below:

https://ow.ly/fYnZ50Yc7NN

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Virtually Together: Exploring the Impact of a Low-Latency Synchronized Audio Platform on Participant Wellbeing in a Facilitated Online Singing Group - Tara R. Gaertner, Cynthia C. Z. Friesen, Sean Gil... While previous research shows that group singing has clear benefits for wellbeing, there is limited data on how these benefits transfer to online singing groups...

Love this, Shame it’s underpowered but delighted to see the use of a low-latency audio platform for a music group.

This has been one of the biggest short comings in online music therapy- which has exploded post COVID.

Hopefully there will be a follow up study..

doi.org/10.1177/2059...

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 🔭❗

What’s in your head while you listen to music? Share your thoughts as you listen to music during a 40-minute survey we are running @durhammusicdept.bsky.social from the 18-20th February. Sign up at www.signupgenius.com/go/10C044EA5... to book your preferred time slot. #MusicScience

AI chatbots are infiltrating social-science surveys — and getting better at avoiding detection A researcher has created a chatbot that is indistinguishable from human participants in online surveys. Some researchers fear that a workhorse of social science is now under threat.

"In 6,700 tests, the bot managed to pass standard 'attention check' questions (which are designed to catch inattentive humans and simple bots) 99.8% of the time." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Love this. “Spontaneous” has always really meant “we don’t know why X is happening”, a perspective tied to the dominance of structured task paradigms for studying cognition, behavior, and brain activity.

Wonderful! I was watching a documentary about the 60’s and 70’s and was struck how integral music was to the revolution against Nixon, Vietnam, and Civil Rights. Music is power.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

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…

Last week to submit abstracts to join our group in Durham in July for the SysMus26 conference! Please share with any interested #musicscience students! musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

Philip Glass pulls Kennedy Center premiere in US Renowned American composer Philip Glass has become the latest artist to sever ties with Washington's Kennedy Center following its takeover by US President Donald Trump, withdrawing a major new work fr...

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Slow Research, yes, but not boring!

2026 is off to a great start! 🎉 Excited to share my new open-access publication in @plosone.org! 🎶 This study examines how our sense of self (self-construal) influences the pleasure (musical reward) we get from listening to our favourite music. Read it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Reminder: Apply or Nominate someone for the 2026 SfNC Awards! Deadline - Feb. 1st ⏰

SfNC is proud to offer three annual awards recognizing outstanding contributions to creativity research. Winners receive a cash prize and are invited to present their work.

Details here: www.tsfnc.org/sfnc-awards

Love this, I love slow living. If you could get a slow walk through a gallery one a week/fortnight it would be a good life.

Musical expertise and cognitive abilities: no advantage for professionals over amateurs Abstract. Cognitive advantages in musicians are often attributed to far transfer from music training. If this causal interpretation is correct, greater mus

Sometimes I remember that I have a bluesky account ;)

I'm very happy to share our last paper, investigating how cognitive skills relate to different levels of musical expertise:

url: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsos/article...

@cesarflima.bsky.social @masssimo006.bsky.social

Science Is Drowning in AI Slop Peer review has met its match.

AI slop is everywhere in scientific publishing, we’re only catching the easy-to-detect stuff (like when you happen to peer review a manuscript with a AI-hallucinated reference of a paper you apparently wrote)

www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

#MusicScience AND #NeuroJobs, together at last!

I can personally recommend several excellent chocolateries nearby:
www.fens.org/careers/job-...

Music plays an important role in relationships, especially in the early stages. It can help people express identity, share emotions and bond. But how does music contribute to romantic love at different stages of a relationship?

Read more: doi.org/10.12688/ope...

#MusicScience #MusicSky

Just watched it this week and loved it! Such a good sound track

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Great topic!

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

Gustavo Augusto Fonseca Silva, Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in Light of the Diagnosis of Autism - PhilPapers On January 27, 1937, while traveling to Skjolden, a Norwegian village on the edge of the Sogne Fjord, where in 1913 he had built a hut for secluded living, philosopher Ludwig ...

From: Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophy in Light of the Diagnosis of Autism philpapers.org/rec/SILLWP-2...