Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026
Nominations for the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize 2026 have opened!
Named after @deevybee.bsky.social, the prize, first awarded in 2022, celebrates the contributions of early career researchers to research improvement.
Nominations close 18 January 2026.
#AcademicSky #Research
03.12.2025 12:55 — 👍 29 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 2
Beautiful photos by Joe Bates, Musicon, from our MR/ AR concert at Durham University, UK, Launch of Psychogeography with E.Ravilious AR app @hauntedplanet.com @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social @madshaahr.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social @durhamdcerc.bsky.social #DreaMR @dreamr.art
03.12.2025 15:26 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
It was such pleasure to perform in Durham!🥰thank you so much!🙏 @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
29.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Volume 8
ISSN: 2631-8342 Volume 8, Autumn 2025 Editor’s Note Caroline Curwen & Aliya Edwards (p. 1-2) Emotional Recognition in Very Brief Musical Excerpts of Film Music Luca Whittle, Moritz Afridi…
Congrats to our @durhammusicdept.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social UG student authors for their publications in this year's DURMS volume! And thanks to the whole editorial team, especially @curwen01.bsky.social and @aliyaedwards.bsky.social for leading! musicscience.net/durms/volume...
28.11.2025 11:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
25.11.2025 09:26 — 👍 10071 🔁 5140 💬 335 📌 692
This is a chatGPT created image about barriers to data sharing.
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_...
14.11.2025 15:32 — 👍 6 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
Calling all #musicpsych #musicscience and students working in related areas! Please consider joining us in Durham this summer for what is shaping up to be a fantastic event!
22.11.2025 20:32 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🎹Arrived to Durham!Tomorrow is Musicon Mixed Reality Concert and talk on Music Department! We also included LoGaCulture music “Voices of the Boyne”! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #TrinityCollegeDublin @hauntedplanet.com @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social @madshaahr.bsky.social @logaculture.bsky.social
18.11.2025 13:42 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Svetlana Rudenko: Dreaming with Mixed Reality - Durham University
Any last takers for this concert on Wednesday? Should be fun! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
17.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
News - Royal Northern College of Music
Keep up to date with the latest news and announcements from the Royal Northern College of Music.
Fully funded #PhD at RNCM alert!
RNCM + partners in the the Crafting Care Doctoral Focal College are offering 30 AHRC studentships exploring care, creativity & community💡
💰 £20,780 stipend + fees covered
📅 EOI: 1 Dec 2025
👉 rncm.ac.uk/news
#DoctoralFunding #MusicResearch
06.11.2025 10:16 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2
Mixed Reality Concert by Haunted Planet Studios at Durham! 19 th November 7.30 pm #music #science #DreaMR it’s also Launch “E.Ravilious: Psychogeography AR” with @svetlanarudenko.bsky.social @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social 🎹🎻 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... @hauntedplanet.com @madshaahr.bsky.social
09.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
The longest author list I’ve been on yet, but for good reasons! A massive and rigorous international research collaboration. Well done to Massimo and Francesca for leading this!
07.11.2025 10:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social and Leeds School of Music for a fun and stimulating visit.
And with many thanks to the rest of the team doing this research @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social, @weiwu.bsky.social, @margulisa.bsky.social
05.11.2025 19:35 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
New #openaccess paper on musical chills! 🎶🎺
Most work on listeners, but we find musicians experience chills while performing!
Chills linked to performance qualities, connections between performers and personal associations. Findings suggest chills + wellbeing link
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/0305...
03.11.2025 13:55 — 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
One more day!! Please consider joining us in Durham if you do research on imagined music and wellbeing!
03.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results:
- AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2%
- ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1%
- ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
22.10.2025 07:55 — 👍 247 🔁 168 💬 23 📌 91
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
29.09.2025 13:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Würzburg
📯We're looking for a new colleague in #musicology in Würzburg (tenured full professorship, W3)! While the call is in German only, international candidates are highly encouraged to apply. Do not hesitate to reach out! 📆 **October 15, 2025**. See: www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04...
08.09.2025 12:31 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Conferences, huh. What’s the point?
In this post, Hazel, Katie, and Connor highlight some reasons why you should consider attending an academic conference, supplemented by our recent experience from attending the 18th International C…
🚨NEW BLOG🚨
“Conferences, huh. What’s the point?”
@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social @katiesvish.bsky.social & @kirtsconnor.bsky.social reflect on this conference season and why we bother going to conferences anyway.
#musicscience #ICMPC18 #blog #phdlife #phd
musicscience.net/2025/08/13/c...
13.08.2025 19:39 — 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
WTC & ITS 2027
We’re thrilled to announce that the Inner Music and Wellbeing Network is a Strategic Partner of the 4th World Tinnitus Congress & XV International Tinnitus Seminar, 30 June–2 July 2027.
@freyabailes.bsky.social will lead a track on Consciousness, Inner Music & Auditory Imagery.
wtc2027.co.uk
06.08.2025 10:58 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm on leave from work till late Sept, but great to see the research of our
@musicpsychologylab.bsky.social
being shared with colleagues from across the globe at #ICMPC18 by our highly capable and joyful students and postdocs!
26.07.2025 08:14 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Almost forgot @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social poster highlight from #ICMPC18!
Go check out the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set! #musicscience
26.07.2025 02:31 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Connor presenting at ICMPC18 in São Paulo
@kirtsconnor.bsky.social gave a presentation on the content validity assessment for his music-emotion episode instrument! Out now as a preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf...
#musicscience #psychometrics
24.07.2025 16:56 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Wei wu presenting online at ICMPC18
Postdoc @weiwu.bsky.social giving a presentation at #ICMPC18 on music evoked thoughts. Semantic similarity analysis showed that adjacent age groups share similar thoughts to the music!
#musicscience
22.07.2025 14:57 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Been having some wonderful and really engaging discussions with many of the #ICMPC18 attendees this year in São Paulo!
So lucky to be doing research in this field alongside such brilliant and thoughtful people 🧠💫
(P.S. this work is published! You can read it here: doi.org/10.1177/0305...)
25.07.2025 10:41 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Retired professor of psychology at University of Oxford. Interests in developmental neuropsychology and improving science. Blogs at deevybee.blogspot.com
neuroscientist in consciousness they/them
Assistant professor at Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia | Post in English and Indonesian | I have Christ in my name, but I'm not Jesus.
Body Eyes And Movement - University of Manchester lab led by Ellen Poliakoff & Emma Gowen researching perception, action, autism & Parkinson's. Account managed by Ellen.
This is the BlueSky account for the The Early Career Hallucination Research (ECHR) group. Find out more about us here - https://echr.group/
This is the Official Bluesky profile for monotoSTEREO.info (https://www.monotostereo.info)
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doctoral student, social brain sciences, @ethz.ch 🇨🇭
currently looking at stress and music 😩🎶
Cross-cultural and experimental psychologist / anthropologist.
Working on: appearance ideals, body image, sexual selection, gender, social transmission.
Working in: 🇬🇧 🇨🇴 🇳🇮🇲🇽 🇿🇼 🇨🇳
(A veces posteo en español.)
Prof @ Durham
http://www.boothlab.org
Interested in cultural evolution, evolutionary anthropology, psychology, primatology, equitable academia, cats, dogs, wild swimming and camping. Prof at Durham Uni, UK (she/her)
A postgraduate researcher at the University of Birmingham studying music cognition and ADHD
Composer. linktr.ee/joebates
Postdoctoral research associate at Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities | cognitive psychologist exploring the imagination | she/her
The world's most ambitious study on reading, the imagination, and wellbeing.
Partnered with the Edinburgh International Book Festival | Funded by Wellcome
readerbank.org
Reflecting the Music and the Holocaust website from World ORT. Posting music and history news, performances and remembrance events. Suggestions welcome.
Ph.D. Candidate at UC Santa Cruz in Cognitive Psychology | Studying music perception and songs getting stuck in your head.
Hindustani Raga Musician. Early Career Ethnomusicologist/Music Historian of Senses and Citizenship in Bengali Britain at the University of Durham. Part-time Fountain Pen Collector. Part-time Art Enthusiast. Passionate Cook.
Research Fellow, Institute of Musicians' Medicine, (IMM) Dresden, Germany
- Music physiology
- Musicians' health
- Biofeedback and motor control
