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Thanks BBC Radio 5 Live @bbc5live.bsky.social for coverage (around 8.30am today) of the music for Parkinson’s project, when we invited 7 RNCM composers to work with people with Parkinson’s to create new music

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Really proud of bringing together our wonderful Royal Northern College of Music composers and people living with Parkinson’s to make new music. We had a wonderful concert premiering the 7 new pieces of music last night, and we’re really grateful to BBC North West for covering this project! 🎵 📺

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At the BBC today to record an interview for Tom Service’s Radio 3 show tomorrow (Sat) 9am, on music & health. I discuss my work with collaborators on music & Parkinson’s and our 30th Jan event 6-7pm premiering 7 new pieces of music written with people with Parkinson’s: www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

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We support the work, performance and recording of British/Irish composers from the last 100 years; as well as projects which further the knowledge and understanding of the life and music of Ralph and Ursula Vaughan Williams. General funding applications open on February 1.

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🎵 30th Jan 6-7pm: Music for Parkinson’s, RNCM 🎵 I’m extremely excited & proud to have led this, do come (it’s free!)! RNCM staff, student & PhD composers have worked with people with Parkinson’s on 7 new pieces of music Join us for the premieres & panel discussion: www.rncm.ac.uk/performance/...

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🔔 Calling all early-career composers! Come and work with the Irene Taylor Trust and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and collaborate with parents with experience of the criminal justice system to write lullabies for their children this May. [1/2]

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📣 SEMPRE conference 9-10 April 2025, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK 📣 Deadline for abstracts: 31st January 2025 Keynotes: Karen Burland & Daniel Müllensiefen Please do join us, and please share with any colleagues who you think may be interested! sempre.org.uk/conferences/...

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Yes! 👇 “What might be achieved if, rather than focusing on blowing one’s own institutional trumpet, vice chancellors and chairs of governors championed each other’s contribution? … If higher education really is a national infrastructure, we need to say more about the other parts of the network.”

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Bravo Apple TV’s ‘Shrinking’: Doctor: how is your emotional health? Paul (who is living with Parkinson’s): I know what’s coming. I try not to dwell. Whenever I need it, I put on one of my favorite sad songs and just let myself grieve for 15 straight minutes. #AppleTV #Shrinking #MusicForSadness

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Today, Dr Nikki Moran and I, as Editors-in-Chief of ‘Psychology of Music’, signed off on the proofs for issue 1 of 2025. This opens with a really special piece - an obituary to Alf Gabrielsson by Patrik Juslin. Looking forward to our first full year as Joint Editors of this wonderful journal!

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A beautiful North Yorkshire winter sunset 🌅

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📣 Opportunity to do a #PhD specializing in #democracy at Gothenburg University. Application deadline: Feb 17, 2025. web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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Interested in the psychology of climate solutions? Come work with us at Stanford! @smconstantino.bsky.social and I are hiring a postdoctoral fellow to work with us on interventions to stimulate collective climate action. Apply here (we review on a rolling basis): forms.gle/GdWg11LX7Msk...

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Thanks for including me in this Donal!

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Yes!👇 “a single overarching research council does not solve the problem of grants that transcend any particular boundary imposed between panels […]Breaking down silos, depts, disciplines, whatever language you want to use,does really matter” So relevant to mine & @canadianjason.bsky.social ‘s work

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2 PhD fellowships in language and linguistics at the Uni of Oslo. Fully funded 3 years, plus if you submit in time an extra year to work on publications and do some teaching. Area open; project has to fit a research group. Deadline 28 Feb. Please repost. #linguistics www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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🔊Funded OU PhD studentships live now🔊 "The OU's diverse community of research students are the lifeblood of the University's research programme as well as helping to combat society’s most pressing societal challenges,” Professor Clare Warren, Graduate School Director. shorturl.at/cwzIp #PhDSky

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Yes! 👍 Thanks Dame Athene, so important!

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The Royal Society is looking for an Artist in Residence, an opportunity for a creative individual to produce new work in response to our collections and the scientific research of our community. Express your interest in this funded project by Thursday 12 December: royalsociety.org/about-us/wor...

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YES! 🙌 💪 🎶 😃

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Interesting! “Overall, we provide empirical evidence of multiple aspects of shared biology linking language and musical rhythm, contributing novel insight into the evolutionary relationships between human musicality and linguistic communication traits.”

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“We’re really enjoying being with each other. We have our ups & downs, but actually, it’s so much fun, & it makes you want to sing” - Rev Richard Coles Each year ‘I’m a Celebrity’ gives us so many examples of the central role that music plays in human life & relationships. #ImACelebrity #ImACeleb

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🚨Join us! We're hiring a 3yr Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience with @drquekles.bsky.social @manuelvarlet.bsky.social @tgro.bsky.social & David White to investigate decoding in super-recognisers. Applications close 14 Jan #postdoc #cogneuro #ACNS2024 tinyurl.com/SuperRecogni...

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Wow, this looks wonderful! Thank you Tuomas!

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Yes to this! 👇 “The increasingly anti-science political ecosystem creates a dire need for science to be proactive, not only reactive. Scientists, at least some, must recognize and lean into their role as political actors.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Reminder - Full time funded PhD opportunity at Birmingham City University, UK. Details at: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

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Dear musician friends, My PhD student, Aliya, is doing a survey asking musicians to describe how they use imagining music in their heads in their work. It will likely take you less than 20 minutes, and you can win an Amazon voucher. Thanks in advance! durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for NEMuR11 today at our RNCM! What a brilliant day of sharing, friendship, and time with incredible researchers and colleagues. Fabulous talks, and panels on publishing and research impact. Thanks especially to wonderful Alinka Greasley & @musojane.bsky.social

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Music in higher education creates valuable impact on the world; social, cultural & economic value, & value in terms of health & wellbeing & community. My thoughts on how this is unrecognised and undervalued are in this piece in @timeshighered.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mone...

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Looking forward to welcoming music psychology colleagues to our RNCM tomorrow for our one day NEMuR 11 symposium! #NEMuR11 🎶 🧬 🥳

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Thank you so much for inviting me, what a fabulous discussion, and delicious dinner! Always brilliant to see you and be inspired by all the work that you and colleagues at Durham are doing! ☕️🌼

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I am seeking PhD students to join my new lab at Cornell! Work with me at @co3lab.bsky.social on perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large scale online experiments, cross cultural experiments or computational music cognition. Please contact me ASAP if you are interested!

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Very excited to be in beautiful Durham today to catch up with wonderful music psychology colleagues @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social @tuomaseerola.bsky.social and others, and to give a talk on ‘What makes a live music experience special?: Testing audience response to live music’

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Very proud to be taking on the role of joint Editor-in-Chief of the wonderful journal ‘Psychology of Music’, along with the awesome Dr Nikki Moran. Thank you to outgoing editor Prof Alex Lamont, and to everyone who has made this such a special, respected and impactful publication!

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Fab & fun rehearsal today with our Equinox Sax Ensemble.We’ll be bringing our 9 piece line-up to Marble Arch, London on Friday 22nd November -music through the ages from Rossini to original works written for & by us! www.equinoxsax.org.uk Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.com/e/equinox-sa...

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I just created a #musicscience starter pack, for music psychology, cognition, neuroscience, and related. We are not many so far but hope folks will join. Spread the voice! go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj

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Career highlight recently - our team of amazing music, psychology and neuroscience researchers designed & projected a live EEG brain data visualisation to accompany the wonderful Kantos Chamber Choir,& me & the awesome @canadianjason.bsky.social gave a pre concert talk at each of the 4 tour venues

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It's Welcome Week at our Royal Northern College of Music! Looking forward to greeting our new and returning students today! Here are my thoughts on why Welcome Week is such a special part of the year: www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/welcomeweek

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Great to visit Simon Mawhinney and the music dept at Queen’s University Belfast while at the International Enterprise Educators Conference. What a beautiful city and university!

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Enjoying the International Enterprise Educators Conference at Queen's Belfast! Thanks to everyone who came to my paper on our work at the Royal Northern College of Music resulting in our being Times Higher Education Outstanding Entrepreneurial University 2023 🏆 #IEEC2024

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Chuffed to receive my copy of this awesome volume edited by Helen Julia Minors and Laura Hamer, and proud to have a chapter in it on ‘Women Leading Change in Assessment Calibration’ 📖 🎵 💪

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“Music is beautiful … music belongs to everyone”-Ncuti Gatwa Thanks BBC Proms, Dr Who team, host Catherine Tate, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, London Phil Choir & all performers & actors & crew in tonight’s Dr Who Prom (with legends Russell T Davies,Steven Moffat & Murray Gold in the audience!)!

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