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Pablo Ripollés
@pripolles.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Music Technology at NYU. Associate Director of MARL (https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/marl). CLaME affiliate (https://clame.nyu.edu/).
Cognitive neuroscience of music, reward, and language.
https://www.ripolleslab.com/
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We are hiring! #musicscience #musicAI #neuroskyence Assistant Professor in Music, AI, and Brain Health. TT position, come join the most vibrant and delightful of peeps 🧠🎶🤖

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Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain Health
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity: The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Music, AI and Brain ...
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November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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If you start someone on an online experiment and the subject reloads the page or browser quits -- what happens? Usually we are resigned that they just start over 😢 With the magic of Smile you can determine trials at run time and it picks up where it left off! smile.gureckislab.org/coding/steps...
Stepping Through Trials | Smile
a gureckislab joint.
smile.gureckislab.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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1/2

New open access paper in which we apply the Nyquist-Shannon thereom from signal processing to 2 EMA datasets to figure out the optimal sampling frequency for EMA assessments.

🧪 #psychscisky #statssky

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Optimizing the frequency of ecological momentary assessments using signal processing | Psychological Medicine | Cambridge Core
Optimizing the frequency of ecological momentary assessments using signal processing - Volume 55
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November 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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My colleague, friend, former PhD/postdoc @xiangbin-teng.bsky.social and his colleagues argue for (yet) another interesting attribute of music listening.

journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
Eye blinks synchronize with musical beats during music listening
Human movements are known to synchronize with rhythmic patterns in music. This study expands our understanding of embodied music perception, by revealing that spontaneous eye blinks also align with mu...
journals.plos.org
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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@thetransmitter.bsky.social’s “New Lab Directory” features a list of new neuroscience labs that opened in 2024-2025, and some set to launch in 2026. Check out the list to learn about the work of more than 50 new neuroscience labs. www.thetransmitter.org/community/th...

#StateOfNeuroscience
The Transmitter’s New Lab Directory
Learn about neuroscience labs launched in the past two years, plus a few opening their doors in 2026.
www.thetransmitter.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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🚨 THRILLED to share Northeastern University is hiring a new Director for our human Siemens Prisma 3T MRI Center (Associate or Full Professor levels) who will join us as faculty in our Institute for Cognitive and Brain Health! Please share widely!
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Associate Professor/Professor and Director, Northeastern University Biomedical Imaging Center
About the Opportunity About Northeastern: Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research (R1) university and the recognized leader in experience-driven lifelong learning. Our world-renowned experi...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Do you think you could remember the exact rain texture that opens “Riders on the Storm”?
We showed that the answer may be a surprising “yes” – at least in some circumstances.

Check our new work with @Bastug, @Rajendran, @Agus @Chait @Pressnitzer doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
a painting of rain drops falling on a tiled floor by duc-koolh
ALT: a painting of rain drops falling on a tiled floor by duc-koolh
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November 24, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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I am recruiting graduate students for the experimental side of my lab @mcgill.ca for admission in Fall 2026!
Get in touch if you're interested in how brain circuits implement distributed computation, including dopamine-based distributed RL and probabilistic representations.
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Excited to be hosting promising scholars during SysMus26! 🎉

Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

#musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences
SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—is being held this coming year at Durham University, UK, July 22–24 (Wed–Fri), 2026!

Abstract submission deadline is 30 January 2026.

Check out the SysMus 26 site for further details:
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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…
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November 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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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!
Excited to be hosting promising scholars during SysMus26! 🎉

Check out our website for more info musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

#musicpsych #PsychSciSky #conferences
SysMus26—the 19th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology—is being held this coming year at Durham University, UK, July 22–24 (Wed–Fri), 2026!

Abstract submission deadline is 30 January 2026.

Check out the SysMus 26 site for further details:
musicscience.net/events/sysmu...
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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As it's hiring season again I'm resharing the NeuroJobs feed. Add #NeuroJobs to your post if you're recruiting or looking for an RA, PhD, Postdoc, or faculty position in Neuro or an adjacent field.

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September 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Yes, PINE Lab is accepting doctoral applications this cycle in Psychology! Apps due Dec 1! Interested in early life human neuroplasticity? how early pre- and post-natal experiences/exposures (promotional/adverse) shape malleable brains? Current research here: drive.google.com/file/d/1wFZj...
Laurel_Gabard-Durnam_Research Statement.pdf
drive.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Paper out with Atser Damsma, Tom Kaplan, Mohsen Ghorashi, & Marcus Pearce! How do listeners represent rhythmic patterns? Our probabilistic modelling 🎶 says using abstract, imprecise representations, like ratio and contour: "long, a bit shorter, shortish"! Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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I wrote some words about David Huron for Music and Science.

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David Huron (1954–2025) - Daniel Shanahan, 2025
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November 20, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Solidarity from @dropkickmurphys.com !! ✊🔥
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa
NSF COA | Jordan Matelsky
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November 11, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...
Sydney Levine - Open Positions
Graduate Students (PhD program) I will be accepting PhD students through the NYU psychology department for the current application cycle (for admission in Fall 2026). My lab is joint between the Co...
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November 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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I can further confirm that @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social is experiencing retaliation by “Free speech” Jay and the Trump administration.

@standupforscience.bsky.social stands with her and will continue to support public servants who speak out against the harms of this administration.
NIH program officer @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social has been placed on admin leave, sources say.

Norton has been outspoken about the Trump administration's dismantling of science, and she signed the Bethesda Declaration.

Bhattacharya has said that "science is dead without free speech".
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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happy to share our newly published paper in
@cp-iscience.bsky.social on the mental representation of musical scales 🎶🧠

for those interested in music, memory representations, symbolic processing, or interdisciplinary science.
Geometric properties of musical scales constitute a representational primitive in melodic processing
Uncovering the mental representations underlying symbolic domains is a long-standing goal of cognitive science. Music, a relatively unexplored aspect …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Finally, our 4-year long project has been published! We have conducted a multi-lab study comparing STM of musicians and nonmusicians, collecting many other cognitive, personality, musical, and demographic variables!
A big thank you to all collaborators!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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🗳️ Mamdani's victory means two things for Europe.

1.- It's all about affordability. I am often asked why so many young men are moving to the far right and what can be done about it. It's simple: address their economic precarity.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Finally out!
Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? This is what we investigated in a multilab that joined together 33 research units from 15 different countries.
Do Musicians Have Better Short-Term Memory Than Nonmusicians? A Multilab Study - Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, Gianmarco Altoè, Elvira Brattico, Anne Caclin, Barbara Carretti, Véronique Drai-Zer...
Musicians are often regarded as a positive example of brain plasticity and associated cognitive benefits. This emerges when experienced musicians (e.g., musicia...
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November 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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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...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM