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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠

@dancingresearch.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor @PsychologyTCD Visiting Researcher Cambridge Music | Agency | Dance | Identity | Wellbeing #musicpsych #musictherapy #research

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Dec 9

Delighted to be awarded a New Foundations grant from
@researchireland.bsky.social with #Neurodiversity Ireland to explore neurodivergent people’s experience of music and arts events

We’re going to use Photovoice to see things from a whole new perspective

😅✨🤹🏻‍♂️🎪🎷

#musicscience #inclusivetrinity

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 1d

QUIET HOUR at the Museum
A sensory-friendly space with low lighting, reduced noise & fewer crowds—ideal for neurodivergent visitors & anyone seeking calm.
📍 Collins Barracks, Dublin
📅Saturday 11 October, 10:00am - 11:00am
🔗 Details: www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museum...
#SensoryFriendly

Image of a visitor exploring 'A Dubliner’s Collection of Asian Art: The Albert Bender Collection'

Image of a Eurasian Elk (Alces alces) on a red background

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 20h

Does anyone have any boring music for music for experiments?
I need music that people are unlikely to find absorbing.

#musicscience @musicpsychshef.bsky.social @musicpsychleeds.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social #aesthetics #musicpsych

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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 1d

Join us at Trinity Business School on Oct 30 @ 2 PM for our Photovoice Exhibition on music, arts & neurodiversity. Free but limited tickets! Hosted by @dancingresearch.bsky.social
Register below:

www.eventbrite.ie/e/music-and-...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 5d

Want better sleep? Nature reports how circadian research shows how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber. Scientists emphasize three basics: contrasting light and dark, consolidating mealtimes and keeping sleep times consistent. 🧪

How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says

Chuck the gadgets, the fads and the alarm. Circadian research reveals how important your body’s internal clock is to blissful slumber.

go.nature.com

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Performing Arts Forum @pafireland.bsky.social · 8d

💡 #Opportunity
👉Running Up That Hill: Arts Funding Conference @universityofgalway.bsky.social
🗣Concluding the Research Ireland Laureate award 'The Price of Performance: A Question of Economic Sustainability for Independent Theatre & Performance
📋 www.performingartsforum.ie/.../running-...

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Marc Wittmann @marcwittmann.bsky.social · 8d

My talk at the ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference (ESISyNC) 2025 on "Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST", Frankfurt, 9.9.2025, to be found here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDq...

Dr. Marc Wittmann, Subjective Time and Self in Altered States: Exploring Floatation-REST

YouTube video by ESI Frankfurt

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks!

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Ailbhe - glad to get it :)

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Jade! so I won’t be selling Ice cream after all 😅

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Vanessa! ☺️

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks Amanda! In it now for the long haul 😅🥂

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

‘You’ll never get much of a job with a Masters in Music and Dance’..

Well, in 2025 I’m starting a permanent post as Assistant Professor of Psychology at UCD.

my new music cognition lab will study music from neural mechanisms to public health +ask how music supports agency+identity.

#MusicScience

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 7d

Ah i see it now

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 8d

Yea likewise! I’m hectic trying to get organised to move across but I hear your coming in December

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 14d

See you there Ondrej! Im starting in UCD in November - now I’m scurrying to finalise my lab concept 😅

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 16d

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/t...

What Happens to Artists’ Studios After They Die?

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 20d

This is going to be a great event, really looking forward to it..

We actually used body mapping (usually used for pain) to encourage people to explore their embodied responses to #music

photovoice is a radical way to give people agency in research

#neurodiversity #creativity #wellbeing #photo

TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 20d

Photovoice Exhibition 29th - 31st October at Trinity Business school led by Dr. Claire Howlin. ‘How Music and Arts Support Neurodiversity’ will showcase photos and stories from neurodivergent adults about how creativity helps them thrive. Join us for the LAUNCH Oct 30th @dancingresearch.bsky.social

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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · 20d

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TCD School of Psychology @tcdpsychology.bsky.social · Sep 4

Trinity College unveils 'gamechanger' brain scanner. Watch the full interview with Professor Redmond O'Connell with RTE here:

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

@redmondoconnell.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Sep 5

Great to see the new OPM-MEG scanner @tcdpsychology.bsky.social is up and running! Can’t wait to see the new projects that will emerge from it.

#neuroscience #imaging #TPJ @redmondoconnell.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

Wearable TCD brain scanner a 'gamechanger' for research

Trinity College Dublin has acquired a new €2m state-of-the-art wearable brain scanner which it has described as a "gamechanger" for brain research in Ireland.

www.rte.ie

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Sep 2

Will you be sharing it online??

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ha - yea the babies show neural responses to different rhythms really young, but they only start synchronising their moment in time between 10-18 months

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Sep 1

Beautiful!

Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Sep 1

So here I am on IrelandAM! Talking music development in babies + a new dance album by Graham Smyth made for babies and parents together -drum breaks with a pianola

it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly.

#music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · Aug 30

Next Monday I’ll be appearing on IrelandAM to talk about music development in infants, and how to nurture their dancebility.

Bit nervous to be honest but hey ho, back to school we go.

#dance #music #dublin

a baby in a diaper is dancing with the words like this behind him

ALT: a baby in a diaper is dancing with the words like this behind him

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