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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨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...

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…

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jul 26

Durham MPL world touring 🚀 love meeting up with old friends and connecting with new ones at conferences — so so lucky to have these opportunities! :,)

Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Jul 26

Had a blast 💥 at #ICMPC18 in São Paulo!! Super lucky for the opportunity to disseminate our research and engage with international colleagues! 🌏🌍🌎

Some members of the lab (Hazel, Connor, Caroline, Aliya, Katie, and Fruszi) at ICMPC18

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jul 26

Once figuring out integrating R and Python coding languages, actually very fun! There is a lot of useful guidance online from Shiny developers (meaning there are a few ways to achieve the same thing) —a few basic google searches and recreations of code with my own dataset helped me figure it out

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jul 26

🔦 final poster showcase of this bad boy: MUSIFEAST-17 #ICMPC18
No fear though, as if you haven’t heard already, you can get to know via its publication doi.org/10.3758/s134... and explore the dataset on OSF osf.io/5ebz2/ and GitHub with its interactive Shiny app 🫢 github.com/HazelvdW/MUS...

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jul 25

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...)

Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Jul 24

@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social gave a presentation yesterday exploring the types of thoughts occurring while listening to music from a wide range of styles, familiarity, and more! Great to disseminate this @leverhulme.ac.uk project to the #musicscience crowd at #ICMPC18!!

Hazel presenting at ICMPC18 in São Paulo

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jul 5

exciting news this Saturday: another article PUBLISHED!! “Thoughtscapes” takes a deeper look people’s thought landscape while listening the range of music clips and styles in the MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set :)) 👂💭 🎨💥🎬 doi.org/10.1177/0305...

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jun 20

MUSIFEAST-17 stimulus set now published and available to read!
link.springer.com/article/10.3... 🧞‍♀️🚀 #MusicPsych #MusicScience

MUSIFEAST-17: MUsic Stimuli for imagination, familiarity, emotion, and Aesthetic STudies across 17 genres - Behavior Research Methods

Musical stimuli are commonly used in psychological research for investigating a range of emotional, cognitive, and physiological processes. Despite this widespread use, many studies continue to rely o...

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jun 13

cheesing 🤓! Someone’s excited hehe 👾🛸🪐⚡️🚀 #SysMus25 @sysmus.bsky.social @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social

Hazel standing in front of and pointing at the SysMus logos before her spoken presentation

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jun 13

really fun few days with a super fun bunch! Last sessions & celebrations to come on our freaky Friday 13th together 😎⭐️🪩 #SysMus25 @sysmus.bsky.social thanks @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social!

UiO - RITMO @unioslo-ritmo.bsky.social · Jun 13

Last day of #SysMus25!
It's been a pleasure hosting you all 🫶
@sysmus.bsky.social

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jun 13

'Thoughtscapes' - what types of thoughts emerge across different musical genres?
A fascinating look at how music shapes the mind by @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social #sysmus25

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jun 13

woah thanks Lennie! 🔭💫

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jun 8

super engaging & enjoyable time meeting & workshopping with @ukrepro.bsky.social LNLs 🔬⚡️🧠

Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Group of Local Network Leads (LNL) chatting about Open Research at the London School of Economics (LSE). Connor and Hazel can be seen thoroughly engaged in the discussion.

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jun 8

exciting discipline-specific expansions on the way from @reproducibilitea.org…! 🔭💫 #OpenResearch

Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Jun 8

Hazel & Connor recently represented @durham-university.bsky.social for @ukrepro.bsky.social's retreat, hosted by @lselibrary.bsky.social! They presented @reproducibilitea.org's new discipline-specific resources, using their interdisciplinary perspective in #MusicScience @durhammusicdept.bsky.social

Connor (left) and Hazel (right) showing off ReproducibiliTea's reading list developments

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · May 13

a lot of fun working on this one (and hopefully more to come!) Can be found at rpt-rl.netlify.app 💫🔭

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · May 13

Super excited to launch ReproducibiliTea’s newest reading list: “Open Research… in the Arts?” 🔬🎭🎨🎷📐
Probe the boundaries of Open Research expectations across disciplines, explore data outside the sciences, discuss challenges facing empirical and practice-based arts, and more ⭐️ Get stuck in! ☕️🫖

ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · May 13

Introducing ReproducibiliTea’s newest reading list: “Open Research… in the Arts?” curated by Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social

Check it out at rpt-rl.netlify.app and broaden your view of Open Research.

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Apr 9

Present, past, & farther afield members of @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social brought together by conferences! This time, SEMPRE25 in the RNCM 🎶🔬 Day 1 done with some really super presentations from everyone 💫🔭 @charasteliou.bsky.social @curwen01.bsky.social @kirtsconnor.bsky.social

Left to right: Connor, Scott, Hazel, Caroline, Chara, Fruzsi. At the RNCM for SEMPRE25.

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Apr 9

and clearly having a great time 🤓⭐️🎤

Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Apr 9

@hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social also gave a presentation today for the @leverhulme.ac.uk funded PhD Music & Imagination project with @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social! Exploring “thoughtscapes” experienced across 17 genres. Find out more on OSF: osf.io/5ebz2/

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Apr 9

presenting MUSIFEAST-17 with it’s interactive Plotly Shiny app.R (pictured left!) which can be viewed and run via my GitHub repository github.com/HazelvdW/MUS... 🧞‍♀️🎧

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jan 27

Check out our @reproducibilitea.org journal club webpage reproducibilitea.org/journal-club... to get a peak into what we’ll be discussing over some hot tea in our new @ukrepro.bsky.social teapot 🫖⭐️🚀☕️

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Jan 27

Our PhD students @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social and @kirtsconnor.bsky.social started Durham University’s @reproducibilitea.org journal club!

Based in the Music Department, our journal club hopes to facilitate discussion about #OpenResearch practices across disciplines, from the sciences to the arts

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Music Psychology Lab - Durham @musicpsychologylab.bsky.social · Jan 24

Our co-director @kellyjakubowski.bsky.social presented to Durham Comp Sci students about her @leverhulme.bsky.social project looking into music-evoked thoughts

Her #musicscience team is making resources and studying different thought types evoked by #music

Interested? Check out musicscience.net!

Kelly standing in front of a class talking. A slide shows “Predicting music-evoked thought content from perceptual and experiential properties of music”

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Hazel Aileen van der Walle @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social · Jan 15

Delighted to be newly part of the ReproducibiliTea steering committee! Looking forward to bringing more arts & humanities Open Research focus and resources to the team ⭐️☕️

ReproducibiliTea @reproducibilitea.org · Jan 15

Please join us in welcoming our new steering committee members:
@licataae.bsky.social, @marmyleva-ana.bsky.social,
Hemani Sharma, @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social

New committee co-chairs:
@helenagellersen.bsky.social, Paulina Manduch

Returning members:
Michael Muhoozi, @liannewolsink.bsky.social

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Tuomas Eerola @tuomaseerola.bsky.social · Dec 18

How transparent is music psychology as a discipline? Unfortunately not yet near acceptable levels in making data (5%), analysis scripts (1%) available, nor committing to preregistration (0%) or replications (3%). Benchmarked to psychology in graph. New #musicscience study out doi.org/10.1177/1029...

This infographic displays the key statistics from an analysis of 239 studies in music psychology and compares the prevalence of data sharing, preregistration and open access publication to a similar analysis in psychology

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Inner Music and Wellbeing Network @innermusicgroup.bsky.social · Dec 11

We still need help with our database!

We're looking for examples of inner music in fiction and biography. Anyone welcome to submit - please share widely!

More details below:

musicinmyhead.org/inner-music-...

Inner Music in Fiction and Biography - The Inner Music and Wellbeing Network

Inner Music in Fiction and Biography ‘Inner music’ or ‘musical imagery’ refers to the music that one hears in one’s own head. For example, an ‘earworm’ is a catchy piece of music that is stuck in one’...

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Dax Kellie @daxkellie.bsky.social · Dec 9

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂:

daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co...

All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too!

#ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Title slide: Will your code run again? Tips for making code reproducible in R

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