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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Aug 3

Some “light” holiday reading - #blackholes another excellent book by Cox & Forshaw.
I can finally say I understand the Penrose diagrams… well, close enough to understanding.

Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 25

Have you looked at the novel measures in comparison to the stimuli they are trying to describe--i.e. how diverse is the range of stimuli? Do we have many novel measures of the same stimuli or do the stimuli vary as much as the measures, leading to even less comparability?

Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 25

Seeking to improve the science of measurement in the affective sciences?

What are we measuring? how did we measure it? and does it work across research context?

Really important and very valuable work by @kirtsconnor.bsky.social

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 25

New music dataset are always important contributions to #musicscience research:

"Creating an open‑access music audio dataset for deep phenotyping of subjective experience of musical emotions" -- by @seunggookim.bsky.social #icmpc2025

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 25

@jayteetang.bsky.social

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Andreas Brandmaier @brandmaier.bsky.social · Jul 24

Want automated reproducibility checks for your R Markdown docs on GitHub?

reproducibleRchunks v1.2.0 is now on CRAN!
✅ Generates GitHub Actions for cloud-based reproducibility checks (with cool badges)
📦 Supports renv for dependency management
👉 cran.r-project.org/package=repr...

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 24

Excellent talk by @camandrsn.bsky.social - make sure to check out his new R package ggcommonality: bar plots of unique and joint effects from a commonality analysis
👉 github.com/cmndrsn/ggco...

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 24

Enjoying some great live Japanese rock music with Taiki Shimozono #icmpc2025

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 23

Excellent presentation @camandrsn.bsky.social. It's going to be an incredibly useful review

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 23

Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 22

🌍🎶 How universal is music?

Challenging assumptions about the perception of music cross-culturally.

A great talk by @norijacoby.bsky.social at #icmpc2025

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 22

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 22

🌍✨ A fascinating new look at assessing musical cultures across the globe by award-winning @harinlee.info

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎵 "Hello darkness, my old friend..." sad music isn’t always a red flag 🟥

Anđela Milošević develops a qualitative analysis of how teens view the use of sad music not to stay sad—but to move through it. #ICMPC2025

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎵 Do lyrics really shape how we feel music?

How matching, clashing, and nonsense lyrics affect emotional perception across genres.

Results suggest sad songs + sad words = strongest feels. #ICMPC2025

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Lennie (Thomas M.) @lennietm.bsky.social · Jul 21

🎵 How do our digital footprints reflect our musical minds?

Vinoo Alluri (Keynote) explores situated music cognition, linking what we say about music to what we actually listen to, feel, and need.

Take a deep dive with Muselt: github.com/Muse-it/MuseIt #musicscience #ICMPS18

GitHub - Muse-it/MuseIt: MuseIt, a music sentiment analysis/viz tool. SolidJS frontend and Flask backend.

MuseIt, a music sentiment analysis/viz tool. SolidJS frontend and Flask backend. - Muse-it/MuseIt

github.com

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Daniel Yon @danieljamesyon.bsky.social · Jun 6

Looking for a PhD in #psychology or #cogneuro ? I’m recruiting a fully-funded @leverhulme.ac.uk PhD student to join my lab at @birkbeckpsychology.bsky.social. If you’re interested in metacognition, learning, social cognition and culture I’d love you to apply 🧠👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ330/p...

PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London

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

#SysMus25 has been wonderful. Thank you for the wonderful presentations, workshops, talks, and smiles.
An extra big thank you to the wonderful and ever cheerful Abbigail Fleckenstein and all the organising team. 🥰

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

Thank you for all the hard work. It really shows in the quality of your presentation

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

What music do you prefer to sleep with (if you sleep with music)? How might we capture the characteristics of such music? @samuelmorgan.bsky.social contributing to these questions - 'Active Preference Learning for Musical Stimuli (for Sleep)'

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

Look at all those happy faces 😊

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

Bridging the divide between psychometricians and musical-affective measures - A really valuable contribution from
@kirtsconnor.bsky.social seeking to ensure rigorous measurement of emotional episodes with relevance and clarity. #sysmus25

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

Wonderful research by @spooky-kat.bsky.social at #sysmus25 on 'Adolescent Experiences of Scary Music'. One of the fascinating experiential juxtapositions generated by music. 👻
Personal fav of the stimuli: Korn - Dead Bodies Everywhere

patrick and spongebob are standing next to each other

ALT: patrick and spongebob are standing next to each other

media.tenor.com

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

Building a taxonomy of childrens' musical experiences (embodied - detached). Novel data collection and novel insights by @carocaronet.bsky.social at #SysMus25
p.s. check out the stories of Splat 👾 the alien 🫶

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