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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 19h

Please spread the word! I am recruiting a PhD student this cycle (Fall 2026 start) to join my team in a new venture: the neuroscience of mood.

If you are curious to learn more, this short talk provides a good overview of why, what and how.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjIK...

Nicole Rust - The representation of mood in the primate insula (May 6, 2025)

YouTube video by Simons Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 4d

Incredible Music, Movement, Mood & Parkinson’s symposium at @hslu-luzern.bsky.social Switzerland, led by the magnificent Prof Dawn Rose.

Here, Jane talked about our concerts in Lucerne & @rncmlive.bsky.social

Very proud to have been invited to be part of the final panel! @beamlab.bsky.social

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Tessa Dekker @tessamdekker.bsky.social · 11d

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

Research Assistant at UCL

Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

t.ly

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 12d

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College is hiring a TT Assistant Prof in Clinical Psychology (child/family focus) with expertise in AI methods (ML, NLP, LLMs, CV).

📅 Review begins Nov 15, 2025

👉 apply.interfolio.com/174418

Please share!

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 13d

Chuffed that our music and Parkinson’s paper on ‘The Use of Music Among Swiss People with Parkinson’s: A Mixed Methods Survey and Comparison to the UK Findings’ led by the wonderful Prof Dawn Rose and with lots of fab collaborators, is now out!

#PPI #Parkinsons

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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PATHS Research Group @paths-research.bsky.social · 14d

Some photos of @kateywarran.bsky.social speaking at The Royal Institution @rigb.org alongside @michelle-phillips.bsky.social @rosielperkins.bsky.social & Ming Hsu for the ABRSM symposium

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 14d

Bucket list moment! 🪣 🤩

Tonight I presented at The Royal Institution in London! I was hosting a panel for an ABRSM Music, Health and Wellbeing symposium - what an honour to be asked! I’m buzzing!

Now returning to Manchester to continue week 1 of our new @rncmlive.bsky.social academic year!

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 15d

🥇 🏆 🎵 💡 🧬

Honoured to be shortlisted for the I Love Manchester ‘Alan Turing Award’, which ‘honours the boldest problem-solvers in Greater Manchester, individuals and organisations using fresh ideas and forward thinking.’

Voting is open here until 3rd October 2025 ilovemanchester.com/awards

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 25d

We won!

Total joy to work with
Suneel Kunamaneni (Uni of Manchester), Ambarin Asad (Uni of Salford) & Catherine Brentnall (Manchester Met Uni) to run an entrepreneurship event for students from all 4 institutions

Our paper won Best in Track at the International Enterprise Ed Conference 2025! 🏆🥇💪

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 26d

Absolutely glorious time at International Enterprise Educators Conference 2025! #EEUK #IEEC2025

Great to catch up with fab friends & present two papers with collaborators: first on our Manchester Unhackathon, & second on our EEUK Impact Award funded project on music enterprise education in schools

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · 28d

Looking forward to seeing you!

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Sep 3

🎵☀️New blog: A summer of music☀️🎵

www.whyhumansneedmusic.com/post/a-summe...

From #Oasis gigs enjoyed from my garden, to music & our football champions, #DannyElfman’s music for Universal’s new #EpicUniverse theme park, the Proms, #TaylorSwift & #FreakierFriday -what a glorious summer of music!

A summer of music

‘Summer’, wrote Harper Lee in her classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, ‘was our best season.’ There’s certainly a nostalgic quality to our summer memories – formed during those warm, drawn-out evening...

www.whyhumansneedmusic.com

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Aidan Horner @aidanhorner.bsky.social · Jul 21

2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Jobs - The University of York

jobs.york.ac.uk

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Dr Suzanne Black @suzannerblack.bsky.social · Aug 20

Do you watch TV? Please take this survey to help me understand what audiences think of TV production techniques. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/edinburgh/... Please share widely, and thanks in advance.
#FanStudies #AudienceResearch

TV Survey

Online surveys is a powerful, easy to use tool for creating online surveys. Run by Jisc, online surveys is used by over 300 different organisations in the UK...

app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk

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assafbreska.bsky.social @assafbreska.bsky.social · Aug 20

We’re hiring! 🥳fully funded PhD and postdoc positions in human cognitive neuroscience @mpicybernetics.bsky.social

M/EEG and brain stimulation methods to study timing/ prediction/ attention/ oscillations
tinyurl.com/5dku4du9

@timingresforum.bsky.social @gtc-tuebingen.bsky.social

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PhD and Postdoc Positions (m/f/d) in Human Cognitive Neuroscience of Dynamic Cognition – M/EEG, brain stimulation

Job Offer from August 11, 2025

tinyurl.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Aug 15

Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Department of Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social · Aug 11

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jul 29

Revelling in a holiday that includes the celebration of all things Disney, film and music #DisneyWorldOrlando #DisneyHollywoodStudios #DisneySoul 🐭 🎵 🎥

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excited to get stuck into this year’s #BookerPrize2025, although, like others, I’m disappointed that Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘Our Evenings’ didn’t make it 📖

The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · Jul 29

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 longlist – 13 books ‘all alive with great characters and narrative surprises’.

Huge congratulations to the authors who make up this year's Booker Dozen.

➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jul 11

Huge congratulations Rob, on this absolute masterpiece! If the aliens landed and asked what heights the human race had taken music to, this piece would be the answer. Phenomenal!

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jul 8

Really interesting

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UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org · Jul 8

❗Doctoral students: want to experience first-hand how research feeds into policy?

The latest round of the UKRI Policy Internships scheme is open for applications.

Apply by 8 September 2025➡️ www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jul 8

Yes!

“Research excellence looks different in different contexts ..A specialist arts institution may demonstrate world-leading innovation through creative practice that doesn’t align neatly with standard research output categories”

Really nice, thanks @wonkhe.bsky.social

wonkhe.com/blogs/ref-pa...

REF panels must reflect the diversity of the UK higher education sector

The composition of REF panels is a litmus test for how seriously the sector takes its commitments to diversity, argue Louise Bracken, Elizabeth Stokoe, Nick Brook, and Rachel Woolley The composition o...

wonkhe.com

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jun 22

Thanks BBC Songs of Praise for featuring our music & neuroscience work on your ‘Power of Music’ show today.

It’s on iplayer here (starts at 13 mins): www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Very proud to be part of this amazing collaboration! (See photos-Steve, Sam, Jason, Dan, Ana, Aestus String Quartet)

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Dr Michelle Phillips @michelle-phillips.bsky.social · Jun 20

It was SO cool to be part of a panel in a flipping planetarium! Bucket list complete!! 😂 🪣

@jodrellbank.bsky.social

Creative Manchester @uomcreativemcr.bsky.social · Jun 20

We're hearing from our panellists with diverse backgrounds from music psychology via the politics of music to sound art 💭🎶 with our ENO Research Associate Kamila Rymajdo, Christabel Sterling, Paul Martin & Michelle Phillips 🎶

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