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We've known for years that musical chills are not a single phenomenon. We decided to test a two-component theory of musical chills where we would contrast social chills and vigilance chills. 1/12 #musicscience @MusicScienceDU
@s_bannister2113 devised an experiment which empirically tested the distinction between vigilance chills, linked to threat-signalling goosebumps, vigilance, and awe; and social chills, linked to thermoregulatory goosebumps, social bonding, empathy, and being moved. 2/12
Participants listened to 4 chill-inducing pieces of music that were switched between participants. In the 1st part, we manipulated the extramusical information to emphasise either the dynamic structure (vigilance) or emotional narrative (social). 3/12
Just finished a 2 hour workshop for #sysmus20 titled "Turning Your Values into Value" aka a crash course in getting non-academic work for grad students in #musicscience I'll try to summarise what I said (all my opinions) in case anyone else is interested in the workshop!
TLDR Most grad students won't work in academia, but that's OK and I really wanted to brand of the workshop not to be this doomsday fear inducing stuff I see on my twitter feed every day. Of course the competition is stiff, but I just can't stand more doomsdaying.
There were five short (but intense) slide decks (should have been less but had to include it all). First was to show how step number one of getting work is to figure out why someone would even give you salaried job in the first place. We start with mapping out
Looks like this #musicscience pre-print showing 0 effect between musical training and cognitive abilities has been accepted at Memory and Cognition and is getting some press.
psyarxiv.com/7s8wr/
IMO moments like this are a great chance to just remind people that you don't
psyarxiv.com/7s8wr/
IMO moments like this are a great chance to just remind people that you don't
need the backing of Science™ to justify what you find meaningful. In a lot of ways, it's liberating to nullify this relationship to help focus conversations about #music to other reasons like how it's a great way to explore the many ways to be human, it's a way to learn
about other cultures, it's a way to form meaningful relationships with others, + things that are not by-products of traits that are valued by a society that wants productivity over all other things. Talking with my #musiceducation colleagues, I know the smarter~musical training
A few months ago I wrote a very long blog for @CommitteeSysmus on advice that I wish I would have heard when I was a graduate student about getting a non-academic job.
sites.google.com/view/sysmus/bl…
I'll thread the major points below because it's a long one (4K words)
sites.google.com/view/sysmus/bl…
I'll thread the major points below because it's a long one (4K words)
There are a lot of resources on how to keep going on in academia, but as we all know, we can't all immediately go from PhD to more academia (AND this was all originally written pre-COVID) but there's not a lot of good resources to help people prepare for that as a student.
So I wanted to just pass on many words of wisdom that I think I would have found helpful a few years ago (esp since my first job out of PhD was helping people land junior #datascience jobs) and not just say what to do (ewww) but rather my thoughts on why.
Extremely excited to announce program & speaker list for 2 virtual events of our #MUSIC & #COVID19 research network on Tue 19 May 9:00-10:30am CEST and 4:00-5:30pm CEST (via Zoom). Still time to register! Details below. #musicscience @AIAS_dk @MPI_ae @musicbrainAU @CFIN_AU 1/n 
Speakers for 1st event (9:00-10:30am CEST): @Alex_Lamont: "DIY Desert Island Discs: Building Collaborations and Taking Studies Online Under Lockdown", @DanaSwarbrick: ”Quarantine Concerts: The Social Impacts of Virtual Concerts on Audience Members”,... 2/n
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann: "Musicking against loneliness & depression: Preliminary results from cross-national survey", Mikaela Leandertz/Andrew Adu: "Music Therapy & COVID19”, Kelsey Onderdijk: "Impact of Lockdown Measures on Joint Music Making",... 3/n
Couldn't agree more. So I thought I'd try to do my part to #MakeMusicSciencePositiveAgain by compiling a thread of my recent tweets/retweets about positive things. I'd love to get more positive vibes from others feeling this way
(with apologies for some self-promotional content)
(with apologies for some self-promotional content)
1. Loving the powerful women leading the way in our field!
(note 70% of @smpc leadership is female, including current President @LisaMargulis and President-Elect @NeuroBeats: musicperception.org/about-smpc.html)
(note 70% of @smpc leadership is female, including current President @LisaMargulis and President-Elect @NeuroBeats: musicperception.org/about-smpc.html)
2. Twenty ethnomusicologists and scientists coauthored a position paper arguing for the need for more and better (incl. more diverse/inclusive) cross-cultural music cognition research
