Dr Joshua S. Bamford
@js.bamford.id.au
Researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social and Social Body Lab @ox.ac.uk
#musicscience
Website: https://joshua.bamford.id.au/
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Website: https://joshua.bamford.id.au/
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Organisers are doing the final touches to the #RPPW20 we look forward to welcoming our colleagues to Jyväskylä next week @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Organisers are doing the final touches to the #RPPW20 we look forward to welcoming our colleagues to Jyväskylä next week @coe-mmbb.bsky.social @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
We are taking an exploratory approach to develop current
understandings of what activities and behaviours are involved in romantic relationships. If you're interested in participating, please follow this link for more information:
swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
understandings of what activities and behaviours are involved in romantic relationships. If you're interested in participating, please follow this link for more information:
swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
May 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
We are taking an exploratory approach to develop current
understandings of what activities and behaviours are involved in romantic relationships. If you're interested in participating, please follow this link for more information:
swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
understandings of what activities and behaviours are involved in romantic relationships. If you're interested in participating, please follow this link for more information:
swanseachhs.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
When did humans first begin to sing, and why?
I had a crack at answering this question as part of @newscientist.com's LastWord series. www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...
#musicscience @coe-mmbb.bsky.social
I had a crack at answering this question as part of @newscientist.com's LastWord series. www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...
#musicscience @coe-mmbb.bsky.social
Is it known when humans or our ancestors first started to sing?
As songs don't fossilise, this is a difficult task, point out our readers – but this doesn't stop them having a go
www.newscientist.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
When did humans first begin to sing, and why?
I had a crack at answering this question as part of @newscientist.com's LastWord series. www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...
#musicscience @coe-mmbb.bsky.social
I had a crack at answering this question as part of @newscientist.com's LastWord series. www.newscientist.com/lastword/mg2...
#musicscience @coe-mmbb.bsky.social
Why do we teach music? While debates about funding for the arts are ongoing, it's worth reflecting on what music does for society. In this short piece, we discuss some of the predominant theories about the role of music education.
doi.org/10.57874/nsy...
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doi.org/10.57874/nsy...
#musicscience
Octopus
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April 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Why do we teach music? While debates about funding for the arts are ongoing, it's worth reflecting on what music does for society. In this short piece, we discuss some of the predominant theories about the role of music education.
doi.org/10.57874/nsy...
#musicscience
doi.org/10.57874/nsy...
#musicscience
Something for all of us in the higher education sector to think about. With every action, we should always be asking: how does this serve the core mission of the university?
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On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
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March 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Something for all of us in the higher education sector to think about. With every action, we should always be asking: how does this serve the core mission of the university?
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
I’ve been adding groups to this starter pack for #musicscience labs as I’ve found them.
If there are any that I’ve missed drop them in the comments!
go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf
If there are any that I’ve missed drop them in the comments!
go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf
December 14, 2024 at 9:59 AM
I’ve been adding groups to this starter pack for #musicscience labs as I’ve found them.
If there are any that I’ve missed drop them in the comments!
go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf
If there are any that I’ve missed drop them in the comments!
go.bsky.app/Eao5vcf
New online study looking at how people rate a musical rehearsal between two singers. It just takes 5-10 minutes and it'd be great if you could have a listen:
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February 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
New online study looking at how people rate a musical rehearsal between two singers. It just takes 5-10 minutes and it'd be great if you could have a listen:
oxfordanthropology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
oxfordanthropology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
What do fireflies, fish schools, and dancers have in common? They self-organize—and now, science has a model to explain it! New study by Petri Toiviainen and colleagues uses swarmalators to reveal the hidden physics of the dance floor.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
Frontiers | Modeling dynamics on the dance floor with directional swarmalators
www.frontiersin.org
February 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
What do fireflies, fish schools, and dancers have in common? They self-organize—and now, science has a model to explain it! New study by Petri Toiviainen and colleagues uses swarmalators to reveal the hidden physics of the dance floor.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
Finally, AI can now model how people behave at a silent disco!
#musicscience
#musicscience
What do fireflies, fish schools, and dancers have in common? They self-organize—and now, science has a model to explain it! New study by Petri Toiviainen and colleagues uses swarmalators to reveal the hidden physics of the dance floor.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
www.frontiersin.org/journals/beh...
Frontiers | Modeling dynamics on the dance floor with directional swarmalators
www.frontiersin.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Finally, AI can now model how people behave at a silent disco!
#musicscience
#musicscience
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
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Wishing everybody celebrating a happy, healthy and prosperous #LunarNewYear! 🐍 🎉
#ChineseNewYear | #YearOfTheSnake
Wishing everybody celebrating a happy, healthy and prosperous #LunarNewYear! 🐍 🎉
#ChineseNewYear | #YearOfTheSnake
January 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Wishing everybody celebrating a happy, healthy and prosperous #LunarNewYear! 🐍 🎉
#ChineseNewYear | #YearOfTheSnake
Wishing everybody celebrating a happy, healthy and prosperous #LunarNewYear! 🐍 🎉
#ChineseNewYear | #YearOfTheSnake
Sad to say that my time as a postdoc at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social is coming to an end... because next week I'll be starting as a Senior Lecturer! Very excited to be stepping into a new role at this great university out in the middle of the forest, doing #musicscience. 🎶👨🎓🌲
January 30, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Sad to say that my time as a postdoc at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social is coming to an end... because next week I'll be starting as a Senior Lecturer! Very excited to be stepping into a new role at this great university out in the middle of the forest, doing #musicscience. 🎶👨🎓🌲
Nice to see our work discussed here!
Some of our research from the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in The Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Music sounds better with you? How your listening habits affect your love life
Psychologists say that singing, dancing and song preferences play a key role in the viability of romantic relationships
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Nice to see our work discussed here!
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
Some of our research from the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in The Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Music sounds better with you? How your listening habits affect your love life
Psychologists say that singing, dancing and song preferences play a key role in the viability of romantic relationships
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Some of our research from the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in The Guardian today!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
We're hiring!
The University, in association with St Catherine's College, proposes to appoint an Associate Professor of Music with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The University, in association with St Catherine's College, proposes to appoint an Associate Professor of Music with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
December 20, 2024 at 12:33 PM
We're hiring!
The University, in association with St Catherine's College, proposes to appoint an Associate Professor of Music with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
The University, in association with St Catherine's College, proposes to appoint an Associate Professor of Music with effect from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Nearly 20 years ago, I was on a family holiday/fieldtrip to the north-west coast of Australia, where we found a lizard that nobody could identify. It turned out to be an undescribed species and, finally, after all this time, it has now been described! Meet 𝐿𝑖𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑎!
doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
Molecular and morphological assessment of the Liopholis inornata (Rosén, 1905) species group (Reptilia: Squamata: Scincidae), with descriptions of two new species from northern Western Australia...
doi.org
December 15, 2024 at 10:32 AM
Nearly 20 years ago, I was on a family holiday/fieldtrip to the north-west coast of Australia, where we found a lizard that nobody could identify. It turned out to be an undescribed species and, finally, after all this time, it has now been described! Meet 𝐿𝑖𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑎!
doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW 20) will take place at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland from the 16th to the 19th of June 2025. The portal for abstract submissions is now open here: www.rppw.org/rppw20
#musicscience
#musicscience
RPPW20
Submission portal for RPPW20
www.rppw.org
December 2, 2024 at 11:24 AM
The 20th Rhythm Perception and Production Workshop (RPPW 20) will take place at the Department of Music, Art and Culture Studies of the University of Jyväskylä, Finland from the 16th to the 19th of June 2025. The portal for abstract submissions is now open here: www.rppw.org/rppw20
#musicscience
#musicscience
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
Where people live
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
December 1, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Where people live
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
8% Full democracy
37% Flawed democracy
18% Hybrid regime
37% Authoritarian regime
According to: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Democracy Index. The EIU classifies the US as a flawed democracy.
www.visualcapitalist.com/state-of-dem...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
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Why I have resigned from the Royal Society
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert H...
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November 27, 2024 at 8:36 AM
For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...
I've been playing around on Octopus, a novel platform that publishes modular scientific papers. Here's my first attempt at outlining some of the major research questions in the ethology of music. Welcome to add hypotheses or to collaborate on an updated version! 🐙🎵
doi.org/10.57874/9n3...
doi.org/10.57874/9n3...
Octopus
Free, fast and fair: the global primary research record where researchers publish their work in full detail.
doi.org
November 27, 2024 at 1:54 PM
I've been playing around on Octopus, a novel platform that publishes modular scientific papers. Here's my first attempt at outlining some of the major research questions in the ethology of music. Welcome to add hypotheses or to collaborate on an updated version! 🐙🎵
doi.org/10.57874/9n3...
doi.org/10.57874/9n3...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
"An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience" now officially published in Perspectives on Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social
Together with @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @mjdramstead.bsky.social @leoschilbach.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
Together with @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @mjdramstead.bsky.social @leoschilbach.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
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November 18, 2024 at 1:27 PM
"An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience" now officially published in Perspectives on Psychological Science @psychscience.bsky.social
Together with @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @mjdramstead.bsky.social @leoschilbach.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
Together with @dimitrisbolis.bsky.social @mjdramstead.bsky.social @leoschilbach.bsky.social @kanske.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1745...
Reposted by Dr Joshua S. Bamford
For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics.
just comment below if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj
#musicskyence
just comment below if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj
#musicskyence
November 7, 2024 at 9:36 PM
For all the newcomers, here is a starter pack of people to follow on #musicscience, music cognition and related topics.
just comment below if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj
#musicskyence
just comment below if you want to be added!
go.bsky.app/4oZbDpj
#musicskyence
What is the synchrony-bonding effect, and why did I move to Finland to watch people dancing in silent discos? Find out in my first ever article in @uk.theconversation.com
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#musicscience
theconversation.com/silent-disco...
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#musicscience
theconversation.com/silent-disco...
Silent disco: why dancing in sync brings us closer together
The synchronisation involved in music and dance may be the “active ingredient” in their social bonding effects.
theconversation.com
November 18, 2024 at 1:23 PM
What is the synchrony-bonding effect, and why did I move to Finland to watch people dancing in silent discos? Find out in my first ever article in @uk.theconversation.com
🎧🎶
#musicscience
theconversation.com/silent-disco...
🎧🎶
#musicscience
theconversation.com/silent-disco...
Douglas Adams gave us three rules to describe new technologies, which are as relevant now, in the age of AI, as ever:
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November 18, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Douglas Adams gave us three rules to describe new technologies, which are as relevant now, in the age of AI, as ever:
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Been a while since I checked in here... how's everything going on not-Twitter?
November 16, 2024 at 6:28 AM
Been a while since I checked in here... how's everything going on not-Twitter?
November 23, 2023 at 8:40 AM