Music as a spiritual practice. I am grateful to Yurok people who crafted the flute I play and to Lakota people who taught me how to play it.

A Native American flute meditation for anxiety relief, sleep, breathing, relaxation. To embrace you and hold you safe.

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Happy to share that I will speak on “Neurodiversity in Digital Participatory Science: Insights from a Large-Scale Survey on Zooniverse” on 28 May, 1:15-2:30 PM at the 2025 Conference for Advancing Participatory Sciences in Portland, Oregon, USA. Hope to see some of you there!

And I think we’ve just paved a new methodology path for text-based ecology and conservation research. Grateful to all the amazing volunteers helping us to move this project forward. Please join us online if you love reading and animals: www.zooniverse.org/projects/dve...

Today is exactly 1 year since I moved to the UK to start working at Oxford University, Zooniverse. Grateful for the team, city, community, nature (when the sun is out), quietudes of long solitary walks, rich culture and safety to be true to myself as a researcher, musician and neuroquirky adult.

My first song since the Russian-Ukrainian “full-scale invasion” started in 2022. My way to cope with pain and frustration.

Моє небо вище куль
Тут зі мною усі мої знайомі
Ангели несуть патруль
Моя музика веде мене додому

Also: looking for a minimalist animator.

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Zooniverse is still down - we are working hard to bring all the projects back to you! Check status.zooniverse.org for updates

My Narnia. Writing music is one of better ways to channel anger. Hope to finalise Strange Music before 24/02

Sand Home” merges visuals and sound to explore displacement and belonging. Artist sleeps in sand-filled houses in the UAE. Musician turns her heartbeat into a lullaby in Oxford. 7000 km apart, they reflect on how we find home when the worlds slip away

New sounds: www.patreon.com/posts/sand-h...

Could Daniel Levitin really facilitate a personalised "music therapy" treatment to help Joni Mitchell recover from a devastating stroke as described in The Guardian?

Sorry, nope. Here is my nerdy-snobby explanation why: www.patreon.com/posts/borrow...

(I know, books just don’t promote themselves)

Hello, BlueSky! I am Alisa - singer, researcher, therapist, doula, seasoned mom, fan of wolves, meadows and lullabies.

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