Lennie (Thomas M.)
lennietm.bsky.social
Lennie (Thomas M.)
@lennietm.bsky.social
Assistant Prof. of Psychology @ American University in Bulgaria. #AffectSci #Music #Cognition #musicscience
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- Although such systems are promoted as tools for personalized listening, they *could* also be used to infer or profile individuals’ beliefs

A wonderful collaboration led by Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón, @lennietm.bsky.social, Pablo Aragón, Estefanía Cano, Perfecto Herrera & Emilia Gómez 3/3
November 13, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.
August 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
July 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
July 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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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...
July 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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...
July 24, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Enjoying some great live Japanese rock music with Taiki Shimozono #icmpc2025
July 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Excellent presentation @camandrsn.bsky.social. It's going to be an incredibly useful review
July 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
🌍🎶 How universal is music?

Challenging assumptions about the perception of music cross-culturally.

A great talk by @norijacoby.bsky.social at #icmpc2025
July 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM
🌍✨ A fascinating new look at assessing musical cultures across the globe by award-winning @harinlee.info
July 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
🎵 "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
July 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🎵 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
July 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🎵 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
July 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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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 🧠👇

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PhD Studentship: Public Communication and Private Confidence at Birkbeck, University of London
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June 6, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#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. 🥰
Last day of #SysMus25!
It's been a pleasure hosting you all 🫶
@sysmus.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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)'
June 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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
June 13, 2025 at 12:08 PM
'Thoughtscapes' - what types of thoughts emerge across different musical genres?
A fascinating look at how music shapes the mind by @hazelvanderwalle.bsky.social #sysmus25
June 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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
June 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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 🫶
June 13, 2025 at 9:04 AM
@harinlee.info

Congrats - Best Student Paper Award #ICMPC18
🥇 📄Paper: Global similarities and diversities of melody and rhythm.

Looking forward to seeing the presentation.
June 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Insights into the different affordances music has in aging - by Heini Siltainsuu #SysMus25
June 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
The Emotional-Motivational Functions of Musical Imagery in Parkinson's Patients by Marietta Ungerer at #SysMus25
June 12, 2025 at 1:18 PM
More important work from #SysMus25. @nashraa.bsky.social exploring the role of cultural familiarity and learning in the experience of isochronous & non-isochronous beats.
June 12, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Some fascinating findings form @jayteetang.bsky.social regarding the role of the self-construal (a proxy for individualist and collectivist cultures) in the experience of musical reward. Interesting question: to what degree are rewarding experiences with music Westerly constructed?
June 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM