Dr Thomas Graves
@thomasgraves.bsky.social
Music researcher focussed on South Asia, musical emotion/affect, moral emotion, music & Islam. Open Research Library Assistant at LSE, part-time teacher at Durham University Music Department. AFHEA, he/him. PhD thesis: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/15586/
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I'm pleased to announce that my chapter "Love From India: YouTube Qawwālī as Affective Solidarity in India—Pakistan Relations" has now been published in Punjab Sounds: In and Beyond the Region edited by Radha Kapuria and Vebhuti Duggal. #music #research #publication doi.org/10.4324/9781...
The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music
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Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
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November 10, 2025 at 10:42 AM
The University of Nottingham is the latest UK HEI to propose suspending the music department. Another in a long line of attacks on university music. Don’t let them get away with it! Sign the petition: www.change.org/p/stop-the-s... #university #UKHE #music
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Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Delighted to share our latest research on consonance. We asked participants from India and UK to rate how “tense” different harmonic intervals sound. We found that musicians across both cultures agreed almost perfectly on which intervals feel tense or relaxed, however, ....
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Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale.
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences
Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Academic publishing is now a marketised system where charging £9000 for a single paper isn't beyond the pale.
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
A new book by Samuel A. Moore proposes an alternative: a commons-based, scholar-led approach.
Read a #review by @thomasgraves.bsky.social on @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
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💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons?
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
Who should control open access, the markets or the commons? - Impact of Social Sciences
Publishing Beyond examines the ills of a marketised system of academic publishingand outlines how commons-based approaches could be an alternative.
blogs.lse.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
💥New: Who should control open access, the markets or the commons?
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
✍️ @thomasgraves.bsky.social reviews Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons (@uofmpress.bsky.social) by @samuelmoore.org
#OpenAccess #OAWeek25 #ScholComms
This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 AM
This week I facilitated a workshop on Open Research for post-fieldwork Anthropology PhD students at LSE. It was really great to hear about their research projects and discuss scholar-led publishing, open access, repositories, and the ethics of data sharing. #openresearch #anthropology #ethnography
Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...
The Science Behind Vocal Distortion: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore
YouTube video by The Charismatic Voice
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October 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Really interesting! Not sure i’d want to be responsible for participants having needles stuck in their throat, but the data is bound to be fascinating youtu.be/JkBV8GoPWXY?...
So sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
'An extraordinary legacy': Tributes after chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall dies age 91 - follow live
The primatologist was a
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October 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
So sad to hear of the passing of Jane Goodall www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...
In Trump’s USA, someone who migrates to the US to marry a US citizen can apply for a green card immediately. In the UK, Labour want to extend the time it takes for a spouse to get Indefinite Leave to Remain to 10 years! Those centrists who support these new immigration rules should think on that.
September 30, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In Trump’s USA, someone who migrates to the US to marry a US citizen can apply for a green card immediately. In the UK, Labour want to extend the time it takes for a spouse to get Indefinite Leave to Remain to 10 years! Those centrists who support these new immigration rules should think on that.
Its too late, but at least it finally happened: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Starmer confirms formal UK recognition of Palestinian state - BBC News
Canada and Australia also announced the move on Sunday, with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu accusing leaders of giving a "huge reward to terrorism".
www.bbc.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Its too late, but at least it finally happened: www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ali Akbar Razi - master of soz - strikes again this Muharram! I really love Soz o Salaam - perhaps even more than qawwali with instruments! Those overlapping voices and slight discrepancies really stir something inside. youtu.be/9YAVmIuvgRk?...
Soz o Salaam - Azmat Nabi ke Deen ki Dikhlaa Gaye Hussain (AS) - Ali Akbar Razi Qawwal aur Humanava
YouTube video by The Dream Journey
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July 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Ali Akbar Razi - master of soz - strikes again this Muharram! I really love Soz o Salaam - perhaps even more than qawwali with instruments! Those overlapping voices and slight discrepancies really stir something inside. youtu.be/9YAVmIuvgRk?...
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#OpenResearch has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
What does “Open Research” mean for qualitative research? - Impact of Social Sciences
Open research has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha and Thomas Graves argue that when it comes to qualitative research, considerations around replicability, context-dependent…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
June 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#OpenResearch has become a buzzword in university research, but Jo Hemlatha
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
@lseanthropology.bsky.social and @thomasgraves.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social write that #openness looks different when #research is context-dependent and involves marginalised communities @lseimpactblog.bsky.social
Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative
June 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Very proud to have co-authored this blog post with Jo Hemlatha! It looks at how qualitative research methods contribute to open research through participatory methods, interpersonal openness, and linguistic openness. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci... #openresearch #openscience #qualitative
Let’s talk about social anxiety in ethnographic research. I’ve always frozen up in social situations that seemed important. This seems like a problem in research, especially in fieldwork where there are certain people you want to speak to. Can an anxious person be a good ethnographer? #ethnography
June 13, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Let’s talk about social anxiety in ethnographic research. I’ve always frozen up in social situations that seemed important. This seems like a problem in research, especially in fieldwork where there are certain people you want to speak to. Can an anxious person be a good ethnographer? #ethnography
Happy to have been involved in the creation of two resources on preregistration and pre-analysis plans at LSE - one covering various methods, and one specifically for experimental methods:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
LSE ORWG Guide: Preregistration, Pre-Analysis Plans, and Registered Reports
This is the second in a series of guides to open research created for LSE researchers under the auspices of LSE's Open Research Working Group. This guide covers some basic steps you will need to take ...
doi.org
June 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Happy to have been involved in the creation of two resources on preregistration and pre-analysis plans at LSE - one covering various methods, and one specifically for experimental methods:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
#OpenResearch #OpenScience #guides #research
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With the last #OSFest25 session this afternoon, thank you to everyone who's been involved in each thought-provoking session and our co-hosts @lselibrary.bsky.social and
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
June 6, 2025 at 12:01 PM
With the last #OSFest25 session this afternoon, thank you to everyone who's been involved in each thought-provoking session and our co-hosts @lselibrary.bsky.social and
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
@crick.ac.uk. If you attended, hopefully you've taken away something useful. Let's keep up the dialogue about #OpenScience! 🔬📃
They were some really interesting topics and it was a pleasure to be involved in the organisation. “Positivism creep” is a thing! #OSF25
Really enjoyed attending my first two #OSFest25 events today - some really practical discussions around sensitive data and big methodological issues in the session on open qual research. There's still time to sign up to the rest of the events in the festival: doi.org/10.5522/04/2...
June 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
They were some really interesting topics and it was a pleasure to be involved in the organisation. “Positivism creep” is a thing! #OSF25
Don’t let them come for Keele’s music department again.
Keele University plans to axe 150 more jobs amid a £5m deficit.
Staff cuts are not the solution, they harm education, overload workers and fail students.
We stand with our members ✊
#UCU #StopTheCuts
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Staff cuts are not the solution, they harm education, overload workers and fail students.
We stand with our members ✊
#UCU #StopTheCuts
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cash-strapped Keele University to cut 150 more jobs - BBC News
Keele University plans to axe further roles amid ongoing financial challenges.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Don’t let them come for Keele’s music department again.
With the government’s attack on trans women’s right to exist today, I want to affirm that, despite the chilling headlines, and the change in the law, trans women are women. Trans colleagues and friends, you are not alone.
April 17, 2025 at 7:38 AM
With the government’s attack on trans women’s right to exist today, I want to affirm that, despite the chilling headlines, and the change in the law, trans women are women. Trans colleagues and friends, you are not alone.
This week I taught the last lecture of my first module as a convenor. I had a part-time contract to teach “World Music Traditions” at Durham University.
The students were great, and I come away reaffirmed in my love of teaching, especially of teaching music!
#teaching #music #university #academia
The students were great, and I come away reaffirmed in my love of teaching, especially of teaching music!
#teaching #music #university #academia
March 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
This week I taught the last lecture of my first module as a convenor. I had a part-time contract to teach “World Music Traditions” at Durham University.
The students were great, and I come away reaffirmed in my love of teaching, especially of teaching music!
#teaching #music #university #academia
The students were great, and I come away reaffirmed in my love of teaching, especially of teaching music!
#teaching #music #university #academia
Publication alert!
The book was published back in October, but an AAM of the chapter is now available Open Access from the University of Glasgow’s repository: eprints.gla.ac.uk/325506/
This short theoretical piece explores how music facilitates interfaith friendships! #musicresearch #openaccess
The book was published back in October, but an AAM of the chapter is now available Open Access from the University of Glasgow’s repository: eprints.gla.ac.uk/325506/
This short theoretical piece explores how music facilitates interfaith friendships! #musicresearch #openaccess
Music and interfaith friendship: lessons from qawwali - Enlighten Publications
eprints.gla.ac.uk
March 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Publication alert!
The book was published back in October, but an AAM of the chapter is now available Open Access from the University of Glasgow’s repository: eprints.gla.ac.uk/325506/
This short theoretical piece explores how music facilitates interfaith friendships! #musicresearch #openaccess
The book was published back in October, but an AAM of the chapter is now available Open Access from the University of Glasgow’s repository: eprints.gla.ac.uk/325506/
This short theoretical piece explores how music facilitates interfaith friendships! #musicresearch #openaccess
youtu.be/skXlKxjlUoo?... What a fantastic collaboration - combines a bunch of things i love in music: lyrics with a life-affirming message ✅ heavy metal with a fat riff ✅ South Asia ✅ Japanese anime music ✅ Urdu ✅ tierce de picardie ✅ - Top marks to Bloodywood and Babymetal! #music #fusion #metal
Bloodywood ft. @BABYMETAL - Bekhauf (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Bloodywood
youtu.be
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM
youtu.be/skXlKxjlUoo?... What a fantastic collaboration - combines a bunch of things i love in music: lyrics with a life-affirming message ✅ heavy metal with a fat riff ✅ South Asia ✅ Japanese anime music ✅ Urdu ✅ tierce de picardie ✅ - Top marks to Bloodywood and Babymetal! #music #fusion #metal
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We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...
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February 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We're living in a world where diversification is quickly being devalued. If you're asking, what can I do as a #musicscience researcher to show my commitment to diversifying research, check out our article, out today in Music & Science, identifying key gaps & promising trends: doi.org/10.1177/2059...
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The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University
Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics
Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here
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Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics
Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here
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January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The DESTRUCTION OF THE HUMANITIES at Cardiff University
Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics
Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here
/1
Management seems to think that Humanities scholars don't know how to read statistics
Diving into their proposals shows how they are trying to hide the true extent of damage to Humanities disciplines here
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Great news for academic composers, artists, practice-based researchers, and teaching-focused academics!
🗣️ Arts and Humanities Scholars: Are you ready? 🗣️
We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!
Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
We are 👏 thrilled 👏 to announce that ORCID now supports an expanded range of work types, such as 🎼 musical compositions, 🎨 still and 🎞️ moving images, and even 📝 teaching materials!!
Learn more: https://info.orcid.org/new-work-types/
January 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Great news for academic composers, artists, practice-based researchers, and teaching-focused academics!