Dr Joshua S. Bamford

📢 Open positions at @coe-mmbb.bsky.social — the Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain in Finland! We are recruiting 5-9 postdoctoral & 2-6 doctoral researchers to join our large, international research community 🇫🇮 #musicscience 🔹 Postdocs: bit.ly/4gADdbx 🔹 Doctoral: bit.ly/4g10xPz

Somehow it feels like this research exists purely to be a question for a pub quiz. www.livescience.com/physics-math...

What role does music play in romantic relationships? We asked a bunch of people and the results are now published in Open Research Europe! 💙🎵 It was a really fun experience working with ORE, which is @ec.europa.eu's own journal for @erc.europa.eu funded research, using post-pub open peer review.

Come study with us! We are excited to announce the international application period for our Master’s Degree in Music and Science is now open! www.jyu.fi/en/study-wit... You can apply until 21 January 2026. Please distribute to anyone interested!

Looking forward to Valentine's day? Our researcher, Dr Joshua Bamford @js.bamford.id.au has some relationship advice, based upon recent studies into music and love. 🥰💘 Read it here: scienceillustrated.com/humans/one-p... #MusicScience #MusicSky #ValentinesDay

I am very pleased to announce that, after many years of hard work and brushing, I have been finally admitted to that most prestigious of academic societies: The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). improbable.com/2025/12/30/j...

Nice to see our MEL model mentioned here. Music is a really important part of many people's romantic lives! medium.com/illumination...

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

Homosexual behaviour has sometimes been regarded as an evolutionary paradox, but a study looking at 59 primate species suggests it does in fact boost survival.

Doctors hate this one trick... scienceillustrated.com/humans/one-p...

Wonder how it compares with other countries? yle.fi/a/74-20197446

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_...

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

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...

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

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_...

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...

Finally, AI can now model how people behave at a silent disco! #musicscience

瑞蛇呈祥 Wishing everybody celebrating a happy, healthy and prosperous #LunarNewYear! 🐍 🎉 #ChineseNewYear | #YearOfTheSnake

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

For those who missed it: Elon Musk, the Royal Society, and me deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/11/why-...

"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...

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

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...

Been a while since I checked in here... how's everything going on not-Twitter?

Bing apparently now denying the existence of Australia... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...