Claire Howlin 🎶🧠
@dancingresearch.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @PsychologyTCD
Visiting Researcher Cambridge
Music | Agency | Dance | Identity | Wellbeing
#musicpsych #musictherapy #research
Visiting Researcher Cambridge
Music | Agency | Dance | Identity | Wellbeing
#musicpsych #musictherapy #research
Phenomenal discussions today with Artist Moss Russell exploring how socially engaged art can foster autonomy and agency - in preparation for het new performance ‘Uncooth’ as part of the disability arts festival in March 2026
@artscouncilireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
@artscouncilireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Phenomenal discussions today with Artist Moss Russell exploring how socially engaged art can foster autonomy and agency - in preparation for het new performance ‘Uncooth’ as part of the disability arts festival in March 2026
@artscouncilireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
@artscouncilireland.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social
Here we are setting up the photovoice exhibition - thankfully we had an expert in straight lines with us…
Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out!
@georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie
Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out!
@georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie
October 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Here we are setting up the photovoice exhibition - thankfully we had an expert in straight lines with us…
Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out!
@georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie
Looking forward to the public launch tomorrow - but the tickets are now sold out!
@georginacoyle.bsky.social #Photovoice @researchireland.ie
So here I am on IrelandAM! Talking music development in babies + a new dance album by Graham Smyth made for babies and parents together -drum breaks with a pianola
it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly.
#music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly.
#music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
So here I am on IrelandAM! Talking music development in babies + a new dance album by Graham Smyth made for babies and parents together -drum breaks with a pianola
it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly.
#music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
it was ALOT more relaxed than the breakfast show, presenters were super friendly.
#music #dance #babyrave @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
We’re at an opera in the park here in Drumcondra this evening - it’s fab
(Crowd is huge we’re side stage)
#dublin #summer #outdoor #opera #28degrees
(Crowd is huge we’re side stage)
#dublin #summer #outdoor #opera #28degrees
July 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
We’re at an opera in the park here in Drumcondra this evening - it’s fab
(Crowd is huge we’re side stage)
#dublin #summer #outdoor #opera #28degrees
(Crowd is huge we’re side stage)
#dublin #summer #outdoor #opera #28degrees
July 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fully enjoyed #Dublin #Pride festival - a strong mix of protest and celebration. It may have rained on the parade a little, but it only made everyone cheer even louder.
Big shout out to the Dublin Gay Men’s Choi
🎶 🏳️🌈🥳 🏳️⚧️✌️🇵🇸❤️🇭🇺
#DublinPride #MakePeaceNotWar
#LGBTQIA #Love #DGMC #ChooseLove
Big shout out to the Dublin Gay Men’s Choi
🎶 🏳️🌈🥳 🏳️⚧️✌️🇵🇸❤️🇭🇺
#DublinPride #MakePeaceNotWar
#LGBTQIA #Love #DGMC #ChooseLove
June 29, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Fully enjoyed #Dublin #Pride festival - a strong mix of protest and celebration. It may have rained on the parade a little, but it only made everyone cheer even louder.
Big shout out to the Dublin Gay Men’s Choi
🎶 🏳️🌈🥳 🏳️⚧️✌️🇵🇸❤️🇭🇺
#DublinPride #MakePeaceNotWar
#LGBTQIA #Love #DGMC #ChooseLove
Big shout out to the Dublin Gay Men’s Choi
🎶 🏳️🌈🥳 🏳️⚧️✌️🇵🇸❤️🇭🇺
#DublinPride #MakePeaceNotWar
#LGBTQIA #Love #DGMC #ChooseLove
It was such a pleasure to visit the @stresslabvienna.bsky.social this week and present a guest lecture on the cognitive mechanisms that underpin music based analgesia.
🎶🧠☺️
Such an impressive department - thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome.
🎶🧠☺️
Such an impressive department - thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome.
June 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It was such a pleasure to visit the @stresslabvienna.bsky.social this week and present a guest lecture on the cognitive mechanisms that underpin music based analgesia.
🎶🧠☺️
Such an impressive department - thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome.
🎶🧠☺️
Such an impressive department - thanks to everyone for making me feel so welcome.
I’m @univie.ac.at on a research visit to the faculty of #psychology hosted by Anna Fekete in Urs Nater’s lab..
We’ve a busy week ahead planning some new music and pain studies focused on absorption - and turns out there’s a few other guest speakers in the department this week… 🤓 🎶 ❤️
#musicscience
We’ve a busy week ahead planning some new music and pain studies focused on absorption - and turns out there’s a few other guest speakers in the department this week… 🤓 🎶 ❤️
#musicscience
June 24, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I’m @univie.ac.at on a research visit to the faculty of #psychology hosted by Anna Fekete in Urs Nater’s lab..
We’ve a busy week ahead planning some new music and pain studies focused on absorption - and turns out there’s a few other guest speakers in the department this week… 🤓 🎶 ❤️
#musicscience
We’ve a busy week ahead planning some new music and pain studies focused on absorption - and turns out there’s a few other guest speakers in the department this week… 🤓 🎶 ❤️
#musicscience
Nice addition in Dublin airport. Also when you self-check your bag in Dublin they’ve a reminder not to check in your own passport.
Very helpful.
✈️ 🇦🇹 👩🏻🏫 🎶
Very helpful.
✈️ 🇦🇹 👩🏻🏫 🎶
June 24, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Nice addition in Dublin airport. Also when you self-check your bag in Dublin they’ve a reminder not to check in your own passport.
Very helpful.
✈️ 🇦🇹 👩🏻🏫 🎶
Very helpful.
✈️ 🇦🇹 👩🏻🏫 🎶
This week at the Music and Health Psychology Lab we were thrilled to have @bleizdelsette.bsky.social in Queen Mary University of London discuss his development of a #genAI platform to support #music selection for people with #chronicpain.
#psychology #musicscience @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
#psychology #musicscience @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
June 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This week at the Music and Health Psychology Lab we were thrilled to have @bleizdelsette.bsky.social in Queen Mary University of London discuss his development of a #genAI platform to support #music selection for people with #chronicpain.
#psychology #musicscience @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
#psychology #musicscience @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
Tell me, does this happen in any other country - they deliver FRESH MILK by just leaving it outside on the ground?
June 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Tell me, does this happen in any other country - they deliver FRESH MILK by just leaving it outside on the ground?
Very proud of my first years - they've managed to complete a #music and #pain experiment that shows that listening to REM's 'Everybody hurts' is not as effective as choosing their own favourite piece of music at increasing duration on the wall sit task.
@tcdpsychology.bsky.social #musicscience
@tcdpsychology.bsky.social #musicscience
May 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Very proud of my first years - they've managed to complete a #music and #pain experiment that shows that listening to REM's 'Everybody hurts' is not as effective as choosing their own favourite piece of music at increasing duration on the wall sit task.
@tcdpsychology.bsky.social #musicscience
@tcdpsychology.bsky.social #musicscience
Proud of my little garden - a random french woman just knocked on the door to ask where we got our Lilys of the valley but they actually just came with the house and grow back every year.
#flowers #LilyofTheValley #Rare
#Nature
#flowers #LilyofTheValley #Rare
#Nature
April 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Proud of my little garden - a random french woman just knocked on the door to ask where we got our Lilys of the valley but they actually just came with the house and grow back every year.
#flowers #LilyofTheValley #Rare
#Nature
#flowers #LilyofTheValley #Rare
#Nature
It was blisteringly sunny yesterday as the #psychology undergrads had to sit inside and take a #stats exam
So sunny I took down my summer clothes from storage, only to wake up and see its LASHING Rain today
Hope they celebrated yesterday
☀️🐍🌸
#EndOfTerm #Dublin @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
So sunny I took down my summer clothes from storage, only to wake up and see its LASHING Rain today
Hope they celebrated yesterday
☀️🐍🌸
#EndOfTerm #Dublin @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
April 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
It was blisteringly sunny yesterday as the #psychology undergrads had to sit inside and take a #stats exam
So sunny I took down my summer clothes from storage, only to wake up and see its LASHING Rain today
Hope they celebrated yesterday
☀️🐍🌸
#EndOfTerm #Dublin @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
So sunny I took down my summer clothes from storage, only to wake up and see its LASHING Rain today
Hope they celebrated yesterday
☀️🐍🌸
#EndOfTerm #Dublin @tcdpsychology.bsky.social
Thank you to Nina Damon from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for sharing her PhD composition #Volcano which elicits physical and visual #imagery to challenge NeuroNormative conceptualisations of #music.
#MusicScience #MusicPsychology #SonicLego #AuralDivergence
#MusicScience #MusicPsychology #SonicLego #AuralDivergence
February 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Thank you to Nina Damon from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for sharing her PhD composition #Volcano which elicits physical and visual #imagery to challenge NeuroNormative conceptualisations of #music.
#MusicScience #MusicPsychology #SonicLego #AuralDivergence
#MusicScience #MusicPsychology #SonicLego #AuralDivergence
So proud of my violets - got the bulbs from Trinity urban garden and they’re shooting up already!
Not sure when they flower but will definitely share when they do
#flowers #botanical #urbangarden #urbanity
Not sure when they flower but will definitely share when they do
#flowers #botanical #urbangarden #urbanity
December 17, 2024 at 6:28 PM
So proud of my violets - got the bulbs from Trinity urban garden and they’re shooting up already!
Not sure when they flower but will definitely share when they do
#flowers #botanical #urbangarden #urbanity
Not sure when they flower but will definitely share when they do
#flowers #botanical #urbangarden #urbanity
Great performance of Mongolian music and dance from Khuur band
at Trinity Long Room Hub
- it’s all about the arm movements apparently because there’s much space for dancing around in Yurts!
🛖 💃🏻🎶💪🏻
@trisstcd.bsky.social
at Trinity Long Room Hub
- it’s all about the arm movements apparently because there’s much space for dancing around in Yurts!
🛖 💃🏻🎶💪🏻
@trisstcd.bsky.social
December 3, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Great performance of Mongolian music and dance from Khuur band
at Trinity Long Room Hub
- it’s all about the arm movements apparently because there’s much space for dancing around in Yurts!
🛖 💃🏻🎶💪🏻
@trisstcd.bsky.social
at Trinity Long Room Hub
- it’s all about the arm movements apparently because there’s much space for dancing around in Yurts!
🛖 💃🏻🎶💪🏻
@trisstcd.bsky.social
It’s beginning to look A lot like Christmas…
GREAT Carols at the Christmas tree lighting in Trinity this evening - the whole front square is packed
✨🎄🎶✨
#Christmas #Holidays #EndisNear
GREAT Carols at the Christmas tree lighting in Trinity this evening - the whole front square is packed
✨🎄🎶✨
#Christmas #Holidays #EndisNear
December 3, 2024 at 5:50 PM
It’s beginning to look A lot like Christmas…
GREAT Carols at the Christmas tree lighting in Trinity this evening - the whole front square is packed
✨🎄🎶✨
#Christmas #Holidays #EndisNear
GREAT Carols at the Christmas tree lighting in Trinity this evening - the whole front square is packed
✨🎄🎶✨
#Christmas #Holidays #EndisNear
Today we welcome Dr Rebecca Schaefer from the University of Leiden to come and discuss the role of #brain #plasticity in #neurorehabilitation using #music
#musicscience #neuroscience
@ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
@trisstcd.bsky.social @scpdiv12.bsky.social
#musicscience #neuroscience
@ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
@trisstcd.bsky.social @scpdiv12.bsky.social
October 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Today we welcome Dr Rebecca Schaefer from the University of Leiden to come and discuss the role of #brain #plasticity in #neurorehabilitation using #music
#musicscience #neuroscience
@ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
@trisstcd.bsky.social @scpdiv12.bsky.social
#musicscience #neuroscience
@ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
@trisstcd.bsky.social @scpdiv12.bsky.social
Great to see the buzz back on campus in Trinity College Dublin - but my goodness how do the students keep getting younger!
Delighted to have my quiet corner to work on my new #musicpsych projects
#MondayMotivaton
@trisstcd.bsky.social #university
Delighted to have my quiet corner to work on my new #musicpsych projects
#MondayMotivaton
@trisstcd.bsky.social #university
September 24, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Great to see the buzz back on campus in Trinity College Dublin - but my goodness how do the students keep getting younger!
Delighted to have my quiet corner to work on my new #musicpsych projects
#MondayMotivaton
@trisstcd.bsky.social #university
Delighted to have my quiet corner to work on my new #musicpsych projects
#MondayMotivaton
@trisstcd.bsky.social #university
Oooh oooh feeling mighty special as one in ten million and I was #1,771,035!
Top 20th percentile right there 😂
Top 20th percentile right there 😂
September 21, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Oooh oooh feeling mighty special as one in ten million and I was #1,771,035!
Top 20th percentile right there 😂
Top 20th percentile right there 😂
Fantastic talk today at Trinity
from Dr Joshua Wooly from
@UCSF we started with Newgrange, segued to ice buckets and finished with how #music is integral for psilocybin #clinicaltrials - but nobody has looked at it systematically… yet?
#musictherapy #musicscience #musicpsych
from Dr Joshua Wooly from
@UCSF we started with Newgrange, segued to ice buckets and finished with how #music is integral for psilocybin #clinicaltrials - but nobody has looked at it systematically… yet?
#musictherapy #musicscience #musicpsych
August 13, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Fantastic talk today at Trinity
from Dr Joshua Wooly from
@UCSF we started with Newgrange, segued to ice buckets and finished with how #music is integral for psilocybin #clinicaltrials - but nobody has looked at it systematically… yet?
#musictherapy #musicscience #musicpsych
from Dr Joshua Wooly from
@UCSF we started with Newgrange, segued to ice buckets and finished with how #music is integral for psilocybin #clinicaltrials - but nobody has looked at it systematically… yet?
#musictherapy #musicscience #musicpsych
Can’t believe I got to conference this week with hubs in Australia and Argentina, and all without the need for long haul flights home to sunny Dublin.
👩🏻🏫 🛫 ☀️ 🇮🇪
#accessible #musicscience #musicpsych #SustainableFuture @escom12.bsky.social @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫 🛫 ☀️ 🇮🇪
#accessible #musicscience #musicpsych #SustainableFuture @escom12.bsky.social @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
July 7, 2024 at 12:13 PM
Can’t believe I got to conference this week with hubs in Australia and Argentina, and all without the need for long haul flights home to sunny Dublin.
👩🏻🏫 🛫 ☀️ 🇮🇪
#accessible #musicscience #musicpsych #SustainableFuture @escom12.bsky.social @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
👩🏻🏫 🛫 ☀️ 🇮🇪
#accessible #musicscience #musicpsych #SustainableFuture @escom12.bsky.social @ausmuspsysoc.bsky.social
And we’re off! Andrew Schaivio and Helen Daffern launching proceedings and giving us all a great big welcone to @escom12.bsky.social
#musicscience #conferenceseason #music #Helsinki
#musicscience #conferenceseason #music #Helsinki
July 3, 2024 at 2:11 PM
And we’re off! Andrew Schaivio and Helen Daffern launching proceedings and giving us all a great big welcone to @escom12.bsky.social
#musicscience #conferenceseason #music #Helsinki
#musicscience #conferenceseason #music #Helsinki