Harin Lee
@harinlee.info
Exploring world in sounds.
Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
www.harinlee.info
Junior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
www.harinlee.info
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Harin Lee
@harinlee.info
· Jun 4
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
After few flights and 8hrs of canoe ride up the Maniqui river, we met the Tsimane villagers in Bolivian Amazon to understand what they find appealing to hear and see, and how they compare to other parts of the world. @manuelangladatort.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
After few flights and 8hrs of canoe ride up the Maniqui river, we met the Tsimane villagers in Bolivian Amazon to understand what they find appealing to hear and see, and how they compare to other parts of the world. @manuelangladatort.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
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7.5 years after signing the contract, I finally submitted the full manuscript of my book to Oxford University Press!!!
Thanks to Keio's Fukuzawa Fund, it will be published open access. You can already read the submitted version as a preprint at osf.io/b36fm
I hope you all find it useful!
Thanks to Keio's Fukuzawa Fund, it will be published open access. You can already read the submitted version as a preprint at osf.io/b36fm
I hope you all find it useful!
June 11, 2025 at 9:03 PM
7.5 years after signing the contract, I finally submitted the full manuscript of my book to Oxford University Press!!!
Thanks to Keio's Fukuzawa Fund, it will be published open access. You can already read the submitted version as a preprint at osf.io/b36fm
I hope you all find it useful!
Thanks to Keio's Fukuzawa Fund, it will be published open access. You can already read the submitted version as a preprint at osf.io/b36fm
I hope you all find it useful!
Extremely honoured to be the recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the upcoming ICMPC 2025 in São Paulo, the largest international conference on music cognition and perception. All possible through working with the great team and supervisors.
I am proud to share that my PhD student @harinlee.info co-supervised by Marc Schönwiesner, has won the student best paper award at #ICMPC!
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
If you are interested in doing cutting edge work on music and culture consider joining us on @co3lab.bsky.social
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com/conteudo/vie...
If you are interested in doing cutting edge work on music and culture consider joining us on @co3lab.bsky.social
18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition - Submissions - // ICMPC AWARD
www.icmpc2025.abcogmus.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Extremely honoured to be the recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the upcoming ICMPC 2025 in São Paulo, the largest international conference on music cognition and perception. All possible through working with the great team and supervisors.
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
June 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Big cities are vibrant hubs of culture, but why exactly is that? Now out in @natcomms.nature.com, we analysed music listening patterns of over 2.5 million people and demographics to examine mechanisms driving cultural diversity. With @researchdeezer.bsky.social @norijacoby.bsky.social
Highlights ⬇
Highlights ⬇
Ready to submit my PhD thesis.
After taking this picture I realised that the thesis cover I designed matches the lamp and the sofa in my flat. Definitely some psychological priming going on here!
After taking this picture I realised that the thesis cover I designed matches the lamp and the sofa in my flat. Definitely some psychological priming going on here!
May 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Ready to submit my PhD thesis.
After taking this picture I realised that the thesis cover I designed matches the lamp and the sofa in my flat. Definitely some psychological priming going on here!
After taking this picture I realised that the thesis cover I designed matches the lamp and the sofa in my flat. Definitely some psychological priming going on here!
Excited to share two papers tapping into cross-cultural perception of aesthetics and word associations to music emotion across languages. Accepted to be presented at the upcoming CogSci 2025 conference! @mpicbs.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Excited to share two papers tapping into cross-cultural perception of aesthetics and word associations to music emotion across languages. Accepted to be presented at the upcoming CogSci 2025 conference! @mpicbs.bsky.social
Serving as a co-chair for ISMIR 2025 in Korea, we are excited to announce call for the music-program! If you have MIR integrated creative music performance in mind to be performed at gorgeous KAIST auditorium, do consider applying.
Submission: ismir2025.ismir.net/call-for-music
Deadline: 30th June
Submission: ismir2025.ismir.net/call-for-music
Deadline: 30th June
April 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Serving as a co-chair for ISMIR 2025 in Korea, we are excited to announce call for the music-program! If you have MIR integrated creative music performance in mind to be performed at gorgeous KAIST auditorium, do consider applying.
Submission: ismir2025.ismir.net/call-for-music
Deadline: 30th June
Submission: ismir2025.ismir.net/call-for-music
Deadline: 30th June
Tomorrow at Cambridge! Visiting the Centre for Music & Science led by @pmcharrison.bsky.social
www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...
www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...
Understanding music in the age of machine learning (Harin Lee, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science) | Faculty of Music
We live in an exciting time where the abundance of digital media and advanced computational tools, such as machine learning, enables the study of music and culture on an unprecedented scale.
www.mus.cam.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Tomorrow at Cambridge! Visiting the Centre for Music & Science led by @pmcharrison.bsky.social
www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...
www.mus.cam.ac.uk/events/under...
Emotional to be returning to Goldsmiths where did my undergrad and masters! @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
Excited to announce our next Whitehead Lecture by @harinlee.info on Understanding Music in the Age of Machine Learning. Join us online or in person: Wednesday, 4pm (see link). @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social #MusicCognition #BigData
Harin Lee will talk on "Understanding music in the age of machine learning"
Harin leverages big data to explore music from diverse cultures worldwide and investigates the psychological foundations of human music perception.
www.gold.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Emotional to be returning to Goldsmiths where did my undergrad and masters! @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
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Pleased to see our work published:
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
March 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Pleased to see our work published:
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
The Ties That Bind: Computational, Cross-cultural Analyses of Knots Reveal Their Cultural Evolutionary History and Significance
We analysed knots across 12,000 years and 82 societies.
Time to tie a thread 🧵 about why knots matter.
doi.org/10.1017/S095...
Bringing EEG brain science to Berghain club, Berlin 🧠🎛️ Next weekend I’m teaming up with a Berlin-based DJ/producer “Egregore” to integrate brain oscillations to live ambient music. We will control melodic pulses with neural tempo and use different mind states to alter fragments of sounds!
March 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bringing EEG brain science to Berghain club, Berlin 🧠🎛️ Next weekend I’m teaming up with a Berlin-based DJ/producer “Egregore” to integrate brain oscillations to live ambient music. We will control melodic pulses with neural tempo and use different mind states to alter fragments of sounds!
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We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
‘Do songs tell stories?’ An empirical analysis of the effect of emotional arcs on success in a national song contest - Journal of Cultural Economics
This article explores whether the lyrics of songs influence their success in a national song contest. We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics and examined their impact on contest per...
link.springer.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We constructed emotional arcs from over 6.763 song lyrics […] songs characterized by sorrowful plots and endings receive higher scores than those with more joyful emotional themes.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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New cultural evolution modelling paper with @bdecourson.bsky.social on @pnas.org!
"Weak individual preferences stabilize culture"
A quick 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Weak individual preferences stabilize culture"
A quick 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
New cultural evolution modelling paper with @bdecourson.bsky.social on @pnas.org!
"Weak individual preferences stabilize culture"
A quick 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"Weak individual preferences stabilize culture"
A quick 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)
February 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🚨 New paper! 🚨 by Yoolim Kim, @helenamiton.bsky.social, Marc Allassonnière Tang, & myself, in Journal of Memory and Language. We tried to do for letter shapes what phonologists did for speech sounds. doi.org/10.1016/j.jm... A 🧵 (1/14)
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Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️
February 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Andy Whiten and I wrote a @science.org perspective about a cool new study from @inbalarnon.bsky.social @simonkirby.bsky.social @ellengarland.bsky.social et al! They found humpback whale song has language-like statistical structure, using methods inspired by infant language learning 🐋🎶 Links below ⬇️
📢 Incredible postdoc position for early career researchers in cultural evolution with the amazing @oliviermorin.bsky.social at ENS, Paris. Deadline 20th March!
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
📢 Incredible postdoc position for early career researchers in cultural evolution with the amazing @oliviermorin.bsky.social at ENS, Paris. Deadline 20th March!
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
@culturalevolsoc.bsky.social @eslr.bsky.social
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Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Change over time is often depicted as a trendline. But what does shape a trendline? Which forces? Our new paper presents a method allowing to “decompose” trendlines into constituent forces. Also, we tackle an old puzzle: Does culture change “one funeral at a time”? 🧵(1/8) doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Language-like efficiency in whale communication
Whale vocalizations follow efficiency rules seen in human language, revealing striking similarities in communication systems.
www.science.org
February 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Do whales optimize their vocalizations for efficiency, just like human language? 🐋🎶 My latest study in
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science Advances (@science.org) suggests they do—following linguistic laws seen in human speech. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Finding your first postdoc job can be daunting and resembles Squid Game. So that others don't go through the same trouble, I'll be sharing my insights on where and when to look, what to prepare etc. Tomorrow 12pm CET and will also stream via zoom (send me DM for a link). Here are some highlights 🦑
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Finding your first postdoc job can be daunting and resembles Squid Game. So that others don't go through the same trouble, I'll be sharing my insights on where and when to look, what to prepare etc. Tomorrow 12pm CET and will also stream via zoom (send me DM for a link). Here are some highlights 🦑
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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
January 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
Applications for the 2025 Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute (DISI) are now open!!
Are you interested in intelligence, mind, and cognition in all its forms? Early-career scholars from any discipline—and storytellers in any medium—are encouraged to apply!
More info: disi.org
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We are recruiting PhD students! Our research covers a diverse range of topics, including perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large-scale online experiments, cross-cultural studies, and computational music cognition. Please spread the word!
November 19, 2024 at 4:35 AM
We are recruiting PhD students! Our research covers a diverse range of topics, including perception and internal representations, cultural evolution, large-scale online experiments, cross-cultural studies, and computational music cognition. Please spread the word!
Wow the silencing in X is so real. Many of my friends saw the post but couldn't interact and it shadow banned these posts...
November 18, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Wow the silencing in X is so real. Many of my friends saw the post but couldn't interact and it shadow banned these posts...
Attended this last year and was truly an inspiring experience. Great crowd and toulouse is absolutely gorgeous. Highly recommend!
November 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Attended this last year and was truly an inspiring experience. Great crowd and toulouse is absolutely gorgeous. Highly recommend!
Incredible opportunity to work with Mason, the one and only!
Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Complex Social Networks - Postdoc Listing
POSTDOC: Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Complex Social Networks Institute for Advanced Computational Science Stony Brook University Deadline: December 15, 2024 Expected Duration: January 1...
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November 17, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Incredible opportunity to work with Mason, the one and only!
Reposted by Harin Lee
Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Complex Social Networks - Postdoc Listing
POSTDOC: Dynamics of Creativity and Innovation in Complex Social Networks Institute for Advanced Computational Science Stony Brook University Deadline: December 15, 2024 Expected Duration: January 1...
bit.ly
November 15, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Extended deadline to 12/15/24! Postdoc position on creativity/innovation in culture with an interdisciplinary team at
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...
@stonybrooku.bsky.social - Feel free to DM if you have questions 😊 bit.ly/creativity_d...