Well deserved and so excited for you!!

sounds fascinating! Just wanted to point out that there is no indication on the web of when the workshop is actually taking place (at least from mobile version)

thanks for joining Julia and lovely to see you! Fun fact I watched kpop demon hunter night before the defence 😈

Thanks Lennie ☺️

Link to paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Open analysis code and data: github.com/harin-git/mu...

Demographic mixing in cities certainly contributes a lot to the musical diversity, especially in megapolis like Paris and Sao Paulo. However, it doesn't entirely explain the rise, so something about the urban interactions and experience itself seems to be at play.

One might then wonder, the heightened diversities in big cities, could that simply have come from there being more of younger people in metropolitans? To account for demographics, we gather an extensive array: from age, education, income to number of Facebook friends and access to music venues.

Additionally we document how this listening radius changes over the course of life. One's radius expands rapidly from the mid-teens, reaches its peak in late-twenties, and then narrows through mid-life and beyond.

Also at the individual level, people living in larger urban areas tend to listen to a broader variety of music themselves (i.e., wider listening radius), expanding their personal musical repertoire.

Size matters! Across all three countries, the larger the city, the more distinct people’s musical tastes were from their neighbours. In other words, there’s less of a single, shared musical taste in big cities.

We measured diversity of music in two ways: (1) how different people’s musical tastes were from their neighbours in the same area, (2) how wide-ranging each individual’s personal music 'listening radius' was. We processed more than 250 million listening logs across France, Brazil, and Germany.

2. Are Expressions for Music Emotions the Same Across Cultures? arxiv.org/abs/2502.08744

While many studies have relied on predefined set of emotion categories, we propose a systematic pipeline to mine the taxonomy across languages without presumptions of the emotion space.

1. Visual and Auditory Aesthetic Preferences Across Cultures arxiv.org/abs/2502.14439

Do people from different parts of the world find certain shapes, colour combinations, and musical sounds more beautiful? Recruiting 4,835 participants from 10 countries, we try to answer this.

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Congrats, a significant leap!

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