🌟Want some tips to mobilize your research into policy and practice?🌟 See our new paper: frontiersin.org/journals/publi… Christina Davies Denise Sullivan Dr Susan Maury - @[email protected] #GAGMH #Policy #Arts #Health Frontiers

This is a goldmine of insights into the design and delivery of social policy and - importantly - its impact on people, written by policy experts, researchers, advocates, and people enmeshed in or locked out of government service systems. Follow Power to Persuade for more.

Brilliant article in today’s The Guardian about the mega-bonding effects of singing.

This is something I see in my work every day and it’s GREAT for it to be celebrated in the mainstream press.

Let’s keep singing and connecting 🙌🏼

theguardian.com/science/2023/d…

Another piece of evidence supporting the idea that ‘Musicality precedes language’ : “Singsong speech is crucial to helping babies learn language… [they] do not begin to process phonetic information until they are about seven months old.” theguardian.com/science/2023/d… Cambridge University

Recent research from the Experimental Concert Research project reveals that classical music concerts can synchronize the heartbeats and movements of the audience, demonstrating a unique connection between music and human physiology. dlvr.it/SzWMDc

Traditional Owners have travelled 5000km to Parliament House to unveil a simply extraordinary 13 metre long map of the songlines and cultural places that make up the Roper River in the NT, under threat from fracking, cotton and mining.

It’s time for those in power to listen.

📢 Hi everyone! We need your help.
My team (Mary Woessner Alex Parker (she/hers)) and I are launching a crowdfunding campaign
👉 bit.ly/40KYMN3 for our research project on protecting children from violence in community sport.

Homo sapiens were not the first artists.

We used to trace the origins of art to Stone Age cave paintings, but there is growing evidence that much earlier hominins boasted an artistic sensibility. Here are some of the artefacts that suggest art long predates our species 🧵 (1/6)

I’m so happy to share our newest paper in which we found evidence that children’s neural tracking of musical rhythms is associated with their grammatical skills!! Congrats to 1st author Valentina Persici for her outstanding work and thank you NIH NIDCD for the support!!! VUMC Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery

18 months ago, I quit my post-doctoral fellowship.

It was one of the hardest decisions I've ever made.

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It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia.

The ARC Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%.

Only 1 in 6 grants are funded.

Why? The funding available has plummeted.

Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️

Soooo important to consider seasonal changes in mood etc when conducting longitudinal research.

Is there a way to counter the negative health effects of sitting? New research says yes! Averaging 22 minutes of moderate #exercise daily, including incidental exercise, reduces mortality in people 50+. Matthew Ahmadi Emmanuel (Manos) Stamatakis theconversation.com/how-22-minutes…

Is #synchrony linked to #prosociality or is it a self-fulfilling prophecy? A recent paper argued the latter. We argue, in contrast, that “people expect things that happen to happen”. 👇

With the wonderful Emma Cohen Christine Fawcett Dr Joshua S. Bamford The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a…

So proud of this program, which turns the typical researcher-researched relationship on its head, recognises the expertise of community and community organisations and drives impact through doing so.

Brilliant opening keynote from Prof Michelle Craske about reward sensitivity and anhedonia in people with depression and anxiety disorders; and a new positive affect treatment 👀👇🏽👇🏼 #AACBT2023 AACBT #cbtworks

'What the D. Beckham documentary tells us and what it doesn't about controlling parents in sport'.
Some parents mean well but can struggle supporting their child in sport. We unpack this in this Conversation piece. #safesport #abuseinsport
theconversation.com/what-the-david…

Crisis at Services Australia is no accident – to fix it politicians must abandon prejudice. Jay Coonan from ⁦Antipoverty Centre⁩ in Power to Persuade ⁦⁦Anti-Poverty Week⁩ #AntiPovertyWeek powertopersuade.org.au/blog/crisis-at…

Booth by booth, Indigenous Australians backed the Voice smh.com.au/politics/feder…