What a splendid metaphor for humanity using any tech...

There is something weird going on at Scientific Reports. We have just received a minor revision decision on our manuscript that is, in fact, just a quality check signed by an editorial assistant. My student will respond to this and I will post updates on here.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Me, sitting in a psychology seminar

Our Dagstuhl seminar on Virtual Bodies is slowly gathering an All Stars team, including the famous @drgbuckingham.bsky.social

The NY Young GOP had their annual gala Saturday that featured White nationalist leaders, a person who had posted a video depicting Jews as cockroaches and members of Germany's far right party AfD. This demands FAR more coverage. My new article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/if-you-thi...

I guess it's unprofessional to rebutt a reviewer's comment by calling it "unbelievably dumb"...

Lab whiteboard when you have a baby

Es klingt wie ein hot take aber liegt auf der Hand: Terroranschläge wie in Sydney sind was „globalize the intifada“ meint

This is a periodic reminder that "woke" is a word used by people who want to conceal that they are racists, nazis or other bigots...

Lab baby workspace solution.

ESA astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski demonstrating our VR ISS simulator www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCca...

Imagine this happen to your "FSD" car...

Meanwhile idiocrats are fighting their usual enemies: reason, freedom and human well-being.

The York University (Toronto) Faculty of Health seeks a Tier 1 Canada Research appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, in the area of 'Implementation Science'. (Broadly, this means interdisciplinary health research with applications). For details, see: www.yorku.ca/vpepc/facult...

Got a paper accepted to an HRI conference. One reviewer complained that the paper is too short... -- Certainly, here is your paper extended by another 3 pages through the use of redundant phrases and sciencey sounding gibberish:

It's been a while since I showed screenshots of new environment, but I was not lazy in the meantime. May I present: The Museum. Optimized for Quest 3 in standalone with currently up to four users. #VRresearch

A thread on a new preprint: "Addressing Demand Artifacts In Psychological Research (And Beyond)".

New today in @Nature: your visual cortex contains touch-based body maps. bit.ly/VisualBodyMaps Your brain transforms what you see into first-person, body-referenced codes: A previously unknown bridge between vision and touch.

Fuck DOGE and fuck Elon Musk.

Still a few days left to apply! If you are interested in designing/developing clinical XR tools, come join our team!

Their faces are so expressive after all...

Watch out!

The German Primate Center @primatenzentrum.bsky.social is offering PhD positions with a focus on data science. Check 👇 for the details #neuroscience #SfN25 #PhD #datascience neurojobs.sfn.org/job/39342/ph...

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Still think brain regions don’t exist? That everything is everywhere? That cell types don’t matter and that everything is a dynamical phase portrait? Wrong. Interconnected brain modules exist at the level of fine grained transcriptomics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Ah yes, 'eerily plausible'...

Those days when you go to sleep on a Sunday night and when you wake up it's Wednesday evening...

It’s a good night for it.

Google AI overviews became my new favourite source of nonsense.

Did you know that hippocampal neurons code the temporal structure of mnemonic content? This is pretty awesome! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled that our paper is out today in Nature! www.nature.com/articles/s4...

I have a black belt in passive-aggressive supervision 🤷🏼

United States has been blocking with France the UN-led referendum to decide the fate of Western Sahara since it was agreed in the 1991 armistice. United States has pushing for this for 34 years, always opposing end to the occupation. And 50 years of brutal military occupation is not 'funny'.

This is the absolutely most outrageous decision from the UN by far. They favor terror over peace and corrupt, primitive oligarchies over democracies. They support Morocco just because there has been much money to be gained through stealing from Sahrawis. Fucking disgusting.

I signed up for delivering a course on startups. How do I keep ending up in this universe again and again...

He must like my work...

Leaked photos announce VRS26

Quest completed. See you again October 12-13, 2026!

Aaand the awesome @melslater.bsky.social concludes this year's VRS leaving everyone inspired! #vrneurosky @vrsummit.bsky.social

@jbjsmeets.bsky.social making a point about why studies on efference copy in VR may be slightly biased :)

@abrahammhaidli.bsky.social giving useful advice @vrsummit.bsky.social

Most fascinating thing at VRS is how fast does everyone reply to emails regarding food...

Yay! First laptop exploded at @vrsummit.bsky.social Hakathon! This team is surely having a blast! #vrneurosky

They are starting! Live on stage the legendary @vrneuroscience.bsky.social telling participants their challenge @vrsummit.bsky.social

@vrsummit.bsky.social team at late evening break 💪🦾

The new Sora Pro feature that builds storyboards and executes them is really interesting. Here is my prompt “an ad for the abstract concept of the feeling you get after falling asleep on your arm” Notice the high character (and hand) consistency, multiple shots, narration, composition. All the AI.

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