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I find it uberhilarious my wife had to postpone her seminar on parenting in academia as our baby had an accident and had to be rushed to a doctor 🤷🏼

Poland, 2025 (c) Cynalewski @wyborcza.pl

Dzien dobry, Touchscreens lead to worse attentional performance while driving. "Worse performance" kills people. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

11/ Read our story at www.propublica.org/article/kids... Reported with @mayatmiller.bsky.social @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social

4/ Another officer fired pepper spray through a car window, hitting a 1-year-old girl in the back seat. A bystander filmed her in tears. DHS called the incident a “hoax.” But, as a local pastor at the scene testified later, “there’s literally video evidence.”

It is the time of the year when this is almost literally the view from our Portuguese house #Fatima

I am tempted to ask this student how does one type long dash in an email client as I want to learn..

The most interesting question some folks asked me at #CHI2026 was: "did you not do a video with all the lab's paper this year?" Indeed, given the chairing work, I wasn't able too, but the enthusiasm of these folks helped me do it now 🙏! Here you go: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VVt...

Thank you Gemini but this is simply not true.

My university informed me today than on our website we can not place active links to external sites as thats a (unspecified) threat. We decided to not ask if that affects publication links like doi, social media embedding or partner lab links.

…irrelevant anyway: there are grifters and lunatics on both sides of the horseshoe and especially at the extremes. We are Europeans standing against Russia’s invasions, unapologetically pro-Ukraine, and yes, we’ll soup your favourite leftist, rightist, party or country too if they spread vatnik BS.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Tobii support agent officially acknowledged their Glasses are "not a pupillometer" when asked how exactly do they compensate for pupil foreshortening. Sadly this happened AFTER we bought their hardware, so here is a warbing for all eyetracking people considering buying Tobii products. #neurosky

I was contacted by a major Polish journalist for an interview about my work on phantom... pain. Uh.

Remember kids, always read your own papers!

New location for VRS Hackathon is official! Old coal mine opens its gates for our h4x0rs! @vrsummit.bsky.social

📅 Save the Date: VR Summit 2026 returns to Bochum! 🚀 🛠️ VRS Hackathon: Oct 10–11 🎤 VRSummit: Oct 12–13 📍 Bochum, Germany We are bringing the XR community back together for four days of innovation and networking. Clear your schedule, you won't want to miss this. 🌐 #VRSummit2026 #XR #VRresearch

CATlab has started!

Extended reality parenting

Scientific Reports is a terrible mess since a while. Editorial support staff are taking over all communications, marking quality checks as revisions and sending you emails meant for other people (including their internal ones).

Uh what...

Marvellous piece. I almost finished reading this.

A cool piece in @science.org on why Poland remains a country that effectively expels young people at the beginning of their academic careers. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I find it hilarious how meat-eaters expect you to find their jokes about vegetarianism funny but when you respond they are all like:

Happy to announce I will lead research group: VR, Robots, Cognition, Action and Touch :)

Thank you AI, thats definitely a valid spare part of our electric piano 🤷🏼

Ah fuck it. My student's poster was rejected from CHI for ungreat reasons and two positive reviews. I still try to tell them it's the negative reviews that actually help them.

Some weeks ago I was shocked to learn from my feed that "gender-skeptic" means outright transphobic and that some leftists use the same language as neo-Nazis. Sad to say most of this was coming from academic crowd (no biologists on board I'm afraid)...

We roboting

last month the US secretly deported nine asylum seekers to cameroon where they’ve been trapped at a local government-owned compound until they agree to return to their home countries where they face persecution and death. none have history of violence.

Is ultrahaptics any good for experiments on touch? #vrsky #vrcademicsky

I sense some presence

This could be some scientific journals' logo...

Interesting experience. We had a hurricane last week and despite all the damage we were happy our huge cedar tree fell onto the garden and not the house. Pure luck and happy we don't have to worry about this tree anymore.

#ICE found themselves real enemies... edition.cnn.com/2026/01/23/u...

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher to work with us on security of brain-machine interfaces. The position is initially 50% for 3 years, with multiple options for extension upcoming. Informal inquiries (accompanied by a CV) can be sent to: artur.pilacinski [at] rub. de

Dear colleagues in science - it is time to stop normalising the emerging fascism of the US by attending conferences there as though everything is fine.

Donald Trump's post says nothing about a gun being pulled on cops. It's says that the man had a gun. And there is this: "Bovino then deflected two questions about when agents learned Pretti had a gun and whether he brandished it at them. Instead, he said that the situation is 'evolving' [...]"

Just watched "The Bone Temple". What a great documentary, on so many levels!

Job alert, please repost. We are hiring PhD students (engineering, cognitive science etc.) to work with us on brain-machine interfaces in Bochum. Funding for 3 years initially. Experience with biosignal processing needed. Send inquiries + CVs to [email protected]

Are you thinking about doing neuroscience outreach but want to make it more exciting or hands on? Check out RetINaBox! (A collab led by the Trenholm lab) We tried to bring the experience of experimental neuroscience to a classroom setting: www.eneuro.org/content/13/1... #neuroscience 🧪

According to UN human rights monitors,2025 was the deadliest yr for civilians in #Ukraine since 2022.Russia killed at least 2,514 civilians&injured over 12,000-far more than in 2023 or 2024 97%of these casualties happened in Ukrainian-controlled areas from attacks by Russians,MFA of Ukraine stated

AR glasses with spatial computing in Moby's 1990s video www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwG4...

Preprint alert: We show that pupillary hippus (i.e. rapid changes to pupil size) can be used to index motor planning under naturalistic conditions (which usually confound pupillometric readings due to dynamic lighting). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...