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...

I have just scolded a student for writing "boxplots of" in the figure caption. I told them everyone sees it's a box and whiskers plot, no need to say this. But then I realized that looking at violin plots you don't really see a violin, do you?

Tomorrow we are going to have USA and Iran each telling the other to stop shooting citizens who protest.

Die Frauen in Iran 🔥

British police have killed fewer people in the last 100 years than American police kill in an average month. Policing in America is an ongoing tragedy.

The downfall...

I have just received a proposal draft from a colleague and it seems like a bunch of AI-generated, plausibly-sounding nonsense. I am really on the fence with whether I should call it out in the meeting or just debug.

Just a heads up that with @vrneuroscience.bsky.social and @klaeslab.bsky.social we are currently hosting a Topic in Frontiers VR on avatar embodiment! #vrneurosky #vrsky www.frontiersin.org/research-top...

Renee Nicole Good was 37. She was murdered by an ICE agent in the street in broad daylight. What really happened to her will not be forgotten, minimized, or ignored.

Doesn't strike me as act of self defense... www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

AI slop reached science: I have just gotten an email from BGPT with a completely nonsense hypothesis that also got our OSF data wrong

With the U.S. led by a president showing clear clinical symptoms of dementia, Major Hering's question seems more appropriate than ever: slate.com/human-intere...

It's not just that the Jewish guy gets given a massive nose, the WOC gets given a wide nose and big mouth. Meanwhile the two ostensibly white caricatures basically only really get their head proportions to their body tweaked. Just naked bigotry tropes in full swing. They always show you who they are

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.