These two books contain the sum total of all human knowledge

Moving my dad, and I just found a single piece of matzo

Moving my dad, and I just found a single piece of matzo

Can we please just be clear that there’s nothing inherently wrong with a grown man playing with a Disney-themed bubble wand nor a grown man dancing to a Bollywood song

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

With the sound off, I can totally hear this in an Irish brogue

🚨New paper🚨 from @applylab.bsky.social postdoc Dr Jiali Song in CRPI: Can unreliable auditory hazard warnings help the driver? The effect of timing errors and false alarms on road hazard detection in dynamic road scenes 1/5

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

Friends, it is not that hard to use an unambiguous, intuitive colormap

Weirdly I seem to be night drinking. I go to bed with a full glass of water beside my bed and I wake up with a quarter cup remaining and no memory of drinking.

"Stop studying now and focus on the only class that really matters: gym" jeremyrosenholtz.substack.com/p/dr-knecht

"we cannot know with any certainty that Harvard will even exist a few years from now" jeremyrosenholtz.substack.com/p/donuts-ser...

DoorDashed lunch today for the first time. Paid for by a coupon for working the virtual VSS conference in 2020.

Brilliant 🏆 Isata Kanneh-Mason absolutely tears through Rachmaninoff’s fiendish Piano Concerto No. 3 with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

When the Hyatt Regency SFO asks you whether you’d like a room near or far from the elevators be forewarned that the rooms like mine that are far are almost a quarter of a mile away (estimated by my walking time). I took 6055 steps yesterday and only went to and from the conference downstairs.

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts. Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

OMG. Terrorists have struck DC. In a preemptive attack, they have completely demolished the East Wing of the White House. America mourns. 🇺🇸

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#FacePerception #VisionScience #ComputationalNeuroscience #Psychophysics

It’s ironic that the pre-colonoscopy diet includes things that are bad for colon health and excludes just about everything good for colon health. It’s my parents’ usual diet. Also it makes me lose my will to live. Thank goodness it’s only two days. PSA: get your regular colonoscopy.

A Scalable Data Pipeline for ASL Media Processing and Annotation (lnkd.in/ekbXaR-8), focused on streamlining the extraction and labeling of American Sign Language video data needed to support Signs, and its community-validated ASL #dataset. www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...

NEW: Political organizing is getting riskier under the Trump administration, so @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social wrote a comprehensive guide to doing it safely. No paywall! www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I think one of our big problems is that we’re limiting Dickensian villain ghost visits to just one night a year like clearly the market can sustain some expansion

I enjoy my primary care physician a lot more now that I’ve realized that personality-wise he’s basically former postdoc @benwolfevision.bsky.social in doctor form

Informative, and the summaries are not actually that long. Worth a read. austinkocher.substack.com/p/want-to-un...

🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...

Body cameras are no good without policy to enforce accountability

ok but steak n shake is using beef tallow to fry its fries now so its basically a wash

I think @benwolfevision.bsky.social will not be surprised

Am I... starting a band with my daughter's girlfriend?

What does one call the point in front of the vantage point, when the vantage point is NOT the center of projection? It's like the principal point, but I'd like not to use the same terminology for both the point that goes with the camera and the point that goes with the eye viewing the image.

"the world's least plausible bus" 😆

Bad design and penguin facts. What more can anyone ask for? Fun thread.

Dying

A bunch of residents of Minneapolis standing quietly filming ICE from what might be the ICE point of view. I think this looks surprisingly intimidating, like a scene from the Body Snatchers or something. cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/WUPF...

Now available in its entirety, you can read Ruth Rosenholtz's Behavioral & Brain Sciences critique of attention as an explanation tool in vision science and our reaction to her piece. www.anthonybarnhart.com/news/bbs-pay...

I love how this graphic is totally unhelpful for determining whether you're going to get 30 inches of snow or half an inch of ice.

The #scicomm content creation journey continues! Here's a new short video showing off one of the benefits of living someplace horrendously cold: Sun dogs! #visionscience

Rented a 2-bedroom apartment in the hopes of getting my dad to move out here. Have turned it into my office. Murphy's Law says he'll now want to move into it, right?

Prompt: How do I thank my AI-obsessed husband for finding some useful information from chatGPT? I want to be appropriately grateful, while also making it implicitly clear that I am rolling my eyes at his obsession and its cost to our environment. coPilot:

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week. ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

this was good, actually www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

I felt like making some art last night/today and could have made something beautiful and/or meaningful but I made this instead. It's a Barbie Yaga Malibu Dream Hut. No regrets. Can't defeat fascism without joy.

🫶 drumless backing tracks 🫶

Sigh, in 2025 I did too much adulting

OMG, NotebookLM made this video shorturl.at/JMi4d about my "Visual Attention in Crisis" paper (shorturl.at/3xsMr). On the one hand, hallucinations, hyperbole, misconstruing... 🤮 But would I make a better peppy popsci video? Definitely not. Anyhow, if this interests you, probably so will the paper 😉

Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."

Me: I’m often not sure if you’ve moved since last time I saw you Hubby: It’s an aliasing problem! Me: Is it, though?

Dalek, 2026