New paper looking at how manipulating a movie's static statistics can influence subsequent perceptual inference.

We got people to watch Casablanca after we manipulated the movie's image statistics in one of four ways. Emily came up with a cool way to probe people's orientation estimation during the movie. Paper now out - details in the thread 💪

Punny footnote: "It is not entirely clear what prompted the cow connection. Informally we referred to this project as the multi-site overview of oscillations (MOO) which got the ball rolling, after which we decided to milk it for all it was worth." royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I'm only just learning about splitapply in matlab: au.mathworks.com/help/matlab/...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Why everyone needs to understand signal detection theory (or at least sensitivity versus specificity).

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.

How does the prefrontal cortex flexibly adapt to different cognitive demands? New research from @benhamedlab.bsky.social shows that the prefrontal cortex flexibly encodes task identity and adjusts sensory processing based on the current task’s demands.🧪 #Neuroscience plos.io/41p9iLw

It’s not just what you read—it’s whether you chose to read it. In our new paper out at QJEP 🎉 we show that: 👉 Having a choice over what you read makes reading more enjoyable 👉 …and makes people willing to pay more for books

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The Flemingos are back in action for ECVP this week in Mainz with talks, posters, and even a keynote from our fearless leader. We're all very much looking forward to this year's program! 🦩 #ecvp2025 @ecvp.bsky.social

We are seeking people currently living in Australia to participate in virtual (i.e. over Zoom) focus groups. People under the age of 18 will need parental consent to participate. Follow the link to learn more: redcap.link/lzdud5ot

Excited to finally have in my hands a copy of our new book Statistics for Psychology Using R: A Linear Models Perspective (written with Alasdair Clarke, not on bsky) !! 📘 www.mheducation.co.uk/statistics-f... #PsychSciSky #neuroskyence #statistics #statssky @rhulpsychology.bsky.social

I often find myself saying "what a time to be alive" but friends, today, defector.com/it-took-many...

Very cool manipulation. Any predictions about group differences in interoception between smokers vs non-smokers?

Really interesting work! As you didn't ask them to imagine while reading, your results suggest to me they generated spontaneous visual representation and, together with the contrast fixation dur/subj experience, they seem in line with our spontaneous imagery condition in www.cell.com/current-biol...

wow ChatGPT 5 really working at the level of a PhD

1of2) #URochesterResearch has discovered that the retina responds differently than many other tissues in the body. When photoreceptor cells in the retina are damaged, microglia respond, and the neutrophils are not recruited to help despite passing through nearby blood vessels.

Interested in a cognitive neuroscience #postdoc down under? Come work with me at @marcsinstitute.bsky.social on an ARC Linkage Project aimed at understanding how people perceive objects in the Powerhouse Museum's digitised collection. Applications closing 13 August! 📅 seek.com.au/job/86079413

I wonder how many postdocs lost their jobs because they reported numbers their PI didn’t like.

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

I ultimately let my research students work how they want to work, except when it comes to Zotero, which is the only software I enforce in my lab. 100% satisfaction rate so far.

Today, we remember and celebrate Janey Godley.

Sarah Thiele et al. from the University of Bonn evaluate early photoreceptor alterations after retinal detachment repair. doi.org/10.1167/iovs.66.9.32

We do really need to come up with other terms than "bottom-up" and "top-down" though. They have like 5 different meanings in neuroscience and they're usually not very precise

Thank you everyone for your suggestions! This turned out to be a very useful resource. For those interested, you can see a compiled version of the suggestions from this thread here: tinyurl.com/kaz445jh (The wiki page will be updated as we find more resources.) 🧠🤖 , 🧠📈

JOB ALERT: Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Postdoc position in Osaka, Japan! Possible start in October 2025 (contact me ASAP), or from April 2026. PLEASE REPOST! #postdocjobs #neuroskyence #neuroscience #psychscisky #compneurosky #neurojobs 1/

Can someone please identify the artist who created this wonderful painting??

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

"In lieu of a settlement, he would also accept an official apology and changes to the administration’s deportation policies."

Merz: "Germany represents just 2% of the problem in terms of climate emissions" Well, no

This is brilliant yet incredibly "simple" work. If we want to build seeing machines that are similar to humans, we have to train them in the same way humans were trained, which includes thinking about what babies can see. Low pass vision -> object vision.

This is probably the most impactful statement for our generation Australia! It’s so important to know the truth: 75% of native Australians were killed within the first 20 of colonisation in there state in living in. Thank you Yoorrook Commission. www.yoorrook.org.au/reports-and-...

Just added a few thousand new search datasets, bringing the total up to almost 6k museum visitors 😮‍💨 Updated preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Data: osf.io/kf4sb/

As a scientist and teacher I am happy to be the 324th signatory to this letter.

Hello & HAPPY FRIDAY, as promised an open letter by my lovely colleagues and myself. Everybody, feel free to sign this even if you are not NL-based and ‼️ share ‼️ (anonymous signature is poss): Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Wtf true for my real and digital pianos Maybe this is why some keys are easier to learn than others (I only just mastered b flat minor!)

When I'm setting up a new image computable model, I wonder how many model advances are being driven by edge artefacts and convolutional wrapping. I know a lot of people who use these tools are well aware of these issues, but these spurious are hidden in many modern approaches involving e.g. DNNs.

So if you can find that you can discriminate blue-seers from red-seers based on a determinable ground truth (e.g. brain response to red & blue stimuli), then this is meaningful. But what you -cannot- do is using people's brain patterns as an "objective" alternative to their self-report.

Anyone know of any studies on the visual appearance of faces? (Not recognition/identification.) The only one I know of is my own, but ultimately even I used an identification task... cc @nataliepeluso.bsky.social

Submissions now accepted for a special issue of the Journal of Vision: Choose your stimuli wisely: Advances in stimulus synthesis and selection Submission deadline: Dec 12, 2025 Futher details: jov.arvojournals.org/ss/synthetic...

My student sent me this. I am not prepared for Gen Z studying neuroscience 💀.

Our computer vision textbook is now available for free online here: visionbook.mit.edu We are working on adding some interactive components like search and (beta) integration with LLMs. Hope this is useful and feel free to submit Github issues to help us improve the text!

I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing *settled*, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

For tomorrow

i know it's just advertisement but it still pisses me off when tech CEOs claim AGI will solve humanity's problems with its vast intelligence. for a lot of problems we already know the solutions, what prevents them being solved is not a lack of intelligence, but that the solutions are unprofitable

This group did visual receptive field mapping in the octopus occipital lobe and now I'm obsessed with studying the computations involved in cephalopod vision. www.cell.com/current-biol...

#SigmundAI (on #Claude4) finds a study on Google Scholar, summarizes its conclusions, connects to #JupyterLab on my computer to re-analyze the raw data, and finally replicates the main conclusions. Autonomously, flawlessly, and fast 🤯 #ai #datascience #psychology @jupyter.org @anthropic.com

I say this with respect, but Anil has a conflict of interest regarding the word “hallucinate”…

Great idea.