this is why i don't livestream

Princess cake shark plushies 🌹🦈

things I need to see on the brink of defending my PhD hahah

Peak retired academic moment. 1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx? 2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found. 3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.

#repostyourart day 14: “yummy” Some strawberry milk in a little strawberry cup spilling over to … create more strawberries 🥰 #strawberry #watercolor #art #whimsical

#repostyouart day 12: cozy #cuteart #cozy #tiger #purple #art #traditionalart

Ok missed a bunch of days from being consumed with moving and unpacking, but here’s my #repostyourart day 9: light ✨ #cozyart #fawn #colorful

Moon pixel art with the NES color palette ✨

#repostyourart day 4: cat or dog! Here is an old one from 2022, done with India and watercolor inks #art #mahakanha #traditonalart #fire #hound

#repostyourart Day 3: Spring! I’ve always loved how this one came out. ✨

he came out a bit wonky but alas if that’s not the journey haha #pokemon #pokemon30 #watercolor #art #sparkles #cute

#repostyourart day 2: bloom :)

#repostyourart Day 1: Hello! I’ll start the first repost with my most recent little painting! #watercolor #pokemon #poliwag #illustration

💚Reptar :3 🦖 💚reblogs and comments appreciated #ohuhu #ohuhumarkers #reptar #rugrats #artistsonbluesky #tradart #fanart

this is who you’re asking to battle bulbasaur, by the way #watercolor #pokemon #traditionalart #cozyart #pokemon30 #poliwag

Tiny painting alert 🚨 (flipped) high res in the comments 😌 #watercolor #fruitbat #traditionalart #whimsy

☁️💫🏰💎 spyro commission for canidaecafe 💗🧡💛💚💙💜

I think I’ll call it done 😌 high res photo in the replies! #watercolor #cozyart #soft #art #illustration #fawn

played around with a dip pen to draw the bunny’s lines. then filled the rest in with watercolors as usual. I liked using the nib so much that I got carried away with the background details 😌 #artexperiments

painted a hare leaping through some grass 🐰🌻 #art #traditionalart #watercolor #cozyart #hare #illustration #glitter

An alliance forged across time and space. New split with Landsraad on Bandcamp! psychichood.bandcamp.com/album/codex-...

he hopes u like his new hat 🥺 (it’s a strawberry) #painting #art #rat #whimsical #cozyart #watercolor

strange specimen #watercolor #art #illustration #flower #creature #sparkles #cozy

kiss goodnight ✨ #watercolor #cozyart #whimsical #glitter #flower #bunny #coquette #sparkles #art

but what if we were just two halves of the same strawberry, lying atop a heart-shaped pastry? 🍓✨ #art #watercolor #cozyart #strawberries #coquette #whimsical #valentines #sparkles #glitter

Access to others' internal monologues aligns neural processing of narratives and trait impressions: https://osf.io/7v9md

Interrupting my regular whimsical watercolor painting schedule to show you all my other creative outputs: science! 🥹

Dream of Abundance 🦌🌿

finally, my time has come

Can I offer you a nice bowl of ... flowers ? in these trying times? 😫 #cozy #whimsical #watercolor #art #coquette #glitter #sparkles #floralart #coldpress

Snowdrops, inspired by the #februaryfrost26 prompt list for this week. Watercolor & gouache snowflakes #art #bloomscrolling #glitter #sparkles #whimsical #cozy

just a tiny watercolor painting I did this morning #art #glitter #sparkles #cozy

just two tulips tangled up in each other’s glittery gaze 🌷 #watercolour #gouache #floral #art #whimsical #coldpress #valentines

finding comfort in this video of my Zula romping around in the snow #dogs

My first painting of 2026. Watercolor on arches. #art #watercolor #bloomscrolling #artist #painting #humanart

i finished playing final fantasy 9 for the first time recently! wonderful game

tried painting a black gouache background for the first time and I am pleased with the outcome. #art #watercolor #gouache #bloomscrolling #humanart

Nothing like a nice peaceful gaming night where I scream at the top of my lungs while playing Human Fall Flat

dancin. watercolor #art #bloomscrolling

Spent the whole day painting 🥹 still working on my #peachtober prompt mash ups, this one is ‘button’, ‘stripes’ and ‘spots’ which came together as a button eyed tiger chilling under some flowers #whimsical #cozyart #bloomscrolling

New study out in Neuron: doi.org/10.1016/j.ne.... This work led by Zaid Zada uses fMRI hyperscanning of real dyads to show that speaking and listening rely on shared neural systems; and that conversation recruits unique brain processes that aren't observed in passive comprehension.

For the peachtober prompts: creature, ring, leaves. Watercolor

painting for the peachtober prompts: bear, snow, web, axe. Watercolor

I’m obsessed with granulating watercolors! They’re soo cool 🥰. Testing out two Schmincke super granulators I picked up today on some recycled watercolor paper and pen. #humanartist

for inktober, I decided to participate in “peachtober”, but instead of doing one prompt at a time I tried to work a few prompts at once into a single design. Here, I combine the prompts slug, acorn, and poppy in watercolor #cozy #whimsical #traditionalart

my favorite game of all time probably

if I could access my data, I'd ask every whole foods I've ever visited to make a compilation of me walking up to the hot bar only to slink away in defeat when I realize they don't have chicken tenders. there must be dozens of clips by now

I will be recruiting 🌟PhD students🌟 for my newish lab! If you're interested in learning & memory mechanisms applied to individual, interactive & collective behavior using computational modeling, real-world experiments and fMRI, email me! RTs much appreciated 🙏 rouhanilab.com

Science is a question-answering activity. Whenever someone tries to pose a scientific question about art, it always turns out to really be a question about something else (perception, emotion, etc). This is why many attempts to bring art and science together fall flat.