we made it boys! (from the @chronicle.com)

OMG it's @chazfirestone.bsky.social !

showing the kiddos what brown university looks like! it’s where mommy and daddy met 🥰

Excited to head north this week for some talks! Come say hi if you're nearby :) Wednesday (11/12) @ Brown: events.brown.edu/copsy/event/... Thursday (11/13) @ MIT: bcs.mit.edu/events/collo...

Congratulations (and thank you) to @talboger.bsky.social, who lectured in front of nearly 500 @jhu.edu undergraduates today on the psychology of music! They didn’t see it coming, and then they loved it :)

So enjoyed hearing @ruizhegoh.bsky.social share his work on the perception of silence on the latest episode of @vox.com’s “unexplainable” podcast! 🤫 #poopoo open.spotify.com/episode/6V2a...

me: finding a recent and relevant Chaz phil vis paper that I had missed through zohran-posting

you: nobody reads papers anymore, how are we supposed to do any deep thinking together as a scholarly community me, an intellectual: have you seen this zohran mamdani sign generator

this is how my views will finally catch on

tfw the ceremony is scheduled at peak bedtime (thank you apa!! and everyone!!)

my team lost and it was still the best world series of all time

first he slaps chris rock, now this

What does postdiction show about the speed of consciousness? In this forth. piece in BBS, I respond to @smfleming.bsky.social + @matthiasmichel.bsky.social's claim that postdiction shows consciousness is slow -- too slow for its purpose to be online action guidance. 1/3 philpapers.org/rec/PHIPAT-14

new evidence for phenomenal consciousness just dropped! very interesting study by Makaela Natker, @chazfirestone.bsky.social, Howard Egeth, @ianbphillips.bsky.social

We tend to assume that we will see things right in front of us. "But if there is some big object casting light into our eyes, and we wouldn't see it because our attention is elsewhere—that's really fascinating!" says @chazfirestone.bsky.social. hub.jhu.edu/magazine/202...

Thank you @jhuartssciences.bsky.social magazine for featuring this work! This project — the largest ever study of inattentional blindness — was led by Makaela Nartker, in collaboration with Howard Egeth and (senior author) @ianbphillips.bsky.social

these are the activities tenure protects

held our “lab meeting” in the baltimore museum of art! thank you @ianbphillips.bsky.social for suggesting and facilitating

surprise! we’re in @ryanlei.bsky.social’s study

one galactic tuna, please

“chaz” “huh?” “chaz” “jad?” “see-aytch-ay-zee” “got it”

mom the @bluejays.com are going to win the world series

spent two hours on a zoom call that had a “chas” in it. expressed solidarity with my comrade but reminded him who has the better spelling

they’re moderately excited #gojays

You can read our full review (without a paywall) @ philpapers.org/archive/GOOK.... And you can also check out Harvey's paper that inspired us here: philpapers.org/archive/LEDU...

welp, looks like Steven Pinker is going to randomly get cited in my work again

Now out in @science.org: @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I review Steven Pinker's new book "When Everyone Knows that Everyone Knows...". We learned a ton from it, but think its central thesis—that common knowledge explains coordination—faces a powerful challenge. 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I really enjoyed reading Steven Pinker’s new book and thinking through what it would take to share infinitely iterated knowledge with someone (I know that you know that I know that you know…). In @science.org, my colleague @jeremygoodman.bsky.social & I briefly give our perspective on this issue.

not the pb i was hoping for when i started taking these www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Thanks @chazfirestone.bsky.social! Always a treat to share the mysteries and wonder of animal minds with Intro students!

Thank you @chriskrupenye.bsky.social for visiting Intro Psych! Hope you enjoy the whiskey as much as we enjoyed your guest lecture :)

ooooh this reply section's gonna be funnnnnn

Every developmental psychologist Is like “but my lecture slides!”

Congratulations to @talboger.bsky.social, who finally has his pro wrestling name: The "psychophysical scalpel".

exactly

This is a big one! A 4-year writing project over many timezones, arguing for a reimagining of the influential "core knowledge" thesis. Led by @daweibai.bsky.social, we argue that much of our innate knowledge of the world is not "conceptual" in nature, but rather wired into perceptual processing. 👇

Happy to share that our BBS target article has been accepted: “Core Perception”: Re-imagining Precocious Reasoning as Sophisticated Perceiving With Alon Hafri, @veroniqueizard.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & Brent Strickland Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... A short thread [1/5]👇

What a lovely 'spotlight' of @talboger.bsky.social's work on style perception! Written by @aennebrielmann.bsky.social in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social. See Aenne's paper below, as well as Tal's original work here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Online Now: How do we see style?

“my kids have such different personalities!” the personalities:

When a butterfly becomes a bear, perception takes center stage. Research from @talboger.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and the Perception & Mind Lab.

❗ ¿Oso o mariposa? La IA crea nuevos ‘anagramas visuales’ para engañar al cerebro y estudiar nuestra percepción

Visual anagrams in the @dailymail.co.uk: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...

Out today! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Imagine an apple 🍎. Is your mental image more like a picture or more like a thought? In a new preprint led by Morgan McCarty—our lab's wonderful RA—we develop a new approach to this old cognitive science question and find that LLMs excel at tasks thought to be solvable only via visual imagery. 🧵

me this week

Great to have another paper with @chazfirestone.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social and the brilliant Hanbei Zhou out! In this paper we demonstrate that stimuli within events are perceived further apart in time — an event-based analog of “object-based warping”. psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

Our new paper explores an analogy between representations of objects and representations of events, finding that similar illusions arise for both! Check it out 👇

You will definitely not regret reading this fantastic new paper by my (and @chazfirestone.bsky.social, Hanna Pickard and Monique Wonderly's) brilliant student, Rui Zhe Goh. I learned a huge amount working with him on it.