I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models. A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_... Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐

A couple and their 5 and 7 year old kids… Shot and killed in front of their 2 other kids by the IDF This would be on every front page and condemned by politicians far and wide if the victims has been Israelis And yet when they’re Palestinians… Utterly utterly shameful.

Technology is politics. You can't embed Palantir into the army, the police and the health service without embedding its poisonous politics. So there's no place for Palantir in our NHS. https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Delayed foveal and parafoveal masks disrupt peripheral target processing: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts. Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir. This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

I can't believe how much water companies have gotten away with. They're putting profit before public health - it’s a scandal and the Government MUST take action. Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...

Perceptual organization and its visual subcomponents in schizophrenia and schizotypy: A systematic review: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

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

Exited to be in Tübingen for this symposium with an amazing group of vision scientists: summerschool.lizhaoping.org

"And even when they built computers to do some thinking for them, they designed them not so much for wisdom as for friendliness. So they were doomed." Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (1973)

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

Our letter condemning the genocide in #Gaza and calling for an immediate ceasefire. A great crime is being committed, and we cannot stand by. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

I'm very honoured to have given the Geoffrey J Burton memorial lecture on the topic 'On the appearance of shapes in the visual periphery'. Unfortunately this is the only picture I have.

Our final keynote of the day is from Prof Marco Bertamini (Uni of Padova) on the phenomenal appearance of shapes in the visual periphery #AVA

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art. www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....

The looming shutdown of the Department of Education is about control, not reform. As @teacherscollege.bsky.social faculty warn, dismantling education stifles critical thinking and undermines democracy. When politics dictate learning, society pays the price. #AcademicFreedom #EducationMatters #USPol

The so-called school choice and voucher systems were set up to further starve down already cash-strapped public schools. The goal: To widen the chasm between the rich and the poor. #AcademicSky #EduSky

Demand that Sky stops buying ads and funding hate on GB News. Join @GoodLawProject now to increase the pressure: goodlaw.social/c9g8

Stand Up for Science rallies will be held in DC and state capitals on March 7th. Share with friends. Sign-up here to get email updates with details: www.eventbrite.com/e/stand-up-f...

Applied Vision Association meeting in Liverpool on the 28th of April www.theava.net/meetings.php...

A PhD position is open in @peelen.bsky.social Lab at the Donders Institute - please spread the word and consider applying if you are interested about how imagery and perception relate to each other www.ru.nl/en/working-a... - plus we are fun people to work with ! :)

Systems Vision Science Summer School & Symposium: Aug. 11-22, 2025 Tübingen, Germany The Third edition of Systems Vision Science (SVS) summer school is designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. summerschool.lizhaoping.org/application

Prof Dorothy Bishop resigns from Royal Society over Elon Musk’s continuing fellowship. Fellowship is "a contradiction of all the values" of UK’s national academy of sciences www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This may be of interest mainly to those in Italy, however on Monday (Sept 30) we inaugurate a new Centre for the Study of Perception and Art (CARPE) www.dpg.unipd.it/en/carpe

Testing if this works... Trying to make a starter pack for researchers in #perception science Please share ! Will be adding more folks as I learn how #academicsky works ! go.bsky.app/V99fSBK

The 10th annual workshop on Visual Preference (VPDVP) took place in Rome (June 14-15). The videos of the talks are now available: www.bertamini.org/lab/vpdvp.html

Do *not* give Elsevier your data when they ask you stuff like this, even if it is *required*. Their main business is now data analytics, and they sell your information for profit. eiko-fried.com/welcome-to-h...

Twitter is awful, I moved over here on BSky, let's hope for the best