www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a... The NYT is clearly not a place full of hep-cats; they fail to mention Rollins' work with Thelonious Monk. Playing along with one of the most challenging composers he was more than glue for idiosyncratic rhythms and complex chords. He gave the songs shape & heart.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

Question: Do you feel better ( ) or worse ( ) about <fill in the blank> ___________________ in December of 2025 than you did in January of 2024?

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells. www.cell.com/current-biol...

A good list and I'll admit I have failed hardcore at least two. Perhaps, in the future, my strengths will mitigate these failures. That said, context is key if you don't care about failing colleagues you don't respect, then you're not a bad academic merely not in a good place for you.

Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research. 1/n

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨 25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

Scootering around Salt Lake City @arvoinfo.bsky.social #arvo2025

Congratulations to the 16 winners of the @arvoinfo.bsky.social MIT Outstanding Poster Award Competition held during #ARVO2025. These MIT First Authors were selected from the top-five scored poster abstracts from each Scientific Section and Cross-sectional Group. bit.ly/3RUIMVl #VisionResearch

Most years at ARVO, I award the Picture of the Year, or #POTY prize. This year it goes to Toco Chui of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for her presentation titled "In-vivo imaging of blood cell adhesion to vascular wall in sickle cell disease" (more below) 1/n

I missed the National Eye Institute from #ARVO2025. It was weird - though understandable, given the current US governmental crackdown on research. THAT is much weirder.

My favorite part of the @arvoinfo.bsky.social annual meeting: Karaoke night! 🕺🎤 #arvo2025

It was a wonderful #ARVO2025 - a few of my favorite memories! I am so proud of the exceptional job our COVSL trainees did presenting their work. @bcleonard #visionscience

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Spot the ARVOian is always a fun game. #visionscience

Yikes! I've been here for 14 hours and can tell that UT is similar to ON, but just messed up six ways to Sunday. #elbowsup #visionscience #ARVO2025

data science + large men moving rapidly = awesome #elbowsup #computepower www.nytimes.com/athletic/628...

If they legalize acid, Burger King should lead the way with a LSD laced burger called BK Ultra.

I think of this ST:TNG scene in the gif when I read a sentence structured: "X is an objective measure, psychophysics is a subjective measure." where X = fMRI, EEG, ERG, MEG... and so on. #visionscience media.tenor.com/aAj5SI46eiAA...

Journals have been so captured by metrics like impact factor and time-to-decision that they can't even conceive of the idea that scholars might choose a journal based on how good it is! For example, do the editors and reviews provide good feedback, have good judgment, and do they have integrity?

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem; neat, plausible, and wrong. ~HL Mencken

This is a disgrace and a tragedy. #visionscience

More NIH grant cancellations based on political ideology. Thanks a lot Sens. Murkowski, Collins, and Cassidy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

It's finally out! Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode. 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

Human have higher sensitivity in the lower compared to upper visual field. It turns out that macaques show the opposite pattern: www.cell.com/current-biol.... I'd hypothesize that this is evidence that neither of these effects is innate; instead, they both develop with experience. #VisionScience

now that's just cool.

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

If you're in Boston and want to play with perception, go to the Museum of Illusions (Quincy Market). Folks who know #visionscience will be annoyed by the write ups but (no spoiler, not pictured) there is one exhibit worth the price of admission. Consultant needed, to be sure.

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

I tried to get Gemini to make Ouchi illusion in python. No dice. Other LLMs have done it, but needed hand code edits. I've only tried this illusion, but I wonder if other illusions are as hard. Yes, I tried giving it the wolfram alpha site... mathworld.wolfram.com/OuchiIllusio... #visionscience

Happy birthday, 103rd Horace Barlow. You're gone, but your writing and generous advice a decade ago are not forgotten. #visionscience

I often wish Nate would return to baseball statistics, but this is an incisive and data-driven critique of words from the people who ran the Harris loser of a campaign and it's 1/3 the rest are paywalled. www.natesilver.net/p/part-i-dem... I have 3 gift subs, DM me for a link if you want one.

I enjoy social media even at its worst. I post this video/song at intervals because it expresses my attitude to the whole endeavor. Here you go, Bluesky... youtu.be/vpju_-Quvso?...

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

This reminds us that there are many pathways outside the 'main' one to primary visual cortex (V1) that can function after V1 lesions. Some can even deliver conscious visual experiences. For example, conscious motion vision sometimes survives (aka Riddoch phenomenon) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABQ...

the rapid transition of academics off x (despite temporarily reducing reach/followers) makes you wonder what’s stopping us from ending the for-profit, closed access publishing industry. it’s, like…. we can just do it? or if not, interesting to consider what the inertial differences are.

Daily Walkoff #92 - 11/30/2024 Toronto Blue Jays ⚪️⚪️🟡🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com For #baseball fans this could be a lot of fun. New puzzles each day for all 30 teams. I'll take the walk-off triple my first time out.

Retinal Ganglion Cells bryanwjones.com/2020/07/reti... #SciArt #retina

"Profits from vinyl and CDs are reasonable but the DIY scene is not shifting them hand over fist, so the label has to be a long-term investment with an incremental return. Even knowing this, one aspect remained shocking: finally seeing in black and white the returns from streaming."

I often love reading book reviews from @economist.com, for their shade. Here's a quote from the review of Jordan Peterson's latest book: "The overall effect is as if a Victorian vicar had been given a streaming subscription to Disney+ (and possibly some opium), then sat down to write his sermon." 🔥

How would your metascience look if you submitted to MetaROR?? Check out one of our first articles! You'll see the editorial summation at top and then the peer reviews. metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

Funny how earning a PhD seems like a monumentous achievement until you are poised to achieve it, and then it feels about as worthy of bragging over as owning a nice pair of sneakers.