It’s astounding how much the functioning of universities depends on a significant fraction of faculty being workaholic people pleasers with poor boundaries and ADHD

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Incomplete letter recognition is limited by cortical and not optical factors: Simulating the visual deficits of dementia in healthy adults #NeuroDegeneration 🧪🧠 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.18.725904v1

Paper now published in Neuroscience of Consciousness and led by @chkhaidze.bsky.social: From dots to faces: individual differences in visual imagery capacity predict the content of Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...

The complete psilocybin mushroom has compounds the enrich the experience. These are missing in the refined "clinical" psilocybin. But even in its clinical form it’s a delight to the human brain…like a toy of light…quite enriching. www.sciencealert.com/a-single-dos...

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Hey geeks! We're ordering extra blank mugs for the upcoming Mother's Day, but if you want one of our statistical parent mugs, please get your order in. smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...

please enjoy these classic Moon Tweets™

📅 Early bird registration for European Conference on Visual Perception closes 7 April. Join the vision science community in Bournemouth this August and secure your place at a reduced rate. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecvp-2026-... #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

Check out this new cross-journal special Collection on Visual Imagery at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/collections/...! Get submitting! @natcomms.nature.com, @commspsychol.nature.com

postdoc and PhD positions in visual cognitive computational neuroscience in my lab at the University of Cambridge kamilajozwik.com/join_lab.html

How psychedelics push your brain to dream while awake – new study theconversation.com/how-psychede...

Psychology lecturer job in Sydney. Apparently for this job you must already have unrestricted work rights in Australia www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Ever wondered why you can see underwater bubbles: invisible air in invisible water? It's because light bends slightly at the boundary between air & water, so light coming from behind the bubble is diverted away from your eye. The resulting dark line shows you the bubble must be there. Beautiful!

I like how typos in manuscripts are no longer considered evidence of sloppiness, and have turned instead into luxury signals of hand-crafted writing by a human master wordsmith who keeps to the traditional ways

OK vision friends, who's ready to break this tool 😜 www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

A new Department of Cognitive Science is being created at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Here is the call for a cluster hire (for around 10 faculty) in all areas of cognitive science, at both junior and senior levels: www.unibocconi.it/en/faculty-a... Deadline: May 4th, 2026

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience. #neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

I'm looking for a skilled PhD student who doesn't want to work too hard but still do great science: unisc-cp.enquire.cloud/round/RND-00...

Come join us in Dublin: Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Neuroscience position available at UCD! Let me know if you have any questions :) full advert here: lnkd.in/dW_uFuab

Re-visiting cognitive reserve: The importance of multiple brain measures "‘cognitive reserve’ broadly refers to better-than-expected cognitive abilities in old age, presumed to reflect environmental/lifestyle factors earlier in life." Nice review from Rik Henson: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Millenials got the last childhood before social media, the last dating before the apps, and the last white collar careers before AI. If you think the boomer resentment is bad, lots worse coming.

Good👏to👏see👏UK👏research👏funding👏 keeping👏a👏critical👏and👏rigorous👏academic distance👏from👏AI👏hype👏and 👏AI-pilled👏government 👏policy www.ukri.org/publications...

@francescafardo.bsky.social, Camilla E. Krænge & colleagues on evidence accumulation in temperature perception. Distinct roles for spatial summation and lateral inhibition. Really nice work, great collab: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ghislaine Maxwell's father made a fucktonne of money off academic publishing. He owned Pergamon Press, profiting off decades of dizzying growth and profit margins before selling to Elsevier for 100s of millions and falling off his yacht. I think this should be way more common knowledge than it is.

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social #visionscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We compared the TRACKPixx3 eye-tracker against the EyeLink 1000 Plus. Across 8 tasks, accuracy was similar. One key difference: TPx3 aggressively smooths sample data, which may affect sub-fixation phenomena and fixation onsets. Check the paper for the full results. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Whale evolution makes me uncomfortable

Our paper is out in @natneuro.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41... We develop a geometric theory of how neural populations support generalization across many tasks. @zuckermanbrain.bsky.social @flatironinstitute.org @kempnerinstitute.bsky.social 1/14

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Ever wondered how the Dalmatian Dog effect works? The human brain can quickly learn from a single experience and generalize it to related experiences — an impressive feat so far not matched by AI. Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com reveals how this works. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Let's talk about "grumpy lab person". Many labs have them. With an eye to keeping science at its most rigorous, they cross the line into criticism that's too harsh. They are the ones who risk killing your scientific spirit. They are reviewer 2. /1

Welcome to the world of Ganzflicker... in comic form!? Comic by the fabulous [email protected], Instagram: @Mr.dog.art A MassArt initiative led by @hudrewthis.bsky.social Hallucinations are often feared and unwanted... But what if we could induce them, so we can better understand them?

Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy

Brenda Milner showed the world that memory isn’t one thing — the hippocampus supports our life stories, while other circuits let us keep learning skills. Her research on patient H.M. built the foundation of cognitive neuroscience. #WomenInScience #MemoryResearch #NeuroHistory

It is our great honour to announce the APCV Keynote at #epc-apcv-2026: Prof. Hakwan Lau from the Institute for Basic Science in Korea! The call for member-initiated symposia & abstracts is now open: visualneuroscience.auckland.ac.nz/epc-apcv-2026 #psychscisky #visionscience #neuroskyence

Our new paper is out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s41... We combined psychophysics, 7T fMRI, and computational modeling of vision with placebo, 5mg, and 10mg psilocybin, in the same group of participants, to clarify the computational mechanisms of psychedelics. 🧵

Please sign. This stupid decision needs reversing actionnetwork.org/petitions/cs...

Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...

Happy Fechner Day, to those who celebrate

If you're a #visionscience or #psychscisky person starting to think about student dissertation projects, you might be interested in our visual search/foraging experiment code at github.com/scienceanna/.... You can configure everything via CSV files (lots of options!) and it all runs on Psychopy.

As #ECVP2025 wraps up, I’m delighted that #ECVP2028 in Paris was accepted at the Business Meeting! ECVP will meet again before but the Parisian organizing committee is already planning an unforgettable 50th anniversary!