Kids These Days Don’t Appreciate The Town’s Creepy Clown Mascot anymore is out now! The in-depth critical analysis of @adamcesare.bsky.social ‘s Clown in a Cornfield series you didn’t know you needed! buttondown.com/blaisebalas/... #horrorsky #horrorwriting #horrorblog #clowninacornfield

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book. "Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement." www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

Quick YT short about an excellent color #illusion that just came out in @pec-ipe.bsky.social - enjoy! #psychology #neuroscience #visionscience

New YouTube video on my SeeingScience channel about partnering with Fargo's Plains Art Museum on this month's Kid Quest! We worked with the Kid Quest team on incorporating #face #pareidolia into the art kids were seeing in the collection and making in the studio. Enjoy! #sciart

Attending the Ig Nobel lectures was a highlight of my year when I was a student and gave me incredibly important perspective on the nature of scientific inquiry and public communication of science. This makes me very, very sad.

📢 PhD position in Developmental Language Modelling (PLZ RT) What can human language acquisition teach us about training language models? Join us as a PhD! mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/fully-funded-4-year-phd-position-developmental-language @carorowland.bsky.social @mpi-nl.bsky.social

In an age of multiplexes and streaming, this theater brings me a lot of joy: Iconic marquee, niche movies, film nerd employees, art deco design, best popcorn in town. We're very lucky to have this place.

Just freakin' incredible.

Just put up a new YouTube short about a classic #cogsci experiment: Our poor memory for what a penny looks like! Given that the penny is retiring, I thought it was worth talking about this great piece of #psychology history. Enjoy!

Still learning the ropes at YouTube, but I've got a new version of my Ames Room video set up as a Short now! Check out the #science of how linear perspective cues can lead you to make big errors when judging object size! #psychscisky #visionscience youtube.com/shorts/a0uPD...

Research plug: we're currently seeking (bilateraly, congenitally) blind adults & Deaf adults for a *paid* online research study (screen reader compatible) on how individuals experience words across perceptual modalities. Ping [email protected] if interested! Reposts welcome! #Blind #Deaf

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

I've got a new #visionscience #scicomm video for you! In this one, I talk about one of our recent papers about face #pareidolia - enjoy! #PsychSciSky #STEMEducation

These contracts b/t AI co and universities infuriate me. Our budgets are thin and declining, we can’t invest in the people who do the work: the teaching, learning, the support. Yet we can drop millions each year to companies that already have tax breaks and are raking in profits.

The #scicomm content creation journey continues with another short #visionscience video! In this one, I take apart some upside-down goggles to show you how they flip everything you see. Enjoy (and don't forget to subscribe)! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcB9...

/tʃiɹz/ 🍻

If you use the code BHM26, you can get 20% off The Payback and all the other great books in Bookshop’s Black History Month collection.

I've got a new #visionscience video for you! Today I'm showing off how to see the hidden object in Magic Eye stereograms without worrying about getting your eyes lined up the right way. If you're interested in reading why this works... <1/2>

Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak. But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.

After a rather long delay, I've finally got a new Science of #Chess post up on lichess! This time I'm looking at a very neat #neuroscience paper (co-authored by @hansopdebeeck.bsky.social) using chess as a model for studying expertise. Enjoy! #cogneuro #PsychSciSky

There are a lot of problems I can't directly fix, but I can help some folks who can't safely go to work right now make rent. Maybe you can, too? www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...

This profile tells some of Powers story - born into slavery near Athens, GA, Harriet learned to sew as a child, a skill that became her livelihood after emancipation - and includes an image of the original quilt as well as the only known photograph of Powers from 1901. tinyurl.com/5e2nrejv

It's exceptionally cold today, even by Minnesota-in-January standards. What brave, beautiful people.

Ben is starting a YouTube channel and if you like cool perceptual science explained clearly, you'll definitely want to subscribe.

Do you know how frickin pissed off you have to make Minnesotans for them to not only NOT help you, but HECKLE you?

We are told that police need to be allowed to kill when they get scared but that everyone else must comport themselves perfectly or else they deserve to get whacked.

Happy New Year’s Eve to everyone, and happy Stranger Things finale to all who celebrate! Coming on here to do a quick plug for my #strangerthings post from before s5 aired to celebrate this wonderful show. Check it out! #strangerthings5 #horrorsky #horrorwriting buttondown.com/blaisebalas/...

I've never lived so close to a What Are We Even Doing Here real estate listing, and I am here, gifting you this experience, make sure to open the pictures www.redfin.com/MI/Ann-Arbor...

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

For your collective delectation this holiday season: Quite possibly the silliest thing I've ever written (and definitely the most ridiculous graph I've ever made!) loreandordure.com/2025/12/16/j...

This is so very close to home, literally across the street from the building my grad department was in. All my love to everyone at Brown. I don't even know what else to say.

Rowdy crowd at the Fargo Theatre tonight to cheer for Bruce Willis while he ruined Alan Rickman's Christmas Eve. (We were all given Twinkies to enjoy on cue.)

My spouse achieved peak Midwestern Dad yesterday by being interviewed on local news while shoveling out the driveway.

Day 7 of #ArtAdventCalendar and I've got one more SPIRITED AWAY #StudioGhibli #snowflake for you. Tonight it's the Radish Spirit (Oshira-Sama) who was a special request from @erconwell.bsky.social. I decided the fans were a nice touch to give the design a little more detail. ❄️✂️🥕

Get in losers, we’re going to read my new blog post about Damien Leone’s Terrifier 3 and what it indicates about the current horror climate ✨🎄🔪🩸 buttondown.com/blaisebalas/... #horrorwriter #terrifier3 #horrormovie #arttheclown #christmashorror #theexorcist #horrorblog

I've been making #papercraft #snowflakes these past few days, but forgot to tag #ArtAdventCalendar! Here's a bit of catching up with my first #StudioGhibli designs from this season's series (feat. Totoro, Cat-bus, Porco Rosso, and No-face). Enjoy! ❄️✂️🎄

For tonight's #StudioGhibli #snowflake we're heading for SPIRITED AWAY and the iconic No-Face! That he ends up learning to knit is one of my favorite things about the movie, so I thought I'd go with that for this design. Lots of fun making the negative space work for this one. ❄️✂️🙂🚫 #papercraft

Tonight's #papercraft #StudioGhibli snowflake is a personal favorite of mine: PORCO ROSSO! The pic is a little blurry, but I think I did him justice with this one. ❄️✂️🐷🛩️

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

The #StudioGhibli series of #papercraft snowflakes continues with one more design from MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO - The Catbus! My poor #cricut was fighting hard for this one, but I think the end result was worth it. Enjoy! ❄️✂️🐈‍⬛🚌

We're officially into the #Christmas season, so that means it's time for some overly elaborate #papercraft #snowflake designs! For this year I decided on a #StudioGhibli series, starting with: Totoro! <1/2>

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

New post by the kiddo at So Desensitized! This time she's writing about STRANGER THINGS in anticipation of the new season. If you love #horror, #popculture, and great writing about movies and television go sign up for her newsletter! buttondown.com/blaisebalas/...

It was such a pleasure to do this one. If folks want to listen, please do. This podcast was a fantastic glimpse into life at our Tribal College, especially in a time of rapid and sweeping changes: www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...

Fargo, ND. The second picture was taken lying on the ground with the camera pointed directly upward.

I was trying to send a Zoom link to a colleague and nearly sent this instead.... www.inforum.com/video/zw6c3gbk

If you have some funds to spare, time to donate to your local food bank or to Feeding America. Cash is more flexible than in-kind donations, but those won't hurt either. www.feedingamerica.org