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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

"Vanderbilt is failing in its moral responsibility to push back against rising authoritarianism and political coercion." My effort to convince Vanderbilt (and all universities) to take a stand for the rule of law, the Constitution, and our democracy. www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

Our child is responsible for making and distributing at least 3 different kinds of stage blood for the school musical this year. We're very proud.

"...appear to be typical of an investment strategy whereby donors, aided by university administrators and regents, circumvent faculty governance in order to treat universities like incubators or, worse, as click-farms to inflate the user data seemingly keeping the AI investment machine humming."

Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social. We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫 If you know any archaeologists, please send them here www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

A quick webpage update to showcase my textbook PRACTICAL VISION SCIENCE! If you're thinking about options for your Spring course in #visionscience, check it out! sites.google.com/view/hands-o...

Can AI simulations of human research participants advance cognitive science? In @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social, @lmesseri.bsky.social & I analyze this vision. We show how “AI Surrogates” entrench practices that limit the generalizability of cognitive science while aspiring to do the opposite. 1/

Hi I'm an @insidehighered.com reporter writing about which universities are cutting travel expenses, freezing hiring or slashing other costs citing the fed government shutdown. Please DM me or email me any examples at [email protected] today (especially statements on websites)!

Medora, North Dakota, had 8 people at their rally yesterday, which is 6.6% of their total population. Valley City (pop. ~6600) had 150, and Williston (oil country) had about 100. It takes genuine courage to stand up in those parts of this state.

Couldn't make it this time, but very glad to see that my neighbors showed up.

New post from my kid: On The Witch, scapegoats, and the fact that everybody floats.

Open immediately -- postdoc, speech motor control and speech motor neuroscience w/ C. Niziolek + B. Parrell, U. Wisconsin Madison blab.wisc.edu/join-the-lab/ [see Postdoctoral researchers tab]

I'm not always proud of my alma mater's political decisions, but I'm glad they got this one right.

Yesterday, families of transgender children in ND lost their lawsuit against our anti-gender-affirming care law. If you are able, consider supporting this (or any other) organization that will help them get the care they need to thrive as themselves. southernequality.org/nd/

This study sets the stage for a lot of exciting questions and we were delighted to have it at Language Development Research (@langdevres.bsky.social).

If you need a good laugh, here you go. (Read Séamas' memoir. It's great!) If you work with children at all, you should probably also take this as a reminder that their minds are strange and wondrous things and their outward behaviors give us only the tiniest glimpse.