Ok, this is nuts. Once you see it you cannot unsee it. Do you see it? (OP @drgbuckingham.bsky.social )

Vassar College Social at The Society for Neuroscience conference in San Diego CA. Great catching up with old and new friends! #SfN2025 #Vassar @vassar.bsky.social @sfn.org

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

theimpactproject.org/dashboards/t... Good work being done by PSA and the Impact Project to raise awareness of the threats being directed at public servants.

This was a fantastic read. Nice surprise that it had guest-star @carlbergstrom.com who I guess still has not see the lyrebird :-) lareviewofbooks.org/article/what...

"If we cannot convey our findings and theories in accessible ways, we risk validating the misleading assumption that academia is merely an elitist silo that has little to do with the everyday realities of average Americans." Professor Dara Greenwood in Psychology Today. https://bit.ly/3W370Pe

In our Office Hours video, we spoke to Lori Alison Newman, Associate Professor of Psychological Science, who talked about the importance of astrocytes.

Remember when you first learned about genetics at school? All those fascinating examples of human traits that are each apparently determined by just a single gene? Time to check in on some of your favourites to see how they’re doing. 🧬🧵🧪 1/n

Great job by my student Alden Ormont (‘27) presenting research at the Eastern Psychological Association! Vassar PsycSci also has research being presented from Prof Clifton’s and Prof Greenwood’s labs. @vassar.bsky.social

#standupforscience Attended the event in NYC with colleague and students from Vassar College. Cancer treatments? Has your kid ever had strep? Safer vehicles for driving? Science can help.

Much wisdom shared at the Psychological Science career alumni event on Saturday! 👏👏Special thanks to the alumni who could come and share their on-going journeys: Lily Conroy ‘23, Wendy Gonzalez ‘03, Matt Grossman ‘10, Leesh Menard ‘18, Tomomi Uetani ‘00, and Joanna Weill ‘09. @vassar.bsky.social

"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line." snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...

Very cool. The "carpentered corner" story for the Müller-Lyer illusion is probably bullshit.