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Excited to see this fantastic spotlight by Sue Hespos and colleagues covering our recent paper on the neural representation of Things and Stuff 🧠🌊

We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week.

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Super excited to share our new article: “Dissociable cortical regions represent things and stuff in the human brain” with @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @rtpramod.bsky.social and @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social Video abstract: www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0XR... Paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lWxv3QW8S...

Today is your last chance to vote: vote.illusionoftheyear.com

Thrilled to announce our new publication titled 'Decoding predicted future states from the brain's physics engine' with @emiecz.bsky.social, Cyn X. Fang, @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/full/10.... (1/n)

I’m excited to announce that I’m recruiting for a fully-funded 3.5-year PhD position in my lab in Southampton (UK). For details and to apply, see here: www.southampton.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Starts in one hour!

Kick off #VSS2025 with our symposium “25 Years of Seeing ‘Stuff’—Advances and Challenges in Material Perception” in Talk Room 2 on Friday morning 10:30am – 12:30pm. We have a great lineup of speakers who will share deep insights and fun demos! 👀🧠🌊 @vssmtg.bsky.social #neuroskyence #visionscience

Proud to announce our primer on "Ten principles for reliable, efficient, and adaptable coding in psychology and cognitive neuroscience" www.nature.com/articles/s44... This primer is for beginners to get started, advanced programmers to improve, and PIs. #psychology #psychsci #cogsci #neuroskyence

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Challenging times to start a lab, but I’m excited to begin this new chapter! 🧠👩‍🔬🎓 Grateful to @thetransmitter.bsky.social for featuring me for this month's “Liftoff”!

Proud to speak at the StandUpForScience rally in Boston today!

Hello! I'm looking to hire a post-doc, to start this Summer or Fall. It'd be great if you could share this widely with people you think might be interested. More details on the position & how to apply: bit.ly/cocodev_post... Official posting here: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14723

Friends, Sara is recovering well from surgery. Her cancer has progressed to a higher stage and needs more aggressive treatments. Please keep sharing/donating to help us make these crucial treatments possible, and thank you deeply for your love and support! gofund.me/357afe0a

One week left to apply!

(1/3) 🌟New preprint with @lynnkasorensen.bsky.social and Jim DiCarlo When animals learn new object discrimination tasks, how much does their IT cortex change? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My friends Sara and Guido are facing a devastating brain cancer diagnosis. To help cover the costs of experimental treatments for Sara that are not covered by insurance, please consider donating if you can and sharing this with others who might be able to help. gofund.me/5505ddf2

hooray, it's out! "Electrophysiology Reveals That Intuitive Physics Guides Visual Tracking and Working Memory" (in Open Mind) (by Balaban, Smith, Tenenbaum, and me) direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Phase Transition xkcd.com/3025

@fovea-vs.bsky.social is on Bluesky now! Follow FoVea to learn more about ways we can advance the visibility, impact, and success of women in vision science!

OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

Graphics has long studied how to make: (1) realistic images 📷 (2) non-photorealistic images ✍️ (3) realistic sounds 🎤 What about (4) "non-phono-realistic" sounds? What could that even mean? Next week at SIGGRAPH Asia, MIT undergrad Matt Caren will present our proposal… 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2409.13507

I feel so honored by the publication of this special issue of Neuropsychologia. Thanks so much to my friends and colleagues who put this together. And thanks to all the contributors. There are so many wonderful articles. I can't tell you how delighted I am. 🧪🧠 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Summer research opportunity in Psychology at U. of Wisconsin–Madison. Students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, low-income households, and first-generation college students are strongly encouraged to apply. Details and application portal at psych.wisc.edu/nsf-reu-site...

I’m excited to share that I will join the Department of Psychology at UW-Madison as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2025. I feel incredibly fortunate to join such a wonderful department and to have the opportunity to start my own lab!  (1/2)

Really looking forward to COGGRAPH! Big thanks to the organizers for inviting me to be part of it! 🧠 🫖

Really looking forward to COGGRAPH! Big thanks to the organizers for inviting me to be part of it! 🧠 🫖