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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...

Visual cognition and attention people, can anyone help me track down a copy of the classic Neisser & Becklen video? I can't find it on Youtube. @irahyman.bsky.social ?

The New York Times piece today about US science is terrible and wrong—in many ways. I could write a whole article about this, but as one example: “To close observers, the original crisis began well before any of this…” No. I’m a close observer of science, and this is incorrect.

Reminder: before you go full-on defeatist about the rule of law, keep in mind it remains often effective on a micro-level. It’s on the macro- that the FedSoc types have killed it. Hard work and good lawyering can make a difference for regular people — though not always, and not all of them.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

I changed my profile picture, which they are welcome to use in perpetuity, worldwide, in any manner.

I expect this is going to be walked back almost immediately.

I wonder if researchers who study attention and researchers who study emotion are aware about the strong parallel controversies regarding the theoretical targets? Let me describe them.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

The courts keep rejecting Donald Trump’s illegal attempt to take over the Fed so he can scapegoat away his failure to lower costs for American families. If the courts – including the Supreme Court – continue to uphold the law, Lisa Cook will keep her seat as a Fed Governor.

NEW: We just filed an amicus brief with @legaldefensefund.bsky.social in a case challenging Texas' new gerrymandered maps. Texas leaders must be held accountable for this racially discriminatory, undemocratic process.

My department at Morehouse is hiring. If you study race, law, and American politics and want a tenure-track job at a place that will support your work better than most, please apply. morehouse.peopleadmin.com/postings/12898

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

"We are told that AI is inevitable, that we must adapt or be left behind. But universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically." www.ru.nl/en/research/...

The fact that people keep doing this is why we need to be careful about AI adoption in education. People are not used to tools that fabricate nonexistent information. We have no model for how to interact with them.

I changed my course content from the published description and from the syllabus almost every year in response to new data, political changes, my own education. This is *exactly* about academic freedom. #academicsky

A student told her professor “President Trump’s laws state that there are two genders,” and that the lesson was “illegal” for contradicting that. It’s not. Executive orders are not laws. Compliance with authoritarianism will not protect universities. Either we stand up for our missions or we fall.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Reading about this brought to mind a piece I wrote two years ago, inspired by one of my favourite authors. Ursula K. Le Guin emphasized that there’s a big difference “between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art.” OpenAI’s AI-generated movie offers us nothing.

The video discusses a Reddit post where a woman reports that her gynecologist was wearing Meta Ray-bans while performing an examination on her.

I don't know why this is controversial. As Brett clearly states, any legal immigrant or citizen could turn this matter over to their legal team and continue about their day unimpeded while it is resolved.

I didn’t know about this, and if I didn’t know about this, then you probably didn’t either. This should be my entire feed and it’s not and that’s a problem  This sit in has now been going on over 48 hours and I am just hearing about it now 1/

I would read this book.

Before we used cameras and projectors to move the photons towards the observer's eyes, we used physical architecture to move the eyes towards the photons.

TIL that in the 1950's Horace Barlow placed a drop of mercury on the eyeball of human subjects to record eye movements. Aww jeez.

Highest level of support since Gallup started asking this question a quarter century ago

Prince of Persia was a groundbreaking game for its accurate character movement back in the late 80's. To do this, the creator videotaped his own brother running and jumping on the sidewalk and then did pixel mapping frame by frame as shown here at the Strong Museum of Play

UK government report based on internal civil service trial finds Copilot doesn’t increase productivity, and indeed makes Excel take longer and with more errors, and requires Powerpoint users to have ‘corrective action’ applied to their outputs. www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m...

🧵 An open letter to the US Open and USTA: Trump will attend the #USOpen as a guest of ROLEX. Yesterday, Trump declared 'WAR' on Chicago. The USTA has called for media censorship of dissent against Trump today. I played NCAA tennis many years ago and still play. Today I resign my #USTA membership.

Sesame Street will be putting a huge collection of episodes on YouTube starting in January 2026 This is a fantastic way to educate children It’s a form of resistance. Shows like Sesame Street teach love, tolerance, acceptance & more. These lessons are crucial for the long fight ahead.

These guys are simply not smart.

More thoughts on this Puel et al. finding of "blinking" the ears while doing a visual task... If the brain wanted to ignore auditory input, why can't we just ignore those signals once they arrive in auditory cortex? It seems much simpler to just inhibit the neurons receiving input in A1 than >

Eventually it will start drifting back upwards and they will claim victory even though we'll be set back. The media won't ask good questions.

COMMENTARY: If this was happening in another nation, we'd call it by name. It's authoritarianism.

In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.

they’re so close

I don't understand how this paper has under 200 citations. The implications are critical for our understanding of cross modal integration. This should be a whole area of research, exploring the time course, load effects, etc. There's a whole series of careers lined up like tee balls here.

@hankgreen.bsky.social Did you know that you can blink your ears? This might be a good video: Puel, J. L., Bonfils, P., & Pujol, R. (1988). Selective attention modifies the active micromechanical properties of the cochlea. Brain research, 447(2), 380-383.

Michael was my undergraduate thesis advisor. I have been moved to write some reflections on his life, and my time with him open.substack.com/pub/alexholc... #visionScience A hashtag seems gauche, but Michael should be more widely known - he didn't attend conferences much.

Don’t look away

You think you're gonna get a hover chair after AI takes your job? You're not going to get a hover chair. They're not for people like you. www.youtube.com/shorts/cuHZ8...

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

Our new study (Titled: Memory Loves Company) asks whether working memory hold more when objects belong together. And yes, when everyday objects are paired meaningfully (Bow-Arrow), people remember them better than when they’re unrelated (Glass-Arrow). (mini thread)

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Undermining the Fed to get lower rates now is like ripping the batteries out of your smoke alarm because it’s beeping. It’s quiet for a bit. Then your house burns down. Credibility anchors expectations; expectations anchor inflation.