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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Multiple locations online? E.g., gscholar, orcid, research gate

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Eric Denovellis @eric-denovellis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I wanted to highlight the work of Alison Comrie et al. that recently came out in Neuron and I don’t think it is getting enough attention: paper: cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0896-6273(26)00674-4 #neuroskyence

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Me when I find an unexplored topic in my field of study

The famous Junji Ito manga panel where a person discovers a person-shaped hold and exclaims, "This is my hole!.. It was made for me"

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Spoiler alert: they don't! After learning a virtual NE environment, participants were wholly unaware of the manipulation. They recreated maps exactly the same as controls and were heavily biased in their pointing responses by what 'should have been'

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Have you ever wondered how people remember non-Euclidean space? Check out the newly published article in Psychological Research from Tim and I!! rdcu.be/firpN

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Mental Representations of Impossible Non-Euclidean Environments

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Eric Klug @klugalters.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Hand painted, 63 x 88mm version of M.C. Escher's 'Waterfall'.

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I remember seeing and discussing this at iNav'24! Amazingly creative methods that make me nostalgic for version 1.4 of Minecraft (peak mod era)

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Great paper discussing VR modalities from @adekstreme.bsky.social and @paulhill.bsky.social ! Worth a read for any VR folks

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Dan Levenstein @dlevenstein.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Biology is full of coconuts. 🥥

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Beating my head against the wall of success until one of us gives (it aint gonna be me)

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

With the passing of Jane Goodall (literally crying rn watching her Netflix interview), now more than ever we should remember the Roots & Shoots model of compassionate traits 💜

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Such amazing work! Do you have any inklings about how the brain would remap the same space but in different states (e.g., superimposed non-Euclidean space or a rural area that underwent rapid development)?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Juneteenth went uncelebrated by the White House. That alone says everything you need to know about this regime.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

What happened last night and today was manufactured propaganda by the Trump admin to justify using the military against Americans. Let us be clear: the military should never police civilians without a request from the state. So much for the so-called party of states’ rights and law and order.

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Just a reminder that the current regime loves cutting some of the best ROIs our country has 😑

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

New pope is from Chicago. Does that mean Malort is now considered a 'holy spirit?'

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/04/2025

It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

So many people from AZ have never heard of burrowing owls and that blows my mind

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Reminds me of Nier: Automata! Looks fantastics for ONE MONTH!

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Some of y'all mfs refuse to learn empathy

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Reviewer Zero @reviewerzero.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

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May-Britt Moser @m-bmoser.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Looking forward to this Kafatos lecture with @EMBL.org and ISFiT 💃🏻 @kavlintnu.bsky.social

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

If you're outraged, let em know. And if they don't pick up, (*cough* office of Marsha Blackburn *cough*) leave a message

Bill Hagerty, Mark Green, Marsha Blackburn

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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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Join researchers across the country in fighting restrictions on the NIH

Please click the link to complete this form.

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Swords | The Webcomic @swordscomic.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I don't know who needs to hear this but : You're not in trouble and nobody is mad at you, relax your jaw

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Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

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Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf

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Andrew McAvan (they/he) @andrew-mcavan.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

2nding the Vive Pro 2 w/ wireless adapter; untethered PC-level VR is great

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