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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a... The NYT is clearly not a place full of hep-cats; they fail to mention Rollins' work with Thelonious Monk. Playing along with one of the most challenging composers he was more than glue for idiosyncratic rhythms and complex chords. He gave the songs shape & heart.

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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95

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Wrong Station @thewrongstation.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

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The R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

We are responding to this call for evidence: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet... Do you have concrete examples of the added value of #Rstats in the public or private sectors? Include the most important factors (risk, lock-in, security, innovation...) to assess the added value. Thanks!

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European Commission - Have your say

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Question: Do you feel better ( ) or worse ( ) about <fill in the blank> ___________________ in December of 2025 than you did in January of 2024?

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Keisuke Yonehara @keisukeyonehara.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells. www.cell.com/current-biol...

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Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway

Schwartz and Matsumoto et al. show that visual feature selectivity for luminance and motion is coupled in the retina but becomes decoupled in the superior colliculus. This transformation reorganizes t...

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A good list and I'll admit I have failed hardcore at least two. Perhaps, in the future, my strengths will mitigate these failures. That said, context is key if you don't care about failing colleagues you don't respect, then you're not a bad academic merely not in a good place for you.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Another evening spent writing to Dr. Bhattacharya about important issues, in this case, the importance of animal models in fundamental and mechanistic research. 1/n

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a woman says please help me understand on a netflix advertisement

ALT: a woman says please help me understand on a netflix advertisement

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Hugo Spiers @hugospiers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨 25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

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Daisy Shu @eyedaisyshu.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Scootering around Salt Lake City @arvoinfo.bsky.social #arvo2025

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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Congratulations to the 16 winners of the @arvoinfo.bsky.social MIT Outstanding Poster Award Competition held during #ARVO2025. These MIT First Authors were selected from the top-five scored poster abstracts from each Scientific Section and Cross-sectional Group. bit.ly/3RUIMVl #VisionResearch

Two individuals discussing a poster presentation at the 2025 MIT Outstanding Poster Competition

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Most years at ARVO, I award the Picture of the Year, or #POTY prize. This year it goes to Toco Chui of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for her presentation titled "In-vivo imaging of blood cell adhesion to vascular wall in sickle cell disease" (more below) 1/n

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Peter Barabas @peterbarabas.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I missed the National Eye Institute from #ARVO2025. It was weird - though understandable, given the current US governmental crackdown on research. THAT is much weirder.

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Daisy Shu @eyedaisyshu.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

My favorite part of the @arvoinfo.bsky.social annual meeting: Karaoke night! 🕺🎤 #arvo2025

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

It was a wonderful #ARVO2025 - a few of my favorite memories! I am so proud of the exceptional job our COVSL trainees did presenting their work. @bcleonard #visionscience

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920) | University of Bergen

Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Yikes! I've been here for 14 hours and can tell that UT is similar to ON, but just messed up six ways to Sunday. #elbowsup #visionscience #ARVO2025

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Hearty White @heartywhite.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

If they legalize acid, Burger King should lead the way with a LSD laced burger called BK Ultra.

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I think of this ST:TNG scene in the gif when I read a sentence structured: "X is an objective measure, psychophysics is a subjective measure." where X = fMRI, EEG, ERG, MEG... and so on. #visionscience media.tenor.com/aAj5SI46eiAA...

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Anastasia Christakou 💙 @christakou.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem; neat, plausible, and wrong. ~HL Mencken

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Steve Engel @sengelweb.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

This is a disgrace and a tragedy. #visionscience

graph showing basically no new F grants from NIH since inauguration day.

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Kevin Wright @kevinmawright.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

More NIH grant cancellations based on political ideology. Thanks a lot Sens. Murkowski, Collins, and Cassidy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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NIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake

The order covers more than 40 awards to researchers around the country seeking to understand why vaccine acceptance has declined.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Matteo Carandini @carandinilab.net · 02/02/2025

It's finally out! Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode. 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

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Doby Rahnev @dobyrahnev.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Human have higher sensitivity in the lower compared to upper visual field. It turns out that macaques show the opposite pattern: www.cell.com/current-biol.... I'd hypothesize that this is evidence that neither of these effects is innate; instead, they both develop with experience. #VisionScience

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Opposite asymmetry in visual perception of humans and macaques

Human adults exhibit visual performance asymmetries as a function of polar angle. Tünçok et al. investigate whether macaque monkeys show asymmetries and how they differ from humans. Both species exhib...

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Andrew Pruszynski @andpru.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

now that's just cool.

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

If you're in Boston and want to play with perception, go to the Museum of Illusions (Quincy Market). Folks who know #visionscience will be annoyed by the write ups but (no spoiler, not pictured) there is one exhibit worth the price of admission. Consultant needed, to be sure.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I tried to get Gemini to make Ouchi illusion in python. No dice. Other LLMs have done it, but needed hand code edits. I've only tried this illusion, but I wonder if other illusions are as hard. Yes, I tried giving it the wolfram alpha site... mathworld.wolfram.com/OuchiIllusio... #visionscience

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Happy birthday, 103rd Horace Barlow. You're gone, but your writing and generous advice a decade ago are not forgotten. #visionscience

Account owner with a picture of Horace Barlow at his home in Cambridge, UK.

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I often wish Nate would return to baseball statistics, but this is an incisive and data-driven critique of words from the people who ran the Harris loser of a campaign and it's 1/3 the rest are paywalled. www.natesilver.net/p/part-i-dem... I have 3 gift subs, DM me for a link if you want one.

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Part I: Democrats' risk-aversion helped to re-elect Trump

Part 1 of a 3-part autopsy on the Harris campaign. Plus, a GiveDirectly fundraiser!

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I enjoy social media even at its worst. I post this video/song at intervals because it expresses my attitude to the whole endeavor. Here you go, Bluesky... youtu.be/vpju_-Quvso?...

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Ben Folds - Myspace Gig - Cooler Than You

YouTube video by theSuburbsUK

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 03/12/2024

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

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A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester

Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This reminds us that there are many pathways outside the 'main' one to primary visual cortex (V1) that can function after V1 lesions. Some can even deliver conscious visual experiences. For example, conscious motion vision sometimes survives (aka Riddoch phenomenon) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABQ...

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The Blind Woman Who Saw Rain | SKUNK BEAR

YouTube video by NPR

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todd gureckis @toddgureckis.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

the rapid transition of academics off x (despite temporarily reducing reach/followers) makes you wonder what’s stopping us from ending the for-profit, closed access publishing industry. it’s, like…. we can just do it? or if not, interesting to consider what the inertial differences are.

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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Daily Walkoff #92 - 11/30/2024 Toronto Blue Jays ⚪️⚪️🟡🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com For #baseball fans this could be a lot of fun. New puzzles each day for all 30 teams. I'll take the walk-off triple my first time out.

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Daily Walkoff - A daily MLB trivia game

A new kind of MLB trivia game with 30 new puzzles each day, one for every MLB team. Can you solve them all?

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Retinal Ganglion Cells bryanwjones.com/2020/07/reti... #SciArt #retina

These colored spots represent retinal ganglion cells that have been processed with computational molecular phenotyping (CMP) to reveal the metabolic signals inside, then clustered based upon their metabolic profiles.

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The Tonearm @thetonearm.com · 28/11/2024

"Profits from vinyl and CDs are reasonable but the DIY scene is not shifting them hand over fist, so the label has to be a long-term investment with an incremental return. Even knowing this, one aspect remained shocking: finally seeing in black and white the returns from streaming."

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I set up my own indie label. From Brexit’s brutality to the joy of DIY music, here’s what I learned

After becoming disenchanted by pricey but middling gigs, I rediscovered the underground and became determined to champion it. But the obstacles are considerable

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Blake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I often love reading book reviews from @economist.com, for their shade. Here's a quote from the review of Jordan Peterson's latest book: "The overall effect is as if a Victorian vicar had been given a streaming subscription to Disney+ (and possibly some opium), then sat down to write his sermon." 🔥

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