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Christopher Patrick Taylor

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Associate Professor @ The New England College of Optometry

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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.
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I have this theory that the Mayans were off by a bit, and since 2016, we've been caught in this elaborate joke by Maximón. The data check out so far...
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Nice. Saw this in your newsletter -- when was this published? The author is being pretty careful here; the evidence for different brain networks producing (if not being processed) nouns/verbs (using fRMI) was as definitive as this type of research gets now. Cool stuff.
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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
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 · 12/08/2025
If memory serves this by Kersten may be relevant: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3430226/
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Predictability and redundancy of natural images - PubMed
One aspect of human image understanding is the ability to estimate missing parts of a natural image. This ability depends on the redundancy of the representation used to describe the class of images. ...
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
I really dig the title.
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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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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I haven't been on here for a while. Thanks for bringing this work to my attention. I even found a reasonably priced copy kicking around.
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
What's new here exactly?
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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 · 04/05/2025
Spot the ARVOian is always a fun game. #visionscience
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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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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
data science + large men moving rapidly = awesome #elbowsup #computepower www.nytimes.com/athletic/628...
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NHL outsider Eric Tulsky, an Ivy League scientist, is changing what it means to be a GM
A Harvard grad with a PhD from UC Berkeley, Eric Tulsky is not a typical NHL GM. Is what he's building in Carolina the future of hockey?
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Happy to chat. Unfortunately, for me, my current work at NECO doesn't leave a ton of space for Vis Cog thinking... there's always summer time, a beer, and a laptop to get them on the page.
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Lastly, less tongue in cheek, I do think no to low-compute power devices with sensors provide good analogies for most Cog Sci or Vis Cog constructs, like attention. Except perhaps episodic memory.
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
For auditory processing vintage portage cassette player and recorder with variable speed?
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Doesn't "focus" capture a bunch of it? Working memory is the last few shots on the LCD on the back of the digital camera? Vigilance perhaps 1/camera weight? Maybe we can all call it "Vintage Digital Camera" and make everyone happy.
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Right on Jan! I'll definitely pop in to say hello.
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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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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Interesting idea, thanks for sharing. Good to see my first academic love, philosophy, go experimental. I am curious, what is the short version of the evidence of your claim that a low-level feature is unlikely?
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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The silly dress photograph is largely the result of the ambiguous lighting conditions that occurred for the photo. One problem is that you need a background for most visualizations and yellow on white is not visible. The problem might not be well framed.
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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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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I don't really have high expectations from a society formed because of a) nostalgia for Sarasota over Fort Lauderdale and b) split off pouting because it became too hard to get a talk at ARVO. That said, it's better to hold principles tightly and specific words/terms loosely.
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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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Esther Choo @choo.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | I’m a health researcher. NIH’s pause on research grants could have a devastating cost.
This is a potentially devastating event — not just for the scientific community, but for all Americans.
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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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Christopher Patrick Taylor @drchristaylor.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I don't follow this topic but are people in the field making the equivalence between visual working memory and imagery?
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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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