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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"It is...a full COUNT! Ah ah ahhhhh"

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The writers were using only 10% of their brains 😞

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This, but also for R01 modular budgets

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Veronica Lewis, M.Ed. 👩‍🦯 @veron4ica.com · 29/08/2026

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library gave many children access to their first braille books. Here is a guest post from Paths to Literacy about #DollyParton and her literacy legacy, along with more recommendations for Dolly-approved accessible books! www.pathstoliteracy.org/dolly-parton...

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Dolly Parton’s Literacy Legacy – Paths to Literacy

Paths to Literacy Dolly Parton’s Literacy Legacy. For teachers, families, and others interested in literacy for children and youth with visual impairments

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 28/08/2026

I am currently recruiting for a 2-year postdoc/research fellow role at the University of Auckland here in New Zealand, focusing on auditory perception, hearing, and music in older adults, including people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias ~NZ$100k/yr, flexible start date, please apply!

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Postdoc in The Music Lab // Expression of interest

Note. The below text is a general overview of the sorts of postdocs we often recruit. We are currently recruiting candidates for a 2-year position focusing on auditory perception in aging populations,...

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Big sigh.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Every circuit has its little voltage weirdsies and the bulb has learned to accommodate them.

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Sofia Krasovskaya @cortexophie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Got a chance to present our poster with James Coughlan & @echodislocation.bsky.social from @skeriresearch.bsky.social on modeling human echolocation using a Kalman filter approach at this year's #CCN26 in New York. The preprint is available here: doi.org/10.64898/202...

A scientific poster titled 'Modeling human echolocation using a Kalman filter' is pinned to a presentation board at the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) 2026 conference in New York.

The image depicts Sofia, the first author on the poster, standing with the poster in her background.

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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Our descent into mean-spirited, selfish barbarism continues.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Simcity 2000 specifically! This should be the downtown Philz

Graphic of the glass-domed, high-rise Launch Arcology from the game SimCity 2000.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE POWER ACCOMPLISHES! Thank you thank you thank you to everyone who wrote comments, contacted Congress, and yelled! This is OUR WIN! @standupforscience.net www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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Senate finalizes funding patch that would block Trump’s grant overhaul

Language is included to delay the president’s move to put political appointees in charge of grant approval.

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Nora Bradford @norabradford.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Hey neuroscientists, do you have a story about a time when journalism has improved your science? If so, I'd love to include it in my next op-ed. 🧠

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Next time someone accuses me of “making science partisan” I’m going to throw the physical NYT edition of this article at their head. These people are operating in bad faith…we have a mountain of evidence. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

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Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)

Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/07/2026

Visualized.

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Anna Schapiro @annaschapiro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

PSA for trainees cold emailing with interest in joining a lab: Be careful about your use of LLMs in writing these emails!! It is now *extremely* common to get emails with a bizarrely-detailed, clearly-LLM take on a paper finding or with specific phrases pulled from the lab website. Don’t do this!

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Plenty more in the paper for anyone interested in how active-sensing dynamics differ from echolocalization behavior in head-fixed laboratory paradigms!

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

For both conditions, clicks were distributed around target center throughout the trial, rather than bimodally to either side. So we think it's more likely a max-intensity rather than max-slope strategy, though we know that echo spatial acuity is slightly better off-axis in humans as well.

3d plot with histograms along an angular error X axis, Click index quartile on the Y axis, and normalized proportion on the Z axis. All histograms are unimodally focused about zero error.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We focus on an expert performing a simple task: given a target in the frontal hemifield, find it using echolocation and localize it by head-pointing. We video tracked the observer's head motion from a stationary seated position. Convergence was steady for Big Targets and moderate for Small Targets.

A plot titled "Big Target" with Y axis "Relative head azimuth, degrees" and X axis "Trial time before response, seconds." 103 time courses overlaid show a steady progressive reduction of relative azimuth over time.

A plot titled "Small Target" with Y axis "Relative head azimuth, degrees" and X axis "Trial time before response, seconds." 50 time courses overlaid show a minor reduction of relative azimuth over time.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A 2010 study on fruit bats suggested they click to the side of targets they were finding, rather than directly at them. Why? They were using the maximum slope of their click energy distribution, rather than the peak, for greater precision. Would a human behave similarly in a similar task?

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Subjectively, I feel dreams as a real-time, or at least pre-waking, experience. Horikawa 2013 seems consistent with that, although newer work is posted here. (Sleep in fMRI, wake the subject, decode pre-wake signal using post-wake reports of dream content topics.) Could be combo of both? 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Neural Decoding of Visual Imagery During Sleep

Machine-learning models can predict specific visual dream contents from brain activity measurement alone.

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Sarah Tuttle @niais.cryptoanarchy.network · 30/05/2026

Please take a few minutes and file a comment against this terrible new plan - not just for science, but for every funding agency in the US. fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/163...

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Stand up for Science

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

I think the reason I've been a little ambiently mad all day is because January 6th rioters are statistically the most likely group of pedophiles in the world and they clubbed a guy to death and they're going to be rich from the tax money that I give to the country I live in.

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I owe a lot of early inspiration to French and Francophone-Canadian neuroscientists, so it was cool to see this thoughtful, detailed coverage of our lab's recent #echolocation paper by @iciradiocanada.bsky.social's Philippe Robitaille-Grou @philippe-rg.bsky.social. Great radio segment and article!

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Ces personnes aveugles qui « voient » par écholocalisation

Elles utilisent une technique semblable à celle dont se servent les chauves-souris et les dauphins pour percevoir les objets qui les entourent.

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Haydée Garcia-Lazaro @haydeegl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

From clicks to space: each echo adds information. Blind expert echolocators integrate successive clicks to refine spatial representations, outperforming novices. EEG captures the evolving neural dynamics underlying this accumulation process. @skeriresearch.bsky.social @echodislocation.bsky.social

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

This study is the first to unpack echolocation-related brain activity at the millisecond level, showing progressively finer perceptual thresholds with additional clicks, as well as early neural correlates predictive of behavioral performance after as little as a single click. doi.org/10.1523/ENEU...

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Neural and behavioral correlates of evidence accumulation in human click-based echolocation

Echolocation enables blind individuals to perceive and navigate their environment by emitting clicks and interpreting their returning echoes. While expert blind echolocators demonstrate remarkable spa...

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Nice writeup from @norabradford.bsky.social of @haydeegl.bsky.social's new paper on human #echolocation! We show with psychophysics and #EEG how proficient echolocators build percepts from successive clicks. www.sciencenews.org/article/huma...

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Human echolocation works step by step

Experts in echolocation use multiple clicks and echoes to sense objects, offering insight into how the brain builds perception.

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 02/04/2026

Did Victor Glover attend Cal Poly on a wrestling scholarship & later play on the football team? Yup. Was he a prime agitator in forcing the administration to create a DEI plan of action? Yup. Was he part of a group of men selected to inform students about rape & sexual assault? YESSIR

**NOT WANTED?**
Carlos Arredondo speaks during a public comment period Wednesday night at the Cal Poly ASI meeting. “You guys seem to ignore the fact that Cal Poly doesn’t want us here,” he said.

**Minority students plead for diversity**
**Protesters at Poly meeting ask for steps to stem tide of declining enrollment**
**CAL POLY**
By Dave Wilcox
Telegram-Tribune

Minority students angered by new admissions figures showing a steep drop-off in the numbers of Blacks and Latinos accepted at Cal Poly is issued a passionate call for action Wednesday night from student government.

Saying the university isn’t doing enough to recruit and retain minority students, an informal student organization proposed the Associated Students. The help pay for stepped-up outreach to high schools in areas specified as critical to Cal Poly’s traditional enrollment.

The proposal, articulated by gender major Victor Glover, was at the heart of Wednesday night’s protest that saw about 75 students attend the ASI meeting.

“We are here because we are endangered,” said student Glover.

“This issue is very serious to us,” said civil engineering major Radhuni Branch. “To have a diverse campus makes opportunities more well-rounded in the world.”

Glover underscored that the ASI outreach program is an integral part of their proposals.

“This is radical, you guys,” said Glover, predicting it could be a program that other universities might emulate. “This is students for students.”

Zingg, provost Juan Paul Zingg, who fervently threw his weight behind Glover, declared it an ASI-recruit.

“This is a true crisis,” said Zingg. “There’s nothing more important than students being students and students united.”

Glover and other speakers, Diversity is essential to university being able to pay for more targeted funding in the future.

Later, Zingg said it could help programs targeting minority students, which Cal Poly itself could probably endorse.

See PROTEST, Back Page.

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Forum addresses low minority enrollment at Poly

By Christine Lawlor
Daily Staff Writer

Seventy students and faculty attended Vafambi, a new African American discussion group that met for the first time Monday to ponder the question, "Cal Poly's Admissions Crisis: Where are All the Black Faces?"

Presenters Victor Glover, Ingrid Bryan and Elizabeth Athen-Anderson discussed the crisis situation they feel African Americans have reached in the aftermath of Prop 209.

The drop in the number of African Americans accepted to Cal Poly for Fall 1998 alarmed both the presenters and the audience alike.

Although the discussion was led primarily by African Americans, the audience consisted of students and faculty of all different ethnicities and cultures.

Vafambi's founder Henry Trotter, English senior, said he was very pleased with the turnout and the number of faculty and students who showed up.

"This was a very special Vafambi and a good way to start off the group because the issue concerns a lot of people," Trotter said.

Glover, an engineering senior, was passionate in his presentation and stressed the need for immediate action in order to get results.

"Cal Poly has the chance to take this state into the next millennium by taking action now," he said. "This is not the first time this (a set back for minorities) has happened, but let's make it the last."

Glover said people need to put their time and money into increasing diversity at Cal Poly and reversing the effects Prop 209 will have on minority enrollment.

"Truth and technology will always take over bullshit and bureaucracy," Glover said.

Cal Poly Provost Paul Zing attended the meeting. He said he sees a need for accuracy when bringing this issue to Administration.

"You have to have clear, accurate facts because they will only listen to the superficial facts, not necessarily your heartfelt plea," Zing said.

Zing said he would support the students 100 percent and would use his position to help.
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Ilana Horn @ilanahorn.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Notes from the aftermath of the cataclysmic collapse in my research life due to the DOGE bros: ◾ Our department is in receivership due to "financial distress" -- an invented form of receivership by our uni leadership This requires a ton of extra (unpaid) work to save ourselves

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Bots have made their way to Prolific experiments. Our lab has stopped online testing of adults entirely now for this reason - we want to know if what we study is real. Probably data collected 2-3 years ago are ok, but moving forward we just can't know. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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PNAS

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This has made an excellent 2-minute "grantsmanship case study" for our lab meeting.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

That and being hunchbacked, to maximize camber and lift

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

To help filter who to forward it to: is the position potentially open to international applicants?

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Laura Gwilliams @lauragwilliams.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Soon hiring a lab manager! Looking for someone who is really interested in language neuroscience, who is organised, motivated, a great communicator, and who works well in a research team. Express interest by submitting this form: tinyurl.com/glysn-labman... Reposts appreciated!

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Getting asked about how academics can continue to do science & inspire trainees even in the midst of a continued (escalated) assault on science, reason, truth, & human rights. I don’t have great answers. I would love to hear from mentors about advice they’re giving to trainees/ colleagues.

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Kristina Muise, MSc 🦇👩‍🔬 @kristinamuise.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I need everyone to go read this thread, because @echodislocation.bsky.social gave a very detailed response (with linked articles!) to @pedroblack42.bsky.social orginal question, asking if bats percieved an 'image' when echolocating! This is such a fascinating area of research! #batsky 🦇🧪🌎

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Thank you for the tag! We spend a lot of time thinking about these questions, so it's exciting whenever someone else asks them! (And they're far from a closed case I think, so I'd never claim to have the last word on the topic.)

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Santani Teng @echodislocation.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Very cool! Do you have an interpretation of *why* the unexpected words were more strongly predicted? Seems counterintuitive and different from stronger post-onset response to expectancy violation.

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