Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026They kicked everyone out of Straub? A part of me just died inside. 000
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Tonight's koan: the band "War" wrote a song called "why can't we be friends?" 000
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I have a similar picture from a visit years ago. May you never lose your inner 14 year old. 010
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 24/08/2026The red circle is campus, the yellow circle is the bit where somewhere between 20-25% of the local populace is under wildfire evacuation warnings or mandates (me included, writing from a hotel room), including sections of land that directly abut campus. But sure let's have class tomorrow. #GoPack 020
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'm planning on doing some traveling soon so I applied for an airline credit card and along with "teacher/professor" my employment options were arms/ammunition dealer, cigarettes distributor, liquor store owner, pawn broker, and senior political figure. I'm SO exited to meet my new friends. 010
Reposted by Eddie EsterPhivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 01/07/2026Publication alert 🚨 & mini thread 🧵: Modulating corticospinal excitability with transcranial ultrasound stimulation: meta-analytic evidence of online and offline effects With @eester.bsky.social, Marietta Papadatou-Pastou, & @nkonstantinou.bsky.social 1/5 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comModulating corticospinal excitability with transcranial ultrasound stimulation: meta-analytic evidence of online and offline effectsCheck access to the full text by signing in through your organization. 132
Reposted by Eddie EsterMichael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 22/06/2026We’re looking for an additional Associate Editor at AP&P, particularly in the field of auditory perception/attention. If you’re interested, please check out this flyer and please share this post so that this may find its way to others! 1310
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Some positive news amongst the chaos: I received an official award notice from NSF (SBE/BCS) this AM! So for those of you with pending applications, keep the faith. Also, looks like I'll be recruiting 1-2 new Ph.D students this fall to carry out the work; interested parties can e-mail me to chat! 0187
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Convinced my wife to go see Gwar with me this fall, so this summer is a win no matter what else happens. 020
Reposted by Eddie EsterBrad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edupostlab.psych.wisc.eduPO-STL-ABOur interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202... 15571
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Nooo!!!! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...usatoday.comThis famous beer is about to be brewed for the last timeThis once-popular beer will be brewed one last time later this month. Here's what to know. 000
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Me in 3h after 4 beers.static.klipy.comWolf of Wall Street: Crawling to CarALT: Wolf of Wall Street: Crawling to Car 010
Reposted by Eddie EsterSimon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Taking the rabbit-duck illusion to its logical conclusion. 0214
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 16/05/2026In sympathy I cracked a beer at 2:45 pm PST, right when the first talk sessions were getting out. 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 27/04/2026An international team with English, French, Spanish, and German scientists are working on a cloaking device that renders the wearer invisible. They try it on a grad student who asks "Can you see me?!" The scientists reply "Yes" "Oui" "Si" "Ja". I'll show myself out. 030
Reposted by Eddie EsterArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Study of the Heads of Two Old Men, by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th c, 📸 by @adampantozzi 71340206
Reposted by Eddie EsterArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Scene at a Bullfight, Diversión de España, after Francisco de Goya, early 19th c, 📸 by @byalexcoffey.bsky.social 81398290
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026h/t to lab grad student Arianna Thoksakis (not on bluesky) for spearheading this one! /fin 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026This outcome demonstrates that a neural signature of human evidence accumulation - the CPP - can flexibly adapt to evidence present in the external environment, evidence stored in memory, and evidence computed "on the fly" in a newly learned and arbitrary space. 4/N 110
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026We found that CPP buildup scaled monotonically with distance from the learned boundary and that individual differences in CPP sensitivity correlated with behavioral estimates of evidence accumulation. Thus, the CPP tracked evidence accumulaton when that evidence was entirely self-constructed. 3/N 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026To answer this question, we tracked a human EEG potential known to index evidence accumulation - the CPP - while volunteers classified orientation stimuli according to an arbitrary rule. To solve the task, volunteers had to calculate evidence by comparing external stimuli to a learned boundary. 2/N 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Another new one from the lab in J Neurosci: www.jneurosci.org/content/earl... Evidence accumulation is a core principle by which brains convert information into decisions. But what happens when the evidence the brain needs can't be directly read from an external stimulus or memory? 1/Njneurosci.org 2238
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026This and much more in the paper! Our lab is actively exploring ways to build on this work along theoretical and applied lines, so please reach out with questions, criticisms, and ideas! 000
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026These data also align with recent work suggesting that "leakage" between visual and motor populations in primate oculomotor areas (LIP, SC) account for stimulus-specific eye movements in common behavioral tasks (Peysakovich et al 2024; Rosen & Freedman 2025). 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Caveat: decoding doesn't work well - 3-10% above chance - and the gaze parameters that carry category information are variable over time and idiosyncratic. (though FWIW, a consistent 3-4% advantage in a local poker room would allow me to self-fund my lab in perpetuity)could.fund 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026They do! We can decode the category of an attended or remembered stimulus from variability in gaze parameters - a behavioral "tell" that could provide insights into both decision making and motor processes. 100
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Thanks to pioneering work by @freekvanede.bsky.social, @bernhardspitzer.bsky.social, @suryagayet.bsky.social, and others, we know that subtle eye movements track information stored in WM. Here we asked whether eye movements track the "meaning" of a stimulus in an arbitrary, learned space. 120
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...direct.mit.eduHuman Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus CategoriesAbstract. Categorization, or the ability to group stimuli according to behavioral relevance, is a cornerstone of abstract cognition. Neurophysiological studies in nonhuman primates have revealed that ... 12710
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 10/03/2026I dunno, I kinda like it: "Inspire delta" "Be the delta you wish to see in the world" "Hope and delta" "To improve is to delta, to be perfect is to delta often" 010
Reposted by Eddie EsterArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci 342895512
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Today: 1. Paper rejection 2. Grant rejection 3. Dog made a mess (comforter took the worst but mattress is suspect) 4. New service committee assignment 5. "complete these trainings ASAP" email 6. Dishwasher breaks and soaks kitchen. Anyway science is hard and I'm getting a beer. 040
Reposted by Eddie EsterMark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Job announcement! UN Reno Psychology (Cognitive & Brain Sciences division) is hiring for a tenure-track position. Come join us! We have a great group! Deadline December 1. Please share! nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... #neuroskyence #neurosciencenshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor, Cognitive and Brain SciencesThe University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt... 0117
Reposted by Eddie EsterPhivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 17/10/2025Our (@eester.bsky.social, @nkonstantinou.bsky.social) Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project RESTORE now has an online home, where you can follow news & updates: www.phivph.com/projects/res...phivph.comphivph.com - RESTOREProject RESTORE is a HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Global Postdoctoral Fellowship (see it on CORDIS). The overarching aim of RESTORE is to employ state-of-the-art and innovative approaches to... 043
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 15/10/2025RIP D'Angelo. 1 of 1, and they don't make 'em like this anymore. youtu.be/-7hbqxnhzU8?...youtu.beD'angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel)YouTube video by music 000
Reposted by Eddie EsterRosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025We’re looking for a postdoc to join our Max Planck group in Germany some time in 2026. If you have computational and/or neuroimaging expertise, and are interested in questions intersecting perception and cognition, please reach out! I’ll also be happy to chat at the #Bernsteinconference this week. 16354
Reposted by Eddie EsterArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Izquierda Derecha, by Juan Genovés, 1967, 📸 via @beysicc 111426211
Reposted by Eddie EsterI’m a Ghoul’s Girl @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack 170145733298
Reposted by Eddie Esteraaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Come work with us! UC Irvine Cognitive Sciences is looking for a new Assistant Professor to join our team: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09896 I'm not on the committee, but happy to talk if you're interested.recruit.ap.uci.eduAssistant Professor - Cognitive SciencesUniversity of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now! 18457
Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 07/09/2025I guess calligraphy would be a better term than penmanship but I've had a couple pops. 100