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Eddie Ester

@eester.bsky.social
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Associate Professor and co-director of the Graduate Neuroscience Program, UNR. Husband, son, uncle, dog dad, scientist, beer aficionado, sports nut, skeptic, among other things. esterlabunr.com

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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They kicked everyone out of Straub? A part of me just died inside.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tonight's koan: the band "War" wrote a song called "why can't we be friends?"
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I have a similar picture from a visit years ago. May you never lose your inner 14 year old.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The 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
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I'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.
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Phivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 01/07/2026
Publication 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...
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Modulating corticospinal excitability with transcranial ultrasound stimulation: meta-analytic evidence of online and offline effects
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Michael Hout @michaelhout.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
We’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!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Perfect.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Some 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!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Convinced my wife to go see Gwar with me this fall, so this summer is a win no matter what else happens.
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Postdoc position available at postlab.psych.wisc.edu. Pls send cv to postle@wisc.edu
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PO-STL-AB
Our 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...
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Rings hollow after 26 years of reparative programs.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Nooo!!!! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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This famous beer is about to be brewed for the last time
This once-popular beer will be brewed one last time later this month. Here's what to know.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Me in 3h after 4 beers.
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Wolf of Wall Street: Crawling to Car
ALT: Wolf of Wall Street: Crawling to Car
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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Taking the rabbit-duck illusion to its logical conclusion.
Single-panel cartoon by the brilliant Paul Noth, first published in the New Yorker in May 2026. The cartoon depicts an open casket funeral. The coffin is bedecked with flowers. Inside it lies the deceased, dressed smartly in a suit and tie. His head, laying on a pillow, looks remarkably like the rabbit-duck illusion, an ambiguous figure that is famous in philosophy for highlighting distinctions between perception and interpretation. The coffin is flanked on either side by two grieving individuals wearing widow's veils and holding handkerchiefs. One widow (left) is a duck, the other (right) is a rabbit.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
In sympathy I cracked a beer at 2:45 pm PST, right when the first talk sessions were getting out.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
An 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.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Study of the Heads of Two Old Men, by Philippe de Champaigne, 17th c, 📸 by @adampantozzi
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Scene at a Bullfight, Diversión de España, after Francisco de Goya, early 19th c, 📸 by @byalexcoffey.bsky.social
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Great news! Congrats!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We haven't, though that is a very good idea!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
h/t to lab grad student Arianna Thoksakis (not on bluesky) for spearheading this one! /fin
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
This 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
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
We 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
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
To 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
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Another 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/N
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This 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!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
These 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).
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Caveat: 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)
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
They 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.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thanks 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.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Proud of this one, led by former lab student Ali Caron (not on bluesky) and online at @jocn.bsky.social. direct.mit.edu/jocn/article...
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Human Gaze Behaviors Track Abstract Stimulus Categories
Abstract. 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 ...
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I 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"
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Brad Postle @bradpostle.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
It’s out!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Nice.
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Oregon Zoo @oregonzoo.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Happy Chompsgiving!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Perfect after 3 days at SfN.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Ah, you've never seen the Savannah Bananas play.
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Today: 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.
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Mark Lescroart @neuromdl.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Job 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 #neuroscience
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Assistant Professor, Cognitive and Brain Sciences
The 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...
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Phivos Phylactou @phivph.com · 17/10/2025
Our (@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...
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phivph.com - RESTORE
Project 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...
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
RIP D'Angelo. 1 of 1, and they don't make 'em like this anymore. youtu.be/-7hbqxnhzU8?...
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D'angelo - Untitled (How Does It Feel)
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Rosanne Rademaker @rademaker.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
We’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.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Izquierda Derecha, by Juan Genovés, 1967, 📸 via @beysicc
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I’m a Ghoul’s Girl @saraghaleb.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack
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aaron bornstein @aaronbornstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Come 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.
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Assistant Professor - Cognitive Sciences
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
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Eddie Ester @eester.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I guess calligraphy would be a better term than penmanship but I've had a couple pops.
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