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erin-goddard.bsky.social @erin-goddard.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This work just published! jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx... To celebrate, a new Australian-rainbow-lorikeet-themed demonstration of colour constancy.

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Derek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A recent paper argued that there is no visual binding problem. I disagree, and wrote a response... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Related demonstrations can be found here... staff.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqdarnol/JS...

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Great visual illusion, accompanied by a lovely variation on Shepard Tones if you have the sound on Posted on Reddit by bigjobbyx, who is a bit of an artist genius

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Laurie Winkless @lauriewinkless.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Genuinely devastated by this news 😭 Kua hinga te tōtara i Te Waonui a Tāne 💔

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Ashley Juavinett, PhD @ashleyjuavinett.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Food for thought: AI probably can’t reliably generate visual illusions such as this. (I am sure it can generate plenty of things that *could* be illusions but how would it test it without a full working model of a human perceptual system?)

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The footsteps illusion-like pausing and sticking illusion The rectangles in the upper half appear to move to the right and stop periodically; however, they are moving to the right at a constant speed in the same way as the rectangles in the lower half.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%

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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

This story just keeps going: Giant octopuses of the Cretaceous were probably the top ocean predators of their day. They were up to 19 meters (60 feet) long, snacked on plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, and were probably quite intelligent. Sorry we missed you! 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Body size estimation of Late Cretaceous octopuses.
The graph shows an allometric relationship between the length of the jaw and mantle in long-bodied species of extant finned octopus. The name of the corresponding species is shown along each growth curve. The sizes of N. jeletzkyi and N. haggarti based on their largest specimen are indicated by black vertical lines. Reconstruction of these two species, the extant giant squid, and gigantic vertebrate predators in the Late Cretaceous are shown with their maximum total length.

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Niki Hubbard, PhD 🐙🦀 @nikihubbard.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Once upon a time I just admired nudis and sea slugs. But it was not enough. Now apparently I'm creating an R package to celebrate their colour palettes? 😅 First up, my Sydney fave, Hypselodoris bennetti. #rstats #nudibranch #dataviz 🦑🐙🧪 #marinelife #invertebrates

Close up with a beautiful nudibranch on a rocky reef. The lower half of the image is a palette of swatches made from the nudi's vibrant colours.

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PHD Comics @phdcomics.com · 10/04/2026

Abstract Mad Libs

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Pete @baldiepete.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

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Tay (Antonio J. Osuna Mascaró) @biotay.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Cow Tools! We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years. We breed them and exploit them It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS Here I describe our study (paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social with @auersperga.bsky.social

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Dr nick nobody @nicknobody.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In Australia we have government run by private school elitists for the benefit of private school elitists #auspol

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Akiyoshi Kitaoka @akiyoshikitaoka.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Differences in perceived speed

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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

This head is spinning continuously, but we see it rotating back and forth... ...presumably because of our strong prior expectation that faces are convex. This is a very nice example of the Hollow-Face illusion promoted by Richard Gregory: www.richardgregory.org/experiments/

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods @jeffontherock.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Slime mold on a stick. NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm in height. #slime #myxo #fungifriends

Photo of a black twig covered in yellow slime mold sporangia.

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Josh Russell → @MVTFWD @joshfwd.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Beau Miles. One of my favourite YouTubers, a genuine human, being his awesome self. And so watchable too, he can really tell a story. youtu.be/T5YF95r_Bew?... This video revenue will plant trees. I love this, he’s documented the whole process, transparently, no BS. This is how you do it.

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Watching this YouTube video will plant a forest

YouTube video by Beau Miles

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