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Marc Pabst

@marcpabst.bsky.social
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Visual neuroscience. Research Assistant at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and UCL Experimental Psychology. London 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Child Vision Lab @UCL @childvisionlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
🚨 We’re recruiting a fully funded PhD student (from outside the UK) to join the lab with @tessamdekker.bsky.social 🌍👁️🧠 The PhD is part of IndiBrain.eu and will use cutting‑edge fMRI+qMRI+psychophysics to study information flow between eye and brain in ocular gene therapy. Apply by 27 Feb! t.ly/gahGB
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Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare
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Tessa Dekker @tessamdekker.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
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Research Assistant at UCL
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We're still looking for two full-time RA's to join the lab to work on childrens and adults using cutting-edge cog-neuro tools!
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Georgia Milne @georgiamneuro.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excited to share our new preprint... ...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳ We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning. These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception. tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Come join us in London!!
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Child Vision Lab @UCL @childvisionlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Our own @mikecrossland.bsky.social, speaking on low vision and mental health at the ISLRR Congress in beautiful Florence! #vision2025
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Child Vision Lab @UCL @childvisionlab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Super proud to see huge interest in Danny Ball and Rachael Canavan’s posters at the ISLLR Congress in Florence! #vision2025
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Come join us! We're hiring two new RAs!
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UCL Institute of Ophthalmology @ucleye.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Congratulations to @ucleye.bsky.social's Early Career Researcher (ECR) community for delivering another inspiring early career researchers' symposium last week, and to all recipients of the IoO ECR awards 2025. lnkd.in/gikiRGTF
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Alexandra Witze @alexwitze.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The marathon livestream of weather & climate scientists talking about their research, and its importance, continues. Drop in anytime through the weekend for learning opportunities. I just heard a discussion about what everyone's favorite cloud is! #wx wcstreamathon.netlify.app
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The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 26/05/2025
Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD.
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HorselessAge @horselessage.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
It's important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy's disbelief in germ theory isn't based on speculation or deduction; it's based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden."
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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Hi Josh. Thanks for posting this. I just ran your demo it and can confirm that it elicits a similar color experience, as we state in the paper. The difference is that olo delivered in our system persists indefinitely, or as long as you are willing to stay clamped into a bite bar :)
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Geoffrey Aguirre @gkaguirre.com · 23/04/2025
This work with Alan Stocker, @lingqiz.bsky.social, and Jiang Mao is now in print. We benefited from very thoughtful reviewers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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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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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
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The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully.
He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family.
This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'.
's account was false.
According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency.
After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying.
He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson."You"
re not from here. Do you have your
papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer,
"New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested.
Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read.
According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name.
Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had
it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document.
Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained
"at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error.
Hermosillo said he was detained with about
15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because
"they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline:

High school graduates in prison

Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is. Signal: annabower.24 Email: anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
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Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
just Olympic levels of projection and cognitive dissonance
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world. Don't let him be forgotten.
A selfie of Andry José Hernández Romero, in better times, standing in front of a rainbow arch of balloons.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
"The events of 1933 to 1945 should have been fought no later than 1928. Later, it was too late. One must not wait until the fight for freedom is called treason. One must not wait until the snowball has turned into an avalanche. One must crush the rolling snowball. No one can stop the avalanche."
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
It's really getting harder and harder to justify traveling to the US.
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Trump’s dismantling of pluralistic democracy isn’t just a U.S. problem. Another horrifying example of how the shift in what’s deemed acceptable and normal in the U.S. impacts everyone, everywhere. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It's wild how real the fear feels. I’ve met Americans who actively avoid certain airports when flying back to the US. Just last week, I watched a US citizen frantically delete anti-Trump messages from their phone before boarding their flight home.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Amid all the chaos, another serious problem for US academia: Many societies and associations heavily rely on (international) researchers paying membership fees and traveling to conferences. Looks like many may stop coming. Hard to gauge the impact this will have. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
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Tamara Keel [Scary Remix] @tamslick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Goose Meme: “Freedom to say what? Freedom to say what, motherfucker?”
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
wow
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John Greenwood @jagreenwood.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Come join us at Experimental Psychology at University College London - we're looking for a lecturer in computational cognition. Great place to work! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l...
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Lecturer in Computational Cognition at UCL
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in Computational Cognition. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I mean, what could possibly go wrong if you park your filthy Tesla in Shoreditch?
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
We have confirmation that Iceland clearly takes the crown when it comes to registrations per capita at ECVP 2025. Remember to submit your abstracts this weekend -- we hope to see you all there 👀 @ecvp.bsky.social #ecvp #ecvp2025 #visionscience
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/03/2025
"Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female." The banner atop the CDC's National HIV Surveillance System (court-restored) web page. And it gets worse from there.

Per a court order, HHS is required to restore this website as of 11:59PM ET, February 11, 2025. Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female. The Trump Administration rejects gender ideology and condemns the harms it causes to children, by promoting their chemical and surgical mutilation, and to women, by depriving them of their dignity, safety, well-being, and opportunities. This page does not reflect biological reality and therefore the Administration and this Department rejects it.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
I've been informed that the workshop is still happening, but under a different name. That's certainly better than canceling it - I do wish there had been better communication about this.
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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 30/03/2025
This was really interesting. In the study, all 13 cases with ALS ate a particular species of wild mushroom (false morels), while none of the 48 matched controls in the hamlet did. Otherwise they had a range of different occupations, habits, health risks, etc. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34216974/
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 30/03/2025
Fascinating article about a cluster of ALS cases. If you think about it, this is a situation in which the researchers skimmed a large number of variables and identified a correlate which is then considered the potential cause.> H/t @scientificdiscovery.dev www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Unfortunately, it also looks like the diversity workshop has been dropped, even though they promised in an email to members just over a month ago that it wouldn’t be canceled (at least I can’t find the workshop anywhere on the official schedule). Any comment on this @vssmtg.bsky.social?
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Hey @vssmtg.bsky.social, do you no longer support diversity and inclusion? Looks like your policies were quietly removed from your website? #VSS2025 #VSS
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Icelandic Vision Lab @icevislab.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
goblin.tools breaks tasks into subtasks and subsubtasks with the degree of breakdown adjustable by brain spiciness (via its spice button). Lovely little tool for goblins and others.
goblin.tools
Magic ToDo - GoblinTools
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Brilliant! Always wanted to know vaccination causes autism... www.reuters.com/business/hea...
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Exclusive: U.S. CDC plans study into vaccines and autism, sources say
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproven or failed to find evidence of such links.
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Nicole Tersigni @nicsigni.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
How It Started How It's Going
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🚨I promised I'd say more on the Royal Society and Elon Musk, so here it is. 🚨 I've resigned my position as Associate Editor at Royal Society's journal Open Science in protest at their lack of action over Elon Musk. My op-ed in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Elon Musk is a proven danger to good science, but the Royal Society won’t say so. That’s why I resigned | Kit Yates
It is vital to act, and I urge colleagues to do so. How can we stand by and laud this man while he undermines scientific integrity? asks academic and author Kit Yates
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Nidhi Subbaraman @nidhisubs.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
NSF is re-hiring nearly all fired probationary employees following an OPM directive and a Friday judge order. This is 84/86 probationary staff being hired back; 84 "experts" are still terminated My Signal : nidhisubs.11
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Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
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Elizabeth M @culturatii.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
As Sam Wang explains, “Tesla stock is down 14% since close of markets last Friday. What happened during that time? One answer: mass protests.” Hear more about the 4 Requirements for Effective Political Action in his link below:
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
With #PubMed being down, it’s worth reminding ourselves that European alternatives exist: 🔗 europepmc.org 🔗 www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/... 🔗 www.ensembl.org
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
... and PubMed is down.
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH
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gooner, the only online raccoon @sopranos69420.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
we used to respect the computer
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