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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Mhh. I don't doubt that domestic students are thought at a (monetary) loss and charities are usually not charged overheads for research- so that check out. But inudstry? Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that it's mostly money from international students that keep UK universties afloat....
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Is there a source for that? Knowing the overheads that are charged to companies, it massivly surprise me to learn that UK universities (at least the big ones) do industry-funded research at a loss.
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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
Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
More a demonstraton of error control, but I alsways liked the dead salmon in an fMRI mashine.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Ah, I’m still rocking a tiny iPhone Mini, so everything is nice and proportionate for me…
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Looks like there's a button for exactly that in the top right of the customisation pop-up!
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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
For future reference: sci-hub.lu ...
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
This article does not do the ruling any justice (pun intended). It's actually quite groundbreaking in that it opens the door for much, much more litigation.
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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Wie wäre es in guter alter deutscher Tradition mit Österreich?
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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
My working hypothesis is that if you amass a certain amount of wealth, you don't have friends anymore. Not sure which way round the causality works though.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Truly a gift that keep giving.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
FWIW, this is the complete opposite of my experience. Maybe it just heavily depends on what content you're looking for? See e.g. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domi...
timeshighereducation.com
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Yeah, AI slob of the worst kind
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
i hear using a mortar and thinking about the current state of the world makes the best pesto though
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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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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
ah yes, I always wondered where the old saying comes from!
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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...
Tricia McLaughlin &
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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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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Yeah, turns out you can be autistic AND an asshole! Who knew?
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
There is no tribunal. I do agree that this is bad and that it's not getting the medial attention it should, but yes, this is basically just someone sending out leaflets. There is a 0% chance this will be enforced.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
... and a lot of published research!
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
My understanding is that this was essentially a local gouvernment admin sending out some letters. It's bad, but ultimately, this will go nowhere because it would be blatantly illegal.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This is not even remotely comparable. On one hand, you have local politicians overstepping and sending out some ill-conceived letters (which will 100% be struck down by the courts). On the other hand, you have people being detained, strip-searched, and deported. Not even close.
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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
why is he fucking smiling?
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Erich Kästner in About the Burning of Books - these times are hardly unprecedented!
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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
Fair, I'm not familiar with Canadian academia. I assume it's much, much more integrated with the US? But still, who's going to fund all those shiny positions in the US with federal funding being slashed?
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
I personally don’t know anyone in Europe who would currently consider taking a job in the US - not that there seem to be many openings anyway. Fair point about non-digital archives, but I’d assume they’re not the majority in research. In the end everyone loses, but the US loses the most.
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Marc Pabst @marcpabst.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The thing is, for most people in Canada and Europe, traveling to the States is not essential. Especially if the importance of US-based conferences and symposia will diminish as quickly as it currently looks like it will.
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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 BooOOooOOmila @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
Obviously, this is happening in addition to the direct impact that the lack of collaboration will have on research and researchers' careers...
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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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