Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Experiencing this at all stages of the publication pipeline: * As an editor who asks 25+ people before securing two peer reviewers. * As a reviewer fielding 7-10 new requests per week. * An an author who has waited ~4 months for reviewers. AI is DDOS on actual scientific progress. 0100
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🚨New paper alert! 🚨 The visual system tunes itself to the statistics of its input. How do individual experiences differently tune vision? In this work, @bjbalas.bsky.social and I examined how one individual difference—height—changes the visual diet and how this affects perception. 1/ 29430
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I cannot. Can we really not be bothered to read and write? 4210
Reposted by Michelle GreeneGavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Pictorial cues to depth create a nice effect on this cabbage (found of Facebook) 4589
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026This. 100% this. Both speaking truth to nonsense, and the inevitable BS stream that comes from it. 010
Reposted by Michelle Greene@arvoinfo.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The @genentech.bsky.social #CareerDevelopment Award for Emerging Vision Scientists offers $100,000 for early-career investigators to launch novel research projects, and provides an @arvoinfo.bsky.social mentor for career guidance. Apply by Oct. 1. bit.ly/4gQNgt7 #VisionResearch 011
Reposted by Michelle GreeneKally the Nephilim @kallycutie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Alright folks, if you're in the States make plans to vote in person now, because the fascists are at it again. 712048
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The umps got this one right! Cedanne! #RedSox 000
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I updated my gen-AI classroom policy for this semester. I hate being a cop in the classroom, so I'm trying to present my data-driven reasons in a way that might increase buy-in. Suggestions welcome! mrgreene09.github.io/IntroStatsFa...mrgreene09.github.ioIntroduction to Statistics 2110
Reposted by Michelle GreeneEli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Friday's synagogue attacker was a Republican Zionist antisemite (yes, extremely redundant) who disdained Reform Jews for being "fake." forward.com/news/845474/... 3462110
Reposted by Michelle GreeneDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026thanks Daniel for this v useful guide. 0154
Reposted by Michelle GreeneBryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I'm going back to in-class exams this semester, which are harder to schedule, less intellectually rigorous, slower to grade, harder to secure, more prone to error, harder to provide disability acommodations for, and use up a lot more paper than online exams. AI makes everything worse. 1324048
Reposted by Michelle GreeneDan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobsaprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of NeuroscienceUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 09193
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Got an absurd book review request: 16 chapters, 121k words, 15-day turnaround. For $25 in book credits from the publisher. Seriously? It would take 8 hours for a first read. Whole review, if carefully considered, twice that. Sorry, my time is worth more than $1.56/hr. 101092
Reposted by Michelle GreeneAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026Admirable clarity @science.org 4974912713
Reposted by Michelle GreeneTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 22/07/2026You gotta hand it to OpenAI, billing this as a *partnership* between OpenAI & Hugging Face when what actually happened was Hugging Face finding out that OpenAI was using a bunch of bots to exploit security vulnerabilities. Talk about good marketing or whatever you want to call it, by OpenAI. 9463144
Reposted by Michelle GreeneReo Eveleth @reveleth.com · 23/06/2026WhY DoN't MoRe YouTh PrOteSt?!?!? 15423
Reposted by Michelle GreeneMichael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇 5435871430
Reposted by Michelle GreeneMannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 11/06/2026This week in “WE TOLD YOU SO…” 03518
Reposted by Michelle Greeneevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/06/2026You can tell a lot about a person by how they behave when someone they like or that they need something from is accused of sexual assault. 422141
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 02/06/2026🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/arxiv.orgPlaces in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision ResearchLarge image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi... 16632
Reposted by Michelle GreeneChenxin Li, PhD @chenxinli2.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Dear colleagues, PLEASE submit a comment against OMB's proposed rule. Elizabeth wrote great guide on drafting a comment. To submit it, go to www.regulations.gov/search and search for OMB-2026-0034. It will take time & effort to write a good comment, but a worthwhile effort to save our profession.regulations.govRegulations.gov 14846
Reposted by Michelle GreeneAdam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026You know that adage about when you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail? **#AI is screwdriver.** We have no idea what the screws are, but people in power think it's a hammer, maybe even the whole toolbox. And we're all … screwed. 052
Reposted by Michelle GreeneNature @nature.com · 19/05/2026Artificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained go.nature.com/3RiE5HNgo.nature.comThe uncritical adoption of AI in science is alarming — we urgently need guard railsArtificial intelligence is rapidly accelerating scientific output, but risks narrowing inquiry, weakening judgement and undermining how scientists are trained. 57338
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Excited for #VSS2026! Please come check out the work of my lab and our friends. A 🧵. 1/ 2140
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026I find the late 2000s to be a really interesting time in cognitive neuroscience. Is this because: a. It was a genuinely interesting time (beginnings of decoding, encoding, RSA; methodological fixes). b. I imprinted on grad school era papers, just as people imprint on songs from high school c. ? 150
Reposted by Michelle GreeneChris Hanlon @chrishanlon.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Meet “ASU Atomic,” a subscription platform that claims to offer customized learning modules for fee-paying users. None of the ASU faculty whose course materials were harvested for the module I generated were aware that their image, lectures, lessons, or other teaching materials are being used. 25537253
Reposted by Michelle GreeneJon Freeman @freemanjb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026🚨 NSF is already quietly eliminating the SBE Directorate, despite Congress’ mandate that NSF support the behavioral & social sciences. Steps to counter this are in motion. If you - have an SBE proposal under review - serve on an SBE grant panel You can help! Fill out this form: shorturl.at/xuKw2shorturl.atShare Your Story: Impacts of the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the National Science Foundation (NSF)Following the release of the President's Budget Request (PBR) on April 3rd, NSF quickly and quietly took steps to begin to dismantle the SBE Directorate. The Federation of Associations in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences (FABBS) wants to hear about how the SBE Directorate at NSF has supported your research and career. Your stories help FABBS communicate to policymakers and the public what’s at stake when the federal government fails to fund critical sciences. We may follow up for clarification, but we will not share your name or institution publicly without your permission. 1174147
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 12/04/2026It’s a shame that my students’ generation doesn’t know the joy of getting to the stage of friendship when you’re allowed to flip through your buddy’s music collection and bond over the obscure and/or cringe music you both love. 160
Reposted by Michelle GreeneIngmar de Vries @ingmardevries.bsky.social · 04/04/2026JOB ALERT: PhD opening in my lab! @cimecunitrento.bsky.social in Italy, as part of an Italian FIS3 starting grant. The project will use advanced analysis methods of MEG data to investigate how our world's naturalistic hierarchical structure facilitates predictive neural processing. 23526
Reposted by Michelle GreeneThomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Postdoc opening in Applied Mathematics at Brown! Bridging APMA + brain science or CS. Two-year appointment starting July 2026 — review begins April 1! Great opportunity to collaborate with @carneyinstitute.bsky.social faculty at the Nancy G. Zimmerman Center for Computational Brain Science. 141
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 30/03/2026🚨New preprint alert! 🚨 Do multimodal LLMs (VLMs) reason about high-level visual perception like humans do? We asked over 2000 human observers and 18 VLMs to describe scenes using 15 different tasks, ranging from general knowledge, affordances, affect, sensory experiences, and future prediction. 1/ 1256
Reposted by Michelle Greene50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Holy New York. 504293727081
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Yeah, the world is a dumpster fire right now. But the feeling of celebrating students’ first paper submission? Still magical! 2170
Reposted by Michelle GreeneMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/03/2026If you spot ICE agents at an airport in the coming days, I’m still collecting stories and I want to hear from you. Reach me via Signal at marisakabas.04 8767331
Reposted by Michelle GreeneAndromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 16/03/2026OK so this young trans gentleman was cut off by his parents, has been unable to get MIT to up his financial aid, has been working multiple jobs while maintaining an A- average AT MIT (no one does this), but he is gonna need to actually pay his tuition to graduate: www.gofundme.com/f/help-matth...gofundme.comDonate to Help Matthew Graduate From MIT, organized by Irene DongHello everyone, my name is Irene. I'm writing this on behalf of my friend, fellow MIT studen… Irene Dong needs your support for Help Matthew Graduate From MIT 191467988
Reposted by Michelle GreeneBen Balas @bjbalas.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Hey #visionscience friends - I'm looking to touch base with someone who knows lots about color, esp. contrast/assimilation effects. I'm working on a video about something and I'm worried I'm getting tangled up in part of the explanation. Thanks! 462
Reposted by Michelle GreeneNeuroskeptic @neuroskeptic.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Here's a striking visual illusion - the 9 purple dots. Focus your eyes on the top left dot. That one is more purple than the others, right? Now try another dot... that one becomes the purple one! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41744429/ 39030
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I'm still accepting applications! Very exciting opportunity to work on cognitive computational neuroscience of vision in NYC! #PsychJobs #NeuroJobs #neuroskyence #PsychSciSky 2177
Reposted by Michelle GreeneJ. Brendan Ritchie @jbrendanritchie.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Our reply to 11 commentaries on our article ("Rethinking category-selectivity in human visual cortex") is out in Cognitive Neuroscience! Thanks to @susanwardle.bsky.social @maryamvaziri.bsky.social Dwight Kravitz @cibaker.bsky.social and all who contributed! 1/x www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comWhat behavioral relevance is (not)We are thankful for the thoughtful commentaries of our colleagues. In our discussion article, we argued for a course correction to how the field approaches the organization of visual function in oc... 13213
Reposted by Michelle GreeneCeleste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 16/02/2026So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool. 10298423406
Reposted by Michelle GreeneMaryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped 112699880
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Becoming a True New Yorker (TM) by bringing some truly unhinged object on the subway. 370
Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026🚨Job alert! I'm recruiting a postdoc! If you want to study the time course of task-driven visual perception, please reach out! #neuroskyence #VisionScience #CogSci barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Facult...barnard.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comPostdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational NeuroscienceIf you are a current Barnard College employee, please use the internal career site to apply for this position. Job: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cognitive/Computational Neuroscience The Barnard Visua... 23530
Reposted by Michelle GreeneAmelia Shevenell @ashevenell.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein. 11373371414