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Michelle Greene

@mgreenephd.bsky.social
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Cognitive scientist at Barnard College; visual categorization; EEG; eye movements; machine learning; childless cat fae; will ask to see a picture of your pet. Opinions my own. They/she. 🏳️‍🌈

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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Experiencing 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.
Review timeline. Paper submitted June 1. Two reviewers agreed September 26.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Totally agree. Teenage recognition might be very wonky. I am also interested in circus workers who work on stilts, or even folks who regularly wear high heels- does this provide more perceptual flexibility?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In all, yes, the visual system is tuned to visual experience, and individual differences in visual experience matter. And yes, taller folks really do look down on me! 😜 6/6 Link to paper in JEPG: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
psycnet.apa.org
APA PsycNet
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Critically, height predicted observers' performance in a rapid categorization task: shorter observers performed better for faces in the upper visual field, while taller observers were better in the lower, consistent with their lived experience of faces. 5/
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fixations compensate for this, with the effect even slightly reversing for faces. 4/
Graph describing results.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When we consider all faces and hands (fixated and not) in one's view, we see that taller individuals see faces lower in the visual field, and hands higher. This is consistent with shorter folks looking up at faces. 3/
Graph showing results as described.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In this picture, two observers of different heights are walking in the same place. When creating the Visual Experience Dataset, I was often struck by how different one's experience of the same place could be. 2/
Two views of the same hallway by two people of different heights. Taller vantage is more expansive.
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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/
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fixations compensate for this, with the effect even slightly reversing for faces. 4/
Graph showing performance as described.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When we consider all faces and hands (fixated and not) in one's view, we see that taller individuals see faces lower in the visual field, and hands higher. 3/
Graph showing performance as described.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In this picture, two observers of different heights are walking in the same place. When creating the Visual Experience Dataset, I was often struck by how different one's experience of the same place could be. 2/
Two views of a hallway. The taller individual's view appears more expansive.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I think you’re right about the goal. I question whether it’s a good goal. I think a lot about overly-automated science. Too many papers that too few people read, and a loss of science as a process rather than a series of outcomes. I agree with the Field medalists’ take: mathandai.org
mathandai.org
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
…sigh…
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I love this. This should be the model for all departments.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This! 100% this! Why are we academics except to over-read, over-write, and over-think?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Same, same. I am just nervous about baseball
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I cannot. Can we really not be bothered to read and write?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Also (crossing streams), I hope we don’t get swept tonight
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Clearly. Anyone who knows this field knows it’s technical.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ugh. Wow. So shortsighted. And sorry you’re on the wrong end of it.
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Gavin Buckingham @drgbuckingham.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pictorial cues to depth create a nice effect on this cabbage (found of Facebook)
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This. 100% this. Both speaking truth to nonsense, and the inevitable BS stream that comes from it.
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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The @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
2026 award recipient Marcela Garita-Hernandez, PharmD, PhD with  Immediate Past ARVO Foundation Chair Rafal Farjo, PhD, FARVO
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
My friend, you may not pass a Turing test, but you’re definitely not an LLM!
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Honestly, I didn’t hate them (even though I thought I would)
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yes, but your reality is also dominated by ketchup Lays. 🤯
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
What even is real anymore?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Terrible. Gen-AI?
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Kally the Nephilim @kallycutie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Alright folks, if you're in the States make plans to vote in person now, because the fascists are at it again.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The umps got this one right! Cedanne! #RedSox
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Totally! I guess it wasn’t “overwhelming” evidence?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Can they just shoot us to put us out of our misery?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
No ambiguity! 😀
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I share that discomfort. (At a recent conference, a colleague pointed to a poster figure, bragging that it was end-to-end GPT Image-2... it felt like they were bragging about not changing their underwear for 3 days). This is a stats course, so images don't really come up.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yeah, I’m a big fan of the html syllabus. It’s also easier to update if needed mid-semester.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I 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.io
Introduction to Statistics
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Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A person in pantyhose, holding a lit cigarette in their hand, which has a ring on their middle finger, and the caption “My idols are dead and my enemies are in power”
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Are you looking for AI as a model of cognition, a model of the brain, an overview of how it works, or something else?
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Unfortunately. 😢
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Agreed. But he’s making me nervous *right now*.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Bello is making me nervous… 😬
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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Friday's synagogue attacker was a Republican Zionist antisemite (yes, extremely redundant) who disdained Reform Jews for being "fake." forward.com/news/845474/...
If anything, Montes may have believed that the Reform congregation was too progressive. After his arrest, Montes called the congregants “fake Jews” in statements to the police, according to the assistant district attorney on the case, Ali Fazal.
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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
thanks Daniel for this v useful guide.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
...and congrats!!
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So excited to read this one!
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Of course it does. This is the worst timeline.
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This is the timeline the people need
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Michelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
….so far
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I'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.
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Dan Feldman @danfeldman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The 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 #NeuroJobs
aprecruit.berkeley.edu
Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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