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Reuben Rideaux

@reubenrideaux.bsky.social
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Studies brains, eats plants, and catches waves.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent
Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
1/9 📄 New in the Journal of Neuroscience: "Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity" Does the brain prioritise the events it expects, or the ones that surprise it? We find it does both — at different stages. 🧵 doi.org/10.1523/JNEU...
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Faster but less precise: expectation enhances response speed while reducing sensory fidelity
The brain’s remarkable ability to process continuous sensory inputs with adaptive efficiency – balancing flexibility while minimizing metabolic cost – is thought to rely on predictive mechanisms that ...
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Ivan Tomic @ivntmc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Feeling really proud of this one: a review of Bayesian efficient coding with Máté Lengyel and Paul Bays (@bayslab.org) is now available online in TICS! authors.elsevier.com/a/1nF3i4sIRv...
Screenshot of a Trends in Cognitive Sciences article header. Title: 'Bayesian efficient coding as a theory of perception: progress, controversies, and prospects.' Authors: Ivan Tomić, Máté Lengyel, Paul Bays. Available online 9 June 2026, In Press, Corrected Proof.
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
🚨Job alert 🚨 Continuing Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Sydney. Beaches, mountains, psychophysics... what more could you want? (mountains are optional) usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...
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Senior Lecturer/Lecturer in Psychology
1 full-time continuing position available, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to contribute to research and teaching in a world leading Psychology department Base...
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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
My first foray into explicitly trying to bridge Marr’s levels, with @bealebrains.bsky.social. Inspired by Hahn and Wei’s models (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38360947/), we wondered how the brain could instantiate sensory inference with efficient /decoding/ properties. 1/
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
10 PhD positions at JLU Giessen in the new Research Training Group "PIMON"! We will explore how humans perceive and interact with materials and objects in natural environments. More information on the project, the PIs, and how to apply here: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns... Please share!
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
BYO 🥝
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John Greenwood @jagreenwood.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do children struggle to recognise objects in cluttered scenes more than adults? Our new paper looks at the development of visual acuity and crowding across childhood, and the way the visual system fine tunes our ability to see detail: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026! Deadline: 8 March 2026 www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great opportunity to work with an awesome supervisor on some really rigorous science and have a lot of fun in the process 👇
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Kate Storrs @katestorrs.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Our latest paper, “Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests”, is now out in Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... Non-paywalled version: arxiv.org/abs/2504.10786 Tweet thread below from first author @genetang.bsky.social...
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Visual language models show widespread visual deficits on neuropsychological tests - Nature Machine Intelligence
Tangtartharakul and Storrs use standardized neuropsychological tests to compare human visual abilities with those of visual language models (VLMs). They report that while VLMs excel in high-level obje...
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bioRxiv Neuroscience @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The Role of Temporal Factors in Processing Rapid Serial Visual Presentations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Emily A-Izzeddin @emilya-izzeddin.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Just published some work at Scientific Reports! We investigated visual adaptation following free viewing of a film (Casablanca) that had its oriented contrast altered. To our surprise, we found adaptation effects to be pretty negligible… www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/10
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Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Investigating orientation adaptation following naturalistic film viewing
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The Transmitter @thetransmitter.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
A method for capturing neuronal activity using fMRI excited the neuroimaging field but couldn’t be replicated. Today, the authors of the original paper retracted their work. By @callimcflurry.bsky.social #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/retraction/a...
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Authors retract Science paper on controversial fMRI method
Several MRI artifacts contribute to the neuronal activity signal picked up by the method, according to a preprint the authors posted this month.
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Pascal Mamassian @mamassian.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
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Imaging Neuroscience @imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Ziyue Hu, Dominic M.D. Tran, and Reuben Rideaux: Multimodal evidence challenges the effectiveness of probabilistic cueing for establishing sensory expectations doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...
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Dr Ben Wolfe @benwolfevision.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Cognition rears its ugly head during a meeting of psychophysicists
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We just released a paper on using AI to autonomously conduct scientific research, from idea conception and (human) data collection to manuscript generation. We offer 3 example studies in cog psych. I think it indicates the current capacity of AI in autonomous research. www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.13421
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Virtuous Machines: Towards Artificial General Science
Artificial intelligence systems are transforming scientific discovery by accelerating specific research tasks, from protein structure prediction to materials design, yet remain confined to narrow doma...
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Prashant Garg @prashantgarg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
1/ 🚨 Hot off the press! Our study “Political Expression of Academics on Social Media” with @trfetzer.com is now peer-reviewed & live in Nature Human Behaviour @nature.com 🎉. Thread 👇
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Will Turner @renrutmailliw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New paper out in @plosbiology.org w/ Charlie, @phil-johnson.bsky.social, Ella, and Hinze 🎉 We track moving stimuli via EEG, find evidence that motion is extrapolated across distinct stages of processing + show how this effect may emerge from a simple synaptic learning rule! tinyurl.com/2szh6w5c
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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I’m hoping that @vssmtg.bsky.social can clarify or reverse course on this quickly, because it looks a lot like capitulating to fascism from here.
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
People talk a lot about objects, but what about the softness of a cushion, the greenness of an emerald, or the viscosity of oil? In our work just published @pnas.org, we shed light on how we make sense of the hundreds of materials around us. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Will Harrison @willjharrison.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
New from my lab: "Priors for natural image statistics inform confidence in perceptual decisions" We used a natural image statistics approach to investigate the computations underlying perceptual confidence. 🧵 Article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A scientific image showing an original image (grayscale dog), the same image after processing with oriented edge filters, and then the spectral power as a function of orientation.
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Reuben Rideaux @reubenrideaux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’m looking for a postdoc to join my lab at the University of Sydney for a project investigating how perception changes during walking (VR, psychophysics, EEG, AI). Full time, 3 years fixed-term position; full details here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA... Please repost 🥹
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Active Perception
Full time, 3 years fixed term position. Located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Psychology Opportunity to work on cutting-edge research involving neuroimaging, virtual reality, and AI, at on...
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Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
My dear friends Guido and Sara have experienced a new shock recently: Sara's brain cancer has returned for the second time. Her traditional treatment options are limited, but they want to try experimental treatments not covered by insurance. Please consider donating what you can. gofund.me/05154011
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Donate to Sara's Brain Cancer Treatments, organized by Guido Maiello
Dear Family and Friends, Old and New, We are the family of Sara Joy Hawkins, and this… Guido Maiello needs your support for Sara's Brain Cancer Treatments
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