Reposted by Tom WallisHeather Urry @heatherurry.io · 24/09/2026holy fucking shit - see Claude Code (Opus 5.5) rip through a survey eligility test I was really proud of... It requires tracing a route through designated points on a map with server-side Javascript applying eligibility criteria. (1.5 min video) 63422
Reposted by Tom WallisGautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 23/09/2026NYU Courant professor Tristan Buckmaster, of Navier-Stokes drama fame, gave a talk at the new NYU Mathematics in the Age of AI seminar series. It was... popular. 012115
Reposted by Tom WallisAttention in Action Lab @attentioninaction.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The envy of every kindergarten: Our new #LEGO plate magazine in the lab! #VisualForaging #Attention #CFH_Research 044
Reposted by Tom WallisTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026So while you're thinking about a super human, super "intelligent" alien being killing you, here's what's really happening. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auDoctor forced to apologise after AI makes 'scary' error about illegal drugsArtificial Intelligence is listening to many people's medical appointments, but it is not always hearing things correctly. 10415187
Reposted by Tom WallisNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140536472
Reposted by Tom WallisIris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 15/09/2026📣 Scholarship programme for applications by graduates in the Netherlands with a non-Western migration background and/or a recent asylum background. If interested to do PhD research in Computational Cognitive Science, feel free to reach out! Info about research lines in our lab in thread below. 🧵nwo.nlFirst round of Mosaic 3.0 now open for applications | NWOThe first round of the updated Mosaic 3.0 PhD scholarship programme is now open for applications. Mosaic encourages the recruitment of graduates from under-represented groups into Dutch academia by fu... 14533
Reposted by Tom WallisMarlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Do non-human primates have theory of mind? My new paper takes a new computational approach to this classic question. We implemented verbal theories of primates' mental representations as computational models. These models completed classic visual perspective-taking tasks. 28934
Reposted by Tom WallisDomi Smithson @domismithson.bsky.social · 15/09/2026LIVE from OpenFest 2026: Our brilliant keynote speaker @maddipow.bsky.social asks us to confront why feminist scholars still struggle to be heard. What does this mean for open research, how is this serving us but more importantly, how can WE do better? #openfest26 #openscience #genderequity 082
Reposted by Tom WallisEiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 15/09/2026What a photo. (Police officers arrest a protester during a 'No Kings' rally, 03/26 LA; Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images) 0171
Reposted by Tom WallisDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below. 145136924893
Reposted by Tom WallisArthur Prat @arthurpr4t.bsky.social · 09/09/2026We derived six laws of psychophysics from a single efficient-coding equation. The laws include Weber's law; scaling laws in visual working memory (which had been noted before, but with unclear theoretical justification); Wei & Stocker's law of human perception; arthurprat.com/pdfs/Prat-Ca...arthurprat.com 49628
Reposted by Tom WallisGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you... 685266004803
Reposted by Tom WallisDerek Arnold @visnerd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026A recent paper argued that there is no visual binding problem. I disagree, and wrote a response... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Related demonstrations can be found here... staff.psy.uq.edu.au/~uqdarnol/JS... 62412
Reposted by Tom WallisSander van Bree @sandervanbree.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Excited to share our preprint! w/ @martinhebart.bsky.social To understand how primates visually process objects in the world, we rely on both research in human and macaque IT. But what representations of object space are actually shared between them? biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Quick thread 🧵biorxiv.orgShared and Distinct High-Dimensional Object Spaces in Human and Macaque Inferotemporal CortexHuman and macaque studies of inferotemporal cortex (IT) have shaped our understanding of object vision, yet the extent of their representational alignment and the precise nature of this correspondence... 26626
Reposted by Tom WallisAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 16/07/2025chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy 312106594
Reposted by Tom WallisTal Golan @talgolanneuro.bsky.social · 28/08/2026How can we design experiments that make computational models disagree? One section of our new @natrevneuro.nature.com Review with @kriegeskorte.bsky.social and @heikoschuett.bsky.social examines studies that used stimulus sets designed to elicit distinct predictions from competing models. 1/16 114156
Reposted by Tom WallisTom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026TU Darmstadt's Perception Lab is at #ECVP2026 in force. We hope you can make it to see our work! @engramm.ing @lreining.bsky.social @lschmittwilken.bsky.social 0184
Reposted by Tom WallisBen Beilharz @engramm.ing · 25/08/2026Hey @ecvp.bsky.social we got twice the fun for you today (order of visit recommended): T5AM6 Swantje will talk about Dead Leaves stimuli with which you can model natural image statistics. T5AM1 @lreining.bsky.social will talk about how to segment these dead leaves, testing NNs for optimality. 072
Reposted by Tom WallisJonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I ran a trainee-focused workshop today on "your online academic presence"—slides here in case they are useful for anyone else! jpeelle.github.io/online-acade... 6279
Reposted by Tom WallisMicah @rincewind.run · 23/08/2026if responding to racists with “fuck you, you should be excluded from polite society” means I do not support academic freedom then I guess I don’t support academic freedom 342543397
Reposted by Tom WallisGestaltReVision @gestaltrevision.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Busy first day for us at #ECVP! Today, @eleftheriapistolas.bsky.social will give a talk in the Multisensory and Haptic Perception Session and Doreen Hii, @elinevg.bsky.social and @lisa-kossmann.bsky.social will present posters in the afternoon session, on Aesthetics and Art. Come find us to chat! 052
Reposted by Tom WallisLaura Dugué @lauradugue.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Our lab’s presentations at #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social start today with the posters of @jayplease.bsky.social and @yuekong4real.bsky.social! 0111
Reposted by Tom WallisBen Beilharz @engramm.ing · 24/08/2026goooooood mornin‘ @ecvp.bsky.social! If you are an early bird and you like to see something and talk about multi focal display, or just want to know how to easily implement your experiments on one, go ahead and pay Tarek a visit at M3AM1 :) #ecvp26 041
Reposted by Tom WallisDigital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026These giant African rats sniff out tuberculosis in 3 seconds flat, work microscopes take a full day to do. APOPO's HeroRATs are already saving lives across Africa and Asia. 662570582
Reposted by Tom WallisAndrea Lathrop @cabernet.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Fiser J, Aslin RN, Lathrop A, Rothkopf C, Markant J. An infants' eye view of the world: Implications for learning in natural contexts. the International Conference on Infant Studies; Kyoto, Japan. June 19-23, 2006. was one of my favorites. 111
Reposted by Tom WallisThérèse Collins @theresecollins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Check out work from my lab #ECVP2026 @ecvp.bsky.social Motion direction representations and history effects in fixational eye movements Poster, Tuesday 3:30 With @canmertdoit.bsky.social Ambient and focal dichotomy in face perception Poster, Wednesday 3:30 With Dina Dagher & Karine Doré-Mazars 0113
Reposted by Tom WallisECVP 2026 @ecvp.bsky.social · 23/08/2026🎉 TODAY’S THE DAY! 🎉 #ECVP2026 begins today in Bournemouth! 👁️🧠 We’re ready for a fantastic week of vision science, workshops, talks, symposia, posters and plenty of opportunities to connect with the ECVP community. Welcome to ECVP 2026 — let’s get started! 🚀 #VisionScience #Perception 0127
Reposted by Tom WallisBen Beilharz @engramm.ing · 03/08/2026Happy to announce that MRD got accepted by the Journal of Vision (marks the first submission of my phd). Thanks to all editors and reviewers making the paper better over time. If you don't want to wait for the official JoV version, I updated the preprint & repo with the latest code and results. 284
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026TU Darmstadt's Perception Lab is at #ECVP2026 in force. We hope you can make it to see our work! @engramm.ing @lreining.bsky.social @lschmittwilken.bsky.social 0184
Reposted by Tom WallisJoe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Historical examples of the book destroying group being on the right side of history are few and far between. 3153
Reposted by Tom WallisClément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 17/08/2026If you think that AI reviews in conferences "to save time" or "be thorough" or "handle the large # of submissions coming due to AI", ask yourself how much it'll cost, and who will pay. If not "gifted" by companies, this is going to be north of $30+/paper. You expect 1000+ submissions? Budget that. 4224
Reposted by Tom WallisNick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026As folks gear up for the new semester, a reminder if anyone needs it, my Ai statement is available for people to make use of in their own materials. It’s downloadable and printable from my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy... 11361136
Reposted by Tom Wallisvincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵 9352173
Reposted by Tom WallisRichard McElreath 🐈⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 13/08/2026These ratio outcome variables are a plague in the sciences. If your analysis treats 1/2 and 10/20 as the same evidence, then you have discarded uncertainty in the outcome. Model what you measure, not what you construct. Use the denominator as an exposure instead. 612237
Reposted by Tom WallisThomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very much looking forward to welcoming a new colleague! We're hiring at both ranks — the senior (Associate/Full) search is open too, applications due Oct 15: apply.interfolio.com/190696 0237
Reposted by Tom WallisCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton 19972941572
Reposted by Tom WallisLynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social · 04/08/2026So happy to see this published! 🎉 Meet **deadleaves**, an #OpenScience Python package for generating Dead Leaves images to study #vision, segmentation, natural image statistics, and beyond. 📄 Paper (JOSS): doi.org/10.21105/jos... 📚 Documentation: deadleaves.readthedocs.io For more info 🧵 1126
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Dead Leaves are useful stimuli for studying mid-level vision - and now there’s a Python package that lets you easily generate a variety of dead leaves stimuli! Proud of this work lead by my doctoral student Swantje Mahncke. Check it out! 071
Reposted by Tom WallisCognitive Science Society @cogscisociety.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The final Glushko Dissertation Prize talk features Lynn Schmittwilken @lschmittwilken.bsky.social, who examines how the tiny movements our eyes make continuously shape visual perception from its earliest moments. #CogSci2026 1192
Reposted by Tom WallisAnna Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Losing Exeter philosophers of science would be devastating to our field and to the international standing of U.K. universities. Please help us publicise this letter and put pressure to the Exeter execs. Their work as teachers and researchers is irreplaceable #philsci #HigherEd 19567
Reposted by Tom WallisLars C. Reining @lreining.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Excited this is finally out! I am happy to have built this together with Rabea Turon, @tsawallis.bsky.social and all the others!🎉 163
Tom Wallis @tsawallis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026New preprint! Have you ever wanted to measure psychometric functions in high-dimensional stimulus spaces, but realised that this is infeasible? We present and validate a technique to adaptively estimate psychometric functions for stimulus spaces up to 50 dimensions. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgAdaptive experiments in high-dimensional feature spaces: A particle filtering approachBehavioral experiments are often infeasible when stimulus spaces have many dimensions or when testing time is limited. One way to address this challenge is adaptive stimulus selection, where informati... 36724
Reposted by Tom WallisJim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media · 02/08/2026more good content! imagine publishing content that's just nice! reveals a little bit about having fun on the internet! people just doing things because they can and the internet was nice! 636083
Reposted by Tom WallisReza Shadmehr @rezashadmehr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026If an action results in error, each neuron requires an individualized teaching signal that guides change in its output. This is the credit assignment problem of learning. Are there neurons in the brain that can compute such a sophisticated teaching signal? Yes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgClimbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellumNeurons in the brain are often many synapses away from motoneurons, yet if a movement results in error, each distant neuron needs a teacher that considers its specific contribution to production of th... 218170
Reposted by Tom WallisJolande Fooken @ookenfooken.bsky.social · 15/07/2026You think you can(not) multitask? Turns out that the sensorimotor system is flexible and intelligent when perceiving and acting on the environment in parallel. Check out one of the main projects from my @dfg.de funded Walter Benjamin! 2139
Reposted by Tom WallisAlex Turner @turntrout.bsky.social · 15/07/2026I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silence. Here's what happened. 🧵 3456118