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I am not enjoying not watching the Blue Jays every day this spring. Writing anything is difficult. Watching and talking are easier than writing. #visionscience #withaphd #ai #a1 #Al

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Scootering around Salt Lake City @arvoinfo.bsky.social #arvo2025

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Congratulations to the 16 winners of the @arvoinfo.bsky.social MIT Outstanding Poster Award Competition held during #ARVO2025. These MIT First Authors were selected from the top-five scored poster abstracts from each Scientific Section and Cross-sectional Group. bit.ly/3RUIMVl #VisionResearch

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Most years at ARVO, I award the Picture of the Year, or #POTY prize. This year it goes to Toco Chui of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for her presentation titled "In-vivo imaging of blood cell adhesion to vascular wall in sickle cell disease" (more below) 1/n

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I missed the National Eye Institute from #ARVO2025. It was weird - though understandable, given the current US governmental crackdown on research. THAT is much weirder.

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My favorite part of the @arvoinfo.bsky.social annual meeting: Karaoke night! 🕺🎤 #arvo2025

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It was a wonderful #ARVO2025 - a few of my favorite memories! I am so proud of the exceptional job our COVSL trainees did presenting their work. @bcleonard #visionscience

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🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

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I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Spot the ARVOian is always a fun game. #visionscience

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Yikes! I've been here for 14 hours and can tell that UT is similar to ON, but just messed up six ways to Sunday. #elbowsup #visionscience #ARVO2025

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data science + large men moving rapidly = awesome #elbowsup #computepower www.nytimes.com/athletic/628...

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If they legalize acid, Burger King should lead the way with a LSD laced burger called BK Ultra.

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I think of this ST:TNG scene in the gif when I read a sentence structured: "X is an objective measure, psychophysics is a subjective measure." where X = fMRI, EEG, ERG, MEG... and so on. #visionscience media.tenor.com/aAj5SI46eiAA...

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Journals have been so captured by metrics like impact factor and time-to-decision that they can't even conceive of the idea that scholars might choose a journal based on how good it is! For example, do the editors and reviews provide good feedback, have good judgment, and do they have integrity?

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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem; neat, plausible, and wrong. ~HL Mencken

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This is a disgrace and a tragedy. #visionscience

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More NIH grant cancellations based on political ideology. Thanks a lot Sens. Murkowski, Collins, and Cassidy. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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It's finally out! Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode. 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

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An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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The assault on NIH is a test for how the national media covers the Trump admin: Trump is shutting down medical research! That is easy to communicate. Will they treat it as a 5 alarm fire in a way that forces the government to respond, or will they downplay & caveat it?

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Human have higher sensitivity in the lower compared to upper visual field. It turns out that macaques show the opposite pattern: www.cell.com/current-biol.... I'd hypothesize that this is evidence that neither of these effects is innate; instead, they both develop with experience. #VisionScience

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now that's just cool.

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you know who should be inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame? Sisyphus

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If you're in Boston and want to play with perception, go to the Museum of Illusions (Quincy Market). Folks who know #visionscience will be annoyed by the write ups but (no spoiler, not pictured) there is one exhibit worth the price of admission. Consultant needed, to be sure.

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imagine a country so furious about drag performers that it voted for polio

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I tried to get Gemini to make Ouchi illusion in python. No dice. Other LLMs have done it, but needed hand code edits. I've only tried this illusion, but I wonder if other illusions are as hard. Yes, I tried giving it the wolfram alpha site... mathworld.wolfram.com/OuchiIllusio... #visionscience

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Happy birthday, 103rd Horace Barlow. You're gone, but your writing and generous advice a decade ago are not forgotten. #visionscience

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I often wish Nate would return to baseball statistics, but this is an incisive and data-driven critique of words from the people who ran the Harris loser of a campaign and it's 1/3 the rest are paywalled. www.natesilver.net/p/part-i-dem... I have 3 gift subs, DM me for a link if you want one.

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I enjoy social media even at its worst. I post this video/song at intervals because it expresses my attitude to the whole endeavor. Here you go, Bluesky... youtu.be/vpju_-Quvso?...

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