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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

submitted 29 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 37 days ago • 16 comments

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?

submitted 39 days ago • 189 comments

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

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

now that's just cool.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 70 days ago • 481 comments

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.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 79 days ago • 1064 comments

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

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

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?...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."

submitted 89 days ago • 7 comments

This reminds us that there are many pathways outside the 'main' one to primary visual cortex (V1) that can function after V1 lesions. Some can even deliver conscious visual experiences. For example, conscious motion vision sometimes survives (aka Riddoch phenomenon) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ABQ...

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

the rapid transition of academics off x (despite temporarily reducing reach/followers) makes you wonder what’s stopping us from ending the for-profit, closed access publishing industry. it’s, like…. we can just do it? or if not, interesting to consider what the inertial differences are.

submitted 93 days ago • 14 comments

Daily Walkoff #92 - 11/30/2024 Toronto Blue Jays ⚪️⚪️🟡🟢 🟢🟢🟢🟢🚀 dailywalkoff.com For #baseball fans this could be a lot of fun. New puzzles each day for all 30 teams. I'll take the walk-off triple my first time out.

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Retinal Ganglion Cells bryanwjones.com/2020/07/reti... #SciArt #retina

submitted 96 days ago • 4 comments

"Profits from vinyl and CDs are reasonable but the DIY scene is not shifting them hand over fist, so the label has to be a long-term investment with an incremental return. Even knowing this, one aspect remained shocking: finally seeing in black and white the returns from streaming."

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

I often love reading book reviews from @economist.com, for their shade. Here's a quote from the review of Jordan Peterson's latest book: "The overall effect is as if a Victorian vicar had been given a streaming subscription to Disney+ (and possibly some opium), then sat down to write his sermon." 🔥

submitted 97 days ago • 5 comments

How would your metascience look if you submitted to MetaROR?? Check out one of our first articles! You'll see the editorial summation at top and then the peer reviews. metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Funny how earning a PhD seems like a monumentous achievement until you are poised to achieve it, and then it feels about as worthy of bragging over as owning a nice pair of sneakers.

submitted 104 days ago • 12 comments

A friend mentioned honey bee waggle dance to me recently and I had to tell them the bad news about that literature: numerous key papers appear to be fraud. So here is me sharing the bad news with you too. Extensive blog post by the hero sleuth, Laura Luebbert, and @lpachter.bsky.social:

submitted 104 days ago • 8 comments

Flushed cheeks, racing hearts, nervous tummies - all the stuff of where emotion meets interoception (the feeling of what's happening in our bodies). Which brain region seems to be involved? You guessed it, Insula! It's Day 5 of Insula week; let's talk about emotion & interoception. (A thread).

submitted 109 days ago • 3 comments

if you use transcranial magnetic stimulation #TMS #BrainStim research methods, then we need to hear from you! this is a new venture that i am a part of: to reach consensus, embed best practice, & share data code & resources please like, re-post, see the thread below Workshop, 23-25 April 2025, UK

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

It’s done. This is the moment Britains last remaining coal power station came off the electricity system for the final time, marking the end of 142 years of coal generating electricity in Great Britain. HT National Grid ESO

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You watch DS9 and Odo can’t render a realistic nose, or on TNG Data can’t speak in contractions, and you’re like I’m pretty sure they would figure that out. But then you ask ChatGPT to name a food that starts with the letter B and it’s like “Sure! Sandwich.” and you realize they were on to something

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I just found out this is how they give hamsters MRIs.

submitted 274 days ago • 33 comments