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heidasigurdar.bsky.social
Cognitive (Neuro)scientist. Professor of Psych. Uni. of Iceland. PI of the Icelandic Vision Lab (visionlab.is). I like brains and lipstick. Weird is good. Alt account: @icevislab.bsky.social
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Worst pet I have ever owned.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Finally some good news among all the 💩 Got to entertain the masses (me).

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This morning, the US National Science Foundation fired 168 employees, approximately 10% of its workforce, for no cause other than they were the agency's most recent hires. 🧪 Co-workers are leaving supportive messages before they have to clear out of the building at 5 p.m. Sent to me by a source ⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

🙃

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Me vs. world. I am very thankful for coffee.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Getting review requests. (I still say yes sometimes, sucker that I am.) #academia #science

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship to literacy development | bioRxiv www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Music 🧵 has played a significant part of my entire life and I simply want to give it more room. I will drop #music here sporadically. Some will be good, other will be cliché, cringe or even bad. Even bad music is good sometimes. I will start by Learn To Swim, A Mixtape (2023) by Joshua Idehen 1/N

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This took us years to do, from idea to publication, so glad to see this out 😊 Would love it if you would read and share. And huge thanks to all who helped us, including all our participants. #visionscience #neuroskyence #psychscisky #cogsci #cognitivescience #cognitivepsychology

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Two grants to IVL 🥳 "Serial effects in visual perception" to PI @shansmann-roth.bsky.social + "Haptic harmony" to postdoc Ivan Makarov in collab with Unnthorsson, Kristjánsson, Jónasson & Uenala. Sabrina is looking for candidates for a three-year Ph.D. and a two-year postdoc position: [email protected]

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

1/2 This project started in my old lab and taken over by @icevislab.bsky.social. @antonlukashevich.bsky.social showed that attended ensemble mean changes easily detectable and causing a large P3, fail to produce a signal (i.e. ERP component MMN) when unattended www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

I nominate myself to not be an editor of any journal whatsoever 😅 (Thank you all who take on these roles, I appreciate you.)

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

@heidasigurdar.bsky.social and I wrote a few words on how the Icelandic government needs to do a better job nurturing science to resist the anti-science movement that has now gotten supercharged after Trump took office. A rough translation screenshot below. www.visir.is/g/2025268042...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Við Erna Magnúsdóttir skrifuðum grein um vaxandi vísindaafneintun í kjölfar kosningar Trump sem Bandaríkjaforseta og hvernig Ísland þarf að hlúa betur að vísindasamfélaginu til að streitast á móti þessari tilhneigingu: www.visir.is/g/2025268042...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. anti-science movement is going forward full force. Withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, an anti-vaxxer as Secretary of Health, and now this?

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck!

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

He was karate-chopping the neck of a transgender ghost. Calm down everyone.

submitted 34 days ago • 914 comments

Good news everyone!

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

I love this so much! At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice mirrors the late Justice Ginsburg’s practice of using collars to convey a message.

submitted 34 days ago • 1776 comments

Er til starter pack fyrir íslenska Bláskjá?

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment