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Marc Pabst
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Visual neuroscience. Research Assistant at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and UCL Experimental Psychology.

London 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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tessamdekker.bsky.social
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence
Research Assistant at UCL
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September 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
marcpabst.bsky.social
We're still looking for two full-time RA's to join the lab to work on childrens and adults using cutting-edge cog-neuro tools!
childvisionlab.bsky.social Child Vision Lab @UCL @childvisionlab.bsky.social · Sep 9
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs
Research Assistant at UCL
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September 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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georgiamneuro.bsky.social
Excited to share our new preprint...

...𝑖𝑡'𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒! ⏳

We find temporal confounds in fMRI that emulate neural patterns of perceptual learning.

These can be hard to spot with conventional RSA, but may influence our understanding of how prior knowledge shapes perception.

tinyurl.com/4bwy6nre
August 20, 2025 at 12:27 PM
marcpabst.bsky.social
Come join us in London!!
childvisionlab.bsky.social Child Vision Lab @UCL @childvisionlab.bsky.social · Sep 9
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs
Research Assistant at UCL
An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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September 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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childvisionlab.bsky.social
Our own @mikecrossland.bsky.social, speaking on low vision and mental health at the ISLRR Congress in beautiful Florence! #vision2025
September 11, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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childvisionlab.bsky.social
Super proud to see huge interest in Danny Ball and Rachael Canavan’s posters at the ISLLR Congress in Florence! #vision2025
September 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
marcpabst.bsky.social
Come join us! We're hiring two new RAs!
childvisionlab.bsky.social Child Vision Lab @UCL @childvisionlab.bsky.social · Sep 9
We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs
Research Assistant at UCL
An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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ucleye.bsky.social
Congratulations to @ucleye.bsky.social's Early Career Researcher (ECR) community for delivering another inspiring early career researchers' symposium last week, and to all recipients of the IoO ECR awards 2025.
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June 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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alexwitze.bsky.social
The marathon livestream of weather & climate scientists talking about their research, and its importance, continues. Drop in anytime through the weekend for learning opportunities. I just heard a discussion about what everyone's favorite cloud is! #wx wcstreamathon.netlify.app
The Weather & Climate Livestream
Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.
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May 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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werd.io
Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD.
May 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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horselessage.bsky.social
A section titled what?? In a chapter titled WHAT????
It's important to note here that our understanding of Kennedy's disbelief in germ theory isn't based on speculation or deduction; it's based on Kennedy's own words. He wrote an entire section on it in his 2021 book vilifying Fauci, titled The Real Anthony Fauci. The section is titled "Miasma vs. Germ Theory," in the chapter "The White Man's Burden."
May 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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roordalab.bsky.social
Hi Josh. Thanks for posting this. I just ran your demo it and can confirm that it elicits a similar color experience, as we state in the paper. The difference is that olo delivered in our system persists indefinitely, or as long as you are willing to stay clamped into a bite bar :)
April 23, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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gkaguirre.com
This work with Alan Stocker, @lingqiz.bsky.social, and Jiang Mao is now in print. We benefited from very thoughtful reviewers. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
April 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...
Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements. In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson. "You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade. The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.
April 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Two backpacking German teenagers who had obtained ESTA approval from DHS were detained by CBP at the Honolulu airport, strip searched, jailed overnight, and ultimately deported to Japan because immigration officials weren’t satisfied with their lodging arrangements. beatofhawaii.com/why-these-ha...
The (translated) Ostsee Zeitung headline: High school graduates in prison Rostock women end up in Trump's deportation prison in the USA: "We felt so powerless"
April 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
If you receive one of these bizarre, unethical, poorly written letters from Ed Martin, please send it to me so that I can write about how bizarre, unethical, and poorly written it is.

Signal: annabower.24

Email: anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
eric-reinhart.com Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · Apr 17
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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mikkibrock.bsky.social
just Olympic levels of projection and cognitive dissonance
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Apr 16
"We have instances now in western countries where people are being arrested [...] the cop comes knocking on their door, you're going to go to jail for 60 days for posting something online. You know, this is crazy stuff that's happening all over."

Marco Rubio on April 16, 2025, if you can believe it
April 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
It's now been over a month since Trump sent innocent man Andry Hernández to one of the world's worst prisons because of "Mom" and "Dad" tattoos. Like the others, he is being imprisoned with no contact with the outside world.

Don't let him be forgotten.
A selfie of Andry José Hernández Romero, in better times, standing in front of a rainbow arch of balloons.
April 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
marcpabst.bsky.social
"The events of 1933 to 1945 should have been fought no later than 1928. Later, it was too late. One must not wait until the fight for freedom is called treason. One must not wait until the snowball has turned into an avalanche. One must crush the rolling snowball. No one can stop the avalanche."
April 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
marcpabst.bsky.social
It's really getting harder and harder to justify traveling to the US.
April 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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edburmila.bsky.social
The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.
eoinhiggins.bsky.social Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · Apr 15
MIT following Harvard's lead here
April 15, 2025 at 1:13 AM
marcpabst.bsky.social
Trump’s dismantling of pluralistic democracy isn’t just a U.S. problem. Another horrifying example of how the shift in what’s deemed acceptable and normal in the U.S. impacts everyone, everywhere.

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
marcpabst.bsky.social
It's wild how real the fear feels. I’ve met Americans who actively avoid certain airports when flying back to the US. Just last week, I watched a US citizen frantically delete anti-Trump messages from their phone before boarding their flight home.
perfors.net Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · Apr 14
I'm agonising about this. I'm a US citizen, living in Australia. But I'm trans. But I never updated my US documentation so I'm technically within their rules. But I'm still trans and I won't pass as female anymore. And I'm outspoken on social media. But not under my old name.

But but but...
cashwood.proteaglyco.com Chris Ashwood @cashwood.proteaglyco.com · Apr 13
There are great conferences and science in the US, but with the way things are right now, it’s too risky to attend.
April 14, 2025 at 12:09 PM
marcpabst.bsky.social
Amid all the chaos, another serious problem for US academia: Many societies and associations heavily rely on (international) researchers paying membership fees and traveling to conferences. Looks like many may stop coming. Hard to gauge the impact this will have. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australian academics refuse to attend US conferences for fear of being detained
‘When academics fear travelling or partnering with US institutions, the impacts ripple through the entire global knowledge ecosystem,’ one says
www.theguardian.com
April 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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tamslick.bsky.social
Goose Meme:

“Freedom to say what? Freedom to say what, motherfucker?”
evanurquhart.bsky.social Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Apr 14
He's less free to say trans women are women (just like the rest of us).

He's less free to say Free Palestine (just like the rest of us).

He's less free to advocate diversity in his workplace (just like the rest of us).

But he can't imagine wanting to use his speech for that in the first place.
Screenshotted post from Sean Kelleher (@ss7.bsky.social): Trump and MAGA are abominations, but as a cis, hetero, white guy I have more freedom to say whatever I want in 2025 than I have in years. And you know what, having freedom is great.
April 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM