Francesco Poli
@francescopoli.bsky.social
Rubicon research fellow at the University of Cambridge. Drinking massive amounts of tea and doing some research in between. Learning, information-seeking, cognitive and brain development. Comp modelling ethusiast. He/him. 🍉
https://francescpoli.github.io/
https://francescpoli.github.io/
If you go to settings -> moderation, you can mute words, and you won't see posts with those words anymore. It feels like breathing fresh air again.
June 1, 2025 at 10:18 AM
If you go to settings -> moderation, you can mute words, and you won't see posts with those words anymore. It feels like breathing fresh air again.
Live from Cambridge - setting up a new encampment for Palestine in front of Trinity College 🇵🇸 #freepalestine
May 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Live from Cambridge - setting up a new encampment for Palestine in front of Trinity College 🇵🇸 #freepalestine
I was in Ravenna recently and realized you have to choose which projects will be left unfinished forever (on the left) and which ones will end up shining (on the right).
April 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I was in Ravenna recently and realized you have to choose which projects will be left unfinished forever (on the left) and which ones will end up shining (on the right).
On my favourite hike back home (and what I miss the most about it).
April 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
On my favourite hike back home (and what I miss the most about it).
A map of all the Starlink satellites orbiting around Earth one year ago. They have now almost doubled. The plan is to add 30k more. How is this allowed?
March 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A map of all the Starlink satellites orbiting around Earth one year ago. They have now almost doubled. The plan is to add 30k more. How is this allowed?
More than 40 US military bases in Europe. Around 100k US troops deployed. I would feel so much safer if they were out.
March 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
More than 40 US military bases in Europe. Around 100k US troops deployed. I would feel so much safer if they were out.
It's time for some big news! I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Donders Institute and I have started a new postdoc at the University of Cambridge, where I'll be working with @duncanastle.bsky.social on brain development!
April 25, 2024 at 2:59 PM
It's time for some big news! I successfully defended my PhD thesis at the Donders Institute and I have started a new postdoc at the University of Cambridge, where I'll be working with @duncanastle.bsky.social on brain development!
Finally, curiosity was related to dishabituation, but (surprisingly) only for those infants that did not habituate. This could indicate that slow learners might "catch up" to the level of faster ones if they are curious enough. 6/6
January 14, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Finally, curiosity was related to dishabituation, but (surprisingly) only for those infants that did not habituate. This could indicate that slow learners might "catch up" to the level of faster ones if they are curious enough. 6/6
We found that individual differences in processing speed were related to habituation time, as predicted by Feldman and Mayes in 1999 5/6
January 14, 2024 at 10:13 AM
We found that individual differences in processing speed were related to habituation time, as predicted by Feldman and Mayes in 1999 5/6
Specifically, we focused on four latent parameters related to infants' processing speed, learning, attention, and curiosity, and tested their relation to (dis)habituation 4/6
January 14, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Specifically, we focused on four latent parameters related to infants' processing speed, learning, attention, and curiosity, and tested their relation to (dis)habituation 4/6
Infants' gaze behaviour was recorded during a visual learning task (left) in which stimuli were appearing probabilistically in four locations, and an habituation task. 2/6
January 14, 2024 at 10:11 AM
Infants' gaze behaviour was recorded during a visual learning task (left) in which stimuli were appearing probabilistically in four locations, and an habituation task. 2/6
I organized an online symposium on information seeking! Free for anyone to join, next Tuesday at 15.30 (CET), at this link: msteams.link/Y2FZ Let's see if BlueSky already works for advertising... Please repost!
December 6, 2023 at 2:56 PM
I organized an online symposium on information seeking! Free for anyone to join, next Tuesday at 15.30 (CET), at this link: msteams.link/Y2FZ Let's see if BlueSky already works for advertising... Please repost!
Yup. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky #cogsci #neuroskyence
October 6, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Yup. @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicsky #cogsci #neuroskyence
Reviewer 2 after I present 7 well-powered experiments to support my claims #AcademicSky
October 3, 2023 at 2:05 PM
Reviewer 2 after I present 7 well-powered experiments to support my claims #AcademicSky
Going down the rabbit hole of cytoarchitecture. If visual stimulation (above) is deprived from an eye (below), layer IV receiving from that eye shrinks. But what is the normal development of layer V (distinctively motor) in V1, and of layer IV in M1? Please repost if you know people who might know!
October 2, 2023 at 6:51 PM
Going down the rabbit hole of cytoarchitecture. If visual stimulation (above) is deprived from an eye (below), layer IV receiving from that eye shrinks. But what is the normal development of layer V (distinctively motor) in V1, and of layer IV in M1? Please repost if you know people who might know!
Two things that are still missing over here are breaking news of worldwide importance and memes, let me help with the latter #academicsky #neuroskyence
September 28, 2023 at 10:52 AM
Two things that are still missing over here are breaking news of worldwide importance and memes, let me help with the latter #academicsky #neuroskyence
These are still my favourite acknowledgements 😅 do you know better ones? #science #neuroscience #cogsci
September 27, 2023 at 8:59 PM
These are still my favourite acknowledgements 😅 do you know better ones? #science #neuroscience #cogsci
Starting off the Cognitive Neuroecology Lab retreat in Oxford!
September 26, 2023 at 10:08 AM
Starting off the Cognitive Neuroecology Lab retreat in Oxford!
What's the best way to find patterns in complex time-series data? For now, I'm playing with hidden Markov models to quantify free exploration in infants' body movements, eye movements, and play. This plot shows the pattern of infants' self-touches when exploring their own bodies. #datascience #stats
September 25, 2023 at 2:58 PM
What's the best way to find patterns in complex time-series data? For now, I'm playing with hidden Markov models to quantify free exploration in infants' body movements, eye movements, and play. This plot shows the pattern of infants' self-touches when exploring their own bodies. #datascience #stats