Ren
@rensresearch.bsky.social
Research is for everyone! Dedicated to expanding the literature on asexuality.
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Slate recently covered my research on “gender detachment,” or the idea that some people feel disconnected from identifying with any gender identity!
I’m grateful for the opportunity to reflect on what this attention signifies—not just for my work but for how we collectively understand gender.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to reflect on what this attention signifies—not just for my work but for how we collectively understand gender.
When Gender Feels Irrelevant: Reflections on the Slate Feature
Maybe you saw the recent headline in Slate: “My Gender Is No Thank You.”
cantonwiner.substack.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Slate recently covered my research on “gender detachment,” or the idea that some people feel disconnected from identifying with any gender identity!
I’m grateful for the opportunity to reflect on what this attention signifies—not just for my work but for how we collectively understand gender.
I’m grateful for the opportunity to reflect on what this attention signifies—not just for my work but for how we collectively understand gender.
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The speakers in action at our MANCEPT workshop Intimate Utopias. Lucy Shanahan talking about consensual non-consent and Laurin Tirpitz discussing asexuality and sexual ethics.
September 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The speakers in action at our MANCEPT workshop Intimate Utopias. Lucy Shanahan talking about consensual non-consent and Laurin Tirpitz discussing asexuality and sexual ethics.
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🧠 We are accepting graduate students for fall 2026! 🧠
If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply!
Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!
If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply!
Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!
Cognition and Brain Circuitry Laboratory
www.davidosher.com
August 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
🧠 We are accepting graduate students for fall 2026! 🧠
If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply!
Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!
If you are interested in vision or attention and how they relate to function and behavior, and want to explore these with a plethora of tools, we'd love for you to apply!
Check out our website (www.davidosher.com/index.html) and get in touch!
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PhD candidate in the house!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!
Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!
August 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
PhD candidate in the house!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!
Huge congratulations to Yuxuan, who passed her candidacy exam today! We are so proud!!
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Asexuality is a spectrum, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
"I'm ace, sex-favorable, and in a new relationship. My ace friends say I'm not ace anymore."
Sex-favorable ace folks are ace. Full stop.
open.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Asexuality is a spectrum, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
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‼️ Exciting preprint alert ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social demonstrate that holistic processing, commonly associated with face processing can be induced using configural, nonface stimuli!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
Isolated Configuration: Holistic Processing Beyond the Realm of Faces
Holistic processing has traditionally been regarded as unique to faces, attributed to the spatial layout across facial features and their variability across individuals. However, whether such processi...
doi.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
‼️ Exciting preprint alert ‼️ Yuxuan Zeng and @zitonglu.bsky.social demonstrate that holistic processing, commonly associated with face processing can be induced using configural, nonface stimuli!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Ideas only have power when people can get their minds and hands around them.
I think part of the reason the Right has been more successful in getting people on board is because their ideas, revolting as they are, are digestible, grabbable, accessible.
A wide swath of people can understand them.
I think part of the reason the Right has been more successful in getting people on board is because their ideas, revolting as they are, are digestible, grabbable, accessible.
A wide swath of people can understand them.
August 13, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Ideas only have power when people can get their minds and hands around them.
I think part of the reason the Right has been more successful in getting people on board is because their ideas, revolting as they are, are digestible, grabbable, accessible.
A wide swath of people can understand them.
I think part of the reason the Right has been more successful in getting people on board is because their ideas, revolting as they are, are digestible, grabbable, accessible.
A wide swath of people can understand them.