A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.
These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats
🤔 Confidence Control. Our sense of confidence is a powerful guide for our behavior. It shapes many of the decisions we make every day: we might search for more information when we feel uncertain, ignore irrelevant feedback when we feel very confident, or adjust how we approach learning.
You're still in time to apply to BAMB! and learn the art of modeling behavior with us! 🧠
The deadline is this Friday, March 6th.
Run! 🏃♂️💨
Apply here:
🔗 www.bambschool.org
Congrats to Jun Yang for defending his PhD on “Visual detection of elementary image features during natural behaviour”. 🎉 Well done Dr Jun on this amazing accomplishment.🥳
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Credits for the pictures to @mengtingj.bsky.social
Now published in Perception (@pec-ipe.bsky.social)!
Schulz-Hildebrandt, H. (2026). When purple perceived only at fixation: A fixation- and distance-dependent color illusion. Perception, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/0301...
An array of 9 purple discs on a blue background. Figure from Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt.
A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue.
The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea.
From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt:
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...
WOW
To all those who survived February, well done, march on
Is the concept of “category-selectivity” holding the field back in understanding high-level visual cortex? Detailed discussion in our published perspective piece and accompanying commentaries:
Also, the best chocolate brownie that I’ve ever had…
Come for the learning, stay for the cookies! 🍪
Applications for BAMB! 2026 are open. Join us in Barcelona!
www.bambschool.org
Come join us at BAMB! to learn all about modelling behavior and what Barcelona’s beaches have to offer 🏐🏄♂️🏊♂️
Applications for 2026 are open here: www.bambschool.org
🔎Updated preprint "Humans use a dual policy to improve inferences during epistemic information seeking" by Yinan Cao, Clémence Alméras, Junseok Lee, Inès Maye, and Valentin Wyart. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Flyer for 2026 edition of the European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany.
The European Summer School "Visual Neuroscience" in Rauischholzhausen castle, Germany, is coming back in 2026!
Deadline: 8 March 2026
www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/rauisch/
Come join us at BAMB!
Illustration celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11, featuring a stylized female scientist in a lab coat and glasses.
Happy international day for women and girls in science! #WomenInScience
Happy international day for women and girls in science! Feeling endlessly privileged for all the inspiring women I get to work with.
Photo de la librairie avec l'indication : la librairie a été perquisitionnée illégalement le 7 janvier 2026
Je réinstalle BlueSky pour relayer cette info de la librairie Violette and co qui mérite d'être connue dans le détail car il n'y a pas que la perquisition qui est très inquiétante. RT en masse s'il vous plait 💜
I love this so much. After pushback on his recent "Medicine is the only field that reaches 6 sigma" with "my field, psychophysics is so awesome" he posted this. Hurray all Psychophysicists. LETS CELEBRATE PSYCHOPHYSICS. An island of large effects is us!
Cover of the booklet. Title: Speech in Noise Workshop, Abstracts. With a colorful picture of the Eiffel Tower.
The program booklet for the SpiN workshop is now ready to download! Two days of intense discussions on psychoacoustics and psycholinguistics await at ENS Paris next week! https://2026.speech-in-noise.eu/files/SPIN2026-Programme.pdf
A picture of La rotonde Stalingrad, Paris, in the snow, with a large Christmas tree centred
Paris did snow better
I saw a tip a while ago that works sometimes: if you click on the link on the invite email and it takes you to the login page, close the tab and try clicking again, sometimes it takes you direct without needing to log in. Still annoying they make 20 profiles for you on “central” which you can’t link
A formal 17th-century oil portrait of Elena Piscopia seated in a high-backed red chair against a dark background. She has curly dark hair, pale skin, and wears a black dress with lace-trimmed sleeves and a striped fur-lined shawl draped over her shoulders. Her right hand rests near an armillary sphere (a skeletal model of the celestial spheres) on a table beside her, while her left hand rest on a book. The mood is serene and dignified, with dramatic lighting highlighting her face and attire.
Piscopia's graduation ceremony is depicted in the Cornaro Window, installed in 1906 in the West Wing of the Thompson Memorial Library at Vassar College. A vibrant Gothic-style stained glass window depicting Piscopia as the central figure, seated majestically on an ornate throne in flowing robes. She is surrounded by numerous people in elaborate period clothing, some kneeling or presenting gifts, arranged in multiple panels and tiers. The composition is rich with deep blues, reds, golds, and intricate architectural details like columns and drapery, topped by smaller panels of saints or angels in arched lancets.
First woman to receive an academic PhD?
Elena Cornaro Piscopia, doctorate in #Philosophy, University of Padua (Italy) on 25 June 1678.
She originally applied for a doctorate in Theology. Church authorities refused as women were not permitted to teach or preach #theology. #education #highered
Excited to announce our symposium on how AI and humans shape each other
“Humans and Artificial Minds: Mutual Influences”
9 Jan at ENS Paris.
Talks by @smfleming.bsky.social, Valeria Giardino, Silvia Tulli, @thecharleywu.bsky.social, Laurence Devillers & @summerfieldlab.bsky.social .
Program ↓
Nadia Hosseinizave in front of her first slide
Congratulations to @nadiahosseinizaveh.bsky.social on a brilliant PhD defense: "Evolution and Dynamics of Perceptual Confidence: From Perceptual Learning to Global Confidence Formation". Impressive work advancing our understanding of perception and metacognition.
Baby otter doing baby otter stuff
Amazing!
That’s a wrap on the first batch of 25 participants, measuring MEG-EEG, ECG, respiration, electrogastrography, facial EMG, and EDA during story listening, mental imagery, and rest (+MRI & questionnaires 😅). Now I’m off on maternity leave while our amazing team continues with the next batch! 💪
Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
