Marc Pabst
@marcpabst.bsky.social
Visual neuroscience. Research Assistant at UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and UCL Experimental Psychology. London 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🚨 We’re recruiting a fully funded PhD student (from outside the UK) to join the lab with @tessamdekker.bsky.social 🌍👁️🧠 The PhD is part of IndiBrain.eu and will use cutting‑edge fMRI+qMRI+psychophysics to study information flow between eye and brain in ocular gene therapy. Apply by 27 Feb! t.ly/gahGB
Characterizing individual brain differences to advance personalized diagnosis, treatment, and sustainable healthcare
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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
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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!
Child Vision Lab @UCL@childvisionlab.bsky.social · last yr.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
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
Come join us in London!!
Child Vision Lab @UCL@childvisionlab.bsky.social · last yr.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
Our own @mikecrossland.bsky.social, speaking on low vision and mental health at the ISLRR Congress in beautiful Florence! #vision2025
Super proud to see huge interest in Danny Ball and Rachael Canavan’s posters at the ISLLR Congress in Florence! #vision2025
Come join us! We're hiring two new RAs!
Child Vision Lab @UCL@childvisionlab.bsky.social · last yr.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
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. lnkd.in/gikiRGTF
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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.
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 :)
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/...
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Geoffrey Aguirre@gkaguirre.com · 2y agoThis is the tilt illusion. In a new study we can provide a satisfying answer to how and where this effect arises in the brain, as well as the teleological "why" a well-designed visual system might have this property. 🧪
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...
![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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreie3gc6fndj7mtotijddm4eg264zgsqxpn4nbekb3xq5ubdmskvr6u)
!["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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreiensu64iobo4ftuqeaighf2p5k745uzdnmhcecugsi4ec74dnqse4)
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...
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
just Olympic levels of projection and cognitive dissonance
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · last yr."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
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.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2y agoTonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!
"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."
It's really getting harder and harder to justify traveling to the US.
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · last yr.The CAUT (the main Canadian association of academic faculty and staff) now advises against non-essential travel to the US
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.
Eoin Higgins@eoinhiggins.bsky.social · last yr.MIT following Harvard's lead here
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
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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.
Andrew Perfors@perfors.net · last yr.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...
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
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Goose Meme: “Freedom to say what? Freedom to say what, motherfucker?”
Evan Urquhart@evanurquhart.bsky.social · last yr.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.
Come join us at Experimental Psychology at University College London - we're looking for a lecturer in computational cognition. Great place to work! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML927/l...
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I mean, what could possibly go wrong if you park your filthy Tesla in Shoreditch?
We have confirmation that Iceland clearly takes the crown when it comes to registrations per capita at ECVP 2025. Remember to submit your abstracts this weekend -- we hope to see you all there 👀 @ecvp.bsky.social #ecvp #ecvp2025 #visionscience
