Chaz Firestone

i had "i'll believe in anything" playing on repeat 20 years ago!! this might be the only time in my life i've been ahead of a music trend

mid-aught canadian indie high schoolers losing their minds

wait heated rivalry is making wolf parade popular again?? what can't this show do

three photos: 1. hanna pickard in conversation with kieran setiya 2. selfie with hanna and chaz 3. hanna’s book cover, showing its title: “what would you do alone in a cage with nothing but cocaine?”

my amazing colleagues write amazing books with amazing titles

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"* add more kpop music to the playlist"

course reviews are in! as always i skip to the most valuable feedback

sad. i can be sad

rooted for the losing team in two of the most exciting sports moments of the year (ravens tonight and jays in the world series). crushed, but both were so awesome how sad can i be

screenshot of the first page of a bio of chaz for an apa early career award

excerpt from the article: "Chaz was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, to parents Sherry and Jay. His younger brother Ross is an MD/PhD who worked on the front lines of New York City’s COVID-19 response and now studies and treats rare cancers. “Even though he is half the doctor that Ross is (just a PhD),” Sherry once posted on social media, “I still love Chaz just as much!”" (the quote from chaz's mom is highlighted)

So fun to see this out! Thanks to friends, family, and colleagues for the support (and hi mom) perception.jhu.edu/files/PDFs/2...

this reminds me that I should tell Jeremy Goodman that he was right and I was wrong about this, I tried to work on it for a while and the common knowledge case does create a ton of complications that don't arise for K-omega
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BDH has done a vastly better job than the NYT so far. (You wouldn't be surprised.)

heart is breaking for our beloved brown university and its community 💔

my 5-year-old can do like one bar max and suddenly i’m worried the earth was created 6000 years ago

zeke wearing a “confectionary critic” cookie judge badge

zeke judging cookies

(the cookie was made by my graduate student and the judge was my 5 year old so i have mixed feelings about this situation)

a cookie decorated with frosting to be an ames room

someone made an ames room for our department’s holiday party cookie decorating contest and it’s a travesty that it didn’t win

Love this work by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social and @jorge-morales.bsky.social! Representational momentum beyond motion 👇

Representational Momentum Transcends Motion Dillon Plunkett & Jorge Morales (2025) Psychological Science

When we see something that's moving, our memories about it end up projected forward in time: We remember it further along than it was. In a new paper in 𝘗𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, out today and led by @dillonplunkett.bsky.social, we demonstrate that this happens even when there is 𝙣𝙤 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙨𝙤𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.🧵

a box of ferrero rocher chocolates and a card for Professor Firestone

my chocolate-for-A+ policy is working great this year! 10/10 would recommend

Thank you to the 2025 IJE cohort who helped improve manuscripts this year via our pre-external review process!

Matthew O'Donohue: scholar.google.com.au/citations?us...
Marcell Székely: scholar.google.com/citations?hl...
Zekun Sun: zekun-sun.github.io

soon to be youngest tenured gopher in town!!

now i know how my closest collaborator got to be so wise

spotify wrapped “listening age”: 28

people are ragging on this listening age thing but mine got my actual age exactly right so i don’t see the problem?

The call for commentaries on our "Core Perception" paper is now live! We would love to know what you think about this new perspective on the nature of early emerging knowledge.

Details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Proposals due Dec 29!

love the qualifier

I mostly make fun of posts like this, obviously, but I just have learned such an incredible amount from basically everyone in this department, and the vibes are great, and the work is so so good, I’m willing to compromise my Personal Brand on their behalf

luv'd yr colloq!

Just gave a colloq there last month and can confirm, awesome group of scientists!

Can’t imagine there’s anyone on the fence about applying who cares what I think, but fwiw and imho: this is a *really* exciting and special department, so if you were waiting for the Noam chompers signature endorsement™️ to apply, here you go