Maël Delem

Our new preprint explores what people with different visual imagery abilities 'see' during Ganzflicker-induced hallucinations. We used NLP + ML techniques to analyze descriptions from 4,000+ participants.
See what we found in @kerblooee.bsky.social's thread

15.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

i'm sorry my review is late
i meant to read it weeks ago
but the writing
was actively hostile to comprehension
each paragraph
a slow erosion
of my will to live

18.07.2025 14:23 — 👍 141    🔁 32    💬 2    📌 3

HAARETZ 'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid IDF officers and soldiers told Haaretz they were ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, prompting the military prosecution to call for a review into possible war crimes ■ Netanyahu, Katz reject claims, call them 'blood libels' X Save Zen Read

IDF officers and soldiers told Israeli media that they were ordered to fire at unarmed civilians near food distribution sites in Gaza, even when no threat was present. Hundreds of Palestinians have been murdered. #3E #FreeGaza

29.06.2025 08:41 — 👍 2115    🔁 1057    💬 121    📌 83

A Polytechnique, des élèves interrompent la cérémonie de remise de diplômes faute d’avoir pu parler d’écologie sur scène Une dizaine d’étudiants de la prestigieuse école d’ingénieurs a protesté vendredi 13 juin contre le refus de la direction de les laisser évoquer la question environnementale.

[ #VeilleESR #ObscurantismeESR ] Polytechnique demande que les étudiants soumettent par écrit leur discours de fin d'année à l'approbation de l'administration.

Je crois que c'est l'exacte définition de la censure.

Des textes portants sur l'écologie, le féminisme et les inégalités ont été censurés.

19.06.2025 07:11 — 👍 371    🔁 238    💬 14    📌 27

Enseignement privé : ce que prévoit le projet de loi de "modernisation... Le projet de loi "modernisation et régulation de l’enseignement supérieur" porté par le MESR vise la création de deux dispositifs de reconnaissance par...

On est passé de "régulation de l'enseignement supérieur privé" à "modernisation de l'enseignement supérieur"...

Le projet a été envoyé à @newstankeduc.bsky.social et @aefsuprecherche.bsky.social, mais je n'ai pas réussi à le trouver sur les sites institutionnels.

Ca ne sent pas bon du tout.

29.06.2025 08:31 — 👍 24    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 2

(And like, why are we still measuring researchers' productivity using number of outputs? I do not publish much but because I want to be reliable, replicable, and thoughtful. That's necessarily going to be slower but my work ends up in a "better" journal and being cited a little more.)

27.06.2025 02:27 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

So if you can find that you can discriminate blue-seers from red-seers based on a determinable ground truth (e.g. brain response to red & blue stimuli), then this is meaningful. But what you -cannot- do is using people's brain patterns as an "objective" alternative to their self-report.

25.06.2025 03:18 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Congrats for the paper, and thank you so much for the use of the colourblind-friendly Okabe-Ito colour palette - your figures are beautiful

24.06.2025 17:46 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OSF

Can aphantasia be identified with a single question?:

"Visualise a place that you know very well in every possible detail (e.g., your workplace, your bedroom or your favourite bar). How vivid is the picture that comes before your mind's eye?"

from Merlin Monzel &c

Preprint:
osf.io/preprints/ps...

14.06.2025 08:40 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

(PDF) Uncovering spatial and verbal cognitive profiles in aphantasia through unsupervised clustering PDF | Mental images are a ubiquitous phenomenon for many people. In recent years, attention has focused on a condition defined by the absence of mental... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

What a cool preprint! From @gaenplancher.bsky.social

Different subtypes of aphantasia show different performance on spatial, verbal & perceptual tasks:

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

21.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 27    🔁 8    💬 3    📌 1

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24.06.2025 14:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0