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...
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...
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!
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.
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!
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
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
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 ↓
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! 💪
"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
