Abstract Mad Libs

I love how sassy the feedback is for inaccurate responses

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...

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

Cow Tools!

We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them

It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS

Here I describe our study

(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social

In Australia we have government run by private school elitists for the benefit of private school elitists #auspol

Differences in perceived speed

This head is spinning continuously, but we see it rotating back and forth...

...presumably because of our strong prior expectation that faces are convex.

This is a very nice example of the Hollow-Face illusion promoted by Richard Gregory:

www.richardgregory.org/experiments/

Photo of a black twig covered in yellow slime mold sporangia.

Slime mold on a stick. NWT, Canada. Photo covers about 5cm in height.
#slime #myxo #fungifriends

Watching this YouTube video will plant a forest YouTube video by Beau Miles

Beau Miles. One of my favourite YouTubers, a genuine human, being his awesome self. And so watchable too, he can really tell a story. youtu.be/T5YF95r_Bew?...

This video revenue will plant trees.

I love this, he’s documented the whole process, transparently, no BS. This is how you do it.