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👀 Sneak a peek at the deepest & sharpest infrared image of the early universe ever taken — all in a day’s work for the Webb telescope. (Literally, capturing it took less than a day!) This is Webb’s first image released as we begin to #UnfoldTheUniverse: nasa.gov/webbfirstimage…

Has the world become less colourful? (This graph shows the colour of objects over time)

The Psychology Department at American University has an opening for a cognitive or social psychologist (Assistant or Associate level). Here are the details: apply.interfolio.com/112471

. Alexander Rose-Henig

A phishing email with my name is currently being sent to many of my contacts. The email is not from me, please do not respond to it. The current version of the phishing email originates from a gmail account but has my American University email in the signature.

Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" is one of the world's most famous images. But what is it? Who the hell is he? Why does he have four arms and four legs? The answer probably has something to do with the room you're sitting in right now...

When hunting, owls swoop silently from the sky. To show just how impressive a feat this is, BBC Earth set up this experiment comparing owl flight to that of a pigeon and Peregrine Falcon [full video, BBC: buff.ly/3eSbcvr]

Thread of the most beautiful paintings of the moon: The Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh (1889)

chatGPT: "create an illusion in the style of Akiyoshi Kitaoka with p5js" openprocessing.org/sketch/1764990 Akiyoshi Kitaoka kohske

Urgent. The execution sentence of #Mohammad_Ghobadlou, 22, has been approved by Iran’s Supreme Court & it could be carried out at any moment, according to Amnesty International. UN Human Rights Council & UN Human Rights, please do what you can to stop this. #MahsaAmini #مهسا_امینی #محمد_قبادلو #IranRevoIution

Better than expected

What animal do you see in this video? With similar videos that isolate object movements, in a paper that just came out in #JNeurosci, Sophia Roberts sophie robert, Leslie Ungerleider, and I explored what brain regions process movement cues from objects. jneurosci.org/content/43/4/6…

It's National Fentanyl Awareness Day. I want to share critical info as a pediatrician & dad. Drug overdoses now kill the equivalent to a high school classroom of teens every week across the US. About 9 in 10 are caused by fentanyl. 🧵 1/

Escaping Criticism, painted by Pere Borrell del Caso in 1874, is a perfect example of the art technique called "trompe-l'œil", an optical illusion where the painter makes a flat surface seem three-dimensional. And it will completely change the way you think of art...

***UPDATE*** New explanation of #Russia's new use of 'Deceptive' Camouflage on warships in Black Sea. Link in reply #OSINT

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黒四角の右上と左下の頂点が斜めに引き伸ばされて見える。これ錯視かな？正方形が斜めに引っ張られてる。

Yuki Kobayashi & Arthur G. Shapiro American University describe relationships among lightness illusions uncovered by analyses of individual differences. doi.org/10.1167/jov.25…