Interested in thinking more deeply about what a “cause” is? Causation: A Very Short Introduction from Rani Lill Anjum and @SDMumford is a great starting point. Thread recap starting now👇🏽#twittereview #epibookclub #causation #causalinference #epimethodsclub

I am so happy to report the official news that doing this for over a decade has not prevented UC Berkeley from awarding me tenure.

A big thanks to ClickHole for so beautifully capturing the essence of life as a perception researcher!

PhD student? Or aspiring influencer?

working on my data visualization skills

Tonight, the world's first planetary defense test will take place, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. At 7:14pm ET, DART’s impact will slow Dimorphos down, which will make it orbit Didymos faster. This technique could save Earth one day - the only preventable natural disaster.

Live from Johns Hopkins APL: Follow the real-time journey of the #DARTMission spacecraft towards its planned impact with a non-hazardous asteroid Dimorphos in the world’s first planetary defense test. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

We had @j6m8 visit us for three weeks and made tremendous strides on our machine learning segmentation project! We should be ready to release it later this spring🤗 Of course, this meant a farewell dinner, and Odin joined the fun! Thanks Per Ahlberg for playing with the toy car

Poster is up! Looking forward to the session with ⁦Loren P. Matelsky⁩ #spsp2023

Here’s our official portrait from yesterday’s Political Psychology poster session at #SPSP2023! Thank you to everyone who stopped by to chat about our research!

When an object changes speed, what causes you to notice this? Is visual detection orientation-independent — or might it depend on how a speed change is oriented relative to *gravity*? Thrilled that my first perception paper has been accepted at JEP:HPP! nssrperception.com/project-speed-…

My mom and I always send each other photos of the flowers we see when we go for walks and I just noticed my photo from today’s walk had a sprinkling of cigarette butts and a full order of vomit in the background. That’s the magic of springtime in NYC❤️

Tomorrow (Sat), members of the New School Perception Lab will give three presentations at #VSS2023 discussing work on face perception Loren P. Matelsky, intuitive physical knowledge in visual attention Hong B. Nguyen, and the perception of pictorial artworks Kexuan (Serena) Zhang June Huang!

Loren P. Matelsky Hong B. Nguyen Kexuan (Serena) Zhang June Huang Abstracts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1Le…

Loren P. Matelsky Hong B. Nguyen Kexuan (Serena) Zhang June Huang Shout-out to Colleen Macklin, who worked with Loren P. Matelsky, Hong B. Nguyen and me on the mischievous facial expressions project. Colleen is a game designer at Parsons, and we co-teach a course on perception & games. We're excited to share some ideas from Game Studies with VSS!