Visual illusions are often an entry point to learning about visual perception & neuroscience. Some of them can have an impact on research, like with the dress that broke the internet. You can now vote for the best visual illusion of the year until this Saturday (link below). 🧵

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On behalf of Paul Lombardo at GSU Law, keep your eye on buckvbell.com/index.html. Prof Lombardo is compiling documents and materials he's been collecting for decades and they will be available soon. This will a valuable online resource for those of who study eugenics and the law! Sneak peek here.

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Look I also love the videos of Carolyn Marvin's one-woman war on the delivery robots but you gotta agree it's uhhhhhhh emblematic of our approach to collective action

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The buttenut squash soup I had for dinner was a 5 on Maslow's scale.

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“Large language models can mimic thought and feeling with uncanny skill. But evidence from neuroscience suggests that intelligence alone is not enough for subjective experience.” (Anil Seth, one of the authors of this piece, is a voice I greatly respect on the subject of consciousness.)

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