Geoffrey Aguirre
@gkaguirre.com
Behavioral neurologist and vision scientist at the University of Pennsylvania
https://www.gkaguirre.com/
https://www.gkaguirre.com/
This is excellent and has me re-evaluating my well-intended (but unwittingly harmful) efforts at precision in collecting demographic data from participants in experiments.
[h/t @steveharoz.com]
[h/t @steveharoz.com]
The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.
Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch
Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...
blog.djnavarro.net
August 6, 2026 at 1:02 PM
This is excellent and has me re-evaluating my well-intended (but unwittingly harmful) efforts at precision in collecting demographic data from participants in experiments.
[h/t @steveharoz.com]
[h/t @steveharoz.com]
This is a great organization that is committed to supporting early-career clinician scientists. Not just for MD/PhDs! Straight MDs, DOs, and even veterinarians. Please share with anyone you know who might be eligible.
🚨 Funding Opportunity
BWF's Career Awards for Medical Scientists is accepting applications
Physician-scientists in the US & Canada can receive $700K over 5 years to support the transition to an independent academic research career
Deadline: 9/30/26
🔗 buff.ly/rX4rd0E
#bwfcams #PhysicianScientist
BWF's Career Awards for Medical Scientists is accepting applications
Physician-scientists in the US & Canada can receive $700K over 5 years to support the transition to an independent academic research career
Deadline: 9/30/26
🔗 buff.ly/rX4rd0E
#bwfcams #PhysicianScientist
July 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
This is a great organization that is committed to supporting early-career clinician scientists. Not just for MD/PhDs! Straight MDs, DOs, and even veterinarians. Please share with anyone you know who might be eligible.
Reposted by Geoffrey Aguirre
This week we completed an elusive measurement: the flat fielding function of the wide-angle camera on our wearable light-logger. To do so, we visited the Fels Planetarium at the @franklininstitute.bsky.social. 1/6
July 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
This week we completed an elusive measurement: the flat fielding function of the wide-angle camera on our wearable light-logger. To do so, we visited the Fels Planetarium at the @franklininstitute.bsky.social. 1/6
This week we completed an elusive measurement: the flat fielding function of the wide-angle camera on our wearable light-logger. To do so, we visited the Fels Planetarium at the @franklininstitute.bsky.social. 1/6
July 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM
This week we completed an elusive measurement: the flat fielding function of the wide-angle camera on our wearable light-logger. To do so, we visited the Fels Planetarium at the @franklininstitute.bsky.social. 1/6
In honor of Mel Brooks turning 100, I would like to again note that young Dr. Frankenstein gives a pretty good brainstem lecture.
June 29, 2026 at 1:20 AM
In honor of Mel Brooks turning 100, I would like to again note that young Dr. Frankenstein gives a pretty good brainstem lecture.
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🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research
Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...
arxiv.org
June 2, 2026 at 12:23 PM
🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/
A clever addition to multi-echo analysis that reduces warping from head motion. The MEDIC software is available here: github.com/vanandrew/wa...
June 2, 2026 at 11:24 AM
A clever addition to multi-echo analysis that reduces warping from head motion. The MEDIC software is available here: github.com/vanandrew/wa...
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Delighted that a new online talk is up for viewz on Youtube: "Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye". Thanks to Marion Silies and Luisa Ramirez for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYJ....
Tom Baden - Evolution of the Eye
YouTube video by BadenLab
www.youtube.com
May 29, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Delighted that a new online talk is up for viewz on Youtube: "Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye". Thanks to Marion Silies and Luisa Ramirez for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYJ....
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Peak retired academic moment.
1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx?
2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found.
3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.
1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx?
2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found.
3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.
April 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Peak retired academic moment.
1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx?
2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found.
3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.
1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx?
2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found.
3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.
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We're excited to share our new study on decoding brain activity in participants with post-stroke aphasia! We think this is an important step towards cognitive brain-computer interfaces for patients with language disorders
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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www.biorxiv.org
April 9, 2026 at 7:18 PM
We're excited to share our new study on decoding brain activity in participants with post-stroke aphasia! We think this is an important step towards cognitive brain-computer interfaces for patients with language disorders
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Somehow this must be useful for vision science 🧠
For four years, Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing she owned, "from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics... absolutely everything. 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects." Explore the collection here. [kottke.org]
A Catalog of an Entire House/Life
In a period of four years, Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing in her house, “from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics… absolutely e
kottke.org
April 7, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Somehow this must be useful for vision science 🧠
Very cool. The white matter connectivity of early visual cortex recapitulates the polar angle variation of retinal structure.
One look at this figure and you know you are in the world of retinal meridians and that Marisa Carrasco will be making an appearance.
One look at this figure and you know you are in the world of retinal meridians and that Marisa Carrasco will be making an appearance.
April 7, 2026 at 10:56 AM
Very cool. The white matter connectivity of early visual cortex recapitulates the polar angle variation of retinal structure.
One look at this figure and you know you are in the world of retinal meridians and that Marisa Carrasco will be making an appearance.
One look at this figure and you know you are in the world of retinal meridians and that Marisa Carrasco will be making an appearance.
I am standing for election to the VSS board. The slate of candidates [with 25% immodesty] is fantastic. Please consider engaging in the difficult decision process of identifying a just-noticeable-difference in great folks who are eager to serve vision science.
🗳️ The VSS Board of Directors Election is Now Open!
Cast your vote for two new board members (4-year terms).
✅ Eligibility: Must be a Regular or Postdoc 2026 Member
⏳ Deadline: April 24, 2026 (11:59 pm AoE)
Vote now: bit.ly/4do5zEO
#VSS2026 #VisionScience
Cast your vote for two new board members (4-year terms).
✅ Eligibility: Must be a Regular or Postdoc 2026 Member
⏳ Deadline: April 24, 2026 (11:59 pm AoE)
Vote now: bit.ly/4do5zEO
#VSS2026 #VisionScience
April 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
I am standing for election to the VSS board. The slate of candidates [with 25% immodesty] is fantastic. Please consider engaging in the difficult decision process of identifying a just-noticeable-difference in great folks who are eager to serve vision science.
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Man I missed out on being on that 900 author paper. I’m holding out for a 9000 author paper.
April 1, 2026 at 5:42 PM
Man I missed out on being on that 900 author paper. I’m holding out for a 9000 author paper.
I read bioRxiv titles in all caps as the scientist excitedly yelling the result to their colleagues. Can you believe it?? SENSORY MAPS IN THE TELENCEPHALIC PALLIUM!!
SENSORY MAPS IN THE TELENCEPHALIC PALLIUM OF GOLDFISH. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.25.714251v1
March 27, 2026 at 8:27 PM
I read bioRxiv titles in all caps as the scientist excitedly yelling the result to their colleagues. Can you believe it?? SENSORY MAPS IN THE TELENCEPHALIC PALLIUM!!
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Congratulations to @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 Ken Nakayama medal from @vssmtg.bsky.social! Nancy is not only a brilliant scientist, she has also been an inspiring mentor to several generations of vision scientists (including me).
March 20, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Congratulations to @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 Ken Nakayama medal from @vssmtg.bsky.social! Nancy is not only a brilliant scientist, she has also been an inspiring mentor to several generations of vision scientists (including me).
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Beautiful essay from @samhenri.gold about the joy of hacking, disguised as a review of the MacBook Neo.
samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold
Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.
samhenri.gold
March 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Beautiful essay from @samhenri.gold about the joy of hacking, disguised as a review of the MacBook Neo.
samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...
The BCBL would be an amazing place to work. Great colleagues in a gorgeous location with some of the finest food in the world.
📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠
Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL.
More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n
Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL.
More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n
JOB OFFER PhD RESEARCHER - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - BRAIN RHYTHMS AND COGNITION RESEARCH GROUP
at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country,...
tinyurl.com
February 24, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The BCBL would be an amazing place to work. Great colleagues in a gorgeous location with some of the finest food in the world.
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There’s an interesting lawsuit out of Connecticut I’ve been following that rests on the question of whether darkness — yes, darkness, the primordial Erebus himself— is a natural resource. Here’s why that’s potentially a big deal.
February 5, 2026 at 4:34 PM
There’s an interesting lawsuit out of Connecticut I’ve been following that rests on the question of whether darkness — yes, darkness, the primordial Erebus himself— is a natural resource. Here’s why that’s potentially a big deal.
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Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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Happy VSS deadline extension to all the vision scientists out there.
December 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Happy VSS deadline extension to all the vision scientists out there.
This is really cool. There is some interesting thinking to be done regarding optimal temporal experimental design within this framework.
14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N
Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI
Nature Methods - Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS) is an acquisition scheme for event-related fMRI that generates data with high temporal signal-to-noise ratios interspaced with...
rdcu.be
November 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is really cool. There is some interesting thinking to be done regarding optimal temporal experimental design within this framework.
As it is spooky season, you should read this study of Aztec skull whistles, and listen to the screaming sounds that they produce.
The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles
caneuro.github.io
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
As it is spooky season, you should read this study of Aztec skull whistles, and listen to the screaming sounds that they produce.
Philly on the march.
October 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Philly on the march.
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Today, the PhD student I co-supervised with Dr. Toni Saarela, Lari Virtanen, is defending his thesis on color ensemble perception at the University of Helsinki. It is both a happy and a sad day. Toni passed away only two weeks ago and just missed seeing his first PhD student graduate. RIP Toni ❤️😔
October 3, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Today, the PhD student I co-supervised with Dr. Toni Saarela, Lari Virtanen, is defending his thesis on color ensemble perception at the University of Helsinki. It is both a happy and a sad day. Toni passed away only two weeks ago and just missed seeing his first PhD student graduate. RIP Toni ❤️😔