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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend we stayed in a Yurt in Bruce Peninsula National Park parks.canada.ca/pn-np/on/bruce
The weather was amazing -- preternaturally warm. The Grotto and Indian Head Cove looked like the Mediterranean.

People enjoying the rocky beach on Bruce Peninsula.

People enjoying the little beach on Bruce Peninsula.

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 27d

The Department of Neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge has a tenure-track position for a neuroscientist studying brain function across the life span in nonhuman animals. Join a terrific community of researchers in a beautiful part of the country.🧠🧪 Re-post
uleth.peopleadmin.ca/postings/8586

The image depicts the University of Lethbridge, located in Southern Alberta, Canada. The prominent building shown in the image is the Science Commons, which is situated on the university campus within the coulee landscape.

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 27d

I spotted these berries on trails near London ON: bright red American Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum); white baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda); and dark purple American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana). Only the Highbush Cranberry is edible; the other two are poisonous to humans.🌿🌱

Close-up photo of American Highbush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum)

White baneberry or doll’s eye (Actaea pachypoda)

American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana)

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Sep 3

You can find in Glacier National Park in British Columbia, Canada. hiddengemsofbc.ca/2021/08/14/w...

Waters meet along a mountain trail in Glacier National Park - Hidden Gems of BC

The Meeting of the Waters is a magical hidden gem in Glacier National Park between Revelstoke and Go

hiddengemsofbc.ca

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Sep 3

How good are we at estimating someone's age from their face and how does that change with the face's chronological age? @tganel.bsky.social et al.'s new framework disentangles bias and error, revealing new insights into how facial age is computed by humans and AIs. 🧪 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Photos of the faces of three women, one young, one middle-aged, and one elderly. Text: Apparent facial age plays an important role in social interactions and is a meaningful marker of biological aging. Although both humans and AIs achieve reasonable accuracy in estimating age from a person’s face, performance remains imprecise. Drawing on principles from classical psychophysics, we show that the conventional measure used to benchmark the accuracy of human and AI performance is fundamentally confounded by response bias. We introduce a new framework based on simulated data, reanalysis of existing data, and new experimental results. Our framework provides novel insights into how facial age is processed by humans and AIs, offering new directions for future research and applications in the study of aging.

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Sep 2

I think this is a Peck's Skipper (Polites peckius) gracing our front garden. If you look closely, you can see its long proboscis stretching into the Liatris flower. 🌿

Photo of a Peck's Skipper butterfly feeding on the purple flower of a Liatris.

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Claire O'Callaghan @claireocallaghan.bsky.social · Aug 25

OHBM Oz rego + abstracts now open. Get amongst it!

OHBM Australia @ohbm-australia.bsky.social · Aug 25

✨✨ We are excited to announce the OHBM Australian Chapter 2025 Annual Meeting! 🧠🇦🇺

📢 Abstract submissions & registration now OPEN (abstract submission closes September 15th at 5pm)

📍 Melbourne 🏙️☕
📅 Wednesday, November 12, 2025

ohbm-aus.github.io/posts/2025-a...

We hope to see you there! 🤩

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Marek Pedziwiatr @marekpedziwi.bsky.social · Aug 25

End of August means ECVP! This year, I am here (in beautiful Mainz) with a special mission - to find postdocs who will join us in (equally beautiful) Krakow, PL! Drop me a DM if you are interested!
@ecvp.bsky.social

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Aug 25

Common Eastern Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) foraging on new blooms on a Grape-leaf Anemone (Anemone tomentosa) in our front garden on this fine August afternoon. 🌱 🌿

Common Eastern Bumble bee on pink flower of the Grape-leaf Anemone with Oxeye or False Sunflower in the background.

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Ravi Menon, Ph.D. @northernthrux.bsky.social · Aug 25

Animal welfare is important when conducting scientific research that benefits human health. A well thought out essay by Dr. Arthur Brown, Chair of the Animal Care Committee at Western University. torontostarreplica.pressreader.com/article/2816...

Toronto Star ePaper

torontostarreplica.pressreader.com

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Department of History - Western University @westernuhistory.bsky.social · Aug 25

RARE BOOK COLLECTIONS IN TODAY’S LIFE - Old books carry the voices of our ancestors—the artistry of centuries. Discover the stories behind the pages—and how they shape the present. FREE public workshop and one is online! Register! www.journal.dsartistrylabs.com/home/collect...

DS Artistry Labs Journal - Workshop-Collections

Free Public Workshop

www.journal.dsartistrylabs.com

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Aug 25

Upcoming conference will explore the evolving ethical and societal questions posed by human stem cell-derived neural organoid and assembloid research, discussing strategies for the responsible advancement and communication of these technologies.
sto.stanfordtickets.org/ethical-and-... 🧪🧠 re-post

Screen shot from conference site: Ethical and Societal Implications of Neural Organoids, Assembloids and their Transplantation, November 10-12, 2025

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Aug 23

Not one, not two, not three, but four Monarch caterpillars on one Milkweed plant in my daughter's front garden. Usually, Monarchs lay only one egg per plant. Was it a confused mother butterfly, or did different females lay their one egg on the same plant?

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Dorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · Aug 21

Now that’s what I call a special issue

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Aug 20

#OnThisDay in 1858, a seminal journal article comprised of papers by Alfred Russel Wallace FRS and Charles Darwin FRS on the theory of evolution by natural selection was published by the Linnean Society, the first public announcement of the theory of evolution. bit.ly/3k8fq4u

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Nature @nature.com · Aug 21

A brain-imaging study of people with amputated arms has upended a long-standing belief

go.nature.com/3Jp9NPG

The brain’s map of the body is surprisingly stable — even after a limb is lost

Study challenges the textbook idea that the brain region that processes body sensations reorganizes itself after limb amputation.

go.nature.com

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here's the schedule for the MIT Consciousness Club this year: sites.google.com/view/mit-con.... I'm looking forward to it! (Rooms will be announced soon; and we're currently working on a zoom option for those who would like to join online)

MIT Consciousness Club

The MIT Consciousness Club aims to foster interdisciplinary research on consciousness at MIT and in the broader Boston area by organizing a monthly event featuring an expert talk on consciousness foll...

sites.google.com

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Aug 18

Queen Anne's Lace and friends at Komoka Provincial Park this beautiful afternoon.
www.ontarioparks.ca/park/komoka

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Aug 5

A Milkweed Tussock Moth (Euchaetes egle) caterpillar chomping its way through a leaf of the Milkweed growing in our back garden. Like the Monarch butterfly, the adult moths become unpalatable to predators from feeding on the Milkweed when they were caterpillars.

Orange and yellow caterpillar with white and black tufts on a Milkweed leaf.

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Aug 5

Busy Carpenter bee foraging on Blue Vervain (Verbena hastata) in our front garden. This tall perennial is native to southern Ontario. It attracts a lot of pollinators.

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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · Jul 30

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms

Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.

www.nature.com

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hope! We have Milkweed growing in our yard, which attracts Monarch butterflies. We were pleased to see a Monarch chrysalis hanging from the top of a basement window a few days ago. Today, a beautiful butterfly emerged.

Recently emerged adult Monarch butterfly hanging from the husk of the chrysalis.

An hour later and the wings are almost fully extended.

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jul 22

Revitalizing walk in Pinery Provincial Park. We are lucky to have this wonderful resource so close to where we live.
pinerypark.on.ca
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinery_...

View of the Old Ausable Channel in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.

Fragrant White Waterlily (Nymphaea odorata) in the Old Ausable Channel in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.

Canoeing in the Old Ausable Channel in Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario.

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andrew haun @andrewhaun.bsky.social · Jul 3

Some arguments for why we should believe that visual experience is the way it seems to be - in Trends in Cognitive Sciences, from myself and Giulio Tononi:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1lMzy4sIRv...

authors.elsevier.com

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · Jun 8

Absolute honor to be awarded the David Marr Medal by the Applied Vision Association @theava-uk.bsky.social

Looking forward to my talk “Five Illusions Challenge Our Understanding of Visual Experience”

Thanks so much to NOMIS Foundation,
@italianacademy.bsky.social ,
@zuckermanbrain.bsky.social

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · Jun 8

Our peonies are doing well with all the rain we've had in London ON.

Big beautiful white peonies with yellow centres.

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