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Dr Ben Wolfe
@benwolfevision.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Toronto Mississauga

Co-Director, APPLY Lab (www.applylab.org)

Least important mammal in his house (just ask the cats).

"If vision worked like *that*, we'd all be dead."
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This isn’t all of them, but it’s all of them that fit in one photo
Bookshelves in a professor’s office with a genuinely surprising number of plushies. That moose is about 3’ long
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Yay!
A man with two white and tabby cats on his lap. My lapfungus approves.
January 20, 2026 at 8:53 PM
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Here, we bribe during the claw-snipping.
A blurry white and tabby cat eating a churu. He has had his pointies stolen and he doesn’t care a whit.
January 19, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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The biting pear of Salamanca, or a vast green pear with teeth being photographed by a chipmunk (illustration by Ursula Vernon)
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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I mean, sometimes the Grey Lady knows she's printing fowlness.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/s...

(that's a gift link)
Image of a white man dressed in warm running clothes holding two chickens. Headline below reads "The Chicken Runner of Tyler County, West Virginia"
January 19, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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He was very friendly, and extremely cute.

Then again, my beasties are pretty cute too.
Two white and tabby cats schnorgling
January 19, 2026 at 3:53 AM
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Oddly, I also have a pretty firm “no pies” rule for baking.

I dislike gloop.

Then again, I made this today.
Apricot frangipane tart
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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Very tempting to send this to a friend who was bemoaning their inbox recently.

Also, it’s adorable.
Image (illustrated) of 10 bunnies in a burrow, captioned “there are tunnels underground where bunnies are safe, safe from emails”
January 19, 2026 at 12:42 AM
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Latest baking project
Apricot frangipane tart, pre-baking
January 18, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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Cat pile o’ clock here too
Two white and tabby cats sleeping
January 18, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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This is a test of the Cute Distribution System
Two white and tabby cats schnorgling
January 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Probably for someone, not for me (and evidently not popular in the shop where I saw it, given the clearance stickers).
Whipped “cream” canisters, reading LIMITED EDITION Gay Lea PUMPKIN SPICE COCONUT WHIPPED TOPPING WITH Recal COCONUT CREAM On clearance for a toonie a can
January 17, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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Howl and I are making disapproving faces at your imposter syndrome about your friends
A man sitting in a yellow chair, glowering at his phone (not actually pissed, just caught at an odd moment) and a lorge white and tabby cat on his lap yawning expansively.
January 17, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Sophie the Cat says you did
White and tabby cat on a blanket
January 15, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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This was sold as “shawarma poutine”
A very middling takeout container of poutine. The shawarma that was supposed to be part of this is absent.
January 14, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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The little piece of this that shows up in Discover Canada is *interesting* if one didn't hear about it much growing up outside Canada
The War of 1812: The Fight for Canada After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), the Royal Navy ruled the waves. The British Empire, which included Canada, fought to resist Bonaparte’s bid to dominate Europe. This led to American resentment at British interference with their shipping. Believing it would be easy to conquer Canada, the United States launched an invasion in June 1812. The Americans were mistaken. Canadian volunteers and First Nations, including Shawnee led by Chief Tecumseh, supported British soldiers in Canada’s defence. In July, Major-General Sir Isaac Brock captured Detroit but was killed while defending against an American attack at Queenston Heights, near Niagara Falls, a battle the Americans lost. In 1813, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles de Salaberry and 460 soldiers, mostly French Canadiens, turned back 4,000 American invaders at Châteauguay, south of Montreal. In 1813 the Americans burned Government House and the Parliament Buildings in York (now Toronto). In retaliation in 1814, Major-General Robert Ross led an expedition from Nova Scotia that burned down the White House and other public buildings in Washington, D.C. Ross died in battle soon afterwards and was buried in Halifax with full military honours By 1814, the American attempt to conquer Canada had failed. The British paid for a costly Canadian defence system, including the Citadels at Halifax and Québec City, the naval drydock at Halifax and Fort Henry at Kingston—today popular historic sites. The present-day Canada-U.S.A. border is partly an outcome of the War of 1812, which ensured that Canada would remain independent of the United States
January 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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An empty finished basement with grey and very green walls, with a white and tabby cat in frame
January 13, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Latest baking project
Russian honey cake (In celebration of 15 years together with my spouse… it’s the taste of her childhood) A view into the cake (layers) A small mid-afternoon slice on a blue and white plate for quality control
January 11, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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White and tabby and no thoughts
January 11, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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I am a bathhouse
A white and tabby cat licking himself thoroughly on a man’s lap
January 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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Whine it up sparkling white grape beverage
January 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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Ok, Amazon, that isn’t what I asked for
Amazon search bar with the query “candied orange peel” and the sponsored search result of “dulce (sea bacon) seaweed flakes” No, Amazon, that’s really not the same thing at all.
January 9, 2026 at 3:52 AM
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A man looking at two large cats on his lap. The man looks mildly dyspeptic, the cats are having a mutual bath
January 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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You probably need a cat today.
A white and tabby cat on a ferociously yellow rocking chair licks his paw
January 8, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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“We have such delights to show you” - @funranium.bsky.social

Art by @lartist.bsky.social
A Lar DeSouza piece illustrating Phillip Broughton as the Cenobite of Sharing. I’m not sure I could describe this if I tried.
January 7, 2026 at 3:39 AM