Trent Wirth

Some brands need a logo.
Some brands need a funny little guy.

But what if you could have BOTH!?

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Additional add-ons are possible as well! But I can't fit all that onto this jpeg.

Yuck.

I figured that the experience of imposters syndrome disqualified me from that list, but reading it still made my spidey senes tingle 🤪

Maybe I’ll get over it after another decade in academia

Ouch, you’ve hit me right in the *imposter syndrome*

I don't usually watch 60 Minutes, but I sure as heck watched the banned segment via other means.

I don't usually watch Colbert, but I sure as heck watched the banned segment via YouTube.

I'm unsure if this overt state censorship is having its desired effect, actually!

I watched it with my son randomly over the holiday break, had no clue what I was getting into. Absolutely loved it, totally shed tears

“and social groups…” — I’d think that social groups are a large part of the process of persuasion

Eg, families and communities frame the media you consume as good, bad, extreme, well said.

And another aside, extended cognition theory includes social groups in your mind’s infrastructure.

Fajen was his PhD advisor and Hayhoe his post-doc, but yes :)

Matthis was my post-doc advisor for transparency and context

I’ve been thinking of the Boston Massacre a lot lately, and how the event shaped the Bill of Rights.

I should add, the Matthis papers don’t comment on saccadic suppression, but rather the flow signal human eyes receive during locomotion.

Adding more detail to my thoughts, VOR+blinks could reduce a lot of the “need” for saccadic suppression. Motion is information

also, for large saccades, you typically blink while making them. Segmenting the times we blink vs when we don’t is interesting here, blinks could be a good indicator of the ecological value of certain types of motion caused by head+eye movements

A takeaway I have from their work and the data I’m collecting looking at gaze during locomotion is that VOR does a lot of work to create regular patterns of optic flow that I imagine are information rich and specify detailed information of how your body moves through space…

I think a lot of the work I plan to do over the next ~1-3 years or so could start to address this question (thanks for asking it! It’s a good one) but for now, check out Matthis Muller Bonnen & Hayhoe 2022 and look at the videos from Matthis Yates & Hayhoe 2018 —

Wild to think that’s a safe place to store anything

Absolutely, short form missed so much

If you’re not following her already, @kyla.bsky.social is a favorite voice of mine in this space

In isolation, it does sound like that in this clip

However, in the broader context of Kyla Scanlan’s or Scott Galloway’s (haven’t listened to Ed) economic assessments, treat culture is a symptom, not a cause of young people’s economic situation

I think it’s fairly different, the logic here is a learned economic hopelessness.

I got the in-person interview! For a lot of reasons, this is the only job I applied to — the pressure is on 😬

Funny, because my current role is as an educator, I prepped a teaching demo but I haven’t ever prepped a job talk.

I’m going to have a busy (but hopefully great) January 🤪

LOL

Congrats!! Well deserved

I don’t know but we need to be keeping an eye on it for a lot of reasons

I talked about brainrot a lot in my “Cog Sci & AI” Capstone this semester — the students we have now are mostly disturbed/amused by it but pretty soon it could be a core piece of consumed entertainment

Words can barely describe how deeply my heart breaks for my Providence RI community.

My heart and thoughts are with my home away from home at Brown tonight.

A young Anakin Skywalker walking on Tatooine, cast within his shadow is the visage of Darth Vader looming behind him

My mom pulled my brother and I out of school for a family emergency. She took us to see The Phantom Menace — I still remember the movie poster I saw going in/coming out.

Also the time she took us (as little kids) to see Little Nicky, thinking it was a kids movie X.X

I (ironically, given the world circumstances) have greater inner peace and acceptance than any other time in my life.

Whether I get this job or not, I’ll be here and I’ll be okay. Maybe even good.

What initially re-inspired me to pursue a tenure track job was teaching Sensation & Perception. It reminded me that there are questions I’d spend my career trying to answer, if someone would let me.

I accepted the position I’m in thinking it was temporary, prioritizing location and family and deciding I’d see what happens.

During and coming out of my post-doc, I didn’t want to be in academia at all. I applied to almost 100 industry positions, I got really close at a bunch of major tech companies, but the mismatch mostly came down to location. I applied to one academic position and it’s the one I got 😆

I doubted my capability to succeed in academia my entire career; in part because I wasn’t a rockstar graduate student. Working as a teaching track professor for 2.5 years and serving on a search committee has changed how I see myself; I saw how hiring decisions get made on the inside.

Today, I submitted my first ever application for a Tenure Track position.

It’s my first application for a variety of reasons, but these are the main two:
1. I believe I’m capable of receiving offers
2. I want to accept them