Chaz Firestone

@chazfirestone

Cognitive scientist studying how we see + think. Asst Prof Psych & Brain Sciences. 🇨🇦

Baltimore, MD
Joined April 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    5 Aug 2019

    How can we separate perception itself from higher-level judgment? Our latest paper, now online @ Cognition, explores a new approach to this thorny question, grappling with a 100yr-old literature on how knowledge may or may not alter visual perception.

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  2. thank you random bathroom sign for assuming I have hopes and dreams

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  3. Feb 1

    amy klobuchar is a philosopher of language this changes everything

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  4. Jan 28
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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    Suddenly remembered that when I visited my dad’s birthplace in 广东开平 in 2010, the village wasn’t hooked up to electricity or plumbing grids. I played basketball via a makeshift hoop with kids who said only one word I could understand: “Kobe”

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    Who here realises the ENORMOUS privilege that the use of English as an international science & publishing language conjures on native English speakers in academia?

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  7. Retweeted
    Jan 24

    I finally submitted my undergraduate thesis to a journal, 5 years after I started working on the project!! Its called 'The P600 for singular “they”: How the brain reacts when John decides to treat themselves to sushi'. Here is a link to the pre-print: 1/n

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  8. Jan 24

    best part of this is the text in the speech bubbles -- almost an uncanny valley for the written word

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 18

    A disturbing use of facial recognition tech from a start-up in lower Manhattan. My recommendation: replace your profile photos with adversarial images

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  10. Jan 18
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  11. Jan 18

    ...and getting made fun of for it on a blog!

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  12. Jan 18

    ...holding up the entire planet...

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  13. Jan 18

    ...circumnavigating the globe extremely quickly...

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  14. Jan 18

    Some fun things you can do at the South Pole include...

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  15. Jan 18

    Thanks to an amazing and unique fellowship from , to do science journalism on our planet's most barren and beautiful continent. What a wonderful program and adventure.

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  16. Jan 18

    10 years ago this week, I was the southernmost human on the planet!

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  17. Jan 18

    Five years ago, ended legacy admissions. Today, the president of our university explains why in

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    After Hopkins got rid of legacy admission advantages, they said it "helped the university build a more diverse student body without sacrificing academic quality." Interesting piece from

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 13

    Amazing opportunity. ~30% of grad student gossip involves complaining about advisers, but in 6 years at Yale I never once heard a complaint about Yarrow. He's brilliant, uncynical, and a mensch. If you want to work with someone you admire as both a scientist and a person, apply.

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  20. Jan 13

    Lotta respect for for changing his mind on what may be the most central question in his field — and then telling us why in the latest issue of PoPS. Check it out!

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  21. Jan 10
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