Gavin Buckingham
@drgbuckingham
Cognitive psychologist interested in perception, illusions, sensorimotor control, and virtual reality. I also blog for early-career academics:
Always happy to capture a magical milestone on the Little Leaf that Could
Great visual illusion, accompanied by a lovely variation on Shepard Tones if you have the sound on Posted on Reddit by bigjobbyx, who is a bit of an artist genius
When your cool-sounding company name becomes gibberish to psychologists
My first paper was a random undergraduate side project around face perception with @debruine.bsky.social and Ben Jones, which throws up the occasional wild citation which always makes me smile
Have we, at Exeter, really all of a sudden reached a tipping point where 150-200 academic job losses will save the institution? We aren't even currently in the red...
Boring tweet of the day: Chester has a very handsome train station
Fun with perspective and expectations about size of things and people
Very sad that I can't simultaneously post the 'IT'S A TRAP' gif alongside this image of a form I'm currently filling out
I get a weird, almost physical sensation in my eyes from this image
Oooh this one makes my head feel funny (by, you guessed it, Akiyoshi Kitaoka)
Wilting flowers and stupid giant AI poster completely covering my lab door to impress a visiting royal my department is just a bit too on-the-nose
For your viewing pleasure, a nightmare-ish shower room, found on the internet
One of my kids loves making bubble (boba) tea. Plastic cups often break. These are excellent, and come with metal straw, lid with hole, and screw on closed lid for travel. Feel fancy. He is very happy with them, and good value for a tenner amzn.eu/d/01sBGrOU
For 50 quid I've got a fence which was one bad storm from blowing over back upright and feeling pretty steady. Hard work getting those spikes in the ground, but feel well solid
Do you hate it when your fitted sheets come off your mattress in the night? This set has completely solved this problem amzn.eu/d/02frLACh
Got a wonky fence post. This works amazingly well, and comes with a drill bit to drill pilot holes and the attachment for a drill to drive in the screws amzn.eu/d/0cCFxcaj