Björn Jörges

@bjorges.bsky.social

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CogPsy: perception in microgravity, prediction, VR; open science, queer feminism, sex work, men in crop tops, good cities; https://bjoerges.com/

a line of code that reads "if(joy!=None):"
A question from a training: What is the recommended role of generative AI tools? a) To replace human decision-making b) To make decisions requiring moral considerations c) To support human decision-making (c is supposed to be the "correct" answer)
Screenshot of a bullet point that says "Also, it feels cool and may increase your confidence as an R developer!"
Photo of a beg button in a Florida beach town with a whole ass instruction manual on how to use it
same plot as before but I scale up the response by a factor of two and now the two traces match perfectly
Plot of position of stimulus and response over time. Response lines up so much worse than expected.
Video of how snow was cleared on Church Street the other night. No space for pedestrians, lots of space for cars
Graphic showing an increase in cycling on Yonge Street and Sherbourne Street (in Toronto) in 2024 versus previous year by month. Biking increased by 30-40% April to August, 50-65% September to November, and more than 100% in Feburary and March!!!!
The good old dart board graphic that explains the difference between accuracy and precision
Screenshot from a polling averages page that shows that the conservatives would get only about 40% of the vote but a LARGE majority of the seats
Screenshot of a Threads preview off Instagram, saying: "Masculine vs. Feminine Brain: Nice Guy vs. Kind Man. Nice guys are stuck in 'feminine brain' mode -- overthinking, avoiding conflict, and craving validation."
Bathroom mirror selfie of a white guy (ME) with a beard, 35, in black nike shorts and an IMRF conference tshirt that has been cut into a crop top
Screenshot from an IG reel that says "pov: you're at that age where both 1975 and 2003 are flirting with you"
Screenshot of a paper with the title "Asexuality shapes traits in a hybrid fish" that cites one of our papers
Screenshot of a guy on Grindr asking": "R u a good top"
Google maps screenshot that shows a bakery called "Björnsbakari"
A screenshot off youtube from a preview of a collab between Arca and Tokischa
Screenshot from Grindr showing off a new feature that shows you when you tap someone who also tapped you.
Picture from my ECVP talk where I show more sideboob than I thought
Photo of a bunch of grey midrise buildings next to a wide grey street in front of a grey sky
Mirror selfie of a 35yo white gay with short hair, sequin shorts and a sleeveless tshirt
Screenshot that reads "However, it is unclear to what extent these models are propelling the scientific community further or simply repeating and repackaging previous contributions to the literature."
A screen capture from Rotten Tomatoes that shows that "Perfect Days" has 96% on the Tomatometer and a 89% Audience Score (which is outrageous because the movie was boring as fuck, literally the only good thing about it was the toilet architecture we got to see)
Me (time stamped 7am): I need to sleep Me (cont): two or three hours would be better but I try to go to bed before 7am
Boxplots that show slightly higher PSEs (i.e., an overestimation of speed) for Pursuit than for Fixation in two different background conditions
Screenshot of a YouTube thumbnail (same guy, once with some body fat once shredded) and the video title, which says "If I was Starting at 30% Body Fat, This Is What I Would Do"
A screenshot from a Scruff profile that says: if cocks are like wine, the good ones can taste better aging; buttholes are like Pepsi; the longer they've been open, the less good they taste. If you don't display your sex preference, I assume that you are a bottom and feel ashamed of openly disclosing it."
Screenshot of the sentence "Dynamic Observers in Dynamic Environments (DynamOE)"
Toronto city staff reveals "inclusive" gender options that aren't following best praftices, forcing, e.g., trans people to choose either "man"/"woman" or "transgender"
screenshot from my Arabic book saying "The pronunciation of the '3' can be practiced by saying 'aa' and slowly placing a finger on your throat (guys, on your adam's apple). Yes, it will kind of sound as if you're getting choked (don't get overexcited though)."
Screenshot of a news article with the headline "A man will say he's a feminist but he doesn't wipe the counters": Lyz Lenz on the veauty of divorce.
Photo of Olivia Chow, now mayor of Toronto, flanked by two half-naked Hot Gays(TM), taken in 2014
screenshot saying "Toronto Budget 2024 (Olivia´s Version) drops next week
A selfie, me dressed up for winter, my beard is full of icicles
Mirror pic of myself in a pink crop top
volleyball tournament schedule indicating that it starts at the god forsaken hour of 8am and last until 4.30pm, rather than a more reasonable schedule between 10am and 6pm or something like that. Fuck this shit!
screenshot from an automatic email asking me to accept the invitation to provide a reference for one of my students, including a 9-step-process to accept the invitation
Mirror selfie of myself in a crop top
Two black cats on a sofa grooming each other, looks like they're kissing
Screenshot of a news article with the title "Taller box, less cereal? Calls for more transparency when companies shrink your groceries."
Screenshot of a flyer for a halloween party for queer men called "whoroween", which includes the line "gay halloween is sluttier than straight halloween and whoroween is even sluttier than that"
Screenshot of current weather, 7° and 2° felt temperature
Screenshot of an interview where she says "He sido trabajadora nata, es como me han criado. Soy una obrera." (I was born a laborer, that's how I was raised. I am a worker.)
A drawing of 5 communist leaders on red background with the addition of Shakira as 6th member of this illustrious cast