Marco Bertamini🇪🇺

I am leaving twitter and moving to bsky.app

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month. Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

Do you remember this voice?

New paper on the role of task on the human brain’s responses to, and representation of, symmetry (reflection and rotation). An fMRI/MVPA study doi.org/10.1016/j.neur…

Labour's National Wealth Fund is just PFI 2.0 - a way to channel taxpayer money into the pockets of private investors

We've got it backwards...

.@carolvorders YOU ARE BLOODY MAGNIFICENT. EVERY SINGLE WORD OF THIS 🔥🔥🔥

Blame it on the Tories 🎶

This, from the brilliant Steve Cutts, is…stunning. twitter.com/NikoDevlin/sta…

Abercromby Square protest, University of Liverpool.

John Oliver's brilliant call to arms for the British people has been banned from our TV screens here in the UK...so best not share this anywhere okay?

Museo Palazzo Barberini, Roma. "Gli specchi nei dipinti"

Looking for two post-doc, the study is about object classification (using EEG) bandi.mur.gov.it/bandi.php/publ…

As Farage reveals his desire to shut the NHS down for good and switch to a private model, I thought it useful to counter his disinformation with some actual truth about health care models.

The interdepartmental “Centre for the Study of Perception and Art” (CArPe) is now a reality: dpg.unipd.it/en/carpe

20 years ago today George Bush & Tony Blair launched an illegal war in Iraq, leading to the death of a million people. Today, they're rich, rewarded & free... whilst Julian Assange languishes in prison for exposing their war crimes.

@dreamsNscience Ponzo (2011) is a paper on the Aristotle illusion, which is a tactile effect totally unrelated. In 1928 he uses what we now call Ponzo illusion but stating clearly that it was a known effect, never claiming to have discovered it. bertamini.org/lab/Publicatio…

The Ponzo #Illusion is a geometrical-optical illusion that was 1st demonstrated by the Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo (1882–1960) in 1911. He suggested that the human mind judges an object's size based on its background. The 2 yellow lines have the same size Credit Wikipedia