Sometimes, we have fun.
Here's what that looks like.
July 2019: Goodbye party for Jose! From right: Pat Little, Chenxiao Guan, Jorge Morales, Alon Hafri, Jose Rivera-Aparicio, David Schwitzgebel, Chaz, Zekun Sun, Austin Baker
July 2019: Austin and Jose with their research-themed goodbye mugs
July 2019: Austin's goodbye mug, with images from her VSS poster
July 2019: Chaz, Jon, Pat, Chenxiao and Adi take a little road trip to the inaugural Mid-Atlantic Meeting on Attention (MAMA) in Villanova, PA.
July 2019: Jorge and Austin pose with their award-winning poster! At the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. San Diego, CA.
July 2019: Jorge ready to speak at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. San Diego, CA.
July 2019: Austin presents her poster at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. San Diego, CA.
July 2019: Alon tests Pat's ability to tell lemon from lime at the 2019 Fruit/Veggie showdown (Pat passed the test)
July 2019: Canadian pride at a lab hangout
July 2019: Farewell speech from Jose at the 2019 Fruit/Veggie showdown
July 2019: Environs at the 2019 Fruit/Veggie showdown
Summer 2019: Chaz learns that summer intern David Schwitzgebel's favorite pizza topping is...bananas
Summer 2019: Intern Wenxuan Guo anticipates what Justin Halberda will say
June 2019: Chaz's mom, Sherry, visits the lab! She would like you to know that you can follow her on social media at @sherryfirestone
June 2019: At the McDonnell workshop on modality with Lisa Feigenson, Ned Block, and Justin Halberda. Martha's Vineyard, MA.
June 2019: Lisa Feigenson ponders the possible at the McDonnell possibility workshop. Martha's Vineyard, MA.
June 2019: Austin successfully defends her dissertation! Shown here with her committee (from left): Eric Mandelbaum, Andy Egan, (Austin), Susanna Schellenberg, Chaz Firestone, Alex Guerrero. New Brunswick, NJ.
June 2019: Austin ready to defend!
June 2019: Austin enjoys her last meal as a non-doctor
June 2019: Austin becomes the first lab member to use the "dissertation stapler" (i.e., the accidentally-too-big stapler that Chaz bought)
May 2019: Alon presents his poster to Talia Konkle, Julian De Freitas, and Andrew Lovett at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Austin presents her poster at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Chenxiao presents her poster at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Lab undergrad Isabel Won tries her weight illusion out on Patrick Cavanagh, Marc Ernst, and others at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Pat presents his poster at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Zekun presents her poster at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Lab undergrad Zhenglong Zhou presents his poster at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Jose speaks at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Jose makes a GoldenEye 007 non-player character thank the audience at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Jorge moves his experiments to the "Real World" at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2019: Austin attending an ocean poster session at VSS 2019. St Pete Beach, FL.
April 2019: Our first group photo! From the back row, going left to right: Zhenglong Zhou, Zekun Sun, Austin Baker, Chaz Firestone, Pat Little, Emily Sanford, Qian Yu, Mikey Lepori, Isabel Won, Axel Bax, Chenxiao Guan (with Peiqi), Jose Rivera-Aparicio, Alon Hafri, Jorge Morales
April 2019: Lab members literally and figuratively doing all of the hard work
April 2019: The lab models "vision"
December 2018: Champagne in honor of VSS submission night!
December 2018: A toast for VSS abstract submissions!
December 2018: "Just leave the champagne by my desk," says Chenxiao
December 2018: Jorge channels his inner Canadian at the CIFAR Winter School. Montebello, QC, Canada.
October 2018: Austin and Pat on a hayride at a lab visit to a pumpkin patch
October 2018: Austin, Pat, and Chaz after getting lost in a corn maze
July 2018: Zekun's parents visit Baltimore!
July 2018: Steven Gross at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. (Not shown: Chaz's equally massive sundae.) Ann Arbor, MI.
July 2018: With Robert Glushko at the Glushko Prize dinner. Madison, WI.
July 2018: Michael C. Frank illustrates Chaz's talk from the Glushko Prize Symposium at CogSci 2018. Madison, WI.
June 2018: Chaz speaks to a room full of ghosts at the 2018 meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison, WI.
May 2018: The lab is ready for VSS 2018! St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Zekun gives a shoutout to her labmates during her talk at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Getting psyched for Zekun's talk at VSS 2018! St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Lab undergrad J.J. Valenti presents his poster at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Chenxiao presents his poster at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Jose with poster and demo at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Pat presents his poster at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Qian Yu presents her poster at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Steven Gross speaking at VSS 2018. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: A crush forms around Steven after his talk! Liad Mudrik is impressed. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2018: Most of the lab at VSS 2018! Chaz, J.J. Valenti, Pat Little, Alon Hafri, Zekun Sun, Qian Yu, Jose Rivera-Aparicio, Chenxiao Guan. St Pete Beach, FL.
April 2018: Celebratory bubble tea for Zekun and Chenxiao's department talks! Jose can come too.
April 2018: Chenxiao opens the floor to questions that take the form of puzzle pieces at her first department talk.
April 2018: Zekun gives her first department talk.
April 2018: Zekun uses the ancient method of jiggling the projector before her department talk.
February 2018: Happy birthday Jose! (The beer is fake)
February 2018: Happy birthday Jose!
February 2018: The lab surprises Chaz with a birthday cookie at lab meeting!
August 2017: Jose and Chaz take in the "Great American Eclipse" of 2017.
May 2017: Taking in vision-science-themed art at VSS 2017. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2017: Zekun with ice cream after a spicy Thai dinner at VSS 2017. St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2017: Lab ice cream!
May 2017: Our first "lab dinner"! Though technically our lab didn't exist yet. Featuring incoming lab manager Jose Rivera-Aparicio, incoming grad student Zekun Sun, and the incoming PI. (Chenxiao couldn't make it because she was graduating college!) St Pete Beach, FL.
May 2017: The lab is almost ready!
May 2017: Almost there...
April 2017: There are rooms!
April 2017: The lab is coming along! Our space is on the left; Janice Chen's is on the right.
March 2017: Soon this will be a lab...
February 2017: Standing in the rubble of what will one day be our lab!
