Post #68169

2025-12-16 04:23 UTC

I’m very interested in what a perception researcher does day to day. But yeah, research showed cigarettes were harmful way before anything was done. Research is showing climate change is real, and recycling isn’t effective, and vaccines are safe. I fear we’re headed to a second dark age.

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@daannii@lemmy.world 2025-12-16 06:21

Mostly writing for me right now. I finished up my doctorate research experiments in June and now I’m writing my dissertation. After I’m done I plan to teach and continue doing research. I exclusively do in-person research. Nothing online. This is a bit more challenging as I have to set up a room and schedule people. And they often don’t show. So it’s exhausting sometimes. My doctorate research is on depth perception based on motor feedback from the lens in your eye that focuses light. I might continue to do a little more research in this area but my next interest is in motion sickness from visual and vestibular cues in moving vehicles. As a general rule, I research multisensory systems. I have little interest in studying an isolated system. Boring. So motion sickness. It’s like getting car sick. Especially if reading. I have some theories on how to combat this and want to test my hypothesis. I get motion sick easy so this is also personal for me to find solutions. Graduate work is not too different from what I will be doing after I graduate. Teaching. doing experiments. And lots and lots of writing. I already did teaching and teaching assistant as a grad student. I quite liked it and received a graduate teaching assistant award. So I think I’m well suited to it. Teaching isn’t for everyone tho. But I don’t want to fully give up research to devote all my time to teaching, so I’m going to try to do both. Most professors do both.

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