Our paper is out today! In @tiffmschmidt.bsky.social lab, we identified a single transcription factor, BRN3B, that shapes multiple, key features that define diverse ipRGC subtypes🧬👁️🐭

In case this is helpful for anyone, here is a post on how to get a job in french academia : trialsanderrors.substack.com/p/getting-a-... Aimed at non-french scientists who are curious, but french ones may find it useful too.

Delighted to announce this spring semester's programme for our Seminar Series "Current Topics in Circadian & Visual Neuroscience", featuring a roster of speakers discussing their cutting-edge research in vision and/or circadian rhythms. Register now! www.tscnlab.org/seminar

The ON/OFF dichotomy is fundamental to visual processing. In a new study led by Flori Soto, we identify a conserved molecular mechanism establishing the OFF pathway. rdcu.be/eikoa

Pleased to share the final published version of @glopez.bsky.social's work in @currentbiology.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... "Region-specific nucleus accumbens dopamine signals encode distinct aspects of avoidance learning" Congrats, Gaby!!!

How does the brain work? Scientists are closer to the answer with the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date. 🧵 🧠📈

🚨 New preprint alert! 🚨 My first work as a last author is out! 🧵⬇️ We explore how the mouse retina responds to UV & green light and why achieving the right natural illumination is crucial for accurately studying color vision. By Filippo Castellani, Awen Louboutin & Tom Quétu doi.org/10.1101/2025...

1/ There it is! 😊 Published today in Scientific Reports: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 We’ve just launched openretina, an open-source framework for collaborative retina modeling across datasets and species. A 🧵👇 (1/9)

A US judge has blocked a policy that would have, beginning today, slashed billions of dollars of funding annually for US research institutions, including universities and hospitals. https://go.nature.com/4hvSeto

Our latest preprint about spectroscopic properties of unique #coral #opsins has been uploaded on bioRxiv. Coral anthozoan-specific opsins employ a novel chloride counterion for spectral tuning| www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New preprint! A wonderful collaboration of our @FellerMarla lab with Matthew Po, and @shekharlab. Here, we dive into the impact of spontaneous activity on the transcriptome of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), the sole output neurons of the retina. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Early vision Neuroscience community, Vol 1 We are talking eyes, retinas, and some of the more ancestral bits of visual brains. No species restrictions. List is close to full, will start building Vol 2 before too long Addition requests, please see link in the below thread go.bsky.app/BotZr1g

More complete announcement to come, but heads-up about a new summer course on Visual Neuroscience at the MBL, Woods Hole! Hands-on training in imaging, EM, bioinformatics, electrophysiology, visual behavior. From octopus to mouse, from retina to brain! Aug. 1-16, 2025 www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

We are looking for a Data Scientist at the MBExC Excellence Cluster in Göttngen: shorturl.at/Jln3V . Please RT! Read on for more details.

If you haven't heard: @arpa-h.bsky.social has announced teams that will be working to enable whole-eye transplantation to restore vision for the blind & visually impaired. A bold goal! Details: arpa-h.gov/news-and-eve...

Neurons of the retina are fed by a network of vessels. Here all capillaries of a tiny volume are traced and measured revealing density, width, branch structure and depth. @flaumeye.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @urochester.bsky.social doi.org/10.1167/iovs.65.14.3

Lots of folks on the Vision Scientists Starter Pack. Vision scientists: Let me know if you’d like to be added. go.bsky.app/3EWSGiv

1/✨ New paper in #eNeuro! We looked at how dominance behaviors vary across mouse strains—turns out, it’s not one-size-fits-all! Comparing CD1 & C57 male mice, we found strain-specific dominance behaviors that could change how we study social hierarchy in the lab…🧵 Paper here: tinyurl.com/bdeuf6s9

Sunday morning of actograms analysis with my 2.5 yo

"my least favorite thing in life is to be called “resilient,” bc it means that people only see me through the lens of difficulty. They love the idea that I am resilient, but they don’t actually care about any of the things that made me resilient." @kss_phd www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Hi all! I’m a postdoc in the Schmidt Lab at Northwestern University studying how light impacts physiology and behavior 👁️🐭. Excited to be on the job market this year and so happy share my recent preprints!!! - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

M2 and M4 ipRGCs in the mouse retina 👁️🐭

Yesterday I talked about the relevance of visual perception in evolution at @umbc.bsky.social Then my 17 mo old:

The Juarez lab at University of Maryland, Baltimore is hiring a PD! We combine gene editing, neurophysiology and behavior to understand the basis of disordered behaviors 🧠🧬✂️🔬🐭. Check us out and apply at thejuarezlab.com .

Our department (psych at UC Riverside) has a tenure-track Assistant Professor position with a specialization in Latinx Health and Well-being in Social/Personality Psychology aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01810 #PsychSci #PsycJobs #PsychSciSky #PsychJobs

My Neuroscience Dept. at Rutgers is hiring! Join a growing, diverse, and supportive community to do great science with great people! rwjms.rutgers.edu/departments/... #Neuroskyence

Calling all early-career #Neurosckyence researchers! Grass Fellowships at the MBL support investigator-designed, independent research projects by early-career scientists. Summer 2024 applications due December 1. go.mbl.edu/Grass 🧪🧠

(1st post!) The McPherson Auditory Perception Lab is coming to Purdue Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences in Fall 2024, & I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs! If you are interested in studying how people perceive and remember complex sounds, please reach out. hhs.purdue.edu/directory/ma...

My department is hiring a tenure-track, assistant professor in cognitive psychology! We start reviewing applications on October 16th. More details and application instructions here: trinity.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Trinit...