Great talk by Telma Laurentino on inclusive evolution education @evokeproject.bsky.social !

Happy #InternationalGuideDogDay to our friends at @guidedogsuk.bsky.social and to all the wonderful canine helpers who support blind and partially sighted people!

More optional highlights: Join us for dinner and/or a guided tour at UNESCO heritage sites: Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral. Book an excursion to Beamish, the Living Museum of the North. Or pay a visit to our beautiful Botanic Garden For more info see: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

She is finally published. Small sample but valuable insights. We've been studying audio-haptic integration in sighted and early- vs. late-blind (EB/LB) people. EB integrate optimally, while LB don't (likely switch cues). Here, we're exploring the neural mechanisms of audio-haptic integration...

Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @meike-scheller.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social et al.

How can we make #evolution education truly inclusive? Join our next EvoKE Webinar “Biodiversity for Belonging” with Telma G. Laurentino, as she shares 5 years of multisensory outreach breaking barriers in science education. 📅May 2nd, 2025 |4pm CET / 10am EST 🔗 bit.ly/3EopIvw

Check it out - New research summary on Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

See here for a thread about our recent publication on the Online Participant Engagement Network for Vision Impairment Research @openviresearch.bsky.social

Excited to share our open access paper on enhancing research involvement for UK adults with vision impairment via our online interface! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

(2022) A natural history of vision loss: Insight from evolution for human visual function www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... by @alealisousa.bsky.social @orlinst.bsky.social @michaelproulx.bsky.social

Nice story by Livia Dyring on human echolocation in today's online edition of "The Otter". Pleased to see a mention of our fMRI work on the activation of primary visual cortex (V1) by echoes in expert blind echolocators. theotter.ca/seeing-with-...

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Deafblind PhD student aims for Everest www.bath.ac.uk/announcement...

New paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social

Our paper on Visual impairment, visual media exposure, and body image -- I am catching up here 🦋