10+ years of vision 👁️research in mice 🐭recasts our ideas about the brain 🧠and sharing data 🧪📈... a brief guide 👇 Thanks to many colleagues and @gtresearch.bsky.social @gt-neuro.bsky.social for connecting us w @us.theconversation.com

Thrilled Scalabrino Lab graduate student Taylor Rau passed her qualifying exam yesterday!

gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/s...

This paper on S-cone circuitry in the cone dominant 13-lines ground squirrel is absolutely stunning. I want to spend the rest of my day (week? month?) playing with the interactive data.

New York Times article on science funding with some depressing but familiar curves with interactive graphics. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

At #SfN2025? Come check out the Photoreceptors & Retinal Circuits nanosymposium at 1! I’ve heard all the cool kids will be there and the chair is an absolute rockstar.

Yes. This is another reason why public funding is what we want - why the government should support science with democratic mechanisms of oversight. Public support means not having to beg toxic billionaires for money.

Research in primate brains has been essential for the development of brain-computer interfaces and artificial neural networks. New funding and policy changes put future such advances at risk, write Cory Miller, @movshon.bsky.social and Doris Tsao. #neuroskyence bit.ly/47MXYLH

We’re hiring! Join the Sivyer Lab at The University of Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Neurodegeneration within the Snow Vision Accelerator, a $50M initiative tackling glaucoma and optic nerve disease. iPSCs, electrophysiology, drug discovery, and gene therapy.

As a new PI, how can anyone distinguish between no NIH funding because I suck or because the U.S. govt sucks? It’s not like I’ve had the opportunity to establish a track record. And now taking away critical feedback that would help develop future grants. Looking real bleak out there.

On the way to #SfN25 and I love to see all the posters in the airport! The yearly neuro migration begins.

NEW: Jenna Norton, an NIH employee who is openly critical of Trump & RFK Jr, has been put on "non-disciplinary" administrative leave. She says the administration is trying to "scare and silence me." An HHS official, asked to comment, called her a radical leftist. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

So happy to have had Katherine Wert visit MCW yesterday! The work coming out of her lab is just incredible and hugely impactful.

And importantly, while a few years to settle out might seem no biggie, it sure as heck is a big deal to those PIs who have been on the job for just a few years and are looking at the tenure decision looming ahead.

and there it is. the absolutely massive change in R01s funded multi-year. our perceptions that the new mandate, sorry strong suggestion, has had a dramatic effect on forward funding and therefore success rates is validated.

Happy Halloween from MCW Eye Institute’s resident hawk. I did not leave the remains of my snacks around the building, unlike other hawks I know…

Someone asked me the other day*: How do we replace all the science that’s being lost across the US as NIH, NSF etc are being lawlessly destroyed? The answer is: we cannot. It is impossible. The task now is to defend #NIH and public funding for medical research. 1/ 🧪 #neuroscience

I’m a current mentee and this program has been phenomenal. Happy to chat with anyone interested.

sure, if you enjoy the horrifying limits of human perception

@joann-trejo.bsky.social, @marymunson4.bsky.social and I have a commentary in @natcellbio.nature.com on recent attacks on DEI in biomedical research: "If scientific research, especially biomedical research, is meant to serve everyone, then it requires that everyone has an opportunity to participate"

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

'So keep fighting for freedom & justice, beloveds, but don't forget to have fun doin' it. Be outrageous... rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through celebrating the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was!' Molly Ivins

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Milwaukee represent.

Apple picking with the ScaLabRats!

NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers ‘These bottlenecks have gotten so bad that some labs have had to ration gloves and paper towels.’ Ian Morgan for TheScientist www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

Today is my first external invited seminar where I’m not interviewing for a job! Excited to talk science and present my lab’s work at Marquette.

So happy for Teresa and a well-deserved honor! Geniuses work on retinal circuits :)

🚨 New preprint out from our lab! 📄 The Rod Bipolar Cell Pathway Contributes to Surround Responses in OFF Retinal Ganglion Cells 👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Adventuring in Prague in between RD Meeting! @wertlaboratory.bsky.social

For those interested in open neuroscience learning tools, check out the preprint for “RetINaBox: A hands-on tool for experimental neuroscience" that a couple students in my lab worked on in collaboration with the Trenholm lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠📈 🧪

Save the date! In this @neuronline.sfn.org event, we'll have a social media guru, a university comms officer and yours truly there to speak and answer your Qs about 'why' and 'how' of scicomm, to colleagues and the public. Open to all - just register! neuronline.sfn.org/professional...

Ron Johnson came to MCW a few months ago and told lie after lie about science/medicine because he thinks he can get away with it. Proud of my community for calling him out; wish more would do the same. He’s dangerous and shameful.

Another way the administration is trying to gift America's scientific leadership to China - 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀. So of course 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲. Comments accepted until end Sept. Cc: @jeremymberg.bsky.social

TOMORROW at 2:00 pm, Zoom (check CVS Slack for link) Telias Summer Journal Club: Supraja Varadarajan, UT Southwestern Medical Center The Role of Retinorecipient Neuronal Activity in Promoting Retinal Ganglion Cell Axon Regeneration www.cvs.rochester.edu/events/index... @flaumeye.bsky.social

This Friday we are excited to host Julie Semmelhack on the Sussex Vision talk series! Looking forward to seeing many of you there! Tune in here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsqh...

This from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social hit me over the head like a mallet of truth. This is the thing. This is what I’ve been trying to warn people about perfectly crystallized. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...

A giant YES for @gliangel.bsky.social for this incredible honor. Great news for Angel, the lab, and the greater neuroscience ( neuroscience.berkeley.edu/grad ) and @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social communities. We look forward to being a part of this fantastic community. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

It’s a vision party here in Iowa City! Looking forward to great talks and posters today. I heard they saved the best session for last with @shyamraji.bsky.social, me, @cubical.bsky.social and @clark-lab-retina.bsky.social, and keynote by @sabanlab.bsky.social.

1. There is a “Photoreceptors & Retina Circuitry” nano symposium at @sfn.org this year! 2. I’ll be presenting research from my lab in said nano symposium!

IMPORTANT UPDATE IMPORTANT UPDATE Regarding APHU/ACLU et al. vs. NIH Lawsuit

As rising visa restrictions and rejections block many international students from enrolling at U.S. institutions and dissuade others from applying, neuroscience in many other countries will strengthen—at our expense, writes Joshua Sanes. #neuroskyence www.thetransmitter.org/policy/what-...

It was such a joy to co-organize the 2025 MCW Vision Science Retreat with @aoiplab.bsky.social @joelmiesfeld.bsky.social @minagaffney.bsky.social and Allison Hall. A true testament to the vibrant research community we have!

My office view just got very entertaining.

NBA direction selectivity map

Looking for recommendations for generating transgenic (knock-in) mice!

Ready to take the leap from academia to industry, but have questions on where to begin? Join @arvoinfo.bsky.social's July 30 webinar to discuss everything from application essentials to understanding industry funding plus how to progress in your new area. Register now bit.ly/43z7kKc

In this piece, I argue that monumental achievements by our trainees must be disseminated and celebrated on social media and elsewhere, despite ‘the current climate’. I'll start with a few that I know; please help chime in (self reports are warmly received). www.nature.com/articles/s41...

TIL that one of the books removed from the Armed Forces Library because it "had DEI" in it is Ben Barres' autobiography. Remember that you can buy and should read this book because Ben was badass and an amazing scientist mitpress.mit.edu/978026253954...