There is a matching campaign today for the Berkeley Basic Needs Center to help @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social students dealing with reduced CalFresh (SNAP) benefits. Give if you can! crowdfund.berkeley.edu/project/48580

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.

Excited to share our paper now published in Cell! 'Zebrafish use spectral information to suppress the visual background' Huge thanks to @neurofishh.bsky.social & @teuler.bsky.social @cellpress.bsky.social @cp-cell.bsky.social 👇🏻 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Run-roh! Dr. Karina Bistrong’s last day in the lab. It was celebrated Scooby-Doo style 🐾🔍 She’s off to NYU for a postdoc with the exciting new lab run by @[email protected] — onward to solving the mysteries of motor systems!

Neuroscientists say No Kings

Appreciating the art with fellow @annualreviews.bsky.social for vision science board members Roland Fleming and @shinyanishida.bsky.social .

AMAZING!! 🎉👏👁️🧠🤓

The 2025 volume of the Annual Review of Vision Science is now online. The most read article so far is "Behavior-Specific Computations in the Vertebrate Retina" arevie.ws/46HMEjd @serenariccitelli.bsky.social @annaintegrated.bsky.social @katrinfranke.bsky.social TOC: arevie.ws/3Wklava

Timely piece on the importance and safety of “gain-of-function” research, from my brilliant PhD advisor Sarah Stanley www.statnews.com/2025/10/06/g...

a must read for anyone interested visual cortex plasticity - a fresh look at some textbook models and a fun read. congratulations to the authors!

Representing @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #Neuroscience chair @danfeldman.bsky.social and @standupforscience.bsky.social at annual #BT5k fundraiser for brain tumor research. GO BEARS!

If you are a PhD student planning to graduate in Spring 2026, think about applying for a miller.berkeley.edu/fellowship. And if you are interested in development/neural circuits, I am happy to sponsor your nomination! email me....

Come join our new Department of Neuroscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05041

The lab's first paper is out! We find that pupil constriction in mice drives strong retinal activity in vivo, and that humans can also perceive pupil-shaped stimulus. This has repercussions for anybody using pupillometry. 🧵1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41... #neuroskyence #neuroscience #neuro

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. 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

Thrilled to share our new Adesnik lab paper!! Using holography in excitatory & inhibitory neurons, we reveal how a single cortical circuit can both complete and cancel predictable sensory activity, sharpening representations 📄https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.02.668307v1 🧵

Turns out that the “loudest” neurons are not always the most relevant ones. Great article about a fascinating and important result by @hayleybounds.bsky.social , graduate of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social neuroscience.

Thanks to @rachanads.bsky.social and the rest of my awesome lab for hosting lawrencehallofscience.org/visitors/tee... for a day in lab.

The Anne West lab at Duke is hiring a postdoc to work on nuclear cell biology in neurogenesis. Please help me spread the word! Applications to [email protected].

Hey 🧪 I’m looking for a sci-savvy illustrator to build a cartoon-style schematic for a paper about summer research experiences. HMU if this describes you or your side gig.

🧠 Join the JNeuro Early Career Advisory Board! 🧪 A great way to learn about the world of publishing and support other early career researchers by sharing your perspectives! Apps due July 18 www.jneurosci.org/content/ecr-...

Lots of room for growth at @uwaterloo.ca. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in #optometry and #visionscience. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more. share.google/8HXvp3LbwLPw...

Lack of spontaneous activity (#retinalwaves) in early development prevents the formation of retinal circuits critical for stabilizing images as we move through the world. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce....

Don't miss Dr. Doris Tsao of @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social on our latest episode of Neuroscience Perspectives with @johnfoxe.bsky.social 👇Along with AI vs the brain, she shares that a mentor's support was pivotal in her career & how her father's curiosity helps fuel hers ➡️ urmc.info/25C

This time-lapse video of protesters marching down Broadway in Oakland for No Kings Day gives an idea of how many people turned out today @sfchronicle.com

Among other things

Today I had the honor of speaking in front of nearly 3000 people today at the Woodland #NoKings rally. WE FEAR NO KING BECAUSE WE DONT HAVE ONE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾 let’s gooooooo

Thousands at #NoKings in Oakland!

@standupforscience.bsky.social represented in #Oakland,CA. incredible turnout including @danfeldman.bsky.social

Inspired by @annaintegrated.bsky.social - Hey #BayArea scientists, lets stand together with @standupforscience.bsky.social and @indivisiblesf.bsky.social for No Kings Rally Saturday, June 14. So many actions in Bay Area -- www.nokings.org#map

fantastic day celebrating the career of Rachel Wong with her many friends and colleagues. Thank-you Univ Washington for hosting. Rachel - you will be missed

as we plan to meet the @standupforscience.bsky.social call for summer teach-ins, UC Berkeley folk check out this great website for material www.berkeley.edu/research-imp...

Why I love graduation! Cool neurobiologists,happy grads, funny hats. great job @berkeleymcb.bsky.social

We had an amazing time at the 25th Annual A.R. Martin Lectureship last week! 🎉 Hosted by Phys on May 14–15, the event featured a keynote by Dr. Marla Feller (@mfeller.bsky.social) and stellar talks from our own trainees—Ana Buteau, Jordan Hickman, and Sujin Jun. 👏

Honored to spend day at U Colorado Anschutz to give annual AR Martin lecture tinyurl.com/2murjbpp and chat with legend Bill Betz. thanks to host Alon Poleg-Polsky!

This is a fantastic up-to-date summary of modern questions in retinal circuits, clearly presented and with great figures!. Required reading for anyone interested in the amazing computational capabilities of neural circuits. Congrats and a big thank-you to the authors.

Happy Birthday Gerald Westheimer. 101 years on May 13 and still publishing papers! #livinglegend of #visionscience. @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

tragic….thank you for all the energy you brought to this program and congrats to the scholars!

Economists warn: Trump’s science cuts threaten the U.S. economy. Slashing funding for NIH, NSF, and NASA hurts every American. These cuts are killing jobs, stalling innovation, and shrinking our economic future. We all pay the price when science is defunded. www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...

It’s @mfeller.bsky.social talking about her work in retinal directional selectivity at #ARVO2025

I’m here to tell you that @standupforscience.bsky.social is working HARD behind the scenes to fight back against Trump’s destruction of science! We are going all in this summer ahead of the budget vote…and setting up to support pro-science candidates in the midterms. We are gonna save science!

GOOD EVENING, DORKS. Did you know you can call your senators and house rep and ask for specific grants to be restored? You can ask for specific jobs to be restored. You can ask for data to be restored. You can ask for teams tracking food safety to be restored. Do what you want with this info!

another important discovery in retinal development explored at multiple molecular/anatomical/physiological levels by Soto/Kerschensteiner. Well done!

calling all visual neuroscientists - this is amazing

My lab @kinshiplab.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc 🚨 with Sept start date Preference for in-vivo ephys / circuits experience / interest in applying quantitative methods to natural social behaviour. Funding & visa fees for 1-yr with possible extension. Send me your CV & visit kinshiplab.org

ionlaboratory.com Our lab website is live! 🧪 Life is good at OHSU CPB, @volluminstitute.bsky.social and Nephrology!

spectacular movie of a growing neuron

Following Harvard's lead on this, my University's home page now opens on our research contributions to a better world. #GoScienceBears www.berkeley.edu

Nice @summersathome.bsky.social Almost as interesting as an amacrine cell....

Tax Day - round 3 - NIH 🩻🧠🧬 🧬 The average U.S. taxpayer contributes $105/year to NIH, helping fund: • Cancer & rare disease breakthroughs • Pandemic preparedness • Children’s health • Medical tech innovation • Mental health science & more NIH powers the science behind the healthcare we rely on.