It can be difficult for students to launch a #career in the optics industry and to find mentors who can help them succeed outside the lab. We launched the Career Accelerator to fill the training and education gap and help students transition from academia to industry: bit.ly/4ba217y #academicsky 💡

📅 Early bird registration for European Conference on Visual Perception closes 7 April. Join the vision science community in Bournemouth this August and secure your place at a reduced rate. 🔗 Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecvp-2026-... #ECVP2026 #VisionScience

Save the date 👁🧠🧪 Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2026 📅 Sep 24–27, 2026 📍 University of Rochester, NY (@cvsuor.bsky.social) A single-track meeting built for depth, discussion, and community in #VisionScience. #OpticaFVM #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #Vision #perception #eye #ophthalmology

Happy Holidays from the Optica Fall Vision Meeting team! We are already looking ahead to 2026 and a location with deep roots in optics and vision science. Can you guess where we will gather next year?

Next: Join our NeurIPS workshop on Dec 7, 2025, 11 to 2 PT on Zoom! Hear from top competitors and our 3 keynote speakers: - @sinzlab.bsky.social - @ninamiolane.bsky.social - @crisniell.bsky.social More info: robustforaging.github.io/workshop #NeurIPS2025 #Neuroscience #AI

And that’s a wrap for @optica.org's #OpticaFVM 2025. Thank you all for joining us and making it such a vibrant meeting! Below are some impressions, courtesy of Arathy Kartha.

Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉 Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization" Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"

A great honor to deliver the @optica.org Edgar Tillyer Award Lecture at @optica-fvm.bsky.social in @uminnpress.bsky.social & been introduced by Steve Burns, long term mentor, friend & collaborator; @marcoslabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

It’s Five Illusions time at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting (@optica-fvm.bsky.social) at the University of Minnesota FiveIllusions.github.io #OpticaFVM

@optica-fvm.bsky.social kicked off this morning in @uminnpress.bsky.social; 👇 with @cvsuor.bsky.social #RochesterOptics PhD students Tianlun Zhou & Eliot Xu; Great tallk on 100Hz AO by Eliot +audience reflected on mirror walls; @flaumeye.bsky.social #McGregorLab @marcoslabur.bsky.social @optica.org

👁️🧠 Headed to Optica FVM 2025? Don’t forget to register! 🕊️ Early-bird rates end Sept 2 🎓 $175 for students | 💼 $300 for faculty (banquet included!) Other options for industry & 1-day passes available. 🔗 www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org #VisionScience

👁️📣 <1 week left to submit your abstract to Optica FVM 2025! Grad students & postdocs: come share your latest results, get feedback, and connect with top minds in #VisionScience. 🗓️ Abstracts due Aug 8 📍 Minneapolis · Oct 2–5 🔗

👁️🔬 Excited to welcome Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) as the 2025 Boynton Lecturer at Optica FVM! A pioneer in adaptive optics and retinal imaging, his work has reshaped how we see the eye—and how the eye sees. 🎤 Join us Oct 2–5 at UMN 🔗 www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

👁️✨ Congrats to Susana Marcos, 2025 Tillyer Award winner! Honored for transformative work on how the eye’s optics shape vision—from cornea to photoreceptors. Catch her keynote at #OpticaFVM this October in Minneapolis! www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

👁️📖 Congrats to Gordon Legge, 2024 Tillyer Award winner, for groundbreaking work in low-vision research and accessibility. 🎤 Catch his talk at #OpticaFVM 2025 in a special session on reading & vision loss. 🔗 www.optica.org/get_involved...

👁️🧠 It’s not too late to submit your abstract to Optica’s Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2025! 📍 Minneapolis/St Paul, Oct 2–5 🧑‍🏫 Featuring talks by Susana Marcos, Austin Roorda, and Gordon Legge 🍷 Kickoff at the CMRR! 🗓️ Abstracts due: Aug 8 🔗 www.osafallvisionmeeting.org #VisionScience #VisionResearch

Such an honor for me to receive this award named after Bob Boynton, who I never knew, but whose approach to science was an inspiration for me. His son just happened to attending #VSS2025 when the award was announced. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

🔥 We’re thrilled to announce that adaptive optics trailblazer Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) is the 2025 Boynton Award recipient! 🎉 His AOSLO let us image, stimulate, and track single photoreceptors 🧠👁️ He’ll give the Boynton Lecture at #OpticaFVM, Oct 2–5 @ Univ. Minnesota. Save the date!

Just in the news for tricking the 👁️ into seeing new color 'olo', @roordalab.bsky.social 🧪 announces move to @uwaterloo.ca: “Berkeley has been a fantastic place to work for the last 20 years, but my wife and I always intended to return to Canada,” said Roorda. uwaterloo.ca/optometry-vi...

Five people—three researchers and two test subjects—have just seen a color no human has ever seen before.

Mark your calendars! 👁️🧠🧪 This year's @optica.org Fall Vision Meeting is heading to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN on Oct 3-5, 2025! #VisionScience #VisionResearch #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #ophthalmology #AcademicSky

Where #VisionScience reaches new heights, From low vision care to brain scan insights. A home for breakthroughs and autumn’s glow, Can you guess where this year’s conference will go? 👁️🧠🧪

🌈 Invited Session: The Visual Ecology of Colour & Light Learn how daily light shifts, natural color statistics & animal signals shape our perception Annette Allen (Manchester) Jenny M. Bosten (Sussex) Karl R. Gegenfurtner (Giessen) Julie Harris (St Andrews) #OpticaFVM2024

🤖🔍 Invited Session: ML/AI in Retinal Diagnostics Learn how AI is transforming retinal imaging & diagnostics and discuss the broader ethical ramifications of this technology Adam Dubis (Utah) Anya Hurlbert (Newcastle) Marinko Sarunic (UCL) Jithin Yohannan (JHU) #OpticaFVM2024

🧑‍🦯 Invited Session: Visual Prosthetics Learn about new implants, AI-driven designs, and clinical trials paving the way for next-gen visual prosthetics: Dan Adams (Neuralink) Xing Chen (Pitt) Eduardo Fernández (UMH) Yağmur Güçlütürk (Radboud) #OpticaFVM2024

👁️ Invited Session: Focusing on the Human Fovea Explore how high-res ophthalmoscopy, neuroimaging & behavioral studies reveal the structure of our foveal pathways Heidi Baseler (York) Wolf Harmening (Bonn) Martina Poletti (Rochester) Alexander Schütz (Marburg) #OpticaFVM2024

FVM'24 registration is now open! Don't miss out on this premier #VisionScience event: 🎉Thu, Oct 3: Welcome Reception 👁️Fri, Oct 4: Human Fovea & Visual Prosthetics 🤖Sat, Oct 5: AI in Retinal Diagnostics 🌈Sun, Oct 6: Colour & Light...

Last chance to submit an abstract to this year’s @OpticaPubsGroup Fall Vision Meeting! Abstract submission closes tomorrow (no deadline extension): https://www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/submit-an-abstract #Vision #VisionResearch #Cognition #Perception #Neuroscience

Please RT: There is still time to submit an abstract to the @OpticaPubsGroup Fall Vision Meeting! https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/submit-an-abstract #VisionScience #Neuroscience #AcademicTwitter #NeuroTwitter

Join us Oct 3-6 in majestic York, UK! Abstract submission is now open and will close on August 9. More details at https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

Have you seen? The 2024 Meeting will be held in York, UK! And nominations for the Boynton Lecture are being accepted now. Learn more: https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/home/boynton-lecture

Have you registered yet? No? Get on it!! Late fees start Sept 21.

SEATTLE: We're looking for volunteers to help out at Fall Vision Meeting this year. Maybe that's you? http://tinyurl.com/volunteerFVM No specific expertise is necessary and you don't have to be a vision scientist yourself! (just ok being around a bunch of dorky vision scientists)

The 2023 Fall Vision Meeting program is out! ⏩ http://opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2023-meeting/program Registration is OPEN NOW. Register soon - fees increase starting Sept 21.

📢📢 DEADLINE EXTENDED! Submit your abstracts to the 2023 Fall Vision Meeting by AUGUST 10. Registration is open now. Join us in Seattle for a great meeting - the weather's even still pretty OK here in early Oct 😉

Rachel Wong is our 2023 Boynton lecturer! Rachel’s diversity of approaches has provided an unprecedented view of how the highly specific synaptic connectivity that subserves retinal function is established, maintained, and how it reacts to damage. Join us - abstracts by 8/1!

We're pleased to be honoring Andrew Beau Watson as our Tillyer lecturer - renowned expert in how we can apply principles of vision science to technologies, applications, devices and displays. Join us & present your own work - abstracts by 8/1!

Binocular vision shapes our ability to perceive and act on our environment, guiding our interactions with the objects around us. We'll explore the role of binocularity in our interactions with the world -- under typical and atypical visual conditions. Join us - abstracts by 8/1!

Extended reality (XR) merges lab-controlled stimuli with real-world environments, enhancing visual experiences. This session explores XR's applications in depth perception, gaze tracking, and assistive technology. Join us - abstracts by 8/1!

Color perception is well-studied in primates, but other animals have unique ways of encoding and processing color information. We'll explore color pathways in non-primate species and how they extract ecologically-relevant signals for guiding behavior. Join us - abstracts by 8/1!

Now recognized as one of the brain's canonical computations, Heeger introduced us to normalization as a model for contrast gain control in cat visual cortex in 1992. We'll hear from four speakers on normalization's modern role across visual functions. Join us - abstracts by 8/1!

📢 CALLING ALL VISION SCIENTISTS 📢 Abstract submission for the 2023 Fall Vision Meeting is now OPEN! Submit your abstract by Aug 1. See you in Seattle in the Fall! https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2023-meeting/submit-an-abstract

We are pleased to announce the Boynton Lecturer for this year's meeting: Professor Rachel Wong, Ph.D., from the University of Washington. Congratulations Rachel! Please join us in Seattle 5-8 October, 2023 for the Optical Fall Vision Meeting.

Do you know someone who embodies the scientific rigor and collegiality that Robert Boynton brought to the field of vision science? Nominate them for the Boynton lecture!

The 2023 Fall Vision Meeting will take place 5-8 October. It will be hosted by the University of Washington and held at UW facilities South Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. Stay tuned here or at https://opticafallvisionmeeting.org for details.

🌟Nominations are OPEN for the Boynton Award!🌟 This lecture was created in honor of Dr. Robert M. Boynton’s contributions to the Optica vision community, and will be presented at the 2023 OSA Meeting (stay tuned for location and dates!).

Nominations are open for the 2023 Optical Fall Vision Meeting's Boynton Lectureship. https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2023-meeting/boynton-lecture-nominations

Congratulations to the newest members of the @OpticaWorldwide #OpticaFVM Committee! It's bittersweet to say goodbye to our friends @GKAguirre and Jessica Morgan, but we're happy to welcome Arathy Kartha (VS), Will Tuten (VC), and Juliette McGregor (VV)....

@UTAustin Professor Mary Hayhoe giving the Tillyer Award lecture at #OpticaFVM, explaining the surprising fact that humans are able to hike: how the visual system coordinates with movements of the eyes, head, body, and feet to move us safely down the trail.

@Penn Professor David Brainard giving the Tillyer Award lecture at #OpticaFVM, describing http://isetbio.org/#OpticaFVM an open source computational model of retinal vision from the visual scene to ganglion cells, with the granularity of single cells and photons. Amazing!