Extremely proud to share our publication on S-cone circuitry in the ground squirrel, newly available this week in PNAS. We've been staring at these reconstructions for a long time, and I'm excited for others to see the results. 1/n www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Check out my Perspective article “The Retina’s Rhythm” which accompanies an exciting paper by Claude Desplan in Science. I highlight his discovery that waves of calcium are required to finalize the honeycomb-like structure of the Drosophila retina. www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....

I know because I discovered them. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2035024/ They are based on conventional synaptic transmission. And fortunately they stop once the retina has to do something useful, like seeing.

Hey folks, this is a very cool opportunity for peeps to do an amazing postdoc in Sydney, Australia in translational vision research.

Fantastic new paper from @pierre-mattar.bsky.social lab!

Ending my #FluorescenceFriday with this beautiful avian retina image depicting the beautiful stratification in the avian eyes. This is where complexity meets art. #retina #avian #bird #plexiformlayer

Axonal pathfinding of zebrafish retinal ganglion cells forms the optic nerve. Credit to Dr. Matthew Bostock @houartlab.bsky.social. #ZebrafishZunday 🧪

Excellent work @victorcalbiagueg.bsky.social !!!

Our new preprint is out. Our study on Retinitis Pigmentosa animal model shows improved photoreceptor survival when rod transducin, a key protein involved in light signaling, is reduced. @fvinberg.bsky.social @moraneyecenter.bsky.social @utah.edu www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

In the retina, amacrine cells boost contrast by silencing nearby signals, helping your brain detect edges and details. Retinal ganglion cells then send that refined picture to your brain through the optic nerve. Data from @neuralmapping.bsky.social 👀🧠

🚨 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...

A new article on our National Eye Institute (NEI) - funded project on the mechanisms underlying color vision! @umassboston.bsky.social 🪰👀🧪 www.umb.edu/news/recent-...

4 sets of vision researcher feet @john-ash8831.bsky.social @fvinberg.bsky.social Jeffrey Goldberg And @bwjones.bsky.social

First neurons didn’t appear overnight. We trace their roots to ancient secretory cells - showing how lifestyle & behavior shaped the evolution of first synapses.🧠🌊 #Evolution #Neuroscience Our latest in @natrevneuro.nature.com Link: rdcu.be/eMX3E @jeffcolgren.bsky.social @msarscentre.bsky.social

Portrait: Joanna Hagen (In My Office) bryanwjones.com/2025/10/port... #scientist #VisionScientist

👁️ UPMC Vision Institute is restoring sight! The PRIMA wireless retinal implant + camera glasses helped patients with advanced macular degeneration regain functional vision. Over 80% saw measurable improvement. #VisionRestoration #Neuroprosthetics #UPMC #Pitt www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Thanks Bryan! Nice pic of me. I don't even remember you taking it. Eagerly awaiting the Visionarium pics 😊

Finally got around to posting the snapshots of walking around in Prague after the RD 2025 Meeting: bryanwjones.com/2025/09/walk...

Portrait: Yuanyuan Chen #scientist #VisionScientist #biochemist bryanwjones.com/2025/10/port...

Maison Deyrolle Avrill, 1953 by Robert Doisneau

#Visual #salience generation involves center-surround dynamics, but what performs these computations? This study shows that the #SuperiorColliculus encodes center-surround dynamics under isolated conditions, and provides insights into the circuit implementation @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4n7RpsA

#FluorescenceFriday 🌿🔬 post: Avian retina transduced with my AAVs carrying the #GluSNFR biosensor. Bright blobs at the top mark photoreceptor terminals; meanwhile below, an RGC connects beautifully with bipolar cells, giving a glimpse of retinal circuitry in action. #Retina #Neuroscience #AAV #2-P

Team BrightFocus Foundation is on the ground in Atlanta for our #GlaucomaFastTrack program, the official pre-symposium workshop to the ISER/BrightFocus Glaucoma Symposium. Glaucoma Fast Track brings together top researchers from across the globe to accelerate vision research. 💪 🔬

YEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHH, Teresa!!!

I'm so excited to be hiring my first postdoc! If you love retinal biology and developing new therapeutics to cure blindness, please apply! Thank you to the @brightfocus.bsky.social for supporting my research and enabling me to grow my research team! external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...

Our work is finally out! Learning from mechanism of #aging to presenting potential therapeutic strategy to slow down #age-related #vision loss! Very proud of my team including several undergrads and thankful for fantastic collaborations across the world! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to the winners of our image competition with the @mblscience.bsky.social Embryology course. The winner of the Editor’s choice is an image of a anole lizard eye, acquired by Arthur Boutillon @campaslab.bsky.social. thenode.biologists.com/results-from... #devbio 🔬🎉

A nice shift in perceived colour between central and peripheral vision. The fixated disc looks purple while the others look blue. The effect presumably comes from the absence of S-cones in the fovea. From Hinnerk Schulz-Hildebrandt: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.115...

Webvision Has A New Home! www.webvision.pitt.edu/2025/09/22/w...

We are pleased to announce that Webvision has been fully migrated to our new home at the University of Pittsburgh. www.webvision.pitt.edu All traffic should not automatically be redirected from the old URLs, but please update your links. Heads up: @pittophthalmology.bsky.social

Webvision is currently in migration. If you are going to the old site, you will see a 404. Check out our new home at webvision.pitt.edu

Super proud of Drs. Handel, Lim, and Ripolles-Garcia and Ms. Khan for representing COVSL at the Bay Area Vision Research Day! #visionscience

New paper! Kudos to first author Jaeeun Lee, who is a fantastic and hard working student. We showed that at photoreceptor presynapses, ELFN1 enrichment depends on postsynaptic mGluR6. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

Very proud of former Kumar lab PhD student, Alison Ordway, for receiving a K99 award from the National Eye Institute on her work describing photoreceptor patterning in Drosophila and mosquito compound eyes. Keep your eyes out for Alison when she goes out on the job market.

Our latest manuscript is out, and this one tackles the problem of cellular aging in the retina, using comparative multiomic analysis of zebrafish, mouse, and humans. What led us to work on aging after studying development and regeneration? Explainer follows./1 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

And how!

👁️The retina — strikingly conserved across vertebrates, but an oddity among bilaterians! So how did it evolve? With @mikebok.bsky.social, @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social, we argue that retinal complexity may 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑦𝑒 𝑖𝑡𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑓. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/n

#FluorescenceFriday #Seahorse retina stained with #GNB3 (green) + #DAPI (cyan). GNB3 labels cone photoreceptors + ON #bipolarcells, tracing pathways from outer to inner retina. Amazing to see conserved visual #circuits in this non-traditional model

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is not on Bsky yet, but they have a new website. If you are interested in vision research, RPB is a source of funding for your work. I owe my career to RPB in many ways. www.rpbusa.org

These are the kinds of stories that seem wild, but are firmly based in science and medicine. They also show that science has a long way to go and we should be robustly funding science. Artificial cornea research is underfunded, like most of biomedical science in America. It's time to lead.

Help @thetransmitter.bsky.social and @neuromatch.bsky.social understand what early-career neuroscientists need. Take just a few minutes to fill out the survey: www.thetransmitter.org/early-career... #neuroskyence

#FluorescenceFriday Strand and branch pericytes surround the vessels of the retina👁️🔬 color=depth @flaumeye.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @urochestersmd.bsky.social

The connection between sugar and age-related macular degeneration is stronger than you might think. Research indicates that high-glycemic foods like soda, candy, white bread, and pasta create inflammatory compounds that can harm your retina. Read more: https://bit.ly/465PeiL.

Thank you to the the @brightfocus.bsky.social for featuring my research on retinal deposits and their potential association with AMD. 🐸🧪 @dianebovenkamp.bsky.social www.brightfocus.org/news/how-bet...

Meet our newest grant recipients across Alzheimer’s, macular degeneration & glaucoma research! These exceptional investigators were selected for their potential to bring us closer to cures by pursuing the untried, the unexpected, and the most promising ideas. Explore their research: bit.ly/4mnqZTX

#FluorescenceFriday The #seahorse #retina shows off its beauty — stunning stratification in the inner nuclear and inner #plexiform layers, with rod #bipolar terminals forming a brilliant band. #Vertebrate retinas: the same basic plan, yet each species adds its own twist. Its so fascinating.

Bird’s eye view, literally. 🐦👁️ Glowing quail embryo eye for #FluorescenceFriday, #DevBio 🧪🔬

The retina, an amazing part of the eye that is a window to systemic disease #SciArt #ophthalmology #medsky

Portrait: Laura Campello (In My Office) bryanwjones.com/2025/08/port... #scientist #VisionScientist #geneticist

Vision Science Folks! Time is running out to nominate a worthy colleague for an @iser.bsky.social International Prize! Deadline for the Balasz, Bárány, and Kayser awards is September 8! Get nominatin'! iser.org/page/Awards_...