Hannah works hard every on her PhD, doing very cool #visionscience every day in my lab at #UCBerkeley. But does she go home and put up her feet every night? Nope! She is speed-puzzling phenom, heading to the world championship later this month. Go Hannah! www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

Hey @thorlabs.bsky.social, where are my snacks? Is it because I'm in 🇨🇦?

🇨🇦 This sign calls to me every morning on my commute to @uwaterloo.ca. Question is: blow off work and head west to Lake Cowichan BC or east to Cappahayden NFLD? @transcanadatrail.bsky.social www.tctrail.ca

My CV in ceramic.

When your bike ride takes you north of Waterloo. #mennonitecountry

✨Our newest eLife paper is out!✨ 👉 elifesciences.org/articles/98662 When retinal cells die, who cleans up? Non-invasive imaging shows microglia👇 rush to help but don’t recruit neutrophils from the bloodstream. @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday

Spotted this morning outside of the stunning Daniels Building at the University of Toronto, where I'm attending @iccp-conference.bsky.social. Nothing computational here, just a regular photo. Super excited to see the hawk...but that rat is huuuge!

6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada. First 6..... 6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute. lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA see thread for the next 6.

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...

Some things are new (the Instagram-worthy sign) and some things are old (the iconic Dana Porter Library, where I spent many hours as a physics undergrad in the late 80s). @uwaterloo.ca 🇨🇦

Multiple faculty opportunities are open at the @uwaterloo.ca in 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 for someone wishing to launch their academic career in Vision Science. I just moved here and I think you'll find that it's a great place to live, work, and thrive. Happy to tell you more if you're interested.

Final moments as a resident of the USA. Soon to reside again in the great and civilized country of Canada. @uwaterloo.ca here I come.

While many of you may suffer FOMO for #OLO, we folks in the lab suffer FOMO for YOLO. That was the case until Stuart Semple graciously sent us some free bottles. What this all about? Check out www.culturehustleusa.com/products/yol... to find out. Thanks!!!

Thanks to @ucobservatories.bsky.social for the fun and informative 'insider' tour of the @lickobservatory.bsky.social for me, my former students and postdocs, and colleagues. Special thanks to @elinorgates.bsky.social, resident astronomer extraordinaire and ultimate tour guide for her time.

Oddly, PhDs at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social don't require public defenses - we just need 3 committee members to unceremoniously sign off. To make up, we hold an annual symposium, where families, friends, faculty and students attend. Congrats Max Greene and Stephanie Reeves for outstanding talks.

Congratulations Jorge (and Stephanie). This is surely just the beginning of establishing your legacy at Berkeley.

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

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.

Looking forward to attending and participating in this meeting.

#vss2025. Vintage VSS swag bags ... Emily Cooper VSS2014, Katie Trelligus VSS2015 and not sure what year Mike Landy's is.

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

Most years at ARVO, I award the Picture of the Year, or #POTY prize. This year it goes to Toco Chui of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for her presentation titled "In-vivo imaging of blood cell adhesion to vascular wall in sickle cell disease" (more below) 1/n

Hard to believe that #visionscience PhD student Jason Wong is still smiling (let alone standing) after holding court for hours at his first #ARVO2025 poster, co-authored with @shangbangluo.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Stop by A0265 today and say hi to @minagaffney.bsky.social - she’s sharing results from our AO corrected visual acuity project, made possible by a collaboration with @roordalab.bsky.social and Will Tuten.

Seen at #ARVO2025: Segmented Deformable Mirror in the Hyatt Regency #AdaptiveOptics Now for that computer coupling... @roordalab.bsky.social @aoiplab.bsky.social #JerryNelson @cvsuor.bsky.social @urneuroscience.bsky.social @uofrbme.bsky.social @arvoinfo.bsky.social

I see RPE cells #arvo2025

@aoiplab.bsky.social @arvoiovs.bsky.social

Heading to #ARVO2025. 10 hours to go..... Hope to see you there.

I wrote about the new color gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

It's officially official... I'm moving from my awesome position at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social to an equally awesome position at @uwaterloo.ca uwaterloo.ca/optometry-vi...

This paper is the result of >20 yrs of hard work by talented students, postdocs and collaborators, but none more than my co-author Ren Ng and his team in EECS. 1/n Novel color via stimulation of individual photoreceptors at population scale | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Yikes!?! If you don't know who Jeremy Berg is then you should. Check out his @jeremymberg.bsky.social posts and look at his Wikipedia page. I hope this does not interrupt the valuable insights and information he's been posting.

You know your wife loves you when she installs tile in your new shower that looks like a foveal cone mosaic. (but not enough to make them colored red, green and blue). #visionscience #adaptiveoptics

Just had a memorable visit with living legend Gerald Westheimer as he approaches his 101st birthday. We talked about his latest hobbies: using ChatGPT to craft Matlab code for convoluting complex pupil functions, and quantum optics. @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #visionscience

Many of my favorite things captured here.... Optics, biking and 🏀. Taken on my ride back to Berkekey from patient imaging at UCSF ophthalmology.

#standupforscience @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Field trip!!!! Today I brought my @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #optometry class outside to observe #polarization in the wild. No matter how old you are or where you go, nothing beats a field trip, even if its just outside the building.

Sometimes the best we can, at any moment, is sign a petition. Here is one. sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...

The Trump administration is trying to slash NIH F&A costs at 15%. If enacted, jobs will be lost, clinical trials cancelled, and life-saving discoveries will be halted. I signed this letter urging lawmakers to fully fund NIH research. Will you join me? docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...

Congratulations to Jason Wong (the guy with the big smile in the middle) for passing his PhD qualifying exam today. The future of #visionscience at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is looking good! #aoslo #aooct #adaptiveoptics

The alternative to #overheadcosts is for scientists to itemize the actual cost of doing research. And the volunteer reviewer will be asked to scrutinize those costs. #DOGE bros, this is not an efficient way to work. Let institutions negotiate the IDC rates and let the scientists do their work!

Hey #DOGE bros. Drop everything and start working on getting rid of the penny already!!

How is it that the plane is half booked the day before a flight but when it comes time to board, every single seat is full? This red-eye from SFO to YYZ is not gonna be fun.

Two of the first eight talks at #PhotonicsWest Ophthalmic Technologies conference canceled. Continued fallout from the pause imposed on the FDA and other health agencies by the current administration. This is not good for anyone folks.

I trust that soon we'll all agree on the value of NIH funding for research. But getting rid of the #penny?.... now surely that's something we can all agree on right away, right? Or will the penny be politicized too? www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

Happiness is a well-stocked cabinet of optomechanical hardware.

If you know how to cross-fuse, then try these...taken en route from Frankfurt to Ljubljana (dolomites?). Stereo pairs like these are easy to take from aircraft. Just wait a few seconds between snaps. #stereovision #visionscience

In other news, Austin Roorda will also skip Trump's inauguration. Michelle Obama Will Skip Trump’s Inauguration www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

I just realized that I've been at #UCBerkeley School of Optometry and Vision Science for 20 years! That's a long time to be in place, but I can't think of many places better than this.

Lake Huron horizon, Christmas Eve. Not sure these colours even have names.