🚨 Help my lab at @skeriresearch.bsky.social advance innovative research on the technology, perception, and neuroscience of accessibility! The Teng Lab has launched a pair of campaigns through @experiment.com. 🧠 experiment.com/braille 🦇 experiment.com/robinecho

An excellent way to mark #FallsPrevention week with work from SKERI scientists @kate-agathos.bsky.social, @vestivisilab.bsky.social, and Dr. Don Fletcher

Excited for our study on the importance of mobility screening and referral in AMD to be finally published! www.ajo.com/article/S000.... In it @kate-agathos.bsky.social, Dr. Don Fletcher, and I show that over half of patients screened had balance/mobility concerns.

🌍 Proud to share SKERI’s expertise at #VISION2025Florence, the 15th International Conference on Low Vision Research & Rehabilitation. Today: James Coughlan, Brandon Biggs & Jade Guenot presented. Tomorrow: Preeti Verghese, Jade Guenot & Don Fletcher take the stage! #LowVision #Accessibility

🚨 Very excited to have this manuscript with Haydée García-Lázaro out in the world! With psychophysics and #EEG decoding, we show how echoacoustic evidence accumulates over multiple click-echo presentations. The first temporally resolved account of the brain doing #echolocation in blind humans. 🦇🔊

We are proud to celebrate our very own Dr. Joshua Miele - a brilliant scientist, inventor, and advocate whose work continues to expand equal access to information for blind and low-vision communities!

#Echolocation is trainable, but can learning it be optimized? In work presented to CSUN2025 and now published in @csuncod.bsky.social's JTPD vol 13, @haydeegl.bsky.social illustrates the benefits of adjusting synthetic but realistic echolocation sounds to be more perceptible by novice listeners.

The research enterprise is invaluable. We can easily see its importance in the cures or technologies available today. But sometimes it's difficult to see what research brings to people in the shorter term. Here is one of our participants talking about what it's meant to her. youtu.be/Yn9ywYj3UYQ

If you're attending #CNS2025, check out our lab's posters in Tuesday morning's Session F! We're proud to represent @skeriresearch.bsky.social in Boston this year.

Interested in vision science, accessibility, eye movements, mobility or related fields? SKERI’s 2025 Postdoctoral application cycle is now open! For more information visit our site: www.ski.org/what-does-fe...

Here are ways to participate and support SKERI's #GivingTuesday campaign this year!: 1. Support scholarships and accessibility projects by donating to the Bill Gerrey Makers Fund: www.ski.org/bill-gerrey-... 2. Volunteer at SKERI 3. Participate in our research 4. Share our campaign on social media

Hey check this out 👇🏼 What happens to a #braille letter after it enters the somatosensory periphery through a #blind reader's fingerpad? In our new preprint 👇🏼 we showed braille and print alphabetic letters to blind and sighted readers, respectively, while recording #MEG. #Neuroskyence

Natela Shanidze's Eye-Head Movement Lab currently has 2 postdoctoral fellows: Kate, who is examining how central vision loss affects spatial orientation & mobility & Christian, who is studying how noise exposure can impact balance in athletes. Learn more here: www.ski.org/labs/shanidz...

Adrien, a fellow in Dr. Preeti Verghese's lab, is studying the underlying mechanisms of binocular rivalry dynamics in amblyopia, & how abnormal dynamics can be used for amblyopia diagnosis. You can learn more about research in the Verghese lab on our website: ski.org/labs/verghes...

Steve Heinen’s lab studies eye movements to understand neural circuitry that moves the eyes for clear vision, & as a tool to develop non-invasive diagnosis & therapy for brain trauma & psychiatric disorders. Learn more here: www.ski.org/directory/st... & ski.org/labs/heinen-...

Andrea is a visiting predoctoral fellow in James Coughlan’s lab where research is focused on developing & testing access technology for the blind and visually impaired using computer vision & other sensor technologies. Learn more about work in the Coughlan lab here www.ski.org/labs/coughla...

In the Teng lab, postdoc Haydée García-Lázaro is studying neural dynamics of echolocation combining psychophysics, ephys & computational techniques. Lab projects also include sensory processing during Braille reading & use of nonvisual cues for assistive tech. ski.org/labs/teng-lab

Only 3 weeks left to apply for SKERI’s postdoc fellowship (apps due 1/31/24! www.ski.org/what-does-fe...)! To celebrate, we’re kicking off a month-long series showcasing research from our brilliant postdocs and mentors. Stay tuned! #InnovationForInclusion #VisionResearch #Fellowship

Seems as good a first post as any to say my R01 application got some good news yesterday 🥳🎉

(YouTube) Vision restoration: The dream www.youtube.com/watch?v=r91M... by Gordon Legge via @skeriresearch.bsky.social; "How do the functional benefits of prosthetic vision compare with the utility of echolocation, #soundscapes or tactile imaging?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=r91M... #blind #a11y

(YouTube) I can hear what you see: cortical plasticity in congenitally blind individuals www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5UO... by Ione Fine via @skeriresearch.bsky.social; #hMT+ #plasticity #neuroscience #blindness

Did you miss the Functional Vision and Accessibility Conference this summer? Do you wish you could have attended more than once? Check out most of the talks here! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🚨It's that time of year again! If you're into visual development, clinical vision, eye movements, attention, neuroplasticity, mobility, low-vision/blindness rehab & assistive tech, SKERI #postdoc applications are due 1/31/24! #academicjobs #visionscience #neurojobs www.ski.org/what-does-fe...

Had a great time speaking to CS grad seminar students at SF State yesterday! Thanks to Ilmi Yoon for the invite, and everyone for your patience, engagement, and interest. cs.sfsu.edu/event/gradua...

The SKERI family remembers Bill Gerrey, whose life and work on assistive technology for and by blind people shaped the way the Institute has pursued accessibility for decades. www.ski.org/news/skeri-m...

We are hiring! Seeking a research associate to support behavioral and #neuroscience studies of perception and mobility in visual impairment. See posting for details. #neurojobs