ARVO2026 - Denver

Pretty much sums up my current commute.

Most assume implants fail slowly over months. The moment an electrode enters the brain, microglia rush toward it within seconds, like fingers reaching for a splinter. Blood vessels leak. The BBB breaks. Inflammation starts instantly. #BCI #NeuralEngineering #Neurotech

From photoreceptors to visual processing — #Webvision is your open-access deep dive into how we see. Now hosted at our Department, continuing its mission to make vision science accessible to all. Start exploring → www.webvision.pitt.edu #Ophthalmology #Neuroscience

I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

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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 happy to see CLEM-Reg out in @natmethods.nature.com! A short thread on the algorithm behind it and how to try it out for yourself🧵(1/9) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

CLEM-Reg: an automated point cloud-based registration algorithm for volume correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Methods

CLEM-Reg automates the three-dimensional alignment of volume correlative light and electron microscopy datasets by leveraging probabilistic point cloud registration techniques for fast and accurate re...

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First day at University of Pittsburgh and I have a window!

From 10 years ago as a grad student with @robertmarc.bsky.social to my last day at the U of Utah today. It’s surreal to look out over the valley one last time. On to the next adventure!

Hey #ARVO2025, interested in transcriptional regulation affecting amacrine cell maintenance and fate? Come hear @emilyrnett.bsky.social’s talk, 4:15PM today (Sunday) in Ballroom B

The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076

It would probably be a more effective exercise if my institution didn't have the sender of all fake phishing attempts named "scammander phisher"

To compound stress from *gestures at everything* the pipes in my building now intermittently sound like a hammerdrill that can only be stopped by fiddling with hot water faucets (I know this from wandering the floor messing with faucets).

a man with a beard is holding his head because he has a headache

ALT: a man with a beard is holding his head because he has a headache

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Bluetorial: Potential impact of “NIH” “plan” regarding indirect costs on institutions

a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

ALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on

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Elon Musk is a terrible president.

Some people have a true talent for pissing off everyone they meet.

Finn likes snow.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the point of Universities implementing Concur is to annoy people into never actually traveling or using a PCard.

Vision Science Peeps--nominate a colleague for an @arvoinfo.bsky.social achievement awards! www.arvo.org/awards-grant...

Does anyone have a stargazing app they are particularly fond of for iPhone?

I am thrilled to announce that Rich Kramer and I are co-directing a BRAND NEW hands-on visual neuroscience course at the MBL. August 1-16, 2025. Details in this flyer. Trainees please apply. And everyone, please spread the word!

Nothing like grading exams to highlight what you clearly explained poorly.

Me, submitting an invited manuscript with a hard deadline.

Its not particularly cold in SLC today, but somehow I think this is a bit off... That or this will be my last post.

This used to work in the old place. Does anyone have a PDF of this perspective they'd be willing to share? #ICanHazPDF?

It's rare that I do much fluorescence, but I actually have something for #FluorescenceFriday this week! Rabbit retina stained for rod bipolar cells and a type of gap junction.

New manuscript out of the lab! Retinal Connectomics: A Review by @csigulinsky.bsky.social @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social and myself. This should be a complete and inclusive summary of the state of retinal connectomics in the literature. prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/202...

Playing with new imaging modalities is super exciting and fun

Congrats Bryan!!

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 2y ago

Am tickled to reveal I've been awarded an @RPB_org RPB Stein Innovation Award to explore neural plasticity to a hibernation model that promises to teach us about how retinas degenerate, and possibly how to recover lost vision. prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/202...

I'm excited to share that I was selected by RPB for a 4-year Career Development Award! I am looking forward to the research that this grant will enable! bit.ly/RPBgrant

Grants Overview

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