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Christopher Patrick Taylor

@drchristaylor.bsky.social

Associate Professor @ The New England College of Optometry

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Wrong Station@thewrongstation.bsky.social · 7mo ago

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Keisuke Yonehara@keisukeyonehara.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited to share our new work on visual information processing in the retinocollicular pathway. We discovered that while luminance responses can predict motion responses in retinal ganglion cells, this prediction does not hold in the superior colliculus cells. www.cell.com/current-biol...

Decoupling of visual feature selectivity in the retinocollicular pathway

Schwartz and Matsumoto et al. show that visual feature selectivity for luminance and motion is coupled in the retina but becomes decoupled in the superior colliculus. This transformation reorganizes t...

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Christopher Patrick Taylor@drchristaylor.bsky.social · last yr.

A good list and I'll admit I have failed hardcore at least two. Perhaps, in the future, my strengths will mitigate these failures. That said, context is key if you don't care about failing colleagues you don't respect, then you're not a bad academic merely not in a good place for you.

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · last yr.

As I am going over old blog posts, here is a nice blog by @bwroberts.bsky.social on qualities in graduate students that, in his opinion, lead to a successful career in academia. Still very good advice. pigee.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/a...

Hugo Spiers@hugospiers.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨This is the most exciting step of my scientific career🚨 25 yrs ago I started a life long interest in navigation, maps & brains I've collected data from >4 m people in 195 nations in SeaHeroQuest In 3 weeks we set off on an ocean voyage to study the amazing spatial skills of Marshallese sailors:

Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · last yr.

‪World-leading scientists will set out on a unique research voyage, joining Indigenous Pacific sailors to investigate the centuries-old skill of wave piloting: www.stir.ac.uk/news/2025/ju... Photo credit: www.instagram.com/chewy_lin/

Four people sail a traditional outrigger canoe near a tropical island under a sunny sky.
RoordaLab@roordalab.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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Andrey Chetverikov@achetverikov.bsky.social · last yr.

I just learned that there is an open postdoc position for AI in Psychology with us. The deadline is in two days, but if you are interested and willing to write a quick proposal, let me know. Potential topics: comp. modeling of VWM/perception, brain decoding. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920) | University of Bergen

Job title: LEAD AI postdoctoral research fellow position at the Faculty of Psychology (276920), Employer: University of Bergen, Deadline: Sunday, May 11, 2025

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Alex Holcombe@alexh.bsky.social · last yr.

Journals have been so captured by metrics like impact factor and time-to-decision that they can't even conceive of the idea that scholars might choose a journal based on how good it is! For example, do the editors and reviews provide good feedback, have good judgment, and do they have integrity?

Diagram asking a scholar to judge importance of APC, time to decision, impact factor. Responded with: "To me, it is important that it is published by a non-profit or at least nonprofiteering (>25% profits, like Elsevier ,NPG, Wiley) corporation. APC is less important than that. Scholars or public institutions should be in the governance positions, not a publishing corporation. Another important factor to me is QUALITY of the journal! Whenever I consider a service or product, I ask myself, is it good?? This is not the same as the legacy prestige/impact factor/branding it has, but the quality of the reviewers, the care put in by the editors, their integrity, and whether they try to improve their processes. As a small example of how your editors are responsive, after I repeatedly pointed out that requiring compliance with the Helsinki Declaration was inappropriate unless you were publishing only preregistered studies (because Helsinki requires that), you eventually changed that requirement."
Matteo Carandini@carandinilab.net · 2y ago

It's finally out! Visual experience orthogonalizes visual cortical responses Training in a visual task changes V1 tuning curves in odd ways. This effect is explained by a simple convex transformation. It orthogonalizes the population, making it easier to decode. 10.1016/j.celrep.2025.115235

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