This is a great organization that is committed to supporting early-career clinician scientists. Not just for MD/PhDs! Straight MDs, DOs, and even veterinarians. Please share with anyone you know who might be eligible.

Burroughs Wellcome Fund@bwfund.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 Funding Opportunity BWF's Career Awards for Medical Scientists is accepting applications Physician-scientists in the US & Canada can receive $700K over 5 years to support the transition to an independent academic research career Deadline: 9/30/26 🔗 buff.ly/rX4rd0E #bwfcams #PhysicianScientist

This week we completed an elusive measurement: the flat fielding function of the wide-angle camera on our wearable light-logger. To do so, we visited the Fels Planetarium at the @franklininstitute.bsky.social. 1/6

This week we completed an elusive measurement: the flat fielding function of the wide-angle camera on our wearable light-logger. To do so, we visited the Fels Planetarium at the @franklininstitute.bsky.social. 1/6

In honor of Mel Brooks turning 100, I would like to again note that young Dr. Frankenstein gives a pretty good brainstem lecture.

🚨New dataset just dropped🚨 Introducing Places in the Wild: 67,000 RAW-format photographs (45 mpix) densely sampled from 810 places (260 basic-level categories). This is 11x the number of pixels in ImageNet! Preprint is here: arxiv.org/abs/2606.02481 1/

Places in the Wild: A Large, High-Resolution RAW Photograph Dataset for Ecologically Valid Vision Research

Large image datasets have accelerated progress in cognitive neuroscience and computer vision. However, most datasets are low-resolution, internet-sourced JPEGs with unknown capture conditions and limi...

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A clever addition to multi-echo analysis that reduces warping from head motion. The MEDIC software is available here: github.com/vanandrew/wa...

Imaging Neuroscience@imagingneurosci.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper in Imaging Neuroscience by Andrew N. Van, Nico U.F. Dosenbach, et al: Frame-wise multi-echo distortion correction for superior functional MRI doi.org/10.1162/IMAG...

Delighted that a new online talk is up for viewz on Youtube: "Evolution of the Vertebrate Eye". Thanks to Marion Silies and Luisa Ramirez for hosting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrYJ....

Tom Baden - Evolution of the Eye

YouTube video by BadenLab

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Peak retired academic moment. 1. One of those emails: Are you the R Watt who wrote xxxxxx? 2. Nope, but it sounds vaguely interesting. Wonder what they found. 3. Google - read it and discover that I did write it.

We're excited to share our new study on decoding brain activity in participants with post-stroke aphasia! We think this is an important step towards cognitive brain-computer interfaces for patients with language disorders www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 1/8

Somehow this must be useful for vision science 🧠

kottke.org@kottke.org · 4mo ago

For four years, Barbara Iweins took a photo of every single thing she owned, "from my daughters torn sock to my sons Lego, but also my vibrator, my anxiolytics... absolutely everything. 12,795 photos of 12,795 objects." Explore the collection here. [kottke.org]

Very cool. The white matter connectivity of early visual cortex recapitulates the polar angle variation of retinal structure. One look at this figure and you know you are in the world of retinal meridians and that Marisa Carrasco will be making an appearance.

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A retinotopic wiring principle of the human brain https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716412v1

I am standing for election to the VSS board. The slate of candidates [with 25% immodesty] is fantastic. Please consider engaging in the difficult decision process of identifying a just-noticeable-difference in great folks who are eager to serve vision science.

Vision Sciences Society@vssmtg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🗳️ The VSS Board of Directors Election is Now Open! Cast your vote for two new board members (4-year terms). ✅ Eligibility: Must be a Regular or Postdoc 2026 Member ⏳ Deadline: April 24, 2026 (11:59 pm AoE) Vote now: bit.ly/4do5zEO #VSS2026 #VisionScience

Man I missed out on being on that 900 author paper. I’m holding out for a 9000 author paper.

I read bioRxiv titles in all caps as the scientist excitedly yelling the result to their colleagues. Can you believe it?? SENSORY MAPS IN THE TELENCEPHALIC PALLIUM!!

bioRxiv Neuroscience@biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

SENSORY MAPS IN THE TELENCEPHALIC PALLIUM OF GOLDFISH. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.25.714251v1

Congratulations to @nancykanwisher.bsky.social, winner of the 2026 Ken Nakayama medal from @vssmtg.bsky.social! Nancy is not only a brilliant scientist, she has also been an inspiring mentor to several generations of vision scientists (including me).

Beautiful essay from @samhenri.gold about the joy of hacking, disguised as a review of the MacBook Neo. samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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The BCBL would be an amazing place to work. Great colleagues in a gorgeous location with some of the finest food in the world.

Nicola Molinaro@nicolaml.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 PhD position in Computational Neuroscience 🧠 Join the Deco-B project to decode bilingual speech (Spanish–Basque) using MEG/fMRI + multilingual AI models. Work at the intersection of neuroscience & machine learning at BCBL. More: tinyurl.com/2rnur82n

There’s an interesting lawsuit out of Connecticut I’ve been following that rests on the question of whether darkness — yes, darkness, the primordial Erebus himself— is a natural resource. Here’s why that’s potentially a big deal.

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Happy VSS deadline extension to all the vision scientists out there.

This is really cool. There is some interesting thinking to be done regarding optimal temporal experimental design within this framework.

Ravi Menon@northernthrux.bsky.social · 9mo ago

14 months after submission, our article “Stimulus-modulated approach to steady state (SASS): a flexible paradigm for event-related fMRI" is now out in @natmethods.nature.com . You can read it here rdcu.be/ePJo6 It is the first first author paper from my student @renilmathew.bsky.social 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 …1/N

As it is spooky season, you should read this study of Aztec skull whistles, and listen to the screaming sounds that they produce.

The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles

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Philly on the march.

Today, the PhD student I co-supervised with Dr. Toni Saarela, Lari Virtanen, is defending his thesis on color ensemble perception at the University of Helsinki. It is both a happy and a sad day. Toni passed away only two weeks ago and just missed seeing his first PhD student graduate. RIP Toni ❤️😔

Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over 5 years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career Deadline: 10/07/25 www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo... #bwfcams

Our new paper, “A neural compass in the human brain during naturalistic human navigation” is out in @sfnjournals.bsky.social! First-author @zhenganglu.bsky.social led the charge, with Josh Julian and collaborator @gkaguirre.com. www.jneurosci.org/content/earl...

By studying the tilt illusion—when the visual cortex sees straight lines as angled—Professors Alan Stocker and Geoffrey Aguirre are making inroads into fundamental computational processes that could inform neuroscience and better AI. @pennmindcore.bsky.social @gkaguirre.com @sas.upenn.edu

How the Brain Plays Tricks on the Eyes

By studying the tilt illusion—when the visual cortex sees straight lines as angled—Professors Alan Stocker and Geoffrey Aguirre are making inroads into fundamental computational processes that could…

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🧠✨ Excited to share that our literature review on retinotopic mapping in the human visual cortex is now published! tinyurl.com/5d9ne68b Amazing collab with Noah Benson and Alex Puckett! We hope this will be a helpful resource for pRF modellers and visual neuroscientists!

The next macOS version is bringing the bouba.

My op-ed was published in @al.com ! www.al.com/news/2025/06... @sciencehomecoming.bsky.social