The Neuroscience Department at UC Berkeley is hiring an Asst Professor in Computational Neuro. All areas of computational/theoretical neuro are welcome. Deadline Oct 30. Join our neuroscience community! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05446 #AcademicJobs #Neuroscience #NeuroJobs

Assistant Professor - Computational Neuroscience - Department of Neuroscience

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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What if a wearable vision system focused only on what requires action right now? Very proud of our postdoc @mariusschneider.bsky.social, who won @ucsbengineering.bsky.social’s Zaleski Discovery Award for his work on safety tech for blind/low-vision travelers

A Smarter Way to See Danger | The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering - UC Santa Barbara

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Huge congrats to the @science.xyz team! 🎉 It’s remarkable to see PRIMA reach commercial launch in Europe after so many years of work and twists & turns. An exciting milestone for #BionicVision, and hopefully the start of real benefit for many people with geographic atrophy from #AMD.

bionic-vision.org@bionic-vision.org · 2w ago

@science.xyz has announced the European commercial launch of PRIMA, following CE marking under the EU Medical Device Regulation. 👁️🧠🧪 This marks a significant milestone for the bionic vision field after years of clinical development. science.xyz/news/ce-mark/ #BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI

So excited to be part of this one! Now officially out in Annual Review of Neuroscience 🎉 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse

Visual systems evolved to extract behaviorally relevant information while animals move through and interact with their world. Such ecological vision differs fundamentally from standard laboratory paradigms in many key aspects, making this a much harder problem for the brain to solve, and for the neuroscientist to study. However, emerging technologies and experimental approaches have enabled investigation of visual computations under these ecological conditions. These approaches are particularly powerful in the mouse, combining well-developed genetic tools, high-throughput recordings, and quantifiable ethological tasks. Here we review computations that are engaged in ecological contexts, including active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. We delineate experimental approaches that engage these computations and synthesize current understanding of their neural implementations based on mouse research. These studies reveal how ecological vision engages distinct processing strategies and novel neural circuitry, while highlighting the vast territory that remains unexplored in understanding real-world visual computation.

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Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · 3w ago

Ecological Visual Processing in the Mouse - with @michaelgoard.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mbeyeler.bsky.social Visual computations that are engaged in ecological contexts: active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception. doi.org/10.1146/annu...

⏳ Last chance! The abstract submission deadline for #OpticaFVM 2026 is almost here. 📅 Submit by July 15, 2026 if you'd like to present your latest work in vision science. 🔗 www.osafallvisionmeeting.org #VisionResearch @cvsuor.bsky.social @optica.org 👁️🧠🧪

It’s not too late to submit to NeuroXR 2026 @ieeeismar2026.bsky.social! We’re looking for work across XR, neuroscience, HCI, affective computing, neuroengineering, rehabilitation, BCIs, and assistive tech. Deadline: July 5, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE neuroxr-ws.github.io/www/

NeuroXR 2026 at IEEE ISMAR 2026

Workshop at IEEE ISMAR 2026

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We're inviting submissions for NeuroXR 2026, a @ieeeismar2026.bsky.social workshop for researchers working across #XR, #neuroscience, #HCI, affective computing, #neuroengineering, rehabilitation, and #AssistiveTech. Deadline: July 5, 2026, 11:59 PM AoE neuroxr-ws.github.io/www/

So... I got more information about this plan. The most important points follow on the next posts. 1/3

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I heard from several sources yesterday that NIH is planning to release a Request for Information (RFI) that apparently will include this: Scores and percentiles for NIH grant applications will not be shared with applicants although they will be provided to NIH program officers and staff. 1/3

Did you know neural data is now regulated in California? 🧠 Only the second state to do so (after Colorado). Concerns #EEG and #EMG, not yet invasive implants. Article by Michael Campos, JD, PhD for the California Lawyers Association: calawyers.org/privacy-law/...

Neural Data Series: What It Is and Why California Is Regulating It - California Lawyers Association

Every time you lift a finger, your brain generates a small electrical signal that travels down the spinal cord, branches out through peripheral nerves, and arrives at a muscle with a specific instruct...

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Happening right now at #ARVO2026

Bionic Vision Lab@bionicvisionlab.org · 3mo ago

At #ARVO2026? Come find Poster #0978 • 8:30 - 10:15am MT • May 5th Argus II timing breaks sighted flicker-fusion assumptions: • temporal effect: fragmented percepts at 0 ms, cleaner 1-vs-2 percepts at 4+ ms • spatial effect: axon-map distance predicts separability eppro02.ativ.me/web/page.php...

At #ARVO2026? Come find Poster #0978 • 8:30 - 10:15am MT • May 5th Argus II timing breaks sighted flicker-fusion assumptions: • temporal effect: fragmented percepts at 0 ms, cleaner 1-vs-2 percepts at 4+ ms • spatial effect: axon-map distance predicts separability eppro02.ativ.me/web/page.php...

Come find us at #ARVO2026!

Bionic Vision Lab@bionicvisionlab.org · 3mo ago

Two #BionicVision studies 👁️🧠 from our lab at #ARVO2026: 1. Argus II timing breaks sighted flicker-fusion assumptions: May 5, 8:30–10:15 AM 2. What shapes blind adults’ attitudes toward vision-restoration technology: May 6, 10:15 AM–12:00 PM Come find us in Denver!

Two #BionicVision studies 👁️🧠 from our lab at #ARVO2026: 1. Argus II timing breaks sighted flicker-fusion assumptions: May 5, 8:30–10:15 AM 2. What shapes blind adults’ attitudes toward vision-restoration technology: May 6, 10:15 AM–12:00 PM Come find us in Denver!

UCSB CS is shining at #ICLR2026! Multiple faculty papers were accepted (including one oral) spanning AI alignment, LLM safety, software benchmarking, and more. Congrats to all involved! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #UCSB #ComputerScience #AIResearch #LLM #VideoGeneration #AIBenchmarks

Glad to see these two projects from @bionicvisionlab.org accepted to #IEEE #EMBC2026 (@embs.org)! 👁️🧠🧪 A nice pairing: one paper is about the codebook, the other about the system. Both are aimed at making future artificial vision systems more usable in practice

Bionic Vision Lab@bionicvisionlab.org · 4mo ago

Excited to share that two papers from the lab were accepted to #IEEE #EMBC2026 (@embs.org)! 🎉 1. Better symbol design for reading with (future) prosthetic vision 2. Cloud-adaptive preprocessing for visual neuroprostheses under real-world network constraints #BionicVision #NeuroTech

For #NSF and #NIH watchers, Grant Witness now has interactive data on numbers of grants and total funding obligations, broken down by institute and directorate, new awards and non-competitive renewals. The stranglehold on new awards is still a disaster. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

New @annualreviews.bsky.social #neuroscience article 👁️🧠: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... w/ @crisniell.bsky.social, @michaelgoard.bsky.social, @spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social Grateful to be part of this collaboration & learn from such a sharp group while rethinking vision in natural settings!

Ecological visual processing in the mouse | Bionic Vision Lab

We review computations that are engaged in ecological contexts, including active sensing, motion processing, scene analysis, distance estimation, and spatial perception.

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Save the date 👁🧠🧪 Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2026 📅 Sep 24–27, 2026 📍 University of Rochester, NY (@cvsuor.bsky.social) A single-track meeting built for depth, discussion, and community in #VisionScience. #OpticaFVM #AcademicSky #neuroskyence #Vision #perception #eye #ophthalmology

En route to #Cosyne2026! 🧠🧪🇵🇹 @bionicvisionlab.org is represented with 2 projects: - control of electrically evoked activity in human V1 - predictive model of mouse V1 recovers cell- and state-dependent tuning Check out our posters on Thursday! #CompNeuroSky #NeuroSkyence

Will AI subsume computer science? “I think [this question] gets the relationship backwards,” says my faculty colleague, Arpit Gupta. Full read: sites.cs.ucsb.edu/~arpitgupta/... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #CS #Science #AcademicSky #ResearchSky #STEM

What happens when a neural network controls electrical stimulation delivered directly to the brain? In our new JNE paper we answer an important question: how do we know these models are safe? bionicvisionlab.org/publications... Full details in the thread below 👇 #BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI

Fuzzing the brain: Automated stress testing for the safety of ML-driven neurostimulation | Bionic Vision Lab

We propose a systematic, quantitative approach to detect and characterize unsafe stimulation patterns in ML-driven neurostimulation systems.

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Bionic Vision Lab@bionicvisionlab.org · 5mo ago

🚨Fuzzing the brain - automated stress testing for ML-driven neurostimulation🚨 As #MachineLearning begins to control electrical stimulation in neural interfaces, how do we know these models are safe? Paper in Journal of Neural Engineering: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... #BCI #neuroskyence

What if your strongest #ML model is brittle at one thing that really matters? Can it learn that behavior from a weaker but specialist model, even when they share no task, no data, and no architecture? My student Galen Pogoncheff explored this in our #ICLR2026 paper: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.23933

BIRD: Behavior Induction via Representation-structure Distillation

Human-aligned deep learning models exhibit behaviors consistent with human values, such as robustness, fairness, and honesty. Transferring these behavioral properties to models trained on different ta...

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Join us Jan 23 for the inaugural CRML Agentic AI Summit at @ucsb.bsky.social. Researchers, industry, and students exploring how agentic AI drives discovery and real-world impact. Free to attend, limited space: ml.ucsb.edu/events/summi... #AgenticAI #ResponsibleAI #AIResearch

As #neurotechnology scales toward high-resolution implantable devices, new challenges emerge: how will users calibrate visual implants with thousands of channels? Learn how by reading our paper, co-first-authored with Dr. Xing Chen, now published at Brain Stimulation! tinyurl.com/Large-scale-...

Can your AI beat a mouse? This is happening Sunday! robustforaging.github.io NeurIPS workshop 11 to 2 California time on Zoom! @mbeyeler.bsky.social @sinzlab.bsky.social @ninamiolane.bsky.social @crisniell.bsky.social @mariusschneider.bsky.social J. Canzano, Y. Hou, J. Peng, et al. #NeurIPS2025

Spencer LaVere Smith@spencerlaveresmith.bsky.social · last yr.

Recently have been doing virtual reality experiments with mice in complex, open world environments. No linear tracks. No T-mazes. No simple gratings. No binary choices. No blocky, high contrast environments. Those are great for some experiments, but we want to focus on COMPLEX processing. (6/n)

🎉 Mouse vs AI #NeurIPS2025 Challenge 2025 The first year was a great success: 🤖 290 submissions 👥 22 teams 🌎 7 countries robustforaging.github.io A huge thank you to all who participated!👏 This was our first attempt at a global competition built around real mouse behavior and visual robustness

Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!! Come discuss! An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org

Curious about the Dynamical Neuroscience #PhD Program at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social? Come find us at the #SfN2025 Grad School Fair (Both 66)! 🧠🧪 More info at www.dyns.ucsb.edu. #AcademicSky #Neuroscience #compneurosky

If you're at #SfN25, come chat with us about subretinal implants this afternoon! Poster 122.22, presented by PhD student Emily Joyce

Bionic Vision Lab@bionicvisionlab.org · 9mo ago

If you are into #VisionScience or #neuroengineering, come check out our first poster at #SfN2025 this afternoon! Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea PSTR122.22 Nov 16 at 1:00 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...

I will be presenting the poster “Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” at the Early Career Poster Session #SfN as a TPDA awardee! Nov. 15, 2025 18:45–20:45 (PT) Poster: G5 SDCC Halls C–H Come discuss!