Can journal editors please stop asking us to review manuscripts with figures and captions that are separated and appended to the end of the document? I'm gonna start declining requests to review if it keeps happening.

We may be almost 3000 miles apart, but still side-by-side through our love of #whiskey, #visionscience, and paint choices for our walls (for the record, I copied him). #MartyBanks #BenjaminMoore24Carrot

Interesting read in the New Yorker (and shameless self-promotion:)

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

A new color called olo can be described as the “greenest green.” It can never be captured by a camera, but its development tells us a lot about how vision works. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Wow...mind blown! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This Cell Feeds, Grows and Reproduces. And It’s Manmade.

From chemical building blocks, scientists have created synthetic cells that have most of the hallmarks of life.

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Yesterday Gerald Westheimer turned 102. Here he is giving the opening lecture at Dennis Levi's retirement Festschrift, which was held on the same day. Happy to report that he's still as sharp and charming as ever. @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social #visionscience

Three selfies for three ophthalmoscopes.... - Helmholtz's original handheld direct ophthalmoscope from 1850, - adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscope (AOSLO) in Jacque Duncan's lab at UCSF from the 2010's - freshly deployed commercial #AOSLO from Robotrak. #visionscience #adaptiveoptics

I missed the beginning, but only an absolute pro can start their karaoke set recruiting IOVS editors and then crush I’ve Got Friends In Low Places. @aoiplab.bsky.social #arvo2026

I'm thinking about when ARVO was in Hawaii. #ARVO2026

I should be writing my dissertation, but instead I'm writing about the @nationalacademies.org being compromised. McNutt here saying that THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES will NOT ENGAGE ON "PARTISAN TOPICS" such as "vaccines" and "climate change". What happens when R's decide they don't believe in gravity?

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 4mo ago

From Marcia McNutt's President's Address at the National Academies meeting this morning. www.youtube.com/live/3NXm6d5... 1/4

PhD student James Fong (aka the Wizard) using #AOSLO to take me on another trip to Oz to see #olo. The key to the door? A classified cone mosaic of my retina. #visionscience #adaptiveoptics @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Most vision scientists would bet that single-cone receptive fields exist in primate fovea, but it was not proven until now. It took years of sweat and $ to combine #AOSLO and electrophysiology. Congrats to PhD student Keaton Ramsey and his mentor Lawrence Sincich. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Physiological basis of resolution acuity in vision - Nature Communications

Neural mechanisms underlying high visual acuity are not fully understood. Here the authors show that high resolution visual information is transmitted from the retina to the brain by neurons in t...

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Today I took my @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social optometry students on a field trip (actually, just outside our building) to observe polarization in the wild. Bottom line? Are polarizing sunglasses 😎 worth it? I think these future optometrists would say YES.

Vision Science makes the front page of NYT!! featuring work from @neurofishh.bsky.social and @denilsson.bsky.social with comments from Berkeley's own @karthikshekhar.bsky.social #visionscience www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One

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Feels great to be back in the bite bar at #UCBerkeley, doing experiments with my postdoc @shangbangluo.bsky.social and PhD student Jason Wong. #adaptiveoptics #AOSLO #visionscience #AOOCT

Striking example characterizing a paradoxical decoupling between the retinal image and perception. Thanks @josiedangelo.bsky.social for all the hard work to get this paper past the finish line. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

The Lick Observatory is one of the most beautiful, historical, and scientific treasures of the Bay Area and a jewel in the crown of University of California Observatories. Best wishes for a full recovery.

Bruce Macintosh@bmacastro.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Lick updates: We got a crane up there Friday and the winds dropped enough by Saturday to get the shutter off the roof.

Indulging in some actual building today. This will ultimately be a system for splitting broadband, supercontinuum light into 5 separate spectral channels. But for today, it's just lego blocks for scientists! #AOSLO #adaptiveoptics

New opportunity for top-tier researchers to move to the great country of Canada 🇨🇦. @uwaterloo.ca will have multiple openings. Chairs come with either $1M/yr or 0.5M/yr for 8 years+. If you are a top-tier #visionscience researcher, let's talk. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

Happy thanksgiving to all my American friends. Just a normal working day here at @uwoptometry.bsky.social. Picture from my bike commute this morning. And remember, there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.

Just received my deformable mirror from ALPAO! There's no turning back now. #AOSLO @uwaterloo.ca

I always knew that Teresa Puthussery was a genius...this just confirms it! #visionscience www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Teresa Puthussery

Exploring how neural circuits of the retina encode visual information for the human brain.

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My boss/mentor Teresa Puthussery won a MacArthur genius grant today! She shares the award with Oakland novelist Tommy Orange (read There There! It's awesome!), resource recovery chemist William Tarpeh, and 22 others. Congratulations Teresa! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Teresa Puthussery

Exploring how neural circuits of the retina encode visual information for the human brain.

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Congratulations @leahgjohnston.bsky.social for winning the @optica-fvm.bsky.social YIA! Most #visionscience folks know that stabilized retinal images fade. Fewer know that stabilized, but flickering, images also fade. Even fewer know that the flicker-fading doesn't take place in the retina.

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM)@optica-fvm.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉 Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization" Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"

Seems that a small earthquake knocked our #AOSLO #AOOCT system out of alignment. It may be time to engage to the air suspension.... One of the perils of doing research at #ucberkeley. www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Another earthquake shakes Bay Area with epicenter near UC Berkeley

The quake with an epicenter in Berkeley struck at about 2:55 a.m.

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Hannah works hard every on her PhD, doing very cool #visionscience every day in my lab at #UCBerkeley. But does she go home and put up her feet every night? Nope! She is speed-puzzling phenom, heading to the world championship later this month. Go Hannah! www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

UC Berkeley student will compete in World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship in Spain

The World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship will be held in Spain this month, and one UC Berkeley grad student is hoping to bring home the win.

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Hey @thorlabs.bsky.social, where are my snacks? Is it because I'm in 🇨🇦?

🇨🇦 This sign calls to me every morning on my commute to @uwaterloo.ca. Question is: blow off work and head west to Lake Cowichan BC or east to Cappahayden NFLD? @transcanadatrail.bsky.social www.tctrail.ca

My CV in ceramic.

When your bike ride takes you north of Waterloo. #mennonitecountry

✨Our newest eLife paper is out!✨ 👉 elifesciences.org/articles/98662 When retinal cells die, who cleans up? Non-invasive imaging shows microglia👇 rush to help but don’t recruit neutrophils from the bloodstream. @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @elife.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday