Reposted by Becca PfeifferTK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Most 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 26219
Reposted by Becca PfeifferUniversity of Pittsburgh Ophthalmology Department @pittophthalmology.bsky.social · 26/02/2026From 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 12913
Reposted by Becca PfeifferDennis Hazelett @vigocarpathian.bsky.social · 17/03/2025I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.rdcu.beAn open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to writeNature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write 3289
Reposted by Becca PfeifferWebvision @webvision.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Webvision 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.eduwebvision.pitt.eduWebvision – The Organization of the Retina and Visual System 0153
Reposted by Becca PfeifferDaniel Krentzel @danielkrentzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Super 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...nature.comCLEM-Reg: an automated point cloud-based registration algorithm for volume correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature MethodsCLEM-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... 24219
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 01/08/2025First day at University of Pittsburgh and I have a window! 5641
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025From 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! 5354
Reposted by Becca PfeifferWert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Hey #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 241
Reposted by Becca PfeifferRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2025The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076 705127607
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 15/04/2025It would probably be a more effective exercise if my institution didn't have the sender of all fake phishing attempts named "scammander phisher" 260
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025To 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).media.tenor.coma man with a beard is holding his head because he has a headacheALT: a man with a beard is holding his head because he has a headache 130
Reposted by Becca PfeifferJeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Bluetorial: Potential impact of “NIH” “plan” regarding indirect costs on institutionsmedia.tenor.coma cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks onALT: a cartoon says hey everybody an old man 's talking while bart simpson looks on 39646
Reposted by Becca PfeifferGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025Elon Musk is a terrible president. 16085241014993
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Some people have a true talent for pissing off everyone they meet. 010
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the point of Universities implementing Concur is to annoy people into never actually traveling or using a PCard. 9888
Reposted by Becca PfeifferRob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Vision Science Peeps--nominate a colleague for an @arvoinfo.bsky.social achievement awards! www.arvo.org/awards-grant...arvo.orgThe Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology- Achievement Awards 065
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Does anyone have a stargazing app they are particularly fond of for iPhone? 200
Reposted by Becca Pfeiffergregschwartznu.bsky.social @gregschwartznu.bsky.social · 13/12/2024I 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! 47143
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Nothing like grading exams to highlight what you clearly explained poorly. 060
Reposted by Becca PfeifferSteven R. Shaw, PhD @shawpsych.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Me, submitting an invited manuscript with a hard deadline. 0474
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Its not particularly cold in SLC today, but somehow I think this is a bit off... That or this will be my last post. 080
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 25/11/2024This used to work in the old place. Does anyone have a PDF of this perspective they'd be willing to share? #ICanHazPDF? 131
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 15/11/2024It'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. 0407
Reposted by Becca PfeifferBWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 23/09/2024New 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... 01910
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2024Playing with new imaging modalities is super exciting and fun 172
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 05/06/2024I'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/RPBgrantbit.lyGrants Overview 2122
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 27/05/2024Apparently Costco is taking delivery a bit higher. 000
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 19/03/2024What I think I do as a scientist: Attempt to uncover the mechanisms of network malfunction in neurodegeneration. What I end up doing: Be called in as the expert to tell my 4-year-old niece not to listen to her best friend's mom who is apparently telling children to stare at the sun everyday. 020
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 15/02/2024New paper from the lab just dropped on BioRxiv. In this study, we extend our understanding of the rewiring effects of early rod degeneration in the inner retina by further evaluating our Retinal Pathoconnectome 1 (RPC1) volume. The focus of this paper is on the Aii glycinergic amacrine cell.biorxiv.orgNeural Circuit Revision in Retinal Remodeling, A Pathoconnectomics ApproachbioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution 2186
Reposted by Becca PfeifferWebvision @webvision.bsky.social · 23/01/2024Webvision is currently unavailable outside the UofU VPN firewall. webvision.med.utah.edu We are working on it. Our apologies. 223
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 10/01/2024I love the bluntness of papers in the 60's and 70's. 070
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 02/01/2024There must be a better system for inviting me to a recurring zoom meeting than 16 individual emails..... 010
Reposted by Becca PfeifferRob Mullins (he/him) @choroidlab.bsky.social · 22/12/2023I think I would have happier holidays if every vendor, journal, and scientific journal I've interacted with in the last 10 years would stop spamming my email to wish me happy holidays. 171
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 06/12/2023Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally? 160
Reposted by Becca PfeifferDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 05/12/2023“…researchers have tended to ignore the electricity that flows through the body and brain.” Electrophysiologists: “excuse the fuck you?” 😤 3263
Reposted by Becca PfeifferUtah Women in Neuroscience @uwin.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Hi all! Tomorrow morning UWiN will be hosting a Bagels and Coffee Chat with Dr. Melanie Boly, M.D. Ph.D. tomorrow, Tuesday, November 21st, at 9:15 am in BPRB 501. Come hear Dr. Boly’s personal path to science before her seminar at 2 pm. It is always a fun, inspiring, and 100% unique story. 021
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 03/11/2023Talking with a grad student and technician today reminded me about some macro photography I did years ago. I should do this again. 150
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Halloween cookie prep with the toddler is well underway. 150
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 09/10/2023Every now and again, I see my exact mood in my dog. 020
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 04/10/2023One of the harder aspects of being on the tenure-track job market for a 2nd year is seeing postings you applied for and never heard anything from reappear. Do I apply again, or do I figure if my packet was triaged last year that my research isn't what they're looking for? 241
Reposted by Becca PfeifferMasa Kuwajima | 桒島正明 @masak.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Just realizing that I have not introduced myself to the science community here: I'm Masa (yes, pronounced just like the Mexican corn dough), and I'm a neuroscientist interested in how nanoscale structures of brain cells underlie their functions (like learning) and how they change during aging. 062
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 25/09/2023Lab power outage over the weekend spoiled the milk in my desk fridge for my coffee. Rough start to a Monday. 230
