Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I've heard music that was popular when I was in HS playing in the grocery store....static.klipy.comAgingALT: Aging 140
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Yeah, I mistakenly thought my outbound flight to Amsterdam would be from the International airport. Nope. Turns out it was the city airport. Luckily I'm paranoid and tend to arrive really early so I managed to catch a cab and get over there. 120
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Pretty sure that is just my perpetual state of being at this point. 130
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Even after 15 years in Utah and a winter in Pittsburgh, I still love snow. Though I am glad it wasn’t as much as projected since I have no boots with me. 010
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
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Good point. I've seen a bit about that in the news 010
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Iran announced they weren't coming yesterday, so the "don't come" is a bit late anyway. www.espn.com/soccer/story...espn.comIran cannot compete at World Cup, Iranian sports minister saysIran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup following airstrikes against the country by the United States and Israel, the Iranian sports minister said Wednesday. 111
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
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 07/11/2025LOL! I died at "Is Yale ruining the workplace" 130
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 · 15/07/2025Thank you so much for mentoring me over all these years! 000
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Thank you! Sad to leave Utah but excited for the next step. 030
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025I start as an Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh next month. 7283
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
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 08/07/2025If we need to do a computational modeling aim of all results from animals... How? There really aren't enough people with biomedical system modeling expertise to support that for every single grant. 140
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Many of the changed HHS policies are purported to be based on science and ensuring American tax dollars are being directed to improve American health. I would push on how he is defining scientific expertise. Most of his "theories" are well discredited. Vaccines save lives. 000
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Most of the stuff he's listing as examples of "do your own research" also have federal safety orgs that comprehensively test these things. I didn't attempt to break a bunch of carseats, I went and looked at the safety ratings established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. 010
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025www.eyeresearch.org NAEVR and AEVR are an independent vision research advocacy group.eyeresearch.orgNational Alliance for Eye and Vision ResearchAdvancing Vision Research, Protecting Sight, Shaping the Future Our Mission The National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research (NAEVR) champions a future where every American has access to exceptional ... 010
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
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 27/04/2025With juvenile cataracts they come on with a ton of inflammation. So we took him to the vet thinking he’d gotten dirt in his eye or scratched his cornea playing with another dog. Once we got eye drops in there to help I spotted the white lens. We took him to a doc eye specialist who diagnosed. 010
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 26/04/2025He’s pretty well healed at this point. The goggles are to keep high UV and debris out of the eye. So he’ll probably wear them most of his life when it’s particularly bright or windy. 210
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Finn had a lens replacement last summer (juvenile cataract) and will happily play in his goggles in the snow. It’s adorable. 111
Reposted by Becca PfeifferRandall Munroe @xkcd.com · 15/04/2025The Roads Both Taken xkcd.com/3076 705124607
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 · 07/04/2025I haven't seen anything official. Just unconfirmed rumors in the comment section of the Trib. 010
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 28/03/2025I think we're about to find out how good ChatGPT is at COBOL conversions. 010
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025What is daylight's savings time without meltdown monday? 000
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 27/02/20253-year-olds are a trip with their complete disregard for facts. Mine regularly tells me he calls numbers letters because "I can call things whatever I want". I mean, true. But no one will know what you're talking about. 001
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 26/02/2025It was continuous for 2 hours yesterday. It has begun again today... I have pinpointed the faucet involved. 110
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 39546
Becca Pfeiffer @beccapfeiffer.bsky.social · 11/02/2025You can also edit the text to tune it to your specific state. 011
Reposted by Becca PfeifferGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 03/02/2025Elon Musk is a terrible president. 16085240214990
