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Alexandra A. de Sousa @alealisousa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Great talk by Telma Laurentino on inclusive evolution education @evokeproject.bsky.social !

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RNIB Scotland @rnibscotland.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Happy #InternationalGuideDogDay to our friends at @guidedogsuk.bsky.social and to all the wonderful canine helpers who support blind and partially sighted people!

Kate, a yellow lab guide dog wearing her harness, poised as she stands beside her handler.

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International Multisensory Research Forum @imrf.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

More optional highlights: Join us for dinner and/or a guided tour at UNESCO heritage sites: Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral. Book an excursion to Beamish, the Living Museum of the North. Or pay a visit to our beautiful Botanic Garden For more info see: imrf2025.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Meike Scheller @meike-scheller.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

She is finally published. Small sample but valuable insights. We've been studying audio-haptic integration in sighted and early- vs. late-blind (EB/LB) people. EB integrate optimally, while LB don't (likely switch cues). Here, we're exploring the neural mechanisms of audio-haptic integration...

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EvoKE @evokeproject.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

How can we make #evolution education truly inclusive? Join our next EvoKE Webinar “Biodiversity for Belonging” with Telma G. Laurentino, as she shares 5 years of multisensory outreach breaking barriers in science education. 📅May 2nd, 2025 |4pm CET / 10am EST 🔗 bit.ly/3EopIvw

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EvoKE Webinar: Telma G. Laurentino

2nd May 2025 4PM CET/10 AM EST Telma G. Laurentino Informal Educator Attend webinar at EvoKE webinars are held on the first Friday of every month at 4 PM CET/10 AM EST (check&…

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OPEN for Vision Impairment Research @openviresearch.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Check it out - New research summary on Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network sites.google.com/view/open-vi...

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Participant Permanence and Improving Research Involvement for People with Vision Impairment Through an Online Network

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Alexandra A. de Sousa @alealisousa.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

See here for a thread about our recent publication on the Online Participant Engagement Network for Vision Impairment Research @openviresearch.bsky.social

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OPEN for Vision Impairment Research @openviresearch.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Excited to share our open access paper on enhancing research involvement for UK adults with vision impairment via our online interface! journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Nice story by Livia Dyring on human echolocation in today's online edition of "The Otter". Pleased to see a mention of our fMRI work on the activation of primary visual cortex (V1) by echoes in expert blind echolocators. theotter.ca/seeing-with-...

Figure showing how an expert blind echolocator can locate and identify an object (in this case a tree) by producing mouth clicks and listening to the returning echoes.

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Michael Proulx @michaelproulx.bsky.social · 28/04/2024

New paper! We studied how media, other social pressures, and our senses contribute to how we feel about our bodies by focusing on people with or without visual impairments. This work is open access and free for all to read journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... @alealisousa.bsky.social

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Sociocultural Pressures, Internalization, and Body Esteem in Congenitally Blind, Late-Blind, and Sighted Men and Women - Sara Dell’Erba, Meike Scheller, Alexandra A. de Sousa, Michael J. Proulx, 2024

Introduction: Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or p...

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Alexandra A. de Sousa @alealisousa.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Our paper on Visual impairment, visual media exposure, and body image -- I am catching up here 🦋

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