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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We're hiring again in 🇨🇦Waterloo🇨🇦. Perks.. 1. Stable sources of funding 2. 12 mo. salary 3. Dynamic, growing faculty 4. Soon to open the Waterloo Eye Institute, a $50M new shared research facility. Oh, and we still, and will always call it Lake Ontario. ofas.uwaterloo.ca/job-details/...

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Apply to Assistant Professor, OD, PhD (Tenure Stream)

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

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

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Miranda Scalabrino, PhD @icanhasmiranda.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

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

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

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?

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

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...

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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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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

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...

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The Rise of Eyes Began With Just One

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

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...

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A discontinuity in motion perception during fixational drift | JOV | ARVO Journals

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

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.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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...

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Application process - Canada.ca

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

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.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

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

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Leah Johnston @leahgjohnston.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

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...

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Teresa Puthussery

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

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...

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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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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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...

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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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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

🇨🇦 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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

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

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

✨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

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Spotted this morning outside of the stunning Daniels Building at the University of Toronto, where I'm attending @iccp-conference.bsky.social. Nothing computational here, just a regular photo. Super excited to see the hawk...but that rat is huuuge!

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada. First 6..... 6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute. lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA see thread for the next 6.

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Lots of room for growth at @uwaterloo.ca. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in #optometry and #visionscience. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more. share.google/8HXvp3LbwLPw...

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Some things are new (the Instagram-worthy sign) and some things are old (the iconic Dana Porter Library, where I spent many hours as a physics undergrad in the late 80s). @uwaterloo.ca 🇨🇦

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Multiple faculty opportunities are open at the @uwaterloo.ca in 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 for someone wishing to launch their academic career in Vision Science. I just moved here and I think you'll find that it's a great place to live, work, and thrive. Happy to tell you more if you're interested.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Final moments as a resident of the USA. Soon to reside again in the great and civilized country of Canada. @uwaterloo.ca here I come.

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a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf

ALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

While many of you may suffer FOMO for #OLO, we folks in the lab suffer FOMO for YOLO. That was the case until Stuart Semple graciously sent us some free bottles. What this all about? Check out www.culturehustleusa.com/products/yol... to find out. Thanks!!!

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Thanks to @ucobservatories.bsky.social for the fun and informative 'insider' tour of the @lickobservatory.bsky.social for me, my former students and postdocs, and colleagues. Special thanks to @elinorgates.bsky.social, resident astronomer extraordinaire and ultimate tour guide for her time.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Oddly, PhDs at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social don't require public defenses - we just need 3 committee members to unceremoniously sign off. To make up, we hold an annual symposium, where families, friends, faculty and students attend. Congrats Max Greene and Stephanie Reeves for outstanding talks.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Congratulations Jorge (and Stephanie). This is surely just the beginning of establishing your legacy at Berkeley.

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Senator Durbin noted that some (I believe Republican Senators) had indicated the US had been doing more than its share of biomedical research and it was time for other countries take a turn. I felt I had to interrupt to respond...

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Such an honor for me to receive this award named after Bob Boynton, who I never knew, but whose approach to science was an inspiration for me. His son just happened to attending #VSS2025 when the award was announced. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Looking forward to attending and participating in this meeting.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

#vss2025. Vintage VSS swag bags ... Emily Cooper VSS2014, Katie Trelligus VSS2015 and not sure what year Mike Landy's is.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Happy Birthday Gerald Westheimer. 101 years on May 13 and still publishing papers! #livinglegend of #visionscience. @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Most years at ARVO, I award the Picture of the Year, or #POTY prize. This year it goes to Toco Chui of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary for her presentation titled "In-vivo imaging of blood cell adhesion to vascular wall in sickle cell disease" (more below) 1/n

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Hard to believe that #visionscience PhD student Jason Wong is still smiling (let alone standing) after holding court for hours at his first #ARVO2025 poster, co-authored with @shangbangluo.bsky.social @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

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Joseph Carroll @aoiplab.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Stop by A0265 today and say hi to @minagaffney.bsky.social - she’s sharing results from our AO corrected visual acuity project, made possible by a collaboration with @roordalab.bsky.social and Will Tuten.

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