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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

My dept/area is hiring! We're open to animal species/model and research area. UCD is an amazing place to do nonhuman animal work - major 🐒 center, a band new rodent vivarium in the Psych building, and capacity to house all sorts of other animals! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07812

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Assistant Professor of Psychology - Biological Bases of Behavior

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

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Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I had the best time at #ISER2026! I am inspired by the new advances in the corneal endothelium field. Thank you to the speakers, including @sarathomasy.bsky.social, for sharing their insights. Kudos to the organizers, @palomaliton.bsky.social, for putting together a great meeting!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Sitting in a talk by Lois Smith who developed treatments for retinopathy of prematurity, and I’m wondering how many kids and now adults are running around with normal vision who would have been blind, and don’t know about the science and people who made it possible for them to see normally.

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Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

So ready for #ISER2026!

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ISER @iser.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The #ISER2026 peeps who are birders are out en force around the lake in Parque Natural de l’Albufera. We’ve seen @sarathomasy.bsky.social @tmr65.bsky.social Bela Anand-Apte, @bwjones.bsky.social and others.

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Raji Shyam @shyamraji.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Please stop by the corneal endothelium session on August 27th at 1 pm @iser.bsky.social Featuring talks by many greats, including @sarathomasy.bsky.social. Looking forward to catching up with all my favorite eye people!

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Amazing backpack to Thousand Island, Ediza and Iceberg lakes out of Rush Creek trailhead. #worklifebalance

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

COVSL summer outing yesterday to the Truhlsen-Marmor Museum of the Eye - it was amazing! #visionscience

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In a 🐑 model of Tay-Sachs disease, we demonstrate that CSF delivery of a bidirectional AAV9 vector improves retinal and optic nerve pathology! A great collab with Heather Gray-Edwards and Nick Marsh-Armstrong. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

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AcademicTransfer @academictransfer.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Postdoctoral scientist Translational vision science and ophthalmology www.academictransfer.com/361291 @UMCG

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Immensely proud of NSF CAMP scholar & @primateresearch.bsky.social Biomedicine for the Future alumna J’adore Bailey who was critical to our ongoing studies of autosomal dominant optic atrophy in a 🐒 model. She graduates in June - if you are a Bay Area scientist and need a junior specialist, DM me!

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Hao Yin @haoyin.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Corneal Endothelial Morphogenesis E6-E16🐣 #SciArt "Persistent dominance of hexagonal topology" Beautiful 2D nuclei Voronoi tessellation!🤩 +Molecular dynamics of N-cadherin F-actin Microtubule @rogerslabucd.bsky.social @sarathomasy.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🐷 racing at the Dixon May Fair was epic - highly recommend.

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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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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Incredibly proud of DVM-PhD student Raneesh Ramarapu, a #ARVO2026 MIT poster finalist, and his incredible work on corneal development from a transcrptomic perspective in collaboration with @rogerslabucd.bsky.social. @arvoinfo.bsky.social

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

A successful #ARVO2026 meeting for COVSL! Super proud of all the incredible work done by our trainees @arvoinfo.bsky.social!

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

It’s @michaelfchiang.bsky.social talking at the end of the #ARVO2026 closing keynote about the NIH / NEI mission and regenerative medicine.

NIH/NEI Director Michael Chiang on a stage being his bad-ass self, talking about all the great work happening in vision research.

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Come see Jaegook Lim’s great work on gene therapy for oculocutaneous albinism in a 🐒 model on the final day of @arvoinfo.bsky.social! #ARVO2026

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Please check out our new preprint! Together with @sarathomasy.bsky.social and led by DVM/PhD candidate Raneesh Ramarapu, we used 3D imaging + quantitative analysis to show how the corneal endothelium maintains a stable layer and refines hexagonal packing during development.

(Left panels) Modeling of nuclei organization at 11 and 16 days of corneal development in an avian embryo. (Right panels) IHC for N-cadherin (yellow) and ZO-1 in 3D reconstruction of corneal cells at days 11 and 16. Nuclei are magenta.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Thank you @michaelfchiang.bsky.social for coming to José-Alain Sahael’s award talk today at #ARVO2026. I am grateful for your calm hand at the head of the NIH/NEI, and your hard work to help vision science move forward.

Drs Michael Chiang and Bryan Jones smiling into the camera.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It’s @drdorotask.bsky.social presenting her work to a standing room only audience at #ARVO2026

Vision scientist presenting her work at the lectern.

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Super proud of Hiroko Iwashita and Sabina Khan for their excellent poster presentations yesterday on their corneal endothelial work @arvoinfo.bsky.social. #ARVO2026

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Welcome to the last half of the US federal fiscal year. Here is where we're at with National Science Foundation--the agency that funds basically everything other than biomedical research at American universities--grant numbers. grant-witness.us/funding_curv...

NSF grant curve from link for 2021 through 2026, with each year shown as a different color. By this point in the year, NSF made 3,300 or more grants in 2021-2024 and 2,087 in 2025. This year 737 have been awarded. Both this year and 2025 seem to have an odd slow down about now in the rate of new grants not present in earlier years, in addition to the general lower rates.

NSF's geosciences directorate award numbers, basically identical in shape to the overall NSF curves. Prior years saw around 400-500 grants awarded by this point in the fiscal year, 2025 saw only 278 grants awarded, this year has only 95 grants awarded.

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Without grants, America's basic research--the risky stuff that lets us understand how things work and lay the groundwork for research that mission-oriented government agencies or for-profit companies pursue--ends. So does its ability to train new scientists.

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The American Macular Degeneration Foundation @theamdf.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

#ARVO2026 is underway! Thanks to Robert Luca, AMDF Travel Grantee, for taking the AMD Patient-in-Sight Pledge. Robert is a medical student at the U of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, currently investigating the microbiome’s role in the gut-retina axis. Stop by booth #11034 to learn more!

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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Take advantage of daily drop-in mentoring at #ARVO2026 (Mon.-Wed.). Get professional guidance from Women in Eye And #VisionResearch (WEAVR) or chat about careers in industry with @arvoinfo.bsky.social's Industry Members Committee. Meet by ARVO Central (see website for hours) bit.ly/3PTsBJW

3 individuals talking together at the WEAVR Drop-In Mentoring

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Dr Dorota SK @drdorotask.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

AGING EYE session is TODAY! #ARVO2026 #agingeye 3:15PM in Mile High 1A. See you there!! #aging #vision

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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Don't miss the @arvoinfo.bsky.social+Genentech Opening Keynote with Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech (@colorado.edu; @hhmi-science.bsky.social) at 10:15am! Discover how #NucleicAcidTherapeutics could transform hereditary #GeneticEyeDisease treatment bit.ly/4s9b3b2 #VisionResearch #VisionScience

Promotional graphic for the ARVO and Genentech Keynote event featuring Thomas R. Cech, PhD. It includes details such as the event date and time: Sunday, May 3, from 10:15 to 11:45 am, and the location: Denver, Colorado. Thomas R. Cech is described as a Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and a Nobel Prize recipient in Chemistry, 1989. The keynote topic is "A Farsighted Perspective on Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Eye Disease." The ARVO website link is provided for more information.

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A 10 mile 🏃‍♀️ on the river before a day of vision science @arvoinfo.bsky.social! #ARVO2026

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Wert Laboratory (PI: Katherine Wert) @wertlaboratory.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

TODAY (Sunday) come see Tiffany Yee and Ashley Rowe present their research in poster sessions this afternoon! Amazing work with retinal organoids and looking into steroidal sex hormones #ARVO2026 @arvoinfo.bsky.social

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

At #ARVO2026, Wednesday May 6: The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution device (SSD) for the blind evokes stronger visual cortex activity than a tongue display unit (TDU), for both early blind and late blind people bsky.app/profile/seei... #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness #neuroscience

Graph of visual cortex (occipital lobe) activity in early blind in response to The vOICe and tongue display (left), and the same graph for late blind (right). In both graphs, The vOICe evokes stronger visual cortex activity, for visual cortex in both the left and right hemisphere.

"When using either vision-to-tactile or vision-to-sound sensory substitution devices for vision restoration, we found that auditory approaches elicited stronger visual cortex activity than tactile approaches across both early and late blind individuals."

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The vOICe vision BCI 🧠🇪🇺 @seeingwithsound.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I have so many fond memories of trips we took around @arvoinfo.bsky.social with my young kids!

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Yuhui LI @yuhuili.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

🔬 First live-cell imaging experiments done in my lab at HKU! Human RPE1 cells expressing Lifeact-GFP (actin) and EB3-GFP (MT plus-ends), imaged in Fast Airyscan mode on a Zeiss LSM 900👇. Thanks to Denise Kuok Iok Teng for imaging setup, and to Manuel Théry & Louise Bonnemay for the cells 🙏🫶😆

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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Bringing the family along for #ARVO2026 (May 3 - 7)? Denver is an absolute playground for families! Local @arvoinfo.bsky.social member Brittany Wright OD, MS, FAAO, shares her top picks of places to have a fun time without spending a fortune. Details in #ARVOBlog: bit.ly/4tyVSc3

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Tomorrow #ARVO2026, come see COVSL posters from Dr. Ana Ripolles-Garcia on flavoprotein fluorescence in our 🐒 model of autosomal dominant optic atrophy and Raneesh Ramarapu on a transcriptomic atlas in 🐥 and 🐁 periocular mesenchyme (MIT poster award nominee). @arvoinfo.bsky.social

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Of our many amazing graduate student mentors and undergrad mentees, I’m excited that 5 grad students and 2 of our graduating undergrads will be attending the #2026SDB @socdevbio.bsky.social meeting in Las Vegas this summer! We look forward to sharing our exciting work with the community! 💫

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Eliza Bliss-Moreau @eblissmoreau.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Exciting new work characterizing a 🐒 model of ADOA vision loss by @sarathomasy.bsky.social's group. We looked at old behavioral data for 2 🐒 from my lab w the heterozygote ADOA genotype to show had behavioral signs of vision loss, long before we knew to look at their eyes.

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Andrey Chetverikov @achetverikov.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

We have 3 PhD positions at our department (www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige...). Know a good student interested in working with me on perception / visual memory? I'd be happy to support the proposal! A catch: this person must speak a Scandinavian language as the position implies some teaching duties.

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Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274) | Universitetet i Bergen

Stillingstittel: Tre stipendiatstillingar ved Institutt for samfunnspsykologi (299274), Arbeidsgivar: Universitetet i Bergen, Søknadsfrist: søndag 16. august 2026

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@arvoinfo.bsky.social‬ @arvoinfo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Mark your calendar for the @arvoinfo.bsky.social+Genentech Opening Keynote with Nobel Laureate Thomas Cech (@colorado.edu; @hhmi-science.bsky.social) on May 3! Explore how #NucleicAcidTherapeutics could transform hereditary #GeneticEyeDisease treatment bit.ly/4s9b3b2 #VisionResearch

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Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) @imbmainz.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Congratulations @lorenzoorts.bsky.social for receiving the @biochemsoc.bsky.social Early Career Research Award! The award recognises early-career researchers with the potential to achieve world-leading status for their high-impact work in the molecular biosciences. More: www.imb.de/about-imb/ne...

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

One of the joys of being a professor is watching students gain expertise, confidence, and the ability to communicate about their science while they hone their technical skills in lab. One of the hard parts is watching them move on to continue their journeys. I’m so grateful for it all! 3/

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Crystal Rogers, PhD @rogerslabucd.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Our students have spent anywhere from 6 months to multiple years working with their graduate mentors in the lab and two are joint students with @sarathomasy.bsky.social. Six of the nine are graduating seniors, some will stay over summer or continue next year and others are leaving this year! 🥹 2/

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