Two construction signs next to each other. First reads “End road work” second reads “Road work ahead”

Pretty much sums up my current commute.

Most 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

Good point. I've seen a bit about that in the news

Iran cannot compete at World Cup, Iranian sports minister says Iran cannot participate in the 2026 World Cup following airstrikes against the country by the United States and Israel, the Iranian sports minister said Wednesday.

Iran announced they weren't coming yesterday, so the "don't come" is a bit late anyway. www.espn.com/soccer/story...

Don't look at airline ticket right now....

From 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

An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write Nature Biotechnology - An open letter to graduate students and other procrastinators: it’s time to write

I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.

LOL! I died at "Is Yale ruining the workplace"

Webvision 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.edu

CLEM-Reg: an automated point cloud-based registration algorithm for volume correlative light and electron microscopy - Nature Methods CLEM-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...

Super 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...

First day at University of Pittsburgh and I have a window!

Thank you so much for mentoring me over all these years!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you! Sad to leave Utah but excited for the next step.

I start as an Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh next month.

Black and white photo of myself and my graduate advisor Robert Marc standing on an elevated walkway. Photo taken in 2015 by @BWJones

View from the 5th floor walkway of the Moran looking west toward downtown Salt Lake City.

From 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!

If 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.

Congratulations!!!

Soooo many boxes

Many 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.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Most 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.

Thanks!

National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research Advancing 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 ...

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NAEVR and AEVR are an independent vision research advocacy group.

Hey #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

With 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.

He’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.

Finn had a lens replacement last summer (juvenile cataract) and will happily play in his goggles in the snow. It’s adorable.