Job opening! My lab at U of Illinois, Chicago is recruiting a research specialist/lab technician to study neurobiology of the retina and visual behavior. vlasitslab.org Direct link to the position details and application: uic.csod.com/ux/ats/careers… Apply by June 5!

Next Monday, British afternoon: Elated to be continuing our Sussex Vision series within World Wide Neuro 🧠🗺️ with Leo Peichl on "Retinal Photoreceptor Diversity Across Mammals"! Tom Baden Here: youtube.com/live/0wGF30WRa…

dear vision scientists in Europe, does anybody have OPN4-Cre animals or knows of someone who has them?

How many academic papers are written with the help of ChatGPT? To answer this question, we analyzed 14mln PubMed abstracts from 2010 to 2024 and looked for excess words: ** Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary ** arxiv.org/abs/2406.07016 1/11

I did this course the first year and it was great! If you are interested in using machine learning to do behavioral analysis, this course is the way to go!

Genuinely hope everyone with strong opinions about proposed NIH policies is submitting comment to the RFI in addition to tweeting rfi.grants.nih.gov/?s=6660cc1aa12…

We have a PhD position available; please spread the word and retweet. The project will combine retina recordings, computational modeling, and optogenetics to help further develop vision restoration therapy. See here for more information: retina.uni-goettingen.de/join-the-lab/

Check out Perspective by the awesome Rachana Deven Somaiya on exciting work from Crair lab (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39146415/) . Kudos to Ed the axon whisperer 🥼🧠🧬🔬 for inspiration. Visualizing synaptic pruning in the mammalian brain | Science science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

New study Cell Reports🥳 Using recordings & #deepnet driven image synthesis we find an intriguing difference btw🐭&🐒 visual cortex/V1 🐭: complex, non-Gabor like receptive fields 🐒: Gabor-like RFs Team effort🙌Jiakun Fu Andreas Tolias Lab sinzlab & more👇 cell.com/cell-reports/f…