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briankeanelab.bsky.social
I study human visual perception and how it is altered among those with psychosis @URNeuroscience
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Thanks to all of the NIHers and their friends who reached out to me. I am still here (DM me or Signal jeremymberg.78) I still have a very incomplete picture but based on what I have been told, the damage to NIH and to many wonderful people who work(ed) there is/was impossible for me to imagine 1/n

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Great resource! What will be the cost to the country for all those unemployed as a result of these cuts

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Academic workers across the country are organizing to call on our congressional representatives on Thursday, 1/30, at 3pm ET / 12pm PT to demand these restrictions be lifted immediately. There will be a training over zoom at the beginning of the event. Join us! form.jotform.com/250226137228...

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“The impact of the collective executive orders and directives appears devastating.” scim.ag/40ureTO

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The APLab is looking for a postdoc in high-resolution retinal imaging and video eye-tracking at the University of Rochester. Please share. https://buff.ly/40h8kPY @uor-braincogsci.bsky.social  @urneuroscience.bsky.social  @flaumeye.bsky.social @aplabur.bsky.social

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🎉Congrats to Ed Lalor, PhD, who received $2.3 million from NIH to investigate how visual cues enhance the brain’s ability to understand speech in noisy environments👇 This builds on previous NIH R01 grant that started as seed 💰 from the Del Monte Institute pilot program 👉 urmc.info/1TT

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In the era of Trump 2.0, we're calling on all scientists+ to unpack science for the public. This is much bigger than anyone of us. But if we all do one thing, imagine the cumulative impact! It need not be a burden. More here, in @thetransmitter.bsky.social. www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-ca...

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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

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This journalistic piece nicely summarizes some advantages of our functional connectivity biomarker for psychosis. Special thanks to my co-authors in making this work possible (Yonatan Abrham, @mwcole.bsky.social @carrisacocuzza.bsky.social, Boyang Hu, Brent Johnson).

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This is leadership

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Lab’s latest at PLOS Comp Biol, led by Carrisa Cocuzza: “Distributed network flows generate localized category selectivity in human visual cortex”. This one changed how I think the brain works! Even "localized" functions are likely generated by distributed processes doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Many (most?) visual studies of special populations ensure that compared groups have "normal or corrected-to-normal vision", but do not report if the groups are actually matched on acuity within the normal range. Here, we show why this practice is problematic and how it can be remedied...

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For #VisionScience people attending VSS, come to our symposium (Friday 17 May, midday) on neurodiversity in visual functioning (with MP Schallmo, Beier Yao, Alice Price, Victor Pokorny and @briankeanelab.bsky.social). www.visionsciences.org/symposia/?sy...

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