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The Trump administration is trying to slash NIH F&A costs at 15%. If enacted, jobs will be lost, clinical trials cancelled, and life-saving discoveries will be halted. I signed this letter urging lawmakers to fully fund NIH research. Will you join me? docs.google.com/forms/d/1Agz...

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Congratulations to Jason Wong (the guy with the big smile in the middle) for passing his PhD qualifying exam today. The future of #visionscience at @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is looking good! #aoslo #aooct #adaptiveoptics

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The alternative to #overheadcosts is for scientists to itemize the actual cost of doing research. And the volunteer reviewer will be asked to scrutinize those costs. #DOGE bros, this is not an efficient way to work. Let institutions negotiate the IDC rates and let the scientists do their work!

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Hey #DOGE bros. Drop everything and start working on getting rid of the penny already!!

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How is it that the plane is half booked the day before a flight but when it comes time to board, every single seat is full? This red-eye from SFO to YYZ is not gonna be fun.

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Two of the first eight talks at #PhotonicsWest Ophthalmic Technologies conference canceled. Continued fallout from the pause imposed on the FDA and other health agencies by the current administration. This is not good for anyone folks.

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I trust that soon we'll all agree on the value of NIH funding for research. But getting rid of the #penny?.... now surely that's something we can all agree on right away, right? Or will the penny be politicized too? www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

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Happiness is a well-stocked cabinet of optomechanical hardware.

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If you know how to cross-fuse, then try these...taken en route from Frankfurt to Ljubljana (dolomites?). Stereo pairs like these are easy to take from aircraft. Just wait a few seconds between snaps. #stereovision #visionscience

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In other news, Austin Roorda will also skip Trump's inauguration. Michelle Obama Will Skip Trump’s Inauguration www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u...

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I just realized that I've been at #UCBerkeley School of Optometry and Vision Science for 20 years! That's a long time to be in place, but I can't think of many places better than this.

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Lake Huron horizon, Christmas Eve. Not sure these colours even have names.

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When the combination of wind and snow creates conflicting optic flow signals.🇨🇦@🌲

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Wait. What? no #AOSLO? Feel free to use this one for free.

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Proud to direct the #UCBerkeley Center for Innovation in Vision and Optics (civo.berkeley.edu) where we facilitate connections between academia and industry. With all the buzz around #AR/VR, an increasing fraction of our trainees are choosing to make their impact by choosing industry over academia.

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The T32 NIH training grant stipend + tuition only covers about 1/2 of the cost of a trainee in the #UCBerkeley #visionscience graduate program. But we are not allowed to use NIH R01 grant funds to make up the difference. 1/2

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Excited to be the guest speaker at this event in Marin County next week. Partly because I'm interested to learn what Wonderfest is all about. wonderfest.org/overcoming-v...

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Seems that 4 monitors is not enough... Jason and Shangbang are choosing which cone on my retina to perform #AOOCT and #AOSLO #optoretinography measurements.

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Together. Alone. Great night testing AR/VR headsets and Smart Glasses at #UCBerkekey. Sponsored by the Center for innovation in Vision and Optics CIVO.berkeley.edu

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Just published! Even when we 'fixate' on a scene, our eyes are constantly moving, yet we do not perceive that motion. How do we do that? @josiedangelo.bsky.social provides some insight into the process in our paper, just published in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Read more below... 1/4

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How 😎 is this? My lab members bought me a puzzle for my birthday...and it's an #adaptiveoptics #AOSLO image of my retina! We all worked on it today, but I got to work on the foveolar cones.

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Very much looking forward to teaching here again and getting to know the next generation of vision scientists. meetings.cshl.edu/courses.aspx...

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This cappuccino and mourning [sic] bun from Caffe Strada is not making me feel better.

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Very cool work from my former postdoc Wolf Harmening at the University of Bonn. scitechdaily.com/new-research...

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Oddly color-coordinated Halloween outfits among the lab members.

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Most research on the PRL - the retinal location where we place images of things that we look at - showed that it was rock solid, but our new research looking at fixation in both eyes found a slight shift. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

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I've been striking out on the northern lights this year, but did manage to spot comet Tsuchinstan-ATLAS from my deck last night.

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I'm thrilled to share this new wide field eye model (actually models). We did this work, because of an unmet need for tools to optimize refractive corrections for myopia and presbyopia. jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx...

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It's Gerald Westheimer's 100th birthday today. He's a true icon in the field and continues to make impactful contributions today. You can see a recording of a celebration we held in April to commemorate this major milestone here.... vision.berkeley.edu/events/westh... Happy birthday Gerald!

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