YES! Struggling with exactly this today morning. Me to google docs every other sentence:

Great review! The WaChR paper is super cool, and so is the idea of "restoring sight with light" (!)

Awesome post! I picked up the genentech book after seeing your recommendation earlier in the year and really enjoyed it!

Awesome, the effect is super strong! Do you know if there's an explanation for why we see this?

Woah, so strong! And like someone pointed out, I can see the brightness changes just by saccading up/down (even without the motion). Is there an explanation for why we see this?

Great article - I remember reading in Newton's biography that he stuck a blunt-end knitting needle between his eyeball and the bone so he could press the back of his eyeball and see colours.

He clearly didn't have any students at that point in his career 🙂

Haha what an anecdote! Are you really committed to science if you're not willing to stick a needle in your eye...

This was inspired by Eero Simoncelli's lecture at a fantastic summer school on computational vision at cold spring harbor.

The rod:cone ratio in mice is 33:1, in humans (outside the foveola) is 15:1, but is 1:7 in the 13-lined ground squirrel (13LGS). How is this dramatic shift in the rod:cone ratio achieved?/2