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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · 1d

And that’s a wrap for @optica.org's #OpticaFVM 2025. Thank you all for joining us and making it such a vibrant meeting! Below are some impressions, courtesy of Arathy Kartha.

Gordon Legge with his former trainees Denis Pelli and Susana Chung

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats to this year’s Young Investigator Award winners #OpticaFVM! 🎉

Leah Johnston "Profound perceptual fading of stabilized flicker cannot be accounted for by RGC desensitization"

Joseph Emerson "Different contextual modulation mechanisms exhibit distinct laminar profiles in human V1"

Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for a photo with FVM organizing chair Alex Wade

Joseph Emerson and Leah Johnson posing for the YIA

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MarcosLab UR @marcoslabur.bsky.social · 4d

A great honor to deliver the @optica.org Edgar Tillyer Award Lecture at @optica-fvm.bsky.social in @uminnpress.bsky.social & been introduced by Steve Burns, long term mentor, friend & collaborator; @marcoslabur.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social @flaumeye.bsky.social @urengineering.bsky.social

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Paul Linton @lintonvision.bsky.social · 5d

It’s Five Illusions time at the Optica Fall Vision Meeting
(@optica-fvm.bsky.social) at the University of Minnesota

FiveIllusions.github.io

#OpticaFVM

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MarcosLab UR @marcoslabur.bsky.social · 5d

@optica-fvm.bsky.social kicked off this morning in @uminnpress.bsky.social; 👇 with @cvsuor.bsky.social #RochesterOptics PhD students Tianlun Zhou & Eliot Xu; Great tallk on 100Hz AO by Eliot +audience reflected on mirror walls; @flaumeye.bsky.social #McGregorLab @marcoslabur.bsky.social @optica.org

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Aug 31

👁️🧠 Headed to Optica FVM 2025? Don’t forget to register!
🕊️ Early-bird rates end Sept 2
🎓 $175 for students | 💼 $300 for faculty (banquet included!)
Other options for industry & 1-day passes available.

🔗 www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org
#VisionScience

Optica Fall Vision Meeting

Oct 2-5 2025University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN

www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Aug 2

👁️📣 <1 week left to submit your abstract to Optica FVM 2025!

Grad students & postdocs: come share your latest results, get feedback, and connect with top minds in #VisionScience.

🗓️ Abstracts due Aug 8
📍 Minneapolis · Oct 2–5
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Optica Fall Vision Meeting

Oct 2-5 2025University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN

www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Jul 21

👁️🔬 Excited to welcome Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) as the 2025 Boynton Lecturer at Optica FVM!
A pioneer in adaptive optics and retinal imaging, his work has reshaped how we see the eye—and how the eye sees.

🎤 Join us Oct 2–5 at UMN
🔗 www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Jul 16

👁️✨ Congrats to Susana Marcos, 2025 Tillyer Award winner!
Honored for transformative work on how the eye’s optics shape vision—from cornea to photoreceptors.
Catch her keynote at #OpticaFVM this October in Minneapolis! www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org

2025 Edgar D. Tillyer Award Winner | Optica

Optica is the leading society in optics and photonics. Quality information and inspiring interactions through publications, meetings, and membership.

www.optica.org

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Jul 10

👁️📖 Congrats to Gordon Legge, 2024 Tillyer Award winner, for groundbreaking work in low-vision research and accessibility.

🎤 Catch his talk at #OpticaFVM 2025 in a special session on reading & vision loss.
🔗 www.optica.org/get_involved...

2024 Edgar D. Tillyer Award Winner | Optica

Optica is the leading society in optics and photonics. Quality information and inspiring interactions through publications, meetings, and membership.

www.optica.org

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Jul 9

👁️🧠 It’s not too late to submit your abstract to Optica’s Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) 2025!
📍 Minneapolis/St Paul, Oct 2–5
🧑‍🏫 Featuring talks by Susana Marcos, Austin Roorda, and Gordon Legge
🍷 Kickoff at the CMRR!

🗓️ Abstracts due: Aug 8
🔗 www.osafallvisionmeeting.org

#VisionScience #VisionResearch

Optica Fall Vision Meeting

Oct 2-5 2025University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN

www.osafallvisionmeeting.org

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · May 21

Such an honor for me to receive this award named after Bob Boynton, who I never knew, but whose approach to science was an inspiration for me. His son just happened to attending #VSS2025 when the award was announced. The apple does not fall far from the tree.

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · May 21

🔥 We’re thrilled to announce that adaptive optics trailblazer Austin Roorda (@roordalab.bsky.social) is the 2025 Boynton Award recipient! 🎉 His AOSLO let us image, stimulate, and track single photoreceptors 🧠👁️

He’ll give the Boynton Lecture at #OpticaFVM, Oct 2–5 @ Univ. Minnesota. Save the date!

Austin Roorda standing next to instrumentation in his lab at UC Berkeley

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Apr 23

Just in the news for tricking the 👁️ into seeing new color 'olo', @roordalab.bsky.social 🧪 announces move to @uwaterloo.ca:

“Berkeley has been a fantastic place to work for the last 20 years, but my wife and I always intended to return to Canada,” said Roorda.

uwaterloo.ca/optometry-vi...

Renowned optics expert returning to Waterloo | Optometry & Vision Science | University of Waterloo

A world-leading expert in ophthalmic optics and vision, Dr. Austin Roorda is joining the faculty at the School of Optometry and Vision Science, where he completed his PhD in 1996.

uwaterloo.ca

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · Apr 18

Five people—three researchers and two test subjects—have just seen a color no human has ever seen before.

Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color

Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it

www.scientificamerican.com

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Mar 10

Mark your calendars! 👁️🧠🧪

This year's @optica.org Fall Vision Meeting is heading to the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, MN on Oct 3-5, 2025!

#VisionScience #VisionResearch #cogsci #neuroskyence #psychscisky #ophthalmology #AcademicSky

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Jan 24

Where #VisionScience reaches new heights,
From low vision care to brain scan insights.
A home for breakthroughs and autumn’s glow,
Can you guess where this year’s conference will go?

👁️🧠🧪

Serene autumn scene with sugar maples, red oaks, and birches surrounding a river or lake

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

🌈 Invited Session: The Visual Ecology of Colour & Light

Learn how daily light shifts, natural color statistics & animal signals shape our perception

Annette Allen (Manchester)
Jenny M. Bosten (Sussex)
Karl R. Gegenfurtner (Giessen)
Julie Harris (St Andrews)

#OpticaFVM2024

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

🤖🔍 Invited Session: ML/AI in Retinal Diagnostics

Learn how AI is transforming retinal imaging & diagnostics and discuss the broader ethical ramifications of this technology

Adam Dubis (Utah)
Anya Hurlbert (Newcastle)
Marinko Sarunic (UCL)
Jithin Yohannan (JHU)

#OpticaFVM2024

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

🧑‍🦯 Invited Session: Visual Prosthetics

Learn about new implants, AI-driven designs, and clinical trials paving the way for next-gen visual prosthetics:

Dan Adams (Neuralink)
Xing Chen (Pitt)
Eduardo Fernández (UMH)
Yağmur Güçlütürk (Radboud)

#OpticaFVM2024

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

👁️ Invited Session: Focusing on the Human Fovea

Explore how high-res ophthalmoscopy, neuroimaging & behavioral studies reveal the structure of our foveal pathways

Heidi Baseler (York)
Wolf Harmening (Bonn)
Martina Poletti (Rochester)
Alexander Schütz (Marburg)

#OpticaFVM2024

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

Ecology

https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/register

3-6 October 2024, York UK - Register

Advance registration is now closed. Anyone who did not y...

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

FVM'24 registration is now open! Don't miss out on this premier #VisionScience event:

🎉Thu, Oct 3: Welcome Reception
👁️Fri, Oct 4: Human Fovea & Visual Prosthetics
🤖Sat, Oct 5: AI in Retinal Diagnostics
🌈Sun, Oct 6: Colour & Light...

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Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

Last chance to submit an abstract to this year’s @OpticaPubsGroup Fall Vision Meeting!

Abstract submission closes tomorrow (no deadline extension):
https://www.osafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/submit-an-abstract

#Vision #VisionResearch #Cognition #Perception #Neuroscience

Optica Fall Vision Meeting (FVM) @optica-fvm.bsky.social · Nov 22

Please RT: There is still time to submit an abstract to the @OpticaPubsGroup Fall Vision Meeting!

https://www.opticafallvisionmeeting.org/2024-meeting/submit-an-abstract

#VisionScience #Neuroscience
#AcademicTwitter #NeuroTwitter