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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 8h

I always knew that Teresa Puthussery was a genius...this just confirms it!
#visionscience

www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Teresa Puthussery

Exploring how neural circuits of the retina encode visual information for the human brain.

www.macfound.org

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Leah Johnston @leahgjohnston.bsky.social · 10h

My boss/mentor Teresa Puthussery won a MacArthur genius grant today! She shares the award with Oakland novelist Tommy Orange (read There There! It's awesome!), resource recovery chemist William Tarpeh, and 22 others. Congratulations Teresa! www.macfound.org/fellows/clas...

Teresa Puthussery

Exploring how neural circuits of the retina encode visual information for the human brain.

www.macfound.org

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations @leahgjohnston.bsky.social for winning the @optica-fvm.bsky.social YIA!
Most #visionscience folks know that stabilized retinal images fade. Fewer know that stabilized, but flickering, images also fade. Even fewer know that the flicker-fading doesn't take place in the retina.

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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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · 16d

Seems that a small earthquake knocked our #AOSLO #AOOCT system out of alignment. It may be time to engage to the air suspension.... One of the perils of doing research at #ucberkeley.

www.sfgate.com/news/article...

Another earthquake shakes Bay Area with epicenter near UC Berkeley

The quake with an epicenter in Berkeley struck at about 2:55 a.m.

www.sfgate.com

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hannah works hard every on her PhD, doing very cool #visionscience every day in my lab at #UCBerkeley. But does she go home and put up her feet every night? Nope! She is speed-puzzling phenom, heading to the world championship later this month. Go Hannah!
www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco...

UC Berkeley student will compete in World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship in Spain

The World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship will be held in Spain this month, and one UC Berkeley grad student is hoping to bring home the win.

www.cbsnews.com

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Aug 16

Apparently, you never include snacks with shipments to Canada. My colleague doesn't get them either.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Aug 15

Hey @thorlabs.bsky.social, where are my snacks? Is it because I'm in 🇨🇦?

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Aug 13

🇨🇦 This sign calls to me every morning on my commute to @uwaterloo.ca. Question is: blow off work and head west to Lake Cowichan BC or east to Cappahayden NFLD? @transcanadatrail.bsky.social
www.tctrail.ca

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Aug 8

My CV in ceramic.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 27

When your bike ride takes you north of Waterloo.
#mennonitecountry

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Schallek Lab @schalleklab.bsky.social · Jul 24

✨Our newest eLife paper is out!✨
👉 elifesciences.org/articles/98662
When retinal cells die, who cleans up?
Non-invasive imaging shows microglia👇 rush to help but don’t recruit neutrophils from the bloodstream. @urneuroscience.bsky.social @cvsuor.bsky.social
@elife.bsky.social #FluorescenceFriday

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 22

Spotted this morning outside of the stunning Daniels Building at the University of Toronto, where I'm attending @iccp-conference.bsky.social. Nothing computational here, just a regular photo.

Super excited to see the hawk...but that rat is huuuge!

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 17

one more thing..... apply soon, but don't worry too much about the deadline of July 31.

We're flexible.

RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 17

I just moved back here (after ~30 years in the US) so feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf

ALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf

media.tenor.com

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 17

Reasons to move to Univ of Waterloo

1. 12 mo salary
2. Multidisciplinary research environment
3. Top Canadian university in areas of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Comprehensive Research
4. Traditional pension plan
5. Universal Health Care
6. Stable sources of research funding (NSERC, CIHR)

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 17

6+6 = 12 reasons to move to Waterloo, Canada.

First 6.....

6 job openings in the University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science/Waterloo Eye Institute.

lnkd.in/d3QD5wFA

see thread for the next 6.

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 5

Yep. When can you start?

RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 4

Lots of room for growth at @uwaterloo.ca. 🇨🇦 And were hiring 6 new faculty in #optometry and #visionscience. Spread the news. Contact me if you want to learn more.

share.google/8HXvp3LbwLPw...

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 3

Some things are new (the Instagram-worthy sign) and some things are old (the iconic Dana Porter Library, where I spent many hours as a physics undergrad in the late 80s). @uwaterloo.ca 🇨🇦

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jul 3

Multiple faculty opportunities are open at the @uwaterloo.ca in 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 for someone wishing to launch their academic career in Vision Science.

I just moved here and I think you'll find that it's a great place to live, work, and thrive. Happy to tell you more if you're interested.

University of Waterloo School of Optometry & Vision Science @uwoptometry.bsky.social · Jul 2

We are hiring SIX faculty positions at the assistant professor/assistant clinical professor level! Opportunities like this don't come around every day!
@uwaterloo.ca
@waterloosci.bsky.social
#Optometry #Hiring
uwaterloo.ca/optometry-vi...

Employment opportunities | Optometry & Vision Science | University of Waterloo

Current opportunities

uwaterloo.ca

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jun 24

Final moments as a resident of the USA. Soon to reside again in the great and civilized country of Canada. @uwaterloo.ca here I come.

a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf

ALT: a red white and blue canadian flag with a maple leaf

media.tenor.com

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jun 21

While many of you may suffer FOMO for #OLO, we folks in the lab suffer FOMO for YOLO. That was the case until Stuart Semple graciously sent us some free bottles. What this all about? Check out
www.culturehustleusa.com/products/yol... to find out.
Thanks!!!

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jun 9

Alas, they no longer raise and lower the floor these days.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jun 9

And, in case you don't know, the @lickobservatory.bsky.social which opened in 1888 was - and still remains - one of the biggest refracting telescopes in the world! As @elinorgates.bsky.social puts it, it's the 'telescopiest' big telescope you'll ever see. Today's big telescope all use mirrors.

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RoordaLab @roordalab.bsky.social · Jun 9

Thanks to @ucobservatories.bsky.social for the fun and informative 'insider' tour of the @lickobservatory.bsky.social for me, my former students and postdocs, and colleagues. Special thanks to @elinorgates.bsky.social, resident astronomer extraordinaire and ultimate tour guide for her time.

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