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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers)

@sarathomasy.bsky.social

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A veterinary ophthalmologist @ucdavis, 👁 scientist, & mom looking to make the 🌎 clearer for people & animals. Co-director of CMSTP T32 for DVMs getting their PhD. Views are my own. 🐴🦜🥰 https://covsl.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · Oct 19

Want a #PhD or #MS in #biomedical research? We conduct interdisciplinary, collaborative mechanistic & translational research in many disciplines @ucdavis. A 🧵 integrativepath.vetmed.ucdavis.edu Register for our town hall: ucdavis.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

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Albert Vilella, PhD. @albertvilella.bsky.social · 2d

The hope is to be able to treat or cure autoimmune diseases, provide more effective cancer treatments and prevent serious complications after stem cell transplants.

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barbisblue @barbisblue.bsky.social · 7d

It was Goodall's trailblazing research on the personalities and social interactions of the chimpanzees she so closely studied that changed the way we view our connection to the animal kingdom.

Jane Goodall Dies at 91 While on Speaking Tour: She Was a 'Tireless Advocate' for Nature

Jane Goodall, the renowned conservationist and animal welfare advocate who became the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees after spending decades studying them in the wild in Tanzania's Gombe Stream...

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Beth P @pickettphd.bsky.social · 7d

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 12d

It’s Thom Stark talking about the role of double cones (PR5,6) in frogs at #Visionarium2025

Thom Stark at the lectern talking about The role of double cones (PR5,6) in frogs

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s @pahlberglab.bsky.social talking about his work in the origin of dark continuous noise in rod photoreceptors at #Visionarium2025

Johan Pahlberg talking about his work in The origin of dark continuous noise in rod photoreceptors at the lectern.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Julia Fadjukov speaking about her work Toward a Unified Typology of Mouse Amacrine Cells: Electrophysiology, Transcriptomics, and Large-Scale EM at #Visionarium2025

Vision scientist Julia Fadjukov speaking at the lectern about her work in amacrine cells.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Bastien Clémot talking about his work in 3D reconstruction of insects’ movements to explore compensation for
visual noise at #Visionarium2025

Bastien Clémot at the lectern talking about insect vision.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Eric Warrant talking about Australian Bogong moths use the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field as compasses for long-distance navigation at night at #Visionarium2025

Eric Warrant at lectern talking about moth migration.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s @vancedberg.bsky.social at #Visionarium2025 talking about Polarization vision in marine Invertebrates.

Cedric Van den Berg talking about polarized light in invertebrates.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Yakir Gagnon talking about his work integrating Software Engineering and Sensory Ecology: Tools for
Understanding Animal Orientation at #Visionarium2025

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s Noora Nevala talking at #Visionarium2025 about live zebrafish as a model to study photoreceptor phagocytosis by RPE

Vision scientist Nora Nevala talking about retinal pigment epithelium.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 11d

It’s William Lunt talking at #Visionarium2025 about cephalopod’s guide to hide and seek: intensity contrast drives background choice in cephalopods

William Lunt talking about cephalopod vision.

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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 12d

Day 2 #Visionarium2025

@teuler.bsky.social talks about What is a cell type?

Thomas Euler speaking in front of a projected image.

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 19d

We had an amazing @GGIPstudents symposium with keynote @quinascience.bsky.social and @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social associate dean of research and graduate education Danika Bannasch.

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Dequina Nicholas @quinascience.bsky.social · 19d

Gave a talk @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social and one of my former @ucibiosci.bsky.social students was there! I love seeing my students continue in their education. Highlight of my day.

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gretchen333.bsky.social @gretchen333.bsky.social · 19d

Aaron is an expert on immigration policy and issues
Take this seriously

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks Raji!

Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 19d

Super excited to contribute to this wonderful work from the Yiu lab @ucd_eyecenter and @CNPRCresearch looking at how systemic lipids and glucose affect drusen progression in a 🐒 model. doi.org/10.1167/iovs...

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Anna La Torre @latorrelab.bsky.social · 25d

@ucdavis.bsky.social had a great representation at the BAVRD!

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 25d

Super proud of Drs. Handel, Lim, and Ripolles-Garcia and Ms. Khan for representing COVSL at the Bay Area Vision Research Day! #visionscience

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · 28d

Super proud of the great research these two STARs - Jillyan and Jennifer - did @ucdavis.bsky.social. This amazing program giving DVMs a summer research experience was partially funded by NIH but sadly no longer. #science #visionscience @altnih4science.bsky.social

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Maria Dzunkova @dzunkovam.bsky.social · Sep 8

My @i2sysbio.es colleagues, led by Javier Buceta @javierbuceta.bsky.social, published a paper in Nature Communications! They used a multidisciplinary approach to show that E. coli filaments undergo a growth-induced buckling instability. Congratulations! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🧪🧬🧫🦠🖥 #microsky

E. coli filament buckling modulates Min patterning and cell division - Nature Communications

Bacterial filamentation alters cell geometry, impacting spatial regulation of division. Here, the authors show that E. coli filament buckling modulates Min protein dynamics and determines division sit...

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Marnix Medema @marnixmedema.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products.
Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
Please share!

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · Sep 5

not just CDC...

Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · Sep 5

Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...

Two former top NIH officials say they were forced out in retaliation for objecting to grant terminations

Whistleblower complaints by two former top NIH officials offer their inside accounts of the Trump administration’s targeting of vaccine science.

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Dr. Sara Thomasy (she/hers) @sarathomasy.bsky.social · Aug 29

How are you acquiring topical ophthalmic ripasudil for clinical trials? My sources in Japan are no longer shipping to the US due to tariffs. I have an ongoing preclinical trial in dogs and need to find it. studypages.com/s/investigat... #visionscience

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